Sophie, a character in The Sophomore, The Junior and The Senior series, is one of Zig's sisters. She is also a student at Hartfeld University. She is first seen in The Sophomore, Book 2, Chapter 12.
Appearance
Sophie has long brown hair, brown eyes and tan skin. She wears a blue shirt under a green cardigan.
Personality
Sophie is an intelligent young woman who, while protective of her family, wants to be acknowledged as a grown-up in her own right. She sometimes gets embarrassed when her brother shares stories about her, although she happily returns the favor to him, but all-in-all they are still relatively close. Sophie is also excited to be attending the same college as her brother, perhaps as it allows her to expand her knowledge and express her intelligence.
Chapters
The Sophomore
Book 1
- Chapter 13: You Oughta Know (Mentioned)
Book 2
- Chapter 2: Everything Will Be Alright (Mentioned; Determinant)
- Chapter 12: Just Dance
Hartfeld Horror Story
- Chapter 2: I Know What You Did Last Quarter (Mentioned; Determinant)
The Junior
Book 1
- Chapter 1: Live While We're Young
- Chapter 4: We Can't Stop
- Chapter 6: Problem
- Chapter 8: Bad Blood
- Chapter 13: Look What You Made Me Do
The Senior
The Senior
- Chapter 5: The Jungle Line (Determinant)
- Chapter 15: Changes
Relationships
Linda Ortega
Linda is Sophie's mom. She seems to get her sassiness form her mom.
Sisters
Marie is her oldest sister. Lucy and Mila are her younger siblings.
Zig Ortega
Zig is her older brother. They are both the middle children in the Ortega siblings. She would share embarrassing stories about Zig to his friends.
Trivia
- In The Sophomore, Book 2, she mentions that she is a high school senior and will be enrolling at Hartfeld for the following year on a full scholarship.
- If you ask her to tell you about herself after the dance recital, she also mentions that she is 18 and that she likes painting and dancing.
- As of The Junior, Book 1, Chapter 1, she has enrolled at Hartfeld.
- If you go to dinner with the Ortegas after the recital, she can reveal a number of family anecdotes.
- If you ask about the "balcony incident" she tells you about an Easter at their uncle's house when she was about twelve years old. Mila ate Sophie's chocolate rabbit while they were hunting for eggs. She chased Mila onto the balcony of the second floor of their uncle's house, and Mila jumped off. She broke her wrist and Sophie ended up cutting her food for her for a month.
- She only appears in The Senior, Chapter 5, if Your Character is dating Zig. She attends Zig's graduation in Chapter 15.
- She shares the same forename as the default forename of MC from A Very Scandalous Proposal and MC from The Duchess Affair.
- Her family and she share the same surname as Esme Ortega from the Open Heart series.
- The name Sophie is of Greek origin and means: Wisdom, skill, insight, intelligence.
- The surname Ortega is of Spanish origin and means "dweller at the sign of the grouse" or "nettle".