<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(https://36.media.tumblr.com/29eedacf78a13474f7c7f9a8dbfc53c6/tumblr_nvtwjb7QmJ1spz7z5o1_1280.jpg)</div>(https://41.media.tumblr.com/47b2d10be09e844af6105747990b659c/tumblr_mzedagbaHp1t7ldffo1_1280.jpg)(http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Spider-Man-Red-Sonja-2-Preview-marvel-comics-256412_584_887.jpg)(http://orig13.deviantart.net/2ec7/f/2009/254/8/0/red_sonja_2_by_cribs.jpg)(https://41.media.tumblr.com/85a43135b19789ee39b5a54c7b371d5e/tumblr_nomocmQCyb1uqt1uxo1_500.jpg)(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/6063/3804126-rsvol2-09+2.jpg)(http://orig13.deviantart.net/2fb9/f/2014/324/8/a/redsonja_by_fransmensinkartist-d8712p4.jpg)(https://41.media.tumblr.com/eff8f8393f47b33ac3a912e3b614956b/tumblr_npg7kxecys1uqt1uxo1_1280.jpg)(https://40.media.tumblr.com/c78f1e792f5fa47780f46db666b048e9/tumblr_nmq5xfuBFE1u8bu3co1_540.png)(https://41.media.tumblr.com/fdba88ee012b64814b576db754e433d7/tumblr_n4eukwuffn1sqekz1o1_1280.jpg)</div>== Character Bio ==<br/><strong>Bibliophilia</strong><br/><br/>== Personal Information ==<br/><strong>Legal Name:</strong>Mary Jane Watson<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Red Sonja, Crimson She-Devil, Sonja Majeure, Radiant Mistress, Sonjita<br/><strong>Age:</strong>26<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Omnisexual<br/><strong>Part of New York Residing In:</strong>Brooklyn<br/><br/>== Physical Description ==<br/><br/>Sonja, as she prefers to be called most times, is 5'9" tall with thick, red hair and blue-green eyes.  Typically, she looks like just another normal, if pretty, young girl in her mid-twenties, seemingly unremarkable and likely not terribly strong.  However, when it's time to get down to business, she transforms into a striking, well-muscled warrior woman with flashing blue eyes and a penchant for scale-mail bikinis.<br/><br/>== Persona ==<br/><br/>Sonja is all sass, ass and female empowerment.  The lingering aspects of Mary Jane's personality temper her rough edges slightly, and make it easier for her to live in the modern world of New York, without drawing her sword every time someone pisses her off.  She has a close, intimate relationship with beer, and an unapologetic hedonism that make her quite good company in the right circumstances.  She doesn't suffer fools lightly, though, unless she finds them amusing and is always willing to prove to any misogynist that women are just as capable of doing anything a man can do.  Sometimes better.  She' fully invested in the idea that one can be both strong and feminine, and finds those who disagree with this premise limited in their thinking.<br/><br/>Sonja values loyalty and honor.  She believes in defending the weak and innocent from those who would harm them or take advantage of their inability to defend themselves.  She's always eager to pull the rug out from under the corrupt or evil, whether it means defeating them in battle, exposing them for what they truly are, or robbing them blind and distributing their wealth to those more deserving.<br/><br/>== Key Skills ==<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Peak-Level Athlete</strong>: Red Sonja is in peak human physical condition. She is imbued with the maximum strength, speed, endurance, agility, and reflexes that a human female could possess without being considered superhuman.</li><li><strong>Weapon Master</strong>: Red Sonja is a virtually unparalleled sword-master, having fought and defeated countless enemies with her blade.  Though the sword is Sonja’s weapon of choice, she is nearly as proficient with other melee weapons and can gain expertise with unfamiliar ones with minimal training. She is an accomplished archer and demonstrates remarkable accuracy with any distance weapon. Sonja’s mastery of arms includes being able to quickly improvise and construct weapons with any available materials at hand, so that even when seemingly disarmed, she is rarely weaponless.</li><li><strong>Unarmed Combat</strong>: Red Sonja has mastered the martial arts disciplines of her era and is a deadly fighter even without any weapons. She has taken down many enemies larger than herself merely with her fists and feet.</li><li><strong>Berserker Strength</strong>: When greatly angered or outnumbered, Red Sonja can go into a berserker fury, significantly increasing her strength and deadliness in battle. She has single-handedly annihilated waves of armed opponents while in this state, literally becoming a one-woman army.</li><li><strong>Tracking</strong>: Red Sonja has spent much time traveling the diverse and dangerous landscape of the Hyborian age and is a gifted ranger and tracker. She can navigate and survive nearly any form of terrain and hunt down almost any quarry. She is also adept at covering her tracks and leaving little trace of her passing.</li><li><strong>Stamina</strong>: Red Sonja's physical stamina is at peak human level due to rigorous conditioning. She can exert herself at maximum effort for far longer than most humans can endure. Being from the harsh and wintery climate of the Hyrkanian steppes, Red Sonja has built up a high tolerance for adverse environmental conditions and is seemingly impervious to cold, even when clad only in her metal bikini.</li><li><strong>Stealth</strong>: Red Sonja possesses catlike grace and can move about in near-silence in order to avoid detection, making good use of shadows and any other available cover. She is also highly skilled at disguise, camouflage, and infiltration.</li></ul><br/>== Advantages ==<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Intelligence</strong>:  Red Sonja has a mind for battle tactics, but Mary Jane is highly intelligent in her own right.  While not nearly at the level of Peter, she has more street smarts and common sense than he does.  Her more practical intelligence is coupled with a good mind for science and math, as well as a keen understanding of literature.  While no one will be extolling her brilliance as genius, one might say her knowledge and mental acuity is more well-rounded than most.</li><li><strong>Socially Skilled</strong>:  Mary Jane is good with people.  She genuinely cares about them, and wants to help them.  Where Sonja will fight to save a person's life, Mary Jane's influence leads to the attempt to care for their emotional and mental well-being as well.  She's friendly and empathetic, knowing well the strain of being a normal person suddenly caught up in the lives of super-heroes and super-villains.  She also knows how difficult being the hero can be, and she is always willing to lend an ear or shoulder to those who just need to unburden themselves for a while.</li><li><strong>Attractive</strong>:  It's an unavoidable fact of life that a pretty girl can influence others, even without trying to do so.  Mary Jane is not above using her innocent good-looks to manipulate others, when necessary, and Sonja considers her looks merely another weapon in her arsenal.  If her appearance serves as a distraction in combat, well, then her opponent will learn a valuable lesson about the importance of focus in battle.  How long they will have to appreciate the schooling they've had is debatable, of course.</li><li><strong>Strong Constitution</strong>:  Whether it's poison, rotting food or strong alcohol, Sonja seems to have an iron stomach and indefatigable vigor.  She can get uproariously drunk, and yet never seem to lose her edge or pass out from drink.  She never wakes with a hangover, and, likewise, she never seems to grow ill.  She can drink the entire bar under the table, then polish off several orders of hot wings and wake with the sun the next morning without the slightest ill-effects from the night before.</li></ul><br/><br/>== Disadvantages ==<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Stranger in a Strange Land</strong>:  Despite the fact that Mary Jane's consciousness has melded with Sonja's, she is still displaced in time and often finds herself confused by the modern world.  Politics, social mores and money seem to be the hardest for her to wrap her mind around.  She has decided that modern politics were designed by madmen, and unless absolutely necessary, she ignores them for the foolishness that they are.  Trying to get along in the modern world, especially in a city like New York, takes a lot more effort, though.  She can't simply ignore the social niceties, or requirements, and laws that govern how we treat one another, or behave in public, but sometimes she finds herself unable to resist the urge to take a swing at someone, or point out the stupidity of modern ideas of impropriety.  She's gotten better, though.  It's been at least a month since she started a fight in a bar, or grabbed a stranger's junk on the train because they thought her ass was a good resting place for their hand.</li><li><strong>Short Fuse</strong>:  Sonja's got a temper.  She's a berserker, after all, a barbarian warrior living in a city where 'Fuck you' is synonymous with 'Good morning'.  Mary Jane's influence has made her slightly less volatile, but she's still what she is and she doesn't think she should have to pretend to be anything else.  At least she stopped carrying her weapons with her all the time, so now the worst she can do in a fight is beat someone bloody and broken.  But, hey, she'll call them an ambulance...most of the time.</li><li><strong>Dual-Minds</strong>:  Sonja and Mary Jane are like two personalities living in a single mind, blended together incompletely, like a marble cake mix.  Most of the time they manage this unconventional living arrangement well, but sometimes there is an inner struggle and this can lead to some pretty interesting situations.  In the heat of battle, Sonja will sometimes feel Mary trying to influence her to be merciful, or Mary will feel Sonja's anger flaring at inopportune times.  If there's time, they typically try to work things out amicably, but if the situation doesn't allow for it, one or the other will exert their will over the other and this can lead to hurt feelings and resentment.  Plus, it just looks <em>weird</em> when she argues with herself.</li><li><strong>Hedonist</strong>:  Sonja fights hard and plays even harder.  She has a taste for alcohol, food and sex, and believes that there is no such thing as too much.  She doesn't believe in moderation or shame, finding both concepts strangely puritanical in modern society, especially one that seems to only pay such ideals lip-service.<br/></li></ul>== Background ==<br/><br/>Sonjita was the daughter of the chief of a Hyrkanian village. The village was attacked by vicious raiders and Sonjita's family and the rest of the villagers were slaughtered, leaving Sonjita the lone survivor.  She escaped into the wild and relied on her own hunting skills to track down and kill the raiders one by one. She was then captured by slavers and forced to fight for her life in an arena for three years, through which she gained her unrivaled fighting skill and became known by her 'arena' name: "Red Sonja."<br/><br/>After she escaped her chains, freed the other slaves and lead them to slaughter the slavers that had been holding them all captive, she struck out on her own.  She supported herself by serving as a bodyguard, or thief, in between fighting the forces of evil and the corrupt, and defending the innocent and weak from harm.  Almost every story about Red Sonja begins with the line 'She went to a bar/tavern and got drunk', and ends with her kicking ass and not giving a good goddamned about anyone's name.  Her life was fairly simple and she liked it that way.  Then, much to her annoyance, shit went sideways.<br/><br/>Everything seems ordinary in New York City as Spider-Man swings around town and fights a group of bad guys ... all while talking on his cell phone to MJ! At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Senator Thomas is attending a major art exhibit while struggling with his conscience over some shady dealings with his confidant, Reilly. J Jonah Jameson welcomes the Senator to the exhibit with kind words, hoping to score an interview. Thomas agrees to it, but his eyes are drawn to a unique necklace on display. Though the curator, Professor Jones, protests, Thomas puts on the necklace. This in turn releases the imprisoned spirit of the sorcerer Kulan Gath. Using his vast powers, he reshapes New York City into his own medieval/Hyborian version of itself. Spider-Man seems to be the only one unaffected by the spell.<br/><br/>People are still in need of help, though, so he springs to action to save the commoners. As he does so, Gath wishes Professor Jones to be his scribe. Refusing, Gath kills him and then requests Jameson to take over the duties. Gath then conjures up a sword and tells how Spider-Man and Red Sonja foiled his plans before when they teamed up. This time he wishes to pit them against each other so they will be occupied. He calls forth Mary Jane to claim the sword and become Red Sonja. Spider-Man continues to fight his assailants, who have somehow become goblins in the meantime. Even though he saves the people, they fear Spider-Man as a demon. Getting away, he sees what used to be the Met and a strange glow. He goes to it to investigate and sees Mary Jane climbing the walls to get to the sword on the roof. Confronting her after she grabs it, he is instead faced with Red Sonja.<br/><br/>Red and Spidey fight, until Spidey manages to pin Sonja down long enough to explain the situation to her.  They end up teaming up and manage to defeat Kulan Gath, after which Sonja returns to her own time.  This happens again, with slight variations on the theme, but with the same inevitable outcome.<br/><br/>So, you might ask, how does Sonja become meshed with Mary Jane in this current incarnation?  Well, I'm getting to that.<br/><br/>After her first death, and subsequent reincarnation as a noblewoman, Sonja was once again trained to fight by Osin, her long-time companion.  However, she was once again defeated and killed, at which point her soul found refuge in Mary Jane, drawn by her familiarity with the young woman from their previous encounters.  There was a period of adjustment, of course, wherein Mary Jane and Red Sonja fought for control of the body they now shared.  But, they both began to understand that they needed one another.  Without Sonja, Mary Jane was unable to fight effectively and she found that she enjoyed being a hero.  Sonja, likewise, came to understand that without Mary Jane, she could not survive in the modern world.  So, they came to an understanding between themselves.<br/><br/>Granted, it's not a perfect marriage, and sometimes they grate against one another.  But, that's just par for the course with roommates.  Neither is quite certain why they exist as they do, what allowed Sonja to escape death or what power allows for her spirit to bring about physical changes to Mary Jane's form.  But, Sonja is wary to dig too deeply into matters, afraid of discovering some truth that would make her continued existence an affront to her beliefs and honor.  Mary Jane's curiosity is strong, but she enjoys the advantages of having Red Sonja living within her too much to risk tempting fate.<br/><br/>== Character Extras =<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Theme Song</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://youtu.be/A7fuuDc2hH0</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Magical Girl Transformation</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://49.media.tumblr.com/06edf4589df10cedf4987ee7ecc9cef5/tumblr_ny951o57PB1ra7k9xo1_400.gif)</div></div><br/><br/>= Face Claim: =<br/><br/>Susan Coffey<br/><br/>Ons: See Bibliophilia's O/Os (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104274.0).<br/><br/>Offs: See Bibliophilia's O/Os (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104274.0).