User blog:Misstress of the heavenly yard/Sohni Elphen

This is a fanmade article "Although I walk the path paved by my father, in the end, he is still unsatisfied."

- Queen Michaela regarding Sohni

Sohni Elphen, born Sohni Rogzé, is a king of the Kingdom of Marlon and mother of Kyle and Ney. Conspiring with the sorceress Abyss I.R., Prim plotted against her close friend, Queen Anne, among others to overthrow the Kingdom of Lucifenia and install her son as the ruler of Evillious.

Early Life
Prim was born in the Kingdom of Lucifenia in EC 457 as a noble of the House of Rogzé. At some point, she became good friends with Anne Sui. Later, the two met Prince Arth Lucifen d'Autriche and fell in love with him. Although both women desired to wed him, the Prince ultimately married Anne and Prim reluctantly gave them her blessing. Soon after, Prim attempted to poison Arth's wineglass but the assassination attempt failed. Suspected for committing the deed, her friendship with Anne started to fall apart. Afterward, she traveled west and met the King of Marlon, eventually marrying him and becoming the nation's queen. In EC 474, Prim became pregnant and gave birth to her first son, Kyle. Obsessed with her beloved child, the Marlon queen desired to make him a great king that ruled the greatest nation in the history of Evillious.

Visit to Lucifenia
Around EC 482, she met Abyss I.R. and the sorceress offered her the Venom Sword, claiming it was a love charm. The queen accepted the mage's gift and returned to Lucifenia to visit Arth and Anne. With the kingdom entrenched in war, Prim learned that Anne's marriage with the King was failing. Through the power of the sword, Prim seduced Arth and had an affair with him for several months. While there, Prim became acquainted with Elluka Clockworker and was fascinated by her magical capabilities. Having great magical potential, Elluka began training Prim in the art but the queen returned to Marlon before it was complete. Shortly after, Prim discovered she was pregnant with Arth's child and later gave birth to her golden-haired daughter, Ney.

Because the infant's hair color would reveal her infidelity, Abyss I.R. offered to continue helping the Queen in exchange for using the baby as a test subject for Marlon's intelligence network. Provided with an opportunity to fulfill her ambitions for Kyle, Prim then gave Ney to the sorceress and publicly declared the child stillborn. Under the tutelage of Abyss I.R., Prim completed her mage training and gave her access to the mage's Seven Deadly Sins collection. When the sorceress proposed creating "new facilities" for espionage, Prim gave her permission to develop this Espionage Task Force. Three years later, Anne gave birth to twins, Riliane and Alexiel, and Prim began plotting to ruin her former friend's life.

Political Maneuvers
"Under the manipulation of my mother, I quit painting."

- Kyle

The queen later noticed that Kyle had taken great interest in painting and disapproved of the hobby. Around the same time, the royal family faced heavy criticism from Kyle's art teacher, Margaret, and her politically high-ranking husband, forcing both Prim and her spouse into open arguments with them. In EC 489, the couple was arrested and convicted as political prisoners. Afterwards, Prim ordered Margaret's guard to hand the art teacher Gift and commit suicide with the poison. Despite her efforts, Kyle became even more enthuastic about his art career after Margaret's death. To break his confidence, Prim hired multiple art dealers and critics to demean her son and his works, including the famed Nikolay Tolle.

With her son's confidence broken, Prim asserted Kyle as the next king. In EC 490, Prim had Abyss I.R. use the Glass of Conchita to cause a Goula outbreak in the Beelzenian Empire and goad King Arth into invading the weakened state. Succeeding in her plan, Arth was infected and died of the plague the following year. Beginning the next stage of her plan, Prim sent Abyss I.R. with a letter adressed to her brother, Presi, to have him cooperate with the sorceress to have Prince Alexiel become possessed by the Demon of Pride and elevate both Presi and Prim's designs. Using her sibling, Prim allowed him to inevitably be possessed to bait Elluka into believing she sealed away the Demon. As a result of what transpired, Alexiel was declared dead and Ney, carrying one of the Four Mirrors of Lucifenia, was adopted by Mariam Futapie and made a maid of the royal palace while Prim's involvement remained undiscovered.

At some point, Anne suggested Riliane marry Kyle when the princess turned fifteen and the dowager queen strongly objected to the arrangement. However, because her husband and a number of ministers had no objection to the proposal, Prim reluctantly gave her consent. In EC 492, Prim traveled to Yatski village in Elphegort. While in disguise, she found a pregnant Mikina Freesis unconcious at the bottom of a steep hill and carried her to an inn in the village. When she awoke, Mikina begged Prim to help her, explaining how she was planning to have an abortion due to her and her husband's failing business. In response, Prim gave Mikina the Marlon Spoon, promising it would bring her good fortune. Assuring Mikina that her business would be successful, Prim left to return to Marlon, saying she hoped Mikina gave birth to a strong child. After returning to Marlon, Prim added Mikina's father, Duke Sfarz, as a conspirator with her and Abyss I.R.

With her husband's death, Prim began purging the royal family, killing her husband's concubines and any of their children that could be considered legitimate heirs to the throne. Shortly after killing several dignitaries, Prim established Kyle's legitimacy and he was crowned king in EC 494. That same year, Mikina visited Prim and told the queen dowager how the Marlon Spoon conjured blue fire that killed her father and her son's nanny when the patriarch threatened to take the child away. After explaining the vessels of sin to her, Prim told Mikina that she unwittingly made a contract with the Demon of Greed and that it was slowly eating away at her family's souls. In order to prevent this, Prim demanded Mikina replace her father, Duke Sfarz, as their collaborator. After she begrudgingly joined their conspiracy, Prim had Mikina secretly allocate some of the Freesis Firm's wealth to fund Prim's ambitions. With the continued success of the Espionage Task Force, Prim consolidated their position and increased their influence.

Decisive Play
"If this goes on, our country will be the largest in history. My son... your brother, will be crowned King."

- Prim to her daughter

In EC 499, the second Goula plague that Abyss I.R. conjured killed Anne and Ney successfully transplanted the Demon of Pride to Princess Riliane. In response, Prim continued to maintain a facade and openly support her son's marriage to the princess. To have her son fall under the influence of the Demon of Lust, Prim had Mikina deliver the Venom Sword to her husband as another one of his trinkets, knowing Kyle was his close friend and often visited him. In EC 500, when Kyle discarded his engagement to Riliane in favor of Michaela, Prim told the visiting Prime Minister Minis that she would respect her son's decision. Pleased with the honoraria given to them by Lucifenia, she sent back a magical octopus as a gift for Elluka, believing her former mentor would be pleased with it. At some point, it was discovered that Michaela was Elluka's apprentice and had been helping search for the vessels of sin.

As Kyle prepared to leave Marlon for Elphegort, the Queen Dowager imprisoned the king and kept him under house arrest to delay his departure until Ney learned her location from Mikina and had the diva killed. After the events of the Lucifenian Revolution, Prim accepted her son's actions for joining the Resistance and helping to overthrow Riliane, so long as he obeyed a list of conditions she sent him, including Marlon's occupation of Lucifenia and eventual integration as one of its territories. Kyle obeyed his mother and the vast kingdom was made a part of Marlon. Ruling from Lucifenian, Kyle handed over administration of Marlon to Prim.

Later, Prim greeted Ney after her daughter returned to Marlon from Lucifenia. Prim told her absent daughter that she grown up since she last saw her. The double agent reported that with Riliane's execution, the Three Heroes ceased to exist and that there was no one who could stop her. Prim noted that Elluka was still alive but Ney insisted the sorceress would not interfere. Dropping the subject, Prim praised her daughter for her efforts and commented how it was possible for their nation to be the largest in history with Ney's brother as king. The Queen Dowager then told her daughter to rest, saying she would take care of everything else.

Endgame
Having the Demon of Pride possess Kyle from the mirror he carried, Prim allowed her son to seek vengeance on those Ney blamed for Michaela's murder and prove himself as king by conquering all of Evillious. When the Marlon king asked to borrow the Espionage Task Force from her for his Witch Hunt, Prim agreed on the conditions that the organization have absolute freedom for matters regarding the Witch Hunt and, on Abyss' suggestion, that the sorceress would decide who to place in charge of the group, namely Ney. In EC 505, after Kyle had been freed of the Demon's control by Gumillia and her compatriots, Prim moved her residence to Castle Hedgehog in the north and had Abyss I.R. counteract Kyle's voyage to Marlon. Accompanied by Ney, Prim had her daughter use the Glass to begin building up an army of undead soldiers for her retaliation. During the ensuing battle at the castle, Prim awaited in the clocktower for Kyle's arrival.

After Kyle arrived and sent two soldiers after Ney, leaving Kyle and Prim alone, Prim revealed her schemes to him and explained her motives. After Prim finished recounting her story, Kyle refused to believe her and said she had gone insane. The Queen Dowager then showed her son the Mirror in her possession, mocking Michaela and Kyle's art tutor and saying that they were like the Clockworker's Doll and Eve Moonlit, the origin of all sin. Admitting that she found Kyle's state to be ideal, she contemplated having the Demon possess Kyle again and began summoning it when Ney returned from killing her pursuers. After ignoring Ney's pleas for appraisal, the child finally snapped and stabbed Prim, killing her.

Legacy
After her death, Prim was buried in a cemetery next to her daughter, Ney. Abyss I.R., having fled from Marlon after Prim's death, took the vessels of sin Prim had used with her before being defeated by her pursuers soon after. Yukina Freesis would later write a novel detailing the true Story of Evil and Prim's actions, gaining popularity around the world centuries later during the time of Gallerian Marlon.

Personality and Traits
Prim was a vain, spiteful, and cruel woman. Although having a close relationship with Anne, Prim grew to despise her for earning Arth's love and was even willing to attempt murder to deprive her friend of their beloved. This hatred later included Anne's children and she refused to have her son Kyle be married to Anne's daughter, Riliane. After becoming the queen of Marlon, Prim ruthlessly opposed any opposition and used her power to its maximum when silencing her critics. The Marlon queen also became obsessed with her son. Determined for the prince to grow up and become a great king, Prim manipulated every aspect of his life to keep him on the road she envisioned for him, even killing his art tutor and later bribing art dealers and critics to criticize his work in order to break his dream. As a result, she believed the demon-possessed Kyle was ideal, representative of the champion king she envisioned him to be.

Her disregard for Kyle's personal wants and dreams extended to the rest of her kin. Prim compared her family to pawns and considered them them pieces to be used for her designs, holding no true affection for Ney or her brother, Presi. Extremely ambitious, Prim had no qualms with using deceit to maintain a facade and manipulate her family, friends, and other associates to her own ends. She similarly held her husband's numerous concubines and their children in contempt and purged the royal family of its members. The queen also had a fascination with magic and therefore was intrigued to learn the art and held both Elluka and Abyss I.R. in high regard. Prim's ambition left her arrogant in the success of her plans and her own abilities and indifferent to the countless lives ruined by her designs. Confident they were harmless, she ignored her husband's children whose heritage made it impossible for them to be legitimate heirs. She also had tremendous faith in Ney and Abyss I.R.'s loyalty, an overconfidence that led to her downfall.

Skills and Abilities
"And in the Kingdom of Marlon as well, although officially the ruler is the young King Kyle, the real power is in the hands of Queen Dowager Prim, his mother."

- An aristocrat speaking about Kyle and Prim

Befitting her arrogance, Prim was a talented individual. As part of the Rogzé family, Prim was well-versed in the creation and utilization of poisons, with the relatively new and readily available Gift becoming her poison of choice. Despite her youth, Prim was also able to move to a foreign country and quickly impress the Marlon king, marrying him and bearing his child by the time she was seventeen. Although often controlling the scene through her deceit, Prim also had great influence in the political scene and was able to maintain her position of power even after her son was crowned king, ruling Marlon from the shadows.

Prim was also very intelligent, able to concoct large, interlaced and complex schemes to achieve all her goals. Her skill's manipulation and lies allowed her to easily maintain false relationships with those around her and often planned her actions years ahead of time when seeing their potential. Compounding this, Prim had strong magical potential and studied under two of the most powerful mages from the Magic Kingdom Levianta's era, becoming a capable sorceress herself. Having finished her mage training under Abyss I.R., Prim was knowledgeable on the vessels of sin, their history, and their potential, integrating the Demons of Sin as key elements in her plans.

Character Connections
Michaela Elphen: Sohni's daughter. Sohni had an obsessive fixation on his daughter that manifested in controlling her every action, wanting to make her into the perfect champion for the Kingdom of Elphegort--to that end, he was willing to sacrifice her emotional and mental well-being to achieve that image, and saw her as a pawn more than a person. He also held a low opinion of Michaela's judgement, mocking her choice in men.

Ney Elphen: Sohni's other daughter. Sohni recognized Ney as his daughter through a warped lens of viewing her as a pawn, willing to let the girl be experimented on and manipulating her into becoming a tool in his revenge-scheme. He relied on the girl's skills in espionage and subterfuge for manipulating events to his liking, and only showed affection towards her when necessary to secure her loyalty.

Abyss I.R.: Sohni's partner. Sohni saw Abyss I.R’s skills in magic and manipulating the Vessels of Sin as very useful, relying on her to help orchestrate his plans for revenge. The two had a close confidential relationship over the course of their dealings.

Arth Lucifen d'Autriche: Sohni's childhood friend and later enemy. Sohni had an amiable relationship with Arth until the latter married his childhood crush Anne, his affection for Arth turning to hatred for living the life he had wanted. Sohni became consumed with a desire to ruin Arth's life, and was thus disappointed by his death from the Goula disease.

Anne Lucifen d'Autriche: Sohni's childhood love. Sohni fell in love with Anne when he was young. Losing her to Arth was one of the factors that drove him to hate hia childhood friend. Afterwards, he saw her only as another means to hurt Arth and so attempted to kill her while undermining their marriage.

Presi Rogzé: Prim's brother. In spite of--and in part because--of being her brother, Prim saw Presi as little more than a pawn to further her plot against Anne. She relied on his close position as Lucifenia's Prime Minister to relay information to her and carry out necessary actions, such as planting the mirror with the Demon of Gluttony inside it.

Mikina Freesis: A pawn of Prim's. Prim saw Mikina as a reliable pawn due to the latter's desperate circumstances and believed her useful for her revenge scheme, as Keel Freesis' wife.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Prim's name is derived from the adjective "prim", meaning to be excessively decorous to the point of being vain or prudish.
 * Her family's surname seems to be a corruption of Zero-G, the company that created her representative Vocaloid.
 * Her surname Marlon is a reference to the demon of greed, Mammon.
 * Prim's name is inspired by the name of her representative Vocaloid, Prima, both names sharing the first four letters.

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