Sophie

Sophie (ソフィ) is the heroine in Tales of Graces. She is a young girl Asbel meets in his childhood. She has lost her memories and has no recollection of her past. Her name was given to her by Asbel himself; "Sophie" is named after the Sopheria flower that she seemed fascinated by the first time they met.

Personality
Sophie is first seen sleeping in a flower field at the top of Lhant Hill by a young Asbel and Hubert. She appears to lack any common sense at first, shown by almost walking off the cliff while chasing a butterfly. Due to her amnesia, Sophie has only basic knowledge of communication, and knows little of anything else, especially emotions; however, as the story progresses, she develops strong bonds with everyone she meets, fueled by her desire to protect those important to her, a trait learned from Asbel. She is often left confused at the more complicated discussions that the party has, and takes many things too seriously. Because of the fact that she doesn't know much about the world, she is incredibly curious about the world around her often asking the party many questions, though mostly trivial.

Fighting Style
Sophie is one of the two main healers in the game, with Cheria being the second. She specializes in single target healing artes as opposed to the area-based healing artes that Cheria can use. Apart from her healing artes, she has quite a few physical artes in her Burst Style, consisting of ranged attacks that involve projectiles. An interesting thing of note is that each one of her Burst Style offensive artes borrows some style from another character in the party except for Catastrophe. Her Artes Style consists of rapid punch and kick attacks, resembling the fighting style of other unarmed characters throughout the series.

Meeting Asbel
Asbel and Hubert both find Sophie sleeping out in a flower garden on Lhant Hill. When Asbel calls out to her, Sophie awakens, startling both Asbel and Hubert. Sophie is fascinated by a butterfly and nearly walks off a cliff following it, had Asbel not grabbed a hold of her. When asked her name, Sophie looks confusedly at the two, wondering it herself. Hubert suggests that Sophie perhaps has amnesia, and she herself obviously did not know. The two take her into town to see if she would remember anything.

Party
Asbel Lhant - She first met Asbel, along with Hubert at the flower garden. Sophie becomes very fond and protective of Asbel and does not like anyone hurting or scolding him. She would often stand between him and whatever that threatens to hurt him.

Cheria Barnes - Cheria becomes a bit jealous of Sophie when the two first meet, thinking that she may be a rival for Asbel's affection, but doesn't express it openly. She becomes quite fond of her, realizing that she is actually a friendly person. When Cheria learns of Sophie's "amnesia", she is saddened by it, but Sophie's response is indifferent as it doesn't appear to affect her much. Seven years later, Cheria acts motherly towards Sophie.

Pascal - Sophie first finds Pascal sleeping beneath a tree. Upon awaking, Pascal becomes highly ecstatic upon seeing Sophie, so much so, she ends up holding her. In response, Sophie attacks, knocking Pascal off into a cliff side. Pascal explains that she was merely happy upon finally seeing a "real one", having seen a hologram of Sophie in some Anmalchian ruins. Sophie treats Pascal as a role model, often copying words and actions Pascal says and does.

Malik Caesars - Sophie views Malik with much respect, since Asbel does the same. She refers to him as kyoukan (教官), despite him not being her instructor, simply because Asbel does as well, which develops into a sort of nickname for Malik, in which all the party members refer to him as such. Sophie often asks Malik questions about things she does not know as she sees him as the most knowledgeable of the group being the oldest.

Richard - Sophie develops a discomfort around Richard when they are reunited seven years later, due to the "thing" that lies inside him. It is because of that, the two are unable to touch, for it would cause a "burning" reaction. As such, when Sophie tries to offer him a hand after seeing him collapse down on his knees, he rejects her immediately. She becomes saddened by this, dropping her head down in defeat. Pascal wonders out loud whether Richard is her rival or not, seeing Sophie depressed after he rejects her. Sophie often wonders whether she and Richard are truly friends or not due to the distance that is placed between them. In the future arc, they both reconcile.

Trivia

 * Sophie is ranked in 17th place on the most recent Tales character popularity poll of the general category.
 * Her iDOLM@STER costume is based on the one that Eri Mizutani wears in THE iDOLM@STER Dearly Stars. Both characters are voiced by Kana Hanazawa.
 * She is shown enjoy eating crab omelettes to the point that in one downloadable skit for Tales of Graces ƒ featuring Rutee Katrea, Kyle Dunamis and Judas, she exclaims that she wants all download contents to be crab omelettes.