Hi!
I already mentioned in some of my posts Sophia´s "upbringing" and that we probably do not want to know exactly how this upbringing was. I might have worded it too deftly, but I think Sophia´s upbringing included such "fun" events like personality imprints, specialized training and other black ops stuff.
I doubt the free roam glitch was truly one. Sophia came to apologise on her own initiative and tried to hide it from van Doren. What better way to play up something Abel probably saw more than once over time?
I believe at the moment Sophia was a brilliant, heavily eccentric girl already under duress from her surroundings when Abel found her. And he began to hone her to be a brilliant scientist, his right hand, sword and successor., everything else was "whatever".
While van Doren is using her against even more vile persons like Chuck and Kath, what van Doren or his specialists did to Sophia is reprehensible. Since she remembers good times fondly, maybe the first years with Abel were actually good ones (like them being out hunting together) and only his war with Chuck, which seems to have become much more fierce in the last couple years, "forced" his hand. Maybe she even volunteered without knowing what it would include.
Whatever was done, we can see that the "real" Sophia is trying to get out or get some living compromise with all parts of her. I think this is happening because she is coming closer to be Abel´s successor, which means relying more on herself, since Abel needs a capable successor.
Some of her talk and behaviour from the club bar meeting makes a lot more sense now. Sophia might be in the driving chair most of the time, but when needed the cold, calculating killer comes out.
As I wrote before, I truly hope that we get an ending with our hero and Sophia being together. Two damaged souls getting at least some sort of happy ending.
