Sofie Ivanov
From The Babylon Project
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Sofie Ivanov was the wife of Andrei Ivanov and the mother of Susan Ivanova and Ganya Ivanov.
[edit] History
Sofie was born in 2200, in the Russian Consortium. At some point in her life, she manifested telepathy, but she managed to keep it hidden most of her life.[1]
She married Andrei Ivanov, a scholar and pacifist, and they lived in St. Petersburg. They had two children, Ganya and Susan, whom they raised in the Jewish Orthodox faith. Sofie would use her telepathy with her children, enjoying a very close, intense love with them. As a young child, Susan began to exhibit latent telepathic abilities. She stressed for Susan to not tell anyone. She also employed a number of means to ensure no one discovered Susan's latent ability: she taught Susan how to fool the tests given, moved her to different schools, etc.[2][3]
On her thirty-fifth birthday, she was discovered by the Psi Corps. Rather than join the Corps or go to prison, she elected to use "Sleepers" to disable her ability. Once a week a person would come and give the drugs to her, and each week she sank deeper and deeper into a depression, a side effect of the drugs. In 2245, after ten years of the treatments, she committed suicide. Her loss devastated her family and would have repercussions for many years to come.[1][4]
[edit] Notes
- Sofie is mentioned on occasion, but her only appearance was in a nightmare Susan Ivanova had in "Eyes."
- Even though the Show has generally referred to her as Sofie Ivanov, Russian naming Syntax requires her name to be Sofie Ivanova, because Russian last names are possessive adjectives and have a Male and Female form, (-ov ending for males, and -ova ending for females, for example.)[5]
