Sophieeeeee yes. Headcanon meme.
A: what I think realistically
Sophie is highly suspicious of Maggie a while. Not because of Nate, just because. Because Maggie is Maggie. Because Maggie is good and honorable and honest and Sophie is…Sophie is not those things. Sophie is a criminal and her thefts might not have hurt anyone, but sometimes she thinks about little children with stolen artifacts, about the look on her team’s faces when they realized she’d played them, and wonders what the fallout pattern of her life looks like. Maggie surely doesn’t have to think about that (Sophie is wrong about this) and Sophie cannot understand why someone like that would willingly put herself in the middle of all this.
Sophie gets past this, of course. Maggie, she comes to realize, is just. Maggie. She is good and honorable and honest, and just as furious and steely and brilliant and cold-eyed as her ex-husband.
So obviously Sophie sleeps with her. It’s a good fling, all intimacy and affection with absolutely no romance, and Sophie is lying in bed when Maggie bends down to kiss her forehead and say, “I hope things work out with you and Nate. You’re too good for him.”
“Of course I am,” Sophie sniffs. “We both are.”
B: what I think is fucking hilarious
To be COMPLETELY clear, Nate gets Sophie’s wedding ring engraved with ‘Your Name Here’ even though he knows! He fucking knows! He knows her real name! He knows all her titles and ranks and everything (you’ll never tell me that Sophie isn’t actually a British noblewoman okay) and yet! Fucking! Your Name Here!
They have to pause the service so that Sophie can stop laughing.
C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends
Sophie really wants to be in love, but she’s…she’s afraid of the part between being strangers and being in love. It’s so vulnerable, putting little bits of yourself out there one at a time and waiting to see if the other person is going to slap you down. She wonders, every time she sits down with a new person, what they would think of the real her, and she opens her mouth to say “my name is Sophie Devereaux” and instead some other name pops out. And in the end, inevitably, she slips up, gets too comfortable and shows a bit of the wrong self and…
Well, there she is again. Wanting to be in love and sitting down to introduce herself and giving the wrong name.
D: what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway
Um…I honestly have no idea, so instead here’s an AU I want.
I want a mutant AU where Sophie is a metamorph a la Mystique, and her ‘Sophie’ face isn’t actually…her real face. Like, she thinks of it as her real face. It’s the face she always wears when they’re not doing a con. Even when they are doing a con she doesn’t like to depart too far from it. But when she was a kid she had a different face, and she shifted whenever she could, into whoever she wanted, and then one day she was standing in front of a mirror and shifting back and she…couldn’t quite remember what color her eyes were. Hazel, or mahogany? Black lashes or brown? Did her skin have pink or yellow undertones?
Sophie Devereaux wears a face assembled out of her favorite features. She takes a picture of that face, the moment she fixes it the way she likes it, and keeps the picture beside her mirror so that she can always get it right.