Sonia Belmont

Sonia Belmont is one of the main characters from the Castlevania games.

Sonia is a vampire huntress who lived in the 15th Century and renowned for being the first member of the Belmont Clan, a family of noble lineage destined to become legendary. She was born with the ability to sense the presence of spiritual beings that cannot be seen by ordinary human beings. Sonia was taught how to wield a whip by her grandfather.

Personality
Sonia is just as willing able to fight demons as the rest of her clan.

Abilities
Sonia is gifted with strange magical power. Sonia does not make use of subweapons. Instead, defeating boss monsters grants her various magical powers, such as the ability to heal herself or obliterate everything on the screen. She can also enter a Burning Mode which improves her movement speed, damage and makes her invincible.

Trivia

 * The good end of Castlevania Legends implies that Sonia's child was fathered by Alucard.
 * Sonia was intended to star in Castlevania: Resurrection, a canceled Castlevania game for the Sega Dreamcast.
 * Sonia is depicted with a sword at her side in several pictures from the Legends instruction booklet. However, she never uses one in the game itself.
 * She met Alucard when she was 17 years old, as mentioned in the instruction booklet. However, the official guide claims that she met him at 15. The age given in the guide is probably a misprint.
 * Sonia is one of only two lead protagonists that are female. Shanoa is the other. However, Sonia is no longer part of the official canon.
 * Sonia Belmont's existence and the entire happenings of Castlevania Legends were removed from the official timeline of Castlevania in November, 2005 because they conflicted with the plotline of the main games. Koji Igarashi didn't like the idea of having a female protagonist in the respective time period that Castlevania Legends takes place in, since it didn't quite fit with the motifs of a vampire story. He stated that: "Legends remains something of an embarrassment for the series. If only that development team had the guidance of the original team of the series". Now, Sonia's exploits are considered taking place in an alternate timeline, separated from the current Castlevania canon.
 * She bears some resemblance to the anime version of Doris Lang from the Vampire Hunter D series.