Sofia the First (character)

Sofia the First is the main protagonist of the Disney TV special Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess. A series will follow in January of 2013.

Sofia is a little girl with a commoner's background until her mother marries the King of her Kingdom and she suddenly becomes royalty. Sofia learns that looking like a princess isn’t all that hard, but behaving like one must come from the heart.

Background
Sofia is a sweet and adorable young girl of humble origins who lives with her mother Miranda. Her father is absent for reasons unknown. She becomes royalty after her mothers remarriage. Being new to the entire princess legacy, Sofia attends the Royal Prep Academy where the fairies of Princess Aurora, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, teach her about what being a princess is all about.

Physical Appearance
Sofia is a young girl with beautiful brown hair in a wavy style. She has large blue eyes and fair skin. Sofia's prominent princess gown has a lilac color and comes with a crystal tiara. Across her neck, she wears the royal family's amulet called the Amulet of Avalor, which allows her the power of taking to animals, and much more that has yet to be revealed.

Personality
While cute and beautiful, Sofia is rather clumsy but has a pure heart. Since she was originally a mere commoner, she retains a very carefree persona, and was once seen to enjoy sliding down the rails of the staircase. Her outcast-esque behavior often puts her at wits with her stepsister Amber who's apparently jealous of Sofia.

Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess
In the film that acted as the pilot for Sofia, the young girl's story was told beginning where she became a princess. The film also shows her first days in the palace, meeting famous Disney Princesses such as Cinderella. A notable event to occured was Sofia's amulet, the Amulet of Avalor. The amulet contains powerful magic that allows Sofia to speak to animals and the power to bring fellow Disney Princesses to her aid. The amulet was also on the wish list for the villainous sorcerer Cedric, who secretly plotted to rule the kingdom using the magic of the amulet.

Sofia the First (TV Series)
She will be the titlular character in this series.

Theme Park Character
Sofia made her theme park character debut during the taping of the Walt Disney World segments of the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade special at the Magic Kingdom December 1st, 2012. It is expected that she will be part of the Disney Junior Live theme park meet and greets at Disney California Adventure in Anaheim and Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida in the not-too-distant future. She is a fully costumed character.

Trivia

 * Despite being a princess and being directly affiliated with Disney Princesses in her show, Sofia will not join the official line up, possibly because she is too young and is probably closer in age to characters like Melody and Alice, instead of Aurora and Jasmine.
 * She has two step siblings named Amber and James.
 * She screams like a banshee.
 * On a press tour, executive producer Jamie Mitchell said, "She is Latina" after one reporter asked about Sofia's mother's darker skin. This makes Sofia Disney's first Latina princess to appear in an animation project. But recent articles on Sofia's heritage says that she is "not" Latina, but of a mixed-heritage, with her mother hailing from the Kingdom of Galdiz (loosely based on Spain) and her father hailing from a kingdom based off of Scandinavia.
 * She was unable to dance, but learned how to later in the special.