The Destruction of The Vow

I feel like someone could write a good retroactive story of how Sonja went from shackled by her vow to the vow no longer existing (and a personality change to being more “goblin mode”) beyond a universal reset that never occurred in universe.
One of her biggest stories was her disillusion and emancipation from her patron goddess. After learning her entire life was a huge manipulation by the goddess. As the vow was a part of her association with the goddess (essentially a mother figure), a short story where, in an act of rebellion, she breaks the vow to love whomever she wants to love and discovers that no repercussions arose from it as her power was her own and not based on some status of purity. The story could serve as a kind of “emancipation from controlling parents” story. With perhaps her goddess monologuing to the reader at the end about how she put Sonja under the vow initially to aid her in not falling under Men’s power (as is mentioned in Queen Sonja).
Sonja’s more “goblin mode” personality in Gail Simone’s run could then be explained as her exploring her new sense of freedom and rebellion. As is what often happens with people who have freed themselves from a societal restriction they realized they didn’t need to be restrained by.

Posted Jun 27, 2026, 10:14 AM UTC

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