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= Songbird (Song So Mi) =
{{GameIcon|2077}}
{{Infobox_Character
|title = Songbird (Song So Mi)
|image = Song Bird.jpg
|aka = So Mi<br/>Song<br/>"Bird"
|status = Alive / Detained / Deceased (determinant; see Endings)
|home = NUSA (Washington, D.C.)<br/>Operational theater: [[Night City]] / Dogtown
|gender = Female
|hair_color = Black
|eyes = Brown
|affiliation = [[New United States of America]] (NUSA)<br/>Federal Intelligence Agency (FIA)<br/>Office of President [[Rosalind Myers]]
|role = [[Netrunner]]<br/>Intelligence operative
|voiced_by = [[imdb:nm6899421|Minji Chang]]
|appears_games = {{CP|2077|PL}}
}}
{{Block Quote|text=For Myers, the NUSA… I’m just another weapon in their arsenal. A tool for reachin’ beyond the Blackwall.|speaker=Songbird|citation={{CP|2077}}}}


[[File:Song Bird.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Songbird, the NUSA netrunner and confidant of President Myers]]
'''Songbird''' (real name '''Song So Mi''', Korean: ''송소미'') is a legendary netrunner and the top black-ops asset of President [[Rosalind Myers]] in ''[[Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty]]''. Gifted—and condemned—by an experimental implant stack, she conducts long-range intrusions, relays covert orders, and interfaces with systems skirting the [[Blackwall]]. Her abilities make her irreplaceable to the NUSA and are simultaneously destroying her body.<ref name="SongbirdFandom">{{Cite web|title=Song So Mi (Songbird)|url=https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Song_So_Mi|website=Cyberpunk
Wiki|date=}}</ref><ref name="PLwiki">{{Cite web|title=Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077:%20Phantom_Liberty|website=Wikipedia|date=}}
</ref>


'''Songbird''' (real name '''Song So Mi''') is a legendary netrunner and a pivotal character in ''[[Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty]]''. Serving as President [[Rosalind Myers]]’ black-ops intelligence asset, she acts as eyes, ears, and scalpel for the [[New United States of America]] (NUSA) across the Blackwall-scarred Net. Songbird’s mind is augmented far beyond human tolerances; the resulting power makes her irreplaceable—and steadily kills her.
==Biography==
 
== Biography ==
=== Early life and recruitment ===
=== Early life and recruitment ===
Little is publicly known about So Mi’s childhood; scattered records suggest a precocious aptitude for systems thinking, code abstraction, and pattern recognition. An early brush with state security caught the attention of NUSA intelligence recruiters, who offered protection and resources in exchange for service. So Mi accepted and entered a fast-tracked program that paired gifted netrunners with classified neurotech.
Publicly available records on So Mi’s childhood are sparse. Accounts point to a precocious code prodigy who took on high-risk netrunning jobs solo until her exploits drew the attention of federal handlers. To secure her talents—and neutralize a potential threat—the NUSA brought her into the FIA under presidential authority, assigning her the callsign '''Songbird'''.<ref name="SongbirdFandom" />


=== NUSA augmentation programs ===
=== FIA augmentation programs ===
Under presidential authority, So Mi was fitted with experimental neural implants—stacked coprocessors, quantum signal conditioners, and ICE-bypassing firmware—allowing her to parse encrypted satellite telemetry, orbital relays, and air-gapped combat networks in (near) real time. Over successive refits, her baseline cognition was scaffolded with machine-assist layers. These layers enabled ''long-range'' signal injection and ''over-the-horizon'' intrusion, but at the cost of bio-compatibility: runaway inflammation, glial scarring, and fatal feedback loops.
Within the FIA, Songbird received successive generations of classified neural coprocessors, signal conditioners and ICE-bypass firmware, enabling real-time parsing of encrypted satellite networks and “over-the-horizon” intrusions. Each refit increased range and power while accelerating neuroinflammation, memory fragmentation and systemic organ stress. The code-name “Songbird” reflects her role as the president’s invisible messenger and scalpel.
The codename “'''Songbird''’” reflects both her role as a covert courier of presidential will and the fact that most of her work is conducted as an unseen voice over tightbeam, comms, or neural overlay.


=== Blackwall exposure ===
=== Blackwall exposure and decline ===
To penetrate post-DataKrash architectures, Songbird’s toolchain included Blackwall-proximal interfaces. Prolonged exposure to outlawed protocol layers and rogue AI signatures accelerated her deterioration: micro-seizures, sensory bleed-through, and cognitive fragmentation. By the time of the Dogtown incident, medical projections were terminal without drastic intervention.
To penetrate architectures sealed after the DataKrash, Songbird’s toolchain incorporated Blackwall-proximal interfaces. Extended exposure to rogue-AI signatures amplified her deterioration: seizures, sensory bleed-through and fugue states. By the Dogtown incident, medical projections were terminal without drastic intervention.<ref name="PLwiki" />


== Role in ''Phantom Liberty'' ==
== Role in ''Phantom Liberty'' ==
=== Dogtown crisis ===
=== Dogtown crisis ===
Songbird contacts [[V]] during the ''Dogtown'' crisis, guiding them to secure President [[Rosalind Myers]] after a downing over the walled district controlled by [[Kurt Hansen]]. From the shadows, she orchestrates diversions, opens access, and weaponizes Dogtown’s grid to keep Myers alive. In return, she dangles a promise only she can credibly make: a path to a cure for V’s own bio-neurological death sentence.
Songbird contacts [[V]] as Space Force One is brought down over Dogtown, guiding them to extract President [[Rosalind Myers]] through a city locked down by [[Kurt Hansen]]. She remains a disembodied voice—hijacking relays, opening routes, and weaponizing city infrastructure to keep Myers alive—while promising V a path to address the Relic.<ref name="PLwiki" />


=== Breaking rank ===
=== Breaking rank ===
Once Myers is stabilized, Songbird reveals her intention to defect. The NUSA machine that amplified her is the same machine grinding her down. She seeks to reach the Night City spaceport and board a lunar shuttle—hoping that off-world clinics, distance from Blackwall entanglements, and time will buy her survival or at least freedom from state custody.
Once Myers is stabilized, Songbird reveals her intent to defect. The state that elevated her will also be her end. She seeks to reach Night City’s spaceport and board a lunar shuttle, gambling that off-world care and distance from the Blackwall will buy her freedom—or time.


=== The choice ===
=== The choice (branching outcomes) ===
At the heart of the expansion is the player’s decision regarding Songbird:


'''Aid Songbird''' — V runs the gauntlet to the launch facility, leveraging Songbird’s last reserves of netrunning power. Depending on moment-to-moment choices, she can reach the shuttle—escaping Earth and the NUSA’s grasp—or collapse under the strain before liftoff.
'''Aid Songbird''' → Leads into '''[[The Killing Moon]]''' (King of Wands route). If V holds the line, Songbird can reach the shuttle and escape Earth; failure states see her collapse before liftoff.<ref name="PowerPyx">{{Cite web|title=Phantom Liberty DLC – Main Jobs|url=https://www.powerpyx.com/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-dlc-walkthrough/|website=PowerPyx|date=2023-09-25}}
</ref><ref name="KillingMoon">{{Cite web|title=The Killing Moon|url=https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/The_Killing_Moon|website=Cyberpunk
Wiki|date=}}</ref>


'''Turn her over to [[Solomon Reed]]''' — Obeying the NUSA line delivers Songbird back into federal custody. Her fate becomes one of sedation, interrogation, and further experimentation; in exchange, a door opens toward experimental therapies for V—at costs that ripple into the epilogue.
'''Turn her over to [[Solomon Reed]]''' → The King of Swords route (''Through Pain to Heaven''): Songbird is retrieved into NUSA custody for further experimentation; V gains leverage toward their own survival at steep moral cost.<ref name="MainJobs">{{Cite web|title=Main Jobs (Phantom Liberty list)|url=https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077_Main_Jobs|website=Cyberpunk
Wiki|date=}}</ref>


== Personality ==
== Personality ==
Songbird is paradoxical: clinically precise under pressure yet unguarded in private channels. She uses quips and gentle teasing to keep allies moving, but the mask slips in moments of pain and dissociation. Empathy drives her defection as much as fear; she refuses to be a perpetual instrument. In many ways she serves as V’s mirror—both are dying from the very technology that once made them exceptional.
Songbird is paradox and pressure distilled—wry and coaxing over comms, brittle in private confession. Empathy drives her as much as desperation. She refuses to remain an instrument, even as she uses others like one. Many read her as V’s mirror: both are dying from the very tech that once set them apart.


== Abilities and equipment ==
== Abilities and equipment ==


'''Master-level netrunning''' — Rapid enumeration of targets, nested intrusion chains, and “hot-patching” exploits mid-breach.
'''Master-level netrunning''' – rapid enumeration, nested intrusion chains, and hot-patched exploits mid-breach.


'''Long-range signal work''' — Uplink hijacks and relay-to-relay piggybacking, granting reach far outside a normal decker’s bubble.
'''Long-range signal work''' – relay-to-relay piggybacking and uplink hijacks well beyond a normal decker’s bubble.


'''Blackwall-edge interfaces''' — Hazardous, short bursts that let her punch into otherwise unreachable networks; repeated use worsens her neurological collapse.
'''Blackwall-edge interfaces''' – short, hazardous bursts into outlawed protocol space; every dive worsens her condition.


'''Cyberdeck & neural stack''' — A custom, classified deck bonded to cranial co-processors; firmware supports multi-threaded quickhack queuing, device daisy-chains, and stealthy low-signature uploads.
'''Classified deck & neural stack''' – bonded coprocessors, multi-threaded quickhack queuing, stealthy low-signature uploads.
 
'''Operational tradecraft''' — Dead drops, one-time pads, and misdirection; she is as much a spymaster as a hacker.


== Relationships ==
== Relationships ==


'''[[Rosalind Myers]]''' — Handler, patron, and jailer. Myers values outcomes; Songbird is both a cherished asset and an expendable component of the presidency’s survival strategy.
'''[[Rosalind Myers]]''' – handler and patron; values outcomes over sentiment.
 
'''[[Solomon Reed]]''' — The consummate field agent. Reed’s loyalty to the state clashes with So Mi’s claim to self-ownership. Their rapport mixes professional respect with irreconcilable duty.
 
'''[[V]]''' — Confidant by necessity, then by choice. V sees the person under the asset designation; So Mi sees in V a fellow traveler trapped between body and machine.
 
'''[[Kurt Hansen]]''' — Obstacle and target. Songbird treats Hansen’s Dogtown infrastructure as a chessboard—pieces to be subverted or sacrificed.
 
== Health and decline ==
Medical shards point to progressive neuroinflammation, micro-ischemia, and runaway excitotoxicity triggered by the implant stack. Symptoms include tremor, auditory/visual overlap, blackouts, and ‘‘fugues’’ during deep dives. Standard therapies only slow the slide; true remission would require de-stacking or radical off-world intervention—both logistically and politically fraught.
 
== Themes ==
 
'''Freedom vs. Control''' — Is a state-owned savior still a person? Songbird argues the answer with her feet.


'''Power and Cost''' — Every burst of brilliance takes a bite out of her future.
'''[[Solomon Reed]]''' – consummate field agent; loyalty to state vs. So Mi’s claim to self-ownership.


'''Trust and Betrayal''' — The player’s choice redefines the meaning of “help”—liberation, mercy, or treason.
'''[[V (character)|V]]''' – confidant and moral pivot; ally, betrayer, or liberator depending on player choice.


== Endings and outcomes (spoiler summary) ==
'''[[Kurt Hansen]]''' – occupation warlord of Dogtown; his infrastructure becomes her chessboard.


'''Escape attempt''' — A successful shuttle extraction severs NUSA custody. Whether survival awaits on the Moon remains uncertain; Songbird trades certain captivity for uncertain autonomy.
== Database Entry ==
{{DBChar
|title = Songbird (Song So Mi)
|image = Songbird_Database_CP2077.png
|transcript = Songbird is the president’s ghost in the machine—an augmented netrunner whose “voice” slips through hardened systems and battlefield chaos alike. She is a paradox: a national asset that must never be seen, a dying woman the state refuses to let go. Help her and you buy someone’s freedom—maybe hers, maybe your own. Betray her and you might live long enough to wonder what you became in the process.<ref name="SongbirdFandom" />
}}


'''Returned to NUSA''' — Sedated, studied, and siloed. V gains leverage toward their own survival route, but at the price of So Mi’s freedom.
==Associated Quests==


'''Failure states''' — If V cannot hold the line, Songbird’s body gives out before departure—her final moments an overload of pain, static, and unfinished messages.
'''Phantom Liberty main jobs:''' [[Dog Eat Dog]] • [[Hole in the Sky]] • [[Spider and the Fly]] • ''Lucretia My Reflection'' • ''The Damned'' • ''Get It Together'' • ''You Know My Name'' • ''Birds with Broken Wings'' • ''I've Seen That Face Before'' • '''[[Firestarter]]''' → branches to:<ref name="PowerPyx" /><ref name="Game8Order">{{Cite web|title=Firestarter – Quest Order (Game8)|url=https://game8.co/games/Cyberpunk-2077/archives/Quests-Firestarter|website=Game8|date=2025-06-05}}
</ref>
** '''King of Wands (help Songbird):''' '''[[The Killing Moon]]''' → ''Unfinished Sympathy'' / ''From Her to Eternity'' (side follow-ups).<ref name="KillingMoon" />
** '''King of Swords (side with Reed):''' '''Through Pain to Heaven''' (Songbird in NUSA custody).<ref name="MainJobs" />


== Notable appearances ==
==Notes==


''Phantom Liberty'' mainline: Dogtown recovery of [[Rosalind Myers]]; covert coordination against [[Kurt Hansen]]; the airport run; confrontation with [[Solomon Reed]].
Canonical Korean name formatting: family name '''Song''', given name '''So-mi''' (''송소미'').<ref name="SongbirdFandom" />


Shards and intel briefings: redacted medical files, implant specs, and NUSA case notes referencing “Subject So Mi.”
English voice: '''Minji Chang'''.<ref name="Shacknews">{{Cite web|title=Cyberpunk 2077 voice actors & cast list|url=https://www.shacknews.com/article/137246/cyberpunk-2077-voice-cast|website=Shacknews|date=2023-09-26}}
</ref><ref name="MinjiSite">{{Cite web|title=Minji Chang – About|url=https://minjichang.com/about|website=MinjiChang.com|date=}}
</ref>


== Behind the character (in-universe) ==
==Trivia==
NUSA codenames often carry layered meanings. “Songbird” evokes a messenger that sings where others fall silent—apt for a voice that slips through firewalls and battlefield chaos alike.


== See also ==
The “Songbird” codename alludes to her role as a covert courier of presidential will and a voice that “sings” across hardened networks.


[[Solomon Reed]]
Several of her strongest sequences are experienced purely as audio over tight comms—reinforcing her disembodied, spectral presence in the story.


[[President Myers]]
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Songbird_keyart_CP2077PL.jpg|Key art
Songbird_Comms_Interface.png|Comms overlay during Dogtown ops
</gallery>


[[Phantom Liberty]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}


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== Referencie ==
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<ref name="songbird">{{Cite web|title=Song So Mi (Songbird)|url=https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Song_So_Mi|website=Cyberpunk
Wiki|date=}}</ref>
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Wiki|date=}}</ref>
<ref name="myers">{{Cite web|title=Rosalind Myers|url=https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Rosalind_Myers|website=Cyberpunk
Wiki|date=}}</ref>
<ref name="reed">{{Cite web|title=Solomon Reed|url=https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Solomon_Reed|website=Cyberpunk
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Latest revision as of 17:24, 5 September 2025


For Myers, the NUSA… I’m just another weapon in their arsenal. A tool for reachin’ beyond the Blackwall.

 — Songbird, Cyberpunk 2077

Songbird (real name Song So Mi, Korean: 송소미) is a legendary netrunner and the top black-ops asset of President Rosalind Myers in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Gifted—and condemned—by an experimental implant stack, she conducts long-range intrusions, relays covert orders, and interfaces with systems skirting the Blackwall. Her abilities make her irreplaceable to the NUSA and are simultaneously destroying her body.[1][2]

Biography

Early life and recruitment

Publicly available records on So Mi’s childhood are sparse. Accounts point to a precocious code prodigy who took on high-risk netrunning jobs solo until her exploits drew the attention of federal handlers. To secure her talents—and neutralize a potential threat—the NUSA brought her into the FIA under presidential authority, assigning her the callsign Songbird.[1]

FIA augmentation programs

Within the FIA, Songbird received successive generations of classified neural coprocessors, signal conditioners and ICE-bypass firmware, enabling real-time parsing of encrypted satellite networks and “over-the-horizon” intrusions. Each refit increased range and power while accelerating neuroinflammation, memory fragmentation and systemic organ stress. The code-name “Songbird” reflects her role as the president’s invisible messenger and scalpel.

Blackwall exposure and decline

To penetrate architectures sealed after the DataKrash, Songbird’s toolchain incorporated Blackwall-proximal interfaces. Extended exposure to rogue-AI signatures amplified her deterioration: seizures, sensory bleed-through and fugue states. By the Dogtown incident, medical projections were terminal without drastic intervention.[2]

Role in Phantom Liberty

Dogtown crisis

Songbird contacts V as Space Force One is brought down over Dogtown, guiding them to extract President Rosalind Myers through a city locked down by Kurt Hansen. She remains a disembodied voice—hijacking relays, opening routes, and weaponizing city infrastructure to keep Myers alive—while promising V a path to address the Relic.[2]

Breaking rank

Once Myers is stabilized, Songbird reveals her intent to defect. The state that elevated her will also be her end. She seeks to reach Night City’s spaceport and board a lunar shuttle, gambling that off-world care and distance from the Blackwall will buy her freedom—or time.

The choice (branching outcomes)

Aid Songbird → Leads into The Killing Moon (King of Wands route). If V holds the line, Songbird can reach the shuttle and escape Earth; failure states see her collapse before liftoff.[3][4]

Turn her over to Solomon Reed → The King of Swords route (Through Pain to Heaven): Songbird is retrieved into NUSA custody for further experimentation; V gains leverage toward their own survival at steep moral cost.[5]

Personality

Songbird is paradox and pressure distilled—wry and coaxing over comms, brittle in private confession. Empathy drives her as much as desperation. She refuses to remain an instrument, even as she uses others like one. Many read her as V’s mirror: both are dying from the very tech that once set them apart.

Abilities and equipment

Master-level netrunning – rapid enumeration, nested intrusion chains, and hot-patched exploits mid-breach.

Long-range signal work – relay-to-relay piggybacking and uplink hijacks well beyond a normal decker’s bubble.

Blackwall-edge interfaces – short, hazardous bursts into outlawed protocol space; every dive worsens her condition.

Classified deck & neural stack – bonded coprocessors, multi-threaded quickhack queuing, stealthy low-signature uploads.

Relationships

Rosalind Myers – handler and patron; values outcomes over sentiment.

Solomon Reed – consummate field agent; loyalty to state vs. So Mi’s claim to self-ownership.

V – confidant and moral pivot; ally, betrayer, or liberator depending on player choice.

Kurt Hansen – occupation warlord of Dogtown; his infrastructure becomes her chessboard.

Database Entry

Songbird (Song So Mi)
Songbird (Song So Mi)

SONGBIRD (SONG SO MI)

Songbird is the president’s ghost in the machine—an augmented netrunner whose “voice” slips through hardened systems and battlefield chaos alike. She is a paradox: a national asset that must never be seen, a dying woman the state refuses to let go. Help her and you buy someone’s freedom—maybe hers, maybe your own. Betray her and you might live long enough to wonder what you became in the process.[1]

Associated Quests

Phantom Liberty main jobs: Dog Eat Dog • Hole in the Sky • Spider and the Fly • Lucretia My Reflection • The Damned • Get It Together • You Know My Name • Birds with Broken Wings • I've Seen That Face Before • Firestarter → branches to:[3][6]

    • King of Wands (help Songbird): The Killing Moon → Unfinished Sympathy / From Her to Eternity (side follow-ups).[4]
    • King of Swords (side with Reed): Through Pain to Heaven (Songbird in NUSA custody).[5]

Notes

Canonical Korean name formatting: family name Song, given name So-mi (송소미).[1]

English voice: Minji Chang.[7][8]

Trivia

The “Songbird” codename alludes to her role as a covert courier of presidential will and a voice that “sings” across hardened networks.

Several of her strongest sequences are experienced purely as audio over tight comms—reinforcing her disembodied, spectral presence in the story.

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 . n.d. Song So Mi (Songbird).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 . n.d. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 . n.d. Phantom Liberty DLC – Main Jobs.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 . n.d. The Killing Moon.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 . n.d. Main Jobs (Phantom Liberty list).
  6. ↑ . n.d. Firestarter – Quest Order (Game8).
  7. ↑ . n.d. Cyberpunk 2077 voice actors & cast list.
  8. ↑ . n.d. Minji Chang – About.


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