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[[File:Song | [[File:Song Bird.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Songbird, the NUSA netrunner and confidant of President Myers]] | ||
'''Songbird''' (real name '''Song So Mi''') is a netrunner and key character in ''[[Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty]]''. She serves as President [[Rosalind Myers]]’ top intelligence operative and cybernetic asset. Gifted with extraordinary neural capabilities, Songbird’s body and mind are augmented to a degree that makes her both invaluable and unstable. | '''Songbird''' (real name '''Song So Mi''') is a netrunner and key character in ''[[Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty]]''. She serves as President [[Rosalind Myers]]’ top intelligence operative and cybernetic asset. Gifted with extraordinary neural capabilities, Songbird’s body and mind are augmented to a degree that makes her both invaluable and unstable. | ||
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Songbird (Song So Mi)
Songbird (real name Song So Mi) is a netrunner and key character in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. She serves as President Rosalind Myers’ top intelligence operative and cybernetic asset. Gifted with extraordinary neural capabilities, Songbird’s body and mind are augmented to a degree that makes her both invaluable and unstable.
Biography
Song So Mi was born in the late 21st century and displayed exceptional hacking abilities from a young age. Recruited by the New United States of America’s intelligence agencies, she was enhanced with experimental neural implants that made her capable of interfacing directly with military satellites, orbital systems, and secure databases.
The codename “Songbird” reflects both her talent for covert communication and her role as Myers’ messenger. However, her enhancements are killing her—her body deteriorates under the strain of her augmented brain.
Role in Phantom Liberty
Songbird contacts V directly during the Dogtown storyline, urging them to rescue President Myers. Later, she reveals her desperation: she wants to escape the NUSA and flee to the Moon, where she hopes to find treatment or simply live free of the state’s control.
- If V chooses to help Songbird, she may succeed in reaching the space shuttle and escaping Earth.
- If betrayed to Solomon Reed, she becomes a prisoner of the NUSA, forced into further experimentation.
- Her arc offers one of the expansion’s most emotional choices—whether to honor her plea for freedom or to trade her for V’s survival.
Personality
Songbird is empathetic, cunning, and desperate. She is simultaneously powerful and vulnerable: capable of hacking systems across the globe, yet trapped by her failing body and the NUSA’s grip. Players often interpret her as a tragic mirror of V: both are dying due to technology, both seek escape.
Themes
- **Freedom vs. Control** — Songbird’s rebellion contrasts Reed’s loyalty.
- **Body and Decay** — Her failing health underscores the cost of cybernetic power.
- **Trust and Betrayal** — The player’s treatment of Songbird defines her ending.