Songbird

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.

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

 — Songbird, Cyberpunk 2077

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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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.

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:

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

Notes

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

English voice: Minji Chang.

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

• Key art
  Key art
• Comms overlay during Dogtown ops
  Comms overlay during Dogtown ops