Profile[]
A member of Maid For You, the "squad" of on-call maids that serve the citizens of the Ark. Soda in particular is focused on housekeeping and cleaning, and will often get to cleaning without prompting. Soda herself is almost always smiling, and her brightening cheer is as much of a welcome service as her cleaning...even if she occasionally messes up.
Nikke Backstory[]
The member of Maid For You responsible primarily for domestic duties. She can almost always be seen with a permanent smile on her face, which never fades even when she makes the occasional mistake at work. This indefatigable cheeriness is infectious to those who hang around Soda.
Personality[]
Similarly to Cocoa, Soda is rather more clumsy and incompetent as a member of the Maid For You. Because of this, Soda is nowhere near safe from unfortunate situations such as often tripping herself during her work duties or incorrectly getting the order of the café's customers. Despite this, Soda's wish is to happily serve the people of the Ark, as per duty of Maid For You.
Story[]
Main Story[]
Event Story[]
Maid in Valentine[]
At the Outpost maid café, Maid For You is hard at work preparing for their upcoming Valentine's festivities. But when Mustang deems their chocolate "lacking sincerity", he cancels their events. To decipher the secret to "heartfelt Valentine's chocolate", Maid For You ventures to the surface with the protagonist, seeking an old sweets factory.
Perfect Maid[]
With Ade out of commission, Privaty and Drake become temporary maids to make up for injuring her in the first place. Both Soda and Cocoa are ready and willing to help their new coworkers adjust to their new jobs.
Re:CIPE FOR YOU[]
In order to win a cooking competition so Emilia, Rem, and Ram can return to their own world, the commander enlists the services of Maid for You to teach them how to cook. It's only on the day of that they learn that the maids are their competition.
Golden Coin Rush[]
In order to save the Maid Cafe from going under, Soda forms a team with Master and Alice to win the Tetra Golden Chip showdown to receive a wish from Mustang.
Bond story[]
Episode 1 - A Danger to Others[]
The protagonist enters the maid café, having been requested by Soda for a counseling session. Ade welcomes him in, but decides it's better for Soda to explain the situation, and asks him to wait until Soda can come to him.
Taking a seat at a table, the protagonist looks around the café. Soda is spotted tripping over as she answers a customer's call, though the maid is quick to brush off the tumble she just took. After taking the customer's alfredo pasta order, Soda bids her to wait while she gets the food.
A moment later, Soda returns to the customer...with the completely wrong order. When this is pointed out, Soda gets flustered and rushes back to the kitchen, only to fall over on the way. Neither the customer nor the protagonist can find words to describe the situation.
Another moment later, Soda's clumsiness leads to a mess of broken glass on the floor. Ade sees to the other maid's condition while cleaning the spill.
Yet another moment later, Soda's accidentally splattered a customer with food. Fortunately(?) for her, it seems this customer wanted such a thing to happen to him...
This endless stream of spills and pratfalls goes on, and, according to the protagonist's observations, all of this amounts to thirty-seven incidents in the span of one hour.
When the café finally closes, Soda brings a drink to the protagonist, only to predictably fumble it right onto his pants. Seeing the dirty laundry, Soda suggests the protagonist remove his pants then and there so she can wash them. Ignoring the protagonist's protests, Soda begins attempting to strip the man of his pants, only to slip on the spilled drink in the struggle, sending both of them tumbling to the floor. Thankfully, both maid and commander are alright, but then Soda beings poking at...something squishy inside of the protagonist's pants. Thankfully, she understands the protagonist's implications and ceases her manhandling.
After Soda finally calms down, she apologizes for the earlier debacle, having only wanted to help the protagonist with his laundry. Forgiving the incident, the protagonist cuts to the heart of why he's visiting the café, which, as it turns out, is Soda wanting to learn how to be less clumsy.
Episode 2 - Please, Master![]
Soda bows her head as she makes her request, only to bump her head against a table. As she explains her plight, she only fumbles more objects in her vicinity, causing her to become downcast. The protagonist agrees to help, and despite no guarantees of success, his determination does wonders for Soda's morale.
The next day, the two have brainstormed some things to reduce Soda's error rate, the first idea being to keep memos so that Soda won't forget orders and tasks as often. They do a practice run of the protagonist ordering a meal, but not only does Soda start muttering about other things, she completely forgets the notepad, leaving it on the table.
Three attempts later, Soda is still no closer to serving the protagonist exactly what he ordered. At that moment, Cocoa suddenly shows up and drags Soda to the kitchen, claiming she'll show how it's done. Ade notes the protagonist being here quite early in the morning, then asks for a progress report on helping Soda, which admittedly isn't going very well. Meanwhile, Cocoa is walking Soda through the steps of maidhood, including keeping one's balance while carrying a tray of drinks. Her initial success leads Soda to demonstrate to the protagonist, but she trips mid-walk and falls. The other maids tell Soda to keep practicing while they handle the opening procedures. Despite Soda and the protagonist spending the rest of the morning at full throttle, neither of them can figure out a way to reduce her error rate.
After an unspecified number of failures, a despondent Soda can barely even respond to the protagonist, though she quickly puts on a cheery face when she does. She apologizes for taking up so much time for so little gain, then notices the bell that signals the café's opening hour, and thanks the protagonist for his efforts as she rushes to greet the customers.
As Soda is handling the tables, the protagonist notices her muttering about all manner of things, from what tables are ordering, to what customers are nearly finished, even noticing a customer dropping utensils and moving to get new ones right before she falls over. At that moment, the protagonist has a revelation and beckons Soda before dragging her to the employee lounge.
Episode 3 - Check Your Gaze[]
In the lounge, Soda is confused as to why the protagonist is having her keep her eyes closed, to which he explains that Soda herself is, for lack of better descriptor, over-focusing on the customers and not on her surroundings, leading to her mishaps. Ergo, his suggestion is that the maid try to work while keeping her eyes closed so she won't see all the little things going on. Except he immediately realizes the difficulty in just moving, let alone waiting tables with eyes closed, and is about to scrap the plan, only for Soda to insist on going through with it. Though she does request the protagonist hold her hand so she can get back to the café floor.
Later, Soda is serving with her eyes shut, and she is...actually succeeding? Neither the customers not the protagonist can believe how quick and smooth the service is, the latter so dumbstruck he fails to react until Soda bumps into him. The protagonist asks how exactly this has worked out so well, to which Soda responds that she's eschewed overthinking for simply letting her body move on its own. Both of them are shocked to realize that in the time since Soda closed her eyes, not a single mistake or mess has been made on her part, leading the maid to declare she's going to work like this from now on.
Meanwhile, a customer is asking Cocoa if Soda made his omurice, which she did, as per Maid For You's policy of having the maid in service also make the ordered food. The customer has no complaints, per say, but he does note that Soda's omurice seems to lack a certain...distinctive quality to it. A remark that a woman nearby agrees with. Sure, they're happy Soda is making less mistakes now, but the Soda who perfectly does everything with her eyes closed seems a little less...genuine to them, and they're actually considering ceasing their patronage of the café if this keeps up.
Overhearing these comments, Soda apologizes to the protagonist and says she's ending her shift early as she rushes out the door, a sad look on her face.
Episode 4 - A Reason to Smile[]
Some time later, the protagonist is in front of Soda's room, though the maid initially tries to shoo away her visitor before noticing who it is. After a brief cacophony of fumbling, Soda opens the door and lets the protagonist in.
Inside the room, the protagonist apologizes to Soda for misreading the situation. Soda's mishaps weren't solely because of over-consciousness of the customers. Rather it was from her wanting to make the customers happy, and in keeping an eye on the customers and gauging their reactions, she'd become tunnel-visioned and stop paying attention to her surroundings. Soda agrees with this assessment, noting she only really messes up when she's at work or with other people.
The protagonist questions why Soda focuses on people so much, which she tells after she makes him promise not to laugh. Soda just really wants people to be happy, and being a maid seemed like the best way to help take peoples' minds off being holed up in the Ark all the time. But lately, she's felt like all her slip-ups and failures are just a burden to everyone else. She wonders if trying to make other people happy was a foolish endeavor, an idea the protagonist objects to based on what he heard earlier.
Cut to 30 minutes ago, after Soda rushed out the café. The protagonist notifies Ade that he's going to talk to Soda, when some customers notice a brewing situation and ask what's going on. Ade confides Soda's worries about her mistakes, and the customers are appalled at the idea of Soda being a burden to everyone. Sure, Soda's mistakes were an inconvenience, but the constant smile on her face and genuine desire to help touched the hearts of the customers.
Despite the protagonist's assurance that no one thinks lowly of her, Soda asserts that eventually, people won't tolerate her mistakes and get tired. She insists she's going to give up, but the protagonist insists on continuing their training, promising to act as her eyes while she focuses on making people happy.
Soda thinks to herself about how everyone was happy, even as she made mistakes. She promises to do her best to put a smile on every customer that visits the café. As the protagonist decides to call it a day and leave, Soda grabs him and stops him from going. She just wants to thanks him, and looks forward to his next visit at the café.
Episode 5 - Soda's Ecstasy[]
A few days later, the protagonist is visiting the maid café. Soda greets him before getting back to her previous orders, but the protagonist assures he's only visiting. Looking around, the protagonist can't find Cocoa or Ade, only for the former to pop out of the employee lounge and beckon him inside.
As the other maids relax in the lounge, they regale how Soda seems unusually fired up these past few days, insisting they take a break while she handles the café. Ade guesses the talk went well, and both she and Cocoa are glad to see Soda back at work again.
Noticing that it's just about time for the lunch rush, Ade calls Soda to take a break. The latter tries to persist, but Ade subtly demands she sit down and have some tea with the protagonist, whose presence Soda appears to have forgotten amidst her tasks.
As Cocoa and Ade step out to the dining area, Soda seems slightly giddy at the protagonist's presence, try as she might to pretend everything is normal. She brews some tea and brings it over, but trips and spills the scalding beverage on the protagonist's pants. Soda is almost about to suggest he strip so she can wash the pants, but pauses on remembering what happened last time. The protagonist simply wipes his pants with napkins and sits down with Soda.
The two talk about recent events, and while Soda is still blundering around the place, she feels a certain sense of motivation after hearing the protagonist's words, about how she made the people around her happy. As the protagonist catches a cup Soda nudged off the table, he notices her hands fidgeting and clasps them in his. The two of them confide in each other about how they both feel holding hands like this before Soda decides to get back to work. Just before she leaves, she asks the protagonist to give her a bit of encouragement, and closes her eyes. Without another word, the protagonist takes Soda into his arms and kisses her. When the kiss ends, Soda confesses she feels more energetic, but could use a little more encouragement...
Later, Soda rejoins the other maids in the café, long after the lunch rush is over. While Cocoa has no idea what was going on, Ade subtly glances at the protagonist, having some idea of what transpired. Soda goes to take a table's orders, but trips over so hard she upends a nearby table. The customers, while concerned for her wellbeing, look fondly on the maid's usual clumsiness. The protagonist thinks to himself that while he promised to look after Soda, this sight of her being a klutz isn't so bad either.
Story appearances[]
Main story[]
Events[]
Bond story[]
Brief encounters[]