Songaa

Spoilers: This article discusses the final arc and ending of the original BRZRKR limited series, including Diana Ahuja's pregnancy, the birth of her children with B, B's death, and the aftermath.

Overview

Songaa is an elder member of the secluded community that shelters B and Dr. Diana Ahuja in the final issue of the original BRZRKR limited series. Introduced alongside the midwife Seline at a refuge in the American Southwest, Songaa helps receive the fugitives, participates in the household that protects them, assists during the birth of B and Diana's twins, and remains present through the family's brief domestic period and the aftermath of B's death.^[1][2]

Songaa is not given a long personal history in dialogue, but her age, placement beside Seline, and participation in a community whose predecessors have crossed paths with B give her the role of an elder within a living chain of memory. The comic does not state whether she is Seline's mother, grandmother, aunt, teacher, or unrelated community elder. It also does not assign her a formal title. The visual age difference does not establish a precise genealogy.

What the series does establish is more interesting than an invented family tree. Songaa belongs to a group that remembers B differently from the two institutions that dominate the original series. The U.S. government sees B as an asset whose body and origin can be studied. Caldwell's cult sees him as the route to becoming immortal or godlike. Songaa's community receives him as a person with whom generations have shared history. When B arrives with a pregnant partner, they provide food, a room, a midwife, privacy, and a place where his children can be born.

Songaa thus embodies continuity at the human scale. B survives for eighty thousand years through supernatural regeneration. Songaa's people survive through transmission between generations. Their form of continuity is ordinary mortality joined by memory.

Arrival of B and Diana

Songaa first appears in BRZRKR #12 when B brings Diana to the Southwest refuge.^[1] Seline introduces herself and identifies Songaa beside her. The greeting makes clear that the women already know who B is. Seline addresses him as Unute, and B expresses gratitude for the generations their people have shared and the paths they have walked.

Songaa's lack of a separate formal introduction does not diminish her importance. She is presented as part of the welcome party and immediately becomes part of the domestic environment into which B and Diana are received.

The timing is crucial. B and Diana have recently escaped the consequences of the government program's Source-contact operation. Diana is pregnant. The pair have reasons to believe the government will continue to pursue them because both B's changed condition and Diana's pregnancy have enormous strategic value.

The Southwest refuge is therefore not a vacation or casual visit. It is a sanctuary during a period when the institutional forces surrounding B have repeatedly attempted to control his body, memories, and reproductive potential.

The Southwest refuge

The refuge is depicted as rural, warm, lived-in, and removed from the technological spaces that define much of the modern storyline.^[1][3]

Songaa is closely associated with its domestic character. At the table after the arrival, she offers lemonade. The moment is intentionally mundane. It follows extraordinary events involving nonhuman contact, Source energy, cloning, and government experimentation, yet the immediate response to B and Diana is hospitality.

This contrast is central to Songaa's role.

She does not interrogate B. She does not ask for a tissue sample. She does not demand proof of his identity. She does not treat Diana's pregnancy as property. She offers food and participates in care.

The comic does not identify Songaa as the owner of the property, so the refuge should not be called “Songaa's house” unless later material confirms it. She is best described as an elder host within the community.

Relationship with Seline

Songaa and Seline function as a pair in the final issue.

Seline is younger and explicitly identifies herself as a midwife. Songaa appears older and takes more of an elder-host role. Both assist during Diana's delivery.^[1][2]

Their exact kinship is unstated. This remains a controlled unknown in the canon record.

The visual and narrative pairing nevertheless suggests continuity across generations. If Seline represents the active continuation of the lineage through specialized care, Songaa represents its accumulated memory and older presence.

This interpretation should be labeled as thematic analysis rather than literal genealogical fact. The confirmed fact is that both women belong to the refuge community connected to B and both participate in the family's protection.

Ancestral knowledge of B

Seline, rather than Songaa, delivers the explicit account of their people's past in the arrival scene. She explains that their ancients recovered a severed head they first believed belonged to B, later concluded it belonged to another B-like person, and eventually lost track of that figure around Malta.^[1]

Because Songaa is introduced as part of the same community and remains beside Seline through the sequence, the account belongs to their shared community history even though the dialogue is Seline's.

Songaa should therefore be connected to the lineage and the Malta mystery, but not cited as the speaker who supplies those details.

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Relationship with B

Songaa shows no fear of B.

This is notable because the series repeatedly depicts people reacting to B through awe, exploitation, terror, or fascination. Songaa's behavior is grounded and domestic. She shares space with him as a guest and soon as a father.

B's recognition of the generations connected to Seline and Songaa's community gives Songaa's presence historical weight even though the comic does not state that B personally met her before issue #12.^[1]

She belongs to the rare group of living humans who can receive him without needing his entire life explained.

The relationship also provides B with an experience almost entirely absent from the modern government storyline: intergenerational community without a military hierarchy.

Relationship with Diana Ahuja

Songaa helps create the environment in which Diana can move from fugitive to expectant mother.

Diana has spent much of the series working within the government program as a scientist and therapist studying B. Her closeness to B eventually draws her into the same machinery of secrecy and control she once served.

At the refuge, Songaa and Seline treat her differently. Seline provides midwifery care. Songaa provides household support and participates in the birth.^[1][2]

Songaa's role is not described as medical, and no formal professional credentials are given. Her participation during labor should therefore be described as assistance or birth support rather than as a second midwife.

The distinction between Seline's stated profession and Songaa's unstated one should remain clear.

Birth of the twins

Songaa is present during Diana's labor and delivery in BRZRKR #12.^[2]

The birth closes one of the deepest circles in B's biography. Long before the modern era, B's first love gives birth to his first known child while B is being violently killed by the surrounding community. He later states that he never saw the child.^[4]

With Diana, B is present. A supportive community is present. The children survive, and B is able to hold them and participate in their early life.^[2][3]

Songaa's practical contribution to that difference is easy to overlook because the Source mythology surrounding the children is so large. Yet the immediate fact of the scene is human: two women help another woman through childbirth.

The series uses that human scene as the bridge between B's search for mortality and the next generation.

Life with the rapidly growing children

After the birth, the twins develop with extraordinary speed. Within a very short period they are depicted as children playing outdoors while B and Diana observe them.^[3]

The story compresses this period and does not show Songaa carrying out specific childcare tasks. Her established place within the refuge means she remains part of the surrounding community, but a biography should not invent scenes of her raising, teaching, or medically monitoring the twins.

What can be said is that the children spend their earliest known period within the sanctuary provided by Songaa's community.

That fact gives the refuge an important place in the Family of B timeline. B's own childhood takes place in a community that increasingly defines him as a weapon. His new children begin life in a place organized around sheltering them from institutions that would likely do the same.

B's mortality and the danger to the refuge

B has become mortal by the time he reaches the Southwest. The transformation fulfills the desire that drove his cooperation with the government but also removes the physical protection that allowed him to survive millennia of violence.

He and Diana understand that their children may now be what the government wants most. B specifically observes that the children do not display his berserker behavior during their early development, but he and Diana still consider disappearing in order to protect them.^[3]

Songaa's community therefore shelters not only a legendary immortal but a newly vulnerable man and a family whose biological importance could make them targets.

The refuge is not shown as a military compound. Its defense is secrecy, trust, and distance.

B's death and the family afterward

The protection cannot prevent the wider conflict from reaching B. The final issue eventually depicts his death after government forces act against him.^[5]

Songaa appears later with Diana, the twins, and Seline at the memorial or burial setting associated with B.^[5]

The scene establishes her continued loyalty after B no longer has power, strategic usefulness, or immortality. This differentiates her community from those whose interest in him depends on what his body can provide.

Her presence at the memorial also gives Songaa a second symbolic role. She helped witness the beginning of B's new family and remains present at the end of B's mortal life.

The comic does not provide a speech from Songaa about his death. It does not say what rites are performed or what beliefs she holds about death. The scene establishes presence and relationship but does not establish a funeral tradition.

Relationship with B and Diana's children

Songaa is among the first adults shown around the twins outside their parents.^[2]

She helps at the birth and remains within the community as they grow.^[3]

By the time the children decide to leave Diana, their physical maturation has advanced with extraordinary speed. The original series does not show a private farewell between Songaa and either child, nor does it state whether they later return to the Southwest.

Still, Songaa belongs in both children's relationship tables as an early caregiver / birth attendant and community elder.

Personality

Songaa is characterized with relatively few words, so personality descriptions should stay closely tied to observable behavior.

Hospitable

She participates in receiving B and Diana and offers lemonade in the refuge household.^[1]

Calm

Nothing in her behavior suggests alarm at B's identity, Diana's unusual pregnancy, or the rapid transition into childbirth.

Supportive

She assists during the birth and remains with the family afterward.^[2][5]

Historically grounded

As part of a community with multigenerational knowledge of B, Songaa exists within a culture of inherited memory. The precise degree of her personal historical knowledge is not individually stated.

Unpretentious

Unlike Caldwell's cult, which frames B through immortality and godhood, Songaa's scenes contain no ritual veneration. Her actions are ordinary acts of welcome and care.

Skills and abilities

Songaa is not shown with supernatural powers.

Birth support

She actively assists Seline and Diana during the delivery of the twins.^[2]

Household and refuge support

She functions as an established member of the sanctuary community, helping receive B and Diana and maintain the domestic setting.^[1]

Inherited community knowledge

She is associated with the lineage whose history includes long-term contact with B and the recovered-head incident. The exact information personally known to her is not specified.

No evidence establishes Source abilities, regeneration, unusual lifespan, military training, or psychic powers.

Appearance

Songaa is depicted as an older woman with short gray or dark-gray hair. At the Southwest refuge she wears practical clothing in muted reddish or maroon tones.

Her visual design contrasts with the scientists, soldiers, and cult figures surrounding B elsewhere in the series. She appears neither ceremonial nor tactical. The effect reinforces the sanctuary's everyday quality.

Narrative role

Songaa's role is best understood through the final issue's shift from institutional immortality to human continuity.

Caldwell's cult survives for generations because each generation inherits the same obsession. The government creates programs, machines, and clones to make power persist. B himself persists because his body regenerates.

Songaa's community represents a different model. People die, but relationships and obligations can be carried forward. B's gratitude toward the generations behind Seline and Songaa acknowledges that continuity directly.^[1]

Songaa is therefore not merely background support at the birth. She is part of the story's answer to the question of how a mortal life can continue to matter after death.

That idea becomes explicit in the epilogue, which moves toward memory, inheritance, ideas, technology, and the descendants of B spreading into the world.^[5]

Contrast with Caldwell

Songaa and Caldwell occupy opposite ends of the series' treatment of inheritance.

Caldwell is identified as the leader of a fanatical cult and one person in a long line devoted to B.^[5] His inheritance becomes entitlement. He believes accumulated knowledge gives him a claim on B's nature and the right to reproduce it.

Songaa's inherited relationship produces hospitality rather than possession.

Both histories are long. Only one gives B room to choose a life.

The contrast is most visible when Songaa and Seline are considered alongside Caldwell and his ancestral cult lineage.

Status

Songaa is alive when last shown in the original series.

The comic gives no later account of her life after the children leave. It does not establish whether the Southwest refuge remains active, whether Songaa continues to shelter Diana, or whether later descendants of B return to the community.

Appearances

• BRZRKR #12: First and only confirmed original-series appearance. Introduced beside Seline at the Southwest refuge; participates in welcoming B and Diana; provides household hospitality; assists during the birth of the twins; remains part of the refuge during the children's early development; appears in the post-B memorial period.^[1][2][3][5]

Canon limits and unresolved questions

• What is Songaa's surname?
• What is her age?
• What is her exact relationship to Seline?
• Is she a blood descendant of the community's “ancients” or a later member by another route?
• Did she personally meet B before issue #12?
• What is the formal identity of the refuge community?
• What traditions does the community preserve about Unute?
• How did the community learn the location of the B-like recovered head?
• Did Songaa know more about Malta than Seline states?
• What happened to Songaa after B's children left?
• Did her community remain connected to B's descendants?

These unanswered questions are part of the canon record. They should not be filled with inferred genealogy.

References

^[1] Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, Ron Garney, Bill Crabtree, and Clem Robins, BRZRKR #12 (BOOM! Studios, 2023), Southwest arrival, introduction of Seline and Songaa, B's acknowledgment of the generations connected to their people, hospitality, and the recovered-head / Malta account, digital page image 024.

^[2] Reeves, Kindt, Garney, Crabtree, and Robins, BRZRKR #12, Songaa and Seline assisting Diana during the birth of the twins, digital page image 026.

^[3] Reeves, Kindt, Garney, Crabtree, and Robins, BRZRKR #12, family life at the refuge and rapid childhood development of the twins, digital page image 027.

^[4] Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, Ron Garney, Bill Crabtree, and Clem Robins, BRZRKR #5 (BOOM! Studios, 2021), B's memory of his first love giving birth while he is killed and his statement that he never saw his first child, especially digital page images 013-015.

^[5] Reeves, Kindt, Garney, Crabtree, and Robins, BRZRKR #12, Caldwell's ancestral cult, Franken-B, B's mortal death, memorial sequence, the children's departure, and the pollinator epilogue, especially digital page images 002, 014-015, and 038-046.