Talk:Sophie and Fitz/@comment-70.68.82.81-20200125103558/@comment-37709254-20200127231740

^ you've blown everything up. Fitz didn't dump her for not telling him who her mom is. He dumped her bc of a lot of built up little things. For example: they sorta start dating and then she doesn't talk to him for a week. She ignores three of his hails. Doesn't hail him or reach out telepathically for a week, even after he mentions it. She shares her big news and theories with his best friend before she tells him. She forgets about him several times. And she takes over the only project he's had (besides his part-time search for Alvar) in weeks and doesn't even tell him. And so that night they're both talking past each other and she says something like "Just stop" and it's like a wake up call for him, like that week where they were dating wasn't like what dating is supposed to be and so he's like "'Kay, in that case...we're over, aren't we?" and she just stands there crying so he says goodbye and leaves.

Fitz paying Keefe to paint a picture is not betrayal. He trusts his friend more than random artists so he pays his friend to do it. Why would that be a problem?

How did Fitz betray Sophie?

Anyway, to the OG post:

Nobody in the Lost Cities actively wants to be a bad match, right? (unless Keefe does in order to bother his dad). Even Sophie doesn't want to. This is actually a really good way for Fitz to overcome a big thing in life. Now, Fitz's family has always been very respected and no one has ever been a bad match. Fitz doesn't want to be the one to bring shame. It doesn't seem like he really care about being a bad match except for the fact that it will strongly affect his parents and Biana. The bad match idea seems to be the device SWM is using to show Fitz developing. They were kinda rushing, so now they are stepping back and Fitz can think over it all and talk to Biana about it and between the two of them he'll overcome this. With Sokeefe, Keefe would be getting over anything, he would have zero development to happen because he doens't seem to care about matchmaking and doesn't care how his dad looks.

No matter what,

-X