Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-146.135.19.252-20181116034422/@comment-43957690-20191017195737

Hi.

I'm really not a big shipper, but i have to say that I have a lot of respect for shippers on both sides of the major Sophie triangle (Sophie, Fitz or Keefe). The Fitzphie shippers tend to be very logical and practial about things. They think, Hey, she likes him and he likes her. Why SHOULDN'T they be together? On the other hand, the Sokeefe shippers are very maticulus in noticing and pointing out the little hints that Shannon drops along the way, pointing towards team Foster-Keefe.

I really like the idea of an independant Sophie. Not becasue I'm femininst or anything, but becasue she has too many problems right now. But after then end of Flashback, it's obvious that Shannon is prioritizing Sophie's realtionships over everything else. So being an aspiring writer myself, I'm going to point out the one thing that leads me to think that Shannon has been planning Sokeefe all along.

It's a term that has many names, but I call it Pathos Ethos, and it's a character chemistry formula. You may have heard of it by the name "Opposites atract"  or something along those lines. It's the theory that two characters with different personalities, which balance each other out, and complete each other, are meant to be.

Some examples of this, from books that you may have heard of are Percy and Annabeth, Ron and Hermione, Lea and Han, ect. Each of these characters are two sides of the same shipping principal. One of them is logical, their power lies in their mind, they're the smart one. The other follows their heart, is more emotioanlly oriented.

But here's why this is so painfully obvious with Sophie and Keefe. Sophie is a telepath. Mind oriented. Keefe is litterally a feeling detector. If their abilities aren't obvious enough, then look at their personalities. Sophie is terrible with feelings. We know that becasue of her total obliviousness to the crushes that some of the other characters have/had on her. She likes Fitz, which Shannon has been hinting for a while now is her head telling her hwat to think, proving that she's more mind oriented. She is the perfect specimin of one side of the Pathos Ethos coin. Keefe has lived his whole life in his emotions. His parents are mean to him, and we nkow that when he gets stressed, he gets reckless. Recklessnes is what happens when you obey your feelings, without any self controll, which comes from the mind. We know that Sophie is pretty mutch Keefe's self controll.

As you can see, Shannon LITTERALLY created them for each other.