Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-146.135.19.252-20181116034422/@comment-37824398-20191214212241

If I was required to ship Sophie with someone in her love-triangle, it would with no doubt be Keefe. For the first few books of the series, I was a Sophitz shipper (although, granted, I was young enough that I no doubt didn't know what shipping was) but around book 3 or 4, when Keefe started becoming a more complex character, it became clear to me what I still believe today about the end of the series.

Also just know that I am writing this from a mostly before-Legacy viewpoint, since I know that the crash and burn of Sophitz changed the shipping situation. It didn't change much for me.

From the beginning, Sophie put Fitz on a pedestal. In the second book, she completely forgave his cruel behavior towards her--which I suppose is understandable when it's only one time. However, over the course of the books, it becomes more and more clear to me that Sophie's infatuation with  him is only a schoolyard crush. So here's what I have always thought would happen: Sophie has liked Fitz forever, of course she'll be with him at some point. This point was obviously Legacy, when their relationship is a total fail and Sophie was never once happy to be in his company and Fitz never once said he'd accept her regardless of matching. Et cetera et cetera yadda yadda yadda now she's single for a bit and then she'll end up with Keefe, because deep down they have always cared about each other n all.

Now I'm going to write a seperate comment about who I ship Keefe with because there are so many lol.