Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37719459-20181204231525/@comment-43957690-20191019225748

Fitz is allowed to be angry, and his actions and slight hostility to his friends is understandable. But I think that just for one second, we should pause to consider the way that other characters put in this situation would react. Let's start with Keefe. He WAS in this situation. His mother, the one parent who was just a little bit decent and sometimes nice to him turned out to be part of the Neverseen. Not just part of the neverseen. She was basically the leader. That was Keefe's mom, guys. I'l admit, it was probably less difficult for Keefe to deal with this betrayal that it was for Fitz, becasue Keefe's mom was never that nice to him in the first place. But she was the one fragment of hope that he had that baybe, just maybe, his parents cared about him. So what did he do? He joined the Neverseen out of the hope that he could maybe fix things and make it up to Sophie. Here's where the differance lies:  Keefe tried to do something about it. He didn't wait for the council to make the descision for him. He didn't throw a fit when things didn't go his way. He didn't get mad at people who had nothing to do with his situation.

Now let's look at Sophie. The same thing happened to her when Keefe joined the Neverseen. She didn't know that Keefe had done it for her, all she knew was that someone she cared about, loved like a brother, had gone down a path of darkness. We KNOW that that broke her heart. But lashing out at her friends was not how she dealt with it.

Maybe Fitz's anger is just one of the many ways to deal with greif, but if so, that makes him somone very unstable at this time in the series, and someone who shouldn't be involved in a relationship with ANYONE at the time. I think that the fact that Sophie and Fitz are currantly a thing is just part of Shannons big picture. Fitz is in a delicate situation, he could explode with the slightest nudge, or the tiniest little comment. Fitzphie is bound to end sooner or later, and if it does, it's going to be becasue Fitz made a mistake with judgement that was clouded by grief.

I just copied and pasted this from another page that I wrote it on.