Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-146.135.19.252-20181116034422/@comment-216.139.2.247-20191107051557

Well, of couse, I do love Keefe more than any other characters in Keeper (even though I love some of them so much, lol *hugs li'l Tammy*) but I feel like... that doesn't make me not ship him with anyone. Sure, Sophie isn't the best character in the history of characters, but she is, at the very least, decent. Okay, lemme put it this way:

I have not ever seen a ship in a book/movie/TV show/manga/anything in which both the characters were of equal awesomeness. I mean, usually they're like, in completely different leagues! So I think we have to face it- in most, if not all, fictional relationships, there is going to be one character who is just better than the other one. So instead of focusing on that, I think what's really important is how well they balance each other out, and if they make each other happy.

And I think Sophie and Keefe do that for each other. (Plus, I personally don't really take issue with Sophie. To be honest I like her- and while I haven't read Flashback yet I have heard complaints that she's boy-crazy in the midst of world-altering events, but come on, guys, she's just a teenager. If she spent all her time thinking of the awful things that could happen she'd get even more depressed. Also, people seem to think that the fact that nothing big happened in Flashback was somehow Sophie's fault...? If the book was bad, that's the author, not the characters. Note, I'm not hating on Messenger here- she's one of my favorite authors- I'm just saying that sometimes an author's work is slightly sub-par (I'm an author and that's definitely the case for me) and it's not the fault of the characters.)

So, yeah, for me personally, Keefe being cooler than Sophie isn't reason for Keefoster to be a bad ship, lol. Of course, you're all entitled to your opinions, and I respect that. But if we all love Keefe so much, can't we all agree that we want him to be happy? Sophie is what makes him happiest. He makes her happy, too, even if she doesn't have realized romantic feelings for him yet (I think they're there, she's just oblivious so far). So yup, that's all I wanted to add.

~JAKS (Just Another Keefoster Shipper)