Talk:Keefe and Sophie/@comment-37719459-20190518234731

I'm basically inactive on here because of life, but I decided to post a few things on here because the cover came out! Here are a few thoughts I've had about the series.



Remember back in Nightfall when Keefe tells Sophie that if he stays around her long enough, he won’t be able to feel anything, which is what happened to Vespera? I’ve been thinking, what was the point of that? It obviously wasn’t thrown in there for fun, and then I realized, what if numbness was what Keefe had in mind from the start? Remember, his whole life he had been feeling SO intensely. His parents were terrible, and through all the years of his life, his feelings of anguish, longing, pain, and abandonment had followed him wherever he went. So what if it was his GOAL to become numb from his Empathy? Since elves would never consider ending their own life, then maybe Keefe found a way to escape from his intense, inescapable feelings—by masking them in the emotions of others until his could never be felt. It would be the PERFECT culmination to his story arc, from the guy who hid his depression and terrible childhood behind a mask of humor, to someone who found happiness and love in the face of despair, with him and Sophie helping each other become better.



My Cover Breakdown (I wrote this four hours after the cover came out, but by now there's probably a bunch of other similar ones)

-They're in London (Big Ben is in the background). This fits with my theory about the new facility in the Forbidden Cities and the Black Swan having to save the people.

-she's either using Inflicting (which she must have perfected since Keefe and Fitz are fine) or telepathy (which is why Fitz would be holding her hand) or a new ability.

-she's not wearing gloves, which means she is enhancing both Keefe and Fitz (more on that later) -she has a kind of evil looking and intense expression, which means either the Neverseen did something terrible (e.g. killing tam) or she's getting ready to unleash an epic attack. Or maybe both.

-She's floating, so maybe that means she's using a telepathy barrage and using mental energy and floating like in book one

-Sophie and Fitz are looking one way, straight forward, presumably at the Neverseen, but look at Keefe. He's either looking off to the side or at Sophie. He has a distraught expression, probably symbolism for his feelings for Sophie being destroyed by Fitz's needs. And since SM said that the cover reflected on the feel of the book, I'm...not happy.

Finally, the most devastating part. Look at how awkwardly she's holding Keefe's hand, and how comfortable she's holding Fitz's. First of all, since this is a scene from the middle or the end, that means that Fitz and Sophie are still cognates. But maybe not. Look at Fitz's posture. His back is actually turned to her, hinting that...MAYBE...they broke up but had to team up one last time for a fight of good vs evil. Sophie is with Keefe and Sophie but levitating above them, hopefully hinting at her friendship but not dependence on either of them.

One last thing: Sophie is enhancing Keefe. Keefe is reading Sophie. Keefe looks distraught. If you put the pieces together, it seems like Sophie was holding something back that was absolutely crucial to the plot. Or maybe it was something with Sophitz. Maybe (this is the Keefe Deserved Optimism Theory) Keefe has grown to accept Sophie and Fitz's relationship but he can't quite get over Sophie. But Sophie has kept something back from Fitz that prevents their cognatedom from being effective.

That's all for now, folks!


 * mic drop*