Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-71.78.233.58-20181003133414/@comment-32987979-20190105013833

I shipped Sophitz before Flashback, now I'm not so sure. I don't ship Sokeefe either, though. Fitz cares a lot about Sophie and some of the moments were cute. But Sophie hardly questions Fitz when he is tempted to kill Alvar, and his temper makes him unlikable. Granted, he has his reasons; he's used to a perfect life, a perfect family, and even though he helped his dad out on a mission he could've never imagined so much wrong could be going on in the world. He didn't really sign up for all the stress involved with being Sophie's friend, and it's getting to him. You could argue that all of Sophie's friends, particularly Keefe, go through the same stress, but aside from Biana, Fitz is the only one who had literally no problems that he knew of before finding Sophie. Dex had no friends and his parents were a bad match. Keefe had parents who neglected him (which is a type of abuse) and a father who verbally abused him. Tam and Linh lived in the woods alone, attending Exillium, not to mention their overbearing parents who were ashamed of the fact that they were twins. Wylie's mother died while he watched and his father's mind broke not too long after. For Fitz everything in his perfect world shattered. Even Biana was younger and less adapted to this perfect world than him. But none of that makes him a better match for Sophie. Not only was Keefe's world a lot less perfect than Fitz's, but he's a lot more devoted to her. Not necessarily a good thing; it's his insecurities that make him so willing to risk his life for her, whereas Fitz doesn't have such vulnerabilities; and that doesn't make him a better match for Sophie either. But he's already used to hiding behind jokes and shielding himself, so of course he's gonna seem more easygoing than Fitz. At the moment I don't ship Sophie with either of them until they get their personal problems solved.