Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-36143053-20180726220331/@comment-71.244.133.170-20190119170121

Okay, so I 100% ship Sokeefe. I'm going to counter some popular Fitzphie arguements, hope this doesn't offend anyone.

1) Fitz is the one who found Sophie and brought her to the lost cities. Okay... so you're saying we should ship Harry and Hagrid (Bad mental image)? Or Percy and Grover? (Not too bad but PERCABETH 4 LIFE! Off topic...)? In fact, this can be an arguement against Sophitz! Fitz became friends with Sophie because Alden sent him on missions and he found her, but Keefe and Sophie became close on their own. Also people argue that Fitz let Sophie cry on his shoulder when she drugged her family. So? Fitz was the only friend she had at that point! He was the only one there! If Keefe or Biana or Dex was there, Sophie might've cried on their shoulders! So Fitz finding her does NOT prove a romantic relationship.

2) Sophie has had a crush on Fitz from day one. Don't mean to offend anyone but... Well I can see why that's an arguement but when you think about it it's not a very good arguement. No offence! Anyway, the counter arguement: Exactly! From day ONE. Before she got to know him. Her crush is based on his looks. And later she starts to like him for other reasons, I'm not saying it's ONLY because of his looks, but that's what her crush is based on. However, she also thinks Keefe is cute, but doesn't start developing feelings for him (Don't even try to deny it) until she gets to know him. Which do you think is stronger? A relationship built off of years of friendship and trust? Or a relationship built off of the guy's looks?

3) Sophie MUST like Fitz in her heart too, because her heart flutters around him! Well first of all, no one can deny that Sophie likes Fitz in her head. She is consious of her crush on him. In nightfall, Keefe says that her heart emotions differ from her head emotions, she likes Fitz in her head, she likes someone else in her heart. Also when Keefe saw her heart emotions he grinned. Think about how much Keefe loves Sophie. (Yes LOVES not LIKES). Would Keefe be happy seeing that the girl he is in love with loves another guy? NO! Sophie has to like Keefe in her heart. Back to the heart fluttering thing: Her heart fluttered before she even got to know him in book one. I honestly don't think you can love someone before you know them. That's like love at first sight, which I don't believe in, I believe in love built off of friendship. The heart fluttering is just a reaction to a crush.

4) Fitz likes Sophie too. Yes, Fitz does have a crush on Sophie (Note that I said CRUSH for Fitz and LOVE for Keefe). However, when he is really mad at her, those feelings seem to go away. Keefe never stopped liking Sophie. Every bad decision he made was for Sophie. Fitz however... Most of his bad decisions were because of his anger issues and fury/sadness about Alden or Alvar. I think Keefe cares about Sophie more. Remember in Nightfall (Huh most of my arguements seem to be from Nightfall) during the Great Forkle Reappearence Fitz immeadiately did that rage-thingy, but Keefe had so many conflicted emotions, and he ignored all of them to ensure Sophie was okay. Forkle's death had to be harder on Keefe than Fitz (Keefe watched Forkle die!) but Keefe only thought of Sophie when Forkle reappeared while Fitz only thought of himself.

5) Keefe joined the neverseen! He can't be trusted! Keefe was so guilty about what his mom did to Sophie and about the trackers that the guilt made him reckless and he joined. If he had a different response to guilt, the guilt of what his MOM did would have BROKEN him. Thats how much Keefe cares for Sophie. I'm not saying that Keefe joining the neverseen wasn't really stupid. But Keefe joining the neverseen as a double agent isn't a good reason why Sokeefe shouldn't happen. However, Fitz's major mistake that the other side holds against him (Exile) wasn't for Sophie, to help Sophie. It wasn't because guilt about Sophie almost broke his mind. Also while Keefe learned from his mistakes (The Keefe Short Story!), Fitz didn't, and keeps getting horribly angry when he's upset.

Wow that was long.

Hope this didn't offend anyone, and you're welcome to counter my counter arguements (Does that sentence even make sense?).

-THEBOOKWASBETTER