Talk:Book 8: Legacy/@comment-2601:1C0:8500:949A:B1F1:7FB0:1ED0:E255-20191207193225/@comment-38363352-20191209011015

i may be a bit biased as a sokeefe shipper, but i'll give the best rundown of my views that i can!

keefe: he and sophie have a complex, developed (& still developing!) relationship, with actual problems that they both try to help each other through. keefe is willing to do just about anything for sophie so she's happy--for example, literally painting a sophitz scene for fitz to give to sophie as a gift, always being supportive of her relationship with fitz, not trying to go for her as soon as she broke up with fitz. he has actual emotional trauma and stuff from his family that affects his relationship with sophie, and sophie has other evolving problems through the books, but they're always there for each other.

fitz: sophitz is like, the movie perfect relationship at first. sophie loves how handsome he is, and how perfect and wonderful he is. but by the second book, she sees that his coping mechanism to bad news is to lash out in anger--which is Not. A. Good. Thing. when they're practicing to become cognates, she has to share all of her secrets with fitz--and unlike how she tells them to keefe because she wants to, she actually is kinda? forced to? so their relationship doesn't develop by them knowing each other. and, she's often scared of him once they're dating! she always dreads talking to him when she forgets to call him, or if she tells keefe news before she tells fitz. also, even once she knows that he likes her, she always feels self conscious about herself around him, but rarely does around keefe. so he indirectly gives her poor self image. so their relationship isn't all that healthy. it seems perfect from afar but it has way more flaws that aren't helping them grow together in any way than sokeefe does.

sorry for the extreme bias, by the way, lol! i'm a huge sokeefe shipper like i said above but this is all why. hope this helps! :D