Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-66.209.255.5-20180909012305/@comment-34952067-20181017035353

Betsy:

I disagree. While Sophie may not have directly said, “I like Keefe,” She has shown signs. Her heart flutters when he gets close. She trusts him on a level that I think she doens’t even know. As readers and peope who pay close attention to these things, we all can admit that she had sent very strong hints towards liking Keefe. To add onto this, Keefe has shown suggestions of her liking him back. Sure, none of them have said it directly, but this is Sophie. She doesn’t understand fully what her heart wants, she just acting it. As I said before, Keefe understands her heart on a level no one else does. If anything, he knows when she likes someone even when she doesn’t.

From this argument, you may bring up that he knows her too well and there is no room for them getting to know each other. I don’t think that is true. Sure, Keefe knows her. He’s also made a lot of mistakes. Those mistakes are what he learns from. Sure, he could have found a less reckless, less dangerous, less traumatic way, but would he have grown? No. His mistakes are what have made him understand Sophie. Will Fitz ever understand Sophie like that? No. This is because it is not in his personality to act that way. Those mistakes that Keefe made are what makes their relationship so strong. It’s what will make the difference at the end of the day. Sure, Fitz is in the process of being her Cognate, but does that mean he will know her like Keefe does? No, it does not. There are just somethings that you can’t learn through facts. You can’t memorize. Fitz can’t memorize her relationship with Keefe. He can’t understand her relationship to that level unless he acts the way Keefe did and Sophie acts the same towards him the way she does towards Keefe.

So in conclusion, I think that Fitz knowing Sophie is just facts. In order to really know someone, you have to know what their innermost deep selves are feeling.