Talk:Keefe and Sophie/@comment-37605604-20181125005219

Shannon has always said that she writes her characters' actions as if the characters were actually alive and making their own decisions. So it makes perfect sense that she would write Sophie confessing to Fitz.

Any inexperienced 15-year-old girl would swoon over the fact that the super handsome prince charming who've they had a crush on for years liked them too. Of course Sophie would rush into things (like the matchmaking process), ignore all the red flags in the hot guy's personality (possessive, short-temper, manipulative, etc), and become super lovey-dovey (the shoulder). She thinks she's in love. But how many teenagers have any clue what an actual relationship entails before they've had one?

Sophie is a naive teenage girl--ultra powerful and smart, but still romantically inexperienced--and Fitz is her first boyfriend. This first relationship will teach Sophie many things about herself and about what she actually values in a significant other, beyond superficial things like appearance. And what she learns from this brief--statistically, most people's first romantic relationships don't last--experience with Fitz will only strengthen her next relationship... with Keefe.