Thread:216.139.22.227/@comment-44151871-20191016183518/@comment-216.139.2.247-20191020142806

YESSSSSS. I hear SO MUCH about people saying that in Flashback, Fitz was the first to call her 'beautiful and amazing' and I was like, are you kidding me? Let's go down the list of people who said that first:

Edaline: At least once a book.

Grady: In Everblaze.

Alden: In Everblaze as well, and I think also in Exile?

Della: Book one.

Dex: In Everblaze too, I think, but I'm not sure if he stated it explicitly.

Oralie: In Neverseen, just before Sophie and her friends left for the Alluveterre.

Calla: Oh my gosh, CALLA LITERALLY told her she was beautiful and amazing almost every time she saw her! When I heard people talking about Fitz being the 'first one,' I got so mad for Calla's sake! even more mad for her than for Keefe! All throughout Neverseen.

Keefe: And finally, Keefe. I think the first time Keefe told her she was amazing was in Exile, when she started confiding in him and he told her she was incredible for being able to handle so much. Over the course of each of the rest of the books, he's continually more and more amazed by Sophie, and continually assures her that she's smart and strong and beautiful. I get it, Keefe jokes around a lot, so sometimes it can be hard to tell if he's serious, but he explicitly told Sophie that he's most serious when he sounds like he's joking. Also, some of the times he said those things he was obviously being dead-serious. So Imma say, Exile, Everblaze, Neverseen, (I'm not sure about Lodestar?), and at least two or three times in Nightfall.

So after all that, Fitx finally comes around to telling Sophie that she's beautiful and amazing? Sorry dude, but literally everyone else has already beaten you to the punch. In fact, even Bronte said so in his own way ("It takes an amazing person to see darkness inside someone and not condemn them, yada yada," lol. I love Bronte). So yeah, Sophie already knows this. But then Sophie up and cries? I haven't read Flashback yet, so maybe I'm wrong, but that seems like Shannon Messenger is just pulling at straws to get a Fitzphie pairing for the book, and a Fitzphie moment to try- and fail, it my case- to get the fans to go wild. And it's not just because I'm a Keefoster shipper. There have been tons of Fitzphie moments where I was like "Aww, guyyyys, that's so swweeeet!! ^-^" But I can't imagine this being one of them, you know?

~JAKS