I Feel Like This Needs To Be Said
Okay, so like, I ship Maxerica. Maxon and America are so cute and are goals, but they’re not my main ship. I’m still over here shipping Asperica (Aspen and America). Aspen gets a lot of hate for breaking up with America and then chasing after her again, but hear me out: he broke up with her for what he thought was her own good. He believed he was wronging America by letting her provide for him. I believe Aspen was born with a need to protect others. And once he found America, he needed to protect her. He was distraught when he finally figured out he couldn’t (precisely because of their differences in castes), and all the emotions of that night are probably part of what made him break up with America. I think both of them knew that they weren’t completed “broken up” after that night, though.
So, imagine you’re Aspen for a moment here. You’ve been drafted in the army, and it just so happens that you are assigned to protect the castle where the love of your life is staying while she is supposedly attempting to make the Prince fall in love with her. Not only protect the castle, but protect the very room she’s staying in. The first time you see her since your “break up”, she’s arm-in-arm with the Prince. The Prince is one of the most wealthiest men in the country. He could give the love of your life anything and everything, a thousand times more than what you could provide for her. Now, tell me you wouldn’t try and at least talk with her again.
Going back to Aspen’s need to protect: He obviously does everything he can as a Six to help provide for his family, but it’s still not enough. For Heaven’s sake, his younger brother was whipped for trying to steal a tiny bit of fruit to eat. No matter how hard the Legers work, there simply will not be enough to keep them afloat for much longer. It’s inevitable. Aspen figured the one person he could protect and provide for was America. And that was all he wanted to do. For the past three years, that’s all he had been doing. When suddenly, a Prince came into the picture and just swept the love of his life off her feet, into this magical world of dresses and jewels and crowns, a world he would never be able to give her. You still think Aspen deserves the hate he gets? Hang on.
Let’s not forget the scene towards the end of The One, when Maxon is about to announce his engagement to one of the final girls. Then, of course, the Rebels attack. What does Aspen do? He saves the Prince’s life. Granted, it was his job, but he had a deep hatred for Maxon at that point. (Read the Guard, you’ll see.) After all he had been through fighting for love, he was willing to risk his own life to save the other guy’s life. Are you really not convinced yet? That’s okay, I still have one more point to make.
I love America Singer. She’s one of my favorite female fictional characters. However, I think we can all agree she was a bit possessive during the Selection. There’s indecisive, but there’s also selfish, and I think by the middle of the Elite America was pretty dang selfish. Not only was she still holding on to Aspen, she would also get annoyed when Maxon went on dates with the other girls. Basically, whenever Maxon wasn’t available, she would use Aspen as a back-up. Which was in no way fair to either of the boys, but especially Aspen. Maxon had a pool of 35 girls to choose from, Aspen had one. And that one was taking slight advantage of him. Aspen kept holding on to America, he would always believe her when she said she was still there. He didn’t lose faith in the fact that she would come back to him. This was holding him back from continuing on with his own life, from finding love again. Yes, Aspen found love with Lucy, and believe me, I ship it, but I feel as though the whole Aspen-and-Lucy thing was just kind of tacked on at the end, as an extra thing just for an added happily-ever-after effect. Or maybe Kiera did it that way because that’s how it happened, out of the blue, with no one expecting it. I’m not sure of that, but I do not doubt Aspen and Lucy’s love for each other. I also believe that, although I know how deep Maxon and America’s love runs, deep down, really deep down, Aspen and America will always love each other. And not just in the brother-and-sister way that was represented in parts of The Heir. Real love, deep down. Neither of them will ever forget their three years together in Carolina as a Five and a Six, those nights spent in the tree house, the pennies Aspen would pay America when she sang to him. “A few months at the palace couldn’t erase three years.” -America Singer
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