Sophitz is Endgame ~ Reasoning
Background: At the 2018 launch party for Flashback, Shannon admitted that the elves were originally supposed to age extremely slowly throughout their entire lives, even throughout their childhood, and that Fitz was originally going to be 97 years old, but still a teenager because of how slow elves age. She mentioned that she apparently copied the idea from the Twilight Saga, since Edward is basically a 100 year old teenager, as Fitz would have been.
Reasons:
1.) We’ve established that Keeper resembles Twilight in one way, and I have noticed there being another way that they resemble each other. In Twilight, there are two main love interests; Jacob and Edward. There are also two main love interests in Keeper; Keefe and Fitz. We’ve also established that Edward was almost like Fitz because of the age thing, but canon they’re both similar because the main character has a crush on them, and not the other love interest, and both love interests have feelings for the main character. Bella was always interested in Edward, just like Sophie has always had a crush on Fitz. And which love interest in Twilight was endgame? Edward, the love interest the main character had always been interested in. So in theory, since these two series are so much a like in the romance department, Fitz is going to be endgame.
2.) In the acknowledgements of Flashback, Shannon says, and I quote, “this book was a huge labor of love. I have never poured so much of myself into anything in my life.” If you’ve read Flashback, then you’re probably aware of how Sophitz-y this book was. Like, seriously, this book was basically a Sophitz glory story. SO, being that Shannon put so much love into this book, we can clearly see that her heart is telling her Sophitz.
3.) If neither of those reasons got you, I have one final reason. Shannon always claims that she tries to let the characters decide these romance things out for themselves, and that she’s not trying to make whatever she wants to happen happen. So, yes, that leaves room for Sokeefe to happen, but throughout these 7 long books Sophie has never crushed on anyone harder than she’s crushed on Fitz. She’s never even thought about Keefe like that, and yeah, feelings change, and she does blush around him and stuff, but who wouldn’t when there’s this cute person who’s complimenting or teasing you or who you’re getting super close to? Just because she admits he’s cute or attractive doesn’t mean she has a crush on him. Sophie thinks all the elves are attractive, she even admitted Dex was attractive (maybe cute, I don’t remember), and we know how that ship sailed. Plus, Keefe has never been as crude as Fitz has, and she still holds strong on her crush for Fitz. After everything, she still loves him.
Lets go back to reason one for a minute, too. Edward was pretty jerky a lot in twilight too, and he was always cold (literally yes, but I mean metaphorically), yet Bella still was interested him and never stopped having feelings for him, even when he left her. Which is a similar dynamic that Fitz and Sophie have, and Edward and Bella were the endgame couple. So I rest my case, Sophitz is endgame. Never have I been so happy that Bella chose Edward.
Just so everyone knows, I don’t actually fully believe Sophitz will be endgame, this is just a silly hopeful argument haha, I thought these ideas were pretty creative and I wanted to share them. I am a Sophitz shipper, but I still think it’s possible Sokeefe will be endgame, and I’m scared of it. Anyway, I’m not saying you should all believe this or believe Sophitz is the better ship, of course I believe it is, but you’re entitled to your own opinions and this was, again, me just being silly. Hope you were at least a bit entertained by it XD