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Sophie is the only one that knows the laws but she doesn’t have a license so she spends the entire time as a backseat driver. She sometimes turned around to scold everyone when they got too noisy arguing are laughing, but mostly she ignored what they were doing.

Fitz is the actual driver, and he just sits in silence the entire time as he gets increasingly overwhelmed until Sophie taps him on the should to tell him he missed a turn and all the frustration he bottled up for three hours just explodes. Sophie yelling at the guys in the back just further upset him, and when he got honked at he was so startled he nearly sped into the car in front of them.

Keefe started with them, the halfway through he slipped away when they were at a rest stop and got an Uber.

Tam initially argued with Biana to get to choose the music but ended up just listening to American Idiot and napping. He tried to read but got carsick.

Biana made a playlist in advance for this and was ready to fight tooth and nail to play it.

Dex got forgotten at the rest stop and going back for him added another hour to the trip. He used Sophie’s wallet to buy himself lunch while he waited for them to come get him.

Wylie drove separately but didn’t tell anyone he was going to until they were packing the car because he wanted to go by himself.

Linh and Marella have to sit on people’s laps because there weren’t enough seats for the first half of the trip but once Keefe dips and Dex is left behind they both have a seat to themself, until Linh realizes they forgot Dex. After that Marella sits on Linh’s lap until they get to their destination. Marella listens to music while Linh braids her hair until her hands start cramping, then she takes a nap.

And how he was completely defenceless and would have been caught if the others hadn’t insisted on finding him

And he had tried to convince them not to save him that night!

Obviously they would never have left him but I can’t imagine the amount of dread he must feel knowing he nearly talked himself into becoming a phantom

I havent read the books in a while so bear with me if I get stuff wrong but! I feel like a lot of ppl can agree that sophitz was sweet but also felt vaguely loveless (as in romantic love). and the actual reason for that is probably that Shannon wanted to resolve the love triangle with sokeefe but! i propose an alternate headcanon

we know that sophie was fitz's first close female relationship (that wasn't family) and that they got even closer due to becoming a telepathic bonded pair. I think he mistook that closeness for romantic feelings bc ✨️amatonormativity✨️ (source: ive done this before) and convinced himself that his desire to be closer to her *was* a romantic relationship.

after all, isnt romantic love (and being matched) the strongest love of all? isn't that the relationship that should take the most priority? if sophie and keefe get together does that mean he's going to lose the person closest to him *and* his (former) best friend? (especially bc elves dont *really* have divorce)

and I think this fits surprisingly neatly with their breakup if we consider that fitz's view on romantic love is largely shaped by elven society, which basically equates romantic love with being a good match! given that, it's no wonder that sophie's status as unmatchable would shake his faith in his love for her and hers for him

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Ohhhh you guys wanna be super into Spider-Man Dex sooo bad you wanna be obsessed with him and draw him and make him a Thing sooooo badddd

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In Flashback (which is probably the most we really get to see about them at all) Fitz is against letting Alvar back into Everglens grounds, and wants the man put behind bars. Because Alvar lost his memories, every other character continues to tell him that he's being overdramatic/alvar deserves a 2nd chance/he needs to calm down because it's his brother.

Plenty of people have already called out the hypocrisy of Keefe, Sophie, the fandom, etc, in that if this was anyone else but Fitz having this reaction (even if it was to Alvar), the discussion would not have ever gotten to "your being overdramatic" (ie Keefe and Gisela), so I'm not going to go to deep into that.

What annoys me the most, is it doesn't matter that Alvar lost his memories. He still did every single horrendous crime and creepy behavior (I have another post about Alvar’s grooming behaviors). He still did all of that. Sure he doesn't remember it (and indefinite solitary confinement is a blatent and disgusting disregard for human rights) but he shouldn't have been sent back to Everglen.

Why? Because Fitz almost definitely has PTSD. From his reactions to things in later books, his reaction to Alvar/Sophie/Keefe/etc, his emotional issues, and everything that's canonically happened to him in the span of 4-5 years it's not a been leap to assume that.

PTSD is not logical. It doesn't care that the man who groomed your best friends, kidnapped and help torture your only other friend (and the only guy who's actually been nice to you despite you being shit to him), committed several acts of terrorism, lied to your face for years and helped released a plague to wipe out as many gnomes (many of which you would have known, due to the canon volume of them we see at Everglen and the relationships we see that elven children have with them) lost his memory, having him walk around your home is horrible.

Another one of the moments in Flashback that stuck out to me, was how quickly Fitz’s anger at Della & Alden not coming to see him while he was unconscious is brushed off by literally every character. Because it is a big deal that you almost died (and continued to be in dnager of dying, as Fitz heart injury as described in the books sounds a whole lot like a heart attack and he gets them constantly) and your parents- the people who raised you, who "love" you, who are supposed to have your back- are instead at home preparing for the arrival of the man who teamed up with the people who just tried to kill you.

Sophie and Elwins reasoning for this is also so fucking weird. "You were unconscious, there wasn't much to see-" if my friend was in the hospital for non-emergency surgery I would be by their side every second that they wanted me to be, because I give a fuck if they live or die. Sophie brushing this off is also just such a weird thing for her to do, because she calms down and is really happy when she learns her parents cared to come see her when she almost died.

Yes, Fitz did tell Della and Biana to leave, that he was okay, when he was awake for .2 seconds. As someone with a little brother, I garentee you Fitz "just watched his sister almost die and loves her to death" Vacker wanted Biana to leave because he didn't want her to see him like this. Fitz is prideful as fuck, but he also has a piss-poor self esteem (yes, these can co-exist, they normally do). He doesn't want his sister to see him half dead the way he had to see her half dead, he also doesn't want her to see him weak. Della on the other deserves her own post (mostly about how she only shows up emotionally/literally for Fitz when he's literally on his deathbed then immediately stops).

After all of this, then send Fitz home with his fucked up heart and leg and echos- which gives him heart attacks/palpitations when he feels strong emotions- to Alvar.

They really just went "Ah yes, lets send the traumatized child with PTSD who's healing from disabling injuries- one of which casues heart problems when he feels strong emotions- back home to look at the face of a man who would 100% trigger his PTSD. Yep no issues there" then were confused why Fitz was angry, unstable, irritatable, irrational, and violent.

It's not like they couldn't have move him somewhere else either! Tigren doesn't like the kid but he takes in enough strays that he could've given him a bed. Elwin is more then fine becoming dad #3 for Keefe when the kid needs a place to stay.