cinnamon roll dex

just hear me out!!

for a while now, i’ve predicted that keefe will die somewhere near the end of the series. this is an ongoing theory, and i don’t yet have any concrete evidence - it’s more of just a hunch based on how keefe is written and what happens to his character throughout the story.

here are just a few reasons why i think this might happen (keep in mind, these are just predictions and opinions, so no hate please):

- if you look up the word "legacy,“ almost every single definition mentions death in some way.

- shannon hasn’t killed off any main characters yet. this could be a buildup to keefe’s death.

- adding on to the previous bullet, it would also make the blow of his death a lot harder on the characters and, of course, us readers.

- throughout the series, as well as in his own short story, keefe repeatedly shows and admits the fact that he’s waiting for sophie to be “ready” for him. being team sokeefe, it kills me to say it, but what if keefe’s perpetual waiting and hanging back is another knife in the gut from shannon? imagine how much more painful keefe’s death would be if he continued waiting for sophie, but waited too long and it became too late.

- alden also told keefe to avoid sophie for fitz’s sake (don’t even get me started on that rant, i could go on for hours). it would be a somewhat interesting character development opportunity for alden to realize that he should have allowed keefe the happiness and guilt-free freedom of being with sophie, instead of taking that away from him.

- also, keefe would be one of the youngest, if not the youngest, elf to ever die - which would certainly bring some of alden’s views into perspective.

Grief

The Sophitz thing happened in cannon and that was a trainwreck

Other than Keefe and Fitz there has been no build up with any other character and compared to the love triangle anything else is going to feel out of no where

And then we’d probably get Councillor Sophie which would be a really satisfying ending narratively since she started as an outsider.

And I do want to make sort of counter points:

Like you said: Shannon hasn’t killed off any major characters (no the Forkle thing doesn’t count. It was a cop out and quite frankly stupid) and honestly we’re eight books in and if she wanted to kill off a major character it should’ve been sooner.

We still have unresolved plot threads with him. It seems like we’re getting a Cassius redemption arc (which I hate, okay). And he and Sophie are probably going to have a slowburn until the end of the series.

Plus, we have the whole head and heart thing which everyone basically knows means that Sophie likes him in his heart. And if he died before that was resolved it would leave unresolved plot threads and be really unsatisfying.

I think a really good ending to his character arc would be him admitting his feelings to Sophie. (Something which I think will happen in Unlocked because we get his POV and that would be a really good way to finish his development)

* set during flashback

i already said this in the discord server, but since i am attention whore and also just came to the conclusion that this was not canon, but in fact a headcanon i came up with?? 

i’m sharing it again! buckle up

(though… still… feeling iffy so correct me if i’m wrong)

–

i thought a lot about keefe sitting in the cot with sophie, one day. and he brings along this lil bag full of stuff for her to do - mind puzzles, a stress ball - random things to distract her with.at one point she gets really fucking frustrated because she’s trying to work on homework but it looks like toddler’s handwriting. she voices that she can’t stand to look at her one hand anymore. it’s not even her broken one, but it’s her left one, the one that she cannot use, and it makes her so sad and angry.

keefe can feel it, and he nods slowly. you can see the look of dawning spring onto his face as he begins to dig in the bag.

and so keefe !! keefe my boi !!

he whips out a lil nail polish thing and gently takes her hand. he starts painting away. and once he finishes her left hand, he promises that the moment the other is out of the cast and back to Good Health, he’ll finish it for her.

now i’m gonna switch perspectives on ya here for a sec ~

sophie notices the colour keefe is painting is this really vibrant teal. and sophie’s kind of flustered about the colour, really fucking hoping keefe doesn’t know why she’s lowkey in love with it. she tries super hard to control that ramming of her heart as keefe is diligently brushing the paint over her nails, clearly concentrated. some stray curls are falling over his forehead as he’s leaned over, and he occasionally sticks the tip of his tongue out the side of his mouth before furrowing his eyebrows in concentration. and maybe sophie’s confused as to why her heart is picking up more – is it because of the colour or is it because of the boy in front of her?

when keefe’s finished, he sits up and looks his work over in satisfaction before meeting sophie’s eyes, asking her if she likes it.

sophie blinks at first. that’s her only reaction before she sits there baffled for a good cluster of seconds, staring at her nails. then she finally asks, “…you know what my favourite colour is?“ 

Biana: yes, ma’am?

mentor: I didn’t see you in your Vanishing session today!

The entire dream was nothing but my friend giving an entire presentation on why this certain character was a furry.

I’m like 90% sure it was Gisela but Alden’s seeming more and more like the furry in question as my memory comes back.