Kirsten x Sandy

Kirsten x Sandy is the het ship between Kirsten Nichol and Sandy Cohen from The O.C. fandom.

Canon
Sandy: ''You know, if you're not a pamphlet reader I could take you to coffee. Tell you all about why Mondale e Ferrero are gonna lose.''

Kirsten: If you're so sure they're gonna lose, why bother?

Sandy'': I don't know. I feels right. So coffee?''

- The first conversation between Kirsten and Sandy. Sandy and Kirsten met in college when he was on a political campaign; he tried to give Kirsten a flyer, but she refused it and so he proposed that she take the pin which she accepted as trendy. Sandy then proposed to offer her a coffee and she feeling intrigued by his personality, accepted.

Despite both having come back from important stories, Kirsten and Sandy end up falling in love and their story will lead to marriage.

Sandy will never get along very well with Kirsten's father, Caleb, and the same can be said of Kirsten and Sandy's mother, Sophie. This will mainly depend on the fact that the two spouses come from very different families (Kirsten was born into a rich family and is a Christian, while Sandy is Jewish and comes from a poor family).

At some point the couple will have a son Seth, and when Kirsten's mother falls ill with cancer, the family will move from Berkley to Orange County (where Kirsten's family lives) to be close to her. When Rose Nichol dies, the three will remain to live in Newport, whose bigoted and conceited society will not suit Sandy's personality.

However, Kirsten has landed an important role in her father's company the Newport Group and so the family remains to live in Orange County.

Ryan's arrival
Sandy becomes a public defense attorney and one of his clients is a boy named Ryan Atwood who tried to steal a car with his older brother Trey. Sandy manages to get him released, but realizing that Ryan's mother and her partner are not in the least able to take care of him, she gives him his business card, telling him to call him in case of need.

Fanon
Despite being a teen drama and their characters are always seen as adults, except in a flashback Sandy and Kirsten are a popular couple in The O.C. being the only adult couple who remain together throughout the series, showing that they have a marriage that always remains strong, despite the shocks. There are fanfics and videos dedicated to this ship.

Fan Fiction
Kirsten/Sandy on Fafnfiction.net