In the world of The Bold and the Beautiful, nothing stays calm forever. Hope and Steffy have spent years trading barbs, stealing boyfriends, and circling each other like rivals who would rather die than admit they actually respect each other. But in the aftermath of everyone thinking Liam was dying, something surprising has happened: they’ve managed to find common ground. It’s not exactly a friendship, but it is a pause in the war—and as Annika Noelle recently pointed out, that shift could take their story in an entirely new direction.

A Different Kind of Drama

For once, the drama isn’t about hair-pulling or romantic triangles. Noelle admitted to Soaps that she actually enjoys it when the show doesn’t fall back on the old “pit the women against each other” routine. She finds that the stories can get far more interesting if Hope and Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) can co-exist peacefully. She hinted that a real, lasting truce could let the two be on the same side for a change.

“Listen, do I want a food fight at some point on the show as well? Absolutely,” she hilariously remarked, adding that she also likes it when the two have peace between them. That way, they could collectively keep the men in their lives accountable for their actions. This would be a fresh approach to a story that’s been done to death.

Still Room for Trouble

In the world that Hope and Steffy inhabit, the two are always going to find things to clash about. “There’s always going to be the underlying rivalry,” she remarked. But she noted that the story twists could be far more interesting if the two weren’t constantly fighting. “That could open some new doors,” she added hopefully.

Try to imagine Steffy and Hope taking all that energy they poured into being rivals, and using it to deal with something even bigger than their petty squabbles. Their history would remain intact, but a new, multi-layered dynamic would make their story far more interesting.