Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26260483-20150330161554/@comment-93.231.171.106-20150407180623

Mount Weather has fallen into the hands of the Sky People, who will be able to avail themselves of all the power it had over the Grounders (inaccessibility, missiles, poison gas, etc.). The Sky People have very few incentives to trust any Grounder, after Lexa left their people to have their bone marrow harvested. Remember that all their main actors were present as eye witnesses in the chamber of horrors! Little chance any of them would ever be able to forgive Lexa for this - it would need serious repentance by Lexa to ever get to be accepted by the Sky People.

I, too, see a serious challenge to Lexa's leadership. In the eyes of her people, Clarke, the leader of the Sky People, single-handedly took down the Mountain Men and thus did was their own Commander was not able to do with the whole unified Grounder army. Apart from the fact that "blood must have blood" - and did not, despite the abuse suffered by the Grounders for generations (this was a flaw in the story I saw from the first moment on: if indeed blood must have blood, why did Lexa back down and trade her chance of destroying the Mountain Men once and for all in exchange for a group of captives? There had definitely many, many more Grounders been killed and/or turned into Reapers in the last decades)

I do not remember whether it was mentioned why the Grounders unified - was it against the Mountain Men, or because they did no longer want to fight each other? In any case, the whole union itself could be in danger. One problem is that if Lexa was the first one to unite them, there are no rules for succession established yet, so the union is most likely to just break apart. But should another powerful leader step up and want to keep the union intact with him or her as leader, it will not go down without a fight against Lexa. Now I don't know enough about Grounder culture to judge whether voluntary exile could be a possible solution, but I would rather count on Lexa's untimely demise in the process rather than her wandering off into the woods.

But then, despite all this, a broken, fleeing Lexa is the only chance for a positive outcome of the Clarke-Lexa relationship. Let's be honest - there is absolutely no way Clarke will ever be able to trust Lexa the Commander again, neither as leader of the Sky People nor as a lone wolf out in the wilderness. I am not so sure I would like a broken Lexa though, and less one domesticated by the Sky People...