Talk:Raven Reyes/@comment-138.237.109.81-20150224211929/@comment-82.33.75.239-20150411172144

For most people who don't ship it, I don't think it revolves around the age difference.

Octavia and Lincoln don't have a bad relationship: they help each other and only want the best for one another. However, judging by what we know from Kim Shumway telling us about the crew member who keeps a calendar of the events in the show (my information is from Tumblr) Wick and Raven hooked up barely a week after Finn died, and Wick said (very harshly, compared to his normal attitude) ''if you want to [have a relationship], I'm in. But I'm not gonna play games, so figure it out. He's getting hostile with her because she isn't jumping into a relationship eight-ish days after the boy who saved her life, her family'', died. Wick also joked about the fact that Raven needed help, and even if it was just a joke he still did it.

Again to Kim Shumway on Tumblr - when she was asked if, for season three, we could have some Raven and Wick scenes on the Ark (e.g. how they met) she said that it was so long ago, and they wouldn't be able to have Lindsey play Raven. If we consider the age difference now (nine, ten, or eleven years) and Steve Talley could pass for someone in their late teens, then whilst Wick was sixteen/fifteen, Raven was four to seven. He didn't hesitate in having sex with her - it's borderline pedophilic, and, because he was an adult when she was seven, eight or nine, and presumably cared for her, Raven's always going to acknowledge Wick as a father figure. When your parents tell you to do something, you do it, right? These foundations are ideal for Wick to emotionally and/or physically Raven, and I doubt the sexist, racist, homophobic trash that is Steve Talley (who plays Wick) would have no problem acting this out. Oh, wait, he already has.

Do you remember in 2x15, Raven's "dam joke"? Wick, playful and banterous Wick, coldly said, "your jokes suck." Then, Raven teases: "I liked you better before we had sex." Wick, again usually playful and banterous Wick, scolds Raven with, "Right back at you." No humour in his tone. Raven pauses and looks visibly upset by this. He then takes the piss out of her past, and the fact that she has a distrust for people after her mother treated her like she didn't exist.

Doesn't Raven deserve much more than this? A minor character, whose only interactions are with Raven after the momentary banter with Kane in S1? As soon as Clarke rode off to TonDC, Raven, main character bad-ass independent Raven, was lumped with Wick and had literally no other interactions from then on that didn't involve Wick. Even with Jasper, and the return of his goggles, we see Wick glancing around impatiently.

Do you really want to see a relationship as horrendous as this, after only four-ish episodes together? I certainly don't.