Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-25176701-20141206142712/@comment-24.99.67.19-20141208192154

It's true that Charlotte had been traumatized by the loss of her parents. How you lock up a little girl for assaulting a guard after watching her parents get floated is beyond me. What damage could she have inflicted on a grown man, unless she came at him with a knife (wink wink)? It's understandable that she would act out after something like that. Shouldn't they have been finding ways to help this little girl cope, instead of throwing her in prison? How much more traumatizing is that?

Anyway, I would say that Charlotte was definitely not in a good place emotionally. However, I think the major factor in her doing what she did to Wells was what she was being exposed to in that camp. Children are very impressionable. And let's face it, those teenagers were not setting good examples. Bellamy was promoting "Whatever the hell we want" chaos. Charlotte took his advice about slaying your dragons literally. Of course she was going to misunderstand what he meant. She's a kid.

Then Clarke made Charlotte understand the severity of what she had done. Children actually want to be taught right and wrong. They subconsciously want guidance. So I think Charlotte actually looked at Clarke as a sort of mother figure. She and Finn were also protecting her. So she thought that she had to protect them, too.

I don't know why her parents were floated, but I'm wondering if it might have been something to do with her. Whether that's the case or not, she had already witnessed what happened to Murphy because of her. She couldn't bare to see that happen to Clarke. So both her desire to protect Clarke and her guilt at killing Wells literally pushed her over the edge. That's my interpretation.