User blog comment:Skyzy/Who Do You Ship with Clarke/@comment-27404483-20160106063804/@comment-5953261-20160107083852

I doubt Clarke/Bellamy/Raven love triangle is going to happen 'cause there have been so many Bellarke since day one, so eventually Bellamy would choose Clarke for fanservice only. If Bellarke should happen I rather want to have them bonding even more through some mutual experience and then realizing that they are in love with each other. Period.

But one thing I really love about the show is that they don't put their main focus on romance but it's still there: but in the way of slowly-establishing and rather permanent-oriented relationships instead of jumping from one partner to another. Linctavia and Kabby are good examples for this one.

Canonically Clarke had only romantic feelings - both times she pushed them back for several. Finn - because he hadn't told her about Raven and then later for massacring innocent Grounders. Lexa because she didn't think she was capable of loving someone else the way she loved Finn and she was scared that she could lose Lexa like she lost Finn and the grief would prevent her from her mission to rescue her people from Mount Weather - it's only after their kiss when Clarke realizes that love isn't weakness only to have her heart being broken shortly after.

What I wanted to say: the show could have made Bellarke a couple several times... in Season 1, at the beginning of Season 2 or even could them have let have a "real" kiss before Clarke walked away. But they didn't let Clarke have romantic feelings for Bell because she would had had these for three people in the timespan of two (?) or even only one month (?) and whoops - there would be the "jumping from one partner to another" - effect. We can't know if Bellamy actually has feelings but if he had them at the end of Season 2 he respected Clarke's choice because he knows that her feelings are valid.