Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26601629-20170905230106/@comment-25560820-20180510182140

Octavia came to the Conclave because she had only war left in her. She says in the episode she thought she was fighting for herself which means she only wanted to kill people. But during her talk with Indra, hearing Bellamy and Roan's conversation, and remembering Lincoln made her change her goal. She then won the Conclave and that still didn't make her the leader. If she had said nothing then Kane would still be the leader. But she was fighting for the bunker and so she had the right to give it to whoever she wanted, like Luna chose to fight for not giving it to anyone. And if that seems strange to us and Skaikru, that is how the Grounders always worked. The fighter/winner decides. If Fio had made the same speech then everyone would have followed him. When she reunited all the clans, she became the leader because she was the one reuniting them, and if it wasn't her no one was in charge. Because there was no Nightbloods anymore, and all the clans leaders were at the same rank. So she became "Osleya" as you see in 5x02, she doesn't even want to lead herself until the rebellion but she has to because the Grounders only look at her. And she is not a Commander, Indra tries to make her pretend she is with the symbols because those are the symbols the Grounders believe in but then, Octavia realized that the symbols made her be a Commander (without actually being one, so a Fake Commander) and decided to lead as herself and not as the Fake Commandef she pretendes she was (so she became Blodreina, her own kind of leaders)