Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26226620-20160103035340/@comment-6707115-20160122205646

After seeing the first episode of this season, I''ll predict that the reason for Octavia's antipathy towards her towards her brother stems from the fact she seems to have two loves in her life: the first is obviously Lincoln, the second is the grounder, specifically the Tree People (Lexa & Lincoln's tribe) way of life (tribal warrior culture, reliance on lower forms of technology, different language, etc). Lincoln himself is pretty chill with dwelling amongst the Sky People and taking part in many of their ways, yet Octavia constantly wishes to return to the Tree People (with Lincoln) and become a tribal warrior once again. That, and she seems to insist to Lincoln that coexistence between the Sky People and the Grounders is impossible, (as in their ways of life cannot coexist); Lincoln of course refutes this idea.

I think that however the conflict starts, Octavia will choose to side with the Tree People simply because she wishes to preserve the Tree People way of life over the Sky People way of life.

I'm pretty sure some group of Grounders will end up sparking the war, and that Bellamy's motivation for being a champion of the Sky People in this conflict may be to restore peace and order, albit with the geopolitical situation altered to where the Sky People (and not Lexa & her Tree People) are the Hegemon amongst the regions different peoples/tribes (as if the Grounders spark the war, it would be clear the balance of power cannot & should not return to the status quo antebellum).