Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28398720-20160530203022/@comment-11565898-20170215183024

1)      Octavia felt she was never much to begin with. From birth, she was told that her life was wrong. From the time she got on the ground, she was shown that she would never be a Sky person nor a Grounder. What Octavia is feeling wasn’t brought on by Lincoln’s death, but enhanced by it. She isn’t alone, but she acts as she is. Octavia has Indra, Jasper, Monty, Kane, and whether she likes it or not, she has Clarke and Bellamy. It’s a tragic Blake flaw that they don’t realize how truly great they are.

2)      The point of any alliance is to create peace and respect for boundaries. Even if two people do not agree that doesn’t mean that they can’t at the very least be respectful towards each other. Also, Lexa told Clarke her people would fight alongside Skaikru. Simply because it wasn’t written down doesn’t mean that the betrayal isn’t there. The fact is that Lexa made a promise and she broke that promise. Coalition or not, it’s still betrayal.

3)      As for the Ice nations betrayal, to Pike, all Grounders are the same. He even said it I believe when they first met him (“Grounders one in the same”). For Bellamy, it is the same thing. He had trusted Grounders from many different clans and they all betrayed him. The one instance that it was one clan over the other 11 doesn’t matter in the scheme of things for Pike or Bellamy because it has been over a period of time where all the Grounders have betrayed them.

4)      Echo and Bellamy saved each other’s lives. So of course he was willing to trust her when she told him the peace summit was a trap. Echo is important because she is another grounder who betrayed Bellamy. He followed her to discover she was lying and the Mountain containing a large group of his people were dead.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">5)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Forgiveness isn’t easy for them though and let me explain why. Clarke left Arkadia for 3 months because she couldn’t deal with what she had done. She accepted that it had to happen overtime, but she still feels the weight of those lives every day. I know this because instead of drinking her life away or deciding to not care anymore, Clarke rises to the challenge and fights harder. Bellamy does the same thing. He stayed in Arcadia to take care of his people. He did things that he didn’t agree with some of time because he thought it was in the best interest of his people. What Clarke and Bellamy are doing is trying to earn forgiveness. They accept that they aren’t the “good guys”, but they still try to do “good things”. They make the same mistakes because nothing ever changes in the world they live in. They continuously have to make choices about who lives and who dies. I agree that there needs to be a change, but it isn’t up to just Bellamy or Clarke to provide that.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:-0.25in;">They aren’t the same situation though. You’re right, the bases of each act were the same; Grounders being killed by Skaikru in order to protect the Sky people However, their motives are completely different. Finn killed 18 Grounders because his PTSD left him afraid and paranoid. His PTSD was a result of thinking Clarke was dead and all the blood shed of the Dropship battle, something Finn didn’t agree with nor was he prepared for. The violence was too much for him and he broke down. Bellamy killed 299 Grounders (debatable) because he was angry that his people continued to die. He was of sound mind when he committed the action hence the reason he feels guilty for it when Finn did not feel guilty for his actions.

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