Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26601629-20170905230106/@comment-26601629-20180611201131

217.149.170.115 wrote: The clans except skikru always followed the strong. Octavia no only was the only survivor of the conclave a battle royal, she also was benevolent enough to share the bunker with the tribes, Kanes initial solution. Skikru had no right to leave the other clans to die, while they they live like cowards after doublecrossing them just because a crisis apears. This is also the reason while kane and clarke opened the hatch. Its even fair enough that they didnt lost their spots. So the grounders looked up to her for her being benevolent, but consequent messiah. She lived as a grounder and had a reputation among them before. They had no current leader, so why not make her leader to avoid a civil war. Why was octavia giving out space in the bunker, she had no authority or right, it wasn't hers to give. If Fio had won for Trikru, do you see him bossing Indra around??.

Skaikru had every right to leave the other clans to die, they had repeatedly tried to find solutions to the problem, something that the other clans had either directly thwarted or made harder for them to achieve, and they did find the bunker, and were the only ones capable of running everything in there required for them to survive. Exactly what are the grounders "owed". Nothing benevolent or messianic about being opportunistic. She saw a chance to buy an army to complete a hostile takeover of the bunker, and she literally bought their lives to do it (I admit, it might have been unintended and sounds extremely harsh way to look at it, but think, if Ontari had done the same thing, how it would look).

As far as the grounders accepting her, it was not because of anything as noble as preventing a civil way. It was just a primal desire to survive, nothing more. As you can see the instance they got in the bunker, not everyone agreed with her.