Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25176701-20150119013621/@comment-26247132-20150528221216

"After he thought Raven had died, he thought he was alone. He even said so in 1x04. Yet he wasn't alone. He had Clarke. That was it. Just one person."

I think this was his biggest problem. He didn't look to any of the other Delinquents as possible new family members. The rest of the Delinquents from Bellamy to Jasper to Octavia to Clarke to even Raven considered each other family yet Finn kept himself mostly isolated to just Raven and Clarke. He had very little interaction with anyone else and I think that was also to his detriment.

"I don't see it as obsession. I see it as desperation. Desperation to keep her safe."

There is healthy obsession (like Lincoln and Octavia who are still able to function independently of each other) and unhealthy obsession. In Finn's case, he was fully dependent on Clarke and her feelings for him regardless of the situation around him. His every motivation revolved entirely around Clarke in some way or another. He was the same way with Raven, making grand gestures of love like the spacewalk. Unfortunately, it can also be considered that the massacre was yet another one of his grand gestures gone horribly awry. (As I said, this topic probably requires its own separate post but I just never liked Finn enough to spend the energy writing it.)

"With all that being said, how can you not bring yourself to feel even a small bit of compassion for a peace-loving boy who became broken and damaged because of the horrible and cruel treatment he received and because of the horrible and cruel treatment he had to watch his friends suffer through?"

I hate to say it, but karma.