Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-24437744-20141121150513/@comment-142.165.248.32-20141125013627

smh @ you, girl. Bellamy is a murderer by the same definition that Finn now is. He is the sole cause of death of 300+ people on the Ark because of his selfish decisions, not wanting to face the heat for attempting to murder Jaha. He then hanged Murphy and would've killed him if not for Clarke and FINN's intervention. He beat Murphy, tortured Lincoln, and refused peace in favour of war. War, of course, costs innocent lives. He chose the death of innocents over Finn's initial plan: peace.

Finn is not out of his mind either, and his reaction in the village likely has less to do with Clarke than your assumption. Over the course of the series I've observed his character arc heading toward this very break-down, because where Bellamy and Clarke can separate 'who they are and who they need to be to survive', Finn has never been able to do that. He's too optimistic, too innocent. This inability to separate his actions? That causes extreme stress. Extreme stress over long periods of time leads to mental illnesses like PTSD or, what I personally believe Finn is facing, Combat Stress Reaction. It makes the victim anxious, irritable, distrust others, and makes them feel like they've lost control of themselves and/or their situation. They're hyper-vigilant, feel extremely threatened by anything that upsets them, and their reaction to that threat is often a 'knee-jerk' reaction. Automatic. Involuntary. Look at the way Finn reacts to those grounders running. He percieves them as a threat, whether they are or aren't has nothing to do with it, and he reacts automatically. The reason we don't see him regret it immediately is because Finn is all there right now. He's lost, confused, in distress and very, very upset. To the point he's shut down on himself - what he's done hasn't registered yet, but it WILL.

I want Finn to answer for his crimes and feel regret (like Bellamy), which I think we'll see in ep 6. What I DON'T want is for people to call Finn crazy or 'out of his mind' when in fact he's reacting like any human would in the face of war, their friends dying, their life being at stake. In fact people DO react that way. Look at veterans of war. Finn's situation is extremely comparable, and his reaction is almost symptom for symptom exactly the same. Like Bellamy said, war changes people. Now the question is: is the damage permanent, or can Finn be redeemed like Bellamy, like Murphy? I say yes. Given time to face his guilt and remorse, he can make up for it. I think he will, one way or another.

tl;dr Finn is more than just 'crrrrazy in love!!!1' with Clarke please realize this.