Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32061950-20180909014505/@comment-87.116.176.206-20190314231022

Its Levii wrote: I could never see Octavia with someone else than Lincoln. I know, he's dead and Octavia can't be alone for the rest of her life but it would be kinda weird to me to see her with someone else other than Lincoln... That's a really toxic idea - that a 17 year old, now 23 year old woman should never be able to move on from the death of her first love.

However, as for Octavia and Jordan,  though their interactions will be interesting, I find it hard to see them as a romantic couple. But not because he's a son of her friends. So what? She's never met him and he's 27. It's not like she was there as an aunt figure while he was an infant or a child.

But they seem to different. And I don't think "Opposites attract" works to that extent. I think Octavia is more likely to be annoyed by his optimism or just see him as a child, because, in spite of his biological age, he's had none of the traumatic experiences she's had and barely has lived among people. Even their experience of growing up isolated are very different - he was safe, she was in constant danger and had to hide so she wouldn't be discovered and executed. Octavia probably does need someone optimistic and loving, but someone who has already lived and been through bad stuff and still retained hope - that's something she would appreciate more.

I could much more easily see her with Niylah due to their personalities and the fact they already have an established friendship.