Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-86.143.250.155-20150316000928/@comment-16845200-20151228172705

ahhh, clarke and lexa. i bet that if you searched up the word "complicated" in the dictionary, there would be a picture of them next to it.

@Ebony2k16: i think there is a considerable a chance that clarke will ultimately end up alone. jroth seems like the kind of person who likes to "subvert tropes," whatever that subverting may be, and a main female heroine who remains single in today's media is certainly not something you see that often. also i wouldn't say that clexa is the majority; from what i've seen, there are at least as many people who ship bellarke. although jroth seems ridiculously adverse to the idea of romantic bellarke, while pretty chill with clexa, so idk. then again he could be trolling everyone, but whatever. also, obviously viewership plays a big role in keeping the 100 on air, but i kind of doubt they would pair off clarke and lexa as fanservice. true, not a small amount of people have said they would stop watching the show if lexa died (which, quite frankly, i think is more than a bit ridiculous), but there would probably still be enough watching to keep the show on air.

and i probably should've said this before i began ripping into them (sorry!), but i really do love clexa. i love them for many of the reasons that have already been listed above. i love them for their chemistry (like srsly anyone who says clarke wasn't as into the kiss as lexa was, uh, were we watching the same show?), i love them for their complexity, i love them because they are clarke and lexa. and obviously - at least before blood must have blood pt 1 - they care about each other a lot, and not just in the "i care about you because i need you to survive" or "i care about you just as a friend" kind of way. (lexa obviously still cares about clarke, by the way.) the look they shared after the kiss, while they were leading the grounder army to mount weather i think it was - hoo boy, that was intense.

one of the main arguments i see about clexa is that clarke is incapable of forgiving lexa for what she did at mount weather and that's the reason why clexa will never realistically happen. first off, that's an absolute, and when it comes to complex things like relationships, nothing is absolute. second of all, to be succinct, i think that clarke has the potential to forgive lexa for what she did. obviously, their relationship will never be like it was before lexa withdrew her support from storming mount weather, but i think clarke will be able to forgive her. obviously, like skyzy said, she won't forgive and forget, but she can forgive lexa. i won't get into it too deeply but a) i think that somewhere beneath all the emotions clarke is feeling after that moment (betrayal, anger, sorrow, etc.) her rational mind knows why lexa did what she did (and quite frankly if clarke were in her position she probably would've done the same thing); b) clarke is an inherently forgiving person. though again, i reiterate that forgiving is not the same thing as forgetting. don't agree with me? allow me to lead you through the Museum of Clarke Forgives The Horrible Things People In Her Life Have Done. exhibit a: bellamy (the radio, his overall assholish attitude in the beginning - and yes, those both occurred in season one and bellamy has come a long way since, but his motivation for committing both acts were more selfish than anything, which is key); exhibit b: finn (and these were pretty serious, with the village and the manner of his relationship(s) with clarke/raven - clarke literally told finn "you are savable" in long into an abyss, or something to that effect, and she wouldn't have fought so hard to save him if she hadn't been at least beginning to forgive him); exhibit c: abby (her husband and clarke's dad, guys); exhibit x: etc., etc.).

perhaps you will argue that none of the people i just listed above "betrayed" clarke to such a personal extent as lexa did, but going back to point a, what lexa did was for the greater good of her people. and that is an overarching theme throughout this entire show; not just concerning clarke and lexa's relationship. part of what the 100 is about is taking apart the idea of what it means to be a leader of a people, taking apart the idea of what it means to be responsible for the ones in your life you care about. everyone has reiterated the same phrase thousands of times: "my people. my people. my people." to an extent, what anyone does on this entire frigging show is for "their people," whoever "their people" refers to. so obviously, clarke understands this concept. she's done it herself before (admittedly in a less spectacular fashion - though no less weighted) when she gave the go to blast apart the bridge, when she essentially authorized the burning of three hundred grounders at the dropship, when she pulled the goddamn lever at mount weather. why did she do all of this? to protect her people. sure, lexa's decision to take the mountain men's deal ultimately forced clarke to pull the lever on hundreds of innocents in mount weather (which, i should mention, is what makes that act of mass murder so different from the two previous, where there were actively belligerent individuals coming straight at clarke and her people), but if you want to boil down why clarke did what she did, well, it was for the good of her people. just like if you want to boil why lexa did what she did, she did it for her people. clarke knows this. the first step to forgiveness is understanding. so yes, clarke has the potential to forgive lexa. that's a point that shouldn't even be disputed. and fine, just because clarke may forgive lexa doesn't mean they're actually going to get together in a relationship, but it's not as if that can't happen, either. clarke forgiving lexa only makes the chance of that happening better. honestly, they have quite a bit in common; i can totally see them bonding way more of that.

that being said, i do find a couple of faults with their relationship. the most prominent one is that i cannot...conceivably see clarke benefiting from this relationship as much as lexa does. go ahead and convince me she can; i beg you. (to be fair - or perhaps unfair, but because of my stark and glaring bias, i wouldn't know - i view bellarke in a similar manner. im probably going to get a boatload of hate for this, but whatever.) point in case: clarke is very, very good for lexa; i can't say the same about lexa for clarke. but i mean this in an entirely character-based way, and considering the fact i'm not a fan of "do what you need to do to further the plot" or any variation of that, this doesn't hold as much weight with me as it would if i did believe in the concept. but perhaps this clarke-is-better-for-lexa-than-lexa-is-for-clarke dichotomy will change in season three. (i really hope it will change in season three.) i mean, it'll only help them; not harm them. *shrugs*

so yeah, those are my two cents. they've got their problems, but what relationship doesn't? they've also got virtues, and i love those too much to dislike them too much for their issues. there's only been two seasons, so who knows what'll happen to their relationship in that time? maybe it'll get better, maybe it'll get worse. evidently, i'll be jonesing for the former. but whatever the case (unless something really, really, really horrible happens), clexa is the otp. B)