Talk:Clarke Griffin/@comment-73.2.185.142-20150623193840/@comment-26247132-20150623210614

I saw Clarke's hard treatment of Raven, Octavia, her mother, Bellamy, etc... as her trying to put on the brave face needed of a leader. Later, Lexa puts her own spin on it and adds in the whole "love is weakness" concept, but prior to that, Clarke's modus operandi had been exactly what she tells her mom in Spacewalker: Clarke: We need to prove we're not afraid. Abby: What if I am? Clarke: Fake it.

Clarke is "mean" because she needs to be strong and, most importantly, she needs to keep everyone else strong. She isn't perfect and does take it to the extreme sometimes but I think her motivations are fairly clear as to why she appears so insensitive at times.