Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28398720-20160530203022/@comment-11565898-20161226161016

Lokresia wrote:

He repeat the same mistakes he did in S1 over and over again. It was mistake first time but after third? What is that? How stupid he actually has to be when he can’t realize that he is  doing bad  after have 1000 dead people because the choices he made? And you could be sure that the next time when he had to choose instead of his people – he will choose the best for him, not for them. That is who he is. And in that hadn’t anything bad if people and writers just stop glorifying him. Putting him in the middle between good and bad make him more miserable and obnoxious than he should be. Writers never give to us as viewers whole motivation behind his actions and when even the actor who plays him  sometimes  doesn’t know what inspire its actions. For what we talk about? We just speculate. You want from him to be the guy who learns by his mistake. I want - the guy who pays for them, reaches to full glory (S1) or oblivion (S3). Everything else are just words without base.

Put yourself in Bellamy’s shoes for a moment. From age 6, Bellamy had to care about only his sister and then when got older, his mother. During all that time, he only had one thought in mind and that was to keep both of people I have named safe. Due to that, Bellamy never thought about anyone else, but those two people. He couldn’t let himself feel everything he felt because he was too busy trying to make sure his family was protected. It is why I believe he was so selfish in early Season One. In one moment where he is trying to make his sister happy, he loses everything to a man who couldn’t care less about him or his family. So when he is offered a way to protect his sister once again, he takes it without giving much thought as to how he would feel later. All that matters is that he will protect Octavia. When he gets to the Ground, he makes himself seem important so that the same people that used and abused his family won’t follow him. Then Clarke begins to show him a different perspective. He learns to care about more people, allowing himself to become a leader as he tries to be better than the corrupt guard of the Ark. Kane comes down and starts questioning him, showing another new perspective. Again, Bellamy changes just a bit more. Kane was the father that Bellamy never had really and so Bellamy follows him without question. Then the first incident at Mountain Weather happens. Not only was Bellamy tortured, but then he was forced to kill people who had trusted him to keep them safe because he trusted Grounders. The same Grounders who had killed I believe it was 24 of his people. Then Clarke decides to leave him with the repercussions of both of their actions. Bellamy is the one who had to deal with Jasper as he fell apart. He is the one who saw what was happening to Raven. He was the one that stayed behind to take care of Arkadia. He finds Clarke to only have her taken away by a Grounder. Then Mount Weather explodes after he was tipped off by a Grounder that the peace summit was a trap. Bellamy, who only wanted to save people, couldn’t do anything. So he took that on himself as he always does(this is proven in Season 1, “Day Trip” as he talks about himself being a monster). He’s not only sad, but he’s angry that once again, the Arkadian’s are being asked to overlook more people dying (That is proven in his speech to Clarke in Season 3). Kane got the brand on his arm; Clarke didn’t go with him back to Arkadia after he went after her twice, and Octavia was becoming more like a Grounder thus leaving Bellamy wallowing in his anger. No one had a solution for him until Pike came along. Pike offered him a way to “protect” his people without having to submit to the Grounders once again. Once again, he doesn’t think about how he will feel later or how his actions hurt those around him. All he knows is that he is standing up for his people as he as always done (with the exception of Murphy who was never really his people until late Season 3).

So I don’t think he was lying when he said he was doing what was best for his people because he felt he actually was doing what was best for them. He was sick of bending to the will of the Grounders when they constantly killed his people. People follow him because they know that he will do whatever it takes to protect them (That’s why he tried to stop Lincoln from going into the medbay, why he tried to keep Clarke from leaving Arkadia again, and why he killed 299 Grounders). Once again I must state, I am in no way defending his actions. I get frustrated every time I see him follow without thinking because I know he knows better. However, because of everything I have said in the first paragraph, I find myself still having faith in him. On the Ground, there are “no good guys” and Bellamy illustrates that. What he has done doesn’t make him a “bad guy”, it makes him a guy who has done bad things in order to achieve goodness. He does gravitate between what is “good” and what is “bad” as all the characters in the show do. If you condemn him then you must condemn every character on The 100 as they have all done things that are deemed “bad” in our society. You’re right to say that I want so badly for him to learn from his mistakes because I do. I have enough hope to think that any of these characters have the ability to change. I don’t want him to die because it wouldn’t be beneficial to anything that has happened. His death will just be another revenge plot which is something I hope the writers don’t gravitate towards anymore. I hope that they allow Bellamy to find out what it is that he actually wants because I don’t know if my heart can handle any more of his self-pity.