[oceanqueen02]

Y'know something that doesn't get discussed often enough in the fandom? The fact that Clarke spent a whole year in solitary confinement. Like, I have always headcanoned the fact that Clarke is very touch starved especially during those first few months on earth as she's adjusting to being free again but I've never found any fics that explore this idea

[bellamyblake]

do you ever think how things in season 6 for clarke were just literally the definition of being “ripped away” from her? and the worst is that it all happened in the most violent ways possible. 

like we see her in the beginning of the season hoping for a new future, a new start, wanting to do better, we even see her wearing a DRESS, dancing, HAVING FUN?? can you imagine that? 

and then bang-RIPPED AWAY like someone cut off a flower and killed it in seconds-we see her being sedated, having to go through the terror of not being able to move while they tell her she’s dying and they’re putting SOMEONE ELSE’S IDENTITY IN HER, LIKE THE PURE TERROR AND HORRIBLE FEAR THAT SHE HAD TO GO THROUGH IN THAT MOMENT, and then we see her try to fight her way out of that, beat josephine only to realize that her friends and bellamy think she’s already dead and hey maybe I do not deserve to be alive and hey, hey just maybe i can SACRIFICE MYSELF ONCE AGAIN TO SAVE THEM BC WHY THE EFF NOT,IT’S NOT LIKE MY LIFE IS WORTH ANYTHING LMFAO RIGHT (totes the way bell thinks too btw) and then holy cow she almost dies and bellamy ALMOST LOSES HER AND HER LIFE IS LITERALLY HANGING ON A THREAD ONCE AGAIN ALMOST AS VIOLENTLY SNATCHED AWAY FROM HER BUT HE, HE FIGHTS FOR HER AND IF HE HADN’T SHE WOULD’VE BEEN GODDAMN DEAD, and he fights so hard, so desperately to bring her back and HE DOES and then we see her having to see her kid BEING TORTURED RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER AND THEN HER MOM DOESNT KNOW IT’S HER BUT THEN SHE DOES AND THEY CRY AND THEY HUG AFTER BEING AWAY FROM EACH OTHER ALL SEASON AND THEN-

THEN ABBY GETS KILLED

LITERALLY ANOTHER THING RIPPED AWAY FROM HER HANDS

AND THEN SHE HAS TO FLOAT HER HERSELF, again literally, to set her off, to have her ripped away from herself by her OWN DAMN HANDS

and honestly….that’s the saddest story line there ever is. cause things always just get taken away from her when she’s this close to happiness in the most horrible violent awfully rude and terrifying even, way.

[traitorwhoyoulove]

Guys. GUYS.

In the season 3 finale when we see Clarke entering the City of Light, her hair is pinned back and clean and shorter (a.k.a. Clarke with the Good Hair was back).

In these scenes, she looks VERY similar to her in S1. Her hair, the jacket, the Henley tee, it’s all the same as what we see through the entirety of the first season.

But here’s the thing. When we see Clarke take the flame, she’s not wearing either of these. Her hair is still in those god awful dreads that symbolized her desire to run from her people, her desire to hide amongst the Grounders.

Clarke’s version of herself in the City of Light is a reflection of how she sees herself, a simulated version of who she understands herself to be. Which means that Clarke knows that her attempt to assimilate into Polis was not true to who she is. She knows that she was not meant for intricately braided hair, for black war paint, for leather corsets and metal spikes lining her shoulders.

She knows that the real Clarke Griffin belongs in a leather jacket from the Ark, hair tucked from her face so that she can see the world around her, eyes sharp and ready to protect those she loves most. Clarke knows that she is Skaikru, has always been Skaikru, and that will never change no matter how much she tries to run from them.

Now here’s where I start having a lot of feelings. Throughout the entire third season as we learn more about the COL, ALIE continually expresses the idea that once they take the chip, there is no more pain, no more sadness. The City of Light is essentially a computer simulation of the essence of a person’s most free and happy memories.

Take Jasper, for example. When we see him in the City of Light, he’s carrying an ice cream cone with a smile as he crosses the street:

Note that he is NOT wearing the same clothes as season 1 (no goggles, no leather jacket, etc.), but rather the same clothes that fit in the metropolitan setting. So it’s clear that people in the COL are not limited to the clothing they have in reality.

So then it begs the question: why is Clarke wearing clothes she already owns in a place where everything else is new?

I think the answer to that question lies in the concept of the City of Light itself. Again, bear in mind that the COL was created to represent the user’s abstract idea of happiness, of freedom.

Clarke’s attire is notably different from everyone else around her in this scene. It is exceptionally different from what we had just seen her donning just a scene beforehand. Which means that if she’s wearing an outfit and hairstyle that is pointedly different from that which she went in with, one that is almost identical to her daily attire during her time at the Dropship, it means that Clarke’s happiest memories are from that time. 

It means that Clarke Griffin’s idea of happiness and freedom is tents, campfires, a hundred delinquents, and co-leading with Bellamy Blake.

[bellamybbblake]

[belltaviasbff]

im crying. i forgot how to use tumblr hi

[commandermadi]

can someone please write a fic where octavia puts clarke in the fighting pit with their best fighters—expecting her to lose, but clarke totally dominates it because she’s been training with madi for 6 years and she’s a complete badass and this just reaffirms her title as Wanheda, and can it please be in bellamy’s pov like i want him to have a holy shit proud husband moment

[commandermadi]

[whitemrcedes]

clarke really ‘forgave’ murphy instantly despite him betraying her and her friends. he sided with the person who KILLED HER and actively worked with the opposing side and yet, she didn’t have one negative thing to say to him. in fact she literally told him she was proud of him for making the right decision. NOTHING else. her mother just died, her daughter was possessed, everything had just gone to hell, her emotions were probably fucking everywhere, and she’s face to face with the person who sided with the person who bodysnatched her, who killed her, and yet she tells him she’s proud of him.  she is a treasure. no one deserves her.

[commandermadi]

Murphy: Clarke was willing to put [Emori] in an oven, remember that?

Me: Clarke took the nightblood serum so they didn’t have to test it on Emori, REMEMBER THAT? Clarke sacrificed her spacesuit to give to Emori, REMEMBER THAT? Y’all got to live in the Ring because Clarke climbed up that tall ass tower to manually align the dish knowing damn well if she did, she wouldn’t have made it back in time

REMEMBER THAT?

[clarkgriffon]

[thequeenofsastiel]

I’m super over the Clarke bashing parade from Raven, Emori, and Murphy. She saved ALL your ungrateful asses from Praimfaya, thinking it’d kill her. And Murphy? Why would you bring up what happened with Emori in the lab like it was something Clarke did wrong? If I recall correctly, Clarke saved her fucking life by being willing to be a test subject to extreme radiation that literally made a man explode. She also saved Emori’s life again by giving her her protective suit when Emori’s broke, and didn’t ask for it back when she started coughing up blood. Clarke has ALWAYS been willing to sacrifice herself to save others. Every single one of you owes her your life. Yes, she sided with your enemy. To stop you from taking her TWELVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER into a war zone. Her actions are completely understandable. And in no way negate what you owe her. So stop acting like she’s some fucking evil villain when all she did was protect her child.

Shout out to Echo and Bellamy for actually understanding where she’s coming from and forgiving her. You two are golden.

[belltaviasbff]

clarke: hostage or not, sometimes it’s nice being held

kidnapper: what the hell

[clarke-griffinwanheda]

Clarke Griffin

Solitary Confinement Discussion

(It’s a rant, but let’s just call it a discussion)

SPOILERS FOR THE 100!

Why does no one talk about Clarke being in solitary? Like, she was literally, as a 17 year old CHILD, but in the Sky Box in solitary for a year.

The United Nations' "Mandela Rules" prohibit placements in solitary beyond 15 consecutive days. Because, you know, that’s the humane treatment of prisoners. But Clarke. Clarke was in solitary confinement for a year. And not even because she committed some great crime and was psycho or anything. She was just traumatised because she saw her dad being killed, was told that she and everyone on the Ark was going to die, and she was shoved into a cell just for damage control.

And it’s literally never talked about. Other than the first episode, we see nothing of it. Not the ramifications or, you know, the major trauma. Which is actually insane because when she is finally let out, she doesn’t even have any time to process or properly adjust because she is being sent basically to her death. And then they released the ground was survivable.

Even after all of that, after being alone with nothing but her thoughts for so long, she stepped up. They landed on the ground, and she chose not only to try and help everyone, but to actively LEAD them.

But what’s worse? That wasn’t the only time. Clarke always ends up by herself. First in solitary, and then after Praimfaya, and then at the end of the show.

Yes, she had Madi, but… she was still alone for that first month. And as much as Madi was there, she was also a six year old child who needed Clarke. Clarke had no one she could actually talk to, or to help her. She was alone. As always, she was on her own with the responsibility and decisions she made. But also, Clarke has been a victim of hallucinations (after Finn’s death). It’s a very real possibility that until Skaikru and Diyoza’s crew came back, that she had to ask if Madi was even real.

After the Test, when literally every other person in the universe got to transcend, Clarke, yet again, is left to be alone. Because of course she is. That’s been her entire life. She has spent more of her adult by herself than with other people. And at the end, when she realised that she hasn’t lost everyone, she is also so goddamn relieved because for the first time, people stayed with her. She wasn’t alone.