CLEXA BOOM IN
Lexa matters. Clexa is still relevant, dear haters. And yes, we could even see her back alive, with Clarke, canon-compliant – if it were something they wanted to do, and I’m not saying they do. This is just me having a play with a few scenarios which could reunite Clexa in the series – in theory, all chill.
It should be relatively trigger-free, but as my intention was to disprove the nay-sayers who can’t look past Rothenberg’s ego, I didn’t change the story so far, except using a loop hole here and there – and three scenarios play along with Lexa’s death. To make it a little more interesting, two scenarios see Lexa survive the stray bullet, one leaves both Lexa and Clarke’s fate ambiguous, none use dark magic to resurrect dead bodies, and all could still happen going forward.
LIFE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY
The stray bullet hits Lexa. Convinced she’ll die, she says goodbye to Clarke. She looses consciousness, Titus removes the Flame. We see the Flame, still active. It should have deactivated the second Lexa died. Titus does not share this information with Clarke, instead rushes Lexa out of the room to bring her to the Elders, a secret group serving the line of Commanders.
Lexa is stabilized and taken out of Polis, out west to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Like Mount Weather, people here survived the apocalypse. Unlike Mount Weather, they had Becca’s nightblood serum and ventured outside soon after. Here, Lexa survives Praimfaya. Along with other Nightbloods, she finds pockets of life that were spared from the firewall, similar to Eden. And just like the Ark thought that the apocalypse had wiped out all life on Earth and the planet would not be inhabitable for another 100 years, Monty overlooked the slow reestablishing of life on Earth. Three years after Eden was destroyed, Clarke returns to Earth, having been thrown back in time after traveling through a wormhole.
ALTERNATIVELY: Time on the new planet works and affects the human body differently. Clarke travels back to Earth. Clexa reunites. BOOM. OUT.
ELIGIUS LABS
Unbeknownst to Clarke, Lexa survives the stray bullet. Titus rushes an unconscious Lexa to the Elders, a secret group loyal only to the line of Commanders. Foreseeing Praimfaya’s destruction, they take her to an undisclosed Eligius facility, set up as a contingency plan for Eligius III. A lab, not unlike Becca’s on her island, fully equipped and running, but part of an elaborate underground system, able to sustain about one hundred people through another cataclysmic event. Because why not?! We see cryo pods, vials with the nightblood serum, screens showing DNA sequences – and a glass door, prominently featuring an infinity symbol. It leads to a small chamber, holding a single workstation, it’s main purpose to back up the data from ALIE 2.0. Because what kind of genius would design a device to store data without a backup solution? To help Lexa’s body and mind to heal, they place her in a cryo pod that connects to the workstation. When Clarke returns to Earth, Lexa is busy rebuilding a sustainable society.
ALTERNATIVELY: Lexa could follow Clarke to the Eligius planet. There could even be portals. No matter what, Clexa reunites. BOOM. OUT.
BACK TO THE BEGINNING
Lexa dies, her body is burnt, Earth is destroyed – what were they thinking?! But space is a wondrous thing and opens up many possibilities. Life on the new planet isn’t what the brochures advertised and Clarke finds herself back in space yet again. She passes through a wormhole, only to end up back in Earth’s orbit. To Clarke’s immense surprise, the planet she sees through the looking glass looks healthy, greens and blues, satisfying her artistic eye. Longing to go home, she packs up and takes a drop ship down to Earth. Nothing could have prepared her for what she sees when she steps off the metal ramp – a Grounders welcoming committee, with a few familiar faces: Anya, Lincoln, and, yes, Lexa. Clexa reunites. Together, they find a way to save their people. BOOM. OUT.
ALL THE COMMANDERS
Lexa dies, her body is burnt, Earth is destroyed – Jason still sucks! But Lexa’s spirit lives on the Flame, she’s real, and Eligius III is big on cloning. Becca’s work in biotechnology had been instrumental in establishing the thriving colony. When its leaders learn about the existence of the Flame, they use the DNA information also stored by ALIE 2.0 to recreate the bodies of the previous Commanders, embedding their spirits – think Altered Carbon, if not more organic.
ALTERNATIVELY: The planet is home to an alien life form that manifests itself as people’s loved ones, feeding off memories and emotions. Holy shit! Clexa reunites. BOOM. OUT.
PARALLELS
Lexa dies, her body is burnt, Earth is destroyed – what a shitty world! But luckily, it’s not the only world available to us in this science fiction universe. What Monty did not realize is that the Eligius III coordinates take them to a parallel universe. Imagine Clarke’s shock when she runs into her parallel self. Imagine her delight when she eventually runs into a very alive Lexa. And you’ll be pleased to hear that, in this parallel reality, Gustus has kicked Titus’ useless ass off a cliff a long time ago, although Anya will insist that he couldn’t have done it without her. Clexa reunites. Long live Clexa. BOOM. OUT.
LOVE WINS
Lexa dies, her body is burnt, Earth is destroyed – imagine how much stupid that takes! But space is still largely undiscovered, allowing us to get a little inventive. For whatever reason, Clarke finds herself back in space again and is sucked into a black hole, or similar. In a nod to Interstellar, love is the 5th dimension and the strongest power in any universe. In this dimension, we see Lexa waiting for her, smiling. Clarke takes off running into Lexa’s open arms. That could lead us to any kind of Clexa scenario, on Earth, or elsewhere. Is it real? Are they alive or dead? We might never know, but they are together.
ALTERNATIVELY: Clarke dies and finds herself on some metaphysical plane or other. More importantly, Lexa is waiting for her, smiling. Not the someday she imagined but she finally reunites with her love, her soulmate. The ultimate endgame. BOOM. OUT.
In conclusion, whoever claims that it’s impossible to narratively bring Lexa back, other than by using flashbacks or through the Flame, lacks imagination and/or simply chooses to be ignorant about Rothenberg’s proneness to plot holes and retroactive continuity. The concepts above are my own and a byproduct of too many sleepless nights of cursing you know who. Thanks for reading.
