The most annoying people in The 100 fandom are the ones that blame Maya entirely for Jasper's depression. There were literally so many factors to this and people act like he didn't even try to change too. It's always the same two arguments: "He turned out this way for a girl he knew for 2 weeks" and "He acted like he was the only one that lost someone" when literally neither is true. He got better, then met Shay, who gave him new hope, but immediately watched her die again. And he very well knew that others were suffering too (thus why he tried helping Octavia when she was grieving Lincoln in Arkadia etc.). He did in fact not feel seen or understood by the people that tried to help him, which was admittedly a bit off. Either way I just feel like he was a realistic depiction of what happens when you send a teenager down to earth to die, when they have not matured through trauma like the others did. Yes everyone had it absolutely horrible during this time, Jasper just handled it differently.
I hope someday people in this fandom will understand that he was not an asshole, but rather a traumatised child, who didn't know how to deal with the situation. It's completely normal to react to death like that, especially considering that Jasper got ptsd from being speared. I don't even know how some people completely ignore that with him, just to blatantly hate on him. Yes he was a comic relief character and it was tragic that he changed this way, but given that he is comic, it just implies, that he is less mature and unable to handle things like the others did. I hope this somehow makes sense 💔. I truly think the hate for Jasper is also deeply rooted in the misunderstandings people still have with mental illness and traumas today. It's still (unfortunately) common in today's society.
I had to yap about this, because the way Jasper is being hated on annoys me. Yes he did some assholish things, but most of the time that is not what he is blamed for and people instead just minimise his complex character merely to losing Maya. I just dearly wish he was not so misunderstood by a lot of people out there. It is fair to dislike and criticize a character, but at least base it off something more logical, than a short love story he had in a completely new scenario (where he was also put into the role as the leader, when he never did anything like it before).
Please let me know your thoughts on this...
Jasper and Maya were close but also he liked the others who were like Maya helped him he wanted them all to survive but Maya and his new friends died, his friends were tortured



















