has anyone pointed this out yet?
likely not because you’re fed the narrative and it’s swallowed up by most without thought or question.
this is for everyone saying that luna went ‘evil’, for no reason, even those saying that it was out of character for luna to do what she did. you’re right, it was out of character, but luna INTENDED THAT.
luna did not intend to win the conclave. she didn’t try to win the first one, she’s not going to suddenly go for this one. she had nothing left, she lost her clan, she lost everyone she loved. it is luna to sacrifice her own life, it is not luna to take away the choice of life from others. here’s a few fun facts.
octavia would not have survived this conclave against every clan. if you believe this, you do not know the character and just might as well stop reading right now because this isn’t an anti-anyone post. if you’re looking for that, get off.
every clan was fighting for their own, including octavia. “accept the sigil of your clan and fight with honor as their champion ”
luna made herself the biggest threat to all of the clans. all of them. every single one, luna became their greatest threat which took all of their eyes off of octavia and made it more pressing for them to try and take luna out.
easier said than done. luna is scripted (fact. canon. legit. by the writers) to be the strongest warrior in the 100 universe. sorry, i love lexa i do so much, but she would not have won against luna. even lexa knew this, it’s why she would not talk about the victory being given to her. (don’t @ me about this. it’s a canon fact that luna is the strongest warrior within the 100 that the writer’s created, opinions do not change that) that being said, easier said then done…..right?
luna barrels through every clan she is faced with. she decimates them with precision and without even being winded AT ALL. we see her stroke mid-air at a warrior’s throat and IN THAT SWING, she manages to also cleanly remove his tag from his neck as it’s left dangling on the end of her trident. (in the shot of bellamy you can see her stop and remember….just how goddamn lethal she is when she sees his tag hanging there.) another clan is down.
luna finds octavia hiding among the armory and she approaches her slowly, patiently. luna is seen talking to her, approaching her gently, toying with her own weapon. she barrels through every opponent but goes soft in octavia’s presence. instead of the lethal fighter that luna is, we see this…
she has to make it look good, why? because she still has other clans to kill and get out of octavia’s way. luna wanted to hear octavia speak of lincoln and know that she remembered his beliefs. octavia did this. one clan, one people. luna knew then what octavia was fighting for, not only skaikru. luna questions this to be sure, and here you are…killing for your own clan.
even when she closes in to raise her trident and say ‘yu gonplei ste odon’, she does so slowly and octavia is given the chance to evade her. come the fuck on, we already know how luna fights with speed and perfect accuracy when she locked onto her target. i should not have to gif her fight against HER OWN LOVED ONES ON THE RIG. luna does not intend to kill octavia. if she intended to, she would have been dead. she has more clans to get out of octavia’s way. more darkness to rid the world of, those truly killing for their own clans, something that luna does not even have the luxury of as she states…she is the last. she is expendable, and she truly believes she is.
when roan and octavia form an alliance, we can hear in the background the struggle of the woman luna is currently fighting. that’s not luna panting and grunting and struggling, nor is it luna fleeing. the woman takes luna’s trident to the back and falls. another clan is down. roan forms an alliance because he knows he’s no match for luna, and it’s a given he knows octavia is not a match if he isn’t. that is the only reason, octavia’s presence in a fight could give him the advantage to kill luna and then he would have killed octavia.
if we’re not catching on to the fact that luna is getting rid of octavia’s competition….
roan is next. “that’s mine.” in referring to the tag that luna rightfully and skillfully won. “come and get it.” referring to roan proving his douche-baggery. luna would know better than anyone how azgeda plays.
luna notices the alliance between roan and octavia and that’s fine. in the midst of the fight with the two, we see luna striking roan with many critical shots, and yet she backhands octavia away, kicks her back, as if to press….stay out of this fight octavia, take a break, sit the hell down for a minute little one and let me handle this. luna turns on roan every chance she gets and attempts to keep octavia back. luna is not trying to injure octavia. SHE IS ALL THAT REMAINS OF HOPE, OF LINCOLN, OF HONOR AND INTEGRITY AND HUMANITY IN THIS FIGHT. this is a fight between roan and luna, and octavia is very clearly the third-wheel here, and one luna wants to remain alive.
luna is simply done with living, she wants her peace, and she wants her death, she wants to be deserving of that. luna would not have trusted roan to keep his word to octavia. LETS BE HONEST. THIS IS AZGEDA. even echo managed to ‘kill’ octavia. she is no match for luna or azgeda. if luna had not killed roan, he would have killed octavia and the bunker would have gone to azgeda. we know this. echo was in the tower, azgeda plays dirty and they play for their clan, roan was a coward who saw a window and utilized it; this is a reoccurring habit of it, don’t come at me saying it’s not. echo’s banishment was a fucking show for skaikru only because he believed echo was aiding luna’s agenda; should he have won thanks to echo he would have taken her back.
look at this ugliness octavia. would lincoln have wanted this? welcome to the scared straight program, hosted by luna.
the tags are then counted. luna knows she is the last with octavia.
luna then sought out octavia again, with patience, admitting to her own darkness, admitting to her own faults, the victory to octavia was already secured because luna made it so, ensuring that octavia would win the conclave. luna admits to the difference in herself and those who will stop at nothing to survive, she admits to believing that if people were taken from the world, the might be saved from the darkness, she admits to wanting to survive as well, despite her darkness, she admits to being just like everyone, to being human, something she has always been more of than most, like lincoln, she admits to killing to survive, to protect her clan, she wishes to hear that she is not darkness, that she not wrong for hoping for a world with peace, but luna does not even believe that within herself. her self-esteem and confidence has been shattered, her body violated, her blood taken, her bone marrow, her free-will gone with that.
she hoped she would hear words of hope from octavia, that she would be received and understood and met with forgiveness over something she was called a coward for, not killing. she hoped to be told she was not the darkness, she hoped, but this was still a suicide mission. luna wanted to be seen in that moment. luna wanted her pain to be seen, but we instead see….the shock of being stabbed in the back.
the look of sadness as luna looks up to octavia, as she is again let down, and without the words of her clan’s water burial. she is told that she does not deserve to be saved, and thus the suicide is validated and luna dies believing that she is the darkness. octavia confirmed what luna thought of herself.
if that doesn’t break you, you’re not fucking human. that is some limbo shit, lack of ‘rest in peace’ if i have ever heard it.
luna’s death…is not for nothing, octavia vows to take the bunker for all clans, but then low-key salty as fuck because skaikru nearly took it even without octavia and even SHE was forsaken and let down. all grounders would have honored the winning clans right to the bunker but they would not have honored luna’s, which luna knew.
there is a reason all clans were welcomed into the bunker, it’s because luna was right to put her last hope in octavia, all that remained of it, lincoln would have been proud of them both. luna would have loved octavia, protected her, and offered her sanctuary on the rig where lincoln had trusted to send her. she would have never wanted octavia dead, and it saddens me that octavia did not see through what luna was doing, but blame the goddamn writers for this one.
rest in peace luna kom floukru. you are the reason so many lives were saved. your blood and bone marrow is the reason clarke is alive. the reason she could take off her suit to save echo and help emori, the reason she was there to find madi who would have otherwise likely not survived. clarke wouldn’t have been able to leave becca’s lab had she even made it long enough to, but there wasn’t enough food in there for five years and the other’s would not have made it to the ring, jesus christ i’m done.
wow i did not intend on reading this because i disliked Luna but I actually did and this changed my mind a lot
