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[kinetic-elaboration]

August 19: Sinclair & Raven, Devotion

Sinclair & Raven, Canon-verse, ~650 words, for anonymous

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Sinclair didn't pull strings for Raven because she aced her test. He wanted her in Zero G because she had something, less quantifiable than intelligence, so subtly innate that it could never be taught: a deep and unwavering devotion to the ship. A love for the Ark right down to the smallest nuts and bolts. He saw himself in her. He saw that same pure love of discovery, problem-solving, fixing and improving and innovating, which drove him like a steady and indomitable fire in his younger years. Hadn't seen anything to match it in a long time. Hadn't seen it in himself in a while, either.

At the top of the department, bureaucracy takes hold, a stifling, foggy atmosphere.

The more he got to know her, the more he saw his mistake. Raven was not the young Jacopo, reincarnated, reignited, not a fire at all but a constant new spark. She loved the work, more than the ship. She loved the task itself, as much as the results. She chased thrills, she courted risks, she did what no one else could or should have done, to prove that she could, and for the danger of it, and out of pride. And he knew that when she came back onto the ship, after one of her stunts, ready to ask for forgiveness, instead of permission, that he should tell her all the rules-and-regulations-reasons she was wrong. That stunt. That risk. The Ark he loved so dearly was not a place for risk and yet, she was Zero G, and at the top of the top, sometimes risk was all that was left.

She always fixed what needed to be fixed, kept the old boat running, kept them creaking along through space for even one more day.

And he could never bring himself to stifle anyone, and especially not her.

So he promoted her. He shook his head and looked down and made her wait out the moment so long that even her bright confidence wavered, and the smile slipped from her face, and she put her hands behind her back and tilted down her chin so that she almost looked contrite. And then he told her that she did a good job, and felt in her satisfaction and her pride, in the reflection of his own approval, a warmth like he imagined of the sun.

When it came down to a choice between the Ark and his own life, his family, his people, he brought the ship down. From the ruins, a metal sign to stick in the ground: Camp Jaha. A new home.

His wife died in the first month, from an illness to which she had no immunity, one of many unseen and novel dangers of the Earth. They never had their own allotted child. So now it's him and a few fragments of his people and a broken off bit of his life's work, his ship. Out of these haphazard shards, in the staggered end of the year, as the days grow shorter and colder and darker, he must reevaluate again, take his old passion and creativity and see what he can build.

So few people matter anymore. He watches Raven, limping down the muddy streets with her crutches, then her cane. As persistent and as stubborn and as ruthlessly brave as ever, as hard on herself as ever. Of everyone still living, he loves her most. He loves her like he used to imagine loving the daughter he was never given permission to have. This devotion doesn't feel like the arrogant, hard-edged, determination that was the engine in him, when he was her age. It feels like something that has softened in him over time, like the parched earth after heavy rains. Like maybe he can grow softer, still. Like maybe, by the time this winter ends, seeds that have already been planted may still start to grow.

[bookwormythings]

Why kill Sinclair? Like what does that do for the story? Seriously, what does that do? 

[doctoraliceharvey]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

FF.NET

Summary: Nix and Almi have their introductions and the cluster starts figuring out more about each other. Centered around 1.07

much thanks to @stardustandteacups for getting me back into this au, and helping me out with some scenes!

[ofhouseadama]

six to five and pick ‘em rated t | wc ~2,300 | warnings: none

Setting odds and making books is a time-honored Engineering tradition, and everyone in camp wants to bet on Marcus and Abby. Or, Sinclair and Raven start a betting pool. (Post-S2, pre-S3. Mostly fluff. Written for the @slackru fluff challenge.) 

[aihkii]

The 100 - Good and Evil Angels in Raven’s Brain

Becca - “She will just be normal again.”

Sinclair - “She was never normal.”

Becca - “Maybe not. But with me in her brain she’s Da Vinci. Einstein. Mozart.”

Sinclair - “And I choose Raven Reyes over those three hacks any day and twice on Sunday.”

[grrlinthefireplace]

Patron Saints of The 100, Second Edition Part II: Sky People

My Catholic superpower is finding the perfect patron saint for anyone or anything, including all my favorite characters of The 100!  I did another version of this after Season 2 ended (check it out here x  x  x) but I wanted to update it for all the new S3/S4 characters.

Part I: Delinquents Part III: Grounders

[robbsredwedding]

Sinclairs death was ugly and unnecessary and his daughter Raven could really use him right now I'm still angry

[travllingbunny]

I've just had a sudden realization about episode 2x08 of The 100 (Spacewalker), a week after rewatching, just as I was talking to someone about the flashbacks on the show so far.

I used to think of flashbacks as Clarke's (1x03), Bellamy's (1x06), Finn's (2x08) and Pike's (3x13). But it's more accurate to say that the flashbacks in 2x08 were Raven's. 

Normally the person whose flashbacks we're watching is in each one of them. But Finn is not in all the flashbacks in 2x08, one of them is a scene between Raven and Sinclair (when he allowed her into the space mechanic program in spite of the heart rumor that made her rejected at first).

So this was Raven's backstory, and it makes sense, because the main purpose of them is really to explain why Raven was so desperate to save Finn, to the point she was ready to start a war over him (giving Clarke a knife and asking her to kill Lexa and cause chaos so they could get Finn out). At one point in the episode, Raven  said she owed Finn her life, and the flashbacks explained why she believed that - because he took the blame for spacewalking on himself so she wouldn't get floated. But in fact, she didn't owe him anything, because spacewalking was his idea in the first place - he convinced her to do it, as a birthday present, to comfort her for not getting into the space program, so he was at least as responsible as she was.