accidentally posted this without editing the name.I apologize.
anonymous asked:
I didn't like [L/xa] and one of the reasons is because she betrays everyone, including Roan, when he brought Clarke as a prisoner to her and then she locked him up because of his mother's issues. I hate that she's always using excuses for her actions. Like Clarke said to her, she has no honor.
Correct. Same here. More damning than an angry Clarke saying she had no honor is a heartbroken Indra saying there was no honor in Polis.
I think L is an interesting character, but her actions were dishonorable. She betrayed her people on a regular basis and always has the excuse of “I did it for my people,” no matter what her people thought.
She was doing okay with that, I think, pushing their ideas of vengeance and alliance and justice and mercy… until TonDC, when she straight up made not the slightest effort to save her entire Coalition, and left them all for the bombs.
Was that REALLY for her people? Or was it to get rid of the people who could challenge her. Indra thought it was just war. You lose the battle to win the war…. and then she ended up sacrificing the sky people, too. She didn’t just run away from war (although yes she did both times,) she didn’t just let the bomb fall, this time she actually consciously chose to betray her allies. Which actually puts what happened at TonDC into greater suspicion. First she was willing to sacrifice a whole village unknowingly for the mission, then she wasn’t willing to let her armed and dangerous warriors fight a war they were itching to have, so she sold out the mission. That, my friend, is contradictory. Where there are contradictions, there are questions. Unless you’re a certain type of L fan who never questions L’s actions. They call that, “making hard choices.”
The hard choice I think she made is, do I gain more power from conquering this enemy whose enmity has made me the leader of the world as we know it, or do I gain more power by getting rid of all who would challenge me and keep the enemy who keeps my people in fear. Clearly, that’s an interpretation. If you take L at her word, then you’re going to say it’s canon that she did it for her people. But if you recognize that L has a history of betrayal and lack of honor, then you would be silly to take anything she says at face value. And this is where my judgment of her character comes from.
The problem, I thought, is that she thought whatever made her power greater was for the greater good of her people. She conflated her political power with what was best for her people.
Too bad for her that none of her people agreed with this idea, leading directly to them rising up against her and her downfall. Tragic hero, brought down by her own hubris and fatal flaws.
