Again, I love the "enemies-to-lovers" trope. And the scenario where one person kills someone the other loves is a classic. But one of the reasons "Becho" doesn't work on that front is that Echo tried to kill Octavia twice—and Octavia isn't just a family member or someone Bellamy loves; she is his whole life. She defines who he is. Without Octavia, Bellamy is nothing. She is the most important relationship of his life. That’s why Bellamy ending up with Echo after all that makes no sense to me. Not to mention the lack of development between them:
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 0 · When people say I’m being disingenuous about Bellamy and Echo, I’m baffled. No, I’m not. I’ve already explained that if Bel
Sure, being friends might be plausible, but a couple? A stable, lasting relationship? It just doesn't make sense—unless the relationship was essentially a bandage born of circumstance. Let's be honest: Becho only existed because they were the only single people in space and were under the psychological pressure of being up there without knowing what was happening on Earth. The relationship should have imploded once they returned to the ground. Their promise that nothing would change upon their return—in any other story, that would have been foreshadowing for the exact opposite. Obviously, Bellamy reuniting with Octavia and Clarke should have eventually caused his relationship with Echo to fall apart; anything else makes no sense. The fact that the final season squandered all the logical development of "Bellarke" will always shock me.
That’s also one of the reasons—along with the lack of development—why I couldn’t have loved Becho, even without Bellarke. I might have liked it a little—why not? Probably because of how their dynamic started—but not with everything else involved.
