#the100deadcharactersappreciationweek

[clarkesablake]

The 100 Dead Characters Appreciation Week 2018

Day 2: Favorite Scene: Jasper and Monty - Add It Up

[raven-reyes-of-sunshine]

Dead Characters Appreciation Week - Day 4

↳ character with the biggest potential impact on canon {if still alive} - Luna Kom Floukru

“I didn’t flee the conclave because I was afraid I would lose. I fled because I knew I would win“

[thecrimsonknight]

The 100 Dead Characters Appreciation Week 2018

Day 6: Most Heartbreaking Death

[dylanobrienisbatman]

Dead Character Appreciation Week

Day 1 - Favourite Lost Relationship

Sea Mechanic

It had only been a few days back on the ground when Raven finally got a chance to find a pond. Diyoza let them out to bathe, and Raven asked to be allowed to find some water in the valley, because six years in space had been a long time without submerging herself in water. Thankfully, Diyoza understood, and extended the range on her collar so she could go, and she dragged herself through the forest. She found a deep pool of water with a small waterfall a ways away from camp, and stripped down to nothing, climbing into the cool water. She let herself float for a minute, the water surrounding her, holding her up. She felt the ease of it on her leg, the relief in her hip. She felt her hair swirling around her, heavy with the water. She ducked under, fully submerged, and let the water fill her ears. She usually hated the feeling, and it would be a pain to get out later, but as the water broke the seal and filled her ears, it hushed everything. The sounds became dull, muffled by the water, and she just stayed down there as long as she could, until her lungs ached in her chest, and she lifted herself just enough to take a breath, her head still mostly under. She repeated that about 5 times, just to feel the quiet. The hum of machines had never been anything that bothered her, but after a year or so on the ground, the inability to ever find silence was sometimes irritating, and so she revelled in it now. 

She took the soap from her pile of clothes and washed her skin, letting the suds cover her, scrubbing into her scalp and coating her hair down to the ends, watching as the soap bubbles spread out across the water. She was rinsing the soap from her hair when she felt the first drop. 

Rain. 

It had been years since she’d felt rain. 

The drops started slowly at first, just a few speckling the tops of the water, and she climbed out of the pool to hide her clothes in a nearby cave to keep them dry, and then climbed back into the pool. The water started to fall harder, until it was pouring, pounding on the water. She ducked back under and listened as the rain beat heavy on the surface. She emerged back up, letting the water pour on her, turning her head to the sky as the water fell. She tried to remember the last time she had felt rain like this, pounding, pouring from the sky. She couldn’t remember. The last few months on earth, rain was a threat, the chance it would turn to acid at any moment too great to take. 

The water all around her, the water pouring on her skin, she felt her heart clench in a way it hadn’t in a long time. 

A soft voice replayed in her mind. 

Ai give ai op

Gon nemiyon

Kom lanik-de

She felt warm water roll down her cheeks, and it took her a minute to realise she was crying. 

In this pool of water, she was crying. The salty water poured over her cheeks, blurring her vision, mixing into the pool of water and the rain fall, and her heart ached. 

Luna. 

She let herself sob, just let all of her grief pour out of her. It had been bottled up for so long, she wasn’t sure she ever even felt it at all. She had sort of let herself believe that she’d come back to earth and there Luna would be, with her thick curls framing her face and her soft smile dancing in her eyes. She’d ask Raven something too philosophical for normal conversation, and Raven’s heart would jump in her chest like it always did when Luna spoke, her voice so soft and kind. She had let herself believe it, even when she knew it wasn’t true, because the thought of a world without Luna in it was a dark and horrible thought. She wasn’t even sure she was ever going to get them back down, so she just let herself pretend. 

But here, surrounded by the water on all sides, Luna’s face was all she could see. The details of her face were hazy, and she knew the voice wasn’t quite right. How deep was the brown of her eyes? Which way did her curls fall? How exactly was the inflection on that prayer again? She had lost her, all but the fragments. Luna was gone. 

Raven let herself cry, finding a rock in the pool she could sit on, dragging her legs up to her chest and holding them close in to her chest. The rain was still pounding, but it was starting to lessen, and the sound of it beating against the trees was soothing. She sat there until the rain stopped, and when she felt the last drop fall on her shoulder, she wiped her tears away, and her crying stopped too. 

The rain had come when she needed it most, to remind her of her lost... whatever Luna had been to her. A friend. Maybe something more, if time had been kinder, if the world had been kinder. The smell of wet earth and rain wafted around her and it reminded her of Luna’s smell, the smell of the sea, which was so clear in her mind even after all this time. She closed her eyes and could almost feel Luna wrapped around her, holding her close, rocking her, soothing her in her time of trouble. 

Waves of memories came flooding back. 

On the dock in the sunshine, a gun pointed at Luna, begging her to stay. She regretted that most of all. 

Watching her be strapped to the table, nothing to do but watch as they stole her life force from her. 

Watching her fight back, watching her fierceness emerge, the warrior within seep out into the air around her, dark and feral. 

She tries to remember the last time she looked at Luna’s face, but it was cloudy. The seizures back then... She wanted to curse ALIE for stealing yet another thing from her. 

She finally stood, clean and lighter somehow, like the grief of Luna had been a weight she hadn’t known she was carrying, and found her clothes to dress. She walked back into camp, and just on the horizon, above the tree line, the moon peaked out in the sky, surrounded by the colours of dusk. 

“May we meet again, Luna of the boat people.” She whispered, pressing a kiss into her fingertips, before walking back to the village, a soft smile reaching her eyes. 

[kingstoken]

The 100 Dead Characters Appreciation Week (Day 4)  Character With Biggest Potential Impact On Canon [If Still Alive]  - Thelonious Jaha  

The story of season 5 might have been very different if Jaha had lived.

Would there still be a dark year?: Possibly, but if Kara Cooper had help with  the farm, especially from someone with Jaha’s experience, they may have been able to stop the blight before it began.  If not, later on he would have been able help fix the irrigation systems, keeping the farm running for longer, which would have taken away some of Wonkru’s desperation for Eden.

Would Octavia listen to him?: I am going to say yes, by the end of the Red Queen we see that Octiava is starting to see Jaha as a person and not just a villain, and she is starting to see that he had some valued leadership skills.  If he had lived I believe he would have become one of Octavia's advisers, like Kane and Indra. 

Would there have been a fighting pit?: Maybe, Jaha wasn’t against killing people when necessary, and he had been an arbiter of the law.  Although, I think he would have advocated for a more humane way for prisoners to die.

Would there have been a Blodreina?: No, at least not the version we got.  Part of the reason Octavia becomes Blodreina is because she feels like she had to bare the events of the dark year alone.  That wouldn’t have happened if Jaha had still been alive, he could have shared the burden of leadership and responsibility with Octavia.  

Would Abby still have been an addict?: Possibly, Abby is using during the Red Queen, but she isn’t during the dark year flashbacks, which means she relapsed after the events of the dark year and her addiction got worse.  This is partly because of how she was involved in forcing others to eat against their will and her role in creating Blodreina, and also the breaking of Kane.  If Jaha had been there to share the burden Abby might not have felt so responsible.  Also, Jaha may have been able to convince Kane to eat without violence, he always had a great deal of influence with Kane and Kane respected him.   

Would Jaha have made a deal with Diyoza?: Yes, Jaha was better at politics than Octavia, he would have understood the need for compromise for the good of your people.  

Would Ethan still be alive?: Yes, I can not see Jaha letting Ethan become a child soldier. 

Finally, would Jaha have just found a way to depose Octavia?:  Quite possibly.  Failing all else, Jaha wasn’t beyond taking over when necessary, especially if he felt it was for the good of his people.  If Octavia had gotten too despotic, I don’t think it wouldn’t have been out of character for him to build alliances and eventually overthrow Octavia.    

[thecrimsonknight]

The 100 Dead Characters Appreciation Week 2018

Day 3: Favorite Dead Minor Character (Luna, Anya, Riley, Fox etc)

[raven-reyes-of-sunshine]

Dead Characters Appreciation Week - Day 1

↳ favourite lost relationship - Marper

“Smart like his father.” “And kind like his mum.”

[raven-reyes-of-sunshine]

Dead Characters Appreciation Week - Day 2

↳ favourite scene - Jasper and Monty’s high fives

“Don’t leave me hanging, man.”