#echo week

Honestly - it’s 2.11 - Coup de Grace. Her first one - Show me a woman who spits on her enemy from inside a cage after being bled/used as a human filter for bad blood for weeks, and I’m totally cheering her on. 

Then - she actually listened to Bellamy. Even if she didn’t totally believe him (and why should she have?) she still took the risk/chance that he was worth helping and she told him to keep his head down/be quiet. Or maybe it was just her human sympathy reasserting itself. 

And when the MW techs came for her, he distracted them. It saved her - and got him out of the cage. She could appreciate both, I think. Once she saw he really was an inside man sent to get them out, she returned the favor and helped him murder a man. 

She’s smart, she evaluates new evidence, she thinks on her feet (or from inside a cage), even when she’s weak and tired, doesn’t wait for orders to evaluate new conditions or make new friends, and has no squemish hesitation to do what’s necessary ... (or later take very firm control of that room of desperate grounders. And she didn’t forget to say ‘Thank you’ either. Though that is a later episode.)

All in her her bandage underwear. 

How do you get from We May Have to Throw Someone Overboard to What Are We Going to Be Now

I have so many time jump headcanons, I wouldn’t even know where to start.   My favorite tag when I reblog is spacekru the series, we were robbed.   Because we were.  We got 2 eps of the bunker!   Yeah, Octagon was crazy, we get it.  Kane couldn’t control her, maybe Bellamy would have been able to help but he was in a Hippie Commune in Space!

Anyway, Echo said in 5.01 that it took three years for Bellamy to forgive her.   And in 5.06 he tells Octavia “Not a lot to do in space for 6 years, you pick up a few things.” So, he may not have forgiven her yet, but they were training together.   

At some point, he had to have been down on himself, pissed off at everyone because he left O behind, because Clarke was dead and it was his fault, that no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t save everybody.   He’s brooding, he’s sulking, he’s yelling at people.   It all comes to a head the day he snaps at Harper, sweet, unsuspecting Harper.   He storms away, and Murphy tells Echo that since Bellamy already doesn’t like her, it won’t matter how he treats her, so now it’s her job to keep him in line.  “He’s your responsibility now.”    So she starts going extra hard at him during fighting sessions, trying to work the agression out of him.

It takes a while, but he is finally able to beat her and in the process she is able to get him to calm down a little.   “Why are you being so hard on me?”   he asks he one day.  “We need you up here, and you are one outburst away from Monty throwing you out the airlock.   So calm down and stop taking it out on us.”

So, he calms down, and one day he finally beats her, gets her on the floor and then well one thing leads to another....

It is obvious in the way she is able to calm him down when they get back to the ground that this is the dynamic they had in space.  He was trying to keep everyone together, but no one was trying to keep him together, and then she stepped in to that role.  She didn’t know him as “Mr. Whatever the Hell we Want” like Harper, Monty and Murphy.  Or “Mr. I should have killed you when I had the chance” like Raven.   She didn’t see him change from that cocky ass-hole facade he put up those first few weeks on the ground to the person he became on the ground.  The person she met in a cage wasn’t that guy.

When she was three Echo’s mother left her with her father who promptly denied that she was his child.  However, she was at the right age to pick up languages quickly and living at a trading post helped immensely.

That’s right, Niylah and Echo are half-sisters, maybe.  Because The 100 is the land of unlikely coincidences and shenanigans but also never gives clear answers about anything.

Favourite Relationship - Echo and Raven

I've had no time to write anything for this week so I'm going to try to post some edits of Echo the next few days because I love her sm

These two were one of my favourite parts of season 5 and I can't wait to see more of them next year in season 6!

Unwritten books 3/?

Echo Week: Day 3: Favorite Relationship. Becho. Not just my favorite relationship for Echo, but my favorite of the show.  Mutual respect.  Love that’s actually love instead of a control freak taking punitive action.  Yes, it developed off-screen and that’s a bummer, but for where they are now it’s just amazing.  They listen to each other.  They make plans together.  They recognize each other’s strengths, weaknesses, and needs and work within those parameters.  

Unwritten books, 7/?  Echo week.  AU day. Matchmaker/Modern fake dating AU. 

Emori opened the email, laughed, and called across the office, “Are you out of your mind?” 

“Maybe,” Echo called back from her office.  “But if you don’t want your next paycheck to bounce we need to bring in some money.  Selling a few books about the dating misadventures of these three impossible to match men might be the answer.”

“All we need to do is find the right women for them and everything will be fine.”

Echo sighed and came to the doorway of her office as she considered her three problem bachelors.  Bellamy burnt through women like a hot knife through butter.  Monty was sweet but shy and couldn’t hold up his end of a conversation according to the women who’d been out with him.  John was… well, John was John.  “Sexy felons make great stories, but the reality is a little hard to live with.  We can use the books as a pre-screening tool.  And income.” 

Harper stopped in between the two of them and took a slow sip from her coffee cup. 

“Just say it,” Echo ordered.  Aware of the sharpness of her tone she added, “Please.” 

“I’d go out with Monty.”  

“Good.  Do it.” 

Emori stood up.  “Really?  We’re allowed to date clients now?” 

“Regular, matchable clients, no.  If it’s one of these three rolling disasters, yes.” 

“Dibs on John.” 

“He’s yours.” 

Emori grinned at her.  “That means you get Bellamy.” 

“No.” 

“Yes,” Emori and Harper exclaimed in unison. 

Favorite Fight Scene/Precanon

My favorite Echo fight scene is all of them, so precanon thoughts it is.

We are all pretty free to construct whatever we like about Echo’s backstory from the very few fixed points in canon that we have. 

Echo is a spy. And a talented warrior. And eventually a direct advsior to the king. 

She told Bellamy that he wasn’t the only one to lose someone he loved to war. 

She and Roan had never met, though they had heard of each other.

She wants to save her people.

And that.... is it. So far. (Maybe we will learn more in s6?)

From those two things, plus her general extreme comptence, and her later assurance that she speaks with the monarch’s voice, and her pretty blunt attitude in speaking to her monarch, added to general info from all the seasons, what follows is my latest Echo backstory headcanon...