#fox meta

How does your muse feel about ____ || Accepting 

WOO. Strap in guys it’s gonna be a ride.

Now. I’ve mentioned here… and here… and here and here and here some thoughts on Fox and her Rebel King. But enough is never enough and there is no such thing as too much when it comes to fox and bellamy.

My favorite thing about Fox’s feelings toward Bellamy is the uncertainty in them. Does she love him? Yes. Is she in love with him? No, but she could be if she let herself. Does she trust him? More than anyone.

Bellamy is, as I’ve said before, Fox’s hero from a storybook. Bellamy gave her leadership on the ground, laid claim to her and the kids where the adults abandoned them, brought food when the kids were hungry, gave her a protector when Trikru attacked. Bellamy became everything to Fox in a short amount of time. And he, unlike the adults, never disappointed her. Ok that’s a lie, he did disappoint her when he turned on Murphy, but he never turned on her specifically.

He fought when the dropship was attacked before the kids could get in. He was left outside the mountain and he fought through hell to get to his kids, and when she was facing down death, alone and terrified in a cold stone room, out of LITERALLY nowhere Bellamy arrived, saving her life.

He says Wei Ying was Lan Zhan’s only mistake which is so understandable bc of course he is going to be resentful of the guy who made his brother turn on his own clan and then just straight up died and broke his heart. Like, imagine your own sibling fell for someone who didn’t reciprocate and was willing to throw their future away for them, and then later it seemed that person knowingly played with your sibling's feelings. You’d also be like “Girl, no! He’s a mistake! Stay away from him!"

He carried out the punishment for Lan Zhan fighting his clan when he didn’t have to but like how unfair would it be to let a guy who broke the rules off the hook just bc it’s his brother? Even if he was objectively doing the right thing by defending Wei Wuxian (arguable, bc Wei Wuxian had just killed thousands, intentionally or not), it would set such a bad and unfair precedent.

He was friends with Jin Guangyao — Jin Guangyao legitimately cared about him though, and had shown he could be trusted in so many ways! Why would Lan Xichen be suspicious of him? Who wouldn’t be doubtful when someone accused their loved one of heinous crimes, even if it was true?

Explanation of what each alignment means here or here

[Note: I didn't put anyone for Neutral Good or Chaotic Neutral because most Good and Neutral characters in MDZS tend towards Lawful due to the tenets of their sects, so there weren't any major characters that fit.]

Justifications below:

Miller: Pike was a dictator. Bryan: He was an elected chancellor. And if you don't care about that, he kept me alive for three months. Miller: Then why did you help us turn him over to the grounders? Bryan: To save you, Nate.

You know, it just struck me (as I browse for appropriate quotes) that this lil bit right here gets overlooked a lot. 

Like reading this, I think about Fox’s devotion to Bellamy and how it’s similar to Bryan’s feelings about Pike. Yeah, Pike was violent and bloodthirsty and held onto grudges over peace and was a complete dictator. But Bryan’s right, he was elected, and s1 Bellamy wasn’t exactly a benevolent ruler (exchange your wristbands for food, anyone remember that? how about ambushing wells, threatening however idly to cut off clarke’s hand to get the wristband?) S1 Bellamy was his own kind of dictator, but one the kids chose. Just like Pike. Bellamy kept Fox alive, just like Pike did for Bryan. And we don’t know what kind of leader Pike was up in Ice Nation, maybe he was stern but fair in his own way, like Bellamy was with the delinquents. Pike downward spiraled into a power-hungry, war-hungry dictator. But Bellamy spiraled in his own way which cumulated in letting Lincoln and Kane (friends and allies) be locked up to be executed, and the 300 massacre. Bryan still followed Pike, just as Fox (as I play her anyway) still follows Bellamy into and past these spirals. 

Which makes reading this hard for Fox, because she reads it from the POV of having to betray Bellamy to save someone she loves and the very thought of that makes her stomach churn. 

So I think I have a new appreciation for what it cost Bryan to do this for Nate. Hating Pike makes it easy to look at this exchange and go ‘well duh you betrayed him, he was a crazy asshole dictator’. But it’s not always that simple. 

Send Britt things to ramble on || ALWAYS accepting 

Fox would take the chip, but not to forget the pain of Mount Weather. She’s a sharp little thing, and extremely distrusting of the adults of Arkadia, so the odds of her taking the chip just because someone’s like ‘this is great you should try it’ are very low. ( added to my headcanon that she, jasper, and monty were friends, I figure she’s probably used to turning down offers of ‘this is great you should try it’ lol ). She’s soft, but not weak, and honestly she’d feel like Bellamy and Clarke and Murphy would judge her for trying to “escape” her pain. Everyone’s got pain Fox. Not everyone takes some weird mind-altering chip to escape it.