Finally had time to sit down and read the canon au! Absolutely loved it. I appreciate how you write their dynamic, espcially how pushy Clarke is with advocating for her people and how Lexa stands her ground when she should. This push and pull is such a hallmark of canon clexa.
Im curious as to how long the blockade lasts in your au? How would pike be taken down?
Thank you π₯Ή
(Heda Lexa herself^^^)
As for your questions, logistically the blockade would last about as long as it takes Pike to realize that people were leaving, so a handful of weeks at best. After returning, Clarke would immediately shift the route of the rations, and in doing so not only would Pike and his followers slowly start actually starving themselves (leaving them to assume that the rations had been cut off), but the others would actually begin to eat more again (albeit in secret.)
In that time, Clarke and Octavia (to a lesser degree, and begrudgingly π) would spearhead a massive underground campaign on the coalition's behalf. Clarke would plant the thought of active dissent by spreading the information and knowledge and proof that not only is the commander and her peace-seeking coalition willingly sending rations to the people of the thirteenth clan for no other reason than to keep them alive, but that she's doing it because she still very much views them as exactly that: the thirteenth clan of her coalition. She still sees them as her people who she is ultimately responsible for taking care of, because that is what the commander and the coalition does for each other π. That this blockade is a cold war being fought against their leader who issued the orders to murder the grounder army sent to protect them, not them as civilians who played no part in it (which is... partially true. Clarke had always done her best bullshitting when she can play with partial truths π₯΄) She reiterates that the only way forward is to let go of the past and Pike and their life in space, and to realize the ground is their life now.
Some hear her message.
Some refuse to, instead intent on clinging to the idea thag somehow they'll eventually win this (though shockingly, they never really seem to be able to name exactly what "winning" means in this instance...)
The ones who do listen are smuggled out in accordance with the instructions that Indra herself lays out. She really has nothing to go on but faith in Lexa's word that they'll be taken care of, but by that point, some people are ready to put their bets a prayer rather than what life inside the boundary line has become.
Of the roughly 1000 skaikru within Arkadia, she only gets about 30 out before everything falls apart.
Because as Pike and his men start actually feeling the brunt of the blockade, they'd slowly become more agitated and more paranoid. More desperate. And desperation leads to aggression, that would slowly build until all it would take is one person realizing their numbers were off, or one person snitching on the escapees, and all hell would break loose.
Obviously, he'd immediately go after Clarke. Because it's always fucking Clarke (re: Bellamy's wise input.)
Charges of conspiring with the enemy. Espionage. Planning and attempting to execute a coup.
Which to be fair.... yeah, all those charges would be legit.
What can I say?
She's a bad bitch
