Oh thank youuuuu!

9. What ships did you hate by the end?

Are we talking canonical ships that survived, or any pairing?? Nevermind I’ll answer both lmao

So in canon surviving pairings, I could do without Mackson... The actors always look like kissing/touching each other is such a shore that I don’t want to see them lmaooo

Any pairings on the show, well the fandom definintely made me loathe Bellarke to an extent I didn’t think was possible xD So I guess Bellarke but it’s more because of the fandom than the show itself

10. Who was the worst character in season seven?

Ugh Definintely Cadogan!! He was such a one dimensional villain (yes Sheidheda was too but he was so extra that it made me laugh so still better), I hate everything about him and his cult xD

21. If you had to eliminate one character from the beach (by having them die or transcend) who would it be and why?

*tries to remember who other than Spacekru was on the beach*

I would say Clarke, to be honest. I mean I hated the entire transcending thing but I hate even more that she was the only one not allowed to go, and I think Clarke would want to go where Madi is. Also because let’s be honest, she’s not really close to anybody on that beach? The others have very close ties and she’s sort of an outsider, so I guess I’ll make her go.

24. What are your top three episodes of the series?

The whole show????? Wow this is haaaard. These aren’t in order in which I like them most, they’re just a list!

s5e02: The Red Queen. It gave us Octavia most feral moment (to be clear, I’m talking about her covered in blood kicking into the cafeteria and going “ Ai gaf emo in kiken!” omgggg that was peak feral), it gave us “you are wonkru or you are the enemy of wonkru”. I wish we could have had more of the bunker but this ep was gooood.

s4e07: Gimme Shelter. For Emori. This was her best episode, it’s the one that made me go from liking her a lot to absolutely adore her. The way she manipulates the others (and the audience), her speech to Clarke, and then the culmination of all of this with the reveal???? Golden. Special mention to the direct continuation of this storyline in the next episode, and Murphy’s speech to Clarke.

ECHO

how i feel about this character: I LOVE HER. i love how refreshingly competent she is - like, she’s good at her job and she’s unapologetic about it & it’s, largely, not written as anything more than that. her ‘antagonist’ arc is one of her simply being on the opposing side, rather than her being ‘evil’ and i like that about her. 

any/all the people i ship romantically with this character: bellamy. i like the idea of echo/raven but i don’t ship it bc both of them read tragically heterosexual to me. i joked about it a few times but i am kind of into the idea of murphy and echo having tragic, grief-filled sex where they’re both thinking about bellamy lmao - and echo x murphamy is a vibe.

my favourite non-romantic relationship for this character: loved her bitchy siblings relationship with roan and the idea of the kardashian-esque drama of the azgeda royal family (echo, roan, and ontari as the cunty heirs to nia’s kingdom). i really loved her relationship with spacekru and wish we got more of it. monty and murphy especially! i feel like her and octavia could’ve had a much more compelling relationship than we got to see in canon.

my unpopular opinion about this character: i really, truly do not care about book 2′s retroactively giving her a background. it wasn’t really needed, it didn’t really add anything, and it was an incredibly bland, predictable ‘i was orphaned and forced by an evil authority figure to do bad and i’ve lived in shame and trauma over it ever since’ which just felt like it was the more boring direction to take her character, creatively. i don’t care about the show telling us to think azgeda are bad, or that echo believes that. her book 2 revelations stripped echo of all her nuance and flavour, and all of her agency - within a plot that was allegedly about her refinding her agency!

one thing i wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: she got to kill clarke. i also like the idea of motherhood for her - whilst i’m not into family/motherhood arcs at all i do think that, ultimately, echo always wanted a sense of home and belonging, and her and bellamy were that committed that it just felt natural for her. plus the whole vibe of ‘hope of future generations’ schtick the show SHOULD have ended on.

favourite friendship for this character: probably monty? space siblings who could bond over the trauma of the mountain and the cages, over being PHENOMENALLY cunty, over being infinitely more competent than everyone else, over a longing for peace and stability and home, over algae...

my crossover ship: i don’t really do crossover ships.

MURPHY

how i feel about this character: horrible, feral, dirty little heathcliff with dirt and blood under his nails; i adore him so very much. 

any/all the people i ship romantically with this character: into this weird maybe romantic, maybe platonic, maybe familial schtick with finn. love tacking raven onto that - esp. bc it upsets raven/braven stans and that thrills me. bellamy. i’m also into jontari belatedly bc the more i think abt the potential the more i fall in love with the concept, try and fight me abt that again, i dare you.

my favourite non-romantic relationship for this character: i really liked his relationship with jaha and i’m sad there’s no interesting meta or w/e abt it. love the idea of wells’ relationship with murphy and what it could have been. i miss the vibe of bellamy’s militia. spacekru was grand - i wish we got more scenes with him and echo together.

my unpopular opinion about this character: murphy’s a nasty little cunt, frankly, and i wish people would stop pretending otherwise. fandom talk about him like he’s faultless and i’ve no interest in declawing him. he is a very loving individual, that’s true, but that’s not the same thing as being nice. i feel like this perception of him came from the writing softening him a lot from s3 onwards, and it’s why i really do not like emori/him with emori. let! murphy! piss! on! people! again!

one thing i wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: he pissed on clarke. i wish his arc of being this angry, bitter scrap of malice and desperation had had a better culmination. i loved his arc with ontari up until the writing just... dropped it. and i wish that that had gone somewhere, instead. also i wish the writing had gone with fanon tbh and written him as canonically asexual bc i’m tired of people in my gc passive-aggressively :/-ing me abt my insistence on still interpreting him as ace bc that was what everything thought for a hot minute, and i am ace and i want to.

favourite friendship for this character: finn. but also bellamy - although honestly is bellamy even his friend? 

my crossover ship: rifp.

BECHO

when i started shipping them: the minute they had their first scene together; i assumed (correctly) that it was setting up a love interest. echo hissing “sky person?” and spitting on him? sold it for me. i was really into it pretty much immediately.

my thoughts: they just make sense. they make so much sense. they complete each other so neatly, whilst complimenting each other as characters enough to supply good content narratively. i wish we got more of them together, but what’s nice is that we don’t need to see every step of their relationship bc it’s very natural and intuitive. we didn’t need a spacekru flashback sequence of their relationship’s build-up - the reveal that they had gotten together was already a foregone conclusion. we knew early in s4 that it was going to happen. and it is really refreshing to not have to deal with high stakes and ship drama. they just work.

what makes me happy about them: i love the vibe of ‘two belligerents on opposing sides of a conflict much bigger than either of them’. they’re not simply ‘enemies to lovers’ - they never truly hated each other as enemies. tinder box spells it out pretty nicely. it creates some nice nuance there, and interesting parallels between them. 

what makes me sad about them: the writing pulls a u-turn on their characterisations in book 2 due to the need to upend everything to restore clarke’s relevance to the plot, as well as bob’s situation, and it results in book two becho not really feeling like becho, because neither of the characters really feel like each other. 

things done in fanfic that annoys me: echo being treated like some kind of villainous ‘other woman’ or the clingy, possessive girlfriend that bellamy ultimately leaves for clarke. it’s misogynistic, out of character and generally badly written. you can write bellarke fics that start with becho, just often it feels incredibly transparently spiteful and misogynistic. alternatively, becho fic that writes echo as being overly competent whilst bellamy is useless is also boring to me. bellamy’s very intelligent & the trope of ‘competent wife looking after her stupid husband’ is boring.

things i look for in fanfic: i don’t really read fic, to be fair, but i love fics that pad out the world they inhabit together - going undercover in mount weather; azgeda-skaikru’s conflict and later alliance; surviving on the ring... (and i do love a lot of moral ambiguity and blood).

my wishlist: my s3 au. one day i’ll write up the breakdown for it.

who i’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: what does losing feel like? i’ll never know. although, again, i don’t really have any other ships for echo so i’m fine with her ending the show alone, with the implication she could move on and get with someone else down the line if she so wanted to. for bellamy, maybe murphy?

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

yes, but for me, murphy has sucked since s3. more solidly he’s sucked since 4x01 - as s3 does give him some moments - and his character trajectory has flatlined ever since emori was introduced.

i think richard said something about the writers wanting murphy to be more palatable when he became a main character in s3 which i hate in and of itself, but i hate the fact that the only way they felt they could achieve that was by forcing him into a nonsensical relationship, whilst toning down any of the things that made him such a rich and vibrant character, in turn giving richard much less to do. he was a rabid kicked dog of an outcast in s1-2 who bites every hand that feeds him, with an arc of learning to have faith and a sense of belonging again, whilst learning that compassion isn’t a bad thing. in s3 he becomes this sarcastic ‘jerk with a heart of gold’ who, really, has nothing distinctive about him whatsoever. nothing that was set up in s1-2 was offered any kind of conclusion, he never got to process his emotions or trauma meaningfully, and he just feels like such an unresolved, muted waste of a character. all he does now is whine to or about emori, and how much he loves her, and it’s unearned and unconvincing and boring. but even without emori, the very fact that the writers wanted to tone him down to make him more palatable is just so disappointing to me. let him be feral and angry. 

ECHO

favourite thing about them: i love how cunty she is. the cold, clinical ruthless efficiency and well-earned smug sense of superiority - without her being vilified  as a monster, OR her being written as heartless or emotionless - is genuinely refreshing.

least favourite thing about them: the way supporting character!echo and main character!echo are written to be very different characters. i get it - it’s really ore of a me issue, as i recognised lines and acting choices to mean something different when there was no established backstory, but it does make some scenes a little jarring for me. i don’t really consider book 2 canon, for me, though, so it’s mostly manageable. 

favourite line: “it's like queen nia used to say, war makes murderers of us all.”

brOTP: i REALLY love her relationship with murphy and would love to see more of it. i also really like the parallels between the ruthlessness and blunt, direct, honesty and the efficiency at their work between her and monty, and wish we got more scenes of her with her space brothers.

OTP: bellamy/echo. 

nOTP: i really don’t get the appeal to ship her with roan OR with the rest of spacekru for the same reason - they’re CLEARLY her snotty siblings who she beats up from time to time.

random headcanon: is it a headcanon if i say book 2′s backstory that it gave her can SUCK MY BIG WILLY 

unpopular opinion: i really don’t care for the whole ‘azgeda was so rough and brutal and harsh and poor echo was a victim of it’ when the grounders are, at large, a harsh, social-darwinist civilisation/culture that brutalises its young and is largely built upon child-soldiers. i much prefer the idea of echo genuinely loving her people, her culture, over holding her loyalty against her. it is profoundly more interesting.

song i associate with them: i mean i have a whole playlist for that...

favourite picture of them: do i post the becho pegging pic?

LEXA

favourite thing about them: the alliance/negotiation plotline in s2 is genuinely pretty interesting, and it’s fun seeing clarke’s piss poor diplomacy skills etc. going up against someone who is - on paper - fairly similar to her (a young woman as a leader of her people at war) where the two characters have approached the position they’re in in very different ways. 

least favourite thing about them: she’s genuinely an incompetent leader of an incompetent culture/civilisation, who just saddles clarke with bad advice and ultimately destroys any and all semblance of coherent logic or morality in clarke. she ultimately fails her own people time and time again and, like, that would be fascinating if it was intentional... but it’s not. she’s written as this incredible visionary of a leader when she’s a pint-sized tyrant who is politically/ideologically weak and hypocritical, is intellectually bankrupt and recognising that the root of her personality stems from an a.i. that is the sister-software of a.l.i.e. explains a LOT of that but not, like, in a clever or narratively satisfying way - because, again, it’s not intentional at all.

favourite line: the exchange between clarke and lexa in 2x08 clarke: show my people how powerful you are. show them you can be merciful. show them you're not a savage. lexa: we are what we are

brOTP: i want to know more about her relationships with the other major grounder chars from s1/s2 - specifically, anya, indra & lincoln. i know it’s all kind of bullshit canonically because so much of her characterisation was basically retconned but i wanna KNOW. i’m also vaguely intrigued by lexa/maya, idk in a shipping or platonic capacity.

OTP: i did, genuinely, like her and clarke, in a sort of twisted, toxic kind of way. i wish the writing had presented it with the nuance it deserved.

nOTP: i don’t really have any? i’ve seen a few people shipping her with raven which i profoundly do not get or like, but i don’t really know if there are any major other ships with lexa and anyone other clarke, and if there are, i don’t care about lexa enough to care about them.

random headcanon: bold of you to think i care about lexa enough to have any about her.

unpopular opinion: i guess the fact that i think she absolutely fucking sucks and is profoundly unhealthy and bad for clarke WHILST not being for shipper/bellarke reasons is unpopular.

song i associate with them: i don’t really have one but i do revisit these clexa vids sometimes so (1), (2), (3)

i’m ASSUMING you’re meaning for t100

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*

the entire show.

let john murphy die idc abt this stupid boyband looking prick who has the audacity to WASH bring me back my rat BASTARD.

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

Yes, but Tumblr has been glitching a lot recently and not letting me reblog from people I know haven't blocked me, so it might be that!