#koft

King of the fall 👑🍂

1. Who is the most affectionate?

When they’re young, Lexa is the most affectionate. They sneak kisses in the kitchen and in the stables and Lexa is always trying to find some wild flowers she can bring Clarke. It’s just that she knows Clarke could have any pretty thing in the world, and that she’s meant to be a queen one day, but somehow she still chose her and... it just makes Lexa really soft. So she’s very tender and outwardly affectionate. When they’re older though, Lexa has become guarded and full of hurt and anger. So Clarke is the more affectionate one because she knows Lexa is touch-starved and that it’s hard for her to express her feelings. She’s the one who tries to find Lexa flowers to brighten up her shack (before they leave) and she’s the one who goes out of her way to show Lexa that she loves her, that she’s here and that she’s not going anywhere.

25. Who needs more assurance?

Lexa. She spends most of the time believing she’s going to lose Clarke again so :/

26. What would be their theme song?

So it’s a bit tricky with KOFT because it’s not a fic, it’s just an idea with a beginning, middle, and end. But a scene I loved thinking about was the reunion. The buildup in particular was painful to imagine in that perfectly angsty way - the why and how it happens. I really adore the thought of Clarke and Lexa finding each other over and over again, even if things get in the way. They’ll always choose each other, and I think that’s honestly the driving force behind most of my fics.

I also loved thinking about the myth behind the Keeper; the preconceived notions people have and then the reality. That’s always creatively great to approach. And of course for Clarke the reality started to dawn on her when she got Lexa’s skull mask off. Just seeing her face and her eyes and her pain was enough to release the memories that were taken from her - or really, both of them. Something I may have brushed over is Clarke’s guilt for forgetting, even if it wasn’t her fault. When she’s running through the forest to Lexa, she’s putting herself in a lot of danger — that forest is no fairytale. But a part of her probably believes that if she gets hurt trying to find her, she deserves it, because Lexa has been hurting for years while she was sitting pretty. So she’s definitely fueled by anger at herself and the world she comes from.

I think Clarke is definitely going to be furious with her mom and never want to see her again. I think deep down she understands that Abby was trying to protect her, but she just can’t forgive her. And she wants to give Lexa her life back and clear her name, but the truth is that Lexa wants nothing to do with that world anymore. She doesn’t regret killing the prince and she has no desire to live in the kingdom. It takes a while for Clarke to get the full story: Lexa being taken in by the old Keeper when she was fleeing, him killing an animal and putting the blood on her clothes so the hunters believed she died, him teaching her how to survive, how to understand the forest, her taking over his role when he died, pretending to be a man to keep suspicions at bay etc. Clarke learns more about the whole myth built around the Keeper, how it’s best he’s believed to be cruel and bloodthirsty so people stay away from the forest, which is in fact brutally dangerous on its own if you don’t know it well.