#trikru

Hello fellow The 100 enjoyers! I made this map of the Coalition borders and figured I'd share. It's not perfectly to scale or anything but this has been my headcanon for a while now. I'd be interested to hear what anyone thinks of it so below the cut I'll ramble about my reasoning if anyone is curious!

It's a naive way of thinking

With Finn it was fine because he was the only one who hurt someone so it's reasonable that his death is what the grounders wanted

But it wasn't only pike that killed the army, it was many and they should have all (the people that committed the act) paid the price. No matter who they were related to or what they ment to others

Octavia wanted to save her brother, fair. But her brother murdered people in cold blood while they were sleeping. It was dishonorable in every way.

War is one thing, people die in war that's expected. (Ik that pike was like this is war but war is when both sides know it is happening generally speaking not when a side has declared peace and said you are our people now. And I could get into his trauma but it is only an explanation not an excuse. Just like pike telling them and ordering them to kill is not an excuse)

These people were peace keepers, protectors. The sky people were told they were peace keepers and yet they murdered them anyway

It was not the time for blood must not have blood. (To change a society you generally have to do it slowly and when you are not at war. I think some of the grounders could see the hypocrisy of it, that their leader let bmhb be done for the leader of another clan but not her own people)(I also think lexa knew that things were not going to end well anyway that she was going to die soon and to do it doing something for someone she loved would be better than letting her suffer because of her actions again)

A massacre will always be followed by a call for justice after and in the grounders society it was a life for a life, the life of the guilty.

And it was not only pike that was guilty.

In this case, lexa was not blinded by her feelings but almost ruled by them. Which is fine for most people, but being a leader is doing what is best for all or majority of the people that follow you and sometimes that goes against what is best for the ones you love. Sometimes it hurts them. Unfortunately it is the price of being a leader, while it is not a role that she chose, it chose her and she did damn good with it until then.

Being two leaders from different groups will always make their love story tragic. Though lexa did try to make it so they were one. But the sky people, Clarke's people were the problem or at least the immediate problem. As it always is with invaders, of which they were.

Essentially it is Clarke clinging to the belief that her people deserve all the chances in the world, (which fair they are her loved ones and such and who wouldn't give those they love all the chances they could) and deliberately choosing to not see the danger that she put lexa in and how bad her people (at the very least some) were

And that is what I believe haunted Clarke through the rest of the series. The knowledge that deep down she knew that it was her people, her family, her friends, her self that caused the death of the love of her life. That in turn almost caused the death of humanity itself. And to sit with that for 5 years almost entirely on her own then however many after that? That is truely tragic

Idk this just came out of nowhere, maybe it's all the fanfiction I'm reading...

A classic Bellamy Blake x Kane!reader acid fog story….with a head cannon included as a twist ✨

TW- cannon divergence, mentions of assault/manipulation, gore?

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The silence of the hunting group made the trees seem louder, each gust of wind causing heads to whip around. Your feet no longer crunched on the forest floor like they had when you first arrived to the ground mere weeks ago. You looked to your ‘leader’, seriously doubting his decision to leave the safety of camp with all the current looming threats from the grounders. When you saw his determined expression, you couldn’t help but roll your eyes. He was the only one of the group who didn’t look afraid, and that made him a fool.

“Over there!” Sterling whisper-shouted, pointing to a deer in the distance. Bellamy nodded and as usual, took the lead and aimed his knife. You decided to take in the scenery instead of watching another of his power plays. That was when you saw it. A murder of at least one hundred crows, frantically fleeing across the sky. You didn’t want to know what they were so afraid of. Unfortunately, on the ground it’s not possible to close your eyes to the dangers.

“ACID FOGGG!!!” Munroe yelled. Your eyes widened as you watched the group run off in different directions. You didn’t know which way the nearest shelter was and found yourself spinning in circles. The fog moved closer, faster than you could think. Until a hand grabbed yours.

“Come on!” Bellamy’s gruff voice ushered you away from green cloud. The two of you ran, hand in hand, faster than you ever had before. The forest became a muddy green blur around you.

“There’s a cave by those rocks up there.” He called over his shoulder. You focused your eyes on the shining wet rocks, trying not to think of the encroaching fog. You felt a tug on your neck as you brushed past a tree, on instinct you looked back.

When you saw what had happened, you dropped your hand from Bellamy’s and started to run back. You would rather die in the fog than lose this necklace.

You ignored Bellamy’s calls and moved faster towards the fog, heart almost stopping when you saw it about to make contact your most precious possession. You desperately lunged your hand forward, praying that you’d reach it before the fog did. You could almost feel the chain when you were harshly pulled away. Your hope shattered as you watched the fog engulf your necklace. You still fought Bellamy’s grip for a moment, unable to accept it. You fought until the burning agony of reality seared itself into the arm still stretched out in lost hope.

Finally, you gave in and allowed Bellamy to drag you out of the fog that had begun to swallow you whole.

“What the hell was that?!” He spat as he pushed you into the cave. “You nearly got us both killed over a necklace!” He rubbed his temped as he spoke. “It’s metal! The fog isn’t gunna damage it.” He began to lecture.

“It’s not just a necklace!” You growled, jaw clenching in the pain of your burnt arm. “There was a lock of my mothers hair in there. The fog just turned the last piece of her to dust.” Your voice cracked. For the first time, you noticed Bellamy Blake looking at you as something other than one of the privileged. Running a hand through his curled hair, he sighed.

“I have water in my bag. Let me help you.” Gesturing to your now weeping arm.

Sweat rolled down your back as he peeled off the remnants of your sleeve. You watched his brows furrow in concern at every shudder and wince.

“Why are you helping me?” You asked weakly. “I thought you’d say I deserve this, since my dad floated your mom and all.” You stared at the dripping cave roof.

“I think I’m learning to accept that you can’t judge someone by the sins of their father.” He spoke sadly. You flicked your gaze back to him, watching him curiously. He took a deep breath before meeting your eyes.

“I found out something recently.” His breath hitched and his hands faltered as they worked on your arm. “Commander Shumway is my father.” He released a breath, one that felt as though it was the first since he found out. “She met him just after he became a cadet. He caught her stealing medicine for her father. Told her he would let her off, if she did him a ‘favour’. Nine months later, there I was. But he didn’t care. Instead he held everything against her and once Octavia was born…well he had the ultimate leverage then didn’t he? Then all these years later he tells me the truth, but for his own ends!” You barely felt him tip the water on your arm, as you were listening intently to his tale. “He tells me that he got Octavia into the dropship. He told me if I killed the chancellor, he could use the chaos to get me on the ship with her. I fell for it like a fool.” He wrapped your arm in some torn cloth as he continued. “As soon as I was on the ship, he ratted me out.” Bitterness etched upon his face. “So yeah, I can understand not wanting to make the same mistakes as your shitty father.” His mask returned in an instant with his signature smirk, as he dropped your now cleaned and wrapped arm.

“Thanks.” You gestured to your arm. “For the record, you might be an egotistical dick sometimes, but you’re good. You aren’t like him.” You sent Bellamy a small smile, which he returned while bringing his eyes to meet yours once more.

“You too Kane.” He spoke softly before leaning back against the cave wall and closing his eyes.

“We should rest until the fog clears. We still have to hunt.” His voice had retreated to its usual tone. As you leaned your head against the rocky cave wall you realised that somewhere in the haze, you and Bellamy Blake had seen each other for the first time. Even if just for a second.

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Hello everyone! I’m here to talk about a subject I rarely really dive into, but this is something that always bugged me. In the “The 100” show, we’re firstly introduced to the Grounders already in season 1 of course, and since that beginning, we’ve heard about “The Commander”. Later in season 2, we found out that the Grounders are divided between 12 clans (not counting the Skaikru), and they are ruled by one nightblida Commander who can be from any clan.

Everything was fine until this, but the problem begins in season 3, when they tell us that Lexa was actually the one who created the coalition between the clans, so my question is, if before Lexa the clans were all separated and at war among themselves, what exactly is the Commander for?

It’s not like they have outside enemies apart from Mount Weather, but they never really fought against Mount Weather, so it can’t be counted as this “Greater enemy”, so why they even have a Commander? We know that Azgeda killed Costia, and they were never officially punished for that, exactly because at the time, the coalition didn’t exist.

There are another things in The 100 that just doesn’t make sense, and I’m not even talking about the last few season, which were terrible, but I plan to approach those inconsistencies in another post. For now, I’m staying with this one.