Can people stop saying that Clarke will make Bellamy “good” again and that she’ll bring him to the “right” side and that’s why they hugged?? It’s really gross?? Because believe it or not, but Clarke isn’t always right and despite how this narrative tries to spin her as this all knowing white savior (“what would Clarke do?”) in season two, her way isn’t always the right or best way in the end, aka her trusting in the grounders alliance in s2 to rescue the kids and Bellamy even said all they needed was an insider man and guess what?? in the end he was right??
Going into season three this is literally the dilemma again because both of them have different ideas of how to best protect their people, except this time their methods don’t align and they find themselves on opposite sides with different methods. Despite how I disagree with Bellamy’s methods and in fact I’m cringing at the thought of how much more shit Jason’s gonna make Bellamy go through before he finally makes an active stand against Pike, it’s super gross to me that the BC fandom likes to romanticize the idea of Clarke “saving” Bellamy in any way, shape, or form by showing him how wrong he is (and by default showing how right she is, and having him acknowledge it!!) and that she somehow represents this all knowing truth and Bellamy needs to follow her “light”. Like Clarke isn’t perfect and she fucked up a lot too because she thought she was doing the right thing, just like how Bellamy thinks he’s doing the right thing now, and that was literally the whole point of the last BC scene where Bellamy was angry at her because yes, some of it was personal resentment for her deserting them and him, but some of it was also him questioning her leading style and prior actions and guess what folks, Clarke needs to have her actions questioned and held accountable, just like how Bellamy is gonna be held accountable for his fuck ups in this season.
Why are people pretending like Bellamy is in the total wrong here, as if Clarke’s plan to hold the coalition together isn’t gonna blow up on her face (it will, trust me) and it’s gonna be like MW betrayal 2.0 because she once again thought the answer to everything is making an alliance with grounders, but in the end, it’s only a short term solution?? The coalition isn’t gonna hold and what then? The only difference is that this time Bellamy isn’t gonna sit around twiddling his thumb waiting for shit to hit the fan and have the alliance fall apart AGAIN and he’s taking the offense instead of playing defense again, and yeah his methods are fucking questionable, but don’t pretend that Clarke’s methods are beyond criticism either and shame Bellamy for being wrong while Clarke herself is gonna be proven wrong very quickly once the Ice Nation gets the civil war they want so badly.
Despite liking Clexa, I’ve never minded reading things from the Bellarke side because they call out the racism, and lord knows there’s a lot of racism on The 100. But reading this kind of sickened me. Yes, it’s gross for your ship if people have Clarke “fixing” Bellamy or if Bellamy needs Clarke’s guidance to not do gross things, which is on the show too, but the major problem is the writers, most of whom seem to have very little idea with how to write for disenfranchised groups, writing a colonialist narrative spearheaded by PoC characters and then eventually glossing over it and always valuing Clarke above everyone else. Equating what you think are Clarke’s poor strategic choices with Bellamy’s poor moral choices is pretty awful? The Arkers are playing out the colonialist narrative very clearly and it really does sicken me to think that somebody murdering what we’ve clearly seen is an innocent group of native people because of xenophobic fear of what they might do is seen as positive action, going on the offense and not twiddling his thumbs. You value Bob Morley’s Asian background, how can you ignore how this very thing historically ravaged huge parts of Asia?