#boudalankru

[maggicktouched]

@graunblida

I don't even really know what to call this but I wrote it a while back and thought I'd post it. My feelings on it are kinda eh, but I have Many Feelings about Dvalinn so, here it is.

Sweet pink juice poured from the cut in the meat and seeped out across his plate. It surrounded his potatoes before they readily soaked it up, and slithered into his sprouts. He could smell the spices and the unctuous scent of boar—and he could taste metal on his tongue. Without any of his usual respect for propriety, Dvalinn shoved away the plate and stood. The Boudalankru leader, as well as his mothers, paused their conversation to look at him. He could not form a lie, so he left without uttering a single word.

Hopefully his nomon could smooth things over. He didn’t want this to be hard for her. He didn’t want any of this… but he just couldn’t bear it. Not when every time he closed his eyes he could hear the strangled gasps of the bandit king, and see his blade slicing him apart piece by piece. 

“You wish to be heda.” His nomon had said when he balked at the sight of the knife extended to him. “This is what it means. His crimes demand justice.”

He took the knife, he made the cuts where his nomon said, how she said, and with each one he fell a bit further inside himself. If he hadn’t, he might not have survived the ordeal.

He hadn’t been himself since.

They rode back for Polis the next day, and he watched his mothers riding at the front of the procession, talking to one another quietly. Now and again they’d look back at him, and he would pretend not to notice. When they made camp that evening, he watched his mom venture past the safety of the guards and the fires—alone. His nomon remained with her warriors, and no one else seemed concerned that heda’s wife had just waltzed out of camp without protection. What if she was attacked by rebels or highwaymen? What if she got carried away with her own magic and lost herself out there like his uncle Fen said she would?

Dvalinn shifted his skin and sniffed the air until he locked in on his mother’s scent. He loped up the moonlit path and into the brush of the forest where she left no footprints. It was cold outside, and the leaves were rotting. The smell was so overpowering it nearly made him lose the scent. He might not have found her at all if the forest had not been so barren. 

She was sitting on the side of a cliff, her feet dangling precariously over the edge. Her eyes were closed and her head was tilted upward to soak in the light of the full moon. When he shifted back and sat beside her, she smiled sadly.

“You’ll understand if you have children someday.” She told him, putting a hand on his knee. Cloaked in shadows, in the solitude of the evening, he could accept this gentleness. Especially from his mom, who was always gentle. It didn’t feel like a threat.

“Understand what?”

“I love you. I love you so much it aches down in my bones. Your nomon does too. It was only natural to want to protect you.” She sighed, deep and weary in a way that made him want to protect her. “It made you soft.”

He recoiled at the word, scooting back abruptly where she could not reach him. Heat crept up to his cheeks and his chest puffed out with pride and anger to mask his pain. “Soft?”

“I don’t regret it.” She was still giving him that look of wonder–as if he hung the moon up in the sky–only now it was tinged with sorrow. “But I knew the day would come where no one could protect you anymore. Not even me or Lexa.”

His heart was pounding so hard in his chest it was throbbing in his throat, kicking against his uvula, threatening to gag him. She thought he was weak? How could she possibly say that? After all his hard work. After what he’d done to the bandit king.

“I have proven my strength.” He reminded her through gritted teeth. His fingers clenched into fists in his lap.

His mom nodded. “You’re strong. I always knew you’d be strong… but it isn’t strength you need now. It’s resilience. I learned it too young. Your nomon did too. We didn’t want that for you.”

“Mom… what’s happening? What are you talking about?” His mother never talked like this. Was something wrong with her? With nomon? His palms turned wet with sweat. 

Her voice was shaky, and there were tears in her eyes that she didn’t let fall. “Now I can’t protect you anymore.”

He pulled his hand away and tilted his head. “I don’t understand what you mean.”

“I’d wager you’ve lost ten pounds in the two weeks since you aided in the execution of Staunt kom Ouskejonkru. You barely eat. You wander the Tower all hours of the night because you cannot sleep. You lie to your nomon–to me–and you won’t speak a word to us about it either.” She wiped away a tear that escaped. “You are miserable. I see it, your nomon sees it, I know you see it, but you can’t bring yourself to admit it. It frightens me.”

His jaw clenched. Caught between the pain of so openly hurting his mother, and his stubborn pride, he wasn’t sure what to say. She was giving him a chance, here and now, away from prying eyes, to be weak, and still he couldn’t allow it. He feared that if he did, if even one chip in his armor showed, then it would all crash down around him.

`“You–you and nomon have to trust me.” He scooted a bit closer, trying to catch her eye. “I can do this. Just like she can.”

“I know you can… but do you want to?” She asked quietly—speaking aloud the question he asked himself every day.

“I’ve never wanted anything else.” Was all he could say. It wasn’t a lie. Even if he didn’t want to be commander anymore, he also didn’t really know what he wanted. 

He didn’t have any exceptional aptitude for spellcraft. He wasn’t interested in the military or in being a scholar. He’d only ever wanted to lead and to help people like his nomon. If he wasn’t going to be heda, he feared he wouldn’t be anything. He’d be purposeless. A waste. Either way he’d be miserable, but at least this way he’d be worth something.

“I see.” Her lips pursed into a thin line. She plucked tufts of grass out of the ground absentmindedly as she looked up at the moon, and he didn’t know what to say. The truth—how he really felt—would wound her too much.

“You know I almost got married before your nomon?”

The news shocked him so much it wrestled a laugh from his throat. “No?”

She smiled thinly. “I did. You remember Harper Byrns?”

“No way! The Fox Clan general?!” He sat up a bit straighter. “The one everyone’s terrified of?”

His mom snorted. “Yes well, not everyone. I loved her very much.”

He frowned. He’d never had much time for crushes or dating. They were fickle and a waste of the future commander’s time. If love was meant to find him, it would. Just like it had found nomon.

“So, why didn’t you? Marry her?”

“I was frightened.” She let out a wistful sigh. “I’d spent my whole life running away. My mother hadn’t wanted me, my people were afraid of me, and even though my brother wanted me, he couldn’t stop hurting me. So my whole life all I did was run away to the wilderness, convinced I could never fit anywhere or with anyone. Even if it was brutal at times, it understood me. And I understood it. Being in the wild, running free, only worried about myself, it wasn’t always easy, but it was simple, and it made me happy. It was where I thought I belonged.”

 She shut her eyes again and shook her head. “Then I had Harper. And Harper, oh she’d have done anything for me. If I asked her for the moon she’d have sent an army out to pull it down from the sky. Harper was never afraid of me, and never once cruel to me. She didn’t want me to be anything or change in any way. She was—impossible. She defied everything I thought I knew about people, and about myself too.”

It was silly, but he felt a little defensive on his nomon’s behalf. His mom had never so much as given anyone else the time of day. Hearing her talk like this—it felt wrong. But he was painfully curious.

“But you didn’t marry her.”

His mom made a noise that sounded a bit like a laugh and a bit like a heavy, weary sigh. “No. No I didn’t. I ran away. Three months before we were meant to get married.”

Dvalinn winced, “...Why?”

“I was terrified. I thought that I knew who I was. I thought I knew how the world worked and what my place in it was. I didn’t belong with other people. I couldn’t be a wife. I was frightened of what I would become if I let myself stay and be changed by her love. I thought a lot of silly things until they all piled up into a mountain between us, and instead of facing it together, I ran.”

Dvalinn stared down at his hands. Now he knew what she meant by it all. 

“But you met nomon.” He said, trying to shift away from her point.

“I did. Years later. After a lot of heartache and a lot of tears and loneliness. Somehow, impossibly, I was given another chance, and I took the risk. I stayed. I let myself be loved—and changed. And what a beautiful life it has been… I never dreamed I could be this happy.”

His mom put her hand overtop of his and squeezed it.

“I understand what it feels like to be where you are. To be standing at a fork in the road and on one side is nothing but an unknowable darkness, and on the other is everything that makes sense, but won’t make you happy anymore.” She turned and reached out to take his face in her hands, and he let her. “I also know that your nomon took my hand and walked with me into the unknown. She stayed by my side and when I didn’t have any strength of my own, she gave me hers.”

She pressed a kiss to the top of his head, and then put her forehead against his. “And I know she’ll do the same for you. We both will. It won’t be easy, and you’ll have to be tough—but we can do this together. You just have to let us.”

Dvalinn squeezed her hands tightly, drawing in a shaking breath. His mother stood up and walked back toward the treeline, giving him one last look before disappearing into the woods. He considered following after her, but then stopped himself. He needed some time to think.

He had a choice to make.

#;;my drabbles

[azgedaspy]

trigedasleng group names.   emphasis on most common title.

pre-series groups:

trikru – “tree people.”  tree-crew. official name: trigedakru (tree nation people; tree-gather-crew).

azgeda – “ice nation.”  ice-gather. official name: azgedakru (ice nation people; ice-gather-crew).

sangedakru – “desert nation people.”  sand-gather-crew.

floukru – “boat people.”  flow-crew. literal translation: floudon kru.

yujleda – “broadleaf people.”  huge-leather. other words: yujledakru* (broad leaf people; huge-leather-crew).

boudalan – “rock line.”  boulder-[lan]. other words: boudalankru* (rock line people; boulder-[lan]-crew).

trishanakru - “glowing forest people.”  tree-shiner-crew.

podakru – “lake people.”  lap-crew. poda means lap as in “lapping waves.”

ouskejon kru aka  – “blue cliff.”  blue-cliff-crew. literal translation: ouska ejon kru.

delfikru – “delphi people.”  delphi-crew.

ingranronakru – “plains riders.”  even-ground-runner-crew.

louwoda kliron kru –  “shallow valley.”  low-water-clear-one-crew.

twel kru – “twelve clans.”  twelve-crew. how the grounders refer to themselves.

kongeda – “the coalition.”  come-gather. lexa’s alliance between the twelve clans.

maun-de – “the mountain.”  mountain-the. other words: maungeda (mountain nation; mountain-gather), maungedakru (mountain nation people; mountain-gather-crew), maunon (mountain man; mountain-one), maunkru (mountain people; mountain-crew).

new additions:

skaikru – “sky people.”  sky-crew.

wonkru – “one people.”  one-crew. this word follows different conventions from traditional trigedasleng.

spacekru – “space people.”  space-crew. alternate spelling: “speiskru.” they do not have a nation nor are they considered an official clan. this word follows different conventions from traditional trigedasleng.

edenkru* – “eden people.”  eden-crew. alternate spelling: “idonkru.” they do not have a nation and are not considered an official clan. this word follows different conventions from traditional trigedasleng.

other relevant words:

gonasleng – english.  gunner-slang. clan warriors are bilingual and also speak english.

trigedasleng – grounder language.  tree-gather-slang. likely originated in trikru and spread to the rest of the clans.

frikdreina – a person born with a physical defect (likely due to radiation).  freak-drain-er. these people are cast out of their clans as children.

splita – “outcast.”  splitter.

gona – “warrior.”  gunner.

gonakru – military.  gunner-crew.

fous – army.  force.

* names marked with an asterik are made up by me/other members of the community or words that i cannot find quotes for.

#001. headcanon ‚ she’s beyond your archetype. #save. #003. azgeda ‚ the lone wolf dies‚ the pack survives.

[spacebleh]

lowkey want to give my boudalankru oc, a dyl o'breen fc ( haven't posted him yet, just been plotting out his basics with lyns ), either a twin or a younger sister with a ruby crvz fc.

#〤ㅤ/ㅤ*ㅤ（ㅤㅤwestㅤ*ㅤmaking apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow.ㅤㅤ） #so far i have that he's either the son or nephew #of the ambassador ech0 killed in s4

[the-bronze-snitch]

#me #my fanart #The 100 #the100 #skaikru #trikru #azgeda #boudalankru #delphi kru #floukru #ingranronakru #louwoda kliron kru #ouskenjon kru #podakru #sankru #trishana kru #wonkru #yujieda kru #c

[sealvst-blog]

we boudalankru , we are strong , unwavering in the face of the tides. just as the rocks that line the shore , we too withstand the fierceness of the water and we thrive.

#boudalankru #meizenamida #dcmitria #komfisop #from the sea to the shores / it all belongs to you ( aesthetic. ) #you never went inland / but they're still y o u r people ( boudalankru. ) #sHOVES THIS @ YOUSE BC HSFJGHDFJGH. #i love this kru sm. #kauai loves her people even tho she's like #loyalty to anyone but myself???? Nah #ride or die for her kru tho

[librastrai]

Ship ask for Clanya

send me a ship & i’ll tell you.

who hogs the duvet. absolutely clarke & anya's solution is simply just to snuggle up closer & grumble about it when they're both awake, secretly loving the sheepish sorry clarke gives in return.

who texts/rings to check how their day is going. clarke is very much a worrier about anya, especially when they're apart on missions or if clarke has to be away on skaikru business. anya worries too but hates the radios, preferring to write letters delivered by rider.

who’s the most creative when it comes to gifts. i think both really struggle in giving gifts because they're not materialistic in a way, & clarke tends to have a bad association with physical gifts due to finn. the best gift they can give each other is time together because they're so busy as leaders for their respective clans.

who gets up first in the morning. anya. clarke will die before waking up when the sun rises. go to hell.

who suggests new things in bed. both definitely are open to new things, especially when anya gives clarke a book that was found in one of the old ruins & it's the kama sutra. clarke's ears stayed red for hours.

who cries at movies. clarke & she's not ashamed. anya just throws a cushion at her face when clarke points out she's crying at the scene in toy story three.

who gives unprompted massages. clarke; anya holds a lot of stress in her body when she isn't able to train it out & clarke offered one night to give her a massage to help. now it's a weekly occurrence & clarke doesn't mind, it's the perfect time to sneak kisses.

who fusses over the other when they’re sick. anya wouldn't call it fussing over clarke but she knows that her lover has a tendency to ignore the signs that she's sick & tries to work through them until she can't. now anya makes sure that clarke takes all the rest she needs & everyone is under orders to leave her alone.

who gets jealous easiest. neither get super jealous but they are quite protective & possessive over each other, especially with the constant danger they're in because of their positions. clarke is more willing to let things go whereas anya will stand up against a slight against her or clarke's honour.

who has the most embarrassing taste in music. clarke & she is very proud of it.

who collects something unusual. anya finds clarke's obsession with collecting letters found in the districts very odd but she doesn't really question it, just brings them back whenever she's on a campaign to the other clans.

who takes the longest to get ready. listen anya's braids take so long to do okay, even just in her day to day style as a general. clarke takes advantage of the time anya's seconds are braiding her hair to make the pair some tea.

who is the most tidy and organised. anya & when she looks at clarke's workspace to see all of her drawings & supplies & notes strewn about everywhere ... she needs to take a moment outside because ho boy. how does her wife live this way.

who gets most excited about the holidays. neither are very holiday motivated but their friends won't let them get away with just hiding away for christmas or the winter season or any of the other holidays so they don't have a choice. get in the shitty sweaters guys.

who is the big spoon / little spoon. anya is always the big spoon, clarke is always the little spoon ✨

who gets most competitive when playing games and / or sports. they're very playful together until clarke says the wrong thing & anya's kill instinct (affectionate) is activated.

who starts the most arguments. both are incredibly stubborn when it comes to the other so while there isn't a lean on who starts the most arguments, these arguments will drag on until one caves & they come back round to talk about it.

who suggests that they buy a pet. clarke didn't set out wanting a pet but when she saw the retired war dog from boudalankru while on a convoy with anya, & was told that their owner had died in the recent conflict, well ... they came back home with a very good doggie that clarke called spot.

what couple traditions they have. time together is very important to both of them because of how demanding their positions as clan leaders are, so when they do manage to be together; they’ll go to the beach bordering floukru for some alone time.

what tv shows they watch together. clarke showed anya the recorded football games she used to watch with her dad; anya doesn’t get it but knows it’s important so she watches with clarke nonetheless. that “red card” was completely undeserved in her mind.

what other couple they hang out with. linctavia though it’s not really as like a “double date” but more that lincoln & octavia are very important figures in trikru & important to them as friends so they’re all often found together.

how they spend time together as a couple. usually naps, anya sprawled out on the couch with her head on clarke’s lap while clarke reads or draws, humming softly.

who made the first move. clarke, though anya will fluster about it & point out that clarke nearly knocking out a tooth in their frantic first kiss was not “making the first move.” clarke disagrees. ✨

who brings flowers home. anya, she brings home ones from the other clan’s territories so clarke can press them & decorate her sketchpads with them.

who is the best cook. clarke looks at food & it burns, though anya is doing her best to remedy that with the help of murphy & lincoln.

#the 100 #anya kom trikru #clarke griffin #clanya #anya x clarke #clarke x anya #librastrai.txt #answered #i love them so much sobs

[thehomemadehooligan]

#Axe kom Boudalankru || And the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands #John Mitchell || I know people I move and shake #Kili Disson || I will not hide behind a wall of stone while others fight our battles for us! #Sinclair Lorentz || My armor is like tenfold shields my teeth are swords my claws spears the shock of my tail a thunderbolt! #Teasaidh [Jessie] Addams || We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper #fc: aidan turner #fc

[travllingbunny]

The 100: 7x10 A Little Sacrifice

After The Flock - the show’s weakest episode in a long time - and an unfortunate hiatus after that episode, A Little Sacrifice helped get season 7 back on track. It’s one of the best episodes of the season: it was exciting, things finally happened - a lot, we got a big revelation about what the endgame is likely to be all about, there were fights, an attempted mass murder/genocide (what would a season of The 100 be without those?), some really good character work, and the first major death of the season. 

Yes, Charmaine Diyoza was not a main character. but after being introduced as a villain in season 5, she has grown into one of the most memorable and interesting characters on the show - in large part due to Ivana Miličević’s charismatic performance - with a complex and morally ambiguous characterization and backstory (which I really hope to maybe learn more about one day in the prequel flashbacks? Please?). She has been one of my favorite characters since season 5, and I loved her development and her relationship with Octavia, her mother/daughter relationship between her and Hope, her past fights to protect “expendable” prisoners and her S7 attempts to find peace and renounce violence, and hope (!) that at least her daughter will get to have a different and better life where she wouldn’t need to resort to it.  She became a (not so little) sacrifice for the better future we saw her dreaming of in season 5 in that conversation with Kane - maybe that dream is something we will see the new generations live in the series finale?

The one thing I wasn’t too happy about (I was OK with the lack of Bellamy cliffhanger since we got him in the promo for 7x11 right afterwards) was that Clarke did not have any more screentime than in the other recent episodes. But, especially on rewatch, she had some great subtle little moments.

You know what is not subtle? Sheidheda. He’s finding new ways to be completely OTT. This time he can finally stop pretending to be Russell, so he gets a makeover, more in tune with the...interesting Grounder fashion styles, chews the scenery even more, and then - thanks to Madi - he loses an eye (just as he did during his original lifetime), getting closer to his season 6 Emperor-like look, though he’s missing a cloak this time. He also doesn’t have enough facial hair to twirl his moustache, but he actually hisses at one point. This part of the episode was, this time, really fun and intense, including a really good fight scene and some really emotional and important moments for Indra, Madi and Murphy, but doesn’t need much analysis and doesn’t require attention on rewatch.

I’m still not sure how/if these two storylines will connect. But I can see a thematic connection of sorts: Sheidheda is the embodiment of the worst parts of the Grounder culture, with the worship of violence and power and killing all those who oppose you; and not just that - he’s all egotism taken to the extreme, the kind of “wild beast” as Anders would despise, but in this case, he would actually have good reasons to. On the other hand, we have the Disciples with their sterile white rooms, order and the propaganda of the abnegation of self in the favor of the collective, and dreaming of “transcendence” instead of trying to get back to the “old ways”. But they really come off as two sides of the same coin: both ideologies are about worship of and subjugation to a leader, both believe violence is the solution, and both are against love and see it as a danger.

Brand new opening titles - these opens start with a shot of Sanctum and end with the Bardo Stone Room with the Anomaly Stone - and guess what makes a cameo near the end of the credits? That’s right, Earth. I was starting to think that any return to Earth won’t happen, but now I’m not so sure.

Sanctum

The episode opens with the immediate aftermath of Shady’s massacre of the Faithful. We see Madi’s friend Rex (that’s his name according to the credits) - the Sanctum boy who offered Madi’s other friend, the null boy, to play soccer - mourning someone, probably his mother. This scene had to be there so we’d feel some sympathy and sadness over the deaths of the Faithful rather than just be relieved they’re (mostly) gone. One of the wounded ones is Jeremiah, the same guy who developed deep gratitude for Murphy for saving his son. Although the Faithful have been very annoying, I do feel a tinge of sympathy for this guy, who’s so clueless that he never understood he had any agency in what happened to his son and seemed really convinced it was all about the will of the “gods”. He now asks Murphy to take care of his son when he dies, but Murphy insists he will not let Jeremiah die. (Trey, the annoying a-hole who was brainwashing Jordan, and used to act as the leader of the Faithful, is credited in the episode but I didn’t see him anywhere - so I have no idea if he’s among the dead, or he survived and was in a deleted scene.)  

Madi has a really nice mini arc in this episode. She already had PTSD from her experience and possession by Sheidheda in season 6, so she is absolutely terrified when she learns he is back, and when he threatens her in a really creepy way. Excellent acting by Lola. Later, after being comforted by Murphy and joining the survivors,she shows strength in comforting Rex for his loss; and in the end, overcomes her fears and risks her life to save Indra.

Not that it matters, but Sheidheda’s real name is Malachi. (I’m still gonna keep calling him Shady.) We learn that when he recites the lineage - the names and clans of all the previous Commanders, which we know from S3 is a Grounder custom for a new Commander to do. Of course, we only get to hear some of the names in the middle (a couple of random Commanders called Maffei kom Boudalankru - the Rock Line and Kemji kom Trishanakru) and the end, when he mentions Lexa and Madi. The show wasn’t going to spoil the prequel by revealing the names of early Commanders,

The fight itself was really intense and maybe the best Grounder-style duel in the show (yes, I prefer it to the 3x04 one, which involved too much showmanship to look as a real death match). Shady is obviously going to be there for a while and things aren’t going to get so easily resolved, so he wins and is about to kill Indra - who refuses to kneel to save her own life - but just as he’s about to kill her, Madi finds the courage to come as the Big Damn Hero at the crucial moment, pluck out Shady’s eye and save Indra’s life. But then as he is about to kill Madi, Indra decides to (metaphorically, since she’s lying and about to pass out) kneel in order to save Madi’s life. Indra’s arc with Shady has come full circle: this may finally make her understand her mother’s choice and realize she was unfair to her. She grew up blaming her mother for agreeing to kneel to Sheidheda and considering her “weak”. The battle had been lost, her father was already dead, and her mother made the best possible decision and wasn’t just saving herself but her daughter, too. Otherwise, as we see in this episode, Shady would have ordered the daughter to be killed, too, after the mother - as he thinks children of the people he killed should also be eliminated so they couldn’t pose a threat and seek revenge.

That last order even shocked Knight, who may be having some second thoughts about the awesomeness of “Sangedakru’s greatest champion” (but this doesn’t mean he won’t keep obeying him). Penn and the other Trikru guy we know, who are loyal to Indra, reluctantly knelt when Indra asked them to.  

Madi, Rex and the other Faithful (including Jeremiah, who has indeed survived) have gone into hiding with Murphy and Emori - and hiding at the abandoned reactor. We didn’t see Jackson, but i’m sure he’s there. (Sachin is a guest star and must skip some episodes he’s not really needed in.) So now we’re finally reached the part of this storyline where Shady is in power and our heroes are the resistance. And Murphy is now, with Emori, a part of a power couple protecting these people and taking care of them (who would’ve expected that back in season 1?) - much like we’ve seen Clarke and Bellamy do over the seasons - even though most of the same people resented them for being fake Primes just a few hours earlier. Maybe they’re finally starting to get a clue and feel respect and gratitude to people who are trying to save them just because it’s a decent humane thing to do, rather than for being self-proclaimed “gods” who participated in their murder, oppression and exploitation.

Bardo

After 4 episodes, Clarke, Raven and Miller finally left the Stone Room! Yay! Jordan and Niylah stayed in it, and as it turns out, Jordan has a much more important and interesting role to play by reading the Anomaly Stone, while Niylah’s role in S7 has been to be exposition machine for Grounder history and have bad one-liners while Miller has the good ones. I’m glad there was no prolonged “OMG are they really brainwashed and on their side?” misunderstanding, as Clarke and the rest of the group, after learning about MCap from Gabriel, quickly realized that Octavia, Echo and Diyoza are only pretending, since they haven’t blown the secret that Clarke doesn’t have the Flame.

Speaking of one-liners, Miller’s “Get the flock out of here” really made me laugh out loud.

Callie is known as the Pramfleimkepa - the First Flamekeeper - which should mean she was never a Commander (I imagine that would supersede the position of the Flamekeeper or at least be as worthy of mention). I was afraid for a moment that Niylah had given the game away when she told Cadogan that - but fortunately, he didn’t understand what it meant, as he never knew that Becca called ALIE 2.0 “the Flame”.

Gabriel and Cadogan have a long conversation over dinner (or breakfast or lunch of whatever) about Earth before the bombs and Cadogan’s beliefs. The two of them are one of the few remaining humans who knew life before the apocalypse. (After Diyoza’s death in this episode, the only other people left from that time are the Eligius prisoners in Sanctum.) But while Cadogan is chronologically ‘older’ than Gabriel, as he was a Millennial, while Gabriel was born a couple of decades later, and because Cadogan has technically been alive for thousands of years on Bardo - Cadogan spent most of that time in cryo (same as Diyoza and the other prisoners). Gabriel is the real Old Man - at least 260 years old, having lived and experienced all those years. We learn a bit more about Gabriel’s background - that his family were from Colombia and his grandmother was poor, making him a “self-made man” - another contrast between him and the love of his life Josephine (which makes their season 6 parallel to Clarke/Bellamy even more perfect). Gabriel is the go-to-guy this season for having conversations about the worship of false gods and trying to challenge the Disciples’ beliefs. Cadogan, again, denies that he’s a cult leader (sure), reveals he doesn’t believe in God, and claims he doesn’t consider himself one (he sure doesn’t mind being treated like one, though). Instead, he claims his purpose is for everyone to “transcend” and become like gods - though he doesn’t really explain what that would consist of, and he also doesn’t offer any explanations as to why there is supposed to be a “Last War” and who the enemy in that was is supposed to be. Seven episodes have gone by with the characters talking to the Disciples, and no one has ever asked that question: who is the enemy? I guess they don’t even know that, they just think that, when they type in the code, they will learn who the enemy is and the war will begin, for... reasons? He also adds some BS about “this life” being unimportant compared to afterlife. (Now, to be clear - I actually do believe in the afterlife in general (though I don’t know in which form), but I really, really hate it when religions make the afterlife the focus and treat the life we actually know and are sure we have as less important, use it as an excuse to teach people to accept any sort of crap in their lives and not ask for more instead of living their lives to the fullest and trying to build something worthwhile in this life.) Gabriel is less than impressed with Cadogan, and challenges him by pointing out that “You can’t fight a war for the soul of the human race with an inhuman army” and that a life without love, individuality or freedom is pretty worthless, but Cadogan has the afterlife as a ready excuse, even though that doesn’t really answer the question.

The most important revelation that we finally get in this episode is that Cadogan has most likely mistranslated and completely misunderstood the ancient Bardoan text that he’s based his entire belief system on. And his mistake was in large part due to confirmation bias - he saw what he wanted to see, even though the idea of ending wars and violence by starting and fighting a war is absurd. (Niylah, for once, has a good line, when she points out that every major war is supposed to be the “last” but it never is.) Jordan’s interpretation - that it is really about a test that the species needs to pass - makes a lot more sense. Not a literal test - I really can’t imagine the show introducing some kind of godlike “higher beings” - but, I think, something that will require the characters to use all their strength and moral sense and all the experience they’ve had and wisdom they may have gained, to find the best solution to save the human race and rebuild the civilization, hopefully into something better (and it’s really not too hard being better than the mess of tribalism and constant wars and conflicts we’ve seen on the show). I don’t know what this will be, but the words “the orb becomes like a star” make me thing of a natural phenomenon. 

It’s also cool that it was knowledge of the Korean language that helped Jordan decipher the text - proving how helpful it is to be familiar with multiple languages and cultures and how much it expands one’s way of thinking. Do Disciples speak any languages other than English? They seem to foster cultural uniformity, so probably not. (it’s also confirmed now that Monty was half-Korean on his father’s side - Chris Larkin is Korean, but the actress who played his mother, Donna Yamamoto, is Japanese, so I assume Monty is half-Japanese.)

If you doubted that 7x09 flashbacks were a waste of screentime, we get a confirmation early on that Echo has just been pretending to be loyal to the Disciples, while plotting revenge all the time, when she kills a Disciple and saves Hope from being sent to Skyring. This plot could have continued straight from 7x07, when Echo’s Azgeda ritual was strongly hinting that she’s out for revenge. (And yes, the writing in 7x09 was just  that clunky as I feared - of course that Chekhov’s WMD that Levitt mentioned for no reason would be used in the very next episode for someone to try to kill all the Disciples in another Mount Weather parallel.)

A tiny bit of info about the Disciples - a Disciple addressed Hope as “Seeker Diyoza”. I don’t know if that’s a title for those trying to reach Level 1 or something else.

Hope, with her usual anger and impulsiveness, reminiscent of how Octavia used to be once, and her naive black and white views, is all for revenge-genocide, too, in spite of Octavia’s and Diyoza’s disagreement. Her mother tries to, again, teach her the lesson she tried to in 7x07, that she should turn to love instead of violence and killing (which carries a lot more weight when it comes from someone like Charmaine Diyoza rather than a hippy): “I know what it's like to kill innocent people for a cause, and I promise you, it's not gonna fill that hole in your heart. Only we can do that.” But Hope retorts that “There are no innocent people here”, echoing Nikki’s words to Nelson that “There are no innocent people at the end of the world”. It’s not that Hope doesn’t have a point that everyone in Bardo is a part of the society that’s been kidnapping and torturing her family and that stole her childhood, but collective responsibility is a concept that only works in terms of moral responsibility, not as an excuse to commit genocide because you’ve decided that everyone in the other group is evil and the “enemy” and deserves death. Some people have compared it to Maya saying “None of us is innocent”, but I don’t think this comparison works, because that line changes the meaning entirely depending on whether you are holding yourself and your society morally accountable for its failings and complicity in crimes against humanity, or if you’re using it against others, in order to justify hate and commit crimes against humanity.

Even though neither Clarke nor Octavia had huge screentime in this episode and may not have done anything big (like Diyoza sacrificing herself and saving everyone, or Jordan figuring everything out), they had some wonderful, subtle little moments that spoke volumes:

I loved the hug between Clarke and Octavia - where Clarke said her condolences to Octavia and then Octavia said them back, letting Clarke know she knew what Bellamy meant to her and that she is grieving just as much. (”I’m sorry, Octavia” - “So am I”)

Raven and Miller exchanged a wordless look - probably because of how awkward it was for Miller to see Octavia again. Although these 4 people all go back to season 1 (and it was the first time in a while they were in the same room), for Miller it’s been just a few weeks since she was Blodreina and he was her follower, and the last time they saw each other (in season 6), he yelled at her that he’s not following her orders anymore - which was about him struggling with his guilt and seeing her as an embodiment of it. But for Octavia, it’s been over 10 years and a huge character development, which Miller doesn’t know about. But they had no time to go over it - instead, she just hugged him and asked him to hug her back, and he did.

When the group went to find Levitt - still tied up and bloody after Echo had tortured him and killed two Disciples in front of him to force him to tell her about Gem9, the WMD that can destroy everyone on Bardo (he must be really traumatized one - Clarke obviously immediately realized what was going on when she saw Octavia come to check on Levitt, going by the look on her face, and her look when she turned to go and the others went after her, while Octavia was still there -as if saying "I realize you need a moment with this guy, but don't wait too long". Although Levitt looked disappointed and shocked that Octavia didn’t untie him, she was really doing what was the most reasonable way to try to protect everyone - the priority was to stop Echo from killing all the Disciples, which would include Levitt, but also to stop Levitt from alerting Anders, which he would’ve done, because Octavia also wanted to save Echo and her people. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t  care for Levitt, but she’s not the 17 year old girl who’d go: “I just met you but you’re immediately the most important person to me and I’m going to prioritize you over everyone I know”.

 And then we get to the final and most dramatic scene of the episode...  Echo’s attempt to commit genocide out of revenge, while Octavia, Clarke and Raven tried to talk her down.

Octavia tried to reach Echo by, again, talking about their shared grief over Bellamy, as she did in 7x07, but again, it did not work - because Octavia and Echo, and Clarke and Echo, are different people, who grieve in different ways and think and act in different ways. It doesn’t mean that any of them are grieving more or less than another one - but their responses are very different. Octavia - this mature Octavia who is more able to empathize with others and doesn’t react with impulsive violence as she used to -  responded by trying to reach out to others who were also grieving for Bellamy, Echo and Clarke, and validating their grief, too. Clarke reacted - after the initial shock and grief - by sucking it up, as she does, in order to take care of the others, and focusing on saving the people Bellamy loved, telling Raven “We do this for him” and focusing on saving Octavia and Echo. Echo, on the other hand, reacted destructively and violently and by killing people for revenge and then plotting genocide as revenge for 3 months. This is the only way she knows how to process grief - she’s never known a different way, as I’m sure Azgeda weren’t known for compassion and sharing feelings. When Bellamy was grieving Clarke in season 6, she asked him “When do we attack?”, because that’s what she expected him to do, too. She’s also lost because she hasn’t lost just a boyfriend, but a leader and anchor in her new post-Praimfaya life, and because she had made saving Bellamy her mission she was waiting to fulfill during the 5 years on Skyring. If she had carried out her plan, I’m not sure she’d know what to do with herself. (I don’t know what it says about the mindset of us, humans of 2020, that so many fans have decided that Echo’s way of grieving is the superior one and the one that shows that she loves Bellamy the best. It certainly doesn’t show anything good.)

Octavia’s next argument - that there are many good people on Bardo she’d be killing - was even less successful, as Echo threw her relationship with Levitt back in her face, pointing out that he stole her memories, talking of him as one of their enemies, and then even saying: "Way to honor your brother's memory!" Echo came off as very judgmental here, and more than bit hypocritical - after all , she personally almost killed Octavia twice, and Bellamy started trusting her and dating her on the Ring, after she had given them both far less reason to trust her than Levitt did. Levitt actually took a risk and was helping her against Anders just out of his feelings for Octavia, while Echo only helped Bellamy and others after she was exiled and had to in order to survive. She seems to value forgiveness only when it’s others forgiving her (”Who knows more about forgiveness than us?”), even though she never expected them to and was a bit shocked that they did.

Clarke then tried to use her standard “This is not who you are” plea, but it didn’t work with Echo, since Clarke doesn’t really know Echo, and the words felt empty. There really is very little reason for Clarke to think this is not who Echo is, except for her tendency to assume Echo must have changed for the better because she’s Bellamy’s girlfriend and Bellamy loves her (see their conversation in 5x12). Clarke also tried to use her own experience - as she did with Raven earlier in the season - telling Echo that “a choice like this” would haunt her forever (of course Clarke would bring up MW, it always goes back to MW for her), but Echo rejected that comparison and, for a moment, channeled me by pointing out that Clarke’s motivations were to save her people, while Echo’s are purely revenge. Which was, however, a strange argument in context - pointing out that Clarke’s reasons were much better and she had no choice but to kill all of the Mountain Men or let them kill all of her friends and family, while Echo wasn’t achieving anything good and could just save all her people and not take revenge on the Disciples. But Echo seemed to be telling Clarke that they different, and she cannot assume that Echo will feel the same way about mass murder Clarke does.

Then Clarke finally brought up Bellamy, pointing out that he would not want a genocide to be committed in his memory. I don’t know how anyone who’s watched the show for 6 seasons could disagree with Clarke. But Echo did. What’s more, she yelled  "You have no idea what Bellamy wanted!" in a really angry, resentful way. It felt personal. I don’t know if Echo has felt romantic jealousy of Clarke over Bellamy - she has sure kept it close to her chest - but it certainly felt like some kind of possessiveness, like resenting the idea that Clarke was as close or closer to Bellamy and knew him better. In any case, this was a moment of extreme dramatic irony - because we know (and really, Echo should know as well)  that Echo is the one who doesn’t seem to know, or is simply ignoring, what Bellamy would have wanted and who he was. And she should know. She was there when he talked down Riley from killing Roan, telling him “War made me a murderer, don’t let it do it to you too”, she was there when Bellamy refused to kill 283 prisoners in cryo sleep and said “Clarke didn’t die for us to go back and make the same mistakes”. And she was there when Bellamy was grieving Clarke but decided not to take revenge for her death - not even by killing the man who murdered her, Russell - but to try to honor her memory by doing what she would want and surviving and keeping their people alive. Which directly contradicts Echo’s statement that Bellamy would be doing the same she is if one of them (Clarke, Octavia or her) were killed. Does she really not know him? Most of the time they spent together were in a time of peace and boredom with just 7 people on the Ring. She seems to be projecting her own ideas and views and character into him. 

Then Raven went on to agree with Clarke (but Echo did not resent her for saying it), pointing out how Bellamy has grown and changed and that the post-season 3 Bellamy certainly would never do that. I was slightly annoyed when she said that Bellamy of season 3 may do that - but to be fair, she did say, “maybe”. Now, season 1 or season 3 Bellamy was certainly angrier and more prone to black and white thinking when it came to enemies, and he may very well have agreed to kill all of the adult Disciples if he thought they were likely to be a threat to his people (which is what he did when he agreed to help Pike kill Lexa’s army), but he sure wouldn’t agree to kill any of them just for revenge, or to kill children and non-combatants (the one time he did it was MW, when he and Clarke knew there was no other way to protect their people from being horrifically killed, and he hated it and was haunted by it then). Nevertheless, that’s a minor thing as the point of Raven’s speech was the way Bellamy has grown and developed. Echo hasn’t really changed, certainly not as much as Bellamy wanted to think in S5. Is there still time for her to change?

In the end, love did save the day - but it wasn’t Echo’s love for Bellamy, it was her non-romantic love for Raven and Raven’s for her. Raven calling her a sister only helped pave the way - but she had to actually threaten to stay there and force Echo to choose between killing Raven and giving up her revenge, for Echo to finally stand down. The fact she did shows that maybe there’s still hope for her to change and give up revenge and violence for things like friendship.

 But then Anders had to appear and ruin everything, He could have just tried to arrest the group, rather than threatening them and giving them speeches about how he despises them for being “beasts raised in the wild”. (I’ve wondered many times since 7x05 is Anders is supposed to be smart or a complete dumbass. He was definitely a dumbass.)

Diyoza took charge, as the most experienced and tactical one, and almost.  And then Hope was again being her impulsive, angry, out of control self - Anders is always the person most likely to set her off - killing Anders (which I wouldn’t mind) but then also making her own attempt to commit genocide. (It’s funny that the four Disciples just froze and did nothing while all of that was happening.)

What happened then was both a heroic sacrifice and one of the best and most heroic death scenes on the show, a fitting ending for Charmaine Diyoza (even a visually beautiful death in a creepy way, as Diyoza turned into a crystal statue), with her final message to her daughter to be “better” than her in the future - and a heartbreaking loss for Hope, who has just been punished by the narrative/fate for her devotion to violence and hate and attempt at genocide, by causing her own mother’s death. She was obsessed with revenge for her lost childhood and the fact her mother was taken from her - instead of focusing on the future and what she still had. I’m sure that Hope will survive to the end of the series, and will have to question herself and change. She still has Aunty O to help her and be her family.

As we’re approaching the endgame, the show here made an obvious point about violence, hatred and revenge and having to give up those things - not for Anders’ unemotional duty to the collective, but for love and compassion/

Rating: 8.5/10

#the 100 #the 100 7x10 #a little sacrifice #the 100 season 7 #charmaine diyoza #clarke griffin #octavia blake #gabriel santiago #jordan green #indra kom trikru #indra #john murphy #madi griffin #sheidheda #emori #bill cadogan #hope diyoza

[dirtgal0re]

Heda timeline (in progress)

2052 — Becca Franko, Bekka Pramheda

? — Malachai kom Trishanakru, Sheidheda

? — Maffei kom Boudalankru

? — Kemji kom Trishanakru

2141-2149 — Leksa kom Trikru

2149-2156 — Octavia Blake, Blodreina

2156 — Madi kom Lowada Klironkru

2281 — Indra kom Wonkru

— Sheidheda

#heda #heda lexa #the 100 #sheidheda #indra kom trikru #indra kom wonkru #octavia blake #blodreina #the 100 commanders

[insidearkadia]

Rock Line

#the 100 #rock line #boudalankru

[tw-beacon-hills]

velitel

Velitel — nebo Heda v Trigedasleng — je nejvyšší hodnost v hierarchii zemědělců a sedí v čele koalice. Zatímco Sky People tento termín spojuje s vojenským vedením, název je odvozen od prvního velitele — ženy, která nesla první Plamen. S rituály a zkouškami spojenými s titulem má mezi Groundery náboženský podtext.

Současným velitelem je Lexa kom Trikru .

Tagspiden (mluvení o jménech)

Jako součást obřadů Nanebevstoupení pro nového velitele jsou povinni vyslovit všechna jména všech velitelů, kteří kdy byli. Nejen, že je tento seznam veden velitelem zvoleným strážcem plamene ( Fleimkepa ), ale je také udělen novému veliteli po udělení plamene.

Rozbalením níže uvedeného seznamu získáte seznam všech velitelů. Vezměte prosím na vědomí, že pokud vaše postava není spojena se sektou Strážce plamene nebo nebyla schválena, aby měla tyto znalosti v rámci postavy, tyto informace jsou pouze znalostmi mimo charakter:

+ Ukažte Tagspiden

Nightbloods a KonklávePlamen

Mimo Strážce plamene a Velitele je o Plameni známo jen velmi málo. Mluví se o něm, jako by to byl metafyzický objekt, nikoli fyzický. Plamen je předán ze starého velitele na nového a s ním je nový velitel obdařen duchy všech minulých velitelů.

Symbol plamene je symbolem nekonečna a ti, kteří jsou s plamenem spojeni, jsou často vytetováni s nekonečným znakem.

Následující informace slouží pouze pro nepodstatné informace.

Samotný Plamen je ve skutečnosti kybernetický implantát vytvořený neurovědkyní Beccou Pramhedou. Jde o pasivní umělou inteligenci, která se prostřednictvím mozkového kmene spojuje s organickým mozkem a sdílí a ukládá informace. Plamen vytváří projektované vědomí, které na sebe bere podobu minulých velitelů, odkud pochází „duch velitelů“. Prostřednictvím těchto projekcí je současnému veliteli poskytnuto vedení a sdílené vzpomínky.

Beccovým záměrem s implantátem AI bylo pomoci resetovat lidstvo do bodu, kdy bude v budoucnu v bezpečí před podobnými katastrofami. Její a další velitelské vedení s Plamenem je zajistit, aby lidstvo nikdy neudělalo stejné chyby jako v minulosti.

Koalice

V rámci koalice je dvanáct klanů v čele s velitelem: Trikru (klan Woods), Azgeda (klan ledu), Floukru (klan člunů), Sankru (klan pouště), Yujleda (klan širokolistý), Delfikru (klan Delphi), Trishanakru ( Zářící lesní klan), Ouskejonkru (klan Modrých útesů), Podakru (Lake People), Ingranronakru (Plains Riders), Boudalankru (Klan Rock Line) a Louwoda Kliron (Klan Shadow Valley).

Každý klan má svého náčelníka a skládá se z několika vesnic roztroušených po celém východním pobřeží. Každý klan má také svého velvyslance v koalici, který zastupuje zájmy klanu před celkem.

velitel

Kruheda

Velvyslanci

Další vůdci Trikru

Lexa kom Trikru

Wastelanders

Zatímco většina Grounderů je imunní vůči účinkům přetrvávajícího záření, někteří podlehnou a narodí se se zjevnými mutacemi. Tito Grounderové (a často jejich rodiny) jsou vyhoštěni ze svého klanu, aby se zajistilo, že neposkvrní pokrevní linii. Většina těchto mutací je pouze kosmetických, ale stále stačí k tomu, aby byli jejich nositelé vyhnáni. Mnoho vyhnanců cestuje do Mrtvé zóny a hledá příslib Města Světla.

Každodenní život

Bydlení

Pozemní bydlení je hrubý mišmaš nově vyrobených a zachráněných materiálů.

Zde jsou některé příklady bydlení nalezené v Hood of Tondc.

Technologie

Grounderové žijí v troskách velké civilizace, ale těsně před nukleární apokalypsou spadli daleko z výšin. Grounderové žijí v roztroušených vesnicích, farmaří, loví a shromažďují. Používají zbraně poháněné svaly jako luky, kopí a meče vymleté ​​z kovového odpadu; jezdí na koních; a jejich léčitelé používají bylinky a obklady spíše než moderní lékařské techniky, ale jejich zbraně, přeprava a léčení jsou pozoruhodně účinné.

Tradice

Jména

Základní jména pro místa a osoby jsou často odvozeny od názvů dřívějších míst nebo orientačních bodů, jejichž jména částečně zvětrala od souvisejícího značení. Například Indra je vůdcem TonDC, odvozeniny od Washingtonu, DC a Polis, hlavní město klanů, je pojmenováno po vesmírné družici Polaris. Lincoln je pojmenován po prezidentském památníku, zatímco Lexa a Ontari jsou pojmenovány po městě a provincii Alexandra a Ontario.

Tetování

Mnoho Grounderů označuje svá těla tetováním tmavým inkoustem. Vzory a umístění závisí na klanu. Zdá se, že Trikru například preferuje výrazné geometrické vzory.

Skarifikace

Některé klany používají rituální skarifikaci k identifikaci. Zejména Azgeda používá geometrické vzory na obličeji jako identifikační znaky.

Zabijte Markse

Válečníci sledují počet zabití, které osobně provedli, pomocí jizvy na rameni, hrudi nebo zádech. Většina válečníků má méně než tucet, ale někteří z nich mají mnohem více zabití, než by mohli označit.

War Paint

Když jdou do války, Grounderové si často barví tváře přírodními látkami. Trikru upřednostňuje tmavé šmouhy, zejména kolem očí nebo přes oči, zatímco Azgeda inklinuje k bílým skvrnám. Některé obrázky uvádíme níže pro inspiraci.

[periipatetic]

starter #8 of #1700 // Axe kom Boudalankru //  Muse is: gender optional, male pref, male presenting // the 100 - boudalankru, wonkru // weapons maker // human // interested in male and nb

"Okay okay stop asking me if I'm straight, gay, bi, whatever. I identify as a FUCKING THREAT."

#openstarter #starter #museintrostarters #museaxekomboudalankru #taxekomboudalankru #saxekomboudalankru

[azgedaspy]

ECHO’S CONFIRMED KILLS 

total:   86+ kills.  23+ direct / 63+ indirect

disclaimer: this is the  least charitable  interpretation of events. i am including  every death that echo has contributed to whether she was objectively responsible or not.  this is the logic i apply to all my kill counts.

see also: clarke’s kill count (1697+) and bellamy’s kill count (1315+).

pre-series,  01+ kills.  01+ / 00+

01 robyn kom azgedakru (combat, self defense) 

?? assassinations and other kills ordered by azgeda

season one,   00 kills.  00 / 00

she was trapped inside mount weather at this time

season two,   01 kills.  00 / 01

01 sgt. lovejoy (assist: to protect bellamy) 211

season three,   51 kills.  00 / 51

02 polis guards (indirect: to manipulate skaikru) 303

49 sky people (indirect: complied with assassin) 303

season four,   21+ kills.  11 / 10+

01 boudalankru ambassador (to establish control) 401

01 arkadia guard stevens (for betraying her people) 404

07+ trikru warriors in polis (indirect: approved retaliation for skaikru’s betrayal) 404

03 trikru warriors (supervised: to protect roan from skaikru’s betrayal) 409

03 final conclave champions (including ouskejon, sangedakru, and ilian to save her people) 410

06 grounders (to save bellamy, clarke, murphy, and emori) 412

season five,   12+ kills.  11 / 01+

01 kodiak (assist: to protect bellamy and raven) 503

?? eligius prisoners (indirect: approved murphy escalating the conflict) 509

01 eligius prisoner (to save murphy) 511

02 eligius prisoners (to save octavia, bellamy, and more) 512

07+ eligius prisoners (while fighting for wonrku) 513

01 eligius prisoner (while fighting for wonkru) 513

near kills and proposed kills,   004 / 284

001 clarke (proposed, indirect: so roan could harness the power of wanheda) 401

001 octavia (accidental: meant to subdue her) 404

001 riley (proposed: to stop him from assassinating roan) 405

001 octavia (attempted: to save her people) 410

283 eligius prisoners (proposed, indirect: to defend wonkru against eligius) 503

001 shaw (proposed: to defend wonkru against eligius) 508

#001. headcanon ‚ she’s beyond your archetype. #save. #kill count.

[seabuilt]

this is a PERMANENT STARTER CALL for mina kom boudalankru’s the 100 verse. this allows me to write you starters, put things in your inbox, im you for plotting, & generally just bug you with this messy warrior princess. if you are interested, please like this post!

#a real fish out of water ( ooc ) #the 100 rp #t100 rp

[cosmicfell-blog]

Grounder Clans for each of my Sky people’s AUs.

Alona- trishanakru Asher- Trikru Rosealie-  boudalankru Clary- Yujleda Jason- Ouskejon Aria- Sangeda Nova - Azgeda Archer -   boudalankru

#not the end of the world ( OOC ) #m: alona #m: aria #m: asher #m: jason #m: clary #m: rosalie #m: Nova #m: Archer

[ellanainthetardis]

Here’s the second entry in this series, some good old flirting ;)

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A Spring To His Steps

4 Weeks, 1 Day

Medical is busy and Marcus slips between two injured Grounders – Trishanakru if he gets the tattoos right, which means they are likely assigned to the hydroponic farms and that there will be an accident report on his desk by the end of the day. It’s the problem with so many people not used to working with machinery, they get hurt – which results in both him trying to find better solutions and Abby getting less free time. Jackson catches his eyes from where he is standing, tending to a burn on a young woman’s hand and nods toward the office at the back of the big examination room.

He’s a bit surprised she’s not out there given that there are people not currently being seen too despite Jackson’s and the Grounders’ healers’ best attempts but he reaches the open door of the office. He leans against the doorframe to better watch her, amused by the way she is furiously scribbling on a piece of paper.

Something in his chest aches with how beautiful she looks.

Her hair is gathered in a messy ponytail that falls over one shoulder, her brow is furrowed in concentration and the fingers that aren’t holding the pen are drumming against the table in clear annoyance. She’s not even sitting properly, she’s half out of her seat, bowed over the desk in a way that makes him want to just…

He clears his throat before he can entertain any real inappropriate thought about her and the desk.

She glances up, her face lighting up in surprise when she spots him. “Hey.”

“Hey.” he answers with a smile and then clears his throat up again because, wow, they sure are being eloquent people. “Are you done with the inventory?”

Her lips twitch. “You’re the Chancellor, don’t you have people to fetch reports? I did.”

“I sent them all to the other departments.” he shrugs, walking in and closing the door for good measure. “It seems like as good an excuse as any to visit.”

He drops in one of the two chairs in front of the desk and takes the file she hands him.

“For the record, I didn’t miss paperwork.” she sighs and walks around the desk to sit in the other chair, facing him. Their knees bump together and he relaxes for the first time that day.

They’ve been doing better, the two of them. Their relationship feels less… strained than right after Praimfaya. He’s not sure they’re back to the easiness they used to share, not yet, but they’re on the right track. She’s making efforts and he’s refusing to let her pull away again.

“We need paperwork if we want to run this thing.” he chides her.

It’s not that he’s a real fan of reports and forms himself but that’s how they used to do on the Ark and that’s how they need to do it down here. He has problems enough trying to make Octavia and Indra see that. They need to keep on top of everything.

“You just love lurking in people’s office to make them nervous when they owe you reports.” she teases.

It’s a gibe about who he used to be on the Ark, he figures, and she’s not that wrong. He used to enjoy letting people know he was in charge.

It isn’t about that now though.

“We need to organize.” he insists, rubbing his forehead before passing a hand in front of his mouth. It’s been more or less on the go for the last three weeks and he’s been pressing Octavia to get the Grounders to submit to the system because that’s the only way they are going to make it. People can’t just show up where they feel like working that day, mostly because there are things they can’t leave to chance. The farms, the aquifer filtration system, the oxygen and air scrubbers… They’ve been trying to assign krus to the department they would be best suited but that’s not working out so well. The fact that the hierarchy isn’t clear isn’t helping any and the idea that each clan leader is responsible for their people with Octavia at the top of the food chain won’t hold long now. People are starting to settle in this new life, it’s not easy, particularly for Grounders. “Octavia officially put Indra in charge of the guard this morning.”

That’s at least something, he supposes, even if he hopes Indra will show restrain. There’s unrest between clans and that’s only to be expected. If they start stabbing everyone who try to pick up a fight… He trusts his friend though. And he hopes that patrols of an identified guard corps composed of members of all clans will help settle things even more.

Octavia’s Wonkru idea is a nice one but it won’t happen in one day.

“What does that make you?” Abby asks.

“Her chamberlain?” he jokes. It earns him a smile and another bump of her knee against his. “I don’t know, we didn’t really discuss it. Aside from you and Jaha, I’m the only one with enough experience to run a place like this. I guess that’s what it makes me.”

Abby has never expressed any interest in taking a more active role in the leadership department, not since the lottery. She seems satisfied with running Medical for now and he doesn’t want to push her too much. She advises him when he asks and for now it would have to be enough.

“Don’t let Thelonious take over.” she warns, her smile turning serious. “That’s what he did with Clarke, you know…”

He shakes his head. “It won’t happen with Octavia.”

The girl doesn’t like the former Chancellor and Marcus hasn’t tried to convince her otherwise. He still considers Jaha a friend but he is also aware of the man’s flaws. Thelonious is used to being in charge, to making decisions, the former Chancellor likes power and he doesn’t like the fact that Marcus and Abby supplanted him.

He’s not sure he deserves the right to call right from wrong but he doesn’t like Jaha’s methods, not anymore.

“I hope so.” she offers, reaching on the desk to grab the piece of paper she has been writing on. “I have the list of people I want to keep full time.” He skims it over, not surprised to find Jackson and Niylah at the top of the list. The other names, he doesn’t really recognize. There are fifteen in all. She sighs. “I need more trained staff.”

“Says you and Jaha and pretty much everyone else…” he snorts with no real amusement. “Is there someone from the Boudalankru on your list?”

“I don’t think so, why?” Abby frowns.

“Because their leader believes Skaikru is conspiring to take over the bunker.” he explains. “And Indra thinks his son has a thing for botanic, that might soften him up a little.”

“Send him over.” she nods. “I can always use someone who knows medicinal plants.”

He places the paper on top of the inventory file, short of excuses to linger longer. “I should go back to work.”

She bumps her knee against his leg for the third time, prompting him to look up at her. “Kom osir hit op nodotaim.”

Until we meet again.

He smiles, eyes twinkling at her terrible accent. She’s had so many difficulties taking up Trigedasleng though… “You’re making progress.”

“I think I need more private lessons.” she grins.  

“I’m always happy to provide.” he retorts, leaving the chair to step into her space, leaning down when she stretches her neck to receive the kiss. He doesn’t allow himself to get carried away though. He still needs to stop by engineering and the prospect of listening to Jaha complain about everything that goes wrong in the bunker takes the fun out of everything. “Ai hod yu in.”

“I love you too.” she whispers against his lips. “We meet for dinner?”

“I’ll stop by to get you on my way there.” he promises and, with a last kiss, he tears himself away from her.

Medical is even busier when he walks out of her office.

Still, there is a spring to his step that wasn’t there before as he strides down the corridors to his next destination.

It feels like hope.

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