Yasss Percabeth

Bellarke and THOSE over the shoulder shots.

All season, we’ve had many, many shots of Clarke from over Bellamys shoulder.

Right from the very first reunion hug, they shot her face from over his shoulder. But at this point they are facing each other.

It’s only after he tries to get her to open up at the campfire, and she doesn’t,

the shots are then filmed from over his shoulder, but his back is turned to her. (Or could it be the arrival of his girlfriend?)

Anyway, there’s a lot of them. She’s always there, that’s the way they chose to frame it, as if she’s always in the back of his mind.

We all know the infamous over Bellamys shoulder shot of Clarke, reacting to the first time she sees Bellamy and Echo kiss.

Then there’s Clarke making a deal with Diyoza in 5x07:

They also film her from over his shoulder as he walks away from her in 5x09, leaving her screaming for him as he’s on his way to give Madi the flame.

They use it a lot. But he never turns back to look at her.

Not until this moment.

Above, here Clarke is again, over Bellamys shoulder in 5x13. This is when Madi decides to go and talk to him. And then she tells him. About the radio calls, about how much Clarke cares, and finally, he turns to look at her.

He’s finally ready to look at her, and acknowledge that she’s always there, in the back of his mind.

Again, as time is running out and they are waiting for their friends, as Clarke calls for him, they film her over his shoulder. Again, he turns to look at her, and tells her exactly why he can’t go. He can’t do it again. It was too painful.

Later, when they’re safe, he lets her know she’s forgiven and asks her to come to the bridge. But as he walks away, again, he looks back over his shoulder at her.

Like he wants to say something.

And again, once more, on the bridge, there she is. She’s there because he asked her to be. He needs her there.

And the final ending shot, over both their shoulders, of their new world. Bellamy is the one that brings her in towards him.

Sorry for the crappy screenshots, but I thought this was worth throwing out there, it’s a very interesting framing choice! If anyone finds any more let me know, I’ll add them to the list!

But Clarke asks Bellamy if he can forgive himself and he doesn’t answer, says that forgiveness is hard for them instead but then goes right on to say that he doesn’t want to be angry at her anymore.

I won’t forgive myself but I forgive you. They will be the death of me.

1x03 | 1x09

defining heartless (o.q)

season 1 → season 4

Can we talk about how it’s more and more canon that Bellamy is Clarke’s weakness?

4x03 is a dare for 2x09 on its own. Cause here we have Clarke, trying to decide who among 500 people deserves to live and die, and all she knows is that Bellamy is on that list before she even makes it. She doesn’t need Bellamy to go out there and sacrifice himself for the good of their people (2x09), she does the EXACT opposite. She knows she’ll be sacrificing someone for him

And let me tell you, this is EXACTLY what she was scared of on 2x09. One of the reasons why Clarke was so ready to buy Lxa’s “love is weakness” hocus pocus is that she told Clarke that loving someone would end up crowding her judgement and making her put the people she cares about in danger…. oh would you look at that.

(looking at you 4x03, 4x04, 4x05 ….)

Clarke’s love for Bellamy has always been something that COULD make Clarke- the head, the rational, the girl who would sacrifice everything and everyone for the ‘greater good’- decide to chooser her heart over anything else. And that is what makes it different from any of her feelings for anyone else.

And i know what some people might be thinking. That Clarke put Bellamy’s name right there on the list because he had some  ~practical reason to be there. Please, now we must return again to the “why Bellamy is the number 99 on the list and not number 1″ discourse. For starters, YES, Bellamy IS NUMBER ONE. Before that llist was even a list, Clarke decided bellamy’s name was on it - and that’s the first canon name we knew was on the list. So yeah, rewatch 4x03 if you must, Bellamy is number one.

But why, why that when it came to write it, Bellamy came out as 99?

If Bellamy really had a strong trait that would officially put him on the list don’t you think he’d be first? don’t you think he’d be at least near Raven’s name? (who was like number 3 or 4). We see the list, the names go : Abby (number one, proudly), idk Jaha, Raven etc. The natural progression here would have been to but Bellamy’s name after them. If Clarke was to say they need Bellamy to survive, if Clarke was to say they need Bellamy for a strong leadership (as Jaha suggested). 

But, no. Bellamy is 99. The number 1 name on her list ends up as 99. And i don’t know about you, but the only logical explanation for such thing is that Bellamy didn’t (in Clarke’s 4x04 super rational classification, not int he show’s) have an 100% rational reason to be there. So, yes, Clarke “sacrificed” her head chosen someone to put Bellamy on the list.

(Let that sink in)

Enters 4x05. 

Do we even want to go there?

I find 4x05 harder to analyze- which was probably the writers goal anyway - because there’s no way we can know how many people would Roan attack if Clarke didn’t cave in. We don’t know how many  sky people were there to fight with the Azgeda army.

However, i don’t think that even matters in the end. Sometimes, when we analyze a text, all you gotta do is see the writers’ intent instead of pinpointing a character’s feeling.

And this is what we got: Roan threatens Bellamy’s (and Kane’s…..) life if Clarke doesn’t let him use the ark for his people. Clarke is obviously shaken by that, then she proceeds to threaten him back saying she’d sacrifice her own mother for ‘the greater good’.

(making an obvious callback to an episode everyone remember like the back of our darn hands, “start with Bellamy Blake”s echo on the walls of the cave Clarke and Echo they were in-)

And then……… and then when Roan doesn’t cave, Clarke does.

Clarke who just said she’d stop at nothing, will sacrifice 50 of her people over this.

Again, we go back to the beginning (and to 3x15 old analysis), since we don’t have enough information we can’t make the “Clarke would sacrifice Abby but she wouldn’t sacrifice Bellamy” conclusion. 3x15 and 4x05 are two different situations, we don’t know how many people war would kill if Clarke hadn’t caved.

But what we do know, in spite of anything, is that the writers hammered in our hands throughout the episode how Clarke was worried about Bellamy ( first scene with monty, again when monty tells her bellamy is missing at the meeting, when Bellamy is revealed to have been taken hostage). They don’t show any of this concern for Kane (sorry bro).

They show us Roan saying they have hostages, the camera going at Bellamy, then Roan using the “hostages” (ahemBellamyahem) as leverage. The they proceed to remind us of the “start with Bellamy Blake” episode by reminding us of how Clarke is able to sacrifice anything for ‘the greater good’.

So, we don’t need a Abby/Bellamy parallel here, we don’t need to know if Clarke had a rational reason for caving in (such as more than 50 people would die or Kane or whatever. If they didn’t show us ,the writers didn’t want us to think about that even if this can be claimed in the future); what we do know is that Clarke can sacrifice anything and anyone for the greater good, but not Bellamy Blake.

50 of her people went out of her list, just like that.

Tell me again how Bellamy was not #1 on it?

Yasssss

MAGNUS CHASE IS THAT YOU?

You’re always saving me//My turn to save you.

They joined hands. So the world ended. And the next one began.

MY LITTLE BELLARKE HEART