Very observant of you. Though back home, we all tend to refer to our own that way. It acts as a shorthand, especially when there are a lot of divisions. [Her home is fraught, constantly at war and struggling to make peace. The only peace they've managed in recent history is a facsimile of it, helped along by Octavia's efforts to create Wonkru. It is as it sounds: a single clan, united from many divided clans.
Clarke would have been a part of that. Should have been. Or, at least, up in space.
Instead, she was alone.
Now, without both of her people here who had been on the bus with her on "day one," Clarke feels like she's back there again. It doesn't change her responsibility, though. What she has to do.]
But—yes. Yes, I'm a leader for my people. It's not something I can easily turn off. It's why I need to ... keep an open mind about what solutions actually work. [Clarke has seen what happens when she doesn't, countless times over.]
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Clarke would have been a part of that. Should have been. Or, at least, up in space.
Instead, she was alone.
Now, without both of her people here who had been on the bus with her on "day one," Clarke feels like she's back there again. It doesn't change her responsibility, though. What she has to do.]
But—yes. Yes, I'm a leader for my people. It's not something I can easily turn off. It's why I need to ... keep an open mind about what solutions actually work. [Clarke has seen what happens when she doesn't, countless times over.]