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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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Coming back to this post to add another character from a show I’ve just watched (albeit not diving into the fandom):

Mazikeen Smith, Lucifer

Hell’s best torturer, a demon who comes to LA with Lucifer and has an adventure in learning how to relate to humans and find love and belonging - and a soul to boot. I think she deserved better. While she ends the series firmly committed to Eve and I try to feel happy for her, I always felt like she was putting in all of the work in that relationship, most of the time getting her heart broken, and I found Eve way too flighty and capricious. I would have liked to see Maze end up with Ella instead, who was a warm and kind human woman who was much more what Maze needed in her life.

what are some characters you think have a similar personality to octavia?

I'm assuming in other fandoms, not The 100? Because in The 100 she's pretty one of a kind, though of course Hope has a number of her personality traits as well, due to being partially raised by her.

Looking to other fandoms, these characters are best defined as "my favourites". I have a type :D This type can be best defined as "misunderstood badasses who have a light side and a dark side, who love intensely with their whole heart, and too often people take advantage of that for their own ends".

So, in roughly chronological order (from most recent to most distant), my favourite characters of my fandoms of the past ten make that twenty years who also fit this category:

Magnus Bane, Shadowhunters

An immortal bisexual warlock with a painful past, he believes strongly in equality and justice. He's not afraid of speaking truth to power and fighting for what's right. I actually have a fic that I've been dabbling with that is a Shadowhunters/The 100 crossover, set in the bunker with Shadowhunters as history, but since Magnus is immortal he's still alive, even if most of the Shadow World died in the first Praimfaya. At the time of the Final Conclave at the end of season 4, Magnus is a Yujleda healer, he's in the throne room when Octavia wins (there is actually a guy there that, if you squint, looks like him), and her speech of unity reminds him of his deceased Shadowhunter husband Alec, who had the same mission decades ago, and he resolves to help the Skaikru girl make her vision come true.

Regina Mills/Evil Queen, Once Upon A Time

Another queen with a painful past. I've compared Octavia and Regina before, and that comparison still stands. In short, they both start their stories naïve, trusting and believing in love, and both of their starts of darkness resulted from death of loved ones and familial abandonment, though Regina did legit go full on evil for awhile, but she did come back from it. And like Octavia, she also triumphs in the end and comes out of it as the true hero.

Eliot Spencer, Leverage

He’s a gruff badass with a soft spot for kids and is fiercely protective of his squad. He also has a mysterious dark past that he always feels he’s still atoning for, and the episodes where he works to address connections to said past are often the standouts.

Juliet Burke and James “Sawyer” Ford, LOST

These two... they just melt my heart. I love them so much. I’m so glad that they found each other, but even after living happily together for years, their insecurities and fears still made them panic. Juliet is a badass doctor who would do anything to keep her sister safe, and Sawyer is a conman whose heart grows as he finds love to fill it with. My heart.

Faith Lehane, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel

The original badass bitch (okay, well, maybe Xena comes before her, but I was never as heavily into Xena as I was BtVS). There are some Faith scenes that I rewatch now that just scream “Octavia!” to me (especially the scene where she’s begging Angel to kill her). It was with Faith that I first saw how crucial love and compassion were to helping people heal from darkness, and it was the first time I saw people deny it to those who needed it - until Angel was Faith’s Diyoza and helped her in a way others couldn’t.

#the 100 #lucifer #octavia blake #mazikeen smith

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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It’s wild how it is 2021 and there are still people out there who think that Clarke Griffin bore the most on The 100 just because she stole that fancy catchphrase.

#the 100 #anti clarke griffin #I mean seriously #canonically deemed Worst Human(tm)#yet she still thinks she was bearing it #hah #girl could never bear what the others did #and by others I mean mostly octavia #sometimes raven #sometimes murphy #but mostly octavia

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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what are some characters you think have a similar personality to octavia?

I'm assuming in other fandoms, not The 100? Because in The 100 she's pretty one of a kind, though of course Hope has a number of her personality traits as well, due to being partially raised by her.

So, in roughly chronological order (from most recent to most distant), my favourite characters of my fandoms of the past ten make that twenty years who also fit this category:

Magnus Bane, Shadowhunters

Regina Mills/Evil Queen, Once Upon A Time

Eliot Spencer, Leverage

Juliet Burke and James “Sawyer” Ford, LOST

Faith Lehane, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel

#the 100 #octavia blake #magnus bane #regina mills #eliot spencer #juliet burke #james sawyer ford #faith lehane

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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fearless in the face of any storm (swallowed in the depths of love’s unknown)

Late one evening on the shore of Polis, Lincoln finds a wounded mermaid - Octavia, an exiled princess of the sea. As he helps her heal, their common passion for righting injustices and fighting for the equality of all forms a strong bond between them, but can it survive the reality of the world they must live in? And what will happen to them when the sea wants her back?

Warning: Blood, injury, mentions of enslavement.

Rating: Explicit Moodboard: @luminouswriter Prompted by @1munequita as a part of the @t100fic-for-blm initiative.

This prompt was made possible by a donation to the American Indian College Fund, a nonprofit that provides scholarships and support to Indigenous students and tribal colleges and universities.

AO3 link to the first chapter in notes!

#the 100 #the 100 fanfiction #t100fic4blm #linctavia #lincoln kom trikru #octavia blake #tw: slavery #tw: enslavement

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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I've saw a few people compare lexa and octavia. do you think they're similar and/or do you like lexa?

I've seen the posts going around recently, and they're quite accurate - they do have a lot of similarities as leaders. I've always considered Octavia's leadership style a blend of Lexa and Jaha (not exactly by her own choice, really, but by the circumstances provided).

But - I don't particularly like Lexa. It's 100% not her fault though. It's a combination of how she was introduced to me (and what a letdown that story ended up being), and how so many people ignore the similarities between Lexa and Octavia as leaders - and then with one breath celebrate Lexa and everything she does and stands for, but consider Octavia a terrible evil villain for doing literally the same things for the same (or even more noble) reasons.

Predominantly the second one. But it doesn't help that my experience of her was soured by the Clexa fandom's exaggeration of her role and relevance to the storyline, and the complete overexaggeration of her relevance in Clarke's story, which the show then incorporated to then try to fanservice those fans who felt let down by Lexa's death (Clexa fans are never going to sell me on the idea that Clarke's Most Important Person Ever is a woman she knew for mere days, hating her for most of them, and whose romantic relationship can be measured in mere hours).

But it absolutely infuriates me when people celebrate Lexa but villainize Octavia for similar actions. Or when they even celebrate Lexa, but then villainize Octavia for something she didn't even do - but Lexa did! and they think it is absolutely fine.

For example, one thing that Octavia haters go on about is how Octavia “killed people for disagreeing with her”. No. She did nothing of the sort. She killed people who directly acted against the best interests of Wonkru. She gave clear warnings to people skirting the edge of acting against the best interests of Wonkru. But she didn’t kill people for disagreeing with her.

Lexa, on the other hand, did. Remember this?

Lexa explicitly states that she killed him because he disagreed with her - “Would anyone else care to question my decisions?”

So it’s that fandom hypocrisy that bothers me. It’s not Lexa’s fault, she never shied away from who and what she was, but it means I can’t appreciate her the way other people do, because that hypocrisy and those double standards just drive me up the wall - like they do in how people treat Octavia versus almost every other character in this fandom. Siiiiiiigh.

#the 100 #octavia blake #lexa kom trikru #anti clexa

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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what do you think octavia's biggest strength and weakness is?

Her heart, for both.

Her heart is a strength when it encourages her to love, to trust, to look beyond tribalism and see the humanity in the eyes of the enemy, to believe in the good in people, to do what is necessary to save them all.

But it is a weakness for those same reasons - people all too often exploit her trust and desire to help, and she keeps giving them leeway to do so because she wants to believe that they’re also doing what they’re doing for the right reasons. Nowhere is this more visible than in season 5, as well as her relationship with her brother overall.

Season 5 Octavia is a shattered heart hidden behind the steel mask of Blodreina. Her trust and her desire to save her people were exploited by Abby in the Dark Year, and Kane and Indra further allowed everyone to scapegoat her, all of that heavily damaging her ability to trust or rely on anyone else to share any burdens again.

Until her brother opens the bunker - then she has a ray of hope again. She wants to trust him, she wants him to be the brother she believes in - but again that trust is shattered. When in 5x05 Octavia says to Indra “love is weakness”, she isn’t saying that like the Commanders, where they believe “love is weakness, to be Commander is to be alone” - but rather it is Octavia trying to remind herself that she trusts and loves too hard and too fast, and that people exploit that, even when she wishes it were otherwise. Which is why her response when Indra says “I love you, does that make me weak?” is “I would never say that to you, seda” because a) she clings to the hope that Indra won’t betray her again, and b) Indra’s way of life doesn’t make love a weakness for her the same way it does for Octavia.

And then Bellamy betrays and hurts her in unimaginable ways over and over again, yet she still wants to believe he’s the brother of her childhood. She wants to believe the best of him, even when almost every experience since landing on the ground proves otherwise.

Octavia’s love has always been selfless. She loves with her whole heart. She’s not possessive. She’ll go to the ends of the earth and beyond for those to whom she’s pledged her love and loyalty. Her love isn’t conditional, unlike just about everyone else’s. It’s this selfless approach to love that lets her balance both love for individuals specifically and love for humanity generally without any contradictions.

Her love can save humanity, yet it can also burn down the world if it has been pushed past its breaking point, making her heart both her greatest strength and her most dangerous weakness.

#the 100 #octavia blake #asks

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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what do you think octavias hogwarts house is?

This is an easy one, compared to some asks that I have that will take a lot longer to answer :D

Gryffindor. A hundred million percent.

Reckless bravery and determination are basically the definition of Gryffindor, and that's also the definition of Octavia. I see a lot of foolish people put her in Slytherin due to Blodreina, but that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of both a) who Octavia is as a person, and b) the purpose of Blodreina (moreover, it also shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of Slytherin). Octavia is the opposite of shrewd and cunning. She wants to see the good in people, she gives them the benefit of the doubt even when she shouldn't, she wears her heart on her sleeve, even when she tries to hide it behind her mask.

Gryffindor. No other options.

#the 100 #octavia blake #hogwarts #gryffindor #asks

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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what do you think octavia's job would be in the modern day? I've read a lot of modern au fics and everyone else's jobs seem to stay similar but octavia's is always very different

I don't really read modern AUs, so I don't know the different jobs you could be referring to, but there are very few fic writers out there that I trust with Octavia and her proper characterization, especially if she's a side character. So I don't know if the writers have put in the proper thought process into selecting the most appropriate job for her.

Because here's the thing about Octavia. I mean, it's a thing for every character, but is especially important for her - if you're writing fanfiction, you have to stay true to the characterization of the characters. You can change the plot, you can change the setting, the universe - but the characterization of the characters has to remain, otherwise they're not that same character anymore. They're just a face wearing that name but nothing resembling the person they were. If you're going to abandon characterization, you may as well just go write an original story, because it isn't fanfiction anymore, it's taking someone else's character names, an actor's face, and nothing else.

So anyway, what I'm getting at is that Octavia's a supremely difficult character to bring into a modern AU, specifically because her backstory - the backstory that makes her who she is as a person, which defines her characterization - is so particular to the setting of The 100. A hidden child, illegal in her society, never being socialized properly because she never knew other humans besides her mother and her brother until she was a teenager. There's a limited number of modern-day scenarios that translates to, but that's necessary should you want Octavia to be the same character.

It's not impossible, of course. I've written one modern AU, where her background is growing up in a cloistered patriarchal cult, that she and Bellamy escape after their mom dies due to being denied proper medical treatment. There are other scenarios that could work too - kidnapped as a child and kept locked up, that being done by her family for one reason or another, etc. But the cult scenario is the one I went with. The job she has in this 'verse, almost a decade after escaping the cult, is being the drummer of an internationally-acclaimed rock band that was formed by her, Raven and Gina (the story is an Octaven prompt). Raven and Gina met her in a pub where she was just fooling around with the drums there, but they saw promise in her and they invited her to join the band.

So all of that is a long-winded way of saying: I don't think there's any specific job that Octavia would have in a modern AU, what job she'd have would be dependent on the circumstances through which she was socialized into the normal world. To quote from Hypable's 7x02 review, Octavia "spent her childhood believing she could never become anything, so the moment her feet hit the ground, she realized she could be anything and tried to become it all at once." (emphasis mine)

That's the key to Octavia's character right there. She's supremely adaptable, she will jump on any opportunities presented to her and will do so with a hundred and ten percent of her heart. That's why it was a natural transition in canon for Octavia to go from being a fear-inspiring warrior queen to a nurturing farmer and co-parent. The same would apply for a modern AU - whatever scenario she found herself in after being thrown into the normal world, she'd adapt to that and that would be reflected in what her job would be.

If she landed in a scenario where she didn't have to adapt right away - where she was given time to breathe, to heal the wounds of her past, a place where she had a mentor who would encourage her to take her time in choosing her future, not pushing her in any specific direction - then I could see her being a teacher or a therapist, or working in law or politics as a mediator or ambassador. Because the core of Octavia's character is her belief in the equality of everyone, in the unity of humanity, and helping people heal and grow from traumas that she's been through herself and come out the other side of.

#the 100 #the 100 fanfiction #octavia blake #asks

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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would you ever follow a bellarke shipper? assuming they were pro octavia ofc

Do they post pro-Octavia stuff or is their blog just a love letter to Bellarke?

I don't care who people ship, I care about the content they post on their blog. If it's just Bellarke stuff then no I wouldn't follow them. I follow a fraction of the blogs that follow me, because I'm on Tumblr strictly for the Octavia content (and a few rare other people whose takes on the show I enjoy). I'm not here for other characters (well, I'll take Diyoza, Hope, Echo, Jackson, Murphy and Emori too in a broader sense, but it has to be hella compelling and mostly original content for me to go outside the Diyoza-Blakes), I'm not here for other fandoms, I'm not here for non-fandom stuff. I’m here for Octavia and the people who understand her.

Plus from what I've seen of the Bellarke side of the fandom, many of them are... how to say this halfway politely? A bunch of kids who thought they were watching a romance show when it was always grimdark post-apocalyptic sci-fi, who are angry that a ship that was never going to sail didn't sail but they baited themselves for anyway, who are just as un-self-aware as the characters that they adore. (Yes, that's the halfway polite version.)

I have met the rare self-aware Bellarke stan, but the emphasis is on rare. The vast majority of Bellarke stans have twisted views of Octavia that are incompatible with the facts presented on the show, and those views preclude them from being pro-Octavia in the first place. And my fandom life comes with enough Bellarke that I can't avoid that I'm not going to go follow more of it, sorry.

#the 100 #anti bellarke #antibellarke #asks

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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Knock me down but I get up A thousand blows are not enough To keep me on my knees I’m stronger when I bleed

I’ve been to Hell and back Picked myself up from the ash It made me who I am Champions aren’t born - we’re built.

#the 100 #octavia blake #octaviablakeedit #echo kom spacekru #bellamy blake #osleya #champion #lyrics: andie case & kurt hugo schneider #this song is made for octavia #go listen to it now

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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I just left this comment on AO3 but I just needed to say it here too. Thank you for gifting us with your amazing writing! You're my favourite fic writer for the 100 and probably my favourite writer in general. You understand your characters and how they would react to any situation so well and your writing style is so imersive. Your Niytavia fics are the work of an angel and I cannot wait to see more of those two from you and more of Octavia. Thank you so much for what you do for her and this fandom. <3

Aw, thank you so much! I have lots more fic coming, but it's kind of irregular right now... I've got a lot of stuff that I have already written that I want to post, but I also have to balance that with posting stuff that I need to post (prompts and requests and such), and most of that is still a work in progress.

But I've got lots more Octavia and Niytavia stories to tell, so don't worry! You'll be set for a good long while :)

#the 100 #the 100 fic #octavia blake #niylah kom wonkru #niytavia #asks

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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How is it 2021 and there are still people out there who think Octavia is some vapid self-centred woman who doesn’t care about any other human beings?

Excuse me while I go violently hurl, because she is precisely the exact opposite of that.

#the 100 #octavia blake #some people's kids #clearly didn't watch this show at all

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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do you know when you'll be updating any of your fics on ao3? I'm a big fan

Since you're anon, I don't know if you're one of the people who does kudo and/or comment on my fics or not. If you are, thank you! But honestly not that many people do that, so I can't be sure.

Here's the truth: Writers like knowing they're not writing into the void. They love comments and kudos. That's why we post our work instead of just keeping it for ourselves. But we don't know if anyone likes it or if anyone's a "big fan" if we don't get that reader interaction, y'know?

I've posted a fair number of stories over the past few months, and engagement on them is way way down compared to earlier stories I've written (to say nothing for other fandoms I've written for). Two out of three of the most recent stories I've posted have no comments at all.

Now, I know I'm not that great at comments/kudos either. I'm trying to get better about it - though to be honest I don't read a lot of t100 fic because there's very few people writing what I want to read. I'm very particular and most people just don't write what I'm into, so I have to do that myself. That's one of the reasons I've posted over 400,000 words in this fandom over the past three years.

So to answer your question - yes, of course. But I also have many stories and many series, so I don't know which in particular you're referring to. I also have a great deal of stories I haven't even published any chapters of. If I had an idea of which themes really grab readers' attention, I'd know which ones to focus on, but like I said, engagement is really low these days, so I haven't a clue on what people are actually interested in reading.

Which means that right now my focus is on the prompts I'm completing for @t100fic-for-blm - I won't get into all of the details of the stories I'm writing there since that would spoil the surprise, but as a taster: there's another story coming in the Lincoln Lives 'verse, there's a lot of Linctavia AUs and a Niytavia sequel to one of them, and I also have that Octaven AU to finish.

Once I've dealt with all of those, then I can get back to writing my Season 7, which I've had to put on the back burner. When the mood strikes, I'll also edit and post a number of other fics I have sitting in my Scrivener files, such as a 4x04 missing scene, more of the Diyoza-Blakes on Skyring, and so on. I have no shortage of stories. But what I do have a shortage of is knowing that people want to read them, and which in particular strike their fancy, and what specifically they like about them.

So the moral of this long response is: Writers like knowing what people enjoy, so go leave a comment on a story you've read recently, let the writer know what you liked about it!

#the 100 #the 100 fanfiction #octavia blake #asks #t100fic4blm

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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This is the sound of surviving This is my farewell to fear This is my whole heart deciding I'm still here, I'm still here And I'm not done fighting This is the sound of surviving

#the 100 #octavia blake #pro octavia blake #octaviablakeedit #lyrics: nichole nordeman #sound of surviving #I stan a loyal queen

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osleyakomwonkru · 3 years

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she sleeps with one eye open (but that drum’s still beating loud and clear)

International rock sensations Make It Go Boom have secrets. Secrets that prevent them from playing domestic shows. Secrets that keep their pasts a mystery. Secrets about who ends up in whose bed every so often.

Secrets they all remained, until the paparazzi got a lucky shot of drummer Octavia Blake and vocalist Raven Reyes locking lips behind the wedding tent at Octavia’s brother’s wedding. Now as their fans clamour for more details on a relationship they haven’t defined, the media spotlight threatens to crack their entire history wide open.

The truth about Octavia’s hidden past, the truth about Raven’s spinal injury, and the mysterious cult lurking in the shadows that connects them - can they risk sharing the truth with the world? Or will what should have been a private kiss between friends threaten the very foundations of the lives and relationships they’ve built?

Rating: Mature Prompted by an anonymous prompter as a part of the @t100fic-for-blm Initiative.

AO3 link in notes!

#the 100 #the 100 fanfiction #t100fic4blm #octaven #octavia blake #raven reyes #tw: cults

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Octavia as The 100′s Jesus Figure, Part 4: Bardo, The Crucifixion and Second Coming of Octavia Blake

So we’re back for a fourth part of this series, which I started after season 6, because wouldn’t you know it - there’s more to be said.

In Part 1, Origin Story and the Meeting of Two Saviours, I discussed Octavia’s origin story as the Dark Saviour and her relationship with the show’s other Saviour Lincoln, and how with his death he invested her with the mission to save all of their people.

In Part 2, Saving Humanity and the First Passion of Octavia Blake, I talked about Octavia finally accepting and understanding her mission as the Saviour, redeeming the sins of humanity, and her first Passion narrative, which was left incomplete, and thus she lived.

In Part 3, Planet Alpha and the Second Passion of Octavia Blake, I wrote about Octavia’s second Passion narrative on Planet Alpha, which led to her road to Golgotha at the Anomaly, from which she is resurrected (the Crucifixion narrative still remaining a mystery) and then meets those she knew once again, before her ascension as the Anomaly reclaimed her in the last seconds of the S6 finale.

So now, Part 4 - Here we will get into that missing Crucifixion narrative, as well as the events that come to pass with Octavia’s Second Coming, the Judgment of Humanity, and how things may have played out differently had it been Octavia who walked into the glowy ball of light instead of Cadogan, Clarke and Raven.

From Dark to Light

Before we return to that missing Crucifixion narrative, which takes place on Bardo, Octavia, along with Diyoza and Hope, land on a different planet for ten years. This planet also has its purpose in our Saviour narrative, because while the show starts on dark themes, and thus needed Octavia as a Dark Saviour, in season 7 it began to shift to a theme of light and transcendence.

Enter the appropriately named Penance.

Octavia spends ten years on Skyring/Penance/Planet Beta, healing from her pain and darkness, and thus is no longer the Dark Saviour the narrative needed her to be before to bring salvation to her people, now she can be the Light Saviour who will save all of humanity.

Her new demeanour - though I hesitate to say new because it was born of ten years of peace, plenty, family, and healing, it wasn’t new to her, merely to those who used to know her for whom time had been much shorter - is evidence of her new Light. It confuses many, because they hadn’t had the same time and healing as she had, but it is evident in every move she makes. Rather than the tornado of righteous fury that she used to be, now Octavia is the steady and calm voice of reason - to Echo, to Hope, and especially to Clarke.

But back to that crucifixion narrative.

Every Noble Crown will be a Crown of Thorns

Her peaceful world torn asunder, Octavia is taken to Bardo, and thrown into M-Cap at the first opportunity. Others have mentioned how the M-Cap headcap looks like a crown of thorns, and they’re quite right - this is where Octavia’s Crucifixion narrative comes to fruition. No one spends as much time in that crown of thorns as she does.

She fights it, at first, but when acceptance is what will provide salvation to her people (or person, in this case, being Hope), she accepts her fate and faces her past - brutal days of reliving her history as the Dark Saviour, to firmly close that chapter of her life (a symbolic death rather than just her regular baptism-rebirth cycle).

She’s freed from her crown of thorns when Hope comes. Hope, the symbol of her new Light, and the Light that she will carry with her as she returns to Sanctum to be resurrected among those she once knew, those who had believed her to be lost, but who dearly needed the Light she was to bring them.

Revelation and The Second Coming

There are a lot of different moving pieces involved in the apocalyptic scenarios of Revelation, and how these come to play in season 7 of The 100 isn’t any different. So let’s take a look at some of the other key players and how they connect to Octavia’s story.

The False Prophet, The Dragon and The Beast

Now, in my Part 3 of this series (written after the S6 finale), I predicted that Bellamy would have a large part in the revelation of Octavia’s Saviour narrative. Obviously, that part didn’t come to pass, because of Bob’s absence from the show, but you can still see hints within the narrative that suggest he would have been a part of it before Bob pulled out (most notably, the Hesperides flashback in 7x04 - this flashback is pretty pointless in the context of Hope telling Echo and Gabriel that story, but if you imagine Bellamy being there to hear about how his sister raised Hope in much the same way he raised her - then it becomes way more meaningful).

But the narrative as it played out also presents interesting Biblical allusions, by casting Bellamy in the role of false prophet, fighting on the side of the Beast (Cadogan), instead of on the side of Christ (his sister).

The false prophet is said to be the second beast to rise in Revelation 13, who has “two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon” (Revelation 13:11) who is given the authority to speak on behalf of the first Beast (Cadogan), to deceive the people so that they will worship this Beast. The false prophet having the appearance of a lamb is relevant here, because Jesus is often referred to as the Lamb of God - thus, the false prophet (Bellamy) resembles the true Saviour (Octavia), not coincidental since they are in fact siblings and thus do bear some physical resemblances.

So who is The Dragon - that is, Satan? It is easy to say that the Dragon is Sheidheda, for it is the Dragon who is imprisoned, only to be released to deceive and wage war before being finally defeated. But it goes deeper than that - The Dragon is the dark side of the Flame itself, Sheidheda’s only the last prophet of that darkness. It is the Flame that gives Cadogan, the Beast, the power he needs to rule over his people - the glimpse of the idea of Judgment Day as something for the Disciples to work towards - “The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority” (Revelation 13:2) - even when the good side of the Flame, the Humanity that Becca believed so vital, wanted to keep it from him.

The Children of the Kingdom of Heaven

Jesus says “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). Octavia’s always been tied to different children throughout The 100 narrative, first as the child herself, and then others such as Gavriel, Ethan, Madi, Rose and Hope. But the important children for the purpose of this post are the three that are the “next generation” so to speak of the leading trio of the show, and their important roles in the final battle.

There’s Jordan, the Head-centered, who takes over Clarke’s role as John the Baptist, the prophet who bore witness to the Light (Jesus) so that others would believe. His testimony shows that the Final War is instead a Test, and he’s instrumental in making sure that Octavia can stop the war and pass the test to grant humanity eternal life instead.

There’s Hope, the Heart-centered, who takes over Bellamy’s role as Saint Peter, the disciple who becomes the leader of the church after Jesus’ ascension. Hope is Octavia’s grounding force, her new rock, and her love gives her strength to continue her journey.

And then there’s Madi, the Soul-centered, who is Octavia’s next generation counterpart. It’s made clear from the start of Madi’s introduction in season 5 that Octavia is her favourite, that Octavia is the one she looked up to, and even in season 7, these parallels are there, as Madi is ready to sacrifice herself to save the others, and in more peaceful ways too, like when she’s hiding in the reactor with her two new friends, reminiscent of season 1 Octavia and her friendship with Monty and Jasper. Madi, too, meets her Crucifixion in the M-Cap chair, in an even crueler and more vicious manner than Octavia did. But when Octavia saves humanity, this liberates Madi’s soul and grants her eternal life as well.

I am the Way, The Truth and the Life

Wonkru falls apart in Octavia’s absence. There’s no other way to say it. Wonkru crumbling in 7x03 is made even more conspicuous by the fact that they don’t even mention Octavia, because they’re still denying her, despite everything she brought them. They don’t realize that she’s the one to save them all, they don’t realize that, as Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 4:16) - something that they will finally come to understand in the climax of the final episode.

But it isn’t time for that story yet. First we must turn to Revelation to see what happens to Wonkru and the others on Sanctum while they’ve chosen to deny her and follow the Dragon and the Beast instead.

Here we see the different plagues that strike the unbelievers - both in Revelation 8-9 and 16.

The first to come are “ugly, festering sores [that] broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast” (Revelation 16:2) - the radiation sickness that is a marker of the broken nuclear reactor in 7x03, which claims as James as one of its first victims. If you don’t remember who he was while watching that episode, look back to 6x02, where he’s one of the people attacking Octavia in the Eligius IV mess hall. He breaks faith with her, and here suffers the consequences of that.

The second and third plagues speak of both the seas and the rivers turning to blood - references to the rivers of blood created by Sheidheda’s massacres, first of the Faithful and then of the Children of Gabriel.

The fourth plague, the sun scorching people with fire, takes us to the eclipse in 7x13, where the sky is red with the eclipse. This leads to the fifth and sixth plagues - the kingdom being plunged into darkness as Emori kills power to the reactor to bring down the shield, which makes it possible for “locusts [to come] down on the earth” (Revelation 9:3) and devour those “who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads” (Revelation 9:5).

It is only the final plague - “rumblings… and a severe earthquake… [where] the great city split into three parts” (Revelation 16:18-19) - that strikes where Octavia is, with “a loud voice from the throne, saying ‘It is done!’” (Revelation 16:17). This line from Revelation calls back to what Octavia says to Hope in 6x13 before her Ascension - “Be brave, tell him it is done” - a sign that Octavia is needed elsewhere again. And soon enough she does depart to Bardo, alongside Clarke. Meanwhile, the survivors remaining on Earth have to reunite the three groups split in the bunker - those in the rotunda (Hope, Jordan, Gaia, Indra, Miller), those in the rec room (Raven, Murphy, Emori, Jackson) and those in the bunkrooms (Echo, Niylah) - to prepare for the final war and judgment.

The Fall of Babylon

Before Octavia can bring light to the world and grant humanity transcendence, there is still one more key part of Revelation that must come to pass, and that is the fall of Babylon: That is, in this ‘verse, Clarke.

Throughout Biblical narrative, Babylon stands in opposition to Jerusalem and its righteousness, just how in The 100 narrative Clarke and Octavia have always been set as foils to each other. Now, Clarke isn’t evil per se, but she’s always been set in her ways and doubles down when questioned about her past deeds - as we see both in how she faces the Primes in 6x03 and the Judge in 7x16. She doesn’t learn, and so she fails. Clarke, like Babylon, is locked out of heaven for not learning the patience and humility that Octavia did: “For her sins are piled up to Heaven, and God has remembered her sins. Give back to her as she has given, pay her back double for what she has done.” (Revelation 18:5-6).

With Clarke fallen, it is now time to begin the Final Judgment.

Final Test and Judgment

After Clarke’s fall, someone must step in to advocate for humanity, to guide the Judge’s gaze to the righteous, to the Saviour - Raven steps through the glowing orb to do so. So which figure in Revelation is most suited here? None other than the writer of Revelation themselves, historically considered to be John of Patmos, who is given these visions by the angels as a warning for humanity.

Raven bore witness to a number of the plagues, and while not always a believer in Octavia - in fact, out of all characters around for all seven seasons, they’ve shared the least screentime with each other - but they’ve still fought on the same side. Also of relevance here is that Raven’s been granted visions in the narrative of the show, like John of Patmos has in Revelation - though hers came as a result of ALIE.

While the Judge takes Raven to the battlefield in Bardo to prove humanity to be unworthy, this battlefield is instead where Octavia proves humanity to be worthy. Indra and Wonkru follow Octavia’s lead, finally recognizing that their only way to salvation was through her (see John 4:16 above), and after the Disciples too laid down their weapons, humanity is deemed worthy and the Judge grants them eternal life in the form of transcendence - rising to the heavens in the manner of the Rapture, “We who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

Where is the Judgment of the Dead?

Now, one thing missing in season 7 compared to the Book of Revelation and Jesus’ Second Coming is the Judgment of the Dead and welcoming those worthy into the domain of Heaven.

A longstanding phrase in The 100 has been “May We Meet Again”. This is part of the Traveler’s Blessing of Skaikru, and one that they use frequently with one another even in non-death contexts. So with that phrase, a lot of people expected that the dead would also be able to be part of transcendence somehow, and that beloved characters would then also be present on the beach in the final scene as they rejected transcendence to live mortal lives.

I believe, given everything in the past posts about Octavia, that had she been the one to go into the ball of light to face the Judge personally, rather than saving humanity on the battlefield, that this would have happened.

While logically I believe the best form for the Judge to take for Octavia would have been Diyoza, since Diyoza was her greatest teacher, her mind would be more likely to choose her greatest love, Lincoln - who, if we go back to Part 1 of this series, we remember is the other Saviour of this show’s narrative.

That would have been a reunion even more epic than the Clarke and Lexa reunion that the show gave us, for Lincoln and Octavia were far closer and together for far longer. And if the Transcendents possessed the powers that they do - instant genocide by crystallization at the wave of an arm, transcendence through the blink of an eye, restoration of healthy and whole bodies if those souls reject transcendence - then surely raising the dead would’ve been a simple task.

The only reason that couldn’t happen was extratextual - there was no way Ricky would work with JRoth again, and so this extra dimension, this aspect of the narrative that could have made things so much sweeter and less bitter, had to be put aside.

Now, that doesn’t diminish Octavia’s Saviour narrative in the least - she did still save humanity. She did still bear the sins of the human race, she was still mocked, cast out and sent to her crucifixion by those who denied her. She did still return from that symbolic death, resurrected, then ascended. When she faced Wonkru again - remember, that battlefield in 7x16 is the first time the bulk of Wonkru has seen her since 5x13 - it was in her Second Coming to bring the Final Judgment to them. The trials they’d faced in Sanctum in her absence showed them the truth - that they had to believe in her again to achieve their salvation.

She was the Way, the Truth and the Life of The 100 universe, and no one would have reached transcendence except through her.

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