maywemeetagaincommandr:

thedoctor-smith:

commanderoswald:

Apparently Clarke’s gun has all the names of people she’s lost and Lexa’s name is the biggest………this is fine

This is kind of grotesque, I think – The Commander of Death carries a rifle now with the names of people whose death she had a hand in – or, at least, blames herself for.   She still carries this burden.  

Honestly it is rather strange having the names of those shes lost and misses, written on a gun, a tool thats only purpose is to take away life.

Agreed – wouldn’t it have been more fitting if she’d made some kind of memorial?  Some place she might visit?  Writing their names on her gun only reinforces the Wanheda problem, even the colonialist overtones that she is part of an invading force that took the lives of the locals.  Is it her way of punishing herself, reminding herself she is a killer? Is the gun a representation of her past and her conscience?

What does she shoot with this rifle, anyway?  Why keep it?  What animals survived praimfaya?  Is she expecting the Grounders to return and be a threat? She and the girl are alone, have been for six years, but Clarke still carries a gun. What does that say?  That weapon keeps Clarke rooted in her past.