Not everyone understands how I can spend a year here and still choose my people over them.
[It's been brought up a few times. Clarke knows how it sounds when she talks about her people. There's a hard line there. The fact that she doesn't hide it probably makes her different from other Displaced. There are those with the drive to go home, and then there are the ones who are here, wanting to stay. The middleground is rarely broached, the murky understanding that going one way or another leaves some permanent absences.
Ones that come with a bit more choice than what they currently have available.]
Do you think bringing them here isn't doing right by them?
[As it is, she does need to ask. Clarke hasn't always done right by her people. It's why she focuses on that. Good for them? Keeping them alive? She's done it. But they've had to live with the consequences of her actions, even if she's attempted denial at that very fact.]
A year ain't much, in the grand scheme of our lives. Your loyalties stay with your home. Saw that first hand plenty myself.
（ he loved the boys in his company, don't get him wrong. but he'd still choose his brothers over them, every time. there are times that might be selfish, and there are times it's just human nature. ）
I can't speak to that, as I don't know them. But any time anyone makes choices for a larger group, I think there's the possibility that the folks on whose behalf you're making that choice won't see the how or why of its necessity. It's a hard line to walk and I surely don't envy you the choice.
（ he understands her position, certainly. but he wouldn't want another person making the choice for him sight unseen, neither. which, ultimately, is why he ain't one of her people. ）
We haven't always had the room for us to discuss a choice like that. Too many apocalyptic situations.
[The thought of being able to is nice, however. As much as she wants to free her people from the Primes, free her people from whatever doom was waiting for them there, she knows it's unlikely to come with a long conversation.]
It's something I'd be hoping to give them by letting them come here. I'd understand if they'd decide not to stand by me anymore once they got here. I just want them to have that right.
[It sounds like a pipe dream. But putting it that way? It makes Clarke want it all the more for her people.]
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[It's been brought up a few times. Clarke knows how it sounds when she talks about her people. There's a hard line there. The fact that she doesn't hide it probably makes her different from other Displaced. There are those with the drive to go home, and then there are the ones who are here, wanting to stay. The middleground is rarely broached, the murky understanding that going one way or another leaves some permanent absences.
Ones that come with a bit more choice than what they currently have available.]
Do you think bringing them here isn't doing right by them?
[As it is, she does need to ask. Clarke hasn't always done right by her people. It's why she focuses on that. Good for them? Keeping them alive? She's done it. But they've had to live with the consequences of her actions, even if she's attempted denial at that very fact.]
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（ he loved the boys in his company, don't get him wrong. but he'd still choose his brothers over them, every time. there are times that might be selfish, and there are times it's just human nature. ）
I can't speak to that, as I don't know them. But any time anyone makes choices for a larger group, I think there's the possibility that the folks on whose behalf you're making that choice won't see the how or why of its necessity. It's a hard line to walk and I surely don't envy you the choice.
（ he understands her position, certainly. but he wouldn't want another person making the choice for him sight unseen, neither. which, ultimately, is why he ain't one of her people. ）
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[The thought of being able to is nice, however. As much as she wants to free her people from the Primes, free her people from whatever doom was waiting for them there, she knows it's unlikely to come with a long conversation.]
It's something I'd be hoping to give them by letting them come here. I'd understand if they'd decide not to stand by me anymore once they got here. I just want them to have that right.
[It sounds like a pipe dream. But putting it that way? It makes Clarke want it all the more for her people.]