#sheidheda

[echos-muses]

i will never not scream at the top of my fucking lungs that she deserved better. i will never not cheer clarke on for murdering that man. i would’ve done it without regrets too. she was a fucking child. she was a child. she was what, like,, 12 mentally?? i know all of them were asleep for 125 years but you get the fucking point. and sure, he didn’t kill her kill her, but he took her life from her. he put her under a memory capture procedure but went way too far and caused her to have a massive fucking stroke in her brain stem. she was completely, irreparably paralyzed after. she could hear and see everything around her but that’s it. she would never talk again, eat again, walk again, etc because cadogan took that from her. he took a child’s like away from her and left her there. she was alone and scared and she didn’t want to leave clarke in solitude. she was a child who had the weight of the world put on her shoulders. i mean she became a leader of the people at 12. and she did it to save her fucking mom. and what makes madi’s death even sadder? when octavia was about to mercy kill her so that clarke wouldn’t have to kill her own daughter, clarke began to hum the same song she hummed when she mercy killed atom in season one. the same song charlotte hummed when she killed wells. i fucking hate bill cadogan.

[laufire]

he's still so funny for this.

[spider-heda]

JR Bourne, ressources RPG - 400*640  

Crédit : spider-heda or renescence

[mynerdcorneroftheworld]

We're unarmed. I know you're afraid to walk away from everything you've spent your lives training for. I am too. My brother believed as you do.. that transcendence -- whatever that means -- is within reach. He died for that belief and for that he'll never get there. Never transcend. I don't know what I believe, but I do know that if we fight this war we don't deserve to find out if he was right. We don't deserve to survive. 

We fail, we die.

[dedalvs]

Hey, I just wondered how you would say dark in Trigedasleng ? I always wondered how you would say dark heda or something. It'd be nice to know, thank for your work as a language creator on the 100 and other shows :)

I mean, we did that. That was Sheidheda. But in fact, the word for "dark" is riski. I liked that one (etymology is what it sounds like).

[float-me-now]

No song will resound, no wail will rise No cry will be heard when curtain falls.

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Lyrics by Insomnium (Song: The Antagonist)

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[stormkpr]

[delicatebluebirdruins]

oh oh I think it would be kind of cool the first time we see Sheidheda as an adult scarred and bloody then the camera turns and it's actually a kid just made to grow up too soon and they can all pick how they appear in the mind space.

Sheidheda Should Have Been A Teenager

Okay, so hear me out, cause I really feel like this would have made his storyline more interesting, more nuanced, and more thematically resonant. 

We first hear about Sheidheda from Gaia (a flame-keeper) as the “dark commander” who killed three of his flame-keepers before being killed by his fourth. And that’s really all the evidence Gaia gives for why this commander was evil. But from what we see of the flame-keepers… they do not have the nightblood novitiates or the commanders interests at heart and are in fact a danger to them. From what we see in season 3, for example, the nightblood novitiates seem to only have Titus and Lexa as guardians/teachers/adult figures in their lives- and Titus (and Lexa but we’re talking about flame-keepers), besides essentially raising these children for the slaughter, was emotionally distant/unequipped to raise a bunch of kids (”love is weakness”) and played favorites- in which kid he wanted to live and kill all the others (as Luna says about Lexa being Titus’ favorite and what Lexa says about Aden being commander after her (in front of the other kids, even) supports this as just a thing that the people surrounding the nightblood kids did). And then Titus kills Lexa (unintentionally, but still he killed her while he was trying to control and manipulate her). And I feel like it’s worth noting that the whole system revolves around child commanders that aren’t expected to last long, with other (younger and more pliable children) in the wings should the they die- this is the perfect system for allowing (head?) flame-keepers to discretely (or not so discretely, see Sheidheda) do away with commanders that they deem too troublesome- that don’t follow their advice or, like Lexa, try to change traditions. And then the flame-keepers are still alive and institutionally powerful enough to control the narrative of the dead commander’s legacy.

So it’s easy to Sheidheda as having been made a commander as a child (say the same age as Madi, even), who’s just been forced to kill the children he grew up with to survive. And now, he’s friendless, surrounded by people watching with hawk eyes for weakness, with only a flame-keeper as an ally. A flame-keeper who’s emotionally distant (probably neglectful), who probably views Sheidheda as replaceable, maybe even would have preferred another child as commander and now resents Sheidheda for it. (And with how much power the flame-keepers have, especially over the nightblood children; well who would have stopped the flame-keeper if they were outright abusive). It’s to see how Sheidheda would see violence as the only way to survive (that is after all how he’s commander and his classmates are dead) and resents his flame-keeper or feel like his flame-keeper is a danger to him. So he kills his flame-keeper. And the next flame-keeper distrusts Sheidheda and Sheidheda distrusts the flame-keeper and eventually murders this flame-keeper, too. And so on, until the fourth flame-keeper murders Sheidheda, at say, age sixteen, confirming to Sheidheda that flame-keepers are dangerous, out to get him, and that he was right to kill the first three.  

So, what? Am I saying that Shiedheda should have been the good guy, an unfairly maligned commander? Not really. I still think Sheidheda should be a ruthless, merciless, violent commander who, paraphrasing from Luna, was taught by the flame-keepers to revel in his anger and violence. I am saying it would be more interesting if he was painted (at least somewhat) sympathetic villain, as a teenager who embodies of the cycle of violence. 

I also think it would be interesting if he genuinely had what he thought were Madi’s best interests at heart.

Maybe he sees himself in Madi (a child commander of a society that uses and discards nightblood children) or maybe he sees the nighblood children he grew up with before he was forced to kill them. 

And this could have easily fit with his actions for most of season 6. He repeatedly tells Madi to kill Gaia, because from his experience with flame-keepers, they’re dangerous so you’d better kill them before they kill you. And hell, Sheidheda is not exactly wrong about Gaia, either. Yes in the end she decides to sacrifice the flame to save Madi, but before that she stated- multiple times- that she would murder Madi before allowing Sheidheda control of Wonkru.

Sheidheda’s plans for murdering all the primes? Well, Madi clearly wants revenge for them murdering Clarke and they’ll be a threat to Madi if they find out she’s a nightblood. Better to kill them all now.

Telling her to kill Jackson while he’s forcibly taking her bone marrow is pretty self-explanatory (especially when you consider he didn’t seem like he was going to do anything when Russell ordered them to take enough doses that would kill her).

Even threatening to “kill this child” if Raven doesn’t stop trying to delete his code fits with this if you view it as self preservation (he’s looking out for Madi but he’s not willing to die for her) and/or a bluff because he thinks he’s the only one looking out for Madi and he thinks she’ll die without him (he’s projecting his experiences of being a child commander onto her).

And can you imagine the reveal, if for episodes we’d been hearing about this scary, evil commander and oh no, he’s starting to control Madi and telling her to murder Gaia, and then we go into Madi’s mindscape and holy shit Sheidheda’s sixteen.

And thematically, we could get into the cycle of violence. How when children are taught they have to kill to survive, that violence and anger are strength, they will kill and keep killing. How this system of child commanders and child soldiers hurts children, and is bad all around. How in order to “do better”, you have to stop this cycle of violence (and you can’t keep using fucking child soldiers, yes I’m talking about Madi). And- especially if you keep some of the season 7 “Sheidheda in Russell’s body” plot- the question of “how do you stop the cycle of violence when those still caught in the cycle are determined to still commit violence?” is much more present than what we actually got in season 7. 

[urmomsstuntdouble]

ok now that i am almost done with the 100 let me say. how utterly disappointed i am with diyoza and russel prime. like the show kinda fell apart in terms of making sense after season 3, but it didnt get super busted until mid season 5 i think? like the eligius people returning was a bit iffy and i think they could’ve had a similar conflict break out without them- like maybe wonkru breaks up and go back to their original clans to fight over the valley but they’re reunified again by madi, and all the dark commander stuff actually has weight over the plot instead of just being a funky sidequest for her in season 6. like i get why they went the route they did but it was a bit erm stupid i think. 

anyway all that is to say, diyoza and russel prime are way better and more interesting characters than the story they’re in, and they have so much depth that goes unexplored. like theyre both very compelling in different ways. diyoza’s handling by the story does piss me off a little bit more because of how everyone’s like oh she’s so awful she was a terrorist but like,,, based on the descriptions of what she did, that’s kinda fair? like you have this woman who grows up and trains to be a navy seal and then in the process learns just how fucked up the US government actually is, and becomes a vigilant anti fascist, which results in her being labelled a terrorist, but she has such conviction in her beliefs that she’d rather kill herself than be taken in by the government. but throughout her time on the show other characters are just like um actually she’s a terrorist and evil <3 like theres a scene where raven is yelling at her and im like. raven has done this exact same shit and also protects people who have done this exact same shit, the difference is just that diyoza was acting against fascism the US government so therefore she’s bad. sigh. because she’s really given a lot of depth when it comes to her relationship with octavia and how she handles the conflict over the valley in season 5. and idk i feel like a lot of this depth isn’t really about her, it’s about therapizing octavia or outsmarting clarke and stuff like that, which is fine i guess? octavia definitely needs some therapizing and clarke needs to be taken down a peg but can we get some good diyoza centric content that’s just about her and her beliefs? like i want to know what exactly her political philosophies are and what she actually did! rah! i love this character, she’s probably one of the most interesting characters to be introduced since..oh season 2?? but i dont think she’s given the respect she deserves by the show and it’s just. rah!

then there’s russel prime, who’s deffo written better in season 6 (season 7 sure is a season of television), but he’s also very interesting to me? like i feel like a central theme of his character is guilt, bc he feels very guilty for killing josephine the first during the first red sun, and that’s sort of guided him ever since? but he also feels guilty about all the people whose bodies he’s snatched, and also he’s never had to lose a family member or close friend due to the fact that they’re all body snatchers too. and it results in this very interesting character who’s killed a lot of people, but he only cares about them to the extent that they’re keeping him alive and worshipping him and stuff like that. and like he feels bad about it but i don’t know that he really considers them to be people?? like they’re just hosts to him but also real people but i don’t know that he cares enough to fully consider all of them to be different individuals. maybe he used to care more about it with himself, but less so now. but then he’s also very defined by his family and the other primes, because he might feel bad about his own body snatching, but as soon as it’s his daughter or wife, it no longer matters who he has to kill. which is pretty common for the 100 tbh but what’s interesting about it to me is that ever since josephine got resurrected the first time, he’s never really had to seriously deal with loss. like it’s been centuries since russel has had to deal with the death of a loved one, if he ever did back on earth. and that makes for a really interesting character- an immortal who doesn’t really know what it’s like to lose someone that matters to him, and kind of enforces immortality on the people he loves. and it’s just a great concept that i wish could be explored more deeply without the whole. he’s EVIL and INSANE and he WANTS TO KILL KIDS. like idk i think we could’ve done with more deep dives into these characters instead of spending so much time with clarke fucking griffin

[zhangyulian]

These two characters have been living in my head rent free lately and I thought to myself, Spider and Madi would make an epic duo fighting alongside each other and even being friends.

A) Both are orphans of war

B) They both share parent trauma (Spider’s parents died attempting to protect what they thought was humanity’s only way to survive, and Madi’s parents died attempting to keep her safe against the Fleimkepas and other warriors in the last minutes of Praimfaya before the Earth was scorched in fire)

C) Both have grown up in a forest (Spider in Omatikaya territory, and Madi in Shallow Valley)

D) They’re both children turned teens that carry a lot of baggage for such a young age and are very aware of it

E) They both wish to be normal

D) They’re both loyal, stubborn, independent, selfless and loving

F) They’re not afraid to fight back

G) Their genetics makes them different from everyone else (Spider is a human amongst Na’vi, Madi is a natural born Natblida amongst red blooded Grounders)

H) Speak another native language besides English (Spider Na’vi Omatikaya dialect, Madi Trigedasleng)

I) Both are allies to clans related to trees (Spider = Omatikaya living in the forest, Madi = Trikru also living in the forest)

J) Their allies have human enemies (Omatikaya = RDA humans, Trikru = the Mountain Men)

K) They’re both adopted by others in a way without calling them “mom” or “dad” (Spider = Norm and Max, Madi = Clarke)

L) Both have curly hair!

M) They’ve been taken at least once by evil forces (Spider taken by RDA and Recoms, Madi taken over by Sheidheda and The Primes of Sanctum)

N) Both know how to use weapons to defend and attack (Spider = bow and knife, Madi = swords, knives, guns, and traps)

O) Both are surrounded by future tech (Spider = RDA, Madi = Eligius)

P) Both are involved in some type of neural connection (Spider surrounded by Eywa and living creatures using queues, Madi with The Flame mind chip embedded in her skull)

Q) Both we’re tortured via invasive mind surfing devices (Spider by the RDA, Madi by The Disciples)

R) Both like to joke around, have fun, and try not to think about the craziness of the world around them other than the happy memories they can make

S) They look out for kids near their age (Spider with the Sully siblings, and Madi with Luca and the Sanctumite children)

T) They’re both children born into wars they didn’t ask to be a part of, but stay strong for those they care about and make the best of their situations

U) Both wear some type of paint on their bodies (Spider with blue paint, Madi with her own blood)

I have other ideas of them meeting in different scenarios. I’ll share them in separate posts, but let me know what you guys think of the above info! And if you have any scenario ideas you’d like to see these two in?

[its-tea-time-darling]

sheidheda is so dumb he should've put on his little helmet again 🙄🙄🙄

[laufire]

indra: time for this bitch to experience his second death.

sheidheda: d'aw she's gonna miss me <3

[doortotomorrow]

MURPHY + EMORI

Sheidheda: Must be hard settling for one woman, when as a god, you could have as many as you want. Murphy: You don't know Emori.

Beautiful Stranger by Madonna

[okmcintyre]

[hermywolf]

You think why they fucked up season 7 of The 100?

i don't know why exactly but there were many factors at play.

jroth's story was already going downhill for a bit and we knew he had a certain grudge against bellarke since it was supposed to happen since s2 and kept getting pushed back. then bob morley asked for less screentime in s7, due to among other things his depression getting worse after he and eliza's miscarriage. jroth didn't like that, and even less so when eliza stood by her husband, and so he not only gave both their characters less screentime to prioritize characters like echo or hope or even jordan and fucking sheidheda (??) but also butchered their characterization as a. idk. punishment? ig? then there were all the rewrites, plus with covid they had a bunch of complications with shooting but refused to postpone it, jroth was getting ripped apart by present and past cast members for many reasons. he'd been giving clexas rare crumbs to keep them watching as bait since s3 and he pulled that as a last resort in 7x13 but it didn't even work because that wasn't even lexa, that was just fanservice and it wasn't even GOOD fanservice. bellamy wasn't even supposed to die either. the whole madi thing to punish eliza was awful and needlessly cruel. transcendence is virtually the same concept as the city of light too and yet this time it's framed as good. the whole point of the show is for humanity to survive and then it just doesn't. all these characters' fights and arcs feel cheap and badly ended with a few rare exceptions.

overall i'd say the reason for this shit ending is a petty, shitty writer with a grudge and a vendetta against both cast and fans, scheduling conflicts, last-minute rewrites, a misplaced focus on background characters, and all around a bunch of terrible decisions when it came to narrative arcs. just. it's just so bad.

[saintclarkegriffin]

I didn't expect so much interaction with this post... but I'm glad I'm not the only one still feeling so strongly about the show's ending 🫣 The thing is... I actually restrained myself because there's just SO much wrong with how the 100 ended that I could talk about it forever, without ever repeating myself.

Anyway, on a more positive note, I found a fix-it that does pretty much everything that season 7 should've done. The general outline is the same as the one in season 7 (the anomaly, the stones connecting the planets, Sheidheda, Cadogan, the final test and "transcendence" etc), but the writer takes the plot and the characters in a direction that is much more true to the themes of the story, and explains the stones, the test and "transcendence" in a way that makes perfect sense with the previous lore of the show, and doesn't pull "it's aliens!" out of its ass like the show-writers did. It also has great character moments, cool and clever twists, and a bitter-sweet but incredibly satisfying ending!

The fic is called "It doesn't end here" and the writer is immortalpramheda on AO3. Here's the link for anyone who might be interested:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28278900?view_full_work=true

I'm sharing because this fic really helped me after the atrocity that was season 7, and in my head I essentially replaced what happened in the show with this fic. This is my Canon. Hope this can help some of you as well! 🤗❤️

The 100 ended four years ago so I think I can confidently say that i'm forever going to be stuck between the denial phase and the anger phase. No accepting or moving on for me.

I mean for the most part I just pretend that season 7 never happened, like I block it out of my mind. But when I do remember it happened, I just get incredibly angry. And I know it's not healthy to still be this upset over a fictional show that ended in 2020, but I can't help it.

I think about how Bellamy was character assassinated and then killed off in the most brutal and stupid way possible, shot by CLARKE of all people, over a damn BOOK, that she didn't even take!!! I think about how he died all alone, without a chance of saying goodbye to any of his friends or his SISTER!!! I mean think about how crazy that is, Finn died but got to say goodbye to Clarke, Lexa died but got to say goodbye to Clarke not once but twice, Lincoln died but got to say goodbye to Octavia, Jasper died but got to say goodbye to Monty, Kane died but got to say goodbye to Abby and Indra, and Bellamy??? The male lead of the show Bellamy??? He dies and he doesn't even get to say goodbye to OCTAVIA??? The Blakes don't even get a proper final scene together??? And I get angry.

I think about how Clarke, the main lead of the show, was cast aside for half the season and then also character assassinated, turned into a selfish vindictive cold-blooded person who never learns from her mistakes and suddenly doesn't care about being the good guy or doing the right thing... even though the entire point of her character arc was that she was fundamentally a good person, selfless, altruistic and empathetic, who was forced into impossible moral dilemmas. But she never stopped caring!!! Making these impossible choices never got easier for her!!! Because she was good!!! But suddenly in season 7 she was turned into everything that Clarke antis accused her of being. And what's Jason's excuse for this? "Oh, well, if you think about it she was never the hero... she was doing awful things early on in the show, just against people we didn't care about like Mount Weather... In season 7 we put the audience in Mount Weather's shoes"... excuse me???? As if Clarke didn't try literally everything in her power to get her people back, without having to harm/kill the people in Mount Weather??? As if Clarke didn't decide to pull the lever only when she saw her own mother and her friends being strapped to a table to be tortured and killed for their bone marrow??? As if Clarke didn't feel distraught over what she had to do, to the point that she felt like she had to leave her people and be on her own in the woods for months??? As if she didn't have nightmares??? As if she didn't feel guilt and regret over Mount Weather and Maya up to freaking season 6??? And I get angry.

I think about how Bellarke, whether romantic, platonic or something in between, was the MAIN relationship of the show, with the most development and screen time. And that relationship was absolutely destroyed in the most contrived, spiteful way possible!!!! Jason had to character assassinate both Bellamy and Clarke to make it happen. That's how resentful of Bellarke and Bellarke shippers he was. Even though he was the freaking show runner!!! He had the power of writing Bellarke platonically from day one!!! But Bob and Eliza confirmed that they were told that Bellarke was romantic in nature, and that's how they performed it!!! Jason was the one who wrote 2x16 and 4x13, arguably two of the most important episodes for Bellarke... he came up with together!!! He took the head and the heart from the fans and put it in the show!!! He wrote Clarke calling Bellamy every day for 2,199 days!!! No one forced him to do that!!! But he did, and for what??? For Clarke to shoot Bellamy in the end and kill him??? Even if he didn't want to make them canon for whatever reason, he could've still written an ending that was respectful of their friendship and history in the show. But no!!! He had to destroy everything that made Bellarke what it was. And I get angry.

I think about how Octavia spent YEARS trying to get back to Bellamy, to see him again and tell him how much she loves him... And then in the second half of season 7, she just gives up on him??? She doesn't even TRY to understand what happened to him on Etherea, she doesn't talk to him, when Bellamy visits her and Clarke she just stands there with a disappointed face and doesn't say a word. And then when Clarke tells her that she killed Bellamy, she just hugs her and tells her that she understands??? And so would the old Bellamy???? The 'old Bellamy' she didn't even TRY to get back, the 'old Bellamy' she simply gave up on??? Literally every character from Octavia to Clarke to Raven to Murphy to Miller to Echo, had to be character assassinated so that Bellamy could die the way he did. Because none of them would've given up on him!!! They all loved Bellamy!!! He was the 'dad' of the deliquents and then the leader of Skaikru on the ring. But suddenly nobody cares about him, nobody tries to understand what happened to him or tries to change his mind, not even his SISTER!!! AND I GET ANGRY.

I think about how the message of season 3 was that 'pain means that you're alive' and 'you don't ease pain, you overcome it', and how it is better to live in an imperfect world than a perfect simulation. And then in season 7 there's Transcendence which is basically the City of Light 2.0, an immortal hive mind where there's no pain and no death. Just "peace" for eternity. But suddenly THIS hive mind is okay... because? Because the Judge and the other aliens (putting aside how ridiculous it is to introduce ALIENS in your show in the very last episode) are fair while A.L.I.E wasn't? There's nothing 'fair' about deciding which species is worthy of Transcendence and which isn't. Especially since the punishment for not passing the test is MASS GENOCIDE. And yet the Judge is portrayed as 'good' and 'fair' while A.L.I.E. was the one actually trying to ensure the survival of the human race!!! And don't get me wrong, A.L.I.E. was evil but in her methods, her motivs were actually morally sound compared to the Judge and the rest of the aliens. They only did what they did because they believed that they were morally superior to all other species, and if one species wasn't 'good' enough according to their moral standards, that meant that they deserved extinction!!!! "But at least with Transcendence you can choose whether you want to transcend or not, A.L.I.E. didn't give you a choice" bullshit!!! If you "choose" not to transcend, the aliens still take away your chance to procreate and have kids from you!!! They make you infirtile against your will!!! Your species still dies with you and your friends!!!! Why? Because some aliens said so!!! And that's supposed to be an happy ending??? Just because all the characters are smiling and hugging, it doesn't make this ending any less horrific once you think about it for like two seconds. And I get angry.

And finally I think about how the entire message of the show was NOT survival like Jason claims, but how 'life should be more than just surviving'. How 'life can be more than impossible choices and a tragic end'. How humans can 'be the good guys' and break the cycle of war and violence and tribalism. And in the end none of that mattered. Humans kept fighting each other up until the last episode and only stopped because they were being 'tested'. They got absorbed into a hive mind and they're going to be stuck there for all eternity, no lesson learned, no real peace gained. Our main characters, that we've followed for seven seasons, are going to eventually die, leaving nothing or no one behind. All the sacrifices, all the impossible choices they've made... completely meaningless, since the 'survival' of the human race was never up to them building a better world and society after all, it was always up to the morally superior aliens. I think about how they got to survive, but they didn't get to live. And I get angry... because I really loved this show and these characters so much... and they just... they deserved better. They really did.