If this isn't a kingdom then I don't know what is (Bellamy/Clarke, 1/1)

[miss_blanche]

Title: If this isn't a kingdom then I don't know what is (based on a prompt from fluffyfrolicker of the same name).
Rating: PG13
Pairing/Characters: Bellamy/Clarke leaderSHIP (this is the best term in the world).
Summary: Queen. That is what an orphan Princess grows up to be, after all. Set in the period between 1x09 and 1x10.
Word count: 790
A/N: Again... oops?

Comments

[fluffyfrolicker]

This is beautiful and I plan to leave you a longer comment once I'm no longer on my phone.

BUT SERIOUSLY THO. WONDERFUL.

[fluffyfrolicker]

She resents it but maybe it’s partly the way she looks too. All braided hair and innocent blue eyes. She proves them wrong time and time again, defies whatever inherent belief they have that her prettiness stops her from being useful or hard enough for the earth, but it doesn’t matter. “Good one, Princess,” they’ll say. All backhanded compliments and smirks. The worst traditions survive nuclear apocalypses, she thinks.

THIS. Beautiful. Clarke's awareness of everything. BRILLIANT.

None of that matter to Clarke. Because that look that lasted a moment was one saturated with sympathy, and she knows the real reason they’re not already walking is because Bellamy knows there are no survivors.

oh Bellamy, you strange beautiful creature.

Queen.

That is what an orphan Princess grows up to be, after all.

YOUR USE OF PRINCESS/QUEEN THROUGHOUT THIS FIC IS BEAUTIFUL.

He doesn’t call her Princess again.

OF COURSE.

this is lovely, thank you ♥

[stainofmylove]

Oh man, I love this so much. Especially how you give voice to the class and privilege issues between Clarke and Bellamy (and the camp) -- it's one of the most fascinating aspects of the series for me and is touched on verbally in canon so little.

But no one says Princess with quite the same distaste as Bellamy. For Bellamy it’s all about the product of privilege thing, because she knows he knows by now that she is useful, and she doesn’t entertain ideas that Bellamy spends his time thinking about just how pretty she is.

Perfection.

Ugh, all I wanna do is gush about these two leading a colony together and this fic is not helping, lol. So so so great, thank you so much for writing <3

[snoozin81]

The worst traditions survive nuclear apocalypses, she thinks.

Ugh, how true, when we’re forced back to baser instincts they’re never pretty.

I love the class struggle between Clarke and Bellamy and you’ve depicted it perfectly. Heart breaking and beautiful.

Queen.

That is what an orphan Princess grows up to be, after all.

Ouch. And Wow. And Wonderful.

I can’t even begin to articulate how much I love this.

[midnightblack07]

LOVED IT!

I love how well you structured this around Bellamy's nickname for her because it's always been a thing that's given me a number of embarrassingly fan-girly feelings haha

(also, I'm forever bitter that we were cheated out of a ~comforting scene after she saw the Exodus Ship crash and burn, so this fic pleases me immensely)

[glyceria86504]

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