Flarke

Flarke is the het ship between Clarke Griffin and Finn Collins from the The 100 fandom.

Canon
BEGINNINGS

While Clarke is the straight laced, serious warrior, Finn is the carefree, adventurous troublemaker who likes to have fun. He entices Clarke to live from her heart more so than her head, although this dynamic does not last long. Once faced with the calamities of living on Earth, Clarke has a more lacking moral compass, while Finn takes on the role of peacemaker and good faith towards the Grounders, which was originally exemplified in Wells. As such, while always looking out for one another, Clarke and Finn bump heads constantly on how to survive.

ROMANCE

They have sex once, but the morning after Raven arrives and Clarke learns she's Finn's girlfriend. Although he and Raven stay together, Finn tells Clarke that he loves her and is in love with her. Finn and Clarke reach a crossroads when Finn goes to Lincoln and asks him to set up a meeting between the Grounders and the leader of their camp — Clarke. Finn's faith in Clarke's ability and desire to achieve peace is not returned by Clarke, who asks Bellamy to follow them as military back-up. Jasper's reaction to PTSD has him shoot at the Grounders and people are killed and wounded as the peace attempt is a wash. Only Finn and Octavia understand the implications of this, while Raven, Bellamy, Jasper and Clarke only see enemies to defeat. The moment seems to be one in which Finn realises that Clarke doesn't trust him and that maybe they are just too different.

"Well if we weren't at war already, we sure as hell are now. You didn't have to trust the Grounders — you just had to trust me"

- Finn

AFTERMATH

Raven breaks up with Finn as she realises he loves Clarke, soon after which Finn and Clarke go hunting for food together and are caught by Grounders. Anya asks Clarke to save Anya's second, Tris, who was injured by their bridge bomb, so Clarke and Finn work together to try and save her, but can't. They're separated and ordered killed, but saved just in time by Lincoln. Clarke is overcome with joy and relief at discovering that Finn is alive and they hug. In the tunnels, they're attacked by a reaper who Finn kills and as he tries to deal with what he's done, Clarke tries to comfort him. He tells her he should've fought for her and makes a confession to her:

Finn and Clarke rush back to camp and find that Raven's been shot. Clarke tends to her and Finn decides to get supplies from Lincoln's cave to save Raven. In spite of Clarke's heartbreak and her rejection of Finn, she has to tell him as she leaves that she can't lose him again.

As Finn gravitates more and more toward the fog of war, Clarke becomes more levelheaded and they're are driven apart when Finn's desperate search for her results in him killing 19 Grounders. For a while, Finn is unfazed by the severity of his actions, but eventually he concedes to Clarke he doesn't recognise himself anymore. Clarke can't look past this, until Finn gives himself over to the Grounders to save everyone else. To save him from torture, Clarke stabs Finn to death, but not before telling him she loves him too.

Fanon
This was and still is one of the most popular het pairings on the series. Mostly Bellarke fanatics hate Finn and post hate about Flarke, but there is also a faction of the fandom angry with Finn as they feel he played two women and didn't seem apologetic about it.

Songs

 * promise | BEN HOWARD
 * the glow-in-the-dark forest at night

Fandom
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