Clexa

Clexa is the femslash ship between Lexa and Clarke from The 100 fandom.

Canon
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6 years after Lexa's murder, Clarke's surrogate daughter, Madi, decides to take the flame and become the new commander. Clarke is against it, but after some hours can't hold it in and has to ask Madi if she sees Lexa. Madi is well aware that Lexa is the main reason why Clarke doesn't want Madi to have the flame, as maybe it's too painful for Clarke to still have some kind of present day connection to Lexa. All the same, Clarke tells Madi that she can't bring herself to destroy the flame.

Fanon
Clexa is the most popular pairing from the fandom, and also has a remarkable legacy: following the haphazard accidental murder of Lexa, the series (and network) was accused of egregiously following the Bury Your Gays trope, a mark of severe homophobia in the entertainment industry. The outrage following Lexa's death had a positive outcome in the creation of The Lexa Pledge, ClexaCon — a fan convention dedicated to queer representation in entertainment – We Deserve Better (which details the case of Lexa), LGBT Fans Deserve Better, which mines and releases data pertaining to the plight of LGBTQIAP+ representation in media and the increase in and continued coverage and awareness of the issue.

Quotes
"The dead are gone, Clarke. The living are hungry"

- Lexa

Fandom
AO3

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Trivia

 * Clexa was the #1 most reblogged ship on Tumblr of 2016
 * Thomas McDonell (Finn Collins) realised that they would be an item on the series before anyone else (including Eliza Taylor) based off of their chemistry