Bellamy- Character Development

Excuses? I'm not talking about excuses, I'm talking about reasons why people act the way they do when they are under tremendous stress, both internal (emotional, psychological) and external (outside threat and terrors).

Bellamy wanted first and foremost to protect his people. That's in the narrative, what has always concerned him the most throughout the seasons. He wanted them to be safe from the constant threats of grounders attacking them. That was his reason for siding with Pike because he didn't trust them because they had betrayed them twice already. There's a deleted scene where Bellamy is voicing, to Octavia, his distrust in them (Indra, Trikru, grounders) for betraying and abandoning them in Mt.Weather to die and he said the only grounder he trusted was Lincoln because he's different/he stood up for the sky people and refused to abandon them, exactly what Pike (after having listening in to their conversation) used to get Bellamy's support.

Bellamy was not privy to what was going on in Polis, he didn't know about the discussions with Lexa, about what Clarke was doing/working toward. It was not some irrational hate and distrust on his part, Bellamy had legit fears and doubts when it came to the grounders. Some argue that his anger and hurt was misdirected, but that's not true. His distrust in them was not crazy, his anger was not crazy, his hurt was not crazy. He could have found another outlet for his anger and hurt, because the Echo betrayal and Clarke choosing to stay in Polis devastated him and he wanted to give up, but Pike knew the right things to say to get the reaction he wanted, to fuel the hurt, anger, self-loathing, guilt and distrust that was already there so he intentionally and wrongly put the blame on Bellamy for the deaths of Gina and their people because he knew Bellamy was already thinking it..."if you hadn't trusted her, trusted them...".

Bellamy wanted his people safe, to protect them against the threat of a grounder army camped outside of their home, an army who refused to let them go looking for supplies when they were running dangerously low on food. They were on house arrest, they were starving and left in the dark with what was going on, apparently to keep them safe. Still, it's not exactly a comforting thought to have a grounder army of 299 trained and seasoned warriors/killers camped outside the gates, especially to someone like Bellamy, in an already fragile state of mind. How can they be sure about their safety if the Commander who rules over the clans (and therefor is her responsibility) can't control her own people? How can they be certain the army won't attack them the moment they displeases her, or she changes her mind (she betrayed them once already)? How can they be sure of their safety when the clans are fighting each other for power and are using the sky people to further their agenda?

All of this are legit reasons for concerns, it's no excuse. Honestly, it's not hard to understand the reasoning behind the actions, but that doesn't make it right, just like how abandoning them at Mt.Weather wasn't right and because of that Clarke, Bellamy and Monty was forced to do something terrible that has left them scarred/suffering PTSD; just like how allowing the bomb drop on TonDC without warning the people wasn't right and because of it over 250 men, women and children died; just like how committing genocide of the Mt.Weather people wasn't right and because of it 382 men, women and children died; just like how killing 299 sleeping warriors on the field wasn't right. All of them terrible decisions. It was done with the intention to protect and save their people. It may seem irrational to sane people, but in their warped minds, they're at war. How you want to justify those things are your business, but not everyone has to agree with you that Bellamy deserves death.

Not sure what to tell you, I'm just telling you what she said.

However, I don't think that Maya meant to include the little mountain children because they are innocents. They didn't know what was going on, there was about 30 little children that was killed in the genocide.

The ARKERS mattered more to the mountain people because they discovered that their blood had a higher tolerance of radiation (or something like that, can't quite remember the explanation right now) because they were space born than the grounders which meant they had no more use of reapers to capture grounders for their harvest program, nor any more use of grounders, so the next stage was bone marrow transplant for a permanent fix.

I mean, the ARKERS would have gladly donated the marrow. Kane offered them a better way out by donations instead of mercilessly drilling into them and killing them in the process because how much marrow do you need for a transplant?