clarke distinctly remembers only giving him bits and pieces of information about her home world, most generalized and sweeping. none of the specifics, at least not without the dressing and plausible deniability of hypotheticals. so why does this conversation feel like it's taken such sharp and sudden turn into directly calling her out? her and the remnants of the 100; all of the sky people, all of the clans in the face of the apocalypse. easily crushed, easily destroyed, easily lost — and it's hard not to take that as a condemnation of jasper jordan, who'd stared down at the deathwave and decided he'd rather paint dnr on his hand and go out smiling instead of fighting anymore. )
The same person could fight tooth and nail to survive on instinct alone, willingly accept the consequences, and still decide it wasn't worth to go through a second time. It's not an either or scenario. The people, the times, the circumstances, and the desire to live — all of those change. I don't think you'd get any more solid a definition of true fortitude than you would true hysteria.
I can't offer you a textbook definition or example. But I guarantee those who've swallowed their consequences without issue somethings wished they'd choked on them.
cw: suicide mention
clarke distinctly remembers only giving him bits and pieces of information about her home world, most generalized and sweeping. none of the specifics, at least not without the dressing and plausible deniability of hypotheticals. so why does this conversation feel like it's taken such sharp and sudden turn into directly calling her out? her and the remnants of the 100; all of the sky people, all of the clans in the face of the apocalypse. easily crushed, easily destroyed, easily lost — and it's hard not to take that as a condemnation of jasper jordan, who'd stared down at the deathwave and decided he'd rather paint dnr on his hand and go out smiling instead of fighting anymore. )
The same person could fight tooth and nail to survive on instinct alone, willingly accept the consequences, and still decide it wasn't worth to go through a second time. It's not an either or scenario. The people, the times, the circumstances, and the desire to live — all of those change. I don't think you'd get any more solid a definition of true fortitude than you would true hysteria.
I can't offer you a textbook definition or example. But I guarantee those who've swallowed their consequences without issue somethings wished they'd choked on them.