History Fanfic / LightningOnlyStrikesOnce

** After the metric tonne of {{Ship Tease}}ing the two had over the majority of the story [[spoiler:Raven and Anya become a couple at the end of chapter 117.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: The Mountain Men, the Azgeda let by Nia and [[spoiler:Diana Sydney's faction]] all play parts as the villains of this story.

** [[spoiler:Pike who is killed by Lexa in a way that looks like it was done by the Mountain Men in order to prevent Pike from starting a potential war between the Grounders and Skaikru in the future.]]

* BadBoss: The Ice Queen who not only forces an entire village of her own people to vacate the premises so that [[spoiler:Diana Sydney and her people]] can set up shop but force them to provide food and protection for said invaders [[spoiler:so that Diana's people can work on the nuclear missile in piece.]] [[spoiler:After she losses the nuclear missile, Ontari is killed and Clarke escapes she tells her men who raided Trikru land in order to provide food for the Ice Nation to send it up North to her capital perfectly content in letting 9/10ths of her people starve to death in order for her to survive.]]

** After the metric tone of {{Ship Tease}}ing the two had over the majority of the story [[spoiler:Raven and Anya become a couple at the end of chapter 117.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Bellamy who in this story isn't present in a majority of the important events of the show and instead stays in [=TonDC=] as a teacher for Grounder children. [[spoiler:This was deliberate on Lexa's part as she didn't want to risk a future where Bellamy betrays Clarke and starts another potential war like he did in the first timeline so she wanted him as far away from a position of fighting as possible.]]

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* DiscOneFinalBoss: For the first 60 or so chapters of the story the main conflict that the heroes have to content against is The Mountain Men especially since [[spoiler:Emerson is aware of the original timeline and has informed Cage Wallace about it]]. However at the end of chapter 61 [[spoiler:the alliance is able to knock out the majority of the mountain using jobi nuts and, by the end of chapter 64, the majority of the captured Maunon are executed and the few allowed to live are integrated into the Skaikru]]. The remainder of the story revolves around Lexa and co going after Nia and the Azgeda [[spoiler:for their part in helping the Mountain and for kidnapping Clarke and stealing a nuclear missile.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Lexa has a major one in chapter 72 [[spoiler:when she realises that the Ice Queen has Clarke and is taunting her by showing her the braids of her FirstLove Cosita]]. It's enough that Lexa actually starts having a panic attack and breaks down [[spoiler:in fear that Clarke will suffer the same fate as Cosita]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Nia, who viciously and slowly tortured Cosita to death, is gutted and later shot to death through the throat by the very same bow she choose to keep as a souvenir after Cosita died.]]

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler:In chapter 112 Lexa finally achieves her revenge against Nia by gutting her with Cosita's bow a wound that, as Clarke notes, will cause Nia to slowly die over the course of several hours. However Lexa isn't able to feel satisfaction about said kill as it feels like a hollow victory and that Cosita, how practised mercy over cruelty, deserved better then to have her memory tainted by giving Nia a slow death. So instead Clarke and Lexa together shot Nia through the neck with their last arrow and spend what they believe to be their last few moments together.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Bellamy who in this story isn't present in a majority of the important events of the show and instead stays in TonDC as a teacher for Grounder children. [[spoiler:This was deliberate on Lexa's part as she didn't want to risk a future where Bellamy betrays Clarke and starts another potential war like he did in the first timeline so she wanted him as far away from a position of fighting as possible.]]

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler:In chapter 112 Lexa finally achieves her revenge against Nia by gutting her with Cosita's bow a wound that, as Clarke notes, will cause Nia to slowly die over the course of several hours. However Lexa isn't able to feel satisfaction about said kill as it feels like a hollow victory and that Cosita, how practised mercy over cruelty, deserved better then to have her last actions be a slow death. So instead Clarke and Lexa together shot Nia through the neck with their last arrow and spend what they believe to be their last few moments together.]]

* BadBoss: The Ice Queen who not only forces an entire village of her own people to vacate the premises so that [[spoiler:Diana Sydney and her people]] can set up shop but force them to provide food and protection for said invaders [[spoiler:so that Diana's people can work on the nuclear missile in piece.]]

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Neither the Ice Queen or [[spoiler:Diana Sydney]] like each other and their alliance is born more for convenience then equal opportunity. [[spoiler:Diana]] refers to Nia as the Savage Queen and makes no bones about her and the Azgeda being too stupid to know [[spoiler:how to operate a nuclear missile]]. Nia meanwhile sees [[spoiler:Diana]] and her people as weak, making barbs about [[spoiler:Diana's failure to hold Clarke]] and keeping extra guards around their village for "protection". [[spoiler:Part of Clarke's plan to escape is to use their obvious distaste for on another as a way to fracture their alliance further.]]

** Firstly the Ice Nation [[spoiler:desides to help out Mount Weather by providing a spy in Lexa's group in order to monitor the groups journey and try and kill them once they enter Trikru territory in order for Nia to wipe out her gretest enemy without placing any of the blame on herself.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: The story expands a great deal on the Ice Nation, [[spoiler:with the second half of the fic taking place there]] and subsequently the Ice Queen herself who goes from being the AnticlimaxBoss/BigBadWannabe she was in the show to the BigBad for the second half of the story.

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: In chapter 65 [[spoiler:Clarke is publicly given the honour of being named Clarke kom Kongeda the second in command of the Coalition and second only to Lexa in power.]]

* MySpeciesDothProtestToMuch: After resetting the timeline Clarke is now no longer under any illusions about the hypocrisy and bigotry that a lot of the Sky People possess towards the Grounders. After [[spoiler:she is proclaimed the Kongeda of the Coalition]] Clarke expresses relieve as this means she no longer has to defend actions her people take which are inexcusable.

* DeathByAdaptation: While quite a few people survive due to Clarke's knowledge of the former timeline a few characters still alive, or die later on, in canon do die. These include:
** [[spoiler:Jaha and Murphy]] are captured by Mount Weather and drained of their Bone Marrow until they die.
** [[spoiler:Pike is killed by Lexa in a way that looks like it was done by the Mountain Men in order to prevent Pike from starting a potential war between the Grounders and Skaikru in the future.]]
** [[spoiler:Wick]] is one of the people who dies when The Ark re-enters the earth.

* GoingNative: As Clarke notes to herself her time with the Trikru has caused her to use their language more even in her own thoughts and that she no longer views herself as a Sky Person.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Neither the Ice Queen or [[spoiler:Diana Sydney]] like each other and their alliance is more for convenience then anything. [[spoiler:Diana]] refers to Nia as the Savage Queen and makes no bones about her and the Azgeda being too stupid to know [[spoiler:how to operate a nuclear missile]]. Nia meanwhile sees [[spoiler:Diana]] and her people as weak, making barbs about [[spoiler:Diana's failure to hold Clarke]] and keeping extra guards around their village for "protection". [[spoiler:Part of Clarke's plan to escape is to use their obvious distaste for on another as a way to fracture their alliance further.]]

** Secondly the Nia teams up with [[spoiler:Diana Sydney and her people in order to kidnap Clarke from Arcadia]].

* PeggySue: Clarke [[spoiler:and Lexa]] who, thanks to a stray Lightning Bolt and [[spoiler:being covered in the love of her life's blood]] allows Clarke to travel back in time from before the dropship carrying The 100 lands on earth and SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for them Emerson has also come back in time with them and he doesn't intend to let Clarke have her happy ending easily]].

** Firstly the Ice Nation [[spoiler:desides to help out Mount Weather by providing a spy in Lexa's group in order to monitor the groups journey and try and kill them once they enter Trikru territory in order for Nia to wipe out her gretest enemy without placing any of the blame on herself.

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: While Clarke briefly kicks around ideas of negotiating with Mount Weather to try and broker some kind of armistice, that option goes by the boards almost immediately in favor of vanquishing the Mountain as a threat.
* WhamMoment: When Clarke finds out that [[spoiler:Lexa also has memories of the timeline she came from.]]

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: While Clarke briefly kicks around ideas of negotiating with Mount Weather to try and broker some kind of armistice, that option goes by the boards almost immediately in favor of vanquishing the Mountain as a threat.

* KansasCityShuffle: Clarke and Lexa attack the Mountain. Clarke, as part of this, uses a BatmanGambit to get brought inside the mountain, having factored in how long a tranq dart's effects last. What the Mountain Men don't know ([[spoiler:because Emerson hadn't planned for that contingency]]) is that being captured was ''part of the plan'' [[spoiler:to make them think Clarke had a suitcase nuke armed and ready to blow.]]

* KansasCityShuffle: Clarke and Lexa attack the Mountain. Clarke, as part of this, uses a BatmanGambit to get brought inside the mountain, having factored in how long a tranq dart's effects last. What the Mountain Men don't know ([[spoiler:because Emerson hadn't planned for that contingency]]) is that being captured was ''part of the plan''.

* ChekhovsGun: There are numerous examples of throwaway lines or events that later become significant. Perhaps the most memorable is when Clarke and Octavia [[spoiler:each briefly comfort a sick Grounder child, which lets them give Emerson, Cage and Tsing a double dose of the fast-acting plague in a gambit to make them think they are dying of radiation exposure.]]

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* ChekovsGun: There are numerous examples of throwaway lines or events that later become significant. Perhaps the most memorable is when Clarke and Octavia [[spoiler:each briefly comfort a sick Grounder child, which lets them give Emerson, Cage and Tsing a double dose of the fast-acting plague in a gambit to make them think they are dying of radiation exposure.]]