Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin

Bellamy/Clarke is the m/f pairing of Bellamy Blake and Clarke Griffin in The 100 TV series and book series.
==Canon==
In season one, these characters were originally quite antagonistic towards each other. Bellamy viewed Clarke's position in the Arc hierarchy negatively, as she was one of the elites. His stance on moving away from the rules of the Arc puts him in direct conflict with Clarke, who often disagreed with him. Clarke is often portrayed as more moral and less willing to kill to survive. As the season progresses, they both take on leadership roles and often have to put their differences aside to work together.
In season 2 Clarke is taken to Mount Weather and Bellamy, at Camp Jaha, is determined to search for the missing Delinquents. After they are reunited, Bellamy and Clarke form a more united front. They work together to save Lincoln, and on plans to rescue the others from Mount Weather. They both try to protect Finn from Grounder justice, but ultimately fail. Clarke tells Lexa that she trusts Bellamy to infiltrate Mount Weather, because she knows he will succeed. Their goals and morals are more closely aligned now. They are both willing to make sacrifices, and ultimately kill, to save their people. Bellamy and Clarke jointly pull the lever which irradiates Mount Weather, killing all the men, women and children who had lived at that compound. On their return to Camp Jaha, Clarke explains that she can't go back after the events of Mount Weather. She tells him to take care of everyone, before walking away.
In the third season, Clarke and Bellamy's friendship is often strained, as they find themselves on opposite sides of political and armed conflicts. Bellamy, in Clarke's absence, joins with Commander Pike in massacring a Grounder Army, in direct conflict to Clarke's hope for a peaceful resolution. Both characters are still concerned with their people's safety and ultimately work together to save Raven from the City of Light and stop A.L.I.E.'s army. Clarke is willing to forgive Bellamy for his previous actions, and Bellamy realizes his mistake of acting out of vengeance and tries to stop Octavia from making the same mistake in the season finale.
In season 4, Clarke and Bellamy both work to save their people from the inevitable nuclear apocalypse. When it seems like only 100 people can be saved, Clarke makes a list. She includes Bellamy's name, but he insists that she include herself as well. They are both still willing to defy and challenge each other when they believe they are doing what is right. Bellamy breaks the truce with Azgeda to save a group of their people. Clarke plans to steal the bunker from the other clans to ensure the survival of humanity, pointing a gun at Bellamy when he challenges her. The season ends with Bellamy returning to the Arc to wait out Praimfaya, thinking Clarke is dead. Clarke ends up surviving as a result of the Nightblood cure, trying to radio Bellamy everyday.
By season 7, Clarke and Bellamy have become best friends. However, their friendship sours when Bellamy betrays his friends and joins the Disciples. Clarke ends up killing Bellamy to protect her adoptive daughter Madi.
==Fandom==
After the release of promotional pictures from 2x5 "Human Trials", the Bellarke fandom exploded with reactions and various fanworks due to the images of a Bellarke hug and reunion. "We Are Excited for Bellarke Reunion" trended on Twitter in reaction , despite the fact that it hadn't even been a planned trend."We Are Excited For Bellarke Reunion" Trended TODAY! Tumblr post about the trend. Posted November 14, 2014. (Accessed November 14, 2014)
===Statistics===
* In 2015, Bellarke was number 11 in "most reblogged" ships on Tumblr.Tumblr 2015 Year in Review: Most Reblogged Ships.
* In 2016, Bellarke was ranked 16th in the top 20 "most reblogged" ships on Tumblr, dropping five spots from the 20152016’s Top Ships
* In 2017, Bellarke was ranked 15th in the top 30 "most reblogged" ships on Tumblr, gaining one spot from the previous year.2017′s Top Ships
* As of January 2018, there are over 9k of fanworks listed as Bellamy/Clarke at AO3,AO3 link Bellamy/Clarke fanworks is 37.27% of The 100 fanworks on AO3 (which is over 24.3k as of January 12, 2018) and Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin are the 2nd most popular The 100 pairing.The 100 A03 Statistics
*In 2018, Bellarke gained eight places, ranking 7th on Tumblr's Top 100 ships of 20182018’s Top Ships
===Common Tropes & Themes===
* Bellamy & Clarke acting as the parents of The 100. Thus other characters often refer to them as "Mom" & "Dad".
* Bellamy calling Clarke "Princess" is cherished by fans in canon and in fanworks.Although in the television series, Finn Collins is the one that nicknamed her this; in the books Bellamy had nicknamed her that first. It also works very well with Royalty AU, where Clarke is usually a princess. Bellamy is sometimes referred to as the "King" in the fandom or fanworks, rarely "Prince".
* Alternate Universes are very popular:
** Modern AU (ark, georgia series by troubledpancakes, Christmas Wrapping by AvaRosier)
*** High School AU
*** College/University AU
*** Roommates AU
*** School AU such as Teacher/Student (talk nerdy to me by jaegermighty) or Teacher/Single Parent (the blood of the covenant by jimlafleur)
** Superheroes AU/Superpowers (situation normal, all fucked up by questionablemorals)
** Soulmates AU (Only, Just by jaegermighty, a history of love by AvaRosier)
** Mates AU (Glow by globalista)
** Soulmates AU (Anywhere I Go (There You Are) by muchmorethanaprincess, based off of In Your Eyes)
** Movie AU (Hogwarts AU: love in a cold climate by AvaRosier)
** Star-Crossed lovers is fairly common trope, especially in Grounder!Clarke or Grounder!Bellamy (Stars In The Water, Blood On Our Hands by grumpybell, The Cure For Anything by enoughtotemptme, Second in Command by peaceful village) - they are sometimes mixed with an Royalty AU due the status of whoever is the Grounder and if they are Commander/King.
** Historical AU
*** Medieval AU ties in with Royalty AU fairly often, but is sometimes inspired by Robin Hood tale.
*** Pirates AU
*** Regency AU (The Rake's Bluff by clarkeneedsbellamy)
*** Victorian AU
*** Frontier AU (You Didn't Even Hesitate series by [[Chash])
** Hollywood/Famous/YouTube AU
* Pregnancy & Kidfic or fostering/adopting (One of Our Own by globalista, When Can I See You Again? by [[Chash])
** Usually with one of The 100 kids that got sent down with them that were younger than main characters (see above how characters referred to them as the parents), however more original characters were often than not created. Madi and Clarke's mother-daughter relationship is revealed in the S4's finale episode "Praimfaya", which gave fic writers a canon character to utilize within Bellarke fanworks as Clarke's daughter - as birth or foster/adoptive.
* Fake Dating
* Getting married, Arranged Marriage (Matched by banshee_in_the_dark) or Forced Marriage to please the grounders (Bless Your Beautiful Hide by Frea_O)
* Reunions between Bellamy and Clarke when they are separated in canon are very popular (Bellarke reunion tag on Tumblr):
** In anticipation to a Bellarke Reunion due to S1's finale separating Bellamy and Clarke from each other, different fanworks were created about the number of possible reunion situations.
*** S2EP5 "Human Trails" had the actual Bellarke reunion; a long hug between the two characters much to the pleasure of the Bellarke shippers. This caused a lot of reaction fanworks, especially fics and fanart.
** Season 2's finale "Blood Must Have Blood, Part Two" had Bellamy and Clarke separated, due to Clark leaving Camp Jaha to deal with her guilt over what happened at Mount Weather.
** Season 4s finale "Praimfaya" has them separated again due to Praimfaya (nuclear radiation that polluted the Earth), where Clarke is stuck on Earth and Bellamy is up in space. It's fairly common to find reunion fics or have them dealing without the other in Earth/space.
* Fix-it / Bellamy Lives
===Challenges===
* Bellarke Week
* Bellarke AU Week
===Awards===
* Bellarke Fanfiction Awards
* Bellarke Fanwork Awards
===Ship War===
Some fans of this pairing have engaged in a ship war with fans of the pairing Clarke Griffin/Lexa
===Bellamy's Death===
Bellamy's death at the hands of Clarke in season 7 episode 13 was an especially hard blow to Bellarke shippers. Fans felt that their ship had been ruined, with much of their anger directed at the showrunner Jason Rothenberg.
Season 7 as a whole divided the fandom, with some Bellarke shippers turning on Clarke for killing Bellamy and denouncing the pairing.
Others decided to ignore the existence/canonicity of season 7 and continue shipping Bellarke, particularly to "spite" the showrunner.
==Fanworks==
===Fics===
* Strength Enough To Build A Home by Thea, What makes a family? Don’t ask. Bellarke, from other people’s point of view. (gif sets)
* the kids don’t stand a chance by Thea, Five times Clarke and Bellamy co-parented the 100, and the one time that they were in need of parenting.
* Unwind by entwined-fate, Finn was telling her that he loved her and all she could think about was Bellamy Blake. (Berries Made Us Do It)
* Seared with Scars by justvisiting80, "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." (Khalil Gibran) ... This is set just after S1 Episode 7 ("Contents Under Pressure") and will not follow canon from that point on.
* Unexpected Expectations by Sliverloc303, The Ark has landed, the Grounders declared peace and people have started to build for the future. Bellamy is just glad he wasn't executed but somewhere along the line, everyone just decided that Abby Griffin was his mother-in-law.
* to build a home by manycoloureddays, Clarke was here doing these three boys a favour; the only person to answer their ad online asking for “someone with no criminal record, a steady paycheck, and some goddamn common sense”. She didn’t need to be judged by Bellamy Blake. (New Girl/Roommates AU, Witch!Clarke)
* Faint by cardinalrachelieu, Bellamy has the flu, but he's a terrible patient and refuses to rest so Clarke has to repeatedly drag him back to his tent when she finds him roaming around camp 'working'.
* we can do this (together or not at all) by orangecoconut, And she laughs. It’s soft but it’s there and he realizes he hasn’t heard that sound in a while (since Unity Day, maybe) and it feels him with a relief he hasn’t felt since he saw Octavia again. It warms his skin; the reminder that his partner is back. Annoying or not (and she’s definitely annoying) he wasn’t so sure he could do this without her. (Reunion!fic)
* The Hospital Wing by SpicyPepper_SweetSugar, a.k.a “The Five Times Bellamy Walks Away from Clarke While In The Hospital Wing and The One Time He Doesn't". Bellamy meets Clarke up on the Ark years before they meet again on Earth. There has always been something there, but he always ended up walking away from her, until one day.
* Living Proof by anythingbutgrey, They’ve been here for long enough to almost get used to the acid fogs and the night watches and the strange, tough meat of the Earth, but she’s never going to get used to the absence of machine hums. She prefers this, of course, the ability to hear far beyond the confines of anything. She doesn’t have confines anymore. (post-2x04, Reunion!fic)
* Inconceivable by jaegermighty, rated Mature, "Well," Bellamy says dryly, "this whole diplomacy thing sure is going great." (Futurefic, Grounders Made Them Do It)
* Trouble Sleeping by AvaRosier, rated Mature, Conversely: The Mating Habits of the North American Werewolf (Princess) (Modern AU, Werewolf!Clarke)
* Morton's Fork by Quentanilien, For the first time in her life, Clarke acts without thinking. There is only Bellamy, fighting for his life, and her, desperate to save him. Circumstances in the finale take a different turn, and it’s Clarke who throws herself into the fray to save Bellamy. Stuck outside of the dropship together, they run for their lives.
* my true name is a growl by adolescentwolf, rated Mature, Clarke gets bitten in the woods on a Saturday night under a full, heavy moon. (Teen Wolf AU, Werewolves!Bellarke)
* Facing Tempests of Dust by grumpybell, rated Mature, Clarke Griffin has grown up in the perfectly controlled environment of the Ark dome, a city created to withstand the destruction of the world outside. Now, she's been sent out with 100 other delinquents to try to survive on their own, but she knows the truth. They weren't sent away for their crimes, but rather to buy time for others in Ark, as the city is failing. While Clarke struggles to lead her band of teenagers, she encounters a man with strange abilities and an offer she finds hard to refuse. (shapeshifter/Grounder!Bellamy)
* Love Will Come Through by monroeslittle
*Meet Me in the Morning by monroeslittle
*Survivor's Guilt by LaughingSenselessly
===Arts===
* Clarke & Bellamy by thehundredgifs
* Bellarke by meabhd
* bellarke au by fadingtales: Captain America AU where Clarke is Cap and Bellamy is Buck
* Bellarke AU Soulmates by bellamyblakc
* I Am Become Death by Fatal-Drug
* Bellarke by meabhdeloughry
* thinking about what could have been by octaviiia
===Vids===
* Loving Her Was Red (AU)
* {don't let me go}
* Stay With Me
* I'll see you soon
* W A I T
* Rescue me
* Come Back When You Can (2x5)
* Belong (2x5)
* Paralysed (2x5)
* i'm only human (2x5)
* sleep sugar (2x5)
* what's a soulmate?
* What's a soulmate ( Light )
* Knocking On Heaven's Door
* Impossible
* The Hanging Tree
* Young God
* Can't do it alone (3x3)
===Fanmixes===
* you and me by willliamherondale
===Recs===
* smileswithgrace's Bellarke Fic Rec list
* fanficsmultiplefandoms's Bellarke Fic Rec tag
* haimaee's Bellark Fic Rec
==Archives & Fannish Links==
* Bellamy/Clarke works at AO3
* Bellamy/Clarke & & works at FFN
===Tumblr Fandom===
* Tumblr Tags: bellarke
* Bellarke.com
* Bellamy and Clarke Haven
* FYeahBellarke
* BellarkeWritersNetwork
* Snow-Bellarke-Barry
* The Bellarke Archive
* Bellarke Fanfiction
* Fuck Yeah Bellarke
* Brave Princess and Rebel King
* Bellarke Library
* bellarkegifsdaily
* thehundredbellarke
* bellarke-source
===Facebook===
* Bellarke
* Bellarke Stories
==Resources==
* Clarke and Bellamy at The 100 Wikia
==References==
Category:The 100 Relationships
Category:Het Pairings