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People who say that Echo hasn’t changed are either not watching the same show or aren’t even trying to understand her character istg. The reason why you think she hasn’t is because she was raised to be a weapon, basically, all she knows is war, pain, spying, the only time she +
+ got to learn to do other things was on The Ring, when they were at /peace/. She changed so much during those six years, she learned friendship, love, things she lost when she was a CHILD. And then she had to go back to her warrior side, because they were at war again, BUT +
+ this time she wasn’t fighting ALONE for her clan, her entire clan was by her side and they were all fighting for each other. She wasn’t alone. Then on Sanctum, she literally proved again and again that she had changed. When she tried to free that dude from the tree, when she +
+ was legit the only person who defended Octavia, or Clarke (y’all seem to forget about that a lot), and she was trying to build a life there for Spacekru, for her family, after having lost her very first friends. Then, there was another war. That she had absolutely no control +
+ of AND almost died, by the way remember that she was FORCED to be turned into a Nightblood, which is like an insult to her culture? That, while being tortured, too. Flash forward, Bellamy gets taken and she fails to save him. Gets stuck on Skyring for 5 years, where they get +
+ to live in PEACE. There are no threats around, they have food and a house. You tell me that Echo in season 4 would’ve been gardening, talking to her plants, joking around, picking flowers and giggling? Echo on Skyring was like getting to meet Ash properly, the person that she +
+ was BEFORE war broke her. And then.. Orlando’s training. Being trained to go to war is something that Echo has experienced her whole life. How much do you think this reminded her of her past and how she was abused over and over again? She went through all that, to save +
+ the man she loves, it’s her MISSION. Orlando was a threat to that mission, he was going to betray them in Bardo, she SAW it when Hope killed that Disciple. Noticed how he yelled ‘NO’ when Hope when to kill the Disciple, who was going to kill Echo? Yeah, he was willing to let +
+ Echo die so that one of his People could live, before he’d ever seen who was behind the helmet. Echo knew that. And instead of killing him, which she wouldn’t have hesitated to do in s4, she gave him the chance to live and left him behind because she didn’t have a choice. +
+ she did all that to save Bellamy and when she arrives in Bardo, she sees him die. The man she loves, one of the only people who ever saw her as more than a spy or an assassin. AND she hasn’t seen the rest of her family in years. She has that one moment where she loses it, but +
+ what do Hope and Gabriel do? Nothing. They don’t even TRY to comfort her or take her away before she does anything. They just stand there. And Gabriel keeps on judging her whenever she does something, even Diyoza defends her actions but y’all are too blind to see that, +
+ probably. Echo doesn’t know how to grieve, we saw that when she lost Monty and Harper. She’s lost and broken, right now, but from what Tasya said, we’re going to see how she evolves now that all of this happened, which means that she keeps CHANGING.
