The 100

Clarke is one of the point-of-view characters and protagonists of The 100. In appearance, she has light hair and green eyes with flecks of gold, and as Bellamy notes, she also has a “fire in her eyes that [makes] him hesitate to contradict her” (304). In her past as part of the colony, Clarke was a resident of the well-to-do Phoenix section and was training to be a doctor like her parents. When the teens are banished to Earth, Clarke takes on the role of medic because she has the most medical experience and is driven to help others. This passion is partly motivated by her parents’ example, but it also comes from Clarke’s discovery that the vice chancellor was forcing her parents to poison kids with radiation as part of a series of tests. Learning this shattered Clarke’s view of what her parents were capable of, even if the chancellor coerced them into doing it by threatening Clarke’s safety. The incident also broke Clarke’s faith in the colony’s government because she realized that the people in power were willing to inflict harm on the populace for their own ends.