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Zeke Shaw (Jordan Bolger) in The 100 5.07 ‘Acceptable Losses’ Outside, Echo is being ‘interviewed’ by both Kane and Charmaine, and they want to know if she is truly a defector. She explains that her banishment still stands, and she has never been Wonkru.
Well there was a scene in season 5 where Miller was trying to take control of Wonkru while Octavia was away, and one of the grounders shouted that he was Skaikru therefore he shouldn’t be leading. So it seems they still haven’t fully let go of their original clans.
SPOILERS S5. The PrisonKru ship fixed its missiles and fired right into the Wonkru batallion forming a fallout shelter around Octavia--but later it appears that all the Wonkru survived this.
i find it empowering, you can tell that with each repeat that the phrase earns more meaning and respect, not just for wonkru or to prove to the rebelling warriors but within herself, in the bunker she wasn’t truly the “red queen” on her own like the people believed, all the decisions she took responsibility for were really decisions voiced by kane and abby ect and this was finally a ...
- Overview
- History
- Members
- Leadership
- Crime and Punishment
- Notes and Trivia
was a clan, consisting of eleven of the former Grounder clans and Skaikru, founded by Octavia Blake. This clan was the successor to the former Coalition. It was created after the Final Conclave in anticipation of the impending Praimfaya. Wonkru managed to survive Praimfaya by sheltering in the Second Dawn Bunker, where they lived for six years before returning to the ground.
After the Battle for Eden and the resulting Damocles Event, Wonkru was forced to leave Earth and go into space, where they journeyed across the stars. They eventually found a new home in Sanctum, but soon came into conflict with the Disciples, after the latter group entered Sanctum by force and captured several of their members. A final battle between Wonkru and the Disciples ended with both sides choosing peace instead of war, and Wonkru was effectively dissolved when most of humanity transcended.
Background
With the death wave approaching, the Grounders and Sky People decided that control of the Second Dawn Bunker would be decided by a Final Conclave. Octavia Blake won the Conclave but instead of just leading Skaikru into the bunker, she decided that the remaining clans would form into a single clan, known as "Wonkru" ("One Clan" in Trigedasleng), and share the bunker equally. Thus, 100 members from each surviving clan (excluding Floukru, who all had died) were ushered into the bunker to survive.
Six Years Sealed
At first, Octavia ruled over Wonkru as Osleya (Champion in Trigedasleng) with a council consisting of a delegate from each of the clans. However, after nearly two months of relative (albeit tense) quiet, part of Skaikru led by Kara Cooper rebelled against Octavia and barricaded themselves inside the bunker's cafeteria, isolating the rest of the people from their food source. This led to massive chaos in the rest of the bunker. Octavia, advised by Thelonious Jaha, reinforced the union of the clans by killing those who dared oppose her. After the rebellion was thwarted, Octavia took full control of Wonkru and became known as Blodreina ("Red Queen" in Trigedasleng). Anyone who committed any crime was considered an enemy of Wonkru. Justice was then served via gladiatorial fights to the death, with the winner possibly earning their freedom. About two years after Praimfaya, a fungus devastated the soybean plants. Cooper was able to isolate a few healthy plants but said that it would take a year before the farm would recover enough to support the bunker's population. Without a proper source of protein, people would die of malnutrition, so Abby Griffin proposed a grim solution: Eating those that died in the fighting pits. However, in the mess hall, Marcus Kane tells everyone that they have a choice not to eat. Afterwards, Abby tells Octavia that to survive they must have full compliance, citing the Blight Generation on the Ark to describe what happens if they don't. To gain said compliance, they must make refusing to eat a crime. At first, Octavia objects to killing her own people, but then grudgingly agrees with Abby that there is no other choice. The next time people refuse to eat, Octavia begins to kill three of them, until Kane and the other resistors agreed to eat. Wonkru calls this year of cannibalism – their second overall year in the bunker – "The Dark Year", named for the serious emotional repercussions left on Wonkru as a whole. During the six years in the bunker, the population was reduced from approximately 1,200 people to 814. In other words, approximately 386 people died during those six years of Octavia's rule.
Battle for Eden
Six years after Praimfaya, the Eligius Prisoners open the bunker after making a deal with Bellamy Blake. The prisoners lift everyone out of the bunker, but then betray the group by claiming the Shallow Valley as their own and demanding Abby Griffin because they need a doctor. Abby agrees to come willing if they take Marcus Kane as well, since Octavia is holding him prisoner to fight in the gladiatorial matches. After the prisoners leave, Wonkru declares war on them, thus starting the Battle for Eden. Octavia sets out across the desert with a battalion of soldiers, but parasitic worms and a sandstorm hamper their progress towards the valley. Monty warns them of incoming missiles, and later that night, the Gagarin fires a missile at the Wonkru campsite. However the campsite is empty, since the battalion retreated into the sandstorm. Between the worms and sandstorm, Wonkru returns to Polis with twelve dead. Later, the Gagarin drops food supplies and a message in Polis. Diyoza tells Wonkru that they can defect from Octavia's leadership and join her at Shallow Valley. Octavia sends Echo to infiltrate the Eligius camp to get access to the ship's computer by posing as a Wonkru defector. That evening, several real defectors join Echo to escape Polis and board the Gagarin. However, Kara Cooper, on Octavia's orders, shots at the defectors, killing several of them. Within the bunker, Octavia and Cooper begin experimenting with the parasitic worms. They hope to use the worms as bio-weapons against the prisoners in the valley. Cooper, without telling Octavia, infects a surviving defector to study the effect on a live body. Clarke, Bellamy, and Indra sabotage the plans by using the worms to kill Cooper and destroying the worms. However, Octavia sees through the ruse and has Clarke arrested for Cooper's murder. To prevent Clarke's execution, Bellamy puts Octavia in a coma to prevent her from executing Clarke. Bellamy and Indra plan to have Madi take the Flame so she can become the Commander of Wonkru. Octavia awakens but Indra locks her away, while Gaia successfully inserts the Flame. However, before the ascension ceremony can be completed, Clarke releases Octavia. Octavia has Gaia, Indra, and Bellamy arrested, while Clarke and Madi escape in the rover. Gaia, Indra, and Bellamy are forced to fight in the arena, but Monty and Harper interrupt. Monty reveals that the hydrofarm is working again and they don't need the valley. After Wonkru begins to rebel against her, Octavia burns down the farm, leaving them no choice but to march with her towards the valley. During their travels, Echo contacted Bellamy with intelligence on the Eligius prisoners' battle plans. Bellamy offers Octavia the information if she agrees to his terms: to accept the prisoners' surrender with no executions or fighting pits, but real peace. Octavia agrees and the two plan for battle. Four days later, the Wonkru soldiers enter a gorge at the edge of the valley. However, the prisoners are ready and massacre them. Unbeknownst to Wonkru, Kane and Diyoza, who had been with Echo, revealed Wonkru's plans to McCreary. Some Wonkru survivors are able to retreat back to their desert campsite, and Madi with three others rescue Octavia, Bellamy, Indra, and Gaia. Back in the desert, Octavia relinquishes control of Wonkru to Madi, allowing her to officially become the Commander of Wonkru. The Flame helps Madi create a plan and they successfully invade the valley. The prisoners surrender, and because of this, Bellamy convinces Madi not to kill them and to break the cycle of deaths. However, McCreary refuses to surrender and deploys the Damocles bomb, before he is killed by Clarke. Everyone is forced to flee onto the Gagarin to escape to space and the bomb destroys the valley.
In "Praimfaya", when the bunker is sealed, there are 1,200 living members of Wonkru.
By "Pandora's Box", there are only 814 members of Wonkru remaining. Abby and Kane's decision to get into Charmaine Diyoza's ship peacefully makes them enemies of Wonkru, and twelve other members die in "Shifting Sands", leaving 800.
In "Exit Wounds", Octavia makes Madi a member of Wonkru, but an unknown number of defectors manage to reach the Gagarin transport ship, and others are killed by Kara Cooper, further decreasing Wonkru's numbers.
In "Sic Semper Tyrannis", Octavia learns that Bellamy, Indra and Gaia have betrayed her, and so she makes them enemies of Wonkru as a whole. As of this episode, there are about 770 members of Wonkru.
As of "Damocles (Part 1)", approximately 350 members of Wonkru were left alive after the initial failed attempt to invade Shallow Valley. Some of them, who were branded as traitors of Wonkru, later rejoined the clan, with Madi as their new Commander.
After the Damocles Event, the surviving members of Spacekru, the Eligius prisoners and Jordan Green have joined Wonkru.
Osleya and the Council
For most of the first two months, Octavia ruled over Wonkru as Osleya (Champion in Trigedasleng). There was a council in charge consisting of Osleya and a delegate from each former clan. Known members of the Council:
Blodreina
After Kara Cooper's rebellion was prevented, Octavia took full control of Wonkru and became Blodreina ("Red Queen" in Trigedasleng). The title Blodreina is derived from a moment when Gaia became willing to accept Octavia as her leader and showed Octavia her bloodied figure in a mirror, stating that the blood of Wonkru's enemies was Octavia's armor, and thus an extension of her. As revealed in "Nakara," while Octavia was in charge of Wonkru as the sole leader, it was in fact Indra who kept things going from behind the scenes and was in essence the true power in the clan in the more mundane matters. In "Damocles (Part 2)," Octavia gave up power completely to Madi Griffin, the new Commander, symbolically becoming the first to bow to her after recognizing just how far wrong her own leadership went. In "What You Take With You," though no longer the leader of or even part of Wonkru, having been exiled by Bellamy, a repentant Octavia gave up the title of Blodreina for good.
Heda
The Commander, also known as Heda in Trigedasleng, was once the leader of the former Coalition of Twelve Clans, but now leads as the Commander of Wonkru. In "Damocles (Part 2)", Madi Griffin became officially Heda of Wonkru as Octavia sticks her sword to the ground and kneels down and bows before her, recognizing her as the Commander. In "The Blood of Sanctum", Raven deletes the Flame which is then removed by Eric Jackson to save Madi's life. As a result, Madi is no longer the Commander of Wonkru. In "Nakara", Sheidheda suggests that Indra needs a Commander to reunite the fractured Wonkru. The Dark Commander suggests that Clarke, having borne the Flame briefly, could take the job, but knows that Indra fears that Wonkru will choose to follow him instead as a former Commander. Indra later admits that Sangedakru at least would follow the Dark Commander if the truth ever came out and believes that in time the rest of Wonkru would as well. In response, Indra attempts to make Madi the Commander again to reunite the fractured Wonkru, but Madi refuses as she is too afraid. Instead, Indra takes complete command herself and orders John Murphy and Emori to dispose of the emblem the Commanders wear on their foreheads instead of donning it herself. In "A Little Sacrifice", Sheidheda takes control of Wonkru and becomes Commander again, forcing Murphy, Emori, Madi, and the others to prepare to fight back against the Dark Commander's reign. In "The Last War," the Dark Commander is killed by Indra with a sonic cannon, ending his reign for good. Known Hedas who led Wonkru:
After Kara Cooper staged an unsuccessful coup with some other former Skaikru members to take the food supply for themselves, Kara, her fellow Skaikru accomplices, and other Grounder criminals were consequently punished for their decisions.
This punishment, handed down by their new leader, Octavia Blake, was that of a gladiatorial fight for freedom, where only one individual emerged as the champion by being the last person standing. This event triggered the initiation of an institutionalized punishment system inspired by Bellamy's book about Ancient Rome, which he read to his sister Octavia as a child.
•Wonkru means "one clan" in Trigedasleng.
•Wan is the Trigedasleng word for death, and is phonetically similar to won, creating a pun which alludes to what occurred during Praimfaya.
Jun 30, 2018 · Loyal to a fault, Wonkru may still attempt to execute Clarke for her crimes. And as they’re all nearly as bloodthirsty as Octavia, they’ll probably march on Eligius without their leader. There’s also the question of who will replace Bloodreina.
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