orphanblaque:

as awesome a villain as reign is, i really wish sam hadn’t just immediately been overtaken by it. imagine her dealing with this revelation about who she is while going about her normal life, coping with the information she was given while trying to continue to be good person in the hopes that it won’t come true. a slow build to becoming reign while she internally fights against it, but every day the fight becomes harder. we see reign begin to take control gradually with sam steadily losing her compassion, caring less and less about her work, her friends, her empathy for humans draining out of her. but the one thing she holds on to the longest, the shred of humanity she has left clutching on to it as hard as she can, is her love for ruby. imagine seeing the people around her, in her life witnessing this change and having no idea what’s happening, with reign’s influence destroying all of sam’s friendships one person at a time. but other than ruby, the last person who is still trying to help her and who sam still manages to care about is lena. and then when reign truly takes over and begins to fulfill her purpose, and sam is gone and never comes back home, lena cares for ruby and keeps her safe. and ruby tells lena the things she’s noticed about her mom, like her super strength, and that she believes this new villain terrorizing the city is her mother. lena pretends that she doesn’t believe it, but she does and she shares this info with the core group and kara realizes that she can’t kill reign without killing sam. imagine that shit.