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mistynatt :3

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he was someones son once

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Most sane soccer team 🤗⚽️💞🐇🌼

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The #7 Wide Midfielder - 3/7

design theory thread Shauna Misty Jackie Van

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Let’s talk about Nat’s makeup and how it represents her mental state and character development✨

Juliette Lewis said in an interview that Natalie’s signature thick black eyeliner is her “war paint.” I absolutely love this quote because it is a perfect way to describe the way Natalie uses her physical appearance to guard herself. Natalie’s eyeliner and fashion sense serve as a physical representation of the abrasive walls she puts up to hide the softness and vulnerability underneath.

The Pilot episode script introduces Natalie’s character with this descriptor:

This line makes it clear right off the bat that Nat’s makeup is a front she puts on; a mask. While most of her classmates may put on makeup to attract others, it’s clear that Nat’s makeup is meant to push people away. That dark, smudged eyeliner paired with the safety pin and bullet necklaces and the thick leather jackets are all screaming “I’m intimidating, stay away from me.”

But, unlike her appearance suggests, Nat is actually one of the softest and most compassionate characters on the show. Her trauma both with her father and out in the wilderness have shown her that she is a dangerous person, and that she needs to remain guarded and walled off from others in order to avoid hurting them. Her makeup hides her softness both for her own protection and the protection of those around her.

We see that Nat puts makeup on like armor. Before Doomcoming, she’s seen putting on black eyeshadow in the mirror right as Travis walks by, preparing to deal with all of the insecure feelings she still has around their breakup. In the Wilderness, Nat is pretty much never seen without makeup smudged around her eyes, despite the difficult circumstances. Even when she’s carrying Jackie’s body back to the plane you can see she’s got some eyeliner on. In the adult timeline after Travis’s death, Nat is seen putting on probably the heaviest makeup we’ve ever seen her in. Immediately after she puts this makeup on she texts her drug dealer with the intention to relapse. All of this shows that Nat’s makeup is her defense, which is why she goes to such great lengths to put it on even when she’s stranded out in the middle of nowhere.

It seems that the heavier Nat’s makeup is in a given scene, the more guarded, vulnerable, and/or threatened she feels.

Which is why it is so significant when Nat stops wearing heavy makeup after spending time at Lottie’s compound. When Nat first arrives, we see her clinging to her old forms of protection. She’s given some (purple) clothes to change into, but she rejects them in favor of staying in her black leather pants.

She keeps the thick eyeliner, too. That is, until she goes on her little adventure with Lisa to Lisa’s childhood home. After Nat processes her trauma around feeling like she is poison to the people she loves and has that great talk with Lisa in the bar, Nat notably changes her clothes and lightens up her makeup the next day. She is seen in a purple and navy sweater, but she still keeps her black leather pants on and her eyeliner is still there, albeit a little bit lighter, showing that she is starting to change almost in spite of herself.

Then, directly after the hypnosis scene with Lottie in which Nat finally begins to come to terms with and process her guilt, we see her in a purple dress and cozy Birkenstocks with socks. The thick eyeliner is gone and so is her tendency to push people away, as she readily embraces all of the other survivors as they arrive at the compound (even Misty). This is heartbreakingly the last outfit we ever see Nat in, but it shows the audience how much she has changed and forgiven herself in her final days.

I’ll leave you guys with this beautiful quote about Nat’s transformation:

“I wanted to show that Natalie became her soft self. I don't know how long that would have remained comfortable for her, but she liked it. She liked being clean. She liked being comfortable. She relinquished her eyeliner, which was her war paint.”

-Juliette Lewis for TheWrap Magazine

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the thing that fascinates me abt mistynat is like. nat shoulders the things misty does like its absolutely normal, like she should not be surprised bc its fucking misty quigley and you teamed up with her so why complain. nat so far is a pretty level headed individual, yet with misty she's like you fucked up my car to go on a road trip with me for 3 hours...shrugs, sure yeah but jerky, really? misty kicks down her door snorts $300 worth of coke in the name of friendship and nats understandably pissed like u are literally insane misty, a fucking owl camera??? yet nat is the one who apologises knocks on her door saying PLEASE please help me hide a dead body also you look so sexy today. this is not even mentioning nat being genuinely impressed at mistys ability to steal from her place of work which is like, several felonies in of itself. this is framed as completely normal friendship btw and misty cries at the idea of nat leaving her willingly and is elated when oh its okay she doesnt hate me, she just was kidnapped, i stay silly :3

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straight friend groups are like: *blonde girl* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle* *brunette girl* *frat boy*

gay friend groups are like: *dead team captain haunting her homoerotic bestie* *depressed butcher* *makeshift doctor turned potential serial killer* *italian with a gun* *unkillable goalie who's been mauled by wolves* *sleepwalking, dirt eating lawyer* *modern day joan of arc* *schizophrenic and prophetic cult leader* *travis*

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i’m a lottie matthews defender till i die

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DEER LOTTIE FANART LOTTIE FANS LOOK LOOK !!! super rare lunarzomb lottie fanart (this is my first time drawing teen lottie digitally) (also my first full scene drawing for Yellowjackets I'm really really proud of how it turned out) (ALSO ALSO REBLOGS SUPER APPRECIATED)

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"If you need to be mean be mean to me."

Because if that isn't Lottie Fucking Matthews in a sentence I don't know what is. In her eyes she is a vessel. A vessel for dreams and promises and prophecies, for guidance and hope and survival. She is not a full person she is the medium she is the method. The crown is a wood woven chain, a reminder of how much good her sacrifice can achieve. All she wants is love, companionship, understanding. To be listened to, to be believed, to be cared for. Yet all she knows how to do is care. She will cut herself to ribbons and twist the truth around and around until it comes out palatable, until it comes out as a command as something doable instead of pure unattainable inevitability.

Because nothing is never enough, for the world, for those around her, for the ones she loves, for herself. It will never be enough, pain in the end, will forever be simple pain. But better her pain than someone else's. Because pain may be pain and sacrifice may never be enough, but even something momentary, even care on borrowed time is better than none at all. Because if you need to be mean be mean to her, she can take, she's had practise. She can take it on, free you off it. As she frees all the others, the ones who listen to her, who admire, who care, of the true, heavy weight of it. But it can't last forever, nothing lasts forever. On some level, some deep, unacknowledged level she knows this. She knows where the line is, when it's gone too far, when it's time to pass this burden along, and she does so to the one person who simultaneously understands her more then anyone and one who understands her the least.

To the person who never asked be have anyones anger directed their way, but to the person who takes it time and time again. To the person who keeps them alive by sustenance while she keeps them alive by hope. The the only person who could carry that weight, who could understand the cruelty that comes with it, who has never known love or care or tenderness, let alone admiration or reverence, to the person who hungers for it just as much as she dose. To the person who never truly believed her, never placed her higher, never gave her anywhere to fall from. The one who gave her a soft landing. To the one who understands, to the one who never will, to the one who's anger she has always taken the brunt off in her attempts to shield and love and be understood by the others.

"If you need to be mean be mean to me." Because how are you going to let me stay?

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Nat’s coronation scene breaks my heart so much because she’s finally getting the love and acceptance she has always secretly wanted and needed. She’s been outcasted her whole life, in her childhood as the neglected and unwanted daughter, in society as the “slut” and the “burnout,” and in the Wilderness as the huntress isolated from the rest by the nature of her role and the skeptic against Lottie’s influence. She has always been alone. And now, she’s being crowned leader, everyone is bowing to her and believing in her, and despite the trauma she has just experienced and the grim circumstances, you can see such a deep craving in her for adoration and warmth finally being fulfilled. It’s so so sad that this is what it took for her to finally receive that. No wonder she spirals so much after they’re rescued; the Wilderness was her only means of receiving love and appreciation.

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My son

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Shadow speak

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Sorry yall the brainrot got me

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miss turner on the scene

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you might like the same character as me but i like them in a far more concerning and deeply controversial way than you ever will

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