#lottie matthews

[peachysummers]

No wonder why the good characters around Shauna were dying…

YELLOWJACKETS 1.10 // 3.03 // 3.04

[fshfish]

would u join her cult

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

we make fun of the '96 yellowjackets for letting lottie make all their decisions for them but it's been so long since s1 i think we forgot about the bear. like if i woke up from a nonconsensual group hallucinatory drug trip with the knowledge that winter is coming and we're most likely gonna freeze and starve to death and then the girl who'd earlier started rapidly speaking a language she wasn't fluent in walked outside and a fucking bear came out of the woods and kneeled before her and she killed it with a knife then YEAH i think i would be doing whatever the hell she wanted

[nataliesscatorccio]

YELLOWJACKETS 3.10 Full Circle

[germposting]

everyone keeps trying to equate shaunas malicious evilness to lotties passive fanaticism do not understand that lottie was not purposefully trying to harm anyone on the team. she tries to warn mari, tries to save ben, tries to help travis and akilah deal with the burden of seeing like she sees…

yes they are both villains but one was doing it for ruthless (self confessed) fun and the other was a merely a vessel.

"And the hole was like twenty feet deep. I thought I was gonna die in there. Like Baby Jessica." YELLOWJACKETS 3.01 | 3.10

[tubesock86]

Yellowjackets :D

[artliara]

let's go

[mealymeals]

lottie is so kind <3

[marikamlp]

This says a lot about how Mari never saw Shauna as the leader because Mari has always followed the leader until when Shauna took over. She’s the only one to question Shauna’s willingness to use a gun calling her chickenshit and she diminishes Shauna until the very end. So what does Shauna do when Mari is finally dead? Makes an example of her. Treats her as less then human, hangs her naked on a hook like a pig (which has never been done to human sacrifices up until this point) and what’s worst of everything, she tells them to cut her hair that she wears like a trophy. A final reminder to everyone that she is the leader, that she won her beef with Mari and what happens when you don't respect her.

One thing about Shauna and her beef with Mari is that she wants to be respected and worshipped and if she can't have that she want people to fear her. And Mari never did either. Mari never worshipped her nor felt like she had to walk around eggshells around Shauna like everyone else did. She didn't pity her. And she wasn't scared of her. Which is kind of stupid at times, but also really telling. The others saw Shauna as if she was the Terminator, but Mari always saw her as a pathetic teenage girl with a lot of insecurities. Which is how Shauna feels deep down and it drove her mad, having someone whose very presence reminded her of those insecurities. And she becomes leader and and Mari still wasn't afraid of her! She becomes Nat's biggest supporter instead! Nope, she never showed her fear toward Shauna. Not even when she was hunted. She was afraid of dying. Not of Shauna. Mari didn't even give Shauna the pleasure of looking her in the eye when she put the necklace on her. Shauna never had the treat of seeing fear in Mari's eyes. Instead Mari tried to take her out with a knife and then told Shauna off one last time, telling her she deserves everything (bad) that's gonna happen to her.

No respect. No fear. Ever. The only time Shauna could have any control over Mari was after Mari was dead. Which says a lot about Mari as a person.

[kafkaesqueer]

I'm making a collection

[forgotmysword]

im gonna pass out

[alicentsgf]

The way no one even wanted the hunt at all really, not even Lottie who suggested it. even Shauna doesn't want it, she just can't let herself be seen as weak or fearful, so she agrees to it. and Lottie... even when she suggests it, she doesn’t want the hunt. she never has. shes adopted it into her understanding of the Wilderness but it only began because of the way her suicidal ideation manifests. she desires death but it has to be the wilderness who comes for her. “life and death has always been for it to decide”. its why she walks across the pit. its why she turns her back on akilah when she knows akilah has the rock in her hand. every time they’ve drawn the cards, teen and adult timelines, Lottie has looked disappointed not to be picked. the first real instance of this instinct is her turning to Shauna and telling her to let her rage out on her and, unlike travis or akilah, shaunas experiences have made her willing to commit acts of direct violence. Lottie intended for that beating to kill her on some level, she was seeking it, and she certainly never wanted Misty to create the hunt as a way to keep her alive. She’s horrified by it in fact, but Misty forces her to accept it and adopt it into their religion to alleviate the guilt of the others (as has always been Lottie’s role). This when the wilderness and violence become explicitly and accidentally entwined in a way Lottie never intended.

So after being beaten, Lottie finds she has to see the wilderness in Shauna because of that instinct for violence Shauna has. its why Lottie switches her vote during Coach Ben’s trial as Shauna becomes more aggressive, hearing “the wilderness” in that moment. It’s why she looks to Shauna for approval after she kills the researcher, saying “it doesn’t want them here”. What she desires is violence against herself, and so the potential for violence that Shauna has is intoxicating to her. Looking into Shauna’s eyes is like “looking into the earth” because that capacity for the dark and brutal is what makes Shauna representative of the Wilderness to Lottie. How cognizant Lottie is of it I’m not sure, but its clear all this time she’s been searching for some kind of conduit for the Wilderness who's willing to take her life. In their prayer, Lottie asks Shauna’s baby to “deliver them”, a plea for absolution. forgiveness. I think ultimately Lottie sees death as her only possible path to absolution. “Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.” She has already lost herself in so many ways that death would be kind.

So imagine the thrill for her when in the middle of a hunt, Shauna’s second child shoots her in the arm. I think after perhaps years of laying dormant, it reawakens her desire. She literally looks like she's experiencing some kind of enlightenment when she says “Is this your daughter? She’s so powerful.” Finally, Lottie finds what she’s looking for. She feels innately that it’s Callie she’s been waiting for all this time. “It brought you to me.” Shauna losing her first child was supposed to kill Lottie, but it didn’t. Now Lottie gets another chance and this time finally gets what she wants, but the cost is Shauna essentially losing her second child too. All of this is why she turns up on Shauna’s doorstep even though she does have other places she could go. She's seeking out Callie because she immediately senses that under the right circumstances Callie could have an even greater capacity for violence. And it turns out maybe she was right. After all, Shauna had to undergo extreme trauma to be capable of killing someone, and even then her only direct kill that we’ve seen is Adam. Callie pushed Lottie without the threat of violence against her just because she didn’t like what Lottie had to say. Callie even takes a pause, decides, and pushes her. I believe she regrets it, but it most definitely wasn’t an accident. That is the propensity for violence Lottie has been searching for since she was a teenager because she wanted someone to end her life and (possibly because of a survival instinct deep in her subconcious) her fabricated belief system would not let that person be herself. So no, even Lottie never wanted the hunt, we literally see she doesn’t even participate in it, Lottie just wanted to die.

[eli-evermore]

I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, AND I WILL NEVWR STOP SAYING IT!!! IF SHAUNA BELIEVED IN THE WILDERNESS HER AND LOTTIE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNSTOPPABLE BEST FRIENDS OUT THERE!!!!! I don't think I ship them romantically, but I do seriously think this duo is insane together, in the best way!!!

never failing to match each other’s freaks

[lottieslamb]

thinking about pervy!lottie

۫ ꣑ৎ the second she notices how soft-spoken and sweet you are, you’re done for. there’s something about the way you tuck your hair behind your ear or shyly avoid eye contact that turns her on, you're perfect for her.

۫ ꣑ৎ she brushes your arm when she passes you something, lingers too long when she helps fix your coat. it’s all done under the guise of kindness and her being a good friend.

۫ ꣑ৎ lottie loves how naïve you are. if you ask her what something means or what someone was talking about when they were being crude, she gives you an answer that’s just a little suggestive, enough to make your cheeks flush.

۫ ꣑ৎ you're her pure lamb, her chosen one. she’ll say the forest led her to you. she starts integrating you into her rituals, asking you to close your eyes and trust her. she places symbols on your skin, strokes your face with painted fingers, and murmurs that you’re protected...as long as you stay with her.

۫ ꣑ৎ she loves you in her lap. “just for warmth,” she insists. you’re shivering by the fire and she pats her thighs like it’s the most normal thing in the world.

۫ ꣑ৎ loves touching you. eventually works up to you allowing her to finger you, gently in your little shared hut together. sometimes your moans get a little to loud and she has to hush you, reminding you that everyone can hear you.