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the #1 reason i am NOT a mistynat supporter is because i care about nat’s boundaries and misty simply does not.

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i unfortunately think that the one yellowjackets character i don’t see myself ever forgiving is misty. sorry yall :/

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okay but how does Taissa get away with half her adult shit? as a politician, literally how does she have time and freedom to hijack a car, hitchhike across pennsylvania, disappear to a nature retreat run by a cult, get drunk, run through the woods with murderous intent, etc????

like, does no one ever wonder where the STATE SENATOR of new jersey is??

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Lottie and Nat and the Hunt

i find it kind of ironic and comical that nat was the one who got hunted.

Lottie was dying and offered herself as sustenance. but to prevent her from dying, because they “need” her, all the girls end up trying to kill the one who they actually DO need! Nat is the most practical person to OBVIOUSLY not hunt, because she is literally the best out of ALL of them with the gun and Travis can’t just go out on his own: the whole point is they are a hunting team and they are the ones to keep alive out of common sense. Lottie is important and shouldn’t need to die, but she was lowkey on deaths door, and she offered herself willingly in the case that she kicks the bucket, yk? she suggested herself to be eaten out of honesty and caring, and her condition is what made it practical for her to say so.

Lot and Nat are both practical. Lottie saw this as a simple and violence-free way for her death to serve the group, because she was already close to dying, and if it happened she wanted to be of use. Nat is the one who brings them food, who maps out the land, who found the moose while Lottie was suffering from hypothermia. Lottie has been emotional support this whole time, which isn’t to say that she’s useless or DESERVED to die, but that she was close to death and this was willing. it meant enough to her that she made Misty promise they would eat her if she died. and she’s not even in a position where she could khs out of grief, because they’ve made her a messiah. Nat didn’t want to die and shouldn’t have been in the position where she has to. No one’s life is inherently more purposeful or valuable than another’s, BUT the contributions they bring to the table and their roles as members of a surviving, functional group ARE. food is more practical and necessary: it’s OBVIOUS that nat and travis should be the ones kept alive, and i get that the rules of the “game” were that you draw and you get what you get, but if Coach didn’t have to participate then neither should they.

my point is that if they were thinking clearly, like Lottie was, they wouldn’t have hunted Nat. and it just shows that now their beliefs are BIGGER than Lottie. it’s more powerful than common sense. the hostility is so high that they can’t recognize Lottie’s sacrifice when she offers herself as a punching bag for Shauna: they lashed out at Shauna and Van has to remind them they should be thanking Lottie instead of spiting Shauna. Lottie offers her corpse as their sustenance and they are so hellbent on their ideology that they turn knives towards eachother. at this point no one is seeing things clearly, and the wilderness has taken hold over rational thinking and the RATIONAL wishes of their pseudo-messiah.

they nearly kill the MOST practical and necessary person to keep alive, because they don’t want to accept the practical decision of someone they deem more “necessary.”

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NATALIE SCATORCCIO (yellowjackets s2 SPOILERS)

oh god i’m really sad . Coach and Nat could’ve lived in Javi’s stump!!! literally Nat is still a good fucking person. Misty tackled her down to prevent her from saving Javi but Nat’s FIRST INSTINCT was to save him and to ask the ppl who were literally hellbent on killing her to come over and give her a hand. she’s been running—LITERALLY for her LIFE—from these girls, but she stops and calls them to her side in the hopes that they can help her save Javi: casting her best interest aside for him. but she was stopped from doing so, and Javi dies. and she gets to internalize that as her being “worse” than the rest of them for letting him die in her place.

she wanted to live and she’s not guilty for that! it’s not a crime! she wanted to live and that’s why she ran from the rest of the team after Travis tackles Shauna. she’s already in a state that makes her fearful for her life and susceptible to what Misty says about it being ‘either Javi or her’ (not exact quotes but that was the gist). because she’s not expected to WANT to die! and no one should hold her to that, but Natalie is holding it to herself, and i wish she could still think of herself as a good person.

she’s not “worse” than the rest of them and she’s CERTAINLY not worse than MISTY, who has acted selfishly since the very beginning and not given a genuine enough shit about anyone’s life for it to override her own desires.

Coach Scott was right, Natalie is NOT like the rest of those girls! she actually values their lives and she values EVERY single one of their sacrifices!!! she brought Jackie’s remains to the plane so that they could be properly buried come springtime, and gave her own eulogy out of respect. the ONLY other person who spoke in memory of Jackie was Shauna, her literal BEST FRIEND. the ONLY two people who paid remembrance to Jackie were:

1. her best friend (& toxic codependent relationship, but that’s a whole other rant)

2. the girl who Jackie slutshamed, shittalked, judged, and who’s romantic partner she slept with!!!

NAT still paid respects.

even in her selfish moments or lapses in judgement, Nat is thinking of others. her mistakes were done out of CARE. she planted Javi’s bloody trousers because she cared about Travis! she genuinely had no conceivable reason to believe that Javi lived, and she couldn’t bear seeing Travis risk his health and sanity over it. Obviously she was wrong to deceive Travis, but even Travis forgave her! TRAVIS—the one most deeply and negatively affected by Nat’s action— FORGAVE her!

“you’re a good person. and i’m sorry for ever making you feel otherwise.” !!!!!

He not only forgave her, but affirmed exactly what Coach Scott noticed: she isn’t like the rest of those girls. Natalie is jaded and scathing and mean to people (like Lottie and Misty), but she still cares about each and every one of their lives, and would have honored their deaths.