Argent

Hi mom,

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When I study Tai’s shifts into Other Tai, her mannerisms become so very feline to me.

Where I detract from a wolf for Tai is how much she is shown in trees. Lynx often hunt from trees and will silently pounce down on prey.

When I write about her eyes (god the acting Tawny and Jasmin do with their eyes), it makes me think of when a cat sees its prey.

Lynx also have impeccable hearing and you see Taissa use her hearing in some hunts (Natalie and Kodi/Hannah)

There is also a playful nature to how cats hunt. And I see that in the looks Other Tai gives Van. It’s so cute.

There is also such a smug look of Victory Tai has when she wins her election that reads like a pleased kitty cat.

If Lottie wasn’t rich and wearing pink in the pilot episode, I think a lot more people would recognize how absolutely fucking weird that girl is. I say this with so much love for Lottie because I actually really enjoy this aspect of her character. She stares too intensely, she’s ominously quiet and internal, says things at the wrong moment, struggles to connect in a conventional way, and has this unnerving habit of making people feel observed rather than engaged with. She grew up in a sterile environment devoid of connection, she’s not exactly going to grow up into a social butterfly. In one of her first attempts at casual conversation in the wilderness, she starts talking about animals eating their own vomit.

These intense, disarming qualities of hers work really well in the wilderness and at her compound (cult) in the adult timeline because they turn her awkwardness/intensity into mystique and make her feel almost otherworldly, but they don’t work too well in a normal high school setting (or any other typical setting for that matter).

let the darkness set us free