Later on in the film, we see the masked Dread Pirate Roberts who is clever, confident and terrifying. He eventually uses the phrase “as you wish” where he is revealed to be Westley, who faked his death.

As we find in yellowjackets s3, Melissa also fakes her death and takes on a new name, Kelly. The naming meaning here is interesting as Melissa is Greek for honey bee and Kelly is Irish for warrior. The symbolism alone suggests the reinventing of the quiet, invisible (farm hand) Melissa into the adult Melissa.

Like Westley, she reinvented herself. However, her iconic hat remains. The pink hat (pink for girlhood and innocence) is now white (re-birth?). However, you could argue that the hat color fades throughout the series.

Before she knows Shauna is hiding in her kitchen closet (literally a skeleton in her closet so to speak), she remarks that “you don’t know whose house you walked into” suggesting that this is not the same awkward, in the background Melissa. And she literally goes toe to toe with Shauna calling her bluff.

The ring tone from the scene in the bathroom was Queen of Hearts, and if we assume the queen is Shauna as she was crowned antler queen, we get a darker version of Westley’s “as you wish”:

“The joker ain’t the only fool who will do anything for you”

All in all, I think we’ve got a twisted version of princess bride on our hands.