shauna eating jackie isn't cannibalism as a metaphor for love... it's cannibalism as a metaphor for obsession. tai eating van's heart, and travis eating javi's; those were love, but shauna didn't softly bite into jackie's heart, she ate into her ribs frenzied and desperate and wrong, as if she could never get enough of jackie, as if she could spend the next 25 years looking for every way to consume jackie again because she lost the real thing...

i think lottie mathews' sexuality cannot be reduced to a label, simply because everything about her is so intertwined to her time in the wildnerness that she is unable to form a deep emotional bond with everyone that didn't experience it. but also the only person she has ever been in love with is shauna