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In the pilot, Natalie throws a bottle at the back of a moving car on a whim. By this, it is established that Natalie possibly has a bad temper or that she’s used to acting quickly. In the original series pitch, she joined the Yellowjackets to avoid being suspended/expelled for some kind of mystery event that was meant to be revealed later on.

I feel like this made sense for her backstory. She was raised in a trailer park, being taken care of by a violent man. She ended up losing her temper and screaming at him, and he shot himself by mistake trying to retaliate against her. Rage makes sense. We don’t exactly become our parents, but they make up so much of us.

I think Natalie’s character is a good example of passive violence overall, but I would have liked there to be more moments where she snapped at people. I love characters that are stuck in their anger, but when things get extremely violent they balk and step away. I also think it would make her a more realistic, gray character, allowing her to clash with Shauna more easily.

It’s confirmed Shauna’s going to die, and there’s no way Melissa is sticking around that long. Misty seems like she’s going down a rocky path with the alcohol and all her impulsive actions. Taissa’s strong and willful. She has a motive. She has social and economic power. Her being final girl would be an amazing callback to Van joking in season 1 that Taissa would be first to do because she was the skeptic. She was one of the few that didn’t buy into all the wilderness insanity. Aside from all that, how iconic would it be to have a WOC be final girl? I don’t remember ever seeing that in any horror media in my life.

Like, Shauna apparently had some kind of plot where she had a thing with Callie’s boyfriend, but Melanie Lynskey didn’t want to play a PDF for the second time in her acting career so she had them rewrite it.

And also Natalie had some gross thing going on with her dad? He says something to her like “I just wanted to give you a kiss goodnight” that was so creepy and suggestive, and then I think there was some kind of reference to blood, like bleeding after what he did to her. It’s just crazy to me that Yellowjackets could have been so much more gross and creepy.

Natalie knows how to cut up Adam. She volunteers to help Shauna do so, because Shauna taught her how to do it with Ben. She made Natalie the new butcher. They seem somewhat hostile towards each other in the adult timeline, but Natalie’s not, like, cowering away from Shauna or avoiding her, and Shauna doesn’t seem like she wants to hurt Natalie. She still goes to Natalie’s funeral, and still remarks on how messed up the whole thing was. She worries about what people would say at her funeral because she knows that she and Natalie are a lot alike.

I’m thinking that two things have to happen. I think Shauna has to get better, at least on the outside because her insides are too far gone, and Natalie has to get a lot worse. Natalie’s had a strong moral compass for the whole show, so I think it would be really interesting to see that deteriorate either waiting for rescue or after it. Shauna’s holding a lot back. So maybe she just breaks down on Natalie. Things heal better when they’re fully broken sometimes.

#LetTeenNatalieBeEvilForSeason4

-She’s so bad at social cues. Like, she gets on Misty for missing them all the time, but she’s just as bad if not worse.

-When she was a kid she had some kind of snake or lizard from outside that she kept as a pet until her mother stepped on it by accident. She laughed it off in front of her mother then cried all week.

-Humor is a coping mechanism. As long as people are laughing, they’re not fighting or yelling. And if she can keep her mother distracted, that’s a plus.

-She’s a nervous laugher. She can’t go to funerals or libraries or anywhere quiet like that because she’ll start laughing and not be able to stop.

-She started to have really bad panic attacks after Mari’s. The first time Taissa was there for one, Van almost passed out because she was trying so hard to make Taissa smile instead of look at her with so much sadness in her eyes and she just kept talking and laughing.

-Her father left when she was little. Her mother has a new boyfriend like, every week and not all of them are safe to be around so she crashes with Mari, Natalie, or Taissa after they got close.

-Had an atrocious haircut in late elementary school or early middle school. She’s still teased about it.

-Movies are a time occupier. Her mother had to work and Van would be home alone a lot, so she’d watch TV way more than any little kid should.

-She’d rather embarrass herself looking like an idiot than have people cry for her.

This scene got my attention because she almost seems to tense up when Tobias brings up how she and her husband met, then only slightly annoyed when Tobias clarifies. I’m thinking that Luther knows something about his mother that the rest of the characters don’t, and that’s why she tolerates him cuddling up to her like a little kid when he greets her. Maybe that’s why he calls her more regularly than Lucas does.

If I’m right, this bonding probably happened while Luther was still a teenager or a young adult. Maybe she stepped up when he was in his drug habit or something. She did go to the chief of police’s house when he got into trouble and I don’t doubt that she would have done something to help along his rehab.

Rehab or prison? No problem. She’s sneaking in some candy somehow. Natalie’s in some remote hotel in another state? Misty has trackers in Natalie’s shoes. She’s showing up. This probably started as some throwaway conversation about how neither Misty or Natalie celebrated these holidays growing up, or if they did, it wasn’t very consistent.

Natalie wakes up the next morning on Easter to Misty, rabbit ears included, making them both breakfast. She thinks she’s hallucinating until hours pass and Misty isn’t disappearing or anything. Since then, Misty has managed to push her way onto Natalie’s calendar for every single holiday. Natalie slept by the door one Christmas to catch Santa-Misty in the act, and Misty came through the window instead.

Bonus-After Natalie passes, Misty brings a school picture of her and goes out to brunch. She invites Taissa, who shows up because she has nothing else to do with herself. To be nice, Misty printed out a photo of teenage Van as well, which Taissa found extremely offputting and distressing, but stayed with Misty anyway because she couldn’t bring herself to walk out.

Shauna’s seen Jackie multiple times, and it’s usually when it’s cold, allowing Shauna to feel a fraction of what she must have felt. Lottie saw Laura Lee during a high stress situation (watching Travis be lifted up) so maybe her motif would be appearing during those important moments where a person has to make a quick decision between life or death?

Misty saw Natalie in the bar mirror while she was drinking. Both of these things could be linked to Natalie, both her struggles with addiction, and Misty’s attempts to “mirror” her after her death by acting tougher and more bold. Misty seems like she’s on a downward spiral. Honestly, the way things are going, she might be the last alive but I don’t see her staying alive.

Taissa has not had a Van hallucination yet, but I’m thinking it could be something to do with technology. Like, Taissa could talk to her through the phone or see her on tv. As I’m typing this, I have in mind a really creepy scene where Taissa’s watching tv and the ice cream commercial comes on, but Van’s in it somehow? And Taissa just freaks out.

-Was a nail biter when she was younger. Her father tried some ridiculously extreme things to get her to kick the habit.

-Undiagnosed ADHD. Not only does she show consistent dopamine seeking behaviors (I know that she’s traumatized, but she can be both), burned out during high school, and seems maladjusted and out of place in general.

-Was a huge fighter when she was in elementary school. Got sent to the school counselor so much that she knew Natalie’s first name, surname, birthday, and a bunch of other personal things.

-Was one of those kids who had to have scissors taken away from her because she could cut her own hair.

-She and Van have known each other since infancy, then became a trio with Mari during preschool.

-Really good intuition, but it’s dimmed when she’s intoxicated. If there was a serial killer in the building that nobody knew about, she would be the first to be like: “we’ve got to get out of here. ☹️”

-Grew up speaking both Italian and English at home. Only really uses it while talking with family and their friends and for deciphering what Mari is talking to her parents about, since Italian and Spanish are close linguistically.

-Went to her first music show when she was just a toddler. Her father carried her on his shoulders. It was one of the few good memories she had with him.

-Was in some kind of garage band, but either ditched it after rescue or they decided she was too much to handle.

I think it would be really funny to do a running skit where Misty’s just minding her business except every time Shauna turns around, whatever Misty’s doing conveniently looks deeply nefarious. But actually she’s just washing the dishes or doing something completely normal, and when Shauna tries to point it out to anyone, whatever she’s doing looks normal again.

It’s a work in progress, but maybe something like:

Shauna: (turns around and sees Misty with a knife directly behind her.)

Misty: “Sorry, I just need a fork from the silverware drawer :).”

Shauna internally: ‘omg she’s out to get me’

Misty internally: ‘wow, Shauna seems really jumpy lately. I wonder why.’

I really want to see Shauna go into a regular, public place (like a grocery store, which seems to be where she is in the picture) and have a complete meltdown. The lights are too bright, it’s too loud, and she’s getting paranoid about the other customers. It all builds up and then manifests in a huge fit that draws a lot of attention, and while this is happening she sees the faces of the other customers. And where there was once fear and ‘respect’, there’s now only pity. And I want to watch the loss of her power truly break her.

Sophie Nelisse, do your thing.

Shauna-Probably never called her parents kid names, even when she was little. They were always just “mom and dad”.

Jackie- I think she would say “mother and father” ironically but just call them “mom and dad” like Shauna.

Lottie- “mother and father” unironically, but they were “mama and daddy” when she was little.

Taissa- “mother and father”

Natalie- they’re her “mama and daddy” for forever. Maybe she calls her mom “ma” later on and uses them interchangeably.

Van- I’m pretty sure she’s fatherless, but would call her mom “mommy” before she was just “mom”.

Misty- uses “mommy and daddy”.

Laura Lee- “mother and father”

Akilah- I feel like she would either call them “mama and papa” or “mother and father”.

Mari- “mamá and papá or mamí and papí”

(pretty sure that’s every main girl)

Tabitha: I think she would probably stick to the more basic, feminine type scents but still smell good. I could see Lucas just getting her the kind of products that divorced dads get their daughters while they have custody. Just because he’s sort of off handed with her except in education/discipline and doesn’t know her very well.

Rudy-she smells sort of chemical no matter what perfumes she uses. I think she would smell sort of sickly sweet also. It’s somewhat off putting and a constant source of annoyance for her because she feels like no matter how she covers it up, rot seeps through within her.

Emiri-She always mysteriously smells like a hospital. It’s obvious that there’s something oddly synthetic about her.

Camelia-she’s outside a lot. Playing soccer, running around with her friends. It reflects on her like sunshine. Think of how you smell when your mother complains that you smell like outside. That’s Camelia.

You’re having a normal day working at your normal job when two masked men barge into the place and start robbing it. This is in Germany a few years after the end of WW2 and at the rise of the Soviet Union in East Germany. One of the men finds you while you’re hiding and demands you go on a date with him or else he’ll blow your brains out. You don’t want to die, so you go along with it. Then he says he wants to get married, so he takes you to a foreign country, forcing you to leave your entire life and family behind and move to a new, unfamiliar country whose language you do not speak and whose customs you are completely unfamiliar with.

It’s because Tabitha in the New Testament was a Catholic saint who was risen from the dead by Saint Peter. Risen from the dead, just like Tabitha in the canon material. And if she was named this way, it would confirm that the Schneiens are German Catholics.

I think it would be really funny if Tabitha and Camelia (Tobias and Carmelo) had this moment of just shared knowledge and experience from being raised Catholic. I could just see a scene that’s like:

C-“So, does your church like, consume the body and blood of Jesus?”

T- “Yes, but my father uses grape juice because he believes that alcohol is a sin.”

E + R- horrified silence