His angry face😭I love him SO MUCH

Yellowjackets is a story for every girl, every woman, every individual. It succeeds because elements of every character can be found in every aspect of our pasts, our presents, our futures. One day I might say “I’m just like Nat,” but then waver, knowing that parts of me echo of Lottie, scream of Shauna, mourn of Travis. Their losses are universal losses. Their successes are universal successes. They tell their own stories back, like Van does in season three, in a way that makes them palatable. We all have our stories, both true and the digestible version. Their adventures and misadventures carry the marks of the oldest tales. Their story is a great story, and it is deeply personal and familiar.

For a while Laura Lee is there alone (and probably grappling with the fact that she did not go to one of the Christian realms she was prepared for) but eventually Jackie arrives and it isn’t as bad. They become good friends.

As the months in the wilderness pass it starts to fill up. But then no one else really joins until 2021 and all of a sudden they have a big reunion. Laura Lee finally gets to see Lottie again, Travis and Javi are together, Nat is there. Eventually, after however many months or years it takes, they’re all there. Shauna is with the real Jackie for the first time since their fight, Tai and Van are together, they’re all there.

Travis breaking the branch his dad is on. We see coach Martinez lift his hand a little, before the branch breaks and he falls to the ground.

The fight between Shauna and Jackie that led to Jackie freezing to death alone started with her reprimanding the others for what they did to Travis during doomcoming.

In season 2 Travis is the one that starts the ritual that leads to the prayer circle for Shauna and her baby, I think when he is letting out blood, his mind was focused on protecting Shauna. Leading to her surviving, but not her baby.

We see the same thing happen later on in this season. Natalie is chosen for the hunt. He tackles Shauna to the ground to stop her, allowing Natalie to escape. Protecting her, but it led to losing his little brother in a horrific way.

In season 3 he is the only one who catches Nat heading for coach Ben. He makes a half hearted attempt to convince her not to put Ben out of his misery, before ultimately opening the gate that leads to the suffering man, letting Natalie in.

And of course in episode 9, we discover that Travis is the one who created the pit trap, he intended it for Lottie, but she breaks his resolve when she apologizes. But because that intent was there, Mari ran right into her death.

- Their first kiss just happened naturally. They were laying on the floor of Laura Lee’s trailer (IM A HUGE TRAILER KID LAURA LEE TRUTHER), Lottie was running her fingers through Laura Lee’s hair and it just kinda happened. It wasn’t Lottie’s first kiss but it was Laura Lee’s first kiss. Laura Lee prayed 4 times after their kiss cause she was paranoid they “committed adultery”. Lottie was all flustered because she got Laura Lee’s lipgloss on her lips, it tasted like cherry. :3

- The scene of them holding hands during the plane crash (the gif I used) was the confirmation of their relationship. (I don’t make the rules)

- Laura Lee learned how to braid hair at church camp, everytime we see Lottie with braided hair Laura Lee did it for her. Sometimes they each take strands from each others hair and braid them together.

- They were girlfriends in private as Laura Lee didn’t know how the world would react to their relationship because it wasn’t really accepted back then (like why Tai and Van were private), but especially because she was Christian.

- Lottie calls them “best friends” and Laura Lee calls them “best buds” around other people.

- Laura Lee would practice for her church play with Lottie. Lottie would say the lines of all the other characters and Laura Lee would do the lines for Mary. She got Mary every year in the church play.

- Last one, Lottie wearing Laura Lee’s dress to doomcoming makes me think that they wore each others clothes a lot. They had sleepovers at Lottie’s and they’d share her expensive pajamas after they took baths together (in a sfw way). A lot of Lottie’s clothes were left at Laura Lee’s house from how much they’d share clothes.