#juniorjackets

melissa: axe body spray warrior (travis had to tell her to stop). dumb as hell, didn’t know what butch meant until tai explained it to her and then she was still kinda confused. takes shauna on flea market dates (shauna’s idea)

tai: grammar freak, always corrects people even in text. ap english student and proud. loves fantastic mr fox 

nat: secret tswift enjoyer, went to a concert with jackie. not a fan of mari’s vape addiction, thinks she should ‘smoke cigarettes and man up’. posts covers of big thief songs on her secret tiktok

robin: ceramics student. sends britt birdwatching videos on instagram. has a ton of plants in her room and calls herself a succulent mom 

britt: horse girl (does not own horses). has seen every cowboy or horse movie there is. van made her watch brokeback mountain and she cried 

gen: romance movie lover, has a booktok account. crashes out at the summer i turned pretty episodes 

ben: rupauls drag race fanatic. van watches it with him on weekends and tai brings hummus and carrots for them. verrry millennial and does not understand half of the tiktoks they show him 

crystal: oh i just know she’s a theater kid. LOVES hamilton and starred in her school seuissical production proudly. also probably a percy jackson kid 

rachel: likes to think she’s an indie niche music girl but all her favorite bands are extremely popular (the beatles, oasis, radiohead)

allie: extreme swiftie and carpenter. honestly kind of a bitch but says the things the other girls don’t wanna say out loud. brandy melville is her favorite store ever 

Welcome to the Extrajackets masterpost! My goal is to analyse every screenshots with an extra and see if we can learn anything from what the extrajackets are doing in the background. Here's a masterlist of all the extras in season 1.

I intend to go episode by episode with the screenshot I got. Let's call that the "Extrajackets" show. This is the main post where I'll be adding the Extrajackets "episodes" whenever they are updated.

If you'd like to check all the screenshots on their own, here's the original post where you can find them.

Extrajackets season 1

Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10

Confirmed/implied: Shauna, Misty, Tai, Nat, Jackie, Lottie (seniors), Allie (freshman), Javi (8th grade)

My HCs:

Seniors:

Van Palmer and Laura Lee

-basically canon

-they aren’t outright stated to be seniors (at least that I know of atm), but it makes the most sense in my head as they were both at the party of which only other senior were shown to be at.

Juniors:

Melissa, Akilah, Gen, and Mari

-vibes mostly, Mari, Gen, and Akilah had already been cast in season one (Gen as an extra Mari and Akilah named) but weren’t at the party

-Mel and Gen gave me the vibes of two girls in the same grade idk

-“When we get back, I’ll still be a junior” made me think that Akilah might have been a junior rather than a sophomore who had hope for continuing school when she got back, plus Mari assuming she wouldn’t have to take the SAT

Sophomores:

Britt, Robin, Rachel, and Kristen

-Vibes again, they seem younger

-Kristen not having any friends making it seem like she’s relatively new

(For the main post, click here)

So, episode 2 starts right with the plane crashing. We can see an extra we haven't seen in the previous episode, who was dubbed "Not Melissa" in one interesting video specifically focusing on keeping track of the extras.

ft. Shauna trying to cozy up to the group and impress them so they won’t all gang up on her in her sleep right before she and Mel become official

PRE CRASH

- the friend pairs were Gen & Mari (head bitches), Rachel & Akilah (SAT prep study buddies), Britt & Robin, 15 & 17.

- Crystal and Melissa were kinda the odd ones out, though I think Mel was somewhat friends with 15 (who I think she clocked was queer)

- Robin and Crystal did theater

- Rachel was in band and was dating Melissa's brother who's also in band. They're really kissy and hetero and gross, so began Melissa's one-sided beef with Rachel

- They all extensively gossip about Jackieshauna and are 'convinced' Shauna is gay

POST CRASH

- the living ones all just kinda merged together and became the Juniorjackets

- I wasn't a fan of the actors' headcanon that Gen and Melissa weren't best friends pre-crash but now I'm warming up to it. I do think they were friendly, and Gen was the first one to get close to Mel in the wilderness. They bonded over Radiohead :)

-When Melissa got with Shauna they all tried to talk her out of it. Akilah tried to be nice ("are you sure??") but Gen was just like "girl she gonna murder you"

-Shauna can see how protective the pack is of their little puppy so she does try to sit with them, talk, and "campaign": she's more thoughtful towards Akilah and thanks her for doing such a good job with the fowlery ("duck meat is a nice treat"), and chats up Gen about field-dressing the deer when she's out hunting

-Between the trial and Thanksgiving they all kinda warm up to Shauna except Mari who remains wary of her.

Everybody is turning her baby into this wilderness messiah almost and she just wants to mourn him and they aren’t letting her. I think Shauna might blame Mari for not letting her die.

Thank you so much for using my [theorize here] button yay. I thought about this a lot since you submitted it and I totally see it. I believe where Shauna has the problem with Mari asking the Wilderness to let her live lies in *why* Mari would want Shauna to live. It might seem harmless and nice on the surface, but we see Mari & Co. making comments like this throughout the season in the same tone, like they don’t know the gravity of what they are saying (I.e. casually talking about the deaths of their friends). I would see Shauna perceiving it as (and perhaps correctly so) Mari wanting Shauna to stay alive so she can continue acting, essentially, as a tool for them. I think the resentment starts with her becoming the butcher, and then after doing so much dirty work for them, she expects something in return (like getting appointed leader at the end of S2) but never does. She gets what she perceives as callousness from Taissa, Mari, and the juniorjackets with Jackie’s death, and then she has the vision of them and her baby later. I think the butcher resentment, as others have also discussed, builds towards the end of S2. It becomes rampantly clear that in Shauna’s mind she is simply a tool to butcher things and deliver a baby that they seem to like almost more than her. They then assume that she can just kill someone that she cares about, her teammate, casually.

Another level of dehumanization, like Shauna isn’t capable of the same level of emotion as them, or simply not caring and not caring that this is in the wake of multiple forms of loss on Shauna’s part. Also, butchering Javi after losing her baby and in what I believe to be PPD/postpartum psychosis.

This is highlighted in the narrative when Shauna’s team loses the games in S3 and they rub it in their face about losing and having to serve them. To all the other girls, it’s just good natured trash talk. To Shauna, it’s a continuation of the verbal put-downs and relegation to almost a sub-human status, which, if we look further ahead to her extreme paranoia, switches into this almost disbelief that she could rule and not be hated (which is true but it wasn’t everyone- she genuinely believed that everyone wanted to take her out. It got bad later. With Ben, everyone is angry at Natalie, especially the juniorjackets who want to protect Mari). In total, I agree with what you are saying for sure, but I would just change your last sentence in my own mind: I think Shauna might resent Mari for wanting her to stay alive.