Out-of-focus antlers behind Jay's head the first time he and Mabel talk alone
Antlers behind Bash as he looks at them triumphantly after Oliver walks out
The same stag head behind Jay, this time in focus, when he lets Mabel and Charles escape with the finger
The last shot, when he helps them, frames Jay in between Mabel and Charles, with a fully realised pair of antlers, in contrast to how blurred and barely visible they are in the first shot, when he tries to charm Mabel out of her suspicion. Bash is framed with antlers when he becomes confident that Mabel and Charles will lose -- that he will win.
Antlers represent power. Just as the stag with the biggest antlers wins, the person with the antlers wields the power in that scene. (Analysis below the cut)
Bash is the one who decides the game -- specifically something he knows his team will excel at -- and describes the cards for the others. For Jay, it makes sense that the antlers are out of focus/just out of reach in the first shot, when he is vying for power but Mabel won't let him have it, and clearly visible when he has the power to stop Mabel and Charles. The way he's directly in between them, creating a divide, addressing her alone -- he's appealing to her, trying to use her sympathy for him, and she's completely at his mercy. But that changes when she gives him, effectively, an ultimatum; she won't ever see him as a good guy if he doesn't let them go.
At that point, he clearly steps away from the antlers, moves to the side so that they can get past him together (no longer divided by him), and you see him walking back alone, with the stag head in the background, but he's never aligned with it again. So he gives up his power, not as a ploy to gain Mabel's trust, as I honestly expected until now, but because he genuinely wants her to like him, and therefore doesn't regain power/isn't revealed to still have power over them after they leave. It would have been easy to have him move slightly to the centre as he walks back and thus frame the stag head behind him, but we see him distinctly separated and moving away from it. He also does genuinely seem anguished and conflicted. Not the best conclusion to come to when I don't want them together and don't like him suddenly becoming a great person despite his introduction, and, y'know, the whole billionaire thing... Idk. We'll see.
Anyway, this explains why Camila never has antlers behind her, because she's never really the person with the most power in a scene. When she's talking to Oliver and he's scared shitless, she is more powerful, but she's not explicitly exercising that power the way Bash and Jay are.
Something I can't explain, though, is that the stag head behind Bash (the man who wants to cheat death) is skeletal, clearly dead, while Jay's is taxidermy, a semblance of life in its absence, a deception, a contradiction. Maybe it's the inevitability of death hanging over Bash -- when he thinks he's won, only to lose -- or maybe it means that, just like the head appearing as it really is (dead), he is portraying himself genuinely/isn't lying or hiding anything (unlikely!). Jay's might be a statement on his character and the role he plays (good or bad, I have no clue)?
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