it's just...the interconnectedness of taissa and lottie. they canonically wear the same cleats. taissa sleepwalks pre-crash, lottie post-rescue. they're both burdened with the supernatural prior to the wilderness - both forms of sight, a warning in some ways. lottie's visions spill out and have to be dealt with - Tai doesn't tell a single soul about what she sees. It's a terror she has to carry all on her own. I've always thought of other tai as a shield, a crutch, a protective layer of hard skin that kicks in at the point of pain.
there's a familiarity/fluidness (?) in the way that lottie and taissa get at each other? it's so quick, innate -- like a knee jerk reaction.
What if you're wrong? What if there's just nothing?
I don't know. / You do know. / If I'm wrong, I'll die out there.
βI donβt believe in that shit, and neither will you.β
I'm just trying to figure it out / Yeah, maybe you shouldn't.
they're on each other's heels verbally, physically at all times. I think that only comes from a shared and intimate knowledge of each other. how they work, how they think, how to get under each other's skin.
most of their interactions on the show are tactile. pulling each other's arms, bodies, clothing, to steer them to, or away, from something. hurtling their bodies into one another. shoving. pushing. crowding each other's space.
all of taissa + lottie's understandings of each other are underscored by touch. paralleled beginnings. at what points in their shared history did they meet and diverge? whatever the answer, i truly believe they share a deep understanding of one another that maybe surpasses words. it's in the body.
