#Yellowjackets theories

[stilllsage]

I made a little yellowjackets S3 theory/prediction bingo card!!! :)

if you fill it out pleeease repost with it! I love to see the theories :))

Mine was pretty rushed but here it is (a lot of them are hopes 😭)

[jimalim]

Saw this on Twitter I think this is a really great theory

[honestlynervousnut]

Ik im wrong in too many ways im not gonna bother to explain but...

Could you imagine if the necklace was a birthday gift from Shauna?

[tabithatwo]

Okay okay OKAY I was rewatching the jackie death dream and the lottie mall scene because these seem to be to most hmmmm this really feels like a ghost realm scenes we have right?? (Cabin guy, like why would Jackie OR shauna imagine cabin guy, shauna being shown as waking from it, indicated dream share, laura lee shoving lottie back into reality etc are you with me?) So of course I’m reeling about the Alice in wonderland ism of Lottie’s scene BUT but Jackie is offered hot chocolate and she TAKES A SIP and when she looks back to the group after that our ghosts appear and she’s cemented in death!! Laura Lee offers lottie food and she’s watching lottie anxiously and she says WAIT when Lottie’s about to eat and lottie doesn’t get a bite and Laura Lee has a sudden change in tone and she stands and she pushes her and lottie DOESN’T EAT!!! Alice and eat me and Persephone and pomegranate seeds and DO YOU SEE WHAT IM SAYING HERE CAUSE I FEEL INSANE ABOUT THIS

[beastsovrevelation]

I think, the Wilderness can appear in whatever form she chooses. And, Antler Queen specifically was created by Lottie.

Lottie made the headdress.

Lottie also wore the headdress when, I firmly believe, she was possessed by the Wilderness.

I'm convinced the whole Doomcoming thing is not just shrooms. The Wilderness used the everyone's altered mental state to take over, as entities do. She made the kids see what she wanted them to see - in her realm, humans are the same as beasts. Yes, it's the hunger, but the hunger is a part of the Wilderness. The hunt is a part of the Wilderness. And in that moment, the Wilderness became a part of the kids, because they became wild. And, that's the symbolism behind Jackie not eating the stew, therefore not getting high (or possessed) - she didn't accept the Wilderness. She did not belong.

In the end, Antler Queen was the comprehensible veil a Goddess chose to dress in. She took the form her Priestess had conjured.

[lais-a-ramos]

one thing that got my attention in the sneak peak/season 3 premiere date reveal about that scene of lottie being choked is that courtney's expression seems a bit serene, almost defiant

and, of course, it's just a frame and we can't know the entire context yet

but, based on the comment @periwinklekryptonite (thank you, chris <3) made on discord about how, if it's travis, there's a parallel with the scene of travis' death and lottie accidentaly letting him die bc she saw laura lee's ghost, i have the theory that maybe this is how the idea that you have to almost die to contact the wilderness comes from

like, maybe teen lottie is desperate to contact the wilderness again, especially after how last season ended, in which, according to director karyn kusama's interview for harpers bazaar, lottie may have realized the others will do what they feel like doing and lottie might not matter much in this scenario

so, desperate to find a purpose, maybe teen lottie realizes that she was able to have visions when she was on the brink of death -- the food court vision when she almost died of hypothermia, and also her visions of javi's death when she was literally fighting for her life after being brutally beaten down by shauna

and, so, she asks travis for help, bc maybe he might be easier to convince than the others due to feeling lost after his brother javi died

anyways, this is just a theory, and definetely not the only possible scenario

we don't even know if it's travis, and it might as well be ben!!!!

but, i think it'd be an interesting parallel with adult timeline

it would also help to explain why travis asked for lottie's help of all ppl in adult timeline

and, most of all, it would be a way to flesh lottie's character out by showing how she feels about the wilderness and her faith during a faith crisis of sorts

(disclaimer.: i don't ship travlot neither romantically or sexually, but i think their dynamic is too intriguing, especially bc lottie is one of the girls who, in courtney eaton's own words for vulture magazine post-1x09, sexually assaulted travis.

and yet he not only became one of her most loyal and enthusiastic acolytes -- he literally spilled his own blood with no hesitation after lottie asked him to, in that offering to save shauna's and the baby's lives --, but also is seemingly the only wilderness survivor who knew where lottie was before the events of adult timeline in season 2

the showrunners already confirmed during paley fest panel last year that there's no love triangle thing and there is no romance

but, that's the thing, platonic bonds are worthy of talking about as well

especially one as mysterious as this one)

[omgyellowphantoms]

I saw someone saying about making yellowjackets edits with the reach for the gun audio and....

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMr4F3mhU/

Please go and give the video some love❗❗❗

[namnjj]

I was thinking of the rescued day of the Yellowjackets and imagine the rescue team, trying to find the girls and when they do find them, they look like this

i mean, maybe they use these costumes when they hunt people(? and the card thing, idk, but what if they don't and they look at this 24/7, if i was in the woods and saw something like this i turn around and run as fast as i can

[sillylittlgaythings]

i’ve been thinking a lot about this particular jackie poster and also the theory that the wilderness is protecting shauna (ex. when shauna almost died during child birth then survive and javi dying, 25 years later when she picked the queen card and was chosen as a sacrifice and nat died in her place) so that + this poster got me thinking about jackie being the antler queen.

but not in the way teen nat was appointed by lottie to be their leader, but as in jackie spirit having no choice but to haunt them, haunt shauna, but also trying to protect her at all costs no matter who suffered because of this.

jackie never got to leave the wilderness, not even her body got to go home, her spirit is still there and she has never been known for letting go, so why would it be different in her death? the last time she let go she froze to death, but now she’s suck being 17 forever, haunting her friends and especially her best friend, we’ve seen shauna seeing jackie’s spirit more than once, but maybe the others didn’t care enough to see jackie’s ghost like shauna did, so assuming the form of the antler queen made lottie, specially, see her and to interpret it as a sign of the wilderness then leading the others to believe the antler queen.

maybe she reappear after 25 years to lottie because the surviving yellowjackets were finally together again and she gets more powerful the closer they are together/the more they believe in her, because isn’t that what jackie taylor has always wanted in life? to be believed, to be adored, to be loved, respected, feared, to be seen? now she got all those things in death.

in the poster jackie is looking directly at the antler queen even though she never actually saw her while alive, i don’t think is crazy to think about jackie spirit being trapped in the wilderness and at the same time being trapped inside the girls (i’m so funny ik) so she has no choice but to haunt them, push them together, getting everything she wanted in life in death, but also being unable to get what she truly always wanted, shauna, knowing that the only way she could get that was if shauna died and her ghost become the same as jackie’s, but she would never let that happened, shauna protected her all the time in life, so now it’s jackie’s turn to protect shauna in death.

maybe i’m reaching or i just really like jackie haunting shauna, but considering the things that happen in this shown i don’t think it’s that crazy.

[mizuans]

i've been talking abt this in various locations but the concept and theory of the antler queen being a rotating position is so interesting and also seems pretty likely? what with misty thinking she would be named leader, shauna wanting power and the fact that in 2021 nobody really treats Natalie with the respect she'd deserve had she been their sole leader out in the wilderness. also mentioned in behind the buzz that all the girls might have a chance to be in power so!! super fun

[fellshish]

my theory about coach ben yellowjackets is that the girls are going to be rescued and he’ll be in his little hole staying back perhaps not even realising they’re gone and it’ll cut to present day and he’s a merlin like figure fully bearded and covered in fur standing on a hilltop watching a new plane come down

[antlerqueer]

The Yellowjackets Book Club watches... Season 2 Teaser Trailer

[yellowjacketslesbian]

so… are we ready to talk about how the yellowjackets yearbook in fangoria has accurately predicted shauna, nat, & callie storylines so far this season, and how it also heavily alludes to mari being the 8th survivor…

photo cred: @sappy-sappho

[virgoactias]

i’m getting more and more convinced to the teen shauna is AQ and later adult shauna will become something like that again

teen AQ shauna could make sense because she was the one to resort to cannibalism and then when adult lottie talks with AQ like with a therapist i kinda see that it could be connected to shauna beating her up in the wilderness (in my head it makes sense there’s probably something psychological to it)

adult shauna drawing the queen card also leads me to thinking that if they ever remake the cult she would be the leader.

also the writers said that s3 will be centered around shauna sooo

[tabithatwo]

There are a LOT of reasons I think the “dreams” aren’t quite dreams (the eat or drink in the underworld/fairy land and you’re stuck there motif) but the main reason is that they sort of TELL us these aren’t just dreams. Based on Travis’ lines in 202, the near death experiences are IT!!

If you watch them closely, there’s a lot of trickery happening. The way to soothe Jackie into drinking is to be loving and kind to her! Love is all she’s ever wanted from them! The way to get lottie to eat is to make her feel othered or mocked by her friends! She already feels different enough! They seem impatient/angry in Shauna’s dream etc (I’m gonna break at least this one if not all of them down in more detail eventually). Based on Travis’ lines, it seems like they figure this out to some degree and they learn to (or hope to) communicate with it. So I don’t think the characters we see in “dreams” are really the near death character’s dream versions of them, I think they’re “it” impersonating them for some gain. I think Laura Lee was able to break through somehow in Lottie’s (stopping her from eating, shoving her back into her conscious self) and I hope that’s explored more. I really think we’re seeing our first iterations of “it” in these near death “dreams” AND we’re seeing a ghost realm that exists along side it with Laura Lee, Jackie, and cabin guy, based on the end of 1x10 and Laura Lee in Lottie’s “dream” and Jackie’s voice in Shauna’s.

ANYWAY! Parallel realities and multiple planes intertwined (hi ben Paul scenes you’re relevant in a way I haven’t fully digested yet but I see you!) and such!