#Yellowjackets theories

[yoyomeowmoew]

Yellowjackets detail AND theory: Laura Lee and Javi !Remember that this is just my own theory, doesn’t mean it's true! When Jackie died she hallucinates everyone saying they loved her, but one thing that's overlooked is that LAURA LEE says "It's not as bad as you thought.. is it..?"

She is the only one who says something other than "We love you Jackie" and breaks the silence before The Hunter ( shadow guy who was talking to her from the corner) says some shit to Jackie that ONLY she can see/hear and not the rest. 

Yet again when Nat dies in the adult life she hallucinates Javi. Javi says "There's nothing to be afraid of, you know" Here there is a parallel between Javi and Laura Lee, the only innocents, but why??? It might be that both Laura Lee and Javi saw something right after they died just like Jackie did. 

What if Javi saw Laura Lee when he was drowning, she managed to calm him down, and that's why his face wasn’t mortified when he passed.

[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 😭)

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

Perhaps the wilderness in Yellowjackets is not just a symbol of death. Perhaps it is also—in its own way—freedom.

In the wilderness, Lottie didn’t have to hide her visions for fear of being called crazy. She was exalted as a leader and a prophet. But when she returned, they called her crazy and locked her up.

In the wilderness, Misty didn’t have to be ashamed of her intensity and eccentricity. She was helpful, she was needed, she was important. But when she returned, they called her a freak and exiled her once again.

In the wilderness, Tai didn’t have to pretend to be something she’s not. Her other self was not a weakness but a strength, it gave her power, and kept her alive. But when she returned she had to suppress her urges and hide her other self, or lose everything.

In the wilderness, Shauna didn’t have to be small, and hide the fire inside her. She was angry, and violent, and powerful. But when she returned, she was forced back into a supporting role, forced to contain her darkness and her drive in order to fit a role she never wanted to play.

In the wilderness, Travis didn’t have to put on an act to fit the societal expectations of masculinity. He was feminine, and emotional, and soft—not the man of the group, but just another Yellowjacket in the hive. But when he returned, he was forced back into the cage—back into the closet—isolated, hardened, closed off and separated from the girls once more.

In the wilderness, Natalie didn’t have to feel guilty for surviving. She was the hunter, the provider, and the gun in her hands made her a savior, and a leader, not a killer. But when she returned, she was a killer once again, haunted by guilt, and outcast by society for the things she did to stay alive.

The wilderness gave them the freedom to be their truest and most authentic selves, but the cost was the blood spilled. The cost was their old selves. The cost was a place in the world upon their return.

Maybe the wilderness did not destroy them; it simply changed them into something new, something irrevocably different, something that would never—could never—fit back inside the narrow box of their old lives, and because they could no longer fit, society called them broken.

The wilderness freed them, but it never let them go. Because once you’ve tasted flesh and blood, once you’ve stared death in the face and overcame, once you’ve been to the very brink and seen the true depth of your own capacity for violence, once all the former markers of morality and success have become meaningless, in a world where survival at all costs is the only law, how can you ever go back to a world ruled by pointless, hollow, conventions? Once you’ve shed every remnant of your humanity, once you’ve run with the wolves, and howled at the moon, and become one with the ancient wild gods, how can you ever be a human again? Once you’ve had a taste of complete freedom, how can you ever be satisfied with a fake, insignificant, half-life, made up entirely of half-truths and haunting?

[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

[claudialover]

I'm a little late because the trailer was released yesterday and I'll probably say obvious things while people on Twitter are already discussing the craziest theories, but I wanted to do this quick review of the Yellowjackets s3 trailer.

Firs of all: Mari is absolutely dead. we have her running away in the woods, being bitten by shauna, having her head pressed to the ground and also shauna saying "I can't believe we didn't eat that bitch first" (we know that Mari isn't a very sweet person). That said, I think they're going to eat her alive it makes sense to me since we know that this season has a lot of gore

I saw some people saying that Shauna was choking Lottie while she was probably trying to defend Mari. I don't think it is, I still believe it's Travis... but idk if it's like a fight or their near-death experience and stuff like that

Since Mari is going to die (i think) we lost who we thought was our pitgirl, so... I believe it will be Gen or this new character Robin

Ben is cooked, we see a trial here and I hope he dies, that's all

more hallucinations in these girls, here we have young Van, already with scars so it's post-accident, looking at flames. but this is happening in a house with curtains and lamps, so it's not the cabin... I think we have the adult Van having flashbacks to the cabin fire, maybe she did it or maybe it's the trauma, or meaning of losing everything...idk

we saw Misty stabbing Shauna, but I don't think it's like that. I mean the angle of the knife is weird and how it goes all the way in but not a single reaction from Shauna??

Melissa gets more attention in this trailer so maybe she will get a more important role this season, probably with Shauna. and I also think she comes back as an adult melissa here

We also see Shauna taking back leadership from Natalie, probably because Natalie is very weak in things related to death and food. BUT I don't think Shauna has the ability to be a leader, which brings it back to Lottie, we saw her as a cult leader again in the trailer

There's no need to say that Shauna is absolutely crazy this season and I think that will be really great to watch. I really hope to see her closer to Lottie after all this.

[shaunashpmn]

i’m predicting a misty death before the end of the show and i’m so sure it’s going to be the other girls that do it so here’s why 😽

one of the main yj themes is the presence of trauma (obviously), specifically the way you can never outrun the person you once were. this shows up a bunch of times (eg. shauna’s marrying jeff, nat’s conversation with her younger self in the death scene, lottie’s visions) but one of the main ways it shows up aside from the wilderness aftershock is in misty.

misty’s behaviour isn’t best explained by her time in the wilderness. she struggled obviously, but whats so eerie about her character is that most of her behaviour is based on the bullying and outcasting she experienced before the crash and still does throughout her life, rather than the crazy stuff they did.

caligula’s name also hints towards this - (simplified) caligula was often considered so evil he must’ve been insane, and was murdered by his closest advisors as a result of this. i don’t think misty is evil, but i think misty thinks she is evil and would therefore align herself with him in some ways. i don’t think there’s any way at all that this name choice wasn’t intentional from the beginning.

then there’s the idea of payback, and that you must repent for your sins. from a supernatural-esque lens, shauna’s baby’s death could be the wilderness making her pay for jackie’s. this theory doesn’t entirely tie in with my own interpretation but it does apply here too if it’s intentional. we see misty take lives again and again throught the show - there’s the obvious (nat, crystal), the slightly more inadvertent (jackie, javi, pit girl, travis, presumably ben, and any others that die in or because of them being trapped in the wilderness, including the animals they kill) and the rat that she lets drown in the pilot.

there’s also the idea throughout the show, again with nat’s death and misty’s causing of it, jackie’s death, van’s probable death in the near future, that the characters’ fate is assigned to them from the beginning.

this is why i think misty will die at the hands of the other yellowjackets - her entire character is based around the pain that the bullying and outcasting of her peers caused her. i don’t think it would make sense for her to survive, because her quick wit and knowledge (as much as it manifests in crazy ways) is what ties all of the girls to their younger selves and keeps them together.

maybe i’m wrong, but i can’t see a complete ending to the adult timeline and the show as a whole with misty still around.

[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)

[nestaenthusiast]

Screaming crying throwing up over the possibility of Misty and Nat becoming close in s3 and Lottie being jealous and hopelessly yearning over her

[yoyomeowmoew]

YELLOWJACKETS THEORY: Lottie speaking French during the seance

If you translate all of lottie’s french during the seance she tells a whole story from the dead cabin guy’s perspective about not being able to feed “it” enough

Here is the translation:

“In the beginning, it took care of me. I fed it. It brought me its gifts. Gifts from the woods. But it was always hungry. My offerings were too meager. It wanted blood. It still wants blood. It still wants blood! It wanted more blood. Blood flows here. Here. Here. It must.”

Lottie is schizophrenic, but that just makes her veil to the spirit thinner. There are things happening in the show that JUST the audience can see and not the MCs (like jackies hallusination when she died).

Maybe the supernatural aspect of the forest is real and the spirit is Mother Nature that wants the girls to return back to their instinctual and animalistic sides??

[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

[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