#jackietravis

[juniperhillpatient]

hey mutual i was just looking through your jackietravis tag and i just want to say i CANNOT WAIT to hear your thoughts on the finale.

Oh my gosh HI, my beloved mutual!

Well, I think THIS post (not mine) does a great job of summarizing the wildness of Jackie/Travis in the finale lol :)

But seriously, let's talk about the fact that Travis is still thinking about Jackie, still imagining himself as her! THIS is one of my favorite Jackie/Travis moments. Jackie doesn't ultimately seduce Travis with her usual sweet, flirty fun ways that she tries initially at the Doomcoming dance. Instead, she gets him to kiss her by reminding him that they are doomed. The "we're just shells with nothing inside" speech is what gets him to break & kiss Jackie even though he just admitted to being in love with Natalie.

Jackie & Travis don't even necessarily have real romantic feelings for each other. They're just the arms they fall into when they're both hurt & at their lowest - Jackie after the betrayal from Shauna, Travis after what he perceives as a betrayal from Nat. They're each other's comfort, their last recourse when they're both desperate & sad & aware of how doomed they probably are.

Part of what I love about these 2 & their dynamic is that they ARE the definition of "doomed by the narrative all by yourself darling?" They are both so doomed & so tragic & there was never a happy ending for either of them in the books. Not Travis, whose death is the mystery that kicks off Natalie's story in the adult timeline. Not Jackie, who's loss defines Shauna in the adult timeline, forever haunted by her ghost. They're both such dead wives <3

THIS is a really good meta about how Jackie & Travis are both treated as the group's "property" & I think it's interesting that in this season where Travis's mind & body have been so repeatedly violated & used, he thinks of Jackie, who was iced out (literally) & left to die for the crime of speaking up for herself & not acting as "property." (It's honestly more complicated than that, but you know what I mean).

Travis has been treated like Lottie's property for a lot of the season. We know that he manipulated Lottie into thinking Akilah was the new prophet of the wilderness, not him, & that he regretted it when he saw Akilah suffering in similar ways that he did under Lottie's thumb. But let's talk about his time as Lottie's prophet: Pushed to do drugs & make himself see things by the very person who initiated it when the group sexually assaulted him & almost murdered him when he was drugged unknowingly all the way back in Doomcoming!

I know that Travis said the thing about how "his favorite thoughts are Jackie's" & made the comment about Jackie & Shauna's slumber party make-outs partially to piss Shauna off. BUT it's clearly something that was in his head. Whether you want to go with the supernatural explanation or not that's INTERESTING.

Travis also mentions having some of Javi's thoughts, which is heartbreaking. I don't know if I think it's actually something supernatural (I've always sort of leaned toward...no? probably not?) but EITHER WAY. Travis has been hallucinating the thoughts of his dead brother, & the thoughts of his dead situationship who he related to in some fucked-up ways & that's WILD.

Does he think that Jackie & Javi's thoughts come to him because he ate them? He doesn't mention Laura Lee or Crystal & SURELY given that he spent this season interacting almost exclusively with Lottie (& Akilah, but he spent a LOT of time with Lottie) Laura Lee's thoughts would've come up.

Does Travis feel connected to Jackie when he hears her thoughts? Does he remember how they shared that messed-up comfort in each other's arms when they were both at their lowest? Does he look to her ghost for comfort because she was also assaulted by Lottie that night - though not nearly as violently, she was just locked in a closet but she was still humiliated for the blood on her clothes right after losing her virginity & treated like nothing by the rest of the girls. They both lost their personhood, in a way that night. I feel like maybe Travis doesn't see it that way but he might still connect with Jackie because of that, if that makes sense.

Anyway, I'm TOTALLY rambling. I love my doomed by the narrative failed situationship girlies <3

[ethanilsa]

little miss ETERNAL MANIFESTATION OF GUILT

[honeyslow]

jackienat I love that you don't care what anybody thinks about you / travnat everything / jackietravis failsex / travis being hunted and nat finding jackie locked in the cabin to save him / jackie being thrown out of the cabin and freezing to death while nat and travis were the only ones NOT THERE / nat with jackie's bones / you're not the captain yeah cause she's fucking dead / travis my favourite thoughts are jackie's

[juniperhillpatient]

damn I forgot how hard I shipped jackie & travis I literally just love girlies who are doomed by the narrative & doomed to fall apart. not meant for each other, not each others true love. tragic not quite lovers but something close.

jackie & shauna are so inseparable they’re essentially the same person & can’t exist at the same time so one must consume the other. jackie consumed shauna in civilization & shauna literally consumed jackie in the wilderness. there is no competing with that.

there is no competing with natalie & travis’ first love devotion at this point in the narrative & natalie HAS to love travis even if it’s messy because his death is the driving force that starts everything in the adult timeline just as jackie’s death is the driving force of the wilderness timeline.

neither jackie or travis have a true sustainable hope of a happy ending. not with each other & not with shauna or natalie respectively. not at all. they’re both dead from the beginning.

but they can be friends & comforts to each other. their union is what leads to jackie’s (further) ostracization - to travis almost being sacrificed - but still they give each other something they both needed in the moment. sorry for loving tragic characters who mean something to each other. as if it’s my fault

[juniperhillpatient]

Im literally sooo right for being one of Thee only jackietravis shippers out here like there IS No SHOW without jackietravis!!!! they are THEE doomed by the narrative girlies having their last hurrah in the episode LITRALLY titled ‘doomcoming.’ their sexual union is legit the thing that triggers the start of the cannibalistic rituals!!! they are both outsiders & desired & hated simultaneously by the group. (jackie, the popular girl, the leader in society & useless in the wilderness - travis, the only viable male sexual or romantic interest for any of them since javi is a child & ben is an adult + gay but travis is still ostracized & disliked for being odd, sad, socially awkward)

jackie & travis’ deaths are the things that legit start the freaking plots in both timelines & them having sex is the thing that leads to the introduction of the rituals that define the show & yet y’all sleep on them 😭😭

[ethanilsa]

every once in a while my yellowjackets brain returns with a vengeance why did i suddenly conceive of an adult natjackietravis fic in which she meets him and natalie after a few years and is determined to prove she can steal him bc she’s been sexually frustrated for years and we get awkward jackietravis sex and then a threesome

[juniperhillpatient]

Me, You, Bandydear thinking of Jackietravis.

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/bandydear/720160596979482624

an excellent post thank you for pointing it out to me!

[juniperhillpatient]

It's because of jackietravis that I don't believe jackie is a lesbian

like I won’t say definitively jackie is not a lesbian she definitely could be but either way her relationship with travis & their sex was important narratively! anyway hello fellow jackietravis enjoyer I love them & it makes me happy to know there’s another enjoyer out there! ♥️♥️

[chasingfictions]

STOP WAIT. jackie and travis both as doomed by the narrative girlies this is making me INSANE. girlies for whom we enter the season with the implicit or explicit loss of them already postulated and then we see their teen selves living out their days not knowing what they'll come to. jackie is to adult shauna what travis is to adult nat. im gonna throw up. SHAUNANAT PARALLELS. im gonna go a lil feral

uh oh the girlies who are doomed by the narrative are interacting & possibly forming a complicated & tenuous bond