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im scared to ask how you feel about lottie as a character

i have a very complicated relationship with lottie and ive been DYINGGG to talking about her because shes more interesting than shauna can ever dream of being. SHE'S the complex female character we need more of.

okay so to preface: i have multiple scales for character appreciation in my mind. there's writing (how well they're characterized and their role as a narrative decive), personality (how much i would fw them as people), action defendability (self explanatory, how willing i am to ride for their defense), and treatment in the fandom (how contrarian i wanna be)

yall know how it is yapping under the cut

lottie. ohhh boy.

writing: oh no notes. 10/10 she is one of the most fascinating characters in the show. her setup and descent is so well done, and her motivations are beyond complex, like you have her trying to do the best for everyone, but also her whole "the wilderness will choose" mindset. she contrasts herself in the yummiest ways possible. her role in the story is absolutely the most relevant and important for the narrative to progress the way it does. as a character, shes's so well done it makes me wish that i could be objective about the whole thing

personality: unfortunately im not able to enjoy characters simply from a robot analysis objective scale. lottie's personality is -while interesting- absolutely INFURIATING to watch. i personally cant stand characters that i call "progress blockers". she repeatedly forces her belief system (deep psychosis) onto the rest of the team, at the expense of escape or actual rational thought. this is where i have to admit: i root for morally sound, logical characters especially in shows like this. "but you can't watch the cannibalism show and complain about the cannibalism" first off. who said im complaining about the cannibalism. im just complaining that shes tormenting my favs (ben, travis, akilah, nat). i do like that she plays a complicated role as the group's mediator, except her mind is so warped, she does an awful job at it (drugging travis, letting shauna beat her up, deluding her followers). i think that shows how much she cares for these people deep down, and i can respect that. more on that later in ther actions section.

actions: so lottie, like i mentioned earlier, has a really interesting internal conflict of wanting to do whats best for as many of the team as she can, while also not being against sacrificing them for the wilderness's mercy. she very much believes that the ends justify the means. however. i can't ever look past her scenes on doomcoming. and im hoping that the people who made it this far aren't illiterate fucking troglodytes who want to debate on what actually happened to travis that night. because it was s/a, actually, it was attempted gang rape and then attempted ritualistic murder. "you cant watch the murder show and hold it against the murderers" we all know damn well that thats not what was most upsetting about that scene, and im allowed to hold certain crimes over eachother in terms of severity. and quite frankly i just cant bring myself to like a character who engaged -ACTIVELY LED AND RATIONALIZED- in that. lottie's whole schtick is that she just doesnt fucking understand or respect boundaries, literally and metaphorically. moving on from doomcoming, she's weird and culty about shauna's baby, which shauna has full right to be freaked out and pissed about. she becomes the leader of the group in s2 and then can't make proper decisions. she lets shauna almost beat her to death instead of trying to mediate the situation rationally, setting up shauna's vengeful nature we see in s3. thats something i could talk about for hours, how shes partially responsible for the shauna we all know and hate. her drugging travis and akilah is a page straight out of misty's handbook, and i dont think i have to explain why it's wrong. her killing edwin?? denying them all escape, causing a chain reaction with shauna and tai also staying behind??? that elevated my blood pressure to a level dangerous to my health. i cannot stand progress blockers. yes, i know she thinks everything she does is right. that doesn't make me (a rational bystander) like her actions any more. again, there are rational people in the show, so im just gravitated towards them sorry guys.

fandom: lottie has two types of people rooting for her in the fandom. theres the "omg my lord and savior she can do no wrong" group and the "omg crazy ass schizo mental illness queen" group and neither of them get her. she's flawed. but her flaws shouldn't all be attributed to dehumanizing conversations about her mental illness. let's not forget that she was a 17 year old going cold turkey on antipsychotics after living the last decade on them, in a situation that's beyond stressful, mind you. no fucking wonder she turned out that way. whatever. i feel like there arent a lot of her fans who recognize the absolute gray nuance in her character. or maybe im just on tiktok too much and everyone on there is fucking rotted beyond belief.

conclusion: i love her. i hate her. im neutral. she scares me. i blame her for all the problems out there and she's doing her best. that's the point

guh

lil marikilah animatic - impacto

Callie: Okay yeah I killed Lottie but it was an accident.

The accident in question:

YELLOWJACKETS + text posts 3.10 Full Circle

mari was killed by a card meant for hannah, in a trap meant for lottie, by a conspiracy meant for shauna, and yet there was no other way for this story to go. shes been dead since the beginning.

I went to Sicily recently with my latin class and the guide started telling us the story of saint agatha and tell me why my brain went "heh- she's kinda Laura Lee coded" like ok autism chill tf out

@yourlocalsluttymanenjoyer @ohwowhereiam

Do it do it

People who don't watch the show should try to guess what she's smiling about here

back together ♡

some people are dodging the point so hard. like yes shaunas the "bad guy", shes the one who wants people dead (and maybe lottie too ig) but this story has always been about why its even possible for that to matter. shes literally just one person so why dont they all just refuse to participate? nat does, repeatedly, but no one stands with her so lottie and shauna get what they want. we saw that shauna literally backed down when tai stood up to her, she isnt some unstoppable force.

this is and has always been about passive violence. how being silent in the face of violence, not actively standing up and saying "No" is complicity. tai and van rigging the cards so it will be the "outsider" who gets hunted is complicity. it is commentary on how we allow "fringe" members of our communities to be cast out, othered, hunted, because we're too afraid for ourselves to stand in solidarity with them. but then in the end when the violence comes for you or your friend or your family theres no one left to stand with you because you abandoned those "others" who could have stood with you. shauna and lottie only have the power that the girls give them by being passively complicit in a similar way to how shauna was complicit in tai's plan for allie in the pilot. and so it goes again and again. they all ostracised jackie, watched javi drown, let shauna intimidate and lottie lead them to vote against ben. this show is literally inspired by twin peaks, a story in which an entire town is found to be complict in the murder of a girl they all snubbed every possible opportunity to save. the point is not that shauna is the villian but rather that she is only able to hurt people because the others have created an environment that indulges her worst impulses.

Her face. Her fucking face. Van going "it's Mari" in that choked up, distraught voice. Gen distracting Tai so that "Mari could have a fighting chance". Lottie telling Mari she'd been there before. Oh my god. None of them wanted her to die. None of them wanted to eat her. They all just wanted to go home.

I feel like I need to say this for some reason but idk if anyone agrees but me personally, I LOVE Shauna, as a character. Her story is amazing to me as someone who loves fucked up characters. However in NO WAY am I going to defend her bro. Like I'm actively rooting against her all while loving her, in contrast to Lottie. Who I do root for, prmarily because unlike Shauna she genuinely believes what she's doing is helping (it's not). That's where I draw the line and I understand hating Shauna, but like can we stop hating people who love her? Please? Cause I'm on ur side of oh I CANNOT wait for her to get what's coming for her all the while appreciating her as a story, as a fictional character, as someone who could've been so different.

worlds bitchiest afterlife

rip to this canonically absolute fucking dumbass (picks fights with the deranged butcher, gets dumped for the guy's cousin, is too sexy for this cave, falls into a pit TWICE)

Mari to Shauna as soon as she dies and gets to the Afterlife:

I need ALL the JV girls to lose it. Since the mf PILOT Mari has been the one actively imcluding/protecting the JV girls. Mari befriends Akilah before the crash even happens, and in the first two seasons is constantly by her side. She's the one we always see talking to the JV girls. She was the link between both groups at the beginning. She was always there in the background talking to one, or comforting one when times got rough. I require Akilah losing it and the other JVs jumping at this chance. I need them all angry because that was their older sister. I need them to hurt Shauna like she hurt them by taking away the original link to the seniors and the person who loved them the most out there.

i want akilah to be so Furious i want her to beat shauna with her own hands. what do you mean jackie got to be treated as a human in death and shauna got to grieve and then mari is immediately turned to an object a sacrifice a Thing. what do you mean jackie kept her coat and mari’s hair was cut off.

One thing about Shauna and her beef with Mari is that she wants to be respected and worshipped and if she can't have that she want people to fear her. And Mari never did either. Mari never worshipped her nor felt like she had to walk around eggshells around Shauna like everyone else did. She didn't pity her. And she wasn't scared of her. Which is kind of stupid at times, but also really telling. The others saw Shauna as if she was the Terminator, but Mari always saw her as a pathetic teenage girl with a lot of insecurities. Which is how Shauna feels deep down and it drove her mad, having someone whose very presence reminded her of those insecurities. And she becomes leader and and Mari still wasn't afraid of her! She becomes Nat's biggest supporter instead! Nope, she never showed her fear toward Shauna. Not even when she was hunted. She was afraid of dying. Not of Shauna. Mari didn't even give Shauna the pleasure of looking her in the eye when she put the necklace on her. Shauna never had the treat of seeing fear in Mari's eyes. Instead Mari tried to take her out with a knife and then told Shauna off one last time, telling her she deserves everything (bad) that's gonna happen to her.

No respect. No fear. Ever. The only time Shauna could have any control over Mari was after Mari was dead. Which says a lot about Mari as a person.

Ending so devastating I had to draw a happy ending for her

Fuck you yellowjackets I love Mel but Van is 10x more deserving to live.

YELLOWJACKETS 3x09 SPOILERS

“how could melissa do that to van!!??!” idk probably because van was totally chill about shauna breaking into her house and van tied her up and then saved everyone in the house and came back in just to stand over melissa with a knife and talk about how she wanted to kill her but couldn’t. like idk if i was melissa id probably do the same thing. what was she gonna do? sit there and wait for van to get a grip and kill her? stay in the house and wait for shauna to kill her? leave van alive and try to run away, probably resulting in van killing her as she fled? van is my favorite character and i’m devastated that she’s dead but… what did you expect melissa to do in that situation? lay down and die?

ghost jackie dearest

I was going to write a meta on why Jackie’s reciprocated feelings for Shauna are so blatant when you read between the lines of her scenes, but just letting the show speak for itself in video form makes it even clearer. I love how much their relationship is layered in subtext and double meaning, and the further into the show we get the more this is all cemented as totally intentional.

Lottie beginning to cry as everyone, including those who believed in her and what she preached leave her (because to Lottie, the rejection of the Wilderness is a rejection of Lottie, of who Lottie truly is), not even trying to convince her to come with her (do I think Lottie would’ve? Unsure, probably not. I don’t think she’s like Jackie, who would’ve come back had those she loved tried a little more to coax her) VS Lottie’s little smile as she realises Shauna and Taissa (who are also two of the people who have criticised her most and disbelieved in her and the Wilderness), stay, maybe not for her but it’s enough

I can't with people being like "oh, I can't stand the Yellowjackets after this", "How do people still like Lottie after she killed a man like that?" Like why are you acting like this show didn't start with a terrified girl/woman dying after falling into a pit when she was running for her life because she was being hunted down by people with masks that were shown to take her body, butcher her, cook her and eat her in some sort of ritual and those same people were confirmed to be the girls. Oh wow they're doing fucked up shit. Well no shit didn't you see the show? This is the Fucked Up Woman™ factory, they're all terrible and yet still complex and still likeable that's why I like the show. "Oh man she killed a dude. Oh man this other one convinced the others to kill a dude!" And they looked good doing it! What are you protestant

"with tears in my eyes, i begged you to stay."

"i love you, but no fucking way."

my new favourite moment of season 3: mari genuinely trying to revive the dead guy by scooping his splattered brains back into his skull while lottie scoops it back out playing with her new blood foundation shade called 'you'll see' from her collection called 'the wilderness is me'.

honestly if anything I’m MORE convinced Melissa is Hilary swank

the "you were always its favorite" hitting TOO HARD right now, considering every time lottie has betrayed natalie, it's been (in my reading) for her own safety. that fucking affirmation in the adult timeline despite it all, oh my gOOODDDD.

"do you think mel has to wear jackie's clothes when they make out" what a wild comment. and yes i do.

I firmly believe this is Lottie’s way of saving Natalie’s life. She steps in the moment Shauna says, "I think it's obvious what happens now,"—a clear implication that Shauna thinks they should kill Nat. Lottie understands that the only way to diffuse the situation is to surrender Nat's leadership to Shauna. If she didn’t, Shauna and her supporters would ensure Natalie’s death to solidify her place at the top. This isn’t a betrayal; it’s Lottie protecting Natalie the only way she can.