what I find interesting is how the yellowjackets largely don’t have close relationships with anyone they didn’t meet as a teenager . shauna marries the guy she fucked in high school. nat fucks her high school best friend. shauna fucks someone new but she’s reliving her teen years with him and she never allows herself emotional closeness with him. taissa can’t confide in anyone except for shauna van and lottie. when she does confide in simone it’s a last resort and it’s their last ever moment of closeness. misty has a sort of intimacy with jessica roberts and she also never would have given her even the performance of vulnerability she gives her if she wasn’t planning to kill her. lottie is surrounded by people at all times but they don’t know her intimately - they’re her disciples. she can know them but they don’t know her. we don’t know much about travis’ adult life before he died but we do know he lived in the relative middle of nowhere. that he was in a relationship somewhere with someone new and then seems to have blown it up after he saw nat and then went right back to confiding in lottie. van seems to have no close friends or partner she just has her customers and her dead mom. the yellowjackets said #nonewfriends!!! and season 2 meanwhile has misty forming a close bond with walter and nat with lisa but critically walter is just like misty and nat is just like lisa. misty can bond with walter because he is just like her he says hey here’s the kind of fucked up you’d be if you never crashed you’d still be just like this but maybe a bit less. lisa says to nat here’s the way you’d be fucked up if you’d never crashed here’s young you if the wilderness has never happened. walter and lisa are like these fragments from the timeline if it had broken off somewhere new just before the crash. they’re not meeting new people they’re just meeting themselves again and again. the deepest relationships they’re able to have with others remain the ones with their teammates. they unite at the compound and they are free and open and themselves for the first time in years. no new friends !!!! no new friends!! even jeff still only talks to randy walsh!!!