I’ll never be over how Shauna sees the group’s faces in her dream after they’ve eaten the baby. It’s such a fascinating insight into Shauna’s mind to me. Lottie looks practically childlike. She makes an attempt to wipe her face but not in an ashamed way, it’s simply a casual motion to wipe her lip, as if the actual amount of blood on her face doesn’t exist to her and it’s simply a crumb that rests on her lip. It seems like she has orchestrated this, but she’s unaware what they are really doing, as if she doesn’t understand this is Shauna’s BABY.
Akilah looks terrified, she’s sorry she’s doing this but she can’t help it. She’s almost about to throw up thinking about what she’s doing but she’s just so hungry she can’t help but eat what’s been given.
Van nearly snarls like a fucking wolf which I find FASCINATING. Van has never been aggressive toward Shauna, but she IS a strong ally to Lottie, and that seems to be enough of a threat to Shauna.
Taissa is very clearly being seen as her sleepwalking self, with the quick movements, sloppy chewing, and animalistic stare. Natalie is desperately ashamed of what she has done, trying to wipe away the evidence and so sorry that she has betrayed Shauna in such a way but she just couldn’t stop herself. It’s as if Shauna knows neither of them could be consciously capable of this, even in her dream. These two have been her strongest allies and Shauna doesn’t believe they would willingly hurt her in this way, but it could still happen somehow. Natalie also has the least amount of blood on her, like she was the last to dig in, or ate the least and most carefully. Being as respectful as possible until the last second.
And Misty. Misty looks at Shauna as if she wants to worship her. She looks for a moment like “ah shit, listen Shauna I know this looks bad” but the most prominent message from her expression is as if she is grateful to Shauna for feeding them again. Shauna has been the one keeping them fed for so long. First with Jackie, and now her baby.
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I think I might need a “what if the plane didn’t crash” episode
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i can't talk about akilah because I'm going to get too emotional. this is a girl who still studies for the SATs because When (not if, When) they get back she'll still be a junior. a girl who is right there with tai when she says she's finding them a way out. akilah! grieving her best friend who used to do pre-game rituals with her just for the fun of it. akilah! making faces at the prayer circle because she doesn't know what the fuck it's all about but it's Something and there's some hope in that, right? a girl who is starving to death but still finds an extra crumb to keep a mouse alive that almost certainly and understandably any other person there would have killed to eat on the spot. AND SHE IS SHARING HER FOOD WITH IT! a girl scout who knows someone who gave birth One Time and is now stepping up to the plate, hands covered in blood to deliver a wilderness baby because if she doesnt, who will? akilah who knows which plants will kill them, who can always read the room, who is just Fucking Kind. akilah with the only family back home that seems worth going back home to. akilah, who will probably never see home again.
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