History Characters / YellowjacketsCrashSurvivors

* TheMedic: In terms of ClosestThingWeGot, Misty has the most knowledge of medicine (she took the Red Cross training course twice). This is also why she destroyed the black box; because her medical knowledge meant that she was needed by the others.

* BurnoutBabe: In the 1990s (and even in her forties in the 2020s), Natalie fits this archetype. She's a jaded punk (with the style) who takes no shit from a very impoverished and abusive background. It's revealed that she tried to shoot her abusive father when he was attacking her and her mother, only for him to grab the gun from her and shoot himself by mistake. She has severe addiction issues and is shown drinking before school, and has spent much of her adulthood in and out of rehab. However, she's shown to be the most moral Yellowjacket in some ways: when Taissa wants to freeze out Ally in the pilot, Nat is the only character who tells her it's wrong and refuses to go along with it. Post-crash, she gets in a Love Triangle with the preppy, "perfect" Jackie and the unpopular Travis, and in adulthood, police officer and her UnluckyChildhoodFriend Kevyn is clearly still attached to her.

* BurnoutBabe: Downplayed (in part due to her sexuality). Relative to her more femme girlfriend Taissa, Van prefers plaid shirts and jeans. As an adult, she's the owner of an unsuccessful video store (while Taissa is the wealthiest Yellowjacket, a lawyer and state senator). She's very self-reliant and is established as having grown up with a drunk mom who left her to fend for herself. She also has a sharp and jaded wit (even cracking jokes after they get stranded in the wilderness and she nearly gets burned alive on the plane) and conflicts, particularly with the preppy Jackie. Though at first Van does have a softer side that she mainly shows to Taissa, unlike Natalie, she becomes more vindictive and sadistic in the wilderness after her experiences.

* SecretKeeper: Not only to the secret all present day survivors are holding on, but to [[spoiler:Shauna's [[MySecretPregnancy pregnancy]] in 1996]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: She has a large chunk of her face torn off by wolves, but the scars she later bears are extremely mild compared to her initial injuries. Especially when you consider the only medical attention she received was some [[RoadsideSurgery rudimentary stitching]] by Akilah.

* PetTheDog: Akilah bonds quickly with a mouse that has been living in the Yellowjackets' pantry. Which takes a dark turn, [[spoiler:when it's revealed that the mouse was DeadAllAlong.]]

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** For her combative relationship with Callie. First, it’s hinted Shauna got along poorly with her own parents: They divorced when she was young, she speaks dismissively of her mother, and they seemingly have no presence in her adult life (assuming they’re still alive). Then there’s Shauna’s experiences in the wilderness. [[spoiler:She realized she was pregnant a few months in and couldn't bring herself to follow through on an abortion which likely could've killed her. The rest of the pregnancy was defined by a mix of guilt (over the baby being the result of her sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend) and fear for her life and the life of her baby (due to increasingly dire conditions as winter arrived and because none of the survivors had any experience with delivering a baby). Then Shauna's worst fears came true: The discovery of the baby's paternity caused a fight with Jackie, which in turn lead to her accidental death. The actual delivery was as harrowing as feared, with Shauna and the baby barely surviving. Only afterwards did Shauna finally let herself embrace the love she felt for her son…just in time for her fellow survivors to steal and apparently eat her child… and then she learned the whole thing was a dream and that the baby was stillborn.]] While Shauna only had Callie to save her marriage, she does love her, despite herself. However, as Shauna tearfully confesses to [[spoiler:adult Lottie]], the trauma she faced prevents her from developing anything resembling a healthy relationship with her daughter.

** Likewise, the series draws a direct line from [[spoiler:said stillbirth to Shauna beating Lottie nearly to death, which in turn inspired the Yellowjackets to resort to ritualistic sacrifice to save themselves.]]

** For her combative relationship with Callie. It’s hinted Shauna got along poorly with her own parents: They divorced when she was young, she speaks dismissively of her mother, and they seemingly have no presence in her adult life (assuming they’re still alive). Then there’s Shauna’s experiences in the wilderness. [[spoiler:She had to carry a baby to term because there was no safe abortion methods available in the woods. The threat of dying hung over the entirety of the pregnancy and she had to live with the guilt over how Jackie realizing Jeff was the father indirectly lead to her death. The actual delivery was as harrowing as feared, with Shauna and the baby barely surviving. Only afterwards did Shauna finally allow herself to feel love for her child…just in time for her fellow survivors to steal and apparently eat her son… and then she learned the whole thing was a dream and that the baby was stillborn.]] Shauna never wanted another kid and only had Callie to save her marriage. Shauna tearfully confesses to [[spoiler:adult Lottie]] that the trauma she faced has poisoned her relationship with her daughter. As Shauna put it earlier, she does love Callie despite herself, but she’s not good at doing so.

* InsecureLoveInterest: While there are other problems in their relationship, it seems Shauna is quick to believe Jeff’s cheating (and to have an affair with Adam in turn) because she thinks Jeff only married her because he can’t be with Jackie. Tellingly, when Callie raises suspicions about Adam, Shauna defensively declares that "I know that that is impossible for you to understand, but I am what he wants" (even though Callie’s problem was with Adam’s secrecy, not with the idea that someone could be attracted to her mother). [[spoiler:It takes Jeff revealing that he never had an affair, knew all the secrets in her diaries, and that he's willing to go to jail to protect Callie and her (despite learning about Adam) for it to sink in for Shauna that her husband truly loves her. They seem a lot happier together as a result.]]

* EmbarrassingNickname: He had back surgery at 12, and another boy at school saw the scar. The boy said Travis had had a rib removed so that he'd be flexible enough to suck his own dick. That got him the nickname Flex, which stuck.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When her teammates react in shock to her more extreme actions, Misty simply asserts that it was necessary for everyone's good. They usually don't have a good counterargument.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Because she DesperatelyCravesAffection, Misty's biggest goal is to have friends. She's even willing to strand the whole team in the wilderness in hopes of winning over her teammates.

* LackOfEmpathy: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. There are moments that indicate she can sympathize with what other people are feeling. However, most of the time, she seems incapable of reading a room, acknowledging Coach’s discomfort at her forceful attempts at romance, or fathoming that friendships are slowly earned through patience and built on trust. And that’s not even getting into her role in [[spoiler: condemning the other survivors to an agonizing year and a half for an extremely selfish and trivial reason]].

* LackOfEmpathy: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. There are moments that indicate she can sympathize with what other people are feeling. However, most of the time, she seems unable to read a room, acknowledge Coach’s discomfort at her forceful attempts at romance, or fathom that friendships are slowly earned through patience and built on trust.

* LackOfEmpathy: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. There are moments that indicate she can sympathize with what other people are feeling. However, most of the time, she has trouble reading the room, recognizing Coach’s discomfort at her forceful attempts at romance, or fails to realize that friendships are slowly earned through patience and built on trust.

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EllaPurnell

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MelanieLynskey (adult), [[Creator/SophieNelisse Sophie Nélisse]] (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JulietteLewis (adult), Creator/SophieThatcher (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TawnyCypress (adult), Creator/JasminSavoyBrown (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SimoneKessell (adult); Creator/CourtneyEaton (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurenAmbrose (adult); Creator/LivHewson (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChristinaRicci (adult), Creator/SamanthaHanratty (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Alves (teen), Andres Soto

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jane Widdop

->'''Portrayed By:''' Steven Krueger

->'''Portrayed By:''' Alexa Barajas (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KeeyaKing (Season 1); Nia Sondaya (Season 2)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Mya Lowe (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Nuha Jes Izman (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jenna Burgess (teen)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Luciano Leroux

** For her combative relationship with Callie. It’s hinted Shauna got along poorly with her own parents: They divorced when she was young, she speaks dismissively of her mother, and they seemingly have no presence in her adult life (assuming they’re still alive). Then there’s Shauna’s experiences in the wilderness. [[spoiler:The threat of dying hung over the entirety of her first pregnancy and she had to live with the guilt over how Jackie realizing Jeff was the father indirectly lead to her death. The actual delivery was as harrowing as feared, with Shauna and the baby barely surviving. Afterwards Shauna finally embraced the love she felt for her son…only for her fellow survivors to apparently eat the baby… and then she learned the whole thing was a dream and that the child died during birth.]] Shauna never wanted another kid and only had Callie to save her marriage with Jeff. During her time at [[spoiler:Lottie’s compound]], Shauna confesses she keeps Callie at arm’s length from fear of losing her, a paranoia she knows is irrational, but which she can’t overcome. As Shauna herself puts it, she does love Callie, but she’s not good at doing so.
** Likewise, the series draws a direct line from [[spoiler:said stillbirth to Shauna beating Lottie nearly to death, which in turn lead to the Yellowjackets resorting to ritualistic sacrifice to save themselves.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Three of the four survivors we've seen so far in the present day are hiding something, but it's unclear how malicious they're really capable of being: they might be trauma victims desperate to survive whatever they did in the wilderness to survive, or they might have done something unreasonable and truly unforgivable. And then there's Misty, who we already know sabotaged the flight recorder, menaced Coach Scott, poisoned her fellow survivors with magic mushrooms, and who is still off her rocker in the present day.

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: This much is at least confirmed: the survivors made it through the winter by eating at least one other Yellowjacket… and the dinner did not die of starvation first but in a pit trap. Much of the tension is about whether or not it may have progressed to ImAHumanitarian levels of cannibalism.

** For her combative relationship with Callie. It’s hinted Shauna got along poorly with her own parents: They divorced when she was young, she speaks dismissively of her mother, and they seem to have no presence in her adult life (assuming they’re still alive). Then there’s Shauna’s experiences in the wilderness. [[spoiler:The threat of dying hung over the entirety of her first pregnancy and she had to live with the guilt over how Jackie realizing Jeff was the father indirectly lead to her death. The actual delivery was as harrowing as feared, with Shauna and the baby barely surviving. Only afterwards did Shauna truly let herself embrace the love she felt for the baby…only for her fellow survivors to apparently eat the baby… and then she learned the whole thing was a dream and that the baby did die during childbirth.]] Shauna never wanted to have another child, only doing so to save her marriage with Jeff. During her time at [[spoiler:Lottie’s compound]], Shauna confesses she keeps Callie at arm’s length from fear of losing her, a paranoia she knows is irrational, but which she can’t overcome. As Shauna herself puts it, she does love Callie, but she’s not good at it.
** Likewise, Shauna only fully gave into rage and violence [[spoiler:shortly after said still-birth, nearly beating Lottie to death and setting into motion the events leading to the Yellowjackets allowing Javi to drown.]]

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Lottie kills ''a bear'' with ease in the Season 1 finale, marking herself as a badass cult leader.]]

* TheChewToy: While all of the Yellowjackets have an extremely tough time, Van's begins before she even gets on the plane, and continues after it. Her mother is a neglectful addict whom Van needs to slap to wake up. Then she gets in a plane crash (her oxygen mask being the only one to not descend) and sees multiple people burn alive, only surviving because she cut ''herself'' out of the plane seat. She has to work with Jackie knowing that Jackie ran away in fear and left her to burn alive in the plane. And then her girlfriend Taissa falls asleep on first watch, so she gets mauled by wolves and horrifically maimed, is mistaken for dead, and thus nearly burned alive ''again'' on a funeral pyre. Meanwhile, her adult self [[spoiler:has terminal cancer]].

** [[spoiler:When the girls in the expedition try to give her a Viking funeral and she wakes up at the last minute, she snarks, "Fire? Really?"]]
* DeathGlare: [[spoiler:When Jackie leaves her to die in favor of rescuing Shauna, this becomes her default expression whenever she's around them.]]

* SecretRelationship: In 1996, she's secretly seeing Taissa. [[spoiler:The pair of them eventually come out and reveal their relationship at the "Doomcoming" the girls put on.]]

* InsecureLoveInterest: While there are other problems in their relationship, it seems Shauna is quick to believe Jeff’s cheating (and to have an affair with Adam in turn) because she thinks Jeff only married her because he can’t be with Jackie. Tellingly, when Callie raises suspicions about Adam, Shauna defensively declares that, "I know that that is impossible for you to understand, but I am what he wants" (even though Callie’s problem was with Adam’s secrecy, not with the idea that someone could be attracted to her mother). [[spoiler:It takes Jeff revealing that he never had an affair, knew all the secrets in her diaries, and that he's willing to go to jail to protect Callie and her (despite learning about Adam) for it to sink in for Shauna that her husband truly loves her. They seem a lot happier together as a result.]]

* SecretlySelfish: Shauna has a serious selfish streak both in the present and the past, all while presenting herself as a loyal person, whether to her best friend or her husband. In reality, she tends to give into her own impulses and any sense of guilt does nothing to stop her from betraying those closest to her. According to Adam, Shauna just wants to blow stuff up and see what happens. She shows just how selfish she is in Season 2 when she's happy to let Javi drown - who's not only a 12-year-old child but one she'd also bonded with - and carves his body up for food.
* TheSociopath: She's more subtle about it than someone like Misty, but Shauna has very little regard for anyone's feelings but her own. When she's confronted about sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend, she responds that it's Jackie's own fault, and makes her out to be the bad guy in the situation. She's also content to let an innocent 12-year-old drown so she can carve him up for food, manipulate her own daughter into keeping an affair secret - an affair that she only started to stick it to her husband when she believed he was cheating. She shows no remorse for killing an innocent man once she gets away with it, and has no problem dragging her husband and daughter into her misadventures.

* AnimalMotif: Of the survivors, Taissa has wolves (and dogs), Jackie/Shauna have rabbits, Misty has cats, and Natalie seems to be the White Moose. [[spoiler:It's gradually revealed throughout Season 1 that Lottie has deer.]]

* In the present timeline, she's also responsible for a murder that her daughter figures out, with a season's arc building to it being near-impossible for her to escape justice for.

* MySecretPregnancy: Shauna is pregnant in 1996, and is keeping it a secret (however Taissa finds out, [[SecretKeeper though she doesn't tell]]). This is because she's pregnant from Jeff, boyfriend of her best friend Jackie. [[spoiler:Sadly, it ends on a TragicStillbirth in Ep. 2.06, "Qui". Shauna goes unconscious during delivery and hallucinates a tragic few days with her baby before he is cannibalized. When she wakes up, she finds out it was AllJustADream and her baby was stillborn.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:As the leader of the cult, she gradually becomes this in the past, a danger to many. It seems to be subverted for the past in "Storytelling," when she is horrified to learn that the other girls let Javi drown and had been intending to sacrifice Natalie, and willingly lets Natalie be the new Antler Queen. In the present day, she's still running a cult but one that seems to be relatively granola rather than murderous....until Travis died and she relapsed, becoming convinced that "it" had followed them back and they needed to appease it with another HumanSacrifice.]]

** [[AvianTropes Birds]]: She has an African grey parrot named Caligula. Later she brings a diffuser to Natalie for her hotel room in the shape of an [[OminousOwl owl]].

** In the past, it is a KarmaHoudiniWarranty. [[spoiler:When Jackie finds out about Shauna's affair, it destroys their friendship and it leads indirectly to Jackie's death. And Shauna's pregnancy ends in a TragicStillbirth.]] Those events have left Shauna seriously traumatized in the present.

--> '''Travis:''' [[SarcasmMode Do you ever feel that your humility holds you back?]]
--> '''Jackie:''' I said babe''s''.

* KarmaHoudini: She has affairs in both timelines, setting up the idea that she'll face serious consequences when each are discovered. She's also responsible for a murder that her daughter figures out, with a season's arc building to it being near-impossible for her to escape justice for. But she manages to dodge consequences each time.

* BaritoneOfStrength: Even as a teenage girl, she has a low and husky voice. She is the most action-oriented, aggressive and outwardly hard edged of the cast.

* ButchLesbian: Van wears pretty masculine clothing (For Doomcoming, she wears trousers and a vest when all other girls are in dresses) and has a tomboy air. Her style's more of a soft butch, though, as this isn't too pronounced and she still wears her hair fairly long. She's dating Taissa, another girl, in 1996.