By: B

In reply to NT.

I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the ways other characters project onto Lottie. Throughout this season, we’ve seen the adult Yellowjackets talking derisively about Lottie’s schizophrenia diagnosis and her hospitalization, and I think that since none of them knew about her diagnosis in the woods and learned about it when they got back, it made it easy for them to scapegoat Lottie and shift blame for what they had done in the name of the dirt gods onto the crazy girl. I think it helped them distance themselves from their guilt by looking at themselves as being tricked by Lottie’s delusions instead of owning their violence worship. Like all of their coping mechanisms, it’s not great, and it’s hit the point where it stopped working.