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trick or treat! mari yellowjackets pairing (jackiemari if you want specific but i don’t really mind) maybe? 👀

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DELETED SCENE // group interview, band au

It takes a few minutes for the room to settle back into anything resembling silence as Natalie struggles to keep the hula-hoop going. (She, so valiantly, refrains from flipping them off as they continue to giggle.) Mari can't help but eye the fishbowl of paper slips suspiciously. "Do I like, have to, or is passing an option?" The resulting jeers tell her all she needs to know; there's no getting out of this. With a sigh, she reaches forward and plucks the first white strip from the truth bowl.

WHO WAS YOUR BIGGEST HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH?

The blood rushes to her face. Oh, God. Talk about a shitty card to pull. "On second thought, I think I'm feeling a little more da-"

"Hey hey whoa whoa, you're got to answer the question, Flores!" Lottie darts forward to grab it from her hands, and Mari shifts to avoid her. Unfortunately, it's directly into Jackie, who plucks the paper from Mari's grasp.

"Who was your biggest high school crush? Oh, I know this one!" Jackie wiggles her eyebrows, lips curled into a mischievous grin as she feigns swooning and falls into Mari's lap. "Danny Mears! Oh, you were so down bad for him, MarMar. Which, just saying, you dodged a huge bullet. Heard he's like, dating his cousin or some shit."

"It's his second cousin. So it's like, technically legal." Mari manages to string together, in an attempt to soften the blow.

Tai snorts. "Wow, what a distinction. Still technically a total loser."

"Okay, he wasn't that bad—" Mari defends, but Jackie's laughter cuts her off.

"Oh God, remember his hair??"

Nat joins in from the sidelines, hula hoop clattering to the ground. "How could any of us forget??"

"Guys, give Mari a break!" Mari feels a modicum of relief as Lottie interjects, before breaking into a fanged smile. "She's never had the best taste. I mean remember—"

"He wasn't my crush." Mari blurts it out, before freezing.

"He wasn't?" Lottie echoes. She looks genuinely perplexed. The band as a whole does.

"Okay then, who was?"

"You can't say that and not elaborate."

Mari looks down, her face several shades of red. She mumbles her answer. "Jackie."

The hula hoop clatters to the ground as Nat gapes, Lottie and Tai mirroring the shell shocked expression. "You had a crush on me?" Jackie asks after a minute.

"I mean, yea, how could I not?" Mari laughs, awkward, as she rubs the back of her neck. "It was the first day of soccer try outs. You guys were helping Coach run everything and you partnered with me. You were like, like this superstar. And you told me I was really good. And after, my mom was running like really late. You could've left. I mean you must've had better things to do than sit with a stupid little freshman. But you sat down next to me and waited. I mean, you even gave me your fruit by the foot."

"They're your favorite." Jackie's expression softens, but stays unreadable.

Mari's shoulders lift into a shrug. "They weren't before that." The silence hangs for a few beats too long, feels a little too palpable, and Mari shoves the bowl at the Jackie. "Okay, I answered. Now pick up the pace. Nat's stuck losing a battle to an inanimate object until it circles back to her turn."

At the mention of Natalie's plight, Jackie's attention shifts. "Right, right. Besides, there's no use dwelling on things past."

Right. Things passed. Mari laughs, ignoring the ache in her chest as Jackie shoves her shoulder. So totally passed.

#still thinking about this if you even care #jackiemari #jackie tyler #mari yellowjackets #yellowjackets

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jackiemari · 5 months

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"We always knew how and when she was going to die. We had word-for-word, scripted, and a memorized pitch that we made a lot of people sit through. The final phrase was, ‘And as the first snow begins to fall, we end Season One.’ We knew that Jackie was going to die. In the most straightforward way, our show is operating on that Lord of the Flies level. She was symbolic of society and the home that they had known, and the ways of thinking and behaving, and all of those structures. It felt important to us. She just didn’t seem like a character who was going to make it. That said, we wanted to give her the dignity of an emotionally moving death and not just a shocking death. We were interested in playing out her friendship with Shauna, because teenage girl friendships can be volatile. It’s always this push and pull and ebb and flow, and you get into a fight and then you make up. I think, had they been at home, this fight and this fissure in their relationship was inevitable, but we were interested in the ways that the consequences would just be so different out in the wilderness.. […] This just felt right to us in terms of what needed to happen.“ — Yellowjackets Co-Creator Ashley Lyle

#maybe you’d be better off since we’re all so crazy #jackiemari #jackie taylor #mari yellowjackets #yellowjackets

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