#in any other life tai and van get married and are the annoyingly cute high school sweethearts

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if i had to guess why tai and van broke up i would say it’s because of the way they chose to deal with the crash. tai’s approach for the most part seemed to be live as if the crash never happened. she goes to university, law school, dates a lot, gets married, essentially doing everything she would have done anyway. i have no doubt that she would have asked van to go with her but i think van would want to deal with the crash and specifically tai’s sleepwalking. unlike tai, van remembers it all, tying herself to tai every night, tackling her so she doesn’t fall off a cliff. van of course is a true believer so she would have wanted to find out more about the wilderness and everything connected to it, but tai who is a leader and hates the idea of no longer being in control of her body would probably not want to relive those memories. so tai forces her way forward through life and tries to live the life another version of her would have had and van forces her way back to a time when the wilderness didn’t exist because if tai is gone and lottie is gone then so is van’s connection to the wilderness. and if she can’t be connected to the wilderness she can’t move forward in a world she no longer understands the rules of

#yellowjackets #taissa turner #van palmer #taivan #in any other life tai and van get married and are the annoyingly cute high school sweethearts #taissa x van