This article contains discussions about suicide.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Yellowjackets season 2.Yellowjackets Season 2 answers questions surrounding Travis’ mysterious death in the show’s mature timeline. Travis is one of the handful of characters who survives the Yellowjackets’ plane crash and their 19 months in the desert. Despite this, viewers do not see much of him as an adult. During Yellowjackets Presenting Season 1’s storyline, Natalie and Misty search for Travis after receiving anonymous notes bearing the strange symbol of their time in the desert. When they find him, Travis is dead, and it’s ruled a suicide. However, Natalie does not believe this to be the case.
Natalie and Travis develop romantic feelings for one another during their time stranded in the Canadian Rockies, and it’s obvious that their bond continues even after they’re rescued. Although Natalie hasn’t spoken to Travis in years, she’s clearly heartbroken to discover he’s dead. Both Natalie and Travis experience a lot of trauma together in the 1996 timeline, and the authorities probably see that as a contributing factor to his death. But while they believe that his death is a suicide, Natalie is convinced that it is something else. And Yellowjackets Season 2 confirms that she is right to ask it.
Travis accidentally killed himself in Yellowjackets
He wanted to get close to death and let Lottie lower him
When Natalie and Misty find Travis, it turns out that he hanged himself with a crane. however, Yellowjackets Season 2 reveals that he never intended to kill himself. During their reunion, Lottie tells Natalie that Travis was determined to confront the darkness within him. He planned to do this by getting so close to death, without actually dying. He intends to use the crane to hang himself until he is unconscious, then lower himself with Lottie’s help. Unfortunately, the buttons on the crane are stuck, so Lottie can’t actually lower him.
with Yellowjackets Walking the line between supernatural and trauma-based explanations, it’s just as possible that Lottie is an unreliable witness.
Lottie’s recollection of the night proves that Natalie is correct: Travis did not die by suicide. However, he is clearly facing inner demons, which may explain why only Natalie questioned the official report. And The circumstances of Travis’ death remain suspiciousAs there is no clear reason the crane stopped working. Lottie also sees a vision of Laura Lee right after Travis dies, which could mean the desert is involved. with Yellowjackets Walking the line between supernatural and trauma-based explanations, it’s just as possible that Lottie is an unreliable witness.
How Lottie was involved in Travis’ Yellowjackets death
She witnessed Travis’ death and tried to stop it
Lottie was present when Travis died in YellowjacketsAnd Her story raises questions about whether she is being completely honest with Natalie in season 2. Travis apparently went to Lottie with his problems, believing that their past in the Canadian Rockies had come back to haunt him. Lottie followed Travis to the ranch where he worked, where he was surrounded by lights in the shape of the strange symbol of the desert. According to Lottie, Travis asked for help with his plan, and she agreed to carry it out with him.
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Given that Lottie had a vision of a dead Laura LeeIt is clear that she is just as traumatized as Travis is yellowjackets’ Adult timeline. One has to wonder if her recollection of events is accurate, as the teen version of Lottie’s character does cruel things in the name of the desert. The mature Lottie attributes more of her experiences to trauma, but ultimately this may also make her an unreliable witness. It is possible that there is more to Travis’ death than even Lottie herself realizes. Maybe Yellowjackets Season 3 will shed more light on it.
Why Natalie did not believe that Travis died by suicide
She and Travis made a promise after the Yellowjackets were rescued
Yellowjackets Season 2 proves Natalie right about Travis’ death, and there’s an understandable reason she wants to believe he died by suicide. On the heels of the trauma they experienced in the Canadian Rockies, Natalie and Travis made a promise to each other: that they would never take their own lives. Although the two of them are not speaking during the show’s 2021 timeline, Natalie reveals that they have supported each other through their darkest moments. Neither of them break their pact, and she can’t believe Travis would ever do that.
The two of them keep their promise to each other, but the average person in the Yellowjackets Universe will never know it.
If Lottie’s story is true, Natalie is right about that. The tragedy is that, still Yellowjackets season 2’s finale, It now appears that Travis and Natalie are dead by their own hands. Natalie’s death is made to look like an overdose, even though Misty is the one who accidentally injected her with phenobarbital. And Travis’ death remains ruled a suicide, even though Natalie discovers the truth about him. The two of them keep their promise to each other, but the average person in the Yellowjackets Universe will never know it.