I feel like, if Shauna’s wilderness baby had survived, she’d have been the type of mom to talk to him like an adult and would listen intently to his babbling before responding to it like he actually said something. In fact, I think she’d go so far as to insist he WAS saying something and use it to be passive aggressive. “Lottie, he says that’s stupid. And he’s Its baby, we should listen, right?”
Shauna’s adventures in half-assed Catholic conversion would have given her a laundry list of Saints’ names to choose from, and I feel like, again to be passive aggressive, she names him “Urban”. As this is, in reality, kind of a weird name to say aloud, she calls him City Boy. They all start calling him that.
Melissa makes one of those carriers so Shauna can cart him around on her back all day. As he gets bigger, he tries to climb her hair like she’s “fucking Rapunzel or something”.
ALSO one more thing, my bestie lottie just axed a man and ate his brains… love the girl but by god travis was justified, i mean what the hell if it was me i would have taken her to the stabby pit too
“why is teen shauna acting like this” well you see jackie had ‘influence’ but couldn’t translate that into being a leader in the wilderness. natalie was a great leader but could have only become influential in the wilderness. shauna has never possessed either of these traits but convinced herself that being antler queen would give her these things, because what she’s really wanted both before the crash and in the wilderness is control. also girl the post partum depression
From an interesting perspective we see Shauna undergo a metamorphosis throughout the storyline from a normal life to the wilderness to present day. She went from being a regular school girl to a tragic figure who lost her best friend and unborn child to someone who is bitter to something that is dark to the a of being unrecognizable with there being more frustration in understanding her as a character on for both sides of the coin and then we have the current Shauna in the present day thinking she’s got her life together with scars and darkness beneath her flesh and bones as we see it progress over the story.
