i agree sm with your point about the tragedy of jackieshauna being them loving each other so much but that shauna could never love jackie the way jackie so needed. jackie would never be able to whole-heartedly love the person shauna eventually becomes bc of her own values. it is doomed yuri regardless of whether or not jackie passes and it's so crushing to know -- like jackieshauna's tragedy is part of what fuels my love for jackienat because at the end of the day, it's what each other deserves if they sort out their issues based on pure insecurities. ella purnell mentioned she believed jackie would have only forgiven shauna post-betrayal but only in their adult years too, whereas we see nat being the one person to put so much respect to jackie's bones and leadership role even though she had the most reason out of anyone to hate her. i think jackienat falls together naturally if given enough time no matter what. whereas unfortunately i think when given enough time, jackieshauna falls apart.
I agree so much with this. I sometimes take breaks from writing JackieShauna because it does seem that they just can’t fit, even in my fic I only see them being together at the cost and sacrifice of so much and so many people, they are doomed either way. Canon Jackie would never be okay with who Shauna become out there, that’s also the reason while it’s being so hard to write them, because even -if- they could solve the emotional barriers, the whole cannibalism and Hunt thing would never be accepted by Jackie, especially a adult one that survived in her own like mine. While JackieNat falls naturally, when I write them, even in conflict, it’s fixable, I do believe that if they had time and space to be, they would eventually come together. Both of them are naturally good and kind people, if Jackie was alive in season 2 and 3 she would have supported Nat and be repulse by Shauna. They could have give what the other needed, both of them needed care, support and acceptance, Jackie could have had her personhood - something that was denied by everyone but Nat- and Nat could have had overcome her problems if she had support - something we see Jackie doing multiples times for others character. All of this to say that, while I love JackieShauna, I found that JackieNat would have been beneficial to both and beautiful to watch. Thank you @mauevelemons I love when people interact with me, it’s really lovely and almost painfully to write long fics - what I am doing - especially when it is Yellowjackets, when there is so much. ❤️
