mara sullivan ; yellowjackets oc
age (at time of crash): 17
the girl no one really noticed — until it was far too late.
mara grew up in a rigid, ultra-conservative household in northern idaho. her father was a volatile ex-military survivalist, obsessed with discipline and religious purity. her mother was quiet, devout, and emotionally checked out — a ghost in the home.
when mara misbehaved (or simply expressed herself), she was locked for hours or days in a silent basement, sometimes without food. that isolation bred hallucinations — first imagined voices, later full apparitions she couldn’t always control. she never told anyone. she thought everyone’s mind worked that way.
— emotional and sensory deprivation
— severe repression of her sexuality
— one documented violent episode at age 12: she stabbed her father in the arm with a broken mirror shard, claiming she was protecting herself from “what he was becoming”.
— diagnosed with depression and possible early schizophrenia but the record was buried by her mother’s church
— condition: psychosis, dissociation, paranoia. stress-related hallucinations: auditory and visual.
— defense mechanism: obsession with patterns, symbols, and omens. she records everything in a notebook full of strange sketches, bone diagrams, and cryptic thoughts.
— on the team: backup goalie. often overlooked. not popular, not bullied — just weird.
— class reputation: “creepy quiet girl” with unnerving eye contact and a tendency to say things that made others uncomfortable — truths, mostly.
— closeted lesbian: had a secret relationship with a girl named violet, who outed mara in a panic. violet begged for forgiveness, but mara never spoke to her again.
canon-character connections :
— nat: they smoke behind the gym. they don’t talk much — they just get each other. nat sees the pain in mara, but mara sees the wildness in nat. their bond is quiet but intense.
— lottie: a magnetic connection. mara believes lottie is channeling something, but that it isn’t pure. she claims something else speaks through her instead.
— van: van teases mara, but secretly respects her. the two develop a strange bond. van may even find herself attracted to mara, though neither acts on it… yet.
— taissa: distrusts mara immediately. thinks she’s unstable and dangerous — and she’s not wrong.
— misty: feels threatened by mara’s quiet insight and lack of fear. mara sees through misty in a way no one else does, which sends misty spiraling.
— shauna: mara’s one of the first to notice shauna’s capability for violence and resilience under pressure. unlike others, mara doesn’t seem shauna as fragile, she sees her as evolving.
complicated relationships :
mara develops a complex, tender, and increasingly dangerous bond with another girl in the group — lottie.
mara is terrified of being abandoned again, and as her psychosis deepens, the line between love, protection, and obsession begins to blur.
some say she became part of the wilderness.
but then animals start dying in symbols only mara used to draw. natalie and taissa find a moth pinned to a tree in the shape of her sigil.
“that wasn’t me,” she says.
