#severance natalie

[radioactive-yuri]

milchick should be on broadway. cobel should be in the evil science lab. helena should be eating a delicious nutritious full meal. we've all heard this. we all understand. but consider: natalie should be working in customer service at a somewhat shitty '80s mall where she takes weed breaks in the bathroom instead of going to therapy for her generalized anxiety disorder

[ivvros]

Theres not many funny moments in Severance but I chuckled when they gave Milchick that fuck ass kiersona lmaoooo also this took me way too long for being traced over

[tsangredulce]

fuck you lumon free my girl natalie

[optics-anddesign]

Thinking abt Natalie x Helly like, in the hypothetical context that Natalie and Helena grew up together and have a strained romance between them with years of history and Natalie would do anything for Helena but Helena is becoming distant and meaner and so much further away from all the little jokes and memories they used to share. And then she meets Helly, and she’s just like Helena, but the nice warm passionate caring Helena that Natalie fell in love with, and she tries to brush it off and ignore it but she keeps finding herself back there when she doesn’t need to be, just watching Helly work and joke and laugh with the MDR team.

Idrk how that would end I just need to put them in a room and see what happens.

[mvesa-art]

Natalie from Severance <3

[fanfoolishness]

Sudden dark Severance thought… what if Natalie’s earpiece is hardwired into her brain and she can’t take it out. The Board is always listening

[immramarchives]

Severance Theory: “The Board”

I put this on my TikTok like a yr ago but thought I might as well post it here cause I want to hear ppl’s thoughts. Basically it’s that the “revolving” is a transferring of consciousnesses from past Eagans or Kier Eagan into the next head of Lumon (ie Helena’s next). “The Board” is simply the body with all of the consciousnesses or with Kier Eagan specifically. It would explain why we never hear them speak, why we only see Helena’s dad, and why Helena’s interactions with her father seem so weird.

Natalie’s on screen moments also provide evidence for these weird interactions but idk if she would actually by a part of this shared conscious. I saw someone say it might be similar to “Get Out” which could be the case but at the moment I don’t think the Eagan’s would use the “revolving” on someone who isn’t an Eagan. So if it is a situation similar to “Get Out” I think she might be an illegitimate Eagan (I pretty sure it’s mentioned somewhere that there’s quite a few of them).

I wouldn’t be surprised if Helena became Helly almost to give herself a little bit of freedom from this “revolving” expectation and to ensure a piece of herself still exists after it. It would also make sense why she wanted to experience Helly’s life (though we do see she has her reasons besides this). So much of this show is a battle between different consciousnesses, so I can absolutely see this being the case.

[drunkenhills]

Love love LOVE that we've explored a lot more about Harmony Cobel, her relationship to Lumon and severance and why she is the way she is. But now that these doors are opened, and since we also got more insight into Seth Milchick and his particular freak, you know who I'm desperate to dive into? NATALIE.

Beautiful, perfect Natalie, who is no more her own person than the severed employees, who is an ear for the elusive board to whisper into and a mouth to speak their words, never hers. A mouth that is either smiling or about to, but a soulless smile, a condescending, fake, plastic smile. The board's words, never her own. The board's entitlement and disdain, packaged in a flawless, put-together appearance, imposing but non-threatening, not white but not too black, every mannerism and voice inflexion perfectly chosen, a robot, a front. The pefect secretary with an appearance of power and agency but they're not her own. Only ever called by her first name. Unable to improvise, lose control or get personal. Always watching, always watched. Despised herself. She probably had to push down so many parts of herself and work so hard and practice that smile in the mirror because that smile pays her bills and she is feared but not for herself. No one knows her. No one cares. Hated in the board's stead. A face, a mouth, a scapegoat. Probably just as easy to fire if anything goes wrong as the next person. Does she think she's privileged? Or does she know that as long as you're on the payroll, there's no such thing?