#unsinkable 8

[jeansandateeshirt]

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[leatin-always]

Honestly love how all the released clips have some serious or ominous stuff going on

Meanwhile rachel and leah over there about to invent the flute

[keepingupwiththe8]

keeping up with the unsinkable eight (4/?) / (insp.)

[thewildsgonewrong]

Shelby: Goodnight.

Nora: Goodnight.

Martha: Sleep tight.

Rachel: Don’t let the bed bugs bite.

Fatin: Tonight.

Toni: Imma fight.

Leah: ‘Till we see the sunlight.

Shelby: Tick tock

Rachel: On the clock

Toni: But the party won’t st— 

Dot: SHUT UP

[jimalim]

The girls throw a party for Halloween. Costumes are required, despite Toni's objection. Shelby suggests they do a couples costume and suddenly Toni's on board with the idea as long as she can pick. She settles on being a Power Ranger and makes Shelby be Rita Repulsa (a la Elizabeth Banks) ("Isn't she the villian?" "Yea but she's hot as fuck, and you look so good in green.")

Rachel loves spooky season and is always stunning with incredibly realistic looking gorey makeup, prosthetics and all. She somehow convinces Martha to let her make it look like her eyeball is hanging out of socket and they both scare the shit out of the others (mostly Leah) As for Rachel, she REALLY plays into her missing hand by making the stump all bloody and gross, she even gets a fake hand from the store to carry around (and sometimes throw at people.)

Fatin is torn between a number of costumes, her biggest dilemma being "which outfit is the most sexy to get the biggest reaction from Leah?" She drops all 7 ideas the second Leah asks her if she'd like to be the Thelma to her Louise ("because it doesn't really work with just one person.") Fatin understands how gay that idea is and hopes that means what she thinks it means (it does.)

Nora wears a black morph suit and sneaks up on people all night. She keeps tally on how many times she can get get others to jump. Poor Shelby is too easy, Nora actually starts to feel bad once she hits double digits and gives her a break, focusing more on Rachel instead (she's a challenge, and Nora is up for it!)

Dot, who bragged the entire week leading up to Halloween about how good her costume is shows up nearly 2 hours late to the party (held in her own damn house (the one she shares with Fatin and Leah)) she enters wearing a shirt with cartoon bees wearing sheets with the caption "BOO-BEES", a *gasp* tight leather skirt, and the biggest hoop earrings she could find! She wins the costume contest much to Fatin's chagrin. (The way a drunken Leah's lips tickle her ear when she tries to whisper in it "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" is the only thing that gets Fatin to chill.)

[iamkidfish]

hear me out: rachel and dot singlehandedly find a way for them to be rescued because they can’t deal with both shelby and toni AND fatin and leah hooking up

[justlesbian]

Scene I desperately want to happen in The Wilds when Shelby comes out to the group:

Shelby: *takes a deep breath* I'm a lesbian

Toni: *kisses Shelby*

Everyone smiles and is happy for them but Rachel, who throws her hands up in the air, exasperated and starts shouting in Rachel style about how they're just wasting time making out and being soppy instead of being productive and hell, she's a lesbian too ffs, and that hasn't turned her into a useless sap, has it???

Everyone stares.

Shelby: You're gay?

Rachel: *mutters* for fuck's sake *walks away*

[leahrilkeapologist]

  personally i love how leahs investigation pans out because she is wrong. she knows something is up and assumes it is shelby because of her disappearing act, which instantly robs her of credibility from the other girls. i as a viewer knew it wasn't shelby because itd be too easy for her to be the operative because shes the one who always found the bags, and i knew it was nora the second that jumped her during her screaming match on the beach. ( i had suspected bc of her apologizing to rachel for seemingly nothing and keeping a meticulous log, however.) leah sees this as nora being nora because her deescalating situations and keeping unnecessary information are both very in character and have been shown throughout the season. plus, leah was the only one to hear the phone ring, as well as the one to drop the decoy phone in the ocean which was meant to give credence to the assumption that the ju lin would say she didnt have her phone on her. 

  the agents try to manipulate leah by saying that her overcuriostity gave her trouble, and that it was inherently a fault that needed fixing. which is half true, because it made her convince herself her best friend sent her old ass boyfriend the birth certificate (which may or may not be true). her true fault isnt her curiosity, but her predisposition to jumping to conclusions and impulsivity, ie breaking off her friendship pre island, fighting with fatin, and accusing shelby. with fatin its not that the other girls think that leah is wrong (in fact i think they agree that fatin is being a bad teammate in all this) its that she escalates the sitution to such a degree that she could have gotten fatin killed. with shelby, her disappearing act would seem shady to an already suspicious leah, who jumps the gun out of impulse and accuses her, which doesn’t check out to the other girls because its know shelby disappears off when she gets overwhelmed (oyster scene, pill scene, kiss scene, accusation scene, alcohol scene) in order to come back and act unbothered. in addition to her alibi of dentures, leah is seen as once again being explosive and unstable.  when she fights with rachel in the forest about fatin, and refuses to give up looking for her, it is shown how stubborn she is and that once she gets attached to an idea she cannot let it go (her boyfriend, best friend betrayal, something being up, fighting over the water, finding fatin, trying to drown herself) her fixations can be her strength, too, because it leads to them finding fatin alive and is what keeps her investigating past what others are willing to. 

  she isnt the only one suspicious, namely fatin, but is the only one who fixates to this degree. fatin believes somthing is up but knows leah is acting erratically, and fatin is much more methodical and calculated then that. dot is busy organising everything and keeping eveyone alive and doesnt want to give leah credibility beacuse she might do something crazy if her ideas are validated. shelby by the point of the bunker is OBVIOUSLY suspicious (you were right note) but a) leah accused her b) she is having her own crisis and c) always pushes down the negative to retain her camp counselor-esque pagentry persona. nora is a) the mole and b) protecting her sister, so she tries to be the peacekeeper to dispell any further questions. marty tries to see the good in everything and everyone despite being proven otherwise and would be in denial of being taken advantage of. toni is explosive but not obsessive and lives more in the short term then thinking in any long term conspiracies. rachel is just as obsessive and explosive, maybe even more so then anyone else, but she is obsessed with diving and athletics, and doesnt have time or energy to think about anything or anyone else. as each character explores these traits and weaknesses, they learn more about themselves and thereby open up the opportunity for them to realistically start to question their environment to the extent leah has, which is the perfect point to start off season two. 

so the TLDR is that leah is obsessive and compulsive to a fault therefore both losing credibility in her ideas and being the only one to take a conpiracy that far. however character growth from all the characters lends itself to the idea that by season two they will have to use their newfound bonds and work together, because all of their character flaws are complimented by others’ strengths perfectly to the point of them becoming dramatic foils for eachother.

and yes this is why leah is my favorite character closely followed by the other 7 lol thx bye