Yellowjackets
WARNING : The chase contains SPOILERS for Yellowjackets time of year 2 , installment 4 .
Van has been explore the effects of Taissa ’s somnambulism in the 1996 timeline and shockingly finds that it ’s connected to the mysteriousYellowjacketssymbols — here ’s the connection explained . The issue of Taissa ’s sleepwalking start up predominantly as a problem in the present timeline for the adult survivor . Taissa would find herself in the tree by her son ’s window in the heart of the dark , chewing on her deal . However , it was n’t revealed until the remainder of season 1 that her noctambulism had turned virulent . She decapitated the family frump while disable and made a sacrificial Lord’s table in her basement .
In the 1996 timeline , Taissa ’s somnambulism problems did n’t truly turn serious until season 2 , with Van furrow Taissa down after she almost walk off the side of the mountain . While time of year 1 focus on her senate race in the present , Yellowjacketsseason 2 primarily drop Taissa ’s storylines on the result of her somnambulation , which has basically make an alter self-importance that can control her actions during her waking animation . vanguard , in particular , require to uncover the substance behind Taissa ’s sleepwalking and the two experiment in the past to see out what could be driving Taissa to do what she does while asleep — and Van makes a shameful discovery .
Taissa’s Sleepwalking Leads To The Symbols In Yellowjackets
Van notices that Taissa sleepwalks directly to the mysteriousYellowjacketssymbols carve in the trees , discovering nearly all of them in the process . This was first teasedinYellowjacketsseason 2 , sequence 2when Van succeed Taissa after she breaks out of their makeshift wrist restraint . Taissa follows her imagination of the serviceman with no eyes , and it almost leads her to take the air decent off the side of the stack . Next to where Van take on her is one of theYellowjackets’symbols carved into a tree . Throughout their experiment , Van break that Taissa subconsciously knows where all the carve symbolization are as she follows her around .
While Taissa sleeps , she is always pursue the man with no eyes . Her alter ego tells Van this inYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 3 , aver that she follows him when the other Tai " lets her . " While the man with no eye spring up outside the wilderness , with a very young Taissa first seeing him on her grandmother ’s deathbed , the apparition clearly has some nonnatural connection to the wild , as he is leading Taissa to the symbols . Why the man with no eyes is taking her to the dissimilar symbol position has n’t been answered . However , the reasonableness could lie somewhere in the jumbo map that Van has make .
What The Bigger Symbol On The Yellowjackets Map Could Mean
When Van maps out all the symbol locating , she realizes that they all form one jumbo symbol , inspire her to take Tai with her to end up the map . There are a few fan theories ring what theYellowjacketssymbol could mean , and some of these primed easily with what the larger symbolic representation on the map could be . For example , the firsttheory states that Javi has been living undergroundin a serial publication of mine , and the symbolization represents a map of those mining burrow . This theory is easily supported , as both Van and Taissa find melted snow on the terra firma , suggesting that heat was follow from the ground .
In addition , as soon as they found the liquified snow , they found Javi . Another possibility is that the symbol protect the girls from the bad spirits in the wilderness . Lottie wholeheartedly believes this is theYellowjacketssymbol significance , even aggrandise it on Shauna ’s child blanket . If this is what the symbol means , the larger symbol on Van ’s map may be the perimeter of that prescribed trade protection , which is the same form to provide excess safety gadget for the country ’s inhabitants . Either fashion , Van proclaims that Taissa and her somnambulate is"somehow connected to all of this"after they regain Javi , and she ’s right .
Why Taissa Needs Adult Van’s Help In Yellowjackets Season 2
If theYellowjacketssymbol has something to do with Travis ' wilderness line , and indeed that it is coming back to stalk the grownup survivor , then it still has a major grasp over Taissa , and Van may be the only one that can help her . This suggests that whatever Van approximate about Taissa ’s link to the symbols must ’ve been correct . The two have remain estranged in the present timeline until Taissa could n’t control her sleepwalking alter ego anymore . Taissa tried her best to snub her nighttime excursion in the 2021 timeline , but it has gotten to a point where she ’s murdering animals , hallucinating her boy , and have brownout .
TheYellowjacketssymbol must mean something to the sleepwalking Taissa , as it ’s paint on the wall in blood behind her makeshift communion table . Whatever Van expose about Tai and the symbol in the past must ’ve rang true enough for Taissa to seek her out again after 25 years , and she postulate her ex - girl ’s helper again . Van is open to the supernatural , whereas Taissa is not , and it ’s because of this receptiveness that she can see and admit things that Taissa may not be able to empathise on her own . Therefore , with her alter ego taking over , it give sense that Taissa would seek Van ’s help inYellowjackets .
