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i dont usually post actual like serious thoughts abt yellowjackets unless im being mean (and some of y'all deserve it) but have some genuine thoughts for a second.

i think the general interpretation of coach ben is. wrong. and hear me out on this one.

ben didn't really lose much in the crash. besides his leg. and an argument could be made that he was likely close to coach martinez (and i would have personally loved to see that dynamic actually play out literally At All).

but his life was already pretty bleak. he wasn't. happy. he was not a happy guy. we see him genuinely Happy maybe three times in the entire show - in 2 flashbacks and in his what-if fantasy. but that's. it. his relationship ended before the girls even won states, and he really. didn't have anything else.

he wasn't happy coaching. we Know That. he didn't hate doing it, obviously. and i don't think he hates the girls (he genuinely cares for most of them, and we see this in the show, and this INCLUDES misty). but he was never happy. it was never a fulfilling career and it certainly didn't make him content in life.

i don't think it's unrealistic to suggest that this is a career he chose because it was a safe path for him. he was likely pushed into sports in high school, and becoming a high school coach would have been the more low-key career path to follow after that. especially if this is the town he grew up in.

he is not different from the girls or travis or javi. he didn't have this amazing happy life he was ripped from. he had a kind of shitty life with One good thing in it that he'd already lost. getting stranded in the wilderness didn't take away his happiness. it took away any chance he'd had to find it.

and, so when he finds SOME normalcy with natalie, and he can finally be himself around someone, that's important to him. so when nat abandons him, too, he has truly nothing left. he has nothing there, nothing to go back to.

ben isn't immune to the wilderness. it did get to him. but it didn't drive him insane or pull him into it like it did with the girls. and i don't think it has to. he's the only character so far who has actively tried to kill himself. he's isolating himself in an extreme way now. everything is being taken away from him over and over. and the further away he distances himself from the girls and the wilderness, the more he loses.

i think it's entirely possible he could survive only not to be rescued. i know that's largely been a joke theory but i don't think it's even improbable. it's in line with his character arc.

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