I'm never not thinking about how throughout the books Jack hallucinates about a lot of people (Tom, Tony, etc.) but the two people he hallucinates the most are:
Sabine, his girlfriend who went into a coma before the books started. He blames himself for the car accident that caused the coma and thinks he is the reason they never managed to escape their shitty town. Their relationship wasn't perfect and they would sometimes fight but they clearly loved each other and were each other's bright spots in an otherwise all-around horrible childhood. Jack feels so much guilt and pain about what happened to her that he is basically unable to talk or even think about her for a good part of the books, and that survivors guilt made him resign himself to dying young. When he starts to see her in his hallucinations/dreams, she is there to give him advice and help him. She continuously tells him how much she loves him, how it wasn't his fault and how he can't give up
And Spencer. The guy who has stalked him and beaten him up multiple times. The same guy who Jack has sliced the throat of and also shot. He is also there. Just chilling and still insulting Jack any chance he gets
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alright more pre-crash yellowjackets thoughts! this time: shitty high school jobs they had! (i worked 5 different shitty minimum wage jobs between the ages of 15-18 and have thought about the concept with more gravity than it deserves sorry)
shauna: was a tutor during the school year for literally every subject. she was the only reason jeff and randy passed their junior year. even though she could use the money, shauna never charged any of her teammates if they needed some help. when school was out during the summers, she had a seasonal job at the concession stand at the local concert venue. pretty easy money and she liked listening to the bands play
jackie: unemployed. being the coolest girl in school is a full time job, after all! note: tried to get a job with shauna at the concession stand. it was a complete and utter disaster. she lasted a week, and only made it that long because of how much shauna covered for her. after that didn’t pan out, when shauna worked weekends, jackie would always buy a concert ticket… just to hang out by the concession stand and talk with shauna for the whole show
nat: her first job was working at the local pizza parlor. was employed there for 6 months until it got shut down because, as it turns out, the whole thing was a money laundering front for the mob (which explains why nat never got fired despite being actually kinda bad at making pizzas). after that, she goes to work the 6pm-midnight shift at the grimiest gas station in wiskayok. except for the occasional stick up, it was a quiet job where no one bothered her and she could buy her own cigarettes. however she was constantly sleep-deprived having to get up for school in the mornings. definitely created energy drink concoctions that would send most people into cardiac arrest. van and the other yellowjackets would always stop by to see her on shifts and nat always gives them free slurpees
van: started working at the movie theater in the mall when she was 14 (the owner needed the help and did not ask enough questions). van is the rare sort of person that is absolutely beloved by both customers and her fellow employees and no one was surprised when she became a manager. she has the best customer service and will help out all the other employees with whatever they need. to this day she still holds the record for most Employee of the Month awards. also i just know van was the ultimate hookup and snuck her friends into shows and definitely took home the leftover popcorn after her shift. if she knew nat was on shift at the gas station, she’d stop by on her way home and give her some
taissa: never worked during the school year because she took way too many classes and extracurriculars (she was a 3-sport athlete: cross country in the fall, basketball in the winter, soccer in the spring. also did debate team AND student gov). her parents actually tried to talk her out of getting a summer job, but taissa has never relaxed a day in her life. she took a job at a clothing store in the mall and claimed she chose it for the employee discounts. the fact the store was located in the same mall as the movie theater was unrelated to anything whatsoever (tho taissa and van’s break schedules coincidentally always lined up and they’d hang out and go to the arcade where they’d have competitions… loser had to buy the winner food from the food court afterwards).
anyways tai would have been a perfect employee… if she didn’t have the world’s worst customer service (“for the fifth and final time, i am not going to give you a goddamned refund if you don’t have the RECEIPT and if you try putting that ugly ass blouse in my face again i will shove it up your-”) …had to have routine talks with HR throughout her tenure there. her manager gently suggested therapy, once.
lottie: didn’t need the money but definitely got a job out of boredom. decided to lifeguard as a summer job. it was basically getting paid to tan and tell kids to stop running. she had a sixth sense for when it’s about to start storming. her coworkers stopped questioning it after a few months and now when lottie says to get everyone out of the pool, they get everyone out of the pool. from lifeguarding lottie actually learned enough about pool maintenance to do the work and check the chemical balances on the pool at her own house. her father thinks the whole thing is ridiculous, her mother thinks it’s nice she has a hobby
laura lee: didn’t work a paid job but volunteered. she played piano for the local church services and on weekdays she worked evenings at the local food bank. if she sees anyone from school show up, it stays between her and God. she has managed to rope each of the yellowjackets into volunteering with her at least once
mari: worked at a local restaurant. tried to be a waitress, but on her very first day she got three different customer complaints about her attitude and so the owner put her in the kitchen where she became a linecook. she had more healthcode violations in her 1.5 years of working there than every other employee combined. the manager fired her on a weekly basis but she always just showed up to work the next day like nothing happened and the boss always took her back because mari is the best damn linecook he ever had
akilah: she’s a baby and was too young to work an actual job but definitely did babysitting (mostly for family). definitely was the kid-whisperer. had plans to work at library once she turned 16
misty: volunteered at the local retirement home and developed a love-hate relationship with an 85yo named Ethel (and by love-hate i mean: misty loved ethel, ethel hated misty)
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Day 7, Sea Angel
this aint even on the prompt list I just got irked by my prompta being on the wrong days because of me forgetting about the shark prompt XD
LETS TRY THIS AGAIN, WILL I FINISH THE NEXT CHAPTER? WHO KNOWS, NOT ME
Anyway sea angel Moon
Planning on one of the chapters including him. Hes gonna be a sea monster, definitely much bigger compared to sea angels and humans as well >:]
thinking that they should be called a sea seraphim in that chapter once I get to it lol
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anyways, y’all wish me luck cause I gotta do something that’s literally so scary, like ask my boss if we can talk and then discuss one of my co-workers who is a great worker and has been there much longer than me, and like I’ve never had to do this kinda thing before- because who cares about people cutting corners at work? except in this case I am not in customer service, these are literal people, little kids, and it’s not good, like she’s lying about having changed the five kids who get diaper changes and I’m changing them in addition to potty training, which just doesn’t work- and when she does potty training (which I feel bad about cause it’s fifteen kids) she’s letting kids leave the bathroom without pull-ups and they’re peeing all over themselves
and ik tmi- but really I’m awake and so bothered by yhis, and my stomach hurts, but imma talk to them about it- cause it just can’t be like this, even if I could go behind her and make it obvious I’m checking she did the diapers, like it’s not sustainable
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