WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for Yellowjackets season 3.

Yellowjackets continues to shed light on the mysterious circumstances of Flight 2525, which crashed in 1996 and left the WHS Yellowjackets team struggling to survive in the Ontario wilderness. Yellowjackets season 1 focused on the adult lives of Shauna, Tai, Natalie, and Misty, each severely affected by the disturbing things they had to do — including eating of their own team — to sustain themselves during the winter. When mysterious letters show up on their doorsteps, marked with symbols that evoke their shared trauma, they work together to discover their blackmailer's intentions.

With more twists and turns revealed in Yellowjackets season 3, the number of survivors is changing all the time. As each season reveals more survivors, it also reveals which Yellowjackets might have given their lives to ensure their teammates' survival 25 years later. With a storyline projected to be told over five seasons, audiences can expect to meet a few adult Yellowjackets with each new season. Season 3 has delivered some of the biggest shocks of the show, with the truth about the survivors being expanded even more.

8 Melissa

Played by Jenna Burgess and Hilary Swank

One of the biggest shockers in the series came in season 3 with the reveal that there are actually eight Yellowjackets survivors as Melissa was revealed to be alive. The rest of the survivors were under the impression that Melissa (Jenna Burgess) had taken her own life after returning home from being rescued. In reality, Melissa faked her death and sought to start over. Shauna learns the truth when she tracks her stalker, only to find that it was Melissa.

However, there is even more to Melissa's story that makes her return all the more complex. Melissa (Hilary Swank) is now living under a new name, Kelly, with her identity not even known to her wife, Alex. The secrets go deeper with the revelation that Alex is the daughter of the researcher, Hannah, whom Shauna and Melissa both killed when they were in the wilderness.

7 Shauna Sadecki

Played by Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey

Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) is one of the eight Yellowjackets survivors who lives a fairly unfulfilled life as a homemaker with Jeff, Jackie's former high school boyfriend who slept with Shauna shortly before Flight 2525 crashed and whose child she carried in the Ontario wilderness. Together, Shaun and Jeff have a daughter named Callie whose age correlates with being born sometime in the early '00s, and who attempted to help her parents cover up Adam's murder. Shauna's soft-spoken disposition belies a sharp mind with keen instincts honed during her time in the wilderness, doing what she had to for survival.

Shauna is one of the most resourceful of the Yellowjackets, as evidenced when she reunites with Tai, Nat, and Misty as adults and immediately takes control of the investigation into the cryptic messages they've each received. It's clear that pragmatism (including being the first to approve of eating Jackie's corpse) helped young Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) become a natural leader, but she has trouble fitting into the confines of regular society after living with such reckless abandon, and so overcompensated being dutiful, obedient, and generally inconspicuous.

6 Misty Quigley

Played by Sammi Hanratty and Christina Ricci

Misty (Christina Ricci) works at a nursing facility for the elderly, where the power she exercises over decisions of life and death every day harkens back to the aftermath of Flight 2525, when a geekier Misty (Sammi Hanratty) was able to apply her first-aid skills and save survivors. Her need to be appreciated as a vital part of the team rather than the ignored equipment manager culminated in Misty destroying the black box that would have helped rescue teams find the wreckage.

Even as an adult, she's still so desperate to maintain a friendship with her old teammates that she'll do whatever it takes to keep them together, including torture. Out of all the Yellowjackets survivors, she's the only one who kills freely still as an adult, and without remorse. Misty has a strong online presence as a "citizen detective," where she hooks up with fellow detective Walter, who assists her in framing Kevyn for Adam's murder.

5 Taissa Turner

Played by Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress

A charismatic fomre state senator for New Jersey, Taissa (Tawny Cypress) has the most to lose if anyone finds out about what the Yellowjackets did in the wilderness, and to ensure the secrecy of the pact made by her and her fellow survivors, she has Jessica Roberts investigate them to determine if anyone's blabbed. The initial blackmailing scheme draws her into a closer bond with the Yellowjackets survivors, relationships she tries to balance with a home life that included, until the time of their separation, a wife of 15 years, and a young son.

Tai (Jasmin Savoy Brown) was the Yellowjackets' star player, and after the fateful crash of Flight 2525, she remained an important member of the group. She maintained a relationship with Van and was part of the first group to try to find a route to civilization, which unfortunately ended in Van nearly being mauled to death by wolves.

In the present day, as in the wilderness, Tai is plagued by night terrors, sleep-walking, and fugue states in which she isn't responsible for what her body does, ultimately leading to the disintegration of her marriage and her political career.

4 Natalie Scatorccio

Played by Sophie Thatcher and Juliette Lewis

A rebel and an outcast ever since her youth, Natalie (Juliette Lewis) had an even tougher time of things after being rescued from the crash thanks to her guilt surrounding her revealed status as the antler queen. She never married her high school sweetheart, didn't find a fulfilling vocation, and didn't go on to a prestigious university and become politically ambitious, instead checking in and out of rehab for decades.

Unfortunately, Natalie became the next adult survivor to die in the Yellowjackets season 2 finale when she sacrificed herself to save Lisa, expiating her guilt over letting Javi drown and becoming the antler queen. After the crash, Nat (Sophie Thatcher) uses the group's only found hunting rifle to shoot game and provide for the encampment, establishing a relationship with Travis and trying to prevent the rest of the team from either going completely feral or rallying around Lottie's visions and dreams for a source of guidance.

Tough as nails and unconventional, Nat often pushes people away who care about her for fear of being abandoned first. However, reuniting with the rest of the Yellowjackets survivors gave her a sense of community, even if it was because of their shared trauma. Nat's death was a tragic note for Yellowjackets season 2 to end on.

3 Lottie Matthews

Played by Courtney Eaton and Simone Kessell

Lottie (Simone Kessell) was one of the two who confused the issue of how many Yellowjackets survived because she wasn't shown until season 2, where she was the leader of a cult-like community on a sprawling compound where agree to be buried alive naked in strange rituals. Lottie slowly becomes the shamanistic leader in the 1996 timeline, but surprisingly, she defers her leadership to teen Natalie in the Yellowjackets season 2 finale. Lottie is the most in touch with "the wilderness" entity, believing one of the Yellowjackets survivors must die in 2021 to satiate the wilderness' needs.

When Lottie (Courtney Eaton ran out of medication for her schizophrenia following the crash, she began to have visions of the future, which made her believe she was a clairvoyant. She killed a bear for the group and used its heart in a strange ritual that seemed to solidify her not only as one of its leaders but part of a faction that could divide the team between her and someone unconvinced of her motives, like Nat.

Sadly, Lottie became another adult Yellowjackets survivor to die in season 3, when she was found dead at the bottom of the stairwell. Citizen detective Misty, of course, took it upon herself to investigate. Shauna, wracked with guilt after angrily kicking Lottie out of her house, is also trying to get to the bottom of things.

2 Vanessa Palmer

Played by Liv Hewson and Lauren Ambrose

Van (Lauren Ambrose) is another who confused the issue of how many Yellowjackets survived, as Van didn't make an appearance until Yellowjackets season 2, episode 4. Her reunion with Tai was particularly emotional and telling, and it's clear that the two still harbor feelings for one another. It was also revealed that Van has cancer and only months to live, but only Tai was privy to this secret.

Van feels some partial responsibility for Lottie's psychosis in the present day, and, as an adult, is a shell of her former self. She runs a video store in her adult life but is plagued by financial issues. In the wilderness, Van (Liv Hewson) is a capable member of the team, standing up for weaker after she was nearly killed during a fire from the crash and Jackie did nothing to save her.

Fire factors again into Van's life in Yellowjackets when, after believed to be dead from a gruesome encounter with wolves, her body is placed on a funeral pyre, but she shows signs of life just before burning to death for the second time. Van wholeheartedly believes in the wilderness' power, even convincing Travis to eat his brother to honor Javi's sacrifice.

1 Travis Martinez

Played by Kevin Alves and Andres Soto

Travis Martinez (Andres Soto) is the first of the adult Yellowjackets survivors to die, accidentally killing himself in Yellowjackets season 1. Therefore, his adult counterpart doesn't appear in the series, save for a few flashbacks. However, he is still the eighth in of how many Yellowjackets survived. Not much is known about Travis as an adult, as he tried his best to keep an extremely low profile. He did suffer from drug addictions, and his toxic relationship with adult Natalie only fueled the fire.

He was the first to warn the others that the Yellowjackets wilderness was coming back to haunt them, and he accidentally died while performing a ritual. In the wilderness, Travis (Kevin Alves) is deeply connected to his family, as his father was the soccer coach of the Yellowjackets team. His father doesn't survive the crash, but his younger brother Javi does, and he's heartbroken when he goes missing for two months.

Alongside Natalie, Travis is the best with a gun and is tasked with finding food for the group until they eventually resort to cannibalism. Travis believes in the wilderness' power, a belief he carries with him into adulthood. Travis eventually succumbs to eating Javi in Yellowjackets after he is drowned. He forms a relationship with Natalie in the wilderness, but it's tested multiple times.