Akilah- this surprised me

In S3 E3, Akilah saying “Yes. We do.” in reply to Nat’s comment on the team not needing to go into the cave to find Coach really surprised me.

Akilah has been presented as a sweet, relatively innocent character with her affection for Nugget, studying for the SATs just in case, etc. Yes, she also ate Jackie and Javi with the rest of the girls but it was for survival.

In the way Nat told Coach that he’s not like the rest of them, I have also felt like Akilah is not like the rest of them.

Her being the person to answer Nat, and affirm the group’s decision to go into the caves surprised me and made me realize, she is perhaps less innocent/naive than I thought.

Either way, I want Akilah to survive somehow because I love her so much!! I’m extremely stressed that she ate the berries and is super unlikely to make it.