Maddie is the only Bandit

It’s been discussed many times why there’s a death at the school every five years or so until the bus crash. What if the crazy parents who blamed the Devils mascot after the crash were actually right? They change the mascot to Bandits and it actually worked, there’s no more deaths at the school until Maddie’s.

Maybe constantly chanting and cheering for Devils had an effect on whatever big bad lurks in the town…

The best part of this, of course, is it opens the plot to some raccoon god showing up as the embodiment of Bandits. Just saying. It could happen.