#nellie.

to begin, first and foremost,    yes.    i do believe the twins have inherited olivia’s “sensitivity” along with their siblings upon birth.   olivia has established having known this,   or at least suspected,  when she openly asked nellie for her opinion about the house upon moving in,   and marvelled when all nellie responded was that it was “cold”.    without further ado,   let’s break down the exact abilities that have been showcased by the twins so far:

second discussion : establishment of abilities.

mediumship, the ability to observe and communicate with spirits.   additionally,   while the twins may not be able to differentiate it when they were much younger,   i do believe that they both eventually grew to learn to naturally spot spirits amongst the livings.   however,   given how their sensitivity was treated and past experiences,   they would either ignore it and pretend they haven’t seen it,   or,   they make a quick escape because spirits,  mutually sensing their abilities to see them when no one else could,   tend to flock around them.

precognition / second sight, the ability to perceive future and/or past events via extrasensory perception usually in the form of a vision.  think:  seer.

telepathy ( with high focus upon emotions-sharing ), ability to transmit or receive communication, in this case in forms of strong emotions whether physical or mental, via thoughts supernaturally.   however,  this ability seems to only be effected among the twins and not the rest of the crain family members. 

temporary possession of body, * highly headcanon based,   but i also believe the twins have a suspiciously sensitive vessel that may allow temporary  (  or,  in some dangerous cases,  permanent  )  possession by spirits.   with their permission,   the possession process is easier;   without,   the physical body may react negatively.

in my interpretation as well:   the twins are powerful psychics with an equal amount of power distributed between them.   however,  whether they both have manifested them at the same level during the same time is a different discussion altogether.

second discussion : sensitivity in reflections of health.

in any case,   luke and nell’s abilities as supernatural psychics depended wholly on their health   -    whether that being physical or mental,   it doesn’t matter.   the healthier they are,   the less haunting they will receive.    the longer their health deteriorates,    the stronger the haunting can become and the faster it will to overwhelm them.   

case-in-point:   when nell’s health soars as soon as she fixes her sleeping pattern and falls in love with arthur,   the less she’d see of the bent-neck lady.    luke’s case on the other hand,   can obviously be studied during the betrayal of joey,   how he’d gotten physically assaulted in the streets and then later felt the cold and painful sensation at nellie’s departing that his ghost, the tall man in the hat,  came to visit him again.

now a point can be brought up:    when luke was effected by the drugs and thus,  his physical health went down,   why wasn’t he actively haunted then?    well,  to be honest,   he took the drugs  because  he wanted the haunting to stop.   taking drugs dampened his abilities effectively,    but not enough   -   clearly   -    because eventually,   the hauntings always came back.    to add to that,   luke and nellie shared a strong emotional telepathic communication:   everything nellie felt,   luke felt with her.   and while it’s no excuse,   since nellie went through the same thing,    feeling her suffer and in pain can be too much for him when he’s struggling on top of handling his own haunting.   another reason he’s taken to the drugs was because he wanted that temporary dullness to their connection.   it’s shitty,   of course,   since nellie clearly depended on the connection, but it’s partly what led him to addiction.

third discussion : addressing ability of precognition.

i'm sure you're asking:   bella,   when the hell did they predict the future?    well,  to be fair,   i don’t think they are able to. i think they can somewhat perceive them rather than outrightly predict them,  though one may argue that this may just be something they picked up due to the sickly nature of the house not completely obeying to the rules of time.    however,  to further support my case,   remember the scene where nellie had visions of luke poisoned on the ceiling?   yes,   that’s what i meant by them being able to perceive future / past events.    (   past,  can be attributed to the fact that nellie has been visited by ghosts of her own self throughout the span of her being alive,  maybe ?   )     of course,   luke didn’t exhibit this ability.   but again,  remember:   luke’s health,  at this point,  was progressing well while nellie’s was going through the opposite effect. the haunting was stronger on nellie and her "sensitivity meter"  was going haywire.  it’s like her abilities are pouring out without any filters,  which isn’t all good since she’s had no proper practise nor firm understanding of it,   because eventually the haunting overwhelmed her and,   in spite of her last-minute realisation that she has been manipulated,   she was brutally killed.

fourth discussion : why was it important to address their abilities?

so anyway,   the summary for this is just that:   their lives would be so much better had the family genuinely discussed or they were not gaslighted into thinking everything was simply a tragedy, or something completely than whatever they were seeing.   i don’t think luke would be so easily dismissed from his “active imagination” and nellie’s cries for the bent-neck lady won’t simply be treated as a nightmare.   in fact,   proper discussions about how to handle  -  and possibly fight  -  the negative haunting’s influences could have been held, leading to  their mental health not having to suffer so much. had their sensitivity been addressed by either parents, or at least were acknowledged far more properly, they would’ve understood why this was happening to them,    or at least had known enough of their abilities to know that they aren’t “crazy” or what they’re seeing aren’t just “imaginary”. of course,   i won’t deny that luke would still  …   be experimenting with drugs.   choices of his life along the way may largely still lead him to be an addict,   but at the very least,   he would’ve been much,  much sober sooner once he knew nellie was in danger.   i believe like,   if they had known about their abilities,    “warnings” in forms of hauntings from the house would’ve led him to reach out to his family quicker because apart of him would figure that one — or more — of his family member are being actively targeted. nellie too,  i think,  would’ve had a better chance at possibly knowing she was in a trance and that arthur was just a figment of what the house wanted her to believe was real.   thus,  she could’ve had a chance at escaping much earlier than when she was fooled and realised she was already standing at the edge.

tl;dr    luke and nellie crain are powerful psychics / mediums by blood.   they just don’t know it.   if they had,  circumstances might’ve turned out differently for them and not necessarily have to end with one of the twins sacrificed due to ignorance on this particular yet large aspect of their lives.

Eleanor até agora não havia entendido a situação. A irmã infelizmente já havia ocupado-se da companhia do álcool quando decidira ligar pra ela, — Nellie preparando-se pra ir pra cama, cedo para os seus padrões de um fim de semana mas, bem, ia voltar pra Los Angeles no dia seguinte. — portanto não pareceu ter lá muitas condições de explicar em mínimos detalhes. Algo sobre Gabriel ter dito alguma merda pra ela, uma briga com Joel e ela ter perdido o aniversário da cunhada. Esses foram os fatores que a loira conseguiu juntar. Pra encontrá-la ali, embriagada e longe da companhia do namorado, o segundo fator Nellie meio que já havia compreendido por si só. Mas não deu muita atenção, sabia que a irmã e Joel de vez em quando explodiam em brigas e se entendiam cinco minutos depois. “ — Okay, não, Gen, chega. Vem, vou te levar pra casa.” Tentou tirar o copo da mais nova, quem se desvencilhou dela e saiu pra voltar a balbuciar alguma coisa com o grupo de garotas que ela havia, aparentemente, conhecido há poucos minutos atrás. Já fazia meia hora que Eleanor estava tentando fazê-la ir embora, e nada. “ — Oh, for goodness sake. Ei, cai fora!” O grito foi pra um cara que aproximou-se ridiculamente próximo de Genevieve, em seu estado alterado, e foi o que fez com que a Hudson mais velha decidisse que já era o suficiente. Foda-se se estavam brigados, ligou pra Joel, sabendo que provavelmente era a única pessoa que seria capaz de tirá-la dali. “ — Joel! Look, I don’t know what’s going on between you two, mas você precisa vir aqui pro Green Flamingo e tirar sua namorada daqui. Ela tá... — Gen, desce daí! — Joel, please, come help me.”

she’s beginning to worry that she’s been too obvious, her paranoia is getting worse with every passing day, her spine is sick, her body shocked with anxiety and adrenaline, as she sits on the curb outside his work, waiting for him to arrive for work, a jamba juice smoothie in her hand, her cover, she’s just some girl that works nearby who takes her breaks at the same time he happens to show up to work every day, a girl who comes in every day and browses in the aisles, a girl who watches him work. he’s even said hello to her before. ( she thinks about that all the time. ) she jumps when she hears the door to the book shop open, and looks over her shoulder, smiling when they briefly make eye contact before turning her attention back to her smoothie, ankles crossed and knees pressed together, looking childish in her tall white socks and mary janes.  she gets to her feet before she can stop herself and she steps up to him. “uhm! hi.” she says, her heart is pounding. “i’m nellie. we -- see each other all the time, and i’ve never introduced myself to you.” she shrugs as if it’s just so quirky and random that it’s never come up before now.

          ‘     you     -    you have to trust him,   theo.     ’     but nellie knows,   almost as much as could recognise every word she’s saying,    that the shake to her voice will never sound convincing.    luke is     -     her twin,   her other half,   the one person she never could think she’s able to live without,   but he’s also    -    troubled.   sad.   and confused all the time.   scared,   too.   sometimes he forgets about it,   but when he remembers    ...      ‘    you didn’t   -   you didn’t get the letters from him.   he sent me   -   he sent me so much.   he’s been cleaned now,   you know.   for   -   for forty three days.   and if he makes it all the way to sixty,  there’s gonna be a chip.     ’     /   from nellie for @murios !

why wouldn't he, nell thinks, almost grievously. he promised her he would come. he promised. and they— they never really broke any promises before, nell and luke. although ... although maybe a few times, but that was when they were in high school, and living with aunt janet, and nellie knew he was struggling so badly then, without steve, without dad around — could never quite focus on homework, and he'd skip school endlessly for a chance to get high, and— it isn't like that anymore, though. or even if it was, couldn't he have made it ? couldn't he have tried ? maybe he left a message, maybe nellie just needed to check her phone, but where was her phone ? maybe it's in the room upstairs. yeah, maybe it's there. she'll check it soon, maybe give him a call, if— if he's still using the same number he called her by, a month ago.

❛ do you- do you think he's okay ? maybe he needs... help. he said he'll come, theo. he told me he would. ❜