#theo x nell

[bowtothewitch]

Obsessed with them 💗 ✨

[fangirling-and-lovin-it]

24 years late to this party but I brought snacks and a fanedit

(BTW was anyone gonna tell me that an entertaining, suspenseful , horror existed with Owen Wilson AND Catherine Zeta Jones playing a canon bi character or was I just supposed to find this out myself by actually watching it finally?)

[nighthcwling]

“  okay,  you’re really starting to freak me out this isn’t funny anymore.  ” ( nell for theo )

❛ i'm freaking you out? ❜ ʜᴇʀ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇ ᴡᴀs ᴄᴏᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀɴxɪᴇᴛʏ as she struggled to pull her gloves over the length of her forearm, hands trembling while she fought back tears. theo would have given anything to sᴛᴏᴘ ғᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ, to not ᴇɴᴅᴜʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀᴛᴀsᴛʀᴏᴘʜɪᴄ ғᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴜɴʀᴀᴠᴇʟᴇᴅ ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ ᴏғ ʜᴇʀ - not only her own but the brief contact with her sister only A M P L I F E D everything she was sensing.

ʜᴇʀ ʙᴏᴅʏ ᴛᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ ʙᴇɢᴀɴ ᴛᴏ ʀɪsᴇ as she started to pace the room while keeping her fair distance from nell, ❛ i can feel every single emotion that has happened in this room and it's suffocating ! ❜ whatever events occurred previously within the four walls where they stood was T R A G I C. deep down theo knew her sister was the last person she needed to come unglued in front of but the overwhelming abundance of emotions and sensations that forced themselves upon her made her V U L N E R A B L E. ❛ why are we here, nell? we - i need to go! ❜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇsᴘᴇʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ ᴇsᴄᴀᴘᴇ ᴡᴀs ʀᴇᴀʟ. | @nightskied

[dreamersbcll]

The Nothing After Death

a scream x the haunting of hill house au

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Being the eldest child, Sam always knew a few things.

That, no matter what, she was the protector of her sister. Even when scared or tired, she was still the watchful eye, the secondary caretaker. The older one always ensured the younger one was alive and well.

Sam was no stranger to this. But it wasn't easy when she and her sister were so different. Both struggled with their past and fought in the present, but the depression and manic swings Tara went through were one of the starkest differences between the top.

She doesn’t quite know if it’s because she’s the eldest or just the most aware, but Sam has her differences from Tara. Some called it a feeling, some called it a gift, but to her, it would always be her mother’s definition.

Heightened Sensitivity. That’s what her mother called it, anyway. Supposedly, Sam got it from her grandmother, who passed it to her mom, who passed it to Sam. That’s what her mother said after Sam made the mistake of touching her.

In reality, what Sam feels when she touches any object or person is empathy. She calls it her ‘little doorway into the soul’ when she’s feeling cheerful, but most of the time, it is a ‘little window to hell.’ Around the fifth moment of terror, Sam starts to realize that she picks up on the emotions of other people and things as if it was her own emotions.

At first, it’s a gift.

(She thinks it’s a gift anyway after the night she drunkenly speaks of it to her latest midnight friend).

She can excel in life- or, in her field of study, she should say- by having a cheat code into other people's heads. In undergrad, she picked Psychology as a major. She will bring it to the grace that it was to be the best psychologist ever, but really, it was just to understand her family better and dissect her past.

And it goes well. She gets her masters, and gets a job at a powerful child psychology team that will stop at nothing to help the kids they see. If Sam was honest, she wasn’t very sure about working with kids. She wanted to see adults, but after the first session with a sexually abused six-year-old named Felix, Sam understands. She understands that her gift was a tool to help kids, to help the little kids that remind her so much of Tara and her. Sam then makes it her mission to help kids who need someone to stand up for them.

It was going well. Sam hadn’t met a kid she couldn’t help. One handshake, or hug, or high fives, and Sam knew how to help. Sure, she felt guilty at times for, in a way, invading these kids' emotions, but to see them get the help they were dying for made it all worth it. She develops a routine, work, dinner, club, and one-night stand. It was going so well.

Then, her little sister starts calling again.

Sam never truly knew what was up with her little sister. Tara Carpenter was once a bubbly child. If Sam closed her eyes and focused hard enough, she could still see big brown eyes staring up at her, asking if Sam would play tea party with her.

Sometimes, Sam finds herself negotiating with her baby sister- Maybe we can play outside instead?

But Tara doesn’t respond.

After, well, that night, Tara morphed into a peculiar child. Once the media circus started and their mother’s obituary was finalized, Tara was different. She was withdrawn, soft-spoken, and a little too brooding for her good. Gone were the days of games and dances; now, there was just a shell of a little six-year-old that sometimes followed Sam around.

There was only so much Sam could do between holding herself together and trying to deal with their incompetent father. It wasn’t all her fault. Her gift was more sensitive, and she was falling, too. How was she expected to protect Tara if she couldn’t protect herself?

So Sam lost Tara. Her little sister drifted, too far away to touch but close enough to feel her presence, her shadows. Tara stopped living in Sam’s life, only lingering. She ghosted through Sam’s apartment and place of work from time to time but is only truly present in her own head.

And then came Arthur Vance—sweet, kind, and patient. He was always loving Tara despite her flaws, always keeping her afloat. From the times' Tara brings Arthur around to her home, Sam could instantly sense that this was the one.

Sometimes, she closes her eyes and relives the wedding that took away the one physical thing that made Tara Sam’s.

——-

Tara Vance.

That was a strange thought. No longer a Carpenter, but something else. Something that wasn’t connected to Sam.

Even throughout her latest wedding hookup, she couldn’t get it out of her mind. She was still thinking of the broken connection when she exited the bedroom.

(In her defense, the Maid of Honor came up to her. Who was she to refuse?)

Instead of making her way to the reception area, she bumps straight into her little sister. Tara, all dolled up in her pretty white dress, looked shocked as Sam bumped into her.

Big brown, shocked eyes met Sam’s panicked ones, and neither moved for a second.

“Uh? What?” Sam asks, trying to sound nonchalant about the whole thing.

(Who sleeps with their little sister’s Maid of Honor anyways?)

She braces herself for the rejection, the final severed cord between the two. Sam believes that she can handle a new last name for Tara, but homophobic disgust wouldn’t fly. She straightens up, sets her jaw, and breaths out steadily.

Instead, Tara’s grin is wide enough to swallow Sam up whole. Her little sister opens her arms, squealing a bit. Shocked, Sam lets herself be hugged by her gorgeous (and confusing) little sister.

Tara’s voice rumbled against Sam’s shoulder, her height still permanently stuck in sixth grade.

“I love you so much, Sam,” she whispered, gripping Sam like she was six years old and scared of the dark again.

Everything in Sam screamed to let go, not to touch. The skin on skin was bad, and though Sam wore sweaty gloves, she could still feel her anxiety of being assaulted with emotions ramping up. She needed to let go.

But she didn’t. She let herself be held and comforted. She wasn’t ashamed of her sexuality, but she couldn’t deny the fear of being too open with people she didn’t honestly know. Yet her little sister loved and accepted her no matter what, even through their years of turmoil.

So Sam hugs her back, squeezing her tight. She protects her little sister from the monsters of her wedding day and holds her hand all the way to the reception area.

And Tara doesn’t let go until Sam does first.

——

That’s the last time Sam remembers touching Tara before today. A little over two years ago, Tara was alive and gripping onto her shoulders like her life depended on it.

Now Tara lay dead on the examining table, a sheet pulled up to her chest, her pale eyes closed. Sam doesn’t remember if Tara actually looks like that or if that was all due to the makeup they had caked on. Tara isn’t smiling or even brooding. She’s dead.

She's dead and Sam doesn’t know why. The cause of death was officially ruled a suicide. But Sam can’t accept that. She needs to know why. She needs to understand.

Tara had been struggling for years. Depression was a ribbon that lived in Tara, always twisted around her organs and squeezing her brain. Sam knew that Tara struggled with it and often couldn’t function like she could. Sam also knew it was a side effect of their traumatic childhood, but it was also genetic and came from their mother. But Tara had never attempted before.

Why now?

The authorities tell her they’ll never know. They’ll say that this happens to those struggling and that Sam has to be at peace with not knowing.

And Sam can’t handle that. She can’t handle not knowing why Tara decided to end it.

So, on the nights leading up to the funeral, Sam finds herself breaking into the room where Tara’s little dead body lied on the table. She didn’t really know what she expected, maybe a sheet covering her face, but she was glad the body was covered. She couldn’t handle seeing the damage her little sister caused to her own body.

Sam breathed deeply, closing her eyes. She removes her gloves and hovers her hand over Tara’s forehead. She tries to listen for her sister, tries to hear Tara say her name. Sam. I’m here, Sam. But she doesn’t hear anything.

As she lays her hand down on Tara’s forehead, she braces herself for images of death, the fall pout, the gushing blood, and the snapping of bones.

But she doesn’t expect The Nothing. She doesn’t expect her mind and emotions to shut down, her worldview instantly dull. There was no warning for the curtains being drawn. Nothing had meaning anymore. There was no value in life. It was all pointless. She was worthless. There was nothing when she died. There’s no next step or next place. There is only cold and empty.

Nothing.

Sam rips her hand from Tara’s head, scrambling backward. She trips and falls into a table, her head smacking into the side. It doesn’t matter.

A blood-tingling, organ-shredding guttural scream leaves her mouth. The sound makes her cry, tears her hair out of her head, yanks her teeth out of her mouth. It was painful. It should be painful. She was involuntarily putting everything into it.

But she doesn’t feel a fucking thing.

And she understands why Tara kills herself.

[devilsskettle]

patty x allison kevin can fuck himself are so theo x nell the haunting of hill house coded

[siblingshowdown]

Sibling Showdown!!!

This showdown consists of 64 sibling sets facing off against each other, as well as a few one-off polls of sets who didn’t make the actual bracket but who I wanted to include in some capacity.  Polls will last a week.  Round One of section A will go live on April 16, with section B going live the day after, section C the day after that, and section D the day after that.

Propaganda is allowed!  I just ask that it be kept positive.  Argue for your faves instead of against someone else’s.  Every sibling set who made it in the showdown is there because someone wanted them to be, so keep it kind.

Will the winners be the siblings that love each other the most?  That are most capable of killing other sibling groups with their bare hands?  That have the most sibling swag?  It’s up to you to decide!  You get to choose the manner and parameters you judge each sibling set for.

Section A:

Edward and Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs. Seiko and Ryuunosuke Tanaka (Haikyuu!!)

Wirt and Greg (Over the Garden Wall) vs.  Han Yoojin and Han Yoohyun (The S-Classes That I Raised)

Shigeo and Ritsu Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100) vs.  Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

Sans and Papyrus (Undertale) vs. Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado (Demon Slayer)

Jiang Yanli, Wei Wuxian, and Jiang Cheng (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed) vs. Hikaru and Kaoru (Ouran High School Host Club)

Vi and Jinx (Arcane) vs. Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara (Naruto)

Sokka and Katara (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs. Maya and Mia Fey (Ace Attorney)

Vash the Stampede and Millions Knives (Trigun) vs.  Lucas and Claus (Mother 3)

Section B:

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs. Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack Parr (The Incredibles)

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner (The Animaniacs) vs. Jazz and Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom)

Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Ducktales) vs. Sitka, Denahi, and Kenai (Brother Bear)

Dion, Frazie, Razputin, Mirtala, and Queepie Aquato (Psychonauts) vs. Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, and Private (Madagascar)

Eda and Lilith Clawthorne (The Owl House) vs. Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Rice Krispies)

Bonnie and Clemont (Pokemon X and Y) vs. Annika and Brietta (Barbie: Magic of Pegasus)

Candace, Phineas, and Ferb (Phineas and Ferb) vs. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls)

Nani and Lilo Pelekai (Lilo and Stitch) vs. Kai and Nya (Lego Ninjago)

Section C:

Maddie and Buck Buckley (911) vs. Steven, Shirley, Theo, Luke, and Nell Crain (The Haunting of HIll House)

David and Alexis Rose (Schitt’s Creek) vs. Dennis and Dee Reynolds (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Jonathan Byers, Will Byers, and El Hopper (Stranger Things) vs.  Prue, Piper, and Phoebe (Charmed)

Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Five, Ben, Viktor Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy tv) vs. Mary, Billy, Freddy, Pedro, Eugene, and Darla (Shazam! movies)

Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain-Wayne, and Duke Thomas (DC comics) vs. Simon and River Tam (Firefly)

Elliot and Darlene Alderson (Mr. Robot) vs. Kara and Alex Danvers (Supergirl TV)

Connor, Kendall, Siobhan, and Roman Roy (Succession) vs. Sharpay and Ryan Evans (High School Musical)

Thor and Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe) vs. Sarah and Felix (Orphan Black)

Section D:

Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, and Amras (The Silmarillion) vs. Antigone, Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene (Greek Mythology/Sophocles’s Theban plays)

Coronabeth and Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Nico and Bianca Di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) vs. Declan, Ronan, and Matthew Lynch (The Raven Cycle/The Dreamer Trilogy)

Alec, Isabelle, Max Lightwood, and Jace Herondale-Lightwood (Shadowhunters) vs. Lark and Sparrow Oak (Dungeons and Daddies)

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs. Linus and Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts)

Boromir and Faramir (The Lord of the Rings) vs. Bellamy and Octavia Blake (The 100)

Katniss and Primrose Everdeen (The Hunger Games) vs. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March (Little Women)

Kiryu Kazuma and Nishikiyama Akira (Yakuza) vs. Cain and Abel (the Torah/the Bible)

[evillivesheree]

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[jeniffercheck]

I loveeee these headcanons and the funniest part is that if in some crazy crossover universe they were all to meet I think shiv would hate Olivia 😭 but maybe (your characters so I don’t know!!) the twins would love Theo (who could connect with them over her own annoying twin younger siblings)

under the cut i’m so sorry 😭 this is my family!!!!!!!!!

omfggg shiv would hate olivia. and it would be some weird like aversion to olivia’s exuding maternal nature and shiv would be sooo like. who do you think you are being so nice??? yeah you’re really pretty?? so what?? you agree?? you think you’re really pretty??

i can’t tell if shiv and theo would get along…i think it would be similar to a shiv x roman type of back and forth but with a little less vitriol and a little more awkwardness due to them both being dumbasses. karolina and theo would get along great (and karolina and trish), mainly on theo’s end and it would solely be to piss shiv off, and by extension shiv would get along with trish great 😭

karolina and olivia would be crazy—if this is in twiniverse, i think karolina would like olivia (🥰) and look up to her (karolina mommy issues i’m sorry you’ll always be famous) and they’d bond over their busy and ambitious spouses who always keep them on their toes<33333

NOW. theo and the twins. both are absolutely enamored by her for sure. meeting theo is the only time i think talia would question her sexuality and she would be sooo confused and soooo obsessed with theo’s personality and bitchiness and would resolve to be exactly like her when she grows up!! audrey…just gay awe but hear me out…for some reason i see her and steve getting along 😭

also having strong feelings that karolina and nell would get along very well but if i think about that for too long…who knows what could happen

[nessa007]

The torture device is successful. Now for phase 2

1. Hill House Ep 5 or Hill House Last Ep?

2. Janine x Gregory or Roy x Keeley?

3. Ava or Janine?

4. Nell or Theo?

Good luck!

1. ep 5 by far! THE PLOT TWIST 🤯😭👏

2. janine/gregory because i have faith quinta won’t fuck them up like jason did with roy/keeley (and he did it for no fucking reason 🤡)

3. janine 🫶

4. NELL!!! 😭

[justanormalfangirl]

I’ve written 3 essays over the past week or so, and all of them involve me talking about queer content. Thank you English Literature for allowing me to talk about gayness and gay ships in essays

For reference I discussed Shakespeare writing love poems to a man for my Poetry essay, Theo’s (and perhaps Nel’s) queerness in The Haunting of Hill House novel for my Gothic Stories essay, and Carol for my essay on Queer Theory

[bowtothewitch]

"How tragic of the fate

Of the lover who was left behind."

[forever-winter]

The Haunting relationships → Nell and Theo Crain

I didn't do it. I swear. No. You didn't. You can tell? With your hand?

[space-sheep08]

Nell and theo have like 50 different dynamics in the book and all of them are gay as hell-

[aflawedhuman]

[laufire]

“I could help her in her shop, Eleanor thought; she loves beautiful things and I would go with her to find them. We could go anywhere we pleased, to the edge of the world if we liked, and come back when we wanted to.”

        ―Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

[Caption: various images to convey an aesthetic. The set includes the chimney inside a fancy room in an old house; red flat shoes; two women in mid-twentieth century sharing a kiss; art supplies; the hand of a woman wearing a yellow sweater, wearing yellow nail polish; and the obscured stairs of an old house.]

[echos-scomplink]

Shirley: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the things you lost throughout your life

Luke: It would be nice to have my sense of purpose back. . .

Nell: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this

Y/N: My will to live! I haven't seen this in years

Steve: I knew I lost that potential somewhere

Theo: Mental stability, my old friend!

Shirley: Jesus, could you guys lighten up a little?