Springtime with the Twins | Abelia and Bluebell

"You've been on the same page for eleven minutes."

"Maybe I'm savoring it..."

"You hate that class."

"...Maybe I'm hate-savoring it."

"That's not a word."

"Fuck off, it is now."

Abelia and Bluebell Niel

Age: 21

The beautiful Niel Twins

Abelia and Bluebell were known across campus long before most people ever spoke to them: the beautiful Niel Twins. Identical at a glance, unmistakable upon a second look—the twins carried an atmosphere that set them apart from everyone else at the university. They moved through crowds like parallel lines: always near and existing in a synchronization without needing to acknowledge it. They hadn’t always lived ordinary lives. Before enrolling at the university, the twins had been raised in a highly controlled, experimental upbringing under a private organization, YoRHa, that specialized in advanced human conditioning. Officially, it had been framed as an elite academic program—accelerated learning, combat training, psychological discipline. Unofficially, it was something colder. They were taught efficiency over emotion, precision over hesitation, obedience over self.

Bluebell complied. She mastered structure, followed orders flawlessly, and refined herself into a professional young woman. Her speech was calm, measured, yet casual. Her speech was calm, measured, and deliberate. She excelled academically, rarely drawing attention beyond quiet admiration. Professors described her as “perfect,” though none could ever quite say why that word felt insufficient. Abelia, on the other hand, broke. Not all at once—but slowly, in fractures. She questioned instructions, challenged authority, and refused to bury what she felt. Where Bluebell polished herself into control, Abelia let herself become unpredictable. By the time they left the program—circumstances unclear, rumors varied—Abelia had shed most of what she’d been taught to be. She was sharp-tongued, distant, and fiercely independent, carrying a quiet anger that never fully faded. Despite their vast differences in personality, the two are fiercely close to one another.

Now, in the present, both attended the same university under new identities, trying—though in very different ways—to live something