Here's another kind of out-there theory for Nicole, but what if she was kind of immortal? Or had an element of luck or something on her side?
Hear me out. We all know that Nicole has seen and survived some shit, a good majority of which probably shouldn't have survived. Starting with the massacre, of course. Nicole doesn’t remember how she got down to the river, or why, but she did. Isn’t that incredibly lucky? That she, as a six year old kid, made it down to a river just in time to miss a demon rampaging through the festival and killing everyone? Just saying.
Chronologically, next would be her rock climbing accident with Shae, where they discover she’s deathly allergic to thiopental. I can only assume they found this out the hard way, and she just happened to survive.
Then we get to Purgatory, and she gets kidnapped, kicked, killed, and subsequently left alone in a freezing cold ditch on the side of the road by the Jack of Knives. And she’s resuscitated on site. Now. A quick Wikipedia search tells me that unless a person is resuscitated within three minutes after clinical death, they’ll likely have some permanent brain damage, possibly brain death. A study shows that in cold temperatures, it could be extended to up to ten minutes, but still. We know Nicole has no brain damage from this, so what’s the chance she gets found on the side of the road in a small town like Purgatory and resuscitated within ten minutes of her dying? It’s not very likely is all I’m saying.
Next, she just happens to be wearing a bulletproof vest when Willa shoots her. And Willa just happens to aim for the chest and not the head. I mean, I get she’s a cop and it’s standard procedure, of course, but also... It’s still kinda lucky.
2x03 with the strawman throwing her around like a ragdoll and her not even really getting injured, just bruised definitely deserves a mention.
The next time she almost dies, if I recall correctly, is 2x10, where Waverly acts totally uncharacteristic and doesn’t trust Wynonna to get the cure. Regardless of the fact that she was doing it for love and we all think that’s so sweet (if a little stupid), here’s another time that Nicole got so incredibly close to death without actually dying for good.
Then, I think it’s 3x02 (correct me if I’m wrong) when she’s going down to get Peacemaker and a demon cuts her climbing rope. And somehow, Wynonna with a dislocated shoulder and Waverly with a broken(?) leg are able to haul her up against the force of gravity on their own.
3x10 has the next near-death experience I believe. I mean, they don’t show how she, barely conscious and recovering from being possessed, makes it out of the burning, exploding house fully functional and okay. Not burned at all. We know that Doc, who had been perfectly okay before Maeve set the fire had to be dragged out by Charlie/Julian, but we didn’t see how Nicole got out. All we saw was when she was panicking over Charlie/Julian’s body and yelling at Doc and, I mean, she looked a bit more okay and less singed than Doc did, don’t y’all agree?
Of course, she gets stabbed in 3x12, and Doc just so happens to find her as she’s bleeding out on the ground. And Julian just so happens to be able and willing to save her. So, yeah. There’s another time death came for her and Nicole yeeted out of its range.
Don’t even get me started on season four guys. Jumping out of a moving train, falling down a VERY deep hole (we couldn’t even see the bottom!), almost getting eaten by mutant zombies and having to cause explosions to get out, fending off all sorts of monsters and demons for eighteen months (there had to have been some close calls there), and now, whatever’s going on with Margot and that jar of bees or whatever?
Our girl’s a survivor, guys. She is. And it’s starting to feel a bit supernatural to me at this point. I heard someone talking about how Samuel A. Haught was a cattle farmer back in Arizona around the time everything happened at the OK Corral, and they posed a question about a Haught heir. I just can’t help but wonder, you know... What if it’s got something to do with immortality or luck or something?
