basically I think that if your protagonist doesn’t want to fuck someone so bad it makes them look stupid, then there probably isn’t enough energy in your story. “Fuck someone” isn’t literal btw—they can want to uncover the secrets of their parent’s death, they can want to prove their worth, they can want a donut from one particular bakery—it can be anything so long as they want it so bad that they’ll make decisions that make any sane person go “are you a moron??”, with little to no forethought, or even tons of forethought and this is still the option they chose. Because they want to fuck that thing so bad.
Neil Gaiman doesn’t have anything to do with Dead Boy Detectives THE TV SERIES. He has confirmed this multiple times. He’s NOT a writer or director of the show. His name is ONLY attached from the comics he did write. He wrote 2 scenes to connect the series to Netflix’s Sandman.