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I absolutely adore that Niko Sasaki's contribution to the Dead Boy Detective Agency isn't any kind of special powers she could've gotten from being possessed by parasitic little gods, but rather it's just her— with her innate curiosity and kindness, her love of love, and the earnestness and sincerity in which she says or does something.... ooooh I love her so much my best girl !!!!

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Charles Rowland voice: yeah this is my girlfriend, Crystal and her girlfriend, Niko. And this is my best mate-slash-boyfriend-slash-queer platonic partner, Edwin. And these are his two boyfriends, Monty the former crow and the King of Cats.

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I love how all of the mortal characters in Dead Boy Detectives can see ghosts by the end of the season solely because everyone keeps going through near death experience. Anyway shoutout to Jenny the Butcher, my fav, the queen, who didn’t ask for any of it but dealt with all of it.

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I feel like Dead Boy Detectives handles Crystal with such kindness. She has the ability to be cruel and... Just a terrible person. She also has a silver tongue and knows her aunties and grammies, she will suffer to save her friends in an instant, and she is better than who she was. She is the kind of person who would have brought about the death of the boys but she is working and doing better. I adore her. She spits fire and warms all around her

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i think what really got me in the confession scene between the boys is charles telling edwin that what he’s feeling towards edwin isn’t final, that there’s a chance he’ll fall in love with edwin too and that makes me crazy and i just- *explodes into confetti*

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me watching anything by Neil Gaiman:

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can we talk about how crystal's ancestors probably were aware of the girl she used to be but still decided to help her in the long run, how loving and kind they were to crystal and how helpful they were in her journey to her prior self. and also how badass they are in general. like.

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just monty looking effortlessly ⋆⭒˚.⋆ pretty ๋࣭ ⭑⚝

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Honestly one of the things I like about Edwin’s character development and accepting he likes guys is that everyone else is so normal about it. He’s the only one going But. That’s Not Allowed? And Niko the others are like sure it is! They take Monty liking him as something normal and obvious. Being surrounded by people who take that kind of thing as a given is such a nice (and bizarre) feeling when you’re not used to it

And of course when he tells Charles and there’s no recoil no betrayal just “ok I can’t say I feel the same way but you ARE my best friend and I’m not going anywhere.” The confession didn’t make anything weird. They have as much time as they want to figure this out. I love them so much

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he's just a little kitty cat your honor, just a little stray alleycat, i can fix him, i just need a few cans of wet food and a few days to set them closer and closer to me until i can give him a little pat, your honor

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As someone who was absolutely smitten with their best friend 20+ years ago, and almost lost the most important relationship of their life because of not understanding the difference between platonic and romantic love (we were apart for more than 10 years, and only got back in our lives after maturing and learning and now are emotionally close again)…

Having Edwin and Charles exploring that sort of "I can love you enough to go to Hell and back for you and it doesn't have to be romantic" is ESSENTIAL. Knowing that love can run this deep and last this long without it being romantic, and modeling how platonic love is a force that can have you ditching afterlife and going to Hell for someone and willing to spend eternity with them without harbouring romantic attraction is so important to me 💜💜💜

It has been a lesson I've been learning for the best part of the last 15 years, really, and it did change my life for the best.

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actually can we acknowledge “if you punish yourself, everywhere becomes hell” because GOD DAMN EDWIN that is. a very good line.

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Anyways Charles having to drag Edwin away from Niko's corpse in episode 8 so they avoid Death was a perfect acting choice. Holy shit.

The way Edwin is noticeable subdued for the rest of the finale; most clearly just in the aftermath at Jenny's with Crystal and Charles, but even to the end already back in London you can notice the difference to before. He's also been to hell and back and been tortured by Esther so like. What an ending to their visit to USA.

Niko truly was his friend, and died trying to free him from Esther and protecting Crystal when she was only a human without even psychic powers. So I love we both hear him when she's stabbed and that it has such an effect in him he doesn't seem to be able to leave her. Just. Perfect choices.

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A crow and a cat like a ghost who likes a ghost who likes a person who can talk to ghosts.

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oh AND my favourite thing about the show is that Edwin and Charles spent a whole ass 30 years being best friends without ever analyzing their trauma (Charles) or their feelings (Edwin)

icons, the both of them

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You really gave up a potentially tranquil eternity for your friend?

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES 1.07

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Dead Boy Detectives has everything:

Co Dependent queer platonic tough to define Best Freinds who would and have gone to hell for each other. they have an office with a cupboard full of board games, and a long history of Noodle Incident cases of '04, and also a bunch of maneuvers with code names. They are also ghosts who solve mysteries for other ghosts.

One is a sassy well read diva in a stupid little bowtie. he keeps meticulous notes, and went to hell on a technicality. he has no rizz and has a sexual awakening at the hands (paws?) of a supernatural Cat King

the other is a cheerful happy bruiser, the brawn with a pocket demension only he can navigate in his backpack, a magic cricket bat, and wells of anger deep down

they team up with a cool psychic (whos also a pretty tree) dealing with her asshole abusive boyfriend who was literally a demon while also trying to restore her memories (she also has a hilarious hate off off with the nerdy one)

then they add a sweet shut in who isn't very brave but is very inquisitive and has excellent reading comprehension and is actually the most brave

and their landlady is a hot goth Sapphic butcher who is done with their shit (but not really)

and the main antagonist is a cunt serving witch with an iron cane chewing up the scenery, just camp queen obsessed with Beauty and Revenge as she should be

she turns her crow familiar into an astrology loving twink to honeypot the nerdy one but the crow catches feelings whoops

the cat king who deserves his own mention again. he's here to seduce a stuffy British detective/tease, cause problems on purpose, reluctantly help solve those problems and mostly slut it up.

a bureaucrat learns to VERY reluctantly embrace the beautiful power of friendship after being swallowed by a fish

its set in a gorgeous seaside town with a light house! and a malt shop!

because this is all A Scooby Doo homage!

It's an episodic Case Of The Episode format! with strong serialized elements!

and as if that wasn't enough there's even Death of The Endless.

what more could any person possibly want in a show.

oh and there's a lot of really interesting themes around internalized homophpbia, abusive relationships and trauma and toxic anger and learning to love and trust and help other people again in spite of and because of the bad parts.