#charles is the “brawn”

[samsayswhatever]

This is still so funny to me

[fuusart]

THE BRAWN 🏏

[fan-a-tink]

Only just realised I am absolutely obsessed with Charles in the snake pit. A true hero if ever there was one, and he looks so freaking cool in literally every single shot! ✨

[sasakisniko]

I'm detecting.

@charles-rowland-week: Day 7 - Free Day

[not-the-living-ghost]

the sporty, brawn character being one of the more visibly emotional characters in the show means a lot to me, actually

[mirellapryce]

In an imaginary season 2, please imagine Charles doing something very impressive/cool looking/badass. Then pan to Edwin and Crystal both being visibly attracted to him.

[deadtwinksdetectiveagency]

@dbdpromptober day 5: Magic! AU suggested by @jube514 where the lads' roles are swapped—Charles-the-brains as spellcaster, using quick thinking to get out of trouble, and Edwin-the-brawn who fought his way out of Hell.

[royale1803]

Dead boy detective - The Brawn - Charles Rowland

Go watch that show it's awesome

[sthilarions]

Hmm. Werewolf!Ghost!Edwin, I think

Getting captured and Charles finding him, whining so quietly Charles can barely hear, smoke rising from his flesh, muzzled, in an iron cage with silver wire wrapped around the bars, and when he uses a cloth to tear off the iron-silver muzzle he finds it has burned through Edwin’s lips, shining fangs exposed to the air.

Charles gets hit with a curse from behind as Edwin is rising onto shaky legs and when he comes to from the fog they spelled him into, there is a paw on his chest and a soft damp nose snuffling against his cheek, and - and it’s damp with blood, there’s blood all across Edwin’s soft muzzle and dripping through the deep fur on his chest and splashed against the silver of his sides, and Charles almost asks “What did you do, Edwin?” before realizing he doesn’t care, so long as the blood is red, so long as the blood isn’t the greenish-black of Edwin’s ectoplasm. So long as the blood is someone else’s. He doesn’t care.

[hey-there-22]

CHARLES DESERVES MORE RECOGNITION FOR THIS

I mean, just look at how he grabs things out of the bag of tricks:

So yeah, when Edwin says “Once again, it is the large, blue medical volume“ I´m not surprised Charles couldn't give him the book he is referring to. They must have many medical books and telling him the color isn't gonna help ´cause he isn't used to identifying books by their color because he can't look at them when he is taking them out of the bag of tricks. So he just offers Edwin books he thinks may be useful in the situation (he shows him the correct one btw) even if they don´t match the color description.

If Edwin had given him the title or a better description of the book he was looking for, I'm sure he would have found it in no time. Charles knows their books. He has to. He's the one handing them to Edwin in the middle of stressful and dangerous situations. Maybe he hasn't read them, but he knows in what situations Edwin has asked for them before, so he knows what they are all used for.

Need more proof? No problem, that's what episode 6 is for. Bit of context; they are in the forest looking for Gladys and they see the deer being consumed by the spore colony. Immediately after, Charles goes to the office to look for a specific book without Edwin telling him which one, but he can't find it so Edwin goes through the mirror, points and describes the book and Chales takes it. Charles knows they have a book about it, he just doesn't know where it is, because (again) he cannot identify it by just looking at it.

You could say Charles just knows this specific book because they have used it before to solve the exact same problem they are facing in that episode, but… When the antidote doesn't work, he goes back to the office to take yet another book (again, the right one) and Edwin looks surprised, not identifying what book it is and having to look at the cover to see the title.

Charles knows his stuff, he is a great detective and he deserves the credit.

[mountainsoftreatos]

Love that it's established that Charles is skilled at lockpicking so when they find the little locked box in Maren's room in the Two Dead Dragons episode, Edwin asks "Can you unlock it?" And Charles says "Way ahead of you, mate."

And then just smashes it against a trunk.

[antichrists-plus1]

Wanted to do a little t4t payneland doodle for pride month, so have Edwin doing Charles's t shot

[jevilowo]

Not sure if ive already done this. But.

Predictions for COMIC 7

CHARLES DARLING WILL BE THE FINAL ENEMY besides Helen. Trust me on this one I swear they wouldn't have brought him in if they didn't have plans. ALSO the mother of the Mann triplets (Bette Mann neé Darling) was RELATED TO HIM HE'S RELEVANT. I'm so convinced he's the one Helen made a deal with and he's going to make a grab for Mann Co.

We'll get to see Bilious Hale in a flashback and find out what happened to him. Bilious Hale, oh guy who punched coal out of mines and sat on John Wilkes Booth while other people shot at him, my beloved. I hope they don't reveal he was a bad father or anything.

A woman is nice to Ms Pauling for once and she gets a smooch. She deserves it. Hopefully it won't be a smooch from Helen (DAMN YOU 4CHAN LEAKS), the old lady's had her hired since Pauling was in her mid teens.

WE GET HORSEMANN LORE! this is just wishful thinking on my part the Horsemann makes me insane. Shout out to Silas Mann fr. If he doesn't show up, I hope they at least acknowledge or reference him. I swear they had plans for him back in 2010. Which they then immediately abandoned in favour of developing Mann vs Machine.

Spydad reveal. Pretty much a given. No need to elaborate. I hope Scout’s mother shows up I love her.

Demo gets something important to do! He's only been there for comedic bits so far really, so I think he deserves some Serious Plot Stuff.

Build up to and cop out on Pyro face reveal. The whole thing of Pyro's character is the mystery, so I think the funniest way to go about a face reveal would be for us to only see the team's reactions and have them all react very differently e.g. Scout vomits, Demo gives them the thumbs up, Spy starts taking horrified notes, Engie looks vaguely lovestruck, Saxton Hale expresses annoyance that they aren't actually *insert obsucure species of something here* like he thought.

CONAGHER LORE!! By which I mean Engie shows up and has a chat with Fred about Radigan and immortality and whatnot. Fred has to have been spared from the bloodshed for a reason, right?

Classic Medic shows up! Or they confirm he is dead. Or they confirm he is Pyro which is a funny theory I read once but sincerely doubt. Maybe they'll pull a Bea and have him have been a girl the whole time.

I have a crackpot theory that Helen/Elizabeth is actually Bette Mann (again, mother of the Mann triplets), and while it's unlikely to be true, it would genuinely be so funny if I'm right so WATCH THIS SPACE. My main reasoning is Helen started her Australium search the year the triplets were born, aka the year Bette DIED, and also Bette is a nickname for Elizabeth. Also also it adds to my theory that she will team up with Charles Darling, who is, as I've already said, related to Bette.

Olivia gets to do something important also. Saying this bc she's mostly been a prop so far. I'm manifesting a sideplot where she summons the Horsemann to beat up Charles Darling for her.

Merasmus returns! Last we saw he was arrested, but Jay Pinkerton really likes his Soldier/Merasmus interactions so chances of him coming back are high.

There will be a joke like "geez it feels like it's been seven years since we beat grey mann" and a panel where everyone just lets that process before going back to plot stuff

Chances are, a new comic after so many years means there will be new writers, and the fandom has changed quite a bit since the last one. There will be SUBLIMINAL SPEEDING BULLET SHIPPING. There will be MORE FOCUS THAN IS REALLY NECESSARY on Scout. SOMEONE WILL THEY/THEM PYRO which sounds great actually you know what I forgot where I was going with this godspeed.

ZHANNASOLDIER WEDDING FINALE!!!

[love44lew]

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[agentearthling]

the (for lack of a better word) infantilization of Edwin is wild to me seeing as how he's practically like. canonically one of the strongest characters in the show

[prismaticxchromatics]

Bright Star (2009) Director: Jane Campion

"Fanny Brawne walked the Heath for many years, often far into the night. She never forgot John Keats or removed his ring. / Keats died at twenty five, believing himself a failure. Today he is recognised as one of the greatest of the Romantic Poets."