#deadboydetectives

[fairandfatalasfair]

#Boy has been holding it together for 13+ hours with toxic positivity alone while these two fight (via @mirellapryce)

Dead Boy Detectives

S1E1 | The Case of Crystal Palace

For the day two "travelling somewhere new" prompt for the @dbda-anniversary

[fairandfatalasfair]

I've seen a lot of thoughts about how Edwin arrived at the worst moment of Charles' life and offered him uncomplicated kindness without asking anything in return. How he promised not to hurt him and proved his word was good. How he found him huddled in an attic, alone and painfully cold and stripped of all his usual charm and strength and ability to prove his worth, and offered him light and warmth and friendship just because. How of course Charles latched onto this boy who made his death a warm memory.

But Edwin's perspective on that meeting is just as powerful. It's not clear how much of the attack he saw, but he knows enough to say he can simply extinguish the lantern if the other boys come up. And the first thing we see him and Charles talking about is Charles' reasons for intervening - that it 'just didn't seem right to let that kid get beat on because he's from Pakistan.' He knows Charles is dying. And he knows it happened because he wouldn't stand by and let someone else be hurt.

Edwin was unpopular and isolated and visibly different and was murdered for it by a gang of boys who thought tormenting him was a good laugh. And the first thing he learns about Charles is that Charles doesn't let that happen on his watch.

How long has it been since someone protected Edwin like that? Have they ever? Certainly he had no protection in that cellar in 1916. Nor in Hell either.

And then Charles dies and Edwin tells him to move on, that he can't stick around with Edwin just because he feels like it. And Charles looks down at his corpse, at the proof that doing what he felt was right got him killed, and says that's how he lived his life and he's not going to change now. That he knows what being a hero cost him and he'd do it again.

How do you not fall in love with that?

[adskayapanda]

THEY FUCKING CANCELLED KAOS A MONTH AFTER RELEASE. WHAT THE FUCK?? DBDA CANCELLED AFTER FOUR MONTHS, KAOS A MONTH!!! These bastards don't give the show a chance. Why the fuck buy a show if you're going to cancel it RIGHT AWAY and not give it a chance to grow and gain an audience and not even a fucking chance for the show to go to another streaming service. Assholes. I'm so fucking angry

[ur-localkiwi]

tosses a wip into the void

[jinchaeji]

Do you think that Edwin does some random shit and the agency thinks it's 1900's thing but in reality it's just Edwin being a sassy, fruity diva?

[lilartifex]

Saw a post by @khorazir and couldn't resist XD

I'd like to imagine the reason Crystal is wearing a Christmas hat is because Charles made her.

Crystal: I'm not wearing that thing, Charles. Charles: Aw, c'mon, one of us has to, and Edwin and I are ghosts, so most of the people we pass won't see it. But if you wear it, then everyone gets a little bit of Christmas cheer from the Dead Boy Detectives! Crystal: I'm NOT wearing - Crystal, three seconds later:

[soulfulsam42]

[gabriele2009]

[crispydonutcheesecake]

The amount of payneland fics I’ve read where they are “just mates” but for some reason they just choose to put their beds together or sleep in the same bed and they’re like “yeah it’s just best friends activities”.

I mean I’m not complaining, I totally dig it but it’s so funny how they just have no reason to be doing all that

[ticktockheartstop]

Something something everyone in Charles’s life turned on him at some point so he was always scared, deep down, that Edwin was going to turn on him one day even though they only really have each other in this afterlife. But after Edwin’s confession he knows, for the first time ever, that there’s one person who will never, ever turn on him. And that’s why nothing changed in their relationship, and yet everything changed

[fianch]

edwins birthday is january 18th, 1901! birthplace london

he's a year younger than charles like the comics

he's a capricorn sun, virgo rising, and leo moon!

(analysis done with his birth chart from episode three)

he would be 15 at his time of death

assuming from the connections i made of it being set in 2024 rather than 2023 this does line up (thank you commenters, but no thank you i do apologize)

unfortunately im not sure where to place his school years

[quintiselfcostume]

Just checked Netflix and Dead Boy Detectives is closer to the top of the 'Everyone's Watching' section!!!!!!

[fairandfatalasfair]

Feral about the way the dead boys admire each other, how they both see the other as the standard to aspire to, the example of who they want to be. The way they both say the other is the best person they know. The way they look to each other to know if they're doing the right thing. The way Charles hangs his self-concept on Edwin's approval of his actions, the way Edwin bends his routines and expectations into knots because Charles asked it of him, the way Charles delights in Edwin's bitchy commentary and ruthless negotiation, the way Edwin reins himself in when Charles reminds him about his bedside manner. The way Charles grins when he meets Edwin's eyes, the way Edwin softens and smiles whenever Charles reminds him that he's important to him. They're so good for each other.

[adskayapanda]

My life the last 5 months be like:

[ur-localkiwi]

this art is pretty old, but still one of my favs I did last year! thought tumblr might like to see it

[toguchindraws]

Wish I knew what you were looking for

Might have known what you would find