#lukas gage

[twyllodrus]

Lukas Gage as The Cat King in DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (2024)

[orionsangel86]

YOOOO MASON IS ON BOARD!

@nualaofthefaerie tweeted this after we were geeking out yesterday about how much Lukas Gage reminded us of Desire and I joked that he was Desire's child.

Listen I am full on headcanoning this into reality. That Cat King was faaaar too much like Desire for me to ignore it. Huuuuge Desire vibes!

Clearly Desire themself agrees with us!

So what are we thinking? Talk to meeee about this! Who is the other parent? Lukas Gage is a child of the Endless with 9 lives and whole host of magical powers and probably a lot of parental issues twisting him up. Is Desire a good parent? Highly unlikely lol. But you gotta admit it makes for excellent fanfiction. :P

[ameganofmanyinterests]

Shout out to Cat King; gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[mezzinow]

I ship Edwin and The Cat King more than Edwin and Charles. And I'm not going to apologize for that.

LOOK AT THEM

[cull3nblaze]

[riitaleena]

Neil Gaiman is so GOOD writing cats!

[cupids-fiction]

is the cat king just universally called thomas

can he pls be called thomas i am not writing “the cat king came” in my smut

[weclassybouquetfun]

I see dead people and they are in the form of teenagers Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland killed in 1916 and 1989, respectively.

Yes, all eight episodes (too few episodes, I say. A good 13 eps would have been fitting) of DEAD BOY DETECTIVES is available on Netflix.

Series stars George Rexstrew (Edwin), Kassius Nelson (Crystal Palace), Yuyu Kitamura (Niko Sasaki) and Jayden Revri (Charles Rowland)

A bit about the series:

NO SPOILERS

Born out of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and created by Neil Gaiman with its characters being spun out of the Sandman universe, how divergent is the series from the comics?Not very. They have retained the trio's backstories, but there were story arcs they could not delve into because Netflix's SANDMAN needs to get there first. Other than that, things are twists on canon or new creations.

Of the characters themselves, Neil Gaiman has said Charles was "more or less him" as a boy and in crafting the series characters, the costumes lent a hand. With his buttoned-up attitude, the bespoked suits for Edwin Paine belies his closed off demeanor. Jayden Revri's Charles Rowland had a ska/rude boy looked that was of fashion when he was alive. This was a nod that Revri appreciated as he has explained in the past he's, "half Indian, a quarter Jamaican and a quarter English." Charles also always has red on him as a nod to comics!Charles' red sweater.

While the characters were first introduced in HBO Max's DOOM PATROL, once the plans for a series was announced, it was quickly let known that this incarnation is not in the same universe as DOOM PATROL's characters, despite DOOM PATROL's Ruth Connell reprising her role as Night Nurse in the Netflix series. This series is firmly in the Sandman universe with Kirby (formerly Kirby Howell-Baptiste, briefly reprising her role as Death in the first episode.

Should DEAD BOY DETECTIVES get a second series, Rexstrew and Lukas Gage (who plays Cat King)

have already spoken of their love of Mason Alexander Park's character Desire from the series, with Rexstrew saying he would love to see Edwin's reaction to Desire.

There's no malewife like him.

Other cast members include Briana Cucuo, sister of BIG BANG THEORY's Kaley Cucuo. Briana voices Barbara Gordon and a sundry of other characters on Max's HARLEY QUINN.

Much too hot to be doing voice-work.

Jenn Lyon (Claws), Joshua Colley (Love, Victor) and Max Jenkins and Caitlin Reilly cutting it up in a (literal) small role.

Jayden says he can't wait for fan fiction and edits of Charles and Edwin and says their ship name will likely be Chedin. Mans don't know what he's asking for!

[whiteoakoak]

The cat King is so fucking iconic

[aaronsinferno]

Edwin:☝🏻🤓

Queer Demons, twinkified Crows, petty trans-dimensional entities, freaky ass uncommon beings, and immortal lesbian witches:

[neil-gaiman]

Here's a moment from Dead Boy Detectives. The Cat King (Lukas Gage) is unimpressed that Edwin used magic on a cat...

April 25th on Netflix.

[twyllodrus]

I think I understand you better now. Ooh, do tell me all about me.

+ bonus:

[orionsangel86]

Now its in my brain it won't leave me alone. Lukas Gage, Cat King, excellor at making repressed dead boys face their homosexuality, is a child of Desire.

The very first thing I thought when he first appears on screen was DESIRE? The second thought was Desire... adjacent?

How funny would it be if the reason he is Like That is because he has a messed up relationship with his ellusive and twisted parent? Someone come talk to me about this!

[cull3nblaze]

Binding spell. One of my tricks. Now, I have a missing girl to find. So tell me about this witch.

Eh, fine. But using magic on a cat means trouble.

Hi.

[mndvx]

netflix 💀💀👁️🩷😻🔪😈🐍