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Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

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DBD True Crime AU

Charles and Edwin's bodys are burried together.

Someone is investigating Charles' death, eventually it gets enough steam that they get permission to escivate his grave... except there's two bodys there.

No DNA match, but its way older than Charles' body, from around the time another boy disappeared... so they track down the Payne family and see if they can match the DNA.

Of course, it does.

This, of course, spurrs a massive conspiracy that the school snuck the other boys remains in Charles's casket to cover up Edwin's death.

The Payne family pays for a proper burial for Edwin, but Charles, liking that he and his best mate have been together forever literally, moves the body back, much to everyone's confusion and shock.

Que a series of more bizarre ways people try to keep Edwin's bones in place, and the boys (to Niko's amusement , and Crystal's headache) keep moving them back. Sometimes they lay the bones next to eachother, sometimes they're high fiving. Charles likes wrapping his arm around Edwin's shoulder.

On one memorable occasion, Charles was so annoyed they kept being separated, he jumbled their bones around.

Now the bones are in the British museum on display with a few words about each of the boys, (there's an excerpt from one of Edwin's journals from when he was alive. There's a quote from one of the boys who attacked Charles about what a good mate he was.)

Charles and Edwin go and visit the bones sometimes, rearranging them again and again. They eventually leave the bones behind after having them hold hands.

(Edwin defacing museum property bc 'that is embarrassing, Charles. I hardly thought anyone would ever read that.' He also obviously crosses out what Charles's "friend" had to say.)

(There's one podcaster who is convinced the two met time travel style and fell in love, and they can't even be separated in death. She's practically laughed off her show, but Niko loves the show.)

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Btw Netflix this is who you're being mean to

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It’s interesting finally starting a show that’s been cancelled because I often gauge how much I liked it by how pissed off I am that’s it’s been cancelled

In this case it’s dead boy detectives and oh. I am so mad. This show is literally built for longevity. You would never run out of cases for the boys to solve. There is so much lore to pull big bads from. And the characters are so good and they carry the show so well. You had literal gold served to you on a platter and you cancel it???

Anyway. I loved the show very much and I am incredibly bitter. Netflix it is on site

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Dead Boy Office layout and references. Thought this might be helpful for drawing and writing reference.

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES + "CAME BACK WRONG"

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There's a universe where dbda s1 has like 20 episodes and in that universe there's an entire episode of Edwin trying to reach for something Just outside the border of Port Townsend using increasingly desperate and elaborate methods. Charles picks up the thing and hands it to him in the last like four seconds

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we need to talk about the Blue Light.

how it represents a safe passage forward from Death, and more broadly it symbolises the idea of a personal, individual to each person Heaven;

how the person usually isn't as directly lit as Edwin here, but from a side?

and how, when Charles looks at Edwin with the slightest smile and utter conviction in his eyes, Edwin is completely bathed in blue?

and. how Edwin, dead on a technical error, never got to see where his soul really belonged when it comes to his afterlife— and yet it's doubtless, from this shot alone, what his original destination would be.

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@williamvapespeare suggested an equivalent "bonk" comic for when charles is sad so here it is!! :)

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I wonder at what point did the boys' friendship turn into devotion?

At what point did they become so comfortable and open with expressing that their main purpose is saying together and how they can't be separated at any cost

Because it started off with Charles saying "Yeah, I'll follow you around because I don't want to face my actual afterlife," so when did it become "I won't ever leave you, even if Death herself tries to tear us apart"

Even though all they had was each other since the very beginning, it's still a very vulnerable feeling to let another person know you will do anything to stay with them

At what point did "we are both running, so why not stay together" turn to "we must keep running so we can stay together"

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

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES | THE CASE OF THE VERY LONG STAIRWAY

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1. Charles kept that lantern for over 30 years!

2. Charles then used that same lantern that Edwin had when they met, to find Edwin in hell.

3. If the subtext here doesn’t say ‘I’m carrying a torch for you’ I don’t know what does! 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Steve Rogers did, in fact, realize that something was off when he saw the outline of the woman’s odd bra (a push-up bra, he would later learn), but being an officer and a gentleman, he said that it was the game that gave the future away.

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gotta hand it to charles for being so insane that edwin didn't even think that he could possibly be a hallucination or another hell trick, he was immediately like "of course, charles would come to hell for me. he's such an idiot. this is entirely in character."

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The Endless have all assembled

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a) charles and edwin’s safe place is their office:

b) this scene was so domestic. charles is wearing his white tank top. edwin is wearing a shirt with the sleeves rolled up and the buttons on his top collar unbuttoned. he’s sitting on the couch in a comfortable pose.

c) but we don’t see anything like this when the boys are in port townsend. they "hide" behind their clothes almost all the time cause this is a new “place” for them which is not safe to be in

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saw on twt that ppl are refusing to watch dbd for fear that it might get cancelled by netflix, and they don’t want to get ‘attached’

fyi — if you don’t watch it then it’s more likely to get canceled due to the lack of viewership.

so please, for the love of hades — Watch. It. Now.