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i've made this post before but i can't get over the way DBDA shows that charles and edwin feel exactly the same about each other. it's demonstrated in everything they do.

it's the way they echo each other's feelings about their relationship, beat for beat, through the whole first season. the same promises to never be apart, the same jealousy over the other's new date, the same opinion that their other half is "the best person they know."

they both keep serious secrets from each other, offer themselves genuinely as a caring ear, and eventually confess - though not the whole truth. they both bring the same lantern when the other is lost and alone, a comfort to each other. they tell strangers that first and foremost, before they are partners, they are best friends.

"you, edwin payne, are my best mate." / "you, charles rowland, are the best person i know." not just the same words, but both of them soothing their best friend's deepest fear. edwin, that he will be abandoned - charles, that he isn't good enough.

and even without all that, they're mirrors of each other in all sorts of clever ways. the way they move in sync and borrow each other's phrases, and the way they exchange glances that communicate their thoughts without words.

they have felt the same the entire time. i think now that edwin has realized he's in love, it won't take long for charles to realize he feels the same in that, too.

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He so squishy 🫶

✨Art by me✨

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It’s their day off

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@crystal-week day one: past

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Jayden Revri (as Usual) 💛

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So, everyone's seen the theory that the dolls in the Doll House are Edwin's old bodies, right? But if you want to break your heart a little more, take a look at the doll placement.

They line the corridors, but there are noticeably more of them in two particular spots.

First up: by the exit door.

This one makes a lot of sense. In disasters, people in a panic find it hard to get through doorways, especially inward-pulling doors, in a rush. It's a dangerous chokepoint for people who are panicking, which Edwin definitely would have been, being chased.

Add that to the fact that there isn't an actual door here. This is a hole in the wall; who's to say if it was even open when Edwin first found it? He might have had to break his way through, initially, which takes time, and time means getting caught.

But that leads us to the second spot, which isn't so obvious.

It's this spot by the window.

There's no cover here. There's nowhere to hide, to make it appealing for a boy seeking safety. There's no door or anything else to slow Edwin down. So why did he die here so often?

If the window was breakable, Edwin would have figured that out early on, so it wasn't that. But he kept coming back here anyway, over and over.

There's only one thing that makes this spot unique.

It has more light than anywhere else in the Doll House.

I propose that he died here, again and again, over seventy long years, doing exactly what he's doing when Charles finds him: seeking what comfort he can in whatever little light is available to him in the depths of hell.

And then Charles comes to get him, and he brings a lantern.

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Hey, we saw you across the bar and we hate your vibe. We’re also gonna keep looking at you because we’re ghosts and you can’t see us.

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Little dudes from my sketchbook

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Love yall

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES PROMPTOBER DAY 8 — HELL

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via @/_weloveyou__ on tiktok

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hey if you're trans in the us i love you. hey if you're queer in the us i love you. hey if you're a person of color in the us i love you. hey if you're a woman in the us i love you. hey if you're disabled in the us i love you. i love you i love you i love you

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Tapping the sign.

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happy gay christmas!! 🎃🎃🎃 have a surprise scribble!

(ko-fi)

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jocks require a certain amount of fresh air and exercise each day or they shrivel up like prunes, but he also needs his emotional support edwin

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES PROMPTOBER DAY 27 — SNOW