#Charles hates being dead

[thenerdiestmanalive]

Time to spread my Charles and Edwin are Orpheus and Eurydice reincarnated agenda

Dream, please come get your son, he keeps going down to hell to save his partner

[technically-human]

Charles vs Charles

@i-am-as-normal-as-you-are has once again commissioned me for the Reverse Verse, and this is only part 1, so expect more comics soon!

[guardianspirits13]

Bouncing off all of the fanfics where the Dead Boys are brought back to life again for a period of time to suggest that their thoughts on it are the opposite of what you’d anticipate based on their perception of the living while they’re ghosts. Charles sorely misses living while a ghost, despite all the awful, awful things he was subjected to. Edwin, despite 70+ years in Hell, is perfectly content as a ghost and finds the living distasteful to a degree.

But, when they get hit by an “aliving” spell, that’s not how it goes down at all.

Edwin has not been in a human body for over a century- and even then only got sixteen years of it- so he forgets how much he was missing as a ghost. Actually being able to feel things- the warmth of human touch, the breeze through his hair, the texture of worn book pages. The smell of petrichor after rain, a warm cup of sweet tea. Even just sleeping and having the ability to give his overactive mind a break. He’s forgotten how many good things there were about being alive.

Charles, as expected, is thrilled to be alive again and his first few days on solid ground are a whirlwind, but his energy is short lived. He frequently sleeps over 12 hours a night, and can’t bring himself to get out from under the covers for another hour longer. His appetite fades quickly, and he finds that foods he’s been craving for 35 years just don’t taste the same. Initially he chalks it up to his mind and body readjusting to human life (despite Edwin having none of the same issues), and continues enjoying what he can. But eventually, it becomes clear that something is very very wrong. His right arm that he shattered at age 14 (and didn’t get properly treated for days) begins to ache again. Sudden touches are no longer a gentle spectral sensation, but an unexpected pressure that he shrinks away from. His body feels heavy, and his energy drains quickly if he has any to begin with.

It turns out that over three decades of repressed physical and emotional trauma took its toll on him, and he had naïvely forgotten-or perhaps willfully omitted- the struggle that was his life when he wasn’t out kissing girls and pretending like his father didn’t exist.

Edwin feels a sense of freedom in being human again, away from all the supernatural trauma he has endured, while for Charles it is more of a burden than he ever recalled it being.

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

[edwinisms]

it’s actually so wild to me that this fairly quirky YA type show gave both of its main characters deaths that can, in one way or another, solidly be considered hate crimes. they were both flat out murdered as a result of being A) gay and effeminate or B) brown (south asian, specifically) and you could argue whether or not those kids thought of it that way in the moment or whatever but the bottom line is that they would not have been in the situations that killed them if they weren’t of their respective minorities. like legitimately that is a ballsy choice for this kind of netflix show, let alone for the two Main Characters, and i respect it big time

[yuripira4e]

show runners already said they want to put desire as an antag in season 2 and I am. not ready. if they pull another taunting Edwin with what he wants but can’t have while also being humiliated with this want. It was a cruel private thing with the cat king but to do it in front of Charles would be so mortifying for Edwin

or vise verse for Charles god…

[every-moment-a-different-sound]

S1E5 The Case of the Two Dead Dragons

Dead Boy Detectives

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

one thing i really love about the DBD fandom and was relieved to see is that people don't villainise Crystal or Niko for being close to Charles and Edwin and claim that they're "in the way" of the Payneland ship

it's an all too common way female characters get treated in fandom, and i'm glad to see that while they both had affectionate relationships with one of the boys (briefly romantic in Crystal's case, platonic in Niko's), people are normal about them

especially Crystal, i really dreaded that some of the fandom would blame her for the piss-poor way Edwin initially treated her out of his jealousy over Charles liking her, but thankfully, i haven't seen that happen myself

[xxplastic-cubexx]

on the absolute highest of keys james mcavoy does pull off bald charles really well and i wish we got another movie with bald james mcavoy

[iswearimahuman]

I honestly love Crystal x Charles but I think her bully side is gonna be a huge wedge between them come season two. Like Charles hated bullies so much that he died because he was standing up for some kid. And crystal knows this, (maybe not everything but she knows his distaste for bullies). She’s already tried to run from them and while I think she’s learnt her lesson and isn’t gonna try that again. She’ll probably try and hide everything from Charles and he’ll know something’s up and it’ll probably just be a lot of miscommunication till they blow up at each other. that combined with the other problems they have will probably end up with them ending the relationship next season.

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[bbygirlverstappen]

vent vent vent

[shadowglens]

the progression of alma and john’s relationship over their lives is something that is so personal to me actually

[charles-snippy]

Romac updated

Gromov d*es high definition😎

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

Well I once had a lead bullet in my intestines leading to severe abdominal cramping and appendicitis, and also ovarian cysts that the cramping was pushing on, at the same time, where I eventually just started going into shock after walking to work at 3 am, but honestly I can't tell if I have had worse migraines or nerve pain... Indigestion is pretty up there, like that pain is just way disproportionate to the danger level. I'm not sure broken bones register all that much? I *think* nerve pain has to be the worst, uncertain. Having a rib out of place really sucks?

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[watch-out-it-bites]

agh.mmn I can't wait to be away from real life I am. Very bluh.