#Dbda

[alexxuun]

I hope they solve my case when I die.

[mellxncollie]

Dead Boy Detectives characters + live, laugh, love variants

+ bonus:

[technically-human]

What if I stayed here for a bit with you, instead?

[unicorngunter]

I want CK in s2 hanging around at Dead Boy Detectives office but contributing nothing to the case and just chilling in his cat form

[hannaloony]

Everybody’s alive AU, where Crystal is a friend of Charles and Niko is a friend of Edwin

[moresandmanstuff]

[a-jasminator]

A shapeshifting incubus takes on Edwin's likeness.

Companion piece for my fic Made You Look! Listen I just really want to see George Rexstrew play a villain okay

Bonus Charles:

[shamelessly-obsessed]

Some extremely self indulgent payneland doodles

Edwin reading Maurice is VERY IMPORTANT TO ME

Very personal fr

… quite literally my favourite book ever

I like to think Charles found it for him

(The cover I drew is based on one of the copies I own from 1971)

I mean come on they work so well as Kirk and Spock 😭🙏

[rubylaufeyson]

I know episode 7 is already sad enough but…

When Charles asks Edwin why he doesn’t fall through the floor and Edwin says he won’t waste Charles time by listing them.

It makes me think Edwin had probably been told he’s boring people when he was alive for talking about things he’s interested in.

I wonder how long it took for him to realise he could ramble on for hours and Charles would listen intently to every word.

[asidian]

One extremely cool costuming detail that I absolutely missed my first couple of watch-throughs is that:

When the Cat King moves on to his next life, he's a different kind of cat, and his entire aesthetic when he's in human form changes to match.

The first time we see him, he's this fluffy orange cat, and his human form costume and styling reflects the same look.

His hair is always fluffy and once is dyed lighter. His clothing is flamboyant and eye-catching, with brighter spots in cream, white, or brown.

After he loses one of his lives, he is reborn as a sleek black cat.

Every time he appears after this, he is in all black, with a sleek, close-fitting silhouette to his outfits. His hair is always dark, and always slicked back.

The amount of attention to detail that went into this show is seriously next level.

[nix-nihili]

thinking about The Agency. Edwin and Charles' Agency. their office, their storage, their own place, their home. because that's what it is, isn't it? their home. a collective of themselves packed into one (presumably) rented office space. and it might have started off as an office space, a place to take their cases, have a modicum of professionalism, but it has clearly evolved into something more.

because there are trinkets and knick-knacks littering every surface; memories from cases and three decades of friendship. there's a closet full of board games and shelves full of books and a caseboard full of slips.

this is their safe space. the space where they strip their layers and lounge around. the space where they return to. a space which they could navigate with their eyes closed.

they may have gone their whole lives as humans without a space to call home, find comfort in, feel loved, but The Agency is all of that for them as ghosts. only after death do they find a place to properly live.

(live together, to be exact. because without each other, The Agency is simply an office space and nothing more.)

[alexxuun]

Every one adores you, at least I do.

[mellxncollie]

Charles Rowland & Edwin Payne | Dead Boy Detectives 1.07

[pandorem]

Listen I love a ditzy/quirky ‘airhead’ with a heart of gold character as much as the next girl but I appreciate so so much that that isn’t all there is to Niko. She’s well read and has excellent reading comprehension skills. She’s a recovering shut in. She thinks she’s a coward for being scared and hesitant after almost dying. She’s naive about love. An air of sadness runs through her. Her grief over her father and subsequent distance (both physical and emotional) from her mother is one of her major character through-lines, and it’s given the thought and time it deserves. Her strengths are quiet strengths, her kindness and compassion as well as her reading comprehension skills (another form of understanding) and those skills are never dismissed by the narrative. She saves the boys with the night nurse and is saved by Tragic Mick’s gift because of her kindness.

Basically yes she is adorable and the source of some iconic lines, but the show never reduces her from the complex character she is for the sake of a silly ditzy girl moment when it wouldn’t fit her character. It always seems to remember her as the full person she is.

[unicorngunter]

How long do you think it will take Niko to starts dressing Cat King in his cat form in cute little suits?

[many-gay-magpies]

i love how dead boy detectives presents such a diverse mix of the campiest, most over-the-top tv characters of all time, and the best representation of actual real-life human beings i think i have ever seen on television