#Niko niko run

[technically-human]

Hey, don't cry. Ghost yuri, okay?

(Now that you know the girls, they need to meet the boys!)

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

DBD soulmate AU where sum ppl have not one, but TWO soulmates (one platonic, one romantic), Edwin and Charles assume they’re each others platonic soulmate, then Charles meets Crystal and they assume they’re romantic soulmates, but THEN Edwin meets Niko and she doesn’t like boys like that and Edwin doesn’t like girls like that (apparently???) And oh. OH-

[akascow]

i love the theory that death is just letting the boys run around as ghosts and just doesnt care (or that shes thankful to them for helping lost souls so she just doesnt take them)

because if you think about it for too long it starts to actually make sense ?

in a way of like, shes an endless, so basically omnipotent theres really no way she could be outrun by these boys, and she shows up when/where death is present, be it a body or a ghost, so theres definitely like some force that draws her to them

anyway people have already said it on here but i'd love a moment in s2 where she shows up before the boys can run and doesnt take them and shes just like thanks for making my job easier boys n then vanishes and the boys are just like wait what

i think its a bit funnier in the comics tho because she actually did come to collect charles but the whole hell thing was happening so she was super busy and charles refused to go without edwin (aw) and she was just like fine whatever youre not causing any trouble rn so u can stay but i'll be back ig

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

love that within the first two minutes of meeting Monty, Niko immediately infodumped about how she nearly died the day before and then also doxxed herself and her friends to him

[heyholmesletsgo]

From @unicorngunter's delightful Niko the evil cupid of doom

Run

[fruttymoment]

Niko with löng tail content ‼️‼️‼️

[ponuchuu]

lovestruck gaze....

[uselessalexis165]

some examples of mine

[many-gay-magpies]

god what really gets me about dead boy detectives and what i think i love so much about the show and the relationships in it is that like. the romantic and sexual relationships aren't portrayed as being more unique or important than the platonic relationships. they're all just RELATIONSHIPS.

charles and crystal's attraction to each other and eventual hookup isn't this big end-all be-all relationship that shatter charles and edwin's friendship and draws charles' attention away from edwin; it's just a THING that happens. they're just two people that care about each other and happen to also be attracted to each other, and a hook-up happens, then they decide that neither of them are in the right place for it and it's nothing awful. crystal kisses charles, but it isn't some big spectacle of her declaring her love for him; it's just her saying goodbye and that she cares about him, like her hugs with niko and jenny and her handshake with edwin.

edwin realizes he loves charles romantically and tells him, and charles says he doesn't really love edwin romantically BACK, but it's okay, because they still love each other so much in so many other ways that this one tiny difference could never change them—and it doesn't!! they're still just as close, still care for each other just as much, still SHOW that care for each other just as much. their relationship didn't completely end because edwin loved charles in a way charles couldn't reciprocate, but at the same time it isn't "solved" by edwin getting over it, because there's nothing TO solve. it's just another type of love, added to everything that already exists between them. and they have LITERALLY FOREVER to figure out what it means.

the relationships between edwin & niko, crystal & niko, and crystal & edwin aren't given any less weight for being solely platonic, just as charles & crystal's relationship and edwin's feelings for charles aren't given (that much) MORE weight for being romantic. crystal and charles' conflict in the closet is about EDWIN, about how they're BOTH his friend and BOTH want to get him back; it has very little to do with the feelings between THEM, romantic or otherwise. similarly, the weight of charles' and edwin's relationship isn't diminished in the LEAST by charles not reciprocating the romantic side of his feelings (or SAYING he doesn't reciprocate, at least—we can all argue about the legitimacy of that in the notes).

i'm sure there are more examples than this, as well as probably some examples that CONTRADICT this, but like... by and large, it feels like dead boy detectives is a show where all the relationships are given equal weight regardless of platonic, sexual, romantic, or familial status, and as someone on both the asexual and aromantic spectrums who has struggled time and time again with shows casting out the importance of all other relationships in favor of prioritizing romance, that is INCREDIBLY refreshing to see.

[opalescentidiot]

[forbeswho]

if dbd gets renewed, I want an ep where Edwin has to go somewhere else alone and Niko, Crystal and Charles are left alone solving the case, they fuck things up and Niko calls Edwin with the vibe "Mom we fucked up, we need a responsible adult."

[madmaxified]

I think kissing and gay sex could have saved them both

[twilight-zoned-out]

Edwin Payne is a dweeb who gives terrible weak comebacks, who can be unnecessarily petty, or overly smug, who is inordinately pleased with himself when wearing detective gear and using scientific gear, the thought never crossing his mind that he might not look as cool as he thinks he does, who carries a continual and utter absolute delight at acting like the characters he loved to read about, who was enthralled by his magazine detective and adventure stories and who wears a similar smile when he sits on the bed watching Scooby Doo with Niko, 'these detectives are terribly clever,' whose board game collection is mostly variations of Clue, who requires payment (because any good detective is worth some kind of payment) but whose idea of payment is whatever interesting object the client offers to add to his collection, who has encyclopedic intelligence he clearly dedicated hours to learning, who has a particular way of acting and speaking like everything is of vital importance, because to him, it is.

[artsubject13]

WIP hello yes it's me posting arkos in 2023 what of it

[paintedwingz]

something something, their lantern being left in hell symbolising that this is the last time either of them will be left in the dark with no hope of making it out. something something maybe this symbolises the end of the pain and suffering that comes with dying

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

Edwin but fangs