#and charles and edwin would absolutely love that

[isnt-that-wizardd]

why compare and pit against each other the various versions of charles and edwin when the truth is that they would be absolutely Thrilled to meet the different version of themselves and discover that the two of them meet and become friends in Every Universe

[edwinisms]

i get such a sense of primal envy when looking at edwin’s clothes up close because god you can just tell his coat is real wool and made to last and not cheap flimsy mass produced garbage and auggagghhhh that was just STANDARD in his time. by no means am i saying i was #borninthewronggeneration because i like having vaccines and household appliances but. man. to have a personally-tailored coat like that that’d last for years and years……. and fabrics of fine thread-dense quality………. if only

[theaceace]

imagining a world in which Simon agreed to go with Edwin and try to escape hell, imagining Simon developing an immediate and very inadvisable crush on the cute guy that just threw a grenade at a demon and Edwin's reaction to that, imagining the reaction of Charles Overprotective Rowland when he finds out that the guy Edwin insists on dragging along with them is one of the guys that sacrificed him to a demon in the first place, imagining the Night Nurse's face when three dead boys pop back through the door instead of two

[a-bisexual-panicking]

question for the dead boy detectives fans:

would you prefer for Edwin and Charles' relationship to stay platonic or to become romantic?

i'm just genuinely curious

[landedinpayne]

absolutely obsessed with the intensity of love and care and attention in the way that charles is looking at edwin he’s responding to the confession. i have literally never seen a person look at someone so lovingly and carefully and now that i’ve seen it i will never recover i fear

[asexualenjolras]

We all know that it's canon that Edwin Payne reads (and loves) a lot of Arthur Conan Doyle's books, and we know it's likely that he's a fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

But imagine him being introduced to BBC Sherlock by Niko or Crystal and seeing an autistic detective that struggles with communication and empathy, wears formal clothing and doesn't like many people beside his best friend ... who he's in love with.

I think he'd combust. Let that Edwardian ghost find out what Johnlock is.

(Niko would absolutely introduce him to Johnlock fanfics)

[deconstructthesoup]

If I had a nickel for every time I was obsessed with a piece of media that featured a classy little detective boy with less-than-optimal people skills who was previously bullied by a closeted gay guy, is an academic workaholic who presents himself as very lawful but is absolutely a badass in his own right, is severely queer and has a lot of angst and character growth about it, has his internalized anxieties about being queer manifest in a freaky doll monster who haunts his nightmares even after he's escaped from it, has been to Hell and had a really good bonding experience with his chaotic bisexual punk friend whilst in Hell, and has a weirdly attractive and morally corrupt cat person as their primary character arc antagonist and instigator, I would have two nickles

Which isn't a lot

BUT IT'S VERY FUCKING WEIRD THAT IT HAPPENED TWICE!

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

dead boy detectives is the perfect cure for a broken heart

[coloursflyaway]

✨(for the Star from the ask game - please give random information about your fanfics??)

Thank you so much!! Sorry this took so long, I just got back from my holiday 🥰

A very random fact: for Won't Fear Love, where Charles takes Edwin on dates to figure out his feelings, I initially wanted to include this in the author's note in the last chapter (and then forgot about it):

You just know that the boys keep up the date schedule even afterwards. Usually, it's Charles who plans the activities, but sometimes, Edwin pitches in as well, if he stumbles upon something.

(One time, he takes Charles to the opera, and they dress up all fancy, which Charles loves, even if he isn't wild about the performance afterwards. Another time, he takes them to a classical concert outside of Schönbrunn palace in Vienna, which they both enjoy a lot - Edwin because of the music and Charles because halfway through the performance, he ends up in Edwin's lap, kissing him until they both cannot think anymore.)

And it goes on for so long, that at some point, a client comes to them with a case around midday on a second Wednesday of a month, and they decide to take the case. From tomorrow on, of course.

"Why can't you start now? You have nothing else to do, this is time sensitive!", the client wants to know, obviously annoyed.

A gasp echoes through the room, coming from the boys and Crystal simultaneously, like the man had just made the biggest social blunder imaginable.

"Of course we cannot start tonight", Edwin starts, folding his hands and looking very put upon; Crystal finishes the thought for him, "What do you take us for? Don't you know it's date night?!"

[jeahreading]

wait charles and edwin DON'T end up together??

that's so sad, I will be going to Ao3 for fanfics

[isnt-that-wizardd]

there is just something about the difference between edwin's love interests and having the cat king's reaction to edwin in hell being "i'll be waiting when he gets back" vs charles "no version of this where i don't come get you" rowland convincing a powerful trans-dimensional being to open a door to hell just so he could get him back

i am insane

[edwinisms]

banging my head against the wall every time I see someone reblogging a post of mine with tags mentioning the ‘unrequited confession’. we have been OVER this it is NOT a case of unrequited romantic love it is completely canonically up in the air as a possibility. listen to jayden revri himself and be enlightened i am begging you

[eddiewithcat]

the thing that gets me the absolute most about the love confession is just . how charles responds.

like, genuinely if he didn't feel some kind of feelings for edwin, he would've let him down gently, right then and there.

but it is the fact that he said "i can't say that like, i'm in love with you back, but there's no one else, no one else, that i would go to hell for. and we've got literally forever to figure out what the rest means" LIKE.

HE IS NOT QUITE AWARE OF HIS FEELINGS FOR HIM BECAUSE HE HAS NEVER THOUGHT TO THINK ANY DIFFERENTLY/ WHAT IT COULD POSSIBLY MEAN?

also this is neil gaiman show be so fucking for real!!!

[blocks-by-ray]

"Sorry. no version of this where i didn't come and get you, is there?”

I had this in my head for like a month cuz Charles would love this (wrapping his jacket around Edwin when they hug) because it absolutely makes him feel like he’s protecting/ shielding Edwin from the world. I think Edwin likes it too but wouldn’t admit it .

However , those two tall-ass boys were never really both gonna fit in Charles jacket :( well I tried

[sthilarions]

Hmm… Charles deciding it’s been quite long enough, Edwin needs an answer, any answer’s better than none, but no matter how hard he tries Charles still doesn’t have an answer - so he goes out and buys a truth potion and drinks it.

Tells Edwin what it is and why he’s drinking it right before he gulps it down, of course, if Edwin doesn’t know he’s telling the truth it won’t do any good. Edwin leaps across the room to stop him as soon as the words process, but Charles has done enough shots in his day to get it down before Edwin gets to him.

The problem is, it turns out, this particular truth potion only lets Charles speak when spoken to. He’ll answer any question with the truth; but he can’t choose to speak.

And Edwin absolutely refuses to ask The Question.

Charles tries increasingly desperately through mime to get Edwin to ask. (Tries writing, too, but apparently he can’t communicate without being asked that way, either.)

But Edwin tells him he’s not going to drag truth out of Charles like that, he won’t, and besides, that hardly even makes sense with the way truth compulsions work, anyway; it should take a much more powerful potion to compel Charles to speak a truth he doesn’t already know, and -

Charles briefly experiments with whether the potion will permit him to scream wordlessly. (It will not.)

Charles only paid for enough potion to last about twenty minutes, having assumed the issue would be long dealt with by then. As the minutes pass, he gets increasingly frantic, until finally his hoarse breathing gains form and turns into -

“- tell you I love you!”

Charles’s mouth snaps shut, and he claps his hand over it in surprise.

Edwin blinks at him calmly. “Ah. I see the truth potion has worn off.” His brows furrow. “Perhaps now we can discuss how utterly foolish that was.”

Charles stares at Edwin. “I - I love you, Edwin.”

Edwin huffs. “Yes, I know the potion has worn off, you don’t have to prove it.”

Charles shakes his head frantically. “No, no, I was trying to tell you the whole time, it was right there on my tongue, I love you.”

“So you’ve said,” Edwin answers. “As I was saying, I can’t believe you would take a potion from Ethel without even having me check it first, and the entire premise of this nonsense was utterly flawed, I cannot begin to comprehend - “

“Not just as a friend, Edwin!”

Edwin’s mouth snaps shut as rapidly as Charles’s had earlier. His jaw works, and he closes his eyes for a moment, before opening them again to look right into Charles’s.

“You don’t have to lie, Charles.”

[tragedy-machine]

You don't understand how much I love and want to see bamf!Edwin

A bad guy attempting to scare Edwin with some typical triggers like blood, gore, monsters, or darkness, but Edwin staying unfazed, he can walk through pools of blood with no problem, unless it's baby dolls or long corridors he's fine!

Edwin not reacting to being stabbed with iron is pretty much a Tragedy MachineTM special at this point, I can talk about it for hours

Edwin using his hard-earned running skills and absolutely booking it to reach Charles and save him, I wanna see him run towards something instead of running away, you feel me

Someone trying to dig through his memories and getting absolutely wrecked by scenes from Hell and having to run away screaming

Him taking a weapon that's supposed to disintegrate ghosts and it just bouncing off him (okay yeah it does hurts him ofc, but he's still there and kicking while a normal ghost would have poofed out of existence)

I'll even take a demon commenting about how special and delicious Edwin's soul is and Edwin being like "yeah I know, do fuck off"