#anyway love niko

[alsofullofflies]

Guys!!! A crush not being reciprocated is not a ‘messy unfinished love triangle’!!!! It felt really honest and well done - I loved how Charles and Crystal was balanced with Edwin and Niko’s friendship, and also Edwin literally had 3 other love(ish) interests. This is not queer bait, this is not super hell - this is Edwin, a newly out queer man, having a crush on his straight(?) friend (literally who hasn’t???) and choosing to be content with being single.

Also please don’t be mad and a little bit misogynistic against Crystal 😭 she’s a phenomenal character with cool powers and development that fits with her and Charles’ developing relationship. I’m usually the first on the queer relationship train but literally Charles and Crystal are so adorable and honestly I think Charles and Edwin just give too much besties vibes to feel truthful in a relationship.

[mayomkun]

Glasses buddies 😎

[technically-human]

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

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

[rexwrendraws]

heartbreak weather!

[the-silliest-lad]

Palaski x Scott Pilgrim

[tapeworrmart]

Have art block and been playing gta iv so. Niko.

[sparkdoesart]

I. Need to draw them again.. a lot of these were either for a friend or based on their drawing ideas <3

Ignore the many times i mess up nikos design

[captainfairygodmother]

Look me in the eyes- my heartbroken, seen-too-much-tragedy eyes- and tell me that '"I'm right across the hall" (shy smile) "I like your jacket" (rapidly disappears behind the door and slams it in her face, embarrassed)' isn't the most hinting-at-a-relationship, these-girls-are-so-in-love-with-eachother, it's-love-at-first-sight scene ever. I bet you can't. I'll wait.

[pumpkinfox]

Gang I think something got in.

Hehehehe, Lobotomy Corporation but Block Tales hehehehe >:]

But in realness I would love to see a Block Tales AU based on Lobotomy Corp...

Wait... I'm an artist... I can draw whatever I want :>

Anyways, uh, all of the entities are Class ALEPH. Those being...

Judgment Bird, Punishment Bird, Big Bird, Army In Black, and The Moutain of Smiling Bodies, but it's E.G.O weapon.

I had to dig for anything LoveTales related to Builderman bro please I need more of him. Please, niko.

[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.

[artemisadore]

Oh...but...okay 🥺 My heart is breaking...why do I fall in love with stories and characters again? 😭

[inigosayshi]

Idk if other ppl have brought this up yet but everytime I think about the Night Nurse dropping Charles to the ground I wonder what Edwin was thinking. None of the characters really react either way, so I wonder if Charles was really only gone for like a second. He fell, hit the ground, and stood back up.

It's the opposite of the cat king, where a few seconds become hours. Charles was gone for several minutes, but maybe to the group it was a matter of blinking.

I also keep forgetting that they Don't Know what he saw. I'm sure they Inferred some of it, but Edwin and Crystal and Niko don't realize that Charles RELIVED the worst parts of his life as if they were happening again. AND SHE WAS THREATENING TO DO THAT TO EDWIN.

AND HE STILL HASNT TALKED TO ANYONE ABOUT IT RAHHHH

Idk I don't blame him for dropping the Night Nurse. She was trying to take Edwin to Hell, AND she made him relive his trauma with a SMILE on her face, AND she threatened to do it again? GOODNIGHT, MA'AM.

This is not night nurse slander, though. She's cool.

[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

[side-of-honey]

Heyy everybody how's it going. I've been working on this for MONTHS I'm so happy it's done ToT Basically it's a redraw of an old sketch I made a couple years ago except with like 3x more characters and much more effort :"D I am also the only person on earth who is able to name all of them but kudos if you can get close :) My own little love letter to a bunch of things I think are super cool <3

Koen(bnuuy) is from @dream-trail-rpg

Akari(camera) belongs to @twipsai

Also reminder that you MAY NOT REPOST MY ART ON THIS OR ANY OTHER SITE. Thanks.

Please dont like without reblogging or ill cry /hj

[eggy-the-boy]

Something something Charles giving himself the brawn label and Edwin the brains label. Something something Edwin always compliments Charles when he figures something out. Calling him a genius and emphasizes that Charles is more than just the fighter of the two. Something something these two make my brain rot.

[whimsical-bee]

Local Child discovers WafflesTM