#charlotte rowland

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Edith Payne and Charlie Rowland (Chapter 4)

“And just because I changed my clothes or my slang doesn't mean that I want you to change," Charlie says, "I like you old-fashioned. I like you buttoned up. I like you when your posture is too straight and your accent is too posh and you are the very picture of a girl out of time. Because you have always been different, Eddie. Unique. Pretty brills, really. And I wouldn't have you any other way.”

Edith’s breath is a remembered thing, a physical presence, because it is catching in her throat.

“Now,” Charlie says, fingers curling around Edith’s jaw, “You like taking me apart. So let me put you back together.��

Then Charlie kisses Edwin’s cheek, and her mouth, and her jaw, and her neck, as she pushes Edith up against the desk, and Edith’s heart is shuddering, thundering, in her chest, a storm brewing inside of her, a quake shaking the earth.

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[etheriiart]

bloody charlotte rowland <3

[hedonistbyheart]

More dead girls! This time both of them! Reciprocal gay feelings for all~

Credit to @artlosergrace for the inspiration wrt Charles/Charlotte's outfit - I fully admit to being lazy about the outfit designs so they lean on other hugely talented artists in the fandom!

[novacomics]

i love fem painland,, i wish lesbians were real 😢💔

[tokenducks]

My hottest take is gender bend/ fem Charles should be named Charlotte and not Charlie. Charles doesn’t go by Charlie so why would Charlotte.

[listrinha]

thanks to all artists of this fandom for creating content for chorbwin and dead girl detectives. I'm obsessed with these recently and I LIVE for your content. The impulse to write and participate is huge but I'm still not quite confident in my writing abilities for that. Your fanarts and fics are giving me life

[shadows-and-starlight]

A Query of Edith Payne

In the sex-swapped Dead Boy Detectives we get the Dead Girl Detectives Edith Payne and Charlotte Rowland.

Now Edwin was in no uncertain terms bullied and ultimately killed for being a gender non-conforming "Mary Ann". That shaped his character greatly.

Now what if Edith was also bullied or outcast for being gender non-conforming? What if she was the difficult girl who cut her hair short or always broke dress code by wearing trousers (funnily enough that means she could still be styled just like Edwin).

The willful one too interested in the English suffragettes of the early 1900s (they were quite the combative group themselves). She would rebuff the expectation to marry on both the objection to being a man's property, and maybe more secretly to herself because she knows she only has feelings for other young women.

The girl who failed at being a proper young lady, and the boy who failed at being a proper young man.

All of this to say that even though I enjoy seeing a feminine Edith, I think there is great potential in butch Edith. A very handsome lady who was just a bit too ahead of her time, but with a fire inside that even decades in Hell couldn't extinguish.

[emi-the-gremlin]

Mullet Charlotte Rowland.. save me

save me mullet Charlotte Rowland

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Edith Payne and Charlie Rowland

Charlie was never a good student. Leave that to Edith. But she remembers listening to Edith in the library one night after that night in the lake as Edith talked about weather patterns and climate and the like. Edith had talked about something called Lichtenberg figures- scars left on victims of lightning strikes.

Edith doesn’t keep her scars from the spider, but she feels it all the same, just as Charlie feels it when her knuckles go into the souls in circles that try to steal Edith from her. Charlie’s knuckles bruise and split and scar, too corporeal between Hell’s walls.

There’s this feeling in Charlie’s chest when she looks at Edith’s storm-gray eyes, the lightning strike of her crooked smile, the thunder of her running her fingers through her dark curls and pinning them back with finger bones from one of her previous bodies, and Charlie can’t begin to name it until the moment at which Edith takes Charlie’s split knuckles and kisses them. Blood paints Edith’s lips for a moment, staining them, and Charlie knows she should be horrified by it but all she can focus on is the brush of Edith’s lips against her skin, the most tender thing that Charlie has ever known.

And Charlie knows, with all her hell-bitten heart, that she doesn’t just love this stormcloud girl, but that she is in love with her.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, there was something in the water (now that something's in me)

Underneath all of this all too serious I fight for the turbulence Can't be so perfect I Try to uncover your lightning, your thunder In color I stumble, I stand

Baby, it's blinding in the eye of the storm As the world starts unwinding I'm not afraid

-Sam Tsui, Perfect Storm

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[etheriiart]

another fem!charles for Twitter 🫶

non fem version

[cosmic-booknerd]

Fem!Payneland ... save me..

Fem!Payneland

Save me fem!payneland

[read-write-thrive]

part 1 (both girls in their full outfits) ; part 2 (Edwina in several other outfits/sketches) ; part 3 (the companion to this piece aka Edwina getting ready :)

part 4 of my fem!payneland fanart series!!!! as I talked about with the poll, I have quite a few variations of this piece as I couldn’t make up my mind on a few of the elements, but I listened to your feedback and have included them all here !! the winner of the poll is above the cut with the rest of the variations below to hopefully make this not take up too much of your dash lol

lmk what you think - especially people who voted on the poll!! I’ve also included my thought process below the cut since I know y’all are interested :)

- first and foremost: I have absolutely no idea what order someone would get ready in with all these outfit components, so if you’re sitting here like “why is her makeup done when she has to pull a shirt over her head?” or something like that: you’re probably correct but my getting ready process is always chaos and there aren’t exactly articles on this sort of thing

- along with that: her straightening her hair is probably not accurate to how hair works but again I’ve got v little experience to pull from and trying to find a proper reference was a pain in the ass

yes her bra is fully rendered and then got covered up by her arm. I'm still mad that I did that to myself but I like the pose too much to change it so oh well

- (onto actual historical stuff!!)

- her hair is being straightened here despite straight not being in style during this era for several reasons:

1. I based her hair (and a lot of her style, as per part 1) on Rhoda Dakar of the band The Bodysnatchers, which was an all-female band that was part of the ska revival in the late 70s/early 80s. Rhoda Dakar in particular is a British artist (who’s still making music!) with an English mother and Jamaican father—so not only was she one of the only women of color I could find as part of this subgenre/in ths era/with plenty of photo references, but considering Jayden Revri is Jamaican and English (alongside Indian) himself I thought it was fitting! Her Bodysnatchers look is also much more femme leaning than the rest of the band, as well as her hair styled in a way that suggests straightening, so I carried that over to Charlotte here as well.

2. On a related note, there is a clear historical and modern difference in hairstyles worn/made popular/deemed fashionable by non-white versus white individuals and I thought it only appropriate to acknowledge that in my design of her. I even went so far as to research how her mom’s hair may have been styled since I assume that’s who would’ve been teaching her how to care for her hair in the first place. With that, I looked at popular Indian hair trends from the 60s (figuring that’s when Charlotte’s mom could’ve still been in India and following those trends) which also involved a preference for straight/wavy hair, with soft fringe made popular by Sadhana and the styles ranging from long and luscious to styled up into a very 60s beehive. Charlotte could easily also rock a beehive, especially since the 60s revival was a part of the ska revival movement and Dakar herself styled her hair as such, but I figured Charlotte is a little too much of a rebellious teenager to go for a look she’s seen her mom wear!

- her makeup is based off of the different members of The Bodysnatchers as well as other punk/ska fans at the time. The look usually required more blush that what I gave her here, but I wanted to make sure the eyes were the feature (since Charles wears eyeliner himself) and then the lips being any less just looked weird to me. Also, Dakar doesn't seem to wear the same heavy blush that the other members do, which could be a stylistic choice but could also be the potential lack of blush shades that would work well on her skin tone, so I went that route for Charlotte here

- her underwear is all based off of meticulous searching of historical advertisements, though I will admit the sources are (presumably) American since I couldn't find British equivalents (I'm hoping the styles were similar enough...) in particular:

1. Her bra is based off of: Playtex’s New Made for Me, Playtex’s Right For Me, and Playtex’s Thank Goodness It Fits (which are seriously the names of these as per the ads—how creative /s)

2. Her panties (or pants or underwear or whatever term you want to use) are based off of: Sears Best’s Nylon tricot panties, Sears Very Impressive Panties Nylon panties, and JCPenny’s eiderlon fashion panties

3. (In the below variations) Her pantyhose are theoretically based on L’eggs and Spirit by Stevens’s Slim & Slender pantyhose. But, honestly, they’re mostly based on my own experience wearing hose bc almost none of the ads showed how the gusset of the pantyhose actually looked so I needed to fill in the gaps (one of the many reasons I’m still unhappy with them—plus the wrinkles would not look right no matter what I did !!)

4. Her socks are called slouch socks! I don’t have a specific brand for them but the style was all the rage in the 80s-90s (and I want to own some so bad ngl)

- the hair straightener is just a blob based on the reference photo since trying to research historical hair tools was beyond me at the time apparently, but the style of outlet/plug is accurate to Britain in 1989 so there’s that at least (I have no idea why my brain works like this)

- since I talked about it in the poll I feel like I should address it here: technically having a bush was well out of fashion by 1989 due to the grooming boom and new types of hair removal popular throughout the 80s and 90s. However, she’s wearing multiple layers over it and is technically a teenager (in an abusive household and a catholic all-girls school, at that) so I kept going back and forth on it. It won the poll so it’s in the main post, but you’ll see in the below variations that I really went back and forth on it. that being said I do think it’s interesting given her nylon pants being semi-sheer besides at the gusset, so I’m not mad at it. plus I figured she was definitely shaving her legs/underarms, so maybe that balances it out ?

and finally here’s the other seven variations of this piece :) lmk what you think!!

[novacomics]

im not normal about them

[lots-of-lesbeans-2]

gorgeous girls ❤️❤️❤️

I’m working on a coloured drawing of Edwina and Charlotte so look out for that too!!!

[listrinha]

Is there a fic with this going on?

Just gals being pals, right?

again thinking about what if canon!payneland meet fem!payneland the girls are a bit ahead of them kjk

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Charlotte "Charlie" Rowland

Edith thought she’d felt all her greatest fears in Hell. That nothing could ever compare to the babydoll spider’s grasping claws and the grasping hands of Lust and the knives of Wrath and the coins of Avarice and being able to feel herself be torn apart, over and over again.

But of course that wasn’t the worst fear she’s ever felt. Of course it never could be.

Because that entire time, Edith had Charlie by her side, a goddamn force of nature, a quake splitting the earth.

That is what Charlie Rowland has always been: the very earth itself, the tectonic plates that Edith has learned about since their emergence from Hell. Moses has nothing on Charlie Rowland and her ability to split the water, to cause tsunamis, to reshape the goddamn world in the shape of her stubborn, abiding faith.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, there was something in the water (now that something's in me)

And I've never loved the darker blue Than the darkness I have known in you, honed from you You, whose heart would sing of anarchy You would laugh at meanings, guarantees, so beautifully When our truth is burned from history By those who figured justice in fond memory, witness me Like fire weeping from a cedar tree Know that my love would burn with me We'll live eternally

-Hozier, Better Love

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