#crystal palace surname von hovercraft

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

Imagine if ghosts reverted to their death state on the anniversary of their deaths, but I'm making it worse for Edwin in particular.

So I feel like Charles would struggle with it, obviously, but he also met Edwin when he was actively dying so, after a handful of years, he doesn't mind if Edwin -- only Edwin -- sees. They just sit down for the day and read till he can slip into his orb form in a facsimile of rest.

But then we got Edwin. This man will yap and yap about capital H Hell but God Forbid he actually TALK about his trauma. 'Charles mustn't be exposed to that!' is his fav excuse but c'mon. Be. So. Fr. He just doesn't want Charles to think of him differently.

There are days where Edwin hops off to the library or something and gets lost in books for days, it's not new. Ghosts have shit perception of time. So when Edwin disappears to the "library", Charles thinks nothing of it. He just goes to do some of his own shit -- concert, ghost cricket, idk -- and very impatiently waits for Edwin to be done. (They have a deal that he can come drag Edwin away after the 48 hour mark if he's not home by then.)

Another thing is, Edwin hasn't explicitly stated what day he died, so Charles has no idea. It doesn't occur to him that he's never seen Edwin's death anniversary till he's telling Crystal they'll be closed in a week for his, and she asks when Edwin's is.

And he just. Doesn't know.

So Crystal ushers him through her vanity because god forbid these boys have self initiated confrontation. And now Edwin is being cornered and he reluctantly reveals what he's been doing. Aka lying and spending his most vulnerable days in an abandoned garden or something. Charles is fucking Gobsmacked™️ and they talk, etc.

Anyways, Edwin's death anniversary is a month or two away from Charles' so they wait, both anxious as hell but Charles is being Charles and coping by helping Edwin instead.����💀 (Edwin confronts him because PUT THEM BOTH ON BLAST‼️‼️🗣️🗣️)

On the day, Edwin's form changes little by little. Rubbed in rashes around his wrists and the corners of his lips, paler, sunken eyes, and bursted blood vessels looking like freckles. Charles spends the whole night reassuring Edwin and layering him in love and I'm such a sucker for love confessions so you KNOW they gotta have a moment like:

"I'm proper gone on you, aren't I?" Charles whispers into Edwin's hairline, sounding utterly smitten.

"Even like this?" Edwin asks. Equally quiet and wholly insecure, something Charles will spend the rest of his afterlife rectifying the same way Edwin has for him.

"Especially like this."

[leahaart]

When u and bestie get your heart broken by the same boy 😔💔

[goodoldfashionednerd]

This came to me in a vision

[pony-unicorn]

Oooohh people that get Crystal!!!

Like, Crystal is a very caring and lovely girl and it's just a pity that misoginoir makes so many people see any actions of black girls as evil/malicious/less naive than other characters.

[purgatory606]

Nice pick @stark-lord

[happygirl2oo2]

Dead Boy Detectives textpost part 4/?

[crystalpalacesasaki]

Endless gifs of Crystal Palace [10/-]

[painlandpalace]

this is painland and nikocrystal btw

[many-gay-magpies]

i have seen lots and lots of posts about what people want out of payneland in season 2 and that is all good. so there's no use restating any of that because i agree with quite a bit of it and theres like a dozen or more posts about it. but here's something i want out of season 2:

to see crystal dealing with the remains of her life before she lost her memories. specifically, i want to see how she handles the relationships with her friends from before... do they become deeper now that she's had time to learn and grow? or does she, in trying to repair her old relationships, realize that all her friendships were just as shallow and empty as she was before losing her memories? does she make new human friends over the course of whatever season 2's plot will be? have her old friends even cared that she was gone? did she leave behind other ghost friends, like emma?

there is SO MUCH POTENTIAL for crystal's story now that she has her memories back and is back in london and i want to see it ALL.

[ghostthewriter09]

The thing I like so much about DBD is probably that all the characters just go along with whatever’s happening. Like, oh I just escaped from hell and there’s some random guy dying of hypothermia and internal bleeding? I’m not going to let him out of my sight and potentially go back to hell for someone I just met. oh I just died and some random person from hell is taking care of me? Yeah I’m just going to sacrifice a potentially amazing afterlife for him! Oh this strange teenager expelled the demon from my body and now wants to take me home to become part of their detective agency? Sure I’ll just go to a different country with them to help a girl I don’t know and fight a witch on my first day. Oh this random girl claims to be talking to ghosts who can expel the thing trying to kill me from my body? Yeah I’m going to trust her and then run after them during a case despite the fact I could die at any moment, who do you think I am? Oh these two dead boys, some sprites and a psychic are using my room for rent? I’m going to sacrifice my life for that psychic even though I met her a week ago and she’s insane. Oh I’m suddenly a human and have been tasked to kill these people? Nope, that’s my boyfriend right there I’m going to talk to him about astrology. Like there’s no way they actually are completely just chill with it but it’s so funny to see

[dceased-dynamic-duo-4ever]

I love that we as a fandom saw the scene where Crystal met Niko for the first time and our immediate response was:

Lesbians.

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

My birthday has passed!!! I now have more legal freedoms than I probably should be allowed!!!!!

Anyways, as a happy birthday gift to myself I'm combining my favorite things in a fic. Little snippet:

“Holy shit,” Crystal gasps. “It's an actual-”

“Hellhound. Yes. Very astute Crystal.” Edwin grits out, hands shaking as he reaches for the rebar, barely making it a few centimeters before Crystal's swatting his hands away.

“You're not supposed to remove it!” She snaps.

“I cannot bleed out Crystal! I am a ghost!” Edwin groans, half out of pain – it's nowhere near as bad as the Dollhouse he reassures himself, it does not work – and half out of exasperation. Still, she swats his hands away like a pesky child reaching for hot plates.

“It's still fucking iron you moron!”

[laucha-posting]

And their sad(and angry!) psychic girl (!!!)

[goodoldfashionednerd]

Little Crystal portrait to finish the collection!

[pony-unicorn]

"If you’re upset too - tweet about it!" Gave me hope!

[shaylogic]

Comic Crystal had a scene with giant eyes, too, but it was more symbolic about being in the public eye and constantly stared at and judged by the press because of her shitty performance artist parents.