#dbda emma

[lezabeththetheodoraimposter]

i love dbda but i also love fashion history so i was very triggered when edwin said emma died in the late 1800s when she very clearly died in the mid 1800s

i would say the 1850s but the latest she could’ve died was in the 1860s

i used this as the reference because you can’t see her full outfit in the show. it’s not very historically accurate but it is clearly 1850s

just look at how similar they are. you cannot tell me she isn’t from the 1850s which classifies as mid 1800s not late 1800s edwin

[carpediemma]

This needs to be re-done with Charles and Edwin…

Looking at you @homoquartz and @technically-human 👀👀👀

[technically-human]

Ms. Crystal Palace…?

All my friends are dead!

ko-fi

[theloverislost]

honestly emma was such a character. she had great lines (see “you are the brawn?”), and her character design was amazing. also she was like the only person past crystal was nice to? (at least from what we see). she has such great potential lore, i just love her. more of her in season two please

[zinnie-zoloft]

So did anyone think to like… ask Emma about who Crystal was?

She was the one who brought them the case, and they were friends so surely she’d have at least some information about Crystals life, right?

[karis17love]

[samsayswhatever]

This is still so funny to me

[that-ineffable-devil]

Charles over there sitting like a bisexual secretary from the 1950s on Edwin's desk.

[melefim]

Swearing in Dead Boy Detectives: Ghostly Clients

Emma

Overview:

1 curse said in 1 episode.

Episode 1: 1 Twat

Unique Words:

Emma is the only character to say Twat.

Percent of Total:

Emma swears 1 time, which is .3% of all cursing in the show.

Rankings:

Who Swears the Most: Emma is tied for last with 9 other characters.

Curse Word Variety: She is tied for last place for cursing variety with 12 other characters.

Lines:

Episode 1: Fine you twats. How much?

Headache Ghost

Overview:

1 curse said in 1 episode.

Episode 3: 1 Jesus

Percent of Total:

The Headache Ghost swears 1 time, which is .3% of all cursing in the show.

Rankings:

Who Swears the Most: The Headache Ghost is tied for last with 9 other characters.

Curse Word Variety: He is tied for last place for cursing variety with 12 other characters.

Lines:

Episode 3: Jesus! This headache feels like my eyes are gonna rip apart!

Dagfinn

Overview:

1 curse said in 1 episode.

Episode 4: Damn

Percent of Total:

Dagfinn swears 1 time, which is .3% of all cursing in the show.

Rankings:

Who Swears the Most: Dagfinn is tied for last with 9 other characters.

Curse Word Variety: He is tied for last place for cursing variety with 12 other characters.

Lines:

Episode 4: I need someone to get these damn ghosts out of my lighthouse!

Notes:

Updates:

Updated Percent of Total Swearing charts.

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[goodoldfashionednerd]

Your name is Emma. You're a ghost victorian child. One day, you meet a living girl who can see you. She's really mean to everyone but still, you become friends. Then, she gets possessed by a demon and doesn't come to see you anymore. So you go to these private detectives, hoping they will find her and remove the demon from her body. They insist that you pay. You do. A few days later, they leave the country and you don't hear anything from them - or from your friend - for months. Until one day, they're all back. The three of them are now best friends, your friend isn't possessed anymore, but she's also a completely different person, and doesn't even bother to come see you. You hope they'll at least give you the money back.

[painehell]

@that-trans-autistic-guy tagging you bc idea.

but, anyway, in the comics (& i think charles references it in the show?) charles mentions a winning spaghetti eating contest when he was alive. i wonder if edwin even knows what spaghetti is. back before it became a popular food in the .. 60s/ smth similar, spaghetti came to europe and america as this strange and odd food but it was canned (1930-1950s mainly), and before that, you didn't know it existed unless you lived in italy or had italian friends. spaghetti was so weird that the 1957 BBC made a news segment on spaghetti trees (link <--). the idea that edwin doesn't know what spaghetti is or thinks it is a weird mystical thing is extremely likely.

he probably doesn't know what a lot of foods are and foods he ate back in the day are probably banned. ex: ox tail soup, pig tail soup, snapping turtle soup, brown shark fin soup, (source: chinese cookbook i have from 1947, when those dishes weren't seen as odd/weren't illegal.) and then you take in the fact that there are certain modern day foods or drinks that taste extremely different from his day (ex: coca cola, water (many people who've drank fallout shelter water says it tastes better and different than today's water), etc).

edwin just .. doesn't know. and since he was in hell for so long, he didn't even get to witness these changes unlike emma (crystal's friend in ep 1) & charles, who (probably) got to witness the changes of the earth after their time and obviously relatively adapted. charles got to witness the shift into the 90s and the nazis overtaking the skinhead subculture and he got to witness the world thinking it was going to end twice and he got to witness more acceptance of queers, he got to witness all of this change and adapt, whereas edwin didnt, and edwin is obviously quite stuck back in his time, evenmoreso than charles is. charles still dresses, speaks, everything of his time, but he's adapted and you can tell. edwin, however, doesn't know modern things and hasnt adapted his views to change. edwin's still stuck in the year he died.

[unkillable-gays]

It's very bizarre that they have the whole scene of Emma (little Victorian ghost girl) asking for the boys' help, and Edwin negotiating with her, just to never mention her again!

I get that it was partly just to establish how they normally do business at their agency, before it all gets disrupted. But she's also the only reason any of us meet Crystal at all, and that anything in the show happens!

Emma is established to be manipulative and tight-fisted, but she's still willing to shell out...something to have them help Crystal, which would indicate that she cares about her. But we never see the two of them reunited, even though I'd imagine the boys wouldn't be able to collect payment until after they've solved her case.

Not to mention!!! Emma KNOWS Crystal! (Even if only a little!) When Crystal's memory is erased, and she's despairing not knowing anything about herself, why doesn't she, OR one of the boys, seek Emma out to ask her about Crystal's background?

AND none of Crystal's reclaimed memories contain any trace of Emma! Given that they both seemed to be "mean girls", they could've gotten up to some fun hijinks together! Did the writers just forget about her?

idk... I get that Emma was just a plot device, but it seems like it would've left far fewer questions open to just have her say, "some freaky psychic is acting crazy and terrorizing me/other ghosts, " rather than "please help my good friend 🥺"

[carpediemma]

Me when people ask me why I'm feral over Charles and Edwin.

[the-fiction-system]

Which one of the dead boy detective's clients was your favourite?

-@he-just-likes-ghosts

Emma!! I’m not sure why, but I actually want to learn more about her! How did she die? When did she become friends with crystal? Did she know about Crystal’s shitty parents? Did it matter? Idk she’s really strange and also I love her glowing squid!!

[inezrable]

So what happened to that Emma girl that hired the boys? She just??? Disappears???

[lesbiannieism]

i would like to see emma and the night nurse have a battle of the wills