#dead boy detectives pin

[dany996]

Guys im about to buy a dead boy detectives pin so that every time I look at it I'll start crying 😍

[carebeardean]

modern!charles would text edwin pictures of, like, otters holding paws with the caption “u & me :—)” & those “me when I look at u:🥹🥰😭” memes Before he even realizes he wants to kiss Edwin on the mouth, btw. edwin thinks he is the Loveliest Best Friend of All Time & saves each & every one to his camera roll

[captainfantasticalright]

The patches and pins on Charles Rowland’s coat!

I didn’t do a whole breakdown of his outfit, but know that he wears red because Charles' hero color is very much red, in honor of his comic book counterpart's red sweater.

Also his whole outfit is inspired by mod and ska subcultures. From the chain, to his earring, to his shoes. Everything is reminiscent of the 80s.

And he maintains the red throughout all the season, to a burgundy polo in ep.3 to suddenly a black one to reflect his turbulent emotional state. Finally coming back to red eventually.

[fear0phobia]

charles' bag-of-tricks backpack appreciation

"It's actually a complex pocket universe that only I can navigate after years of practice. But, yeah, I mean, "bag-of-tricks" is fine."

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

Charles Rowland: Pain, Love, Desire.

"For love is no part of the dreamworld. love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel" — Death of the Endless, from The Sandman: The Doll's House.

[sources: quote by katie maria // cover for documentary film dance craze by joe massot // cover for do the dog by the specials // seasons of mists, episode 4 // vamperinee on tumblr // seasons of mists, episode 4 // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // quote by friedrich nietzsche // i would leave me if i could by halsey // dead boy detectives, episode 8 // poster for donnie darko by let's eat grandma // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // poster for do you really want to hurt me by culture club // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // poetryforall on tumblr // to the busted among us, sharks in the rivers by ada limón // a pearl by mitski // dead boy detectives, episode 1 // letter to ruth tiffanny beuscher written by sylvia plath, july, 1962 // quote by katie maria]

[dead-but-still-sarcastic]

Orbwin and Chorb!

Orbwin and Chorb are snuggling together all warm and cozy in the opening of the backpack

Prompt: orbs, for @deadboyween

[tragedy-machine]

tragedy-machine fics masterpost

1. Your flickering light

Edwin gets triggered during an attack which causes him to disappear, and a panicked Charles has to figure out how to find him before it's too late.

Rated:T || Words: 2,462 || Status: complete

title explained: because of stress and panic Edwin' form flickers and makes him phase through the floor, so the title is of course a reference to that

[wiredust]

— and this light will keep us warm

[tumblerislovetumblerislife]

For half a second, Edwin’s vision was filled with a beautiful, ethereal sight. Charles had turned his face up in surprise, eyes wide and lips parted, and his brown eyes reflected the cloud of golden shimmers hovering above him. He was bathed in a gentle light, surrounded by a galaxy of tiny stars.

- Like Fool's Gold by @roseganymede95

this is one of my favourite fics (tied with every single other of their fics, of course!) that i recently gave a reread, and this description is so lovely that i just had to draw it <3

bonus, because i can take nothing seriously:

[downbaddetective]

omgomgomgomg Fanart suggestions, I'M ABOTU GIVE A FEW(I hope that's ok)

How about that scene where tck morphed in Charles and was being touchy with Edwin, but you can remaster it with the fantasy kind of thing with magic floating in the air...

Do I make sense, sorry!

Thank you for your request! If this isn't quite what you had in mind, go ahead and send me another ask and I'll try again! ❤️

(Requests are open until December 15th)

[2-kamikou-1]

hello dbdblr have edit

do whatever you want with this barring selling it 👍

[deadbangdetectives]

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[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Edwin and Charles borrowing each other's jackets for fun, totally not because they're in love

[injsiafg]

the most bisexual thing about Charles Rowland isn't his repressed feelings for his homie or his journey to save said homie or his "we have literally forever to figure the rest out" about said repressed feelings for said homie. It's the pins. It's always been the pins.

[sthilarions]

Asexual Charles Rowland who died a virgin (because he went to an all-boys school, of course that’s the reason - so what if most of his friends got up to things in town or on breaks). He liked looking at fit people, still does, and he liked kissing, but he just never happened to get around to doing anything else. Not for lack of wanting to, of course - of course! Just… never happened.

After his death he did try a few things but it just felt… wrong. Felt sort of like nothing and sort of, if he’s really, really honest with himself, like he remembers nausea feeling. He puts it down to ghost limitations. He can’t feel touch right, probably can’t feel anything like that right.

And then he’s with Edwin. And he can touch Edwin. He can feel Edwin. And every second his skin is against Edwin’s, it sings. So surely it must work, now?

It doesn’t.

Edwin’s hand creeps up his thigh, and it feels the same as it did on his hand (wonderful - but not special, not different, and he knows it’s supposed to feel different somehow). Maybe he just needs to go further? But as he’s moving against Edwin, and feeling sort of like nothing and sort of like everything (skin against skin still sings) and sort of like nausea, he thinks, ah. I guess it still doesn’t work, even ghost to ghost, even with someone I can feel. I guess ghosts just can’t do that.

Until he looks into Edwin’s eyes. And he realizes Edwin isn’t feeling nothing and isn’t feeling nausea. Edwin’s eyes are pupil-full, black and shining, looking up at him with feverish heat and naked pleasure.

Things Charles doesn’t feel.

Can’t feel.

And he’s run out of excuses for why.

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

i don't wanna be a bad guy, edwin

charles... i promise you. bad guys do not worry about being bad guys