#edith payne

[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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[hannaloony]

THE CAT QUEEN 💚💜

I just understand that when I draw the Cat Queen, she looks like her parent Desire of the Endless 🫠

[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 😢💔

[a-foggy-maggy]

a girl who is also a crow and also very in love with a ghost

[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

[gendrsoup]

did anyone order some butch4butch payneland?

[trix1erose]

i saw a post (edit: it was the ‘A Query of Edith Payne’ post from @shadows-and-starlight :) ) about butch edith payne in the same way edwin is more feminine and i 100% agree- give the edwardian girl some trousers

[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]

What if I put Edith in pants for her confession outfit?

[hannaloony]

Hiii, I’ve tried & tried looking but I can’t seem to find a Monty genderbend so could you maybe draw one?

I’m sorry I’ve never given an art request before ٩(๑´0`๑)۶

Hi!

Love this little astrology crow

Also I have their design here:

Have a beautiful day! 💖🐦

[read-write-thrive]

edwina / edith in her lingerie as inspired by @hannaloony and @arisprite ‘s fanart !!! this one’s on the simpler side but I’m planning to do a companion piece with charlotte (and might do more with the backgrounds to really sell the whole “getting ready in their respective eras” thing, not sure yet) and hopefully doing something a little more suggestive with the both of them, again inspired by @hannaloony ‘s piece but using my own interpretations of fem!payneland w/ butch!edwina and fem!charlotte bc i love them

(side note: I know everyone is using Edith and not Edwina but I think Edwina suits my interpretation better for some reason ?? something about ppl hearing “Edwina and Charlie” and getting jumpscared when Edwina is the butch is funny to me,,, still undecided if she uses any nicknames but I’m open to suggestions lol)

previous artwork I’ve done of these characters can be found here: part one (original duo piece) ; part two (alt outfit for Edwina, Edwina sketches) ; this is part three! ; part four (lingerie!Charlotte ;)

notes on the costuming choices for anyone interested:

- i specifically designed these undergarments to work under either of the outfits I’ve given her so far!!

- I decided on combinations as her base layer as they were seen as younger/more casual/athletic, all of which im aiming for with this design. technically these are probably too plain for the era, especially if she was attending a girl's college/finishing school where sewing and adorning and the like would have been taught, but I wanted to keep the masculine energy so I figured some ruffly hems and blue ribbon was a good enough middle ground

- the color palette is inspired by several reproductions I’ve seen online as well as keeping with Edwin’s blue color motif/existing palette

- researching the corset took AGES so here’s a rundown: I wanted it to keep with the casual/sportswear look so I went with a sports corset, meaning it wouldn’t have any hard boning (it was just the hella reinforced material without the actual bones/metal), would have elastic at the sides, and would most likely be an overbust corset despite that not being the trend during the Edwardian era (for the most part/to my knowledge). the examples I was inspired by of sports corsets technically didn’t have visible garters, but literally every other corset I saw did and I can't imagine why sports corsets would have to have the more impractical thigh garters ??? surely you also want to keep your stockings up when running around ??? so I gave them to her anyway

- im keeping the socks/stockings the same as my other illustrations but honestly i struggled to find similar historical examples :/ surely someone at some point wore some heavy duty knit stockings, but maybe my idea of knit is just different from how knit garments, especially socks, were in the era ? regardless im keeping them like this, especially since Charlotte has pantyhose on and I feel like silk/cotton stockings would look too similar

- i went back and forth on a corset cover, but ultimately went without one bc 1. it gave me a more interesting way to pose her lol and 2. i couldn't tell if corset covers (and similar garments that went over top what we have here) would have been worn with athletic attire ? like I have her in bloomers in both of her outfits thus far so I figured no petticoat or slip, but early brassieres/corset covers/bust improvers/etc are just a big ??? from me

- a note on her hair: so if you look at all three of my illustrations of her you’ll see that her hair is totally consistent and while I can try to say that’s intentional it’s really just bc I keep going back and forth on little details about it. for example, in the first illustration her ears are completely exposed vs in the second they’re mostly covered—the exposed ears read as more butch to me but also would’ve been pretty inappropriate and I wasn’t sure if that’s an area would Edwina would rock the boat too much, hence me going back on it in the second illustration. also, I’ve gone back and forth several times before on it her hair is actually cut short or if it’s worn in a faux/“nervous” bob (which I just learned that name for lmao). on one hand, having it actually cut short is 100% more butch and leans into the practical/athletic vibes. on the other hand, it would be a drastic move for a repressed, bullied, 16 year old at an all-girls school to pull, plus it would put her ahead of the trend by several years. in the end, I think of it this way: the Edwin that we meet reads as effeminate to a modern audience, but 80% of that is through mannerisms, not direct costuming, and even what we do get from costuming is skewed bc we are a modern audience perceiving an Edwardian subject. so I figured sticking Edwina with traits she could wear as either masc or fem but chooses to wear bin a more masculine style would shorthand that sort of how-you-wear-it approach to gnc (plus I’ve been there done that when closeted so it felt extra fitting)

- that whole rant aside: I went with the faux bob but, in the name of her being in the process of getting ready, wanted to show it in a half-done state that we would never see Edwina in otherwise ! the idea with the undone side is that she’s taken out the rags she wore her curls in overnight (I don’t see her using heat but if she did it would be before this) but only tucked half up before putting her corset on. is that the actual order of how you would/should do this? fuck if I know. I also am not 100% certain if the curl pattern/hair density is accurate between one side of her head and the other, but without an exact reference this is the best you’re getting

- speaking of things being out of order, I do know that if you’re deciding to don a corset anytime soon, it’s best to put your shoes on beforehand! especially if they’re lace-up boots like our girl here wears, as bending over in a corset to tie them is not fun. thankfully, she’s in a sports corset so it wouldn’t be too bad, plus she has to step into her bloomers so I figured keep her in her socks was the right choice

- there’s a halfhearted attempt at a background here with some dark wood panelling and red/orange/brown tones thats honestly just me wanting some contrast/interest while also keeping it simple. we'll see if i do anything more complicated than that anytime soon lmao, these pieces take long enough as is !!

hopefully tumblr doesn’t fuck up the cut (again) so not everyone has to read all of this, but tysm to those of you who do!! I put a lot of thought and research into these pieces and love sharing what info I find so feel free to talk to me about any and all of it !!!! and hope you enjoyed ofc

[hedonistbyheart]

Doodled fem!Edwin/Edith. I didn't like the other ones, but this one is cute I think.

[novacomics]

im not normal about them

[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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[oxymoronicdumbass]

any fictional couple can be wlw if you believe hard enough