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St. Hilarion's ghost story
#payneland#edwin x charles#dead boy detectives#dbda#pre canon angst brought to you by the weirdo who's always drawing post canon fluff#something about oral tradition and old timey slang#i took quite a lot of decisions with this one so buckle up#first of all the female ghost keeps edwin's eyes color because there's still some truth to the legend#the background is the same shade of green to reference hell#just like it is when he's having his flashback#alive charles is dressed all in black because he's not a happy boy#i also made it so that he grips his clothes when his mate punches him even as it's intended to be friendly#because well#these people will end up killing him so it's less friendly when you remember THAT#charles obviously doesn't mean anything by the mary ann comment#he doesn't know the slang meaning and just blurted out what he remembered from the legend#he will find out reach some conclussions and go punch a wall about it probably#about edwin tho his escape is still very recent and he didn't expect this#but even so early on he knows charles means no harm and allows himself to be comforted#it wasn't intentional but hey edwin shruggin off charles' touch is a good parallel to that one scene after charles “kills” the night nurse
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just wanted to add that “Mary Ann” was Victorian (derogatory) slang for an “effeminate male homosexual” and that in all likelihood the story of the ghost of Mary Ann came from other closeted boys at St. Hilarion’s being killed for being queer, and that it (“Mary Ann”) also referred to boys who were groomed and SA’d by adult men (the specific word is “catamite”) (which, in Edwin’s case, could be read as the demon who took his soul to Hell, a defiling of his core and purest self)
just thought that should be a thing that more people should know
St. Hilarion's ghost story
#payneland#edwin x charles#dead boy detectives#dbda#something about oral tradition and old timey slang#the llama speaks#the llama adds#the llama replies#don’t lose this#do not lose#do not lose this#very important post#very important#tw sa mention#tw sa#tw sa implied#tw grooming#tw grooming mention
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