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[melefim]

Swearing in Dead Boy Detectives: Crystal’s Parents

Maddy Surname

Overview:

1 curse said in 1 episode.

Episode 8: 1 Damn

Percent of Total:

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

Rankings:

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

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

Lines:

Episode 8: They're wasting our goddamn time, Seth, go tell him!

Seth Von Hoverkraft

Overview:

1 curse said in 1 episode.

Episode 8: 1 Jesus

Percent of Total:

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

Rankings:

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

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

Lines:

Episode 8: This is Art, for Christ’s sake!

Notes:

Updates:

Updated Percent of Total Swearing charts.

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Swearing by Character

Swearing by Word

All Swearing Posts

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[leahaart]

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

[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."

[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

[mrnightingale]

DBDA Character Appreciation Week: #3 Crystal Palace

Ok, at the end I ruined the colors again. But it was looking nice... Until I had the brilliant idea of painting the face too. I'm an idiot. But I really enjoyed drawing the b/w one. This is the first proper drawing I do of her and she has a pretty drawable face, idk why I didn't draw her before.

Anyways, headcanon that Niko gave her the pink sea glass bc it's crystal and. You get it. Palasaki my beloved ones.

I really love Crystal and her character arc is so interesting, she's really sassy and beautiful and I love her outfits sm. Sry, lately the words aren't wording. Yk. There's plenty of great character analysis out there but rn I'm not in the best mood to do one myself.

[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.

[iced-dirty-chai]

Biggest plot hole in Dead Boy Detectives

Episode 1:

Crystal: Oh no, I have no memories about my life except for my first names and the fact that I was (somewhat willingly) possessed by my demon ex-boyfriend.

"Detectives" Edwin and Charles: That really sucks, we wish there was some way we could help you find out more about your life pre-possession! Unfortunately, we'd have no idea where to start.

The little Victorian-era ghost girl who hired the Dead Boy Detectives to help her friend Crystal, who she spent enough time with to notice a sudden and sustained personality change: Am I a fucking joke to you?!

[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

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

I need a fic where Edwin gets hit with the "you're now a child" plotline and everyone fully expects him to attach himself to Charles or Niko. But Edwin, even as an ankle biter, is determined to divert expectations. Niko treats him too much like a kid -- baby voice, 'aaaawwwee!!!!', aka not something he's used to -- and Charles isn't nearly upfront enough -- often plastering on a small and can-do attitude, which is worse now that Edwin's a child

But Crystal? Crystal is blunt to a fault and she's so used to bitching at and with Edwin that it's reflexive. So this little brainiac, sassy preteen has latched onto the world's recovering-worst influence. Shenanigans ensue. (AKA: Average older & younger sibling behavior.)

I just think Edwin's autistic bitchy kid ass would love someone he can speak his mind to without fear and have respond in genuine, not watered down or riddle-ified ways. He still likes Niko and Charles too obviously. I need the silliness so badly you don't UNDERSTAND ‼️‼️‼️😩🙏🙏🙏🙏

[pony-unicorn]

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

[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.