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Actually insane how similar these two characters are, yet I haven't seen a single post about it

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Dead Boy Detectives Promptober 2024!

The prompts:

1. mirrors

2. death

3. eternity

4. light

5. magic

6. books

7. blood

8. hell

9. past

10. lantern

11. dream

12. eight ball

13. demons

14. sorrow

15. crow

16. knives

17. mushroom

18. friendship

19. forest

20. investigate

21. lighthouse

22. downtime

23. sight

24. cats

25. dandelions

26. bones

27. snow

28. tricksters

29. doll

30. love

31. spooky

Rules:

1. Everyone can join!

Your work can be in any medium: art, fics, headcanons (yes, even a tweet counts), poetry, etc... Whatever you can think of!

2. You don’t have to do all days.

It’s for fun, so do what you’re able to or what inspires you the most.

3. Post on the same day or afterwards

We don’t have a deadline: you can post from the day of the prompt to October 2025 (next year), it’s fine. Just don’t skip forward! (i.e. post on Day 1 the prompt for day 3).

Where to post:

1. Twitter

Tag the account @DBDpromptober with the hashtag #DBDpromptober2024. You can add another hashtag used for the series and the save campaign, but no more than 2 per tweet as it could be seen as spam. Write the prompt of the day in the description.

2. Tumblr

Tag the account @DBDpromptober with the hashtag #DBDpromptober2024 and any other # used for the series. Write the prompt of the day in the description.

2. Instagram

Tag the account @DBDpromptober with the hashtag #DBDpromptober2024 and any othe # used for the series. Write the prompt of the day in the description.

3. AO3

Publish your work inside the collection DBDpromptober with the tag #DBDpromptober2024 and the prompt of the day. A tutorial on how to publish inside a collection is coming soon.

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early party (ID in alt)

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Her smile! Her skirt!! I’d fall for Molly so hard

Fem!Monty….? I’ve been looking at all all the dead girl detective arts with all the characters and genuinely no one’s made girl Monty😭😭

Her name is Molly, because that makes the "we should follow up with this Molly character" line even funnier

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The things I would give to see these two interact

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she's so pretty fr

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It’s actually tragic that we don’t get a proper valentines episode given that dbda takes place mid February

Could you imagine Monty getting ghost chocolates for Edwin, Edwin’s silent yearn for Charles intensifying, the Cat King with the most outrageous heart-shaped bed, Charles trying to lowkey find a gift for Crystal at Tragic Mick’s while she is so over this stupid lovey dovey holiday

And Niko with extra heart-shaped everything trying to get all her friends to confess their feelings to each other

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Winky chorles

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CRYSTAL PALACE SURNAME-VON HOVERKRAFT

when the ground moves and the bird cries stop looking without and look within

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​forwards ☆ beckon ☆ rebound again ☆ and again ☆ and again

🔮 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🔮

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Not so lonely anymore

CK sends his cats to accompany Edwin so he doesn't feel lonely and in return cats get as much pets&chin scratches as they like cause ghosts don't tire. Then cats return to CK with new stories about solved and ongoing cases so he doesn't get so bored and lonely anymore too 👉👈

Also I think about ghosts being able to canonically feel cats at least once a day. Which could mean nothing or it could mean warm cuddles soft furr that you can feel under your touch that makes you feel happy and content and also intense purring. So it not that bad being a ghost

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The Case in which we save dbd 🗣❗️

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Quick note on Charles's speech for fic writers or anyone interested, really.

Charles uses tag questions, where he ends a sentence with a question, doesn't he? I see a lot of "innit" thrown at the end of sentences, which is right, sometimes.

There is unfortunately grammar. First off, if the main verb is negative, the tag will be positive, and vice versa.

When the main verbs in the sentence is a form of "be" or a modal verb (must, could, would, have, will, can, do etc), he's going to repeat that same form at the end of the sentence. An exception to this is a positive main verb of "I am" in which case the tag will be "aren't I?"

"[You're] Not going back to hell, are you?"

"I wouldn't wanna be dead with anyone else, would I?"

"No, we're not going anywhere, are we?"

"Well, I can't see where you're pointing to, can I?"

"We don't want a repeat of the infamous puppy debacle of '94, do we?"

He uses "innit" a lot less than people think, I think. It took me a while to find examples of him saying this, I ended up having to search a transcript. It follows the same rules as above, except the subject is always a thing, or the pronoun "it," and the main sentence is positive, so that the tag can be the negative "innit" (isn't it). *Edit* "innit" is not used as a question! It's mainly used to reinforce a talking point! (Thank you @elizabear). While the other tags are like rhetorical questions, this one is flat tonally and can end with a period, too.

"Boxing's a gentleman's sport, innit?"

"Magical void, innit?"

"That's the injustice we fight, innit?"

When the verb is not one of those above" he uses a form of "do."

"Well, that sounds a lot like you, doesn't it?"

"Wanna keep things professional, don't I?"

Charles also ends a lot of sentences with just the word "yeah."

"Psychic thing makes case work go a lot faster, yeah?"

I am usamerican, but I have a masters in Linguistics. People who actually use tag questions, though, please add on or correct me!

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Lukas gage, man that you are

in which edwin is investigating the hosts of a gala for magical beings but is unfortunately overwhelmed by the party, and he is saved by the cat king offering to be his date for the evening so he doesn't stick out like a sore thumb (the cat king is trying not to be gay about it)

🥂 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🥂

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started watching dead boy detectives. working out how to draw this guy

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Hurt/Comfort Payneland

Like they’re DEAD boy detectives. They have to have their “true” ghost’s forms (Part 2)