Dead Boy Detectives (2024) Season 01 Episode 06

Dead Boy Detectives (2024) — Season 01 Episode 06

📕🪄🧪❣️ + Edwin Payne (requested by @manicpixiedreamedwins)

LOOK AT HIS EYES. LOOK AT THE MIXTURE OF HURT, AND FEAR, AND SADNESS IN HIS EYES. HE IS VULNERABLE. HE IS MAD THAT HIS DEATH WAS "AN ACT OF GOD". HE IS MAD THAT NO ONE REMEMBERS HIM OR CHARLES. HE IS SCARED OF WHAT CRYSTAL IS DOING TO THEIR RELATIONSHIP. HE FEELS HELPLESS THAT THEY DON'T KNOW HOW HANDLE A WITCH AND HE FEELS INCOMPETENT. AND IF HES INCOMPETENT, THAN HE CANT HELP OTHERS. HE WILL BLAME HIMSELF FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S UNSOLVED CASES/UNFINISHED BUISINESS.

And as we know this roots back to the fear of Hell.

If he can't help others, then he has nothing to argue about being sent back to Hell. And he's terrified of Hell. That is when he felt the most helpless and vulnerable. That pit in his gut is the most painful thing in the world to him.

In the OFFICIAL character sheet in the omnibus, it says:

The base ESSENCE of Edwin's whole character is that he wants to be safe. But he's in an uncomfortable, unfamiliar place (America), with an uncomfortable, unfamiliar person (Crystal), on an uncomfortable, unfamiliar case (witch). This is scaring him and he doesn't know what to do!

AGH IT FUCKING KILLS ME. EDWIN YOUR EYES KILL ME

Charles' reaction to Edwin and Monty kills me every time

Also if anyone can find gifs of this particular interaction, send em to me (because studying Charles Rowland under the microscope is my hobby now). I couldn't find any, so I decided to make these, but the quality isn't good enough.

Totally random but this shot always makes me crazy:

This one, too:

I've rewatched this damn show like 50 times or more at this point and still I find myself always watching Charles even if he isn't the "focus" of the scene because not only is he always lurking and observing but he's also REACTING. Like, full face reactions at all times.

Oh to be a fly on the the wall of Charles Rowland's mind...

"And I'm left to wonder if your heart would beat next to mine"

There's a universe where dbda s1 has like 20 episodes and in that universe there's an entire episode of Edwin trying to reach for something Just outside the border of Port Townsend using increasingly desperate and elaborate methods. Charles picks up the thing and hands it to him in the last like four seconds