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Dead Boy Detectives Agency / main blog: @livrere-green / icon: @bryverros [♡]

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

Charles Rowland: Pain, Love, Desire.

"For love is no part of the dreamworld. love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel" — Death of the Endless, from The Sandman: The Doll's House.

[sources: quote by katie maria // cover for documentary film dance craze by joe massot // cover for do the dog by the specials // seasons of mists, episode 4 // vamperinee on tumblr // seasons of mists, episode 4 // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // quote by friedrich nietzsche // i would leave me if i could by halsey // dead boy detectives, episode 8 // poster for donnie darko by let's eat grandma // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // poster for do you really want to hurt me by culture club // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // poetryforall on tumblr // to the busted among us, sharks in the rivers by ada limón // a pearl by mitski // dead boy detectives, episode 1 // letter to ruth tiffanny beuscher written by sylvia plath, july, 1962 // quote by katie maria]

[incorrect-deadboy-quotes]

Kidnapper: We have your husband. Charles: You have Edwin? Kidnapper: Yes. Charles: Good luck with that.

[mellxncollie]

happy pride month to the dead boy detectives! (again)

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

hi, how did you get your tumblr looking so pretty? (not on mobile, on the search engine? idk i've forgotten the name)

Hey, anon! 👻

I already answered a similar question here

Hope it helps! I have been editing my blogs' theme for so many years now 😂 so I'm happy to share that info with y'all 🩷

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

your blog is so so so so cute <3 i love the ghosts and the pink

Thank you so much! 🩷 I thought the ghosts looked a bit goofy but I'm glad you like them, and making all of this pink was a NEED ✨

[mythpilled]

I rewatched dead boy detectives today and i cant stop thinking about them…. Dead boy detectives i miss u… palasaki i miss u

[fairandfatalasfair]

Edwin was a character who really grew on me over my first watch of the series, and especially over the first episode. Initially he comes across as aloof and distant with everyone but Charles - his cool demeanour with the WWI nurse and "playing hardball" with Emma, his obvious resentment of Crystal's intrusion into his space and his irritation with Charles for inviting her without asking him.

One of my favourite little character-revealing exchanges in the first episode is Edwin and Charles' argument in the games cupboard about whether to take the Becky Aspen case - specifically, the way that after Charles lays out all his arguments about taking a break from the office to avoid getting caught by death, he smiles, relaxed and confident, and pulls out what is obviously his trump card:

"You really gonna let a little American girl die?"

And Edwin gives him a longsuffering look, and Charles grins like a madman, and in the next shot they're in Port Townsend. Because no, Edwin was never going to do that, and they both knew it.

We see more of why he's like that over the rest of the episode, the flashback to his own murder, and then finally in his argument with Crystal, where that composed facade cracks and we see the thing that drives him, the reason why he's spent the last 34 years risking getting caught and sent back to hell, the motivation that normally hides behind the sterile excuse that a good detective does what he must to close the case.

Edwin wants justice. For himself, for Charles, for Becky Aspen, and yes, for Crystal too. He wants every death to count, every hurt to matter, every wrong to be righted - or at least acknowledged and given the weight it deserves. He was murdered at sixteen in a hate crime, was sent to hell on a technicality, and dragged himself out to discover that his death had been smoothed over and forgotten. And he's spent the last 34 years doing everything he can, even at the risk of being sent back, to make sure that kind of thing doesn't happen to anyone else.

[duckchaw]

Day 22 - Downtime

I wonder what song they'd be listening to

@dbdpromptober

[stark-lord]

charles + hands

for @iammissdistress and @purgatory606

[kaciart]

DBD Promptober Day 28 Tricksters

Another fantastic collab with @asidian from their fic Boggarts and Blueberry Muffins

This fic is so amazing - i was reading it thinking 'Everyone is in for a TREAT' and that was before I got to this scene 😍

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[fuusart]

MONTY 🪶

[vell1ch0r]

Dead Boy Detectives Promptober

Day 3: Eternity

[guardianspirits13]

Happy Coming Out Day to Charles Rowland, and Charles Rowland only.

I hope you figure your shit out soon lil buddy 👍

[milo-makes-art]

Day 3: Eternity. I've never made a gif before, but I thought it would be perfect for these two. No matter what might separate them, in the end they will always find each other again. ❤️

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[etheriiart]

@dbdpromptober 2 & 3: Death + Eternity

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

Dead Boy Detectives Agency + Random Posts.

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[niko-sasaki-dbd]

how did you get your tumblr on desktop to look so pretty? it's very unique.

Oh, hi! 🩷

Well, I edited the appearance of my blog using a theme. You can pick one by clicking on the 🎨 icon (available only on desktop). The theme I'm using now is called Pixelution (it's free), and to personalize it, you can either edit the HTML code or customize various aspects, such as selecting colors, adding descriptions and pictures for the sidebar and background, and using advanced options.

I hope this helps you! ✨👻