#deadboydetectives

[fairandfatalasfair]

Belatedly sharing the finished version of Charles from @coraline-piange's WIP punk-rock band AU! you can find a snip here :D

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[mklopez]

During Pride Month, Netflix has been advertising the excellent YA supernatural mystery series #DeadBoyDetectives that it canceled after one season. Here's why the streamer should consider bringing it back for another round.

There's A Canceled Netflix Show In Its Pride Section That I Really Wish Would Come Back

I miss these boys!

[tropesdespereratehousestudent]

Singer AU with crowghost end game part 2 (part 1 here and playlist for each band here)

Okay ! I find a way to get Monty out, but he will have to suffer first. Which is like usual, because I like it when he is hurt. So we're going kinda with a free Britney type of deal :

So Monty is a solo singer who cross path often with Charles band. And The detective gang don't really like how Esther, Monty's mother and manager, is treating him.

But the more time pass, the worst it gets. Monty is getting popular, and Esther see how much money she can have with him. So she gets stricter until it goes all the way to abuse.

She limit his food intake, starve him, because he needs to stay fine and pretty. "They like you because of your pretty face and waist. Don't fuck it up you pig !". She don't let him rest between concert and venues, because more representations means more money. "Ungrateful lazy fucker. Do you know how much work it is to organize your pathetic little shows ?!?". She makes him redo is routines until he collapses "You really are useless. Can't even do a small choregraphy correctly... What can I do with you."

It's to the point that he gets health issues and is at risk of collapsing... And instead of letting him rest, Esther dope him with medications so he "doesn't feel it anymore".

Esther gets more and more confident... And slip up. A paparazzi get behind the scene and film her slapping Monty and generally being an ass. And like a good paparazzi, they put it on internet. It goes down bad. They loose some contacts because after slapping and hitting him Esther made Monty took a pill on video. Esther gets mad at Monty because that wouldn't have happen if he had just been good !

Children of the night (name of the ghost boys band for now because I don't have the imagination for it) get the mémo. And try to get in touch. But Monty is isolated. Depressed and honestly drugged as soon as he is out of a show.

And the. Everything comes to an head when his body finally can't take it anymore and he collapse on the stage while performing. He is hospitalized and Esther refuse to pay for it. And that how the general population learns that Monty doesn't have any says in how the cash of his shows is used. Nor does he have access to his own money.

Comes the moment when the public start to fight Esther over it. But Monty don't want / can't take her to justice. He doesn't have the money for it, he would be homeless and the hospital bills are already so high...

(for this AU I'm putting everyone in the state. Usually I prefer to transfer Monty to the UK, but in this one I want a deamatic back story about Edwin and Charles quitting England to get away from their parents and meeting the girls on their way... So US it is because the Atlantic seems a good distance to put between you and your abusive parents)

So he stays. The contract with Esther is legal, no matter that Monty signed it when he was barely of age and unable to say no. So he just try to get better fast and go back on stage so he can get a little bit of money.

That when the dead boys Detective comes in. Three out of four have abusive parents. And the fourth one is very sensible about that subject. So they help.

They propose to let Monty stay at their place. They help him get a lawyer with a program for that type of situations, they help him look up for rehab... And Monty don't know what to make with all this kindness. Because he never got that. So at first he says no.

Because better is the devil you know. As long as he is good, obedient, useful, then Esther will calm down and things will get better.

But it goes worse and worse and he gets less gigs because between the people who "don't want to participate with the exploitation", the one who "don't believe in excuses, and he's just an instable druggy", well scenes don't want him anymore... And so Esther gets worse. And try to let a director sleep with Monty in exchange for a gig.

It doesn't happen, because I'm not mean. So Monty ran. And phone Edwin to please please please come fetch him, he is lost and Esther is gonna be so mad, he is begging Edwin, really I will die of you don't come.

It take two hours for the DBDZ group to come because they were in another town.

Anyway, life is hard for Monty who as to deal with everything around him going to shit PLUS he is in love with two boys who are already together, and he is so tired please let him rest.

But it will be okay because he has friends now. Also, the Cat King makes a song to insult Esther and promise the gain to help pay for the hospital debt, because I don't know how Monty could have that money otherwise and I want a happy end.

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They're actively solving some cases (case of unresolved sexual tension spanning 35 years)

[tropesdespereratehousestudent]

Eldrich horror Monty part 2, because the creepy cutie is still in my head and I have a little more free time :

The night nurse was having a bad day. Very bad in fact. She was trying to contact that little group of hellions nuisance that passed for detective... Until she was allowed to collect their souls like she should have, then she had to supervise them. The higher up called it a "promotion", she would have called it a "damnation worse than hell". They didn't listen to anything she said, and their methods were dangerous at best.

And now there was that psychic girl with them and that ghost-not-ghost girl soul apparated in the nurse files ! And the night nurse needed to go check on those rascals... But she couldn't.

She tried to teleport there as usual but she bounced on a magical fence. Being throw in the building next door. After several tentatives the night Nurse gave up the teleporting. Grumbling all the way she decided to go on foot, using the clients entrance like she only had that to do with her night !

But as she came on the right floor, she realized a desk as been put in the lobby in front of the main office. At the desk, a boy she hasn't seen before is sitted, writting in a cute calligraphy in a notebook.

"Another dead boy who refuse to behave ? Are they going to pick up all the stray of London ?"

The boy raised is head to look at her. And what a gaze. The night nurse shivered under the black eyes of the boy in front of her. They were deep, cold, like blackholes in which an unmovable force swimmed. His face moved in a weird way, like a stone statue, his expression passed from unnervingly predatory to smiling darling in a slow and creepy dance.

Turning his head slightly, like a puppy he asked :

"Good evening madam, can I help you with something ?"

"I don't think you can, I'm gonna speak to the dead boys Detective"

"Mmh, I see. I'm the one who decide if a case as enough elements to be investigated. There is a lot more clients recently so they kinda needed a first secretary for that" another unsettling smile. Pointy teeth making him look ready to pounce and devore.

A new addition, well the Night Nurse would just put him in his place, like the others three.

"I'm the Night Nurse, the boys work for the afterlife investigation now. If you will excuse me."

But she was unable to reach the door. The more she walked toward it, the farther the door seemed. She accelerated her steps, until she was nearly running. Nothing. She looked around her to try to spot the spell caster. The boy at the desk was still smiling cutely.

"You ! You are doing that ! I can take your pretty twinky self back into the afterlife ! You better stop that right now !"

The smile was remplaced by a pout and the Night Nurse felt something move in the litteral essence of the room.

"Please, consider coming back later" said the boy.

Nursy scoffed and reached the door, ignoring the insolent little shit. She passed the door... And was back in the lobby. The boy at the desk, the chairs for waiting clients... Everything was in place. The Night Nurse passed the door a second time, and a third, and a fourth. And she still came back in the damn lobby. The boy was smiling once again. His cute little face bearing the expression of a cat playing with a mouse it new would die under its paw.

"Please, consider coming back later madam, we ask politeness from all visitors..."

"You... You aren't a child. What are you little beast ?!?!" The Night Nurse stepped back. She was an unterdimensional being. She defied human logic and death itself... What was that thing mascarading as a boy ? How strong did it need to be ?

The boy rose from his chair. Walking slowly toward her he said again : "Please, reconsider coming back later madam. We are busy today..."

The air was oppressing, shadows climbing on the walls and crawling toward her. She was gonna scream when the door to the office opened and everything stopped suddenly.

The room was its normal size again, light on. The boy was back at his desk and was looking at Edwin and Charles coming out of the office door.

"Hey Monty, we heard something, is everything alrigh... Ho... Hello Miss Nurse. Mmh, what can we do for you ?"

The Night Nurse kept her eyes on the monster, too scared to turn away.

"Ho yeah, you don't know Monty yet ! We met him in the States ! He is our newest addition and mate, and he isn't dead so you can't take him !"

Charles passed an arm around the monster shoulder and hugged him like the thing couldn't cut him into tiny miserable pieces. And the monster smiled and nuzzled in the hug like a damn cat.

"Did you need to see us ? Come in ! We aren't busy until later tonight"

And Edwin guided her inside. The door closed on the monster still smiling, still at his desk.

"See you later madam, later guys !"

Here the first part

[fairandfatalasfair]

Happy Dead Boys anniversary! I may be bad at answering messages but I'm very (and constantly) happy to have you in my circle. Thank you for everything you do, including being a generally awesome person! - sthilarions

Happy Dead Boys anniversary to you too! I appreciate you so much and think you're so cool, and I'm so glad we ended up sharing this fandom! I love reading your fics and your character analysis, and I appreciate all the encouragement you offer to others. And thank you for the anniversary ask!!!