You know how in the first Dead Boy Detectives episode, Edwin and Charles take a bunch of breaks to tell each other stuff that they already know?
Like, Edwin says out loud to Charles that they need to bounce before Death shows up, “or she will collect us, too.” As if this is a revelation to Charles, who has been cheerfully dodging Death for over thirty years.
Anyway. Rather than accepting that for the rushed exposition it obviously is, I like to imagine that the boys loudly stage this conversation every time they think Death is close enough to hear it. They’re trying to make her feel bad for them, so if they DO get caught one day they can tug on her heartstrings and bargain for release.
Death has heard this spiel at least a hundred times. She can recite it. “Do you ever think, what would happen if Death did catch us?” she mouths along with Charles, pretending not to know he’s just behind the couch. She thinks it’s adorable.