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If ghosts can spot the hell bound

Charles, good shiny soul– I’m the brawn!

Mostly innocent ghost client: You? You? That bitch sits here, thrice your ghost age, stinking of hellfire, spiced with magic and too articulate to just call me an idiot but you are brawn? You are a sacrificial twink, you’re the dog they put in with the cheetahs, you are delusional

Edwin, resting bitch face:

Mostly innocent ghost client unable to sweat: Huh

Here are my ideas for the Payneland twin AU (pls feel free to correct me, I’ve got a bad memory and I have a feeling that idea ten is wrong/incorrect):

Edwin and Charles have twin sisters

Introducing: Eden Payne, twin sister of Edwin Payne and Charlotte Rolland, Charles’ twin sister.

Eden has the ability to summon the main protagonists of books by throwing the book across the floor and saying the book’s title aloud ( the book’s pages will tear themselves off of the cover, fold together like origami to form the character).

Charlotte has a pair of traditional Indian Tiger Claws which she fights with

As a result the duo are called The Tigeriess and The Librarian

Edwin and Charles are both the older twins by five minutes

The girls died five months after their brothers by opposite ways

Eden Payne died by suicide and, by doing that, avoided being sacrificed to a demon

Charlotte Rolland was killed when a group of boys poured petroleum on her and set her on fire for trying to contact her brother’s spirit

Charles and Charlotte mirror each other; Charles has gold piercings on his left ear and Charlotte has silver piercings on her right ear, Charles wears gloves but Charlotte doesn’t (unless she is handling iron)

Both girls are in a romantic relationship and have been for twenty years

The girls also searched for their brothers while helping ghosts who were in need of help like their brothers

Edwin and Eden confessed their feelings first, Charles and Charlotte confessed later

The Payne twins fell first but the Roland twins fell harder

Sooo… here’s another DBDA headcannon: Charles and Edwin both have twin sisters; Charlotte Rolland and Eden Payne, who have been searching for them for over thirty years and five months (the months have been added on as they both died five months after their brothers) and they just hear about Edwin and Charles’ detective agency. They go to hire them and surprise! It’s their brothers who are running the agency.

Fanfic prompt; Edwin and Charles learn about the Tylenol Murders and attempt to solve it.

I really appreciate that crystal isn't villainized in order to ship payneland, at least from what I've seen.

More appreciation for the doom patrol version of the dead boy detectives please, a bunch of people are getting into the comics because of the show but I haven’t seen dead patrol getting the love it deserves

i dunno man! maybe it's just "i don't need charles to protect me" "i'd do it anyways, won't i?" and "there's no one else i'd go to hell for"

maybe it's just "she has damage" "shut it, edwin" and "so, you'll be leaving then?" "oi!"

maybe it's just "if we simply killed her, this wouldn't be an issue anymore" and "if she had died last night, i would have no problem with her staying"

maybe it's just "guess you're a lot alike, really" and "well, that sounds a lot like you, doesn't it?"

maybe it's just "you know boys can like like each other, right?" and "it is normal, now" and "it's not 1916 anymore" and "it's not 1916, you know"

maybe it's just charles' baseball bat and charles' cricket bat

maybe it's just larry & edwin chatting about queerness on a beach, and niko & edwin chatting about queerness on a beach

maybe it's just charles throwing a smoke bomb at the afterlife demon, and charles throwing a moltov cocktail at an afterlife demon

maybe it's just the lantern passed on in moments of strength and light and love

maybe it's just the FUCKING PARALLELS between dead patrol and the netflix adaptation that make me FERAL

what we must all remember is that, though in n!dbda edwin has charles wrapped around his finger, dp!dbda charles has edwin wrapped around his finger.

dp charles: we should go help danny dp edwin: we're in the middle of a case??? dp charles: and? i have brown eyes & you are weak

dp edwin: i don't want to do this it's dangerous dp charles: has brown eyes dp edwin: FINE we'll do the thing

is being really pretty a requirement to play those gay ghost boys or

Cat King: You have friends and I envy that. Edwin: You're welcome to share my friends. Cat King: *looks at Charles, Crystal, and Niko* Cat King: I don't want those.

I love how Larry saw Edwin and Charles and immediately went "these bitches gay. good for them"

Role Reversal. Charles is from 1916. Edwin is from the 80s. Charles dresses formally, maybe a nice waistcoat. Edwin has a modest alternative look going. Charles, after 70 years in hell, smiles through anything to keep from looking broken. Edwin, who'd been living during the HIV/AIDS crisis, would never breathe of or process his sexuality. Maybe they still maintain their brain and brawn dynamic. People just get really confused when this kid gentleman is great at fisticuffs and pulls boxing gloves (or knuckle dusters!) from his bag. They get intimidated by the looks of this dark-clothed twink that chills everyone with a bitchy look and a little spellcasting.

Something about how they still find each other, and themselves, in every universe no matter the circumstances.

Does anyone else specifically love Doom Patrol Charles and Edwin? I need a series specifically on their adventures and stories because they had such a lovely dynamic. I love the Netflix series as well but there's something about them in Doom Patrol that I particularly adore

Watched the one Doom Patrol episode with the dead boy detectives in it yesterday and I still can't get over their method for "astral projection". This version of Edwin has my heart.

Sily willy meme of the day :3 (this is me. I am edwin.) Also i’m going to try to start up “Fanart friday” where I find fanart I love and share it here (with creds ofc)

Silly meme of the day :3

Silly willy meme of the day :P

Silly meme of the day :3

Tada! Here is my fic! Don’t judge if it sucks because i just started writing fics two weeks ago! Enjoy!

First sketchbook drawing on the year <3 Been obsessed with Painland recently so i needed to draw them fanart. (This will get reposted if I make this digital) Ignore terrible proportions the reference image was not very good lol

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Keep talking about Dead Boy Detectives! If you're over on Twitter you can follow me and I'll follow you back (I'm atfssims1)! We're all in this together and we cannot let up on Netflix even for a second. Let's bring our boys home!

Also if you make anything (fanart, fic, gif set, analysis, etc.) on Tumblr relating to the "Best Ghosts I Know" theme and want me to share it on Twitter for you (in the case that you don't have a Twitter) I'm happy to do so to contribute to the tag over there - I'll tweet a link to your Tumblr post, just tag me!

WE CAN AND WE WILL SAVE DEAD BOY DETECTIVES! 🫶

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spread the word! we're getting dead boy detectives renewed no matter what

THERES A WATCH PARTY ALL DAY TODAY AND TMMR!!! just put it on in the background if you dont have time to actually watch it and rewatch rewatch rewatch!! netflix needs to know we need this renewed

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I need more of Edwin crawling out of hell, desperate and barely breathing and hurting but thinking about the field behind the school. About the lake and how gorgeous the sun looked on it. How warm the air was. His brother surely having won the war and how proud his parents would be when he made it home (he didn’t) and wanting so deeply and completely to be Edwin again only to stumble into a dark school, cold and unfeeling, hopeful and bursting with disbelief only for it all to be gone. It’s decades later, no one remembered him, the world is gone and then there’s a boy who somehow feels like a piece of him some 70 years later, still quivering and cold and hurting in the attic. Give me an edwin who holds him anyway but feels that little light inside him dim cause dreams are for the living - for boys who still have a future, who don’t know that time doesn’t change anything.

An Edwin who finds it slowly coming back cause that boy found hope again just like him except his never dims, he just holds their lantern tighter and smiles at Edwin like he himself is the sun cause to him he is

No one ever point this out to Charles - something something his parents making love painful and Charles clawing his way out of the cycle

I know we make jokes about Edwin’s harem but it’s deeply tragic how every man who has ever desired Edwin romantically has also hurt him in profound ways. Simon is the reason Edwin was sent to hell. Monty abused his trust and nearly got him and Charles killed. The Cat King manipulated his repressed attraction and leashed him like a pet, keeping him trapped in a town with a murderous witch. All the while, the man Edwin actually loves, the man who has been nothing but kind and gentle and devoted towards him, does not love him back. Not in that way. Something Something Love is a punishment for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

I really want something where Crystal and Charles see all of Edwins memories. Maybe Crystal is trying some new stuff with her powers and accidently drags Charles with her into Edwin's memories.

Some of it flashes by quick. His childhood, the years with Charles before they met Crystal, the cat king, Monty, a majority of Port Townsend.

Some of it drags by. His death, hell, meeting Charles, hell again, Esther, Niko.

She knows Charles kind of has an idea of what to expect but knowing and seeing are two different things.

Crystal can't even watch most of it. Crouching down and covering her eyes, crying and occasionally making a sound like she was going to be sick.

They can't make any changes, of course, and they can't talk to anyone. These things have already happened and they're just watching them but Charles breaks her heart.

He bounces between furious and devastated.

He walks around the boys holding Edwin down to sacrifice him like he's looking for an opening, around and around restlessly. He knows, even better than she does, that he can't do anything.

Hell is even worse. Charles is clearly upset but he's not surprised, a grim determination that has him trailing after Edwin like a shadow. He keeps up with Edwin, running with him through the hallways and making himself watch each time it all starts over. He runs back to find the new Edwin and sticks close again, right beside him or behind him. He doesn't get in the way or try to stop it, he can't do anything so he's trying to provide a comfort that Edwin can't feel.

He sits with Edwin when he finds a place to hide, just watching him. Sometimes he talks. She can't hear what he's saying but she can guess.

Sometimes the demon doesn't kill Edwin right away and he isn't hiding so much as trying to find a place to curl up and die. Charles follows, sometimes circling him like he had when they saw the boys who sacrificed him.

She doesn't understand why he's making himself watch it all. How can he watch it when Crystal can barely tolerate just the sounds?

She's never seen him so focused. She thinks he might have forgotten she's even here.

Ghosts bleed here, they can feel and, the last thing Edwin felt as a living being was hands holding him down and the last thing he truely felt while dead would have been the last time the demon ripped him apart before he escaped hell. No wonder he's less bothered by iron than Charles. Iron is nothing compared to this.

She wants to tell Charles to come over to her. Tell him to stop watching, god why is he watching?

She knows why though, because he needs to know. Usually the mind can conjure up things much worse than reality but she thinks that neither of them could have imagined something like this. She knows Charles saw some of it when he went to get Edwin the second time but it wasn't a lot. He and Edwin were both tight-lipped when it came to hell, other than Edwin mentioning it vaguely here and there, usually in arguments.

He passes her again as he follows Edwin, again and again, and she goes to yell at him but she stops. His jaw is clenched the way he does it when he's truely furious, and his mouth is a thin line.

Charles can be scary when he's angry, especially when he's angry because someone has hurt Edwin. He would never hurt her but there's a cautiousness to how she speaks to him when he gets like this. Forget the cricket bat, he looks like he'd throw himself at the demon with just his nails and teeth if he could.

The memories go on and he's just as restless during Edwin's second trip to hell, only relaxing when he appeared in the memory.

Watching Esther is hard, Charles doesn't move during this one, just stands by the table Edwin is stuck on and stares.

This one is different and she thinks it because Charles was here for this one. She knows he's in the kitchen, kept in place with an iron collar and stuck listening to Edwin scream.

Crystal loses track of them as she sees Niko in the corner and sudden she needs to see it. She can feel Charles look over at them as Niko dies on the floor but he stays where he is until Edwin is up and next to Niko too.

More memories slip by until they're suddenly thrown back into the real world.

It's jarring, like something smacked them on the back of their heads. It takes them a minute for the world to stop spinning and their thoughts to reform. It's been seconds, maybe a minute, since they'd been thrown into the memories. Crystal feels like she's aged 10 years.

She does think she understands Charles a lot more now. She knows she's going to be reluctant to let Edwin off somewhere by himself, not that Charles would let him.

Edwin looks nervous, looking at them then the floor and back up to them again. He straightens the ends of his sleeves the way he does when he needs something to do with his hands and then he starts to press against each other. He must have a good idea of what happened and what they probably saw.

She remembers one of the deaths where he had ended up close to where she's been curled up. The way he laid on his side and just stared at the wall, quiet and accepting, the way tears rolled down his face and he just kept bleeding. Until he didn't anymore and Charles took off without a word to go find the new him again.

Niko is beside him and looks at both Charles and her with big eyes. She wonders what they look like, if they look any different to her and Edwin.

Charles makes a vague stangled noise beside her, makes a move towards Edwin, and she takes a deep breath.

Right. Okay, she and Niko need to leave. Like, right now. She has a feeling that the boys need to have a very long talk. And just cling to each other for awhile.

She grabs Niko, who looks at Edwin to see if he wants her to stay but he shakes his head just enough for her to let Crystal get them both out the door and away.

As they're leaving, she wonders what she'd do if someone had shown her Niko's death over and over. She looks at the other girl, who still looks worried but gives Crystal a little smile.

Maybe they need to have a talk too.

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Two side notes:

*Currently living for the idea of Charles and Crystal going feral over Edwin and Niko being hurt. And vice versa.

*You know when dogs/wolves circle something over and over, like they're trying to herd it or just watching from all sides? Idk for some for some reason I just picture that from Charles in certain situations. Especially when he can't do anything. Just circling it over and over like eventually he'll see something, find a way to do something.

Y’all just to preface I am insane (I mean I am on tumblr so…).

WHAT IF…

When Charles went to find Edwin in hell what if Edwin wasn’t in the room. What if Charles went down to hell and he best friend of some odd 30 years or so wasn’t there and all he saw was he’s best friends body being ripped apart by the spider-baby-demon-thing. That would’ve been devastating but also like what if he got to see Edwin running and getting caught and then torn apart. That’s would also have been devastating but what if. I mean sure I would’ve been sobbing hysterically and all that but like it would’ve been fun (put me in that writers room y’all all be dead, and cry hysterically but it would be fun).

She’s never wrong so

She has bewitched me, body and soul❤️