Dead Boy Detectives In Scooby-Doo Style!

Dead Boy Detectives in Scooby-Doo style!

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When Charles is deliberately flirting, he always focuses on the other person, doesn't he?

He talks about Crystal's looks and how she's special and how her case is his favorite. Always about her.

Then in the last scene with Edwin (which may not be flirting but really looks like it), he talks about his own smile.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, or he does it differently with Edwin, or if it's the fact he doesn't even realize he's flirting.

Either way, I find the contrast interesting.

some edwardian slang/turns of phrase from this dictionary that i imagine are still in edwin’s vocabulary, or his internal monologue, or private writing (some a bit more late victorian in the sense of years but since there was overlap in the eras in practice, could probably still in use in edwin’s time)

there are lots of other words and turns of phrase listed at the link above, but these are just some i thought were neat for edwin specifically! <3

top-hole - he does use this one on the show! for excellent, the very best (“top-hole job today, niko” <3)

wizard - excellent, as in “a wizard time” - please imagine edwin telling charles he had a wizard time after a date… so cute…

nasty jar - a bit of a sticky situation

grig - grasshopper or cricket. “merry as a grig” - ecstatic or jumping for joy

footle (nonsense) - talk nonsense or waste time

cropper - hard fall, as from a horse. usually used in “come a cropper” as in to come to ruin or fail miserably

balmy on the crumpet - insane

fast for extravagant or wild and flash for showy

poodle-faker - a man who spent too much time in the society of women, engaging in such activates as tea parties, balls, etc. - i imagine it would be the sort of thing edwin would hear said about people or implied about himself…

other words and phrases still being used today - “crack up” - to praise or laud (i assume this would be a “not all it’s cracked up to be” sort of usage); “nightie” for nightgown; “rooky” for a new recruit; “cushy” for easy (1915); and “down” - to be critical - i’m assuming this would be used as in “he was down on himself,” more or less the way it is now but not 100% sure; but to note, to be “screwed” was to be drunk or intoxicated, compared to say, if crystal were to say “we’re screwed!” during a case and mean it as hopeless. also, “feeling punk” was feeling ill (1896)

heart-whole (not in love) and repining for/that (longing/yearning for/thinking regretfully of), e. g. “His tendency… to repine for even the minutiæ of his old life” (1897, but close enough) or “bitterly repining” - these would absolutely show up in edwin’s journal…

see “repining” as “yearning” in this bit of “A Song of Eternity in Time” by Sidney Lanier (written 1867, revised 1879), which gives me such payneland feelings

Once, at night, in the manor wood

My Love and I long silent stood,

Amazed that any heavens could

Decree to part us, bitterly repining.

My Love, in aimless love and grief,

Reached forth and drew aside a leaf

That just above us played the thief

And stole our starlight that for us was shining.

the way i was lured into watching dead boy detectives bc they used mcr in the trailer. whoever was in charge of that really said "you know who likes gay spooky things? mcr fans that's who" and by god were they right i love my little ghost detective show

This poll is rlly just me being curious about analytics and stuff regarding dbda

I've seen a question going around about when exactly the boys decided to start the agency/what caused them to do it on the first place.

We know it was somewhere in 1990, so it's safe to assume just a few months after Charles' death.

During that time, they found out what happened to Edwin's case, which definitely took a lot of research. And they saw the non-investigation about Charles in real time, which probably meant following people around and checking records.

Not only the injustice about their deaths is what prompted them to help others, the way they went about it showed that they could, in fact, be detectives. They were good at it.

If we consider that, we already know the first two cases they worked on - the Case of Edwin Payne and the Case of Charles Rowland.