I Absolutely Adore That Niko Sasaki's Contribution To The Dead Boy Detective Agency Isn't Any Kind Of

I absolutely adore that Niko Sasaki's contribution to the Dead Boy Detective Agency isn't any kind of special powers she could've gotten from being possessed by parasitic little gods, but rather it's just her— with her innate curiosity and kindness, her love of love, and the earnestness and sincerity in which she says or does something.... ooooh I love her so much my best girl !!!!

We all remember how Edwin barely reacted to touching the iron bar in order to get the little girl's shoes in one of the earlier episodes, right

So imagine that when some villain attacks them with e g. an iron crowbar and hurts Charles, Edwin snaps, and when they swing on Edwin, he just grabs the crowbar with his bare hand and completely ignores the pain

He's had worse, way worse

The shock of it makes the villain drop the weapon, and Edwin quickly uses his chance to overpower them with a spell

Meanwhile Charles needs a longer moment to come back online, because wow that was hot

Confused about those Crowley will become Lord of Hell in s3 takes. What exactly would be the point of that? So Aziraphale would look better? Is it that Crowley would be "the bad guy" and the Supreme Archangel Aziraphale could "redeem" them with the power of their "love"? Heartbreak would make Crowley evil? (that would ruin Crowley´s character forever) Crowley has canonically said things like heaven and hell are both toxic, they don´t need them. Besides, Hell already has a new Lord, Shax.

Anon, I think you're spot on with your possible explanations—it's all of them and more.

If Crowley were to willingly become the Prince of Hell then they'd use that to make it seem as if Aziraphale did nothing wrong, and then probably pain Crowley as the "more evil" one because he's a demon and in hell. For a fandom of a satirical comedy show there sure is a lot of people that don't seem to grasp the main messages its conveying.

Is it that Crowley would be "the bad guy" and the Supreme Archangel Aziraphale could "redeem" them with the power of their "love"? Heartbreak would make Crowley evil? (that would ruin Crowley´s character forever).

Fun fact, people are already doing that.

It is a persistent headcanon (that way too many have turned into pseudo-canon when it's not true at all) that Crowley cannot feel love and that that's a bad thing, that he needs to be "fixed". And you can take one wild guess who is supposed to fix him with the "power of love" and make him "normal".

Outside of already being disgusting and fucked up, it also plays directly into the transphobic treatment of the Starmaker/Crowley trans allegory.

Aziraphale can fix him and can never do anything wrong. He can make him an angel again because being a demon is bad and angels are always right, he can make him "love" him because everyone who doesn't love in the exact way society tells you to is ALSO automatically evil and bad.

Defining your own identity and living a life for yourself? No, what a laughable idea—you need to follow someone else's rules and make yourself more palatable so they never have to question their own actions or challenge their convictions.

Crowley would never go back to hell unless it was the only way to save the universe, and even then he'd hate every single minute of it, but the people worshipping Supreme Asshole Aziraphale don't have to critical thinking skills to arrive at that conclusion.

Charles really went into hell with a few lit molotov cocktails in his ludicrously capacious bag, a tiny notebook Edwin dropped like loot when he was taken that he ignored half the time, and a dream.

like he had no idea what creatures he would be up against when he got there but he locked eyes with the huge spider made of baby doll parts and thought, yeah that looks like something I can throw a bomb at and he did. And it worked.

Shout out to DBD casting director. They really found a case of reverse iPhone face in George Rexstrew. That man looks like he ONLY belongs to the Edwardian era. He looks like he jumped out of an old timey photo. He looks like he read about the Titanic in the papers. He looks like he would tilt his hat to say hello.

Even his name is so goddamn old fashioned. George Rexstrew? That’s not the name of someone who has an instagram account. That’s the name of someone who lived before vaccines were a thing. His name is more Edwardian than the name of the Edwardian character he plays