DEAD BOY DETECTIVESPROMPTOBERDAY 5 MAGIC

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES PROMPTOBER DAY 5 — MAGIC

Made way too many posts about jealous Charles so here is Charles actually smiling for a change

we do all have a bit of a laugh at the fact that Monty seemed to make a massive effort to not give two shits about anyone except Edwin, and it does feel true most of the time. yet...

... he asked Esther about Crystal's fate too?

... and he went with "them," did he? if he was only thinking of Edwin, he would have surely just said "him," right? interesting...

What are you doing? You didn't... You didn't see that?

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It took me a couple of rewatches, but this is my interpretation, too: "That was… extreme" is not about Edwin being startled by how violent Charles was or afraid for himself, but about Edwin being afraid of the thought of Charles being punished for that violence.

One of the interesting things I noticed on rewatching the show is that there's a part of the confrontation with the Night Nurse in Episode 6 when Edwin starts almost hyperventilating. It's not when she talks about Hell or about taking Edwin. It's when Charles says to the Night Nurse, "It was me who kicked you, yeah?"

When the conversation focuses back on Edwin, he's calmer again. (Still stressed, but no longer hyperventilating.)

But Edwin is so very afraid that Charles is going to be punished for attacking an authority figure, even as Charles is — once again — trying to put himself between Edwin and the threat of Hell.

I don't think we talk enough about Edwin's reaction to Charles beating the Night Nurse. Because he's scared, he is worried and he is crying. But he is not scared of Charles at all, I think he is scared to lose him. Just in that episode, he had (unwillingly) told the Cat King that he helped other ghosts so he can defend his own case if Death ever came to take him to Hell again. He also says he is not proud about it, that it is selfish.

Charles would have gone to Heaven if he hadn't decided to stay with him. Edwin is sure. But, after what happened with the Night Nurse, he can't be sure anymore. He knows Charles, he knows he is a good man and he doesn't deserve to go to Hell. But he also knows Charles well enough to know he'll feel guilty. And that is how Hell gets you. Guilt drags to down.

I don't think Edwin was walking on eggshells around Charles as Crystal said. I think it just hurt him to see him, to face him, knowing that he may have selfishly made Charles lose his oportunity to go to pradise. Because he had stayed for him. Because he had been protecting him.