I Think Of This Tweet Every Fucking Time I Watch This Scene

i think of this tweet every fucking time i watch this scene

Edwin telling Charles that even though he’s exceedingly charismatic he wouldn’t say that subtlety is a trait of him lately.

That must have been the lowest blow for Charles who’s used to taking over talking with others because Edwins lacking skills in communicating with others.

I commented this on the post, but I figured this might be a good time for my first reblog. Here goes.

So, this is not the reason at all realistically, but it’s a fun theory. The boarding school they died at is canonically a catholic school, correct? I went to catholic school from k-2nd grade as well as preschool. My kindergarten year was 89-90, so I started the year Charles died.

When I first began to write, I used my left hand. My parents didn’t see a problem with this, the nuns did. In Catholicism, using your left hand was “unclean” or “evil” or something, and they told my parents to force me to use my right hand.

So, as a result, I have terrible penmanship, and pretty much just use my hands equally. Even though I’ve always said I’m right handed, I’ve noticed that I only favor my right hand when it comes to writing, anything else, my hands are interchangeable. In fact, when I started paying attention to my automatic actions, it seems like I default more to my left than my right.

Maybe Charles had a similar experience, where he was forced to use the hand he wasn’t comfortable with, and in death, he’s using whatever the hell hand he pleases.

fun charles rowland fact!

So I was going back through the show and trying to get some gifs of Charles, and I found out something interesting!

I was going back to get a silly funny clip of that ghost guy's head blowing up in E3, and I realized something that I have no idea how I didn't pick up before.

Charles is left handed!

Which I was like, wow! Cool! I don't know how I didn't pick up on that the first time around because I usually get excited over small character details like that, but whatever, right?

(putting the rest of my revelation under a cut lol)

And then on my continuation of said gif quest, I was getting a clip of Charles pulling his cricket bat out at Esther's in E1.

He pulls out his cricket bat and attacks with it with his right hand.

Then I was like, oh cool! He writes with his left, but attacks with his right, that's sick.

But then I wanted to go back to moments I remembered Charles using his cricket bat/other weapons, just to see, and I found out something even more interesting (at least to me).

During both instances in E1 where they have to fight someone, both the WWI ghost and Esther (the gif earlier), Charles uses his right hand for weapons, while drawing the demon sigil with his left (though he does use his right to set the paint brush down at the very end).

(When he cuts the mask off the ghost in their office he does use his left hand, but I'm not counting that because he was physically incapable of grabbing the knife with his right hand at that moment.)

However, despite the two instances of him using his right hand for combat purposes in E1, he seems to use his left in every other instance I can find.

Here's some examples (mainly bc I wanna show off my collection):

(From left to right: Facing the Cat King in E2, Bludgeoning the Night Nurse in E4, Fighting David in E6, and Fighting Esther's Snake in E8) (I didn't mean for these all to be even numbers, I swear 😭😭)

Anyway, when I first was making this post I thought I was gonna find a cute fact out about Charles being ambidextrous fighting wise, but the fact that the only instances I can find of him using his right hand are in E1 is throwing me off.

Did the show originally plan to just have it be "Charles writes with his left and fights with his right" and that be it, but then realize it would be better if he just only ever used his left?

I don't know if that's the case, but I choose to run off with my original "he just uses whichever hand he feels like" theory and running away with it as a headcanon until someone proves me otherwise.

Anyway though, I hope you all found this ramble of a post informative in some kind of way hsdfhkld

Underrated comedy gold when Charles pointedly tells Crystal in front of Edwin "let's go for a walk so Edwin can adjust his poor attitude :/" and then it like immediately cuts to them outside alone and he's like "hey listen you gotta let Edwin be bitchy ok? :) He was in Hell for decades--that sounds bad but he's literally the best person who ever died--anyway he just doesn't know how to socialize but it's fine I adore him so much. :) Oh I guess you're pretty fit too haha"

Get yourself a partner that looks at you the way Jayden Revri looks at a chicken sandwich.

Dead Boy Detectives Extra Time

Here's Jayden Revri, George Rexstrew, Kassius Nelson, Yuyu Kitamura, and David Iacono's chaotic full interview with Tumblr person @overchers. More questions, polls, and ghosts from the Dead Boy Detective Answer Time here.