This Fic, Like All Of OPs DBDA Fics, Is Absolutely Stunning - Brilliant Writing And Perfect Characterisation

This fic, like all of OP’s DBDA fics, is absolutely stunning - brilliant writing and perfect characterisation and sort of everything, honestly - and I would strongly suggest that you read it immediately

Hurt/comfort + more passing out, perhaps?

(The Case of the Memento Mori has my heart)

Thank you so much for the lovely prompt! I'm so glad you liked Memento Mori. :>a

You can find your fic here, and I hope you like this one, too!

Breathless

Gorgeous ghost girls ♡︎

Dead girl detectives

I was inspired by @unicorngunter ‘s shapeshifting art. love everything this person does! go to their page and see how much beauty there is!

Repressed Edwardian girl who reads books and 80s girl with a cricket bat and anger issues

I’m sorry they are too powerful

Beautiful ghost boys <3

Edwin and Charles DEAD BOY DETECTIVES, S01E02, The Case of the Dandelion Shrine

Edwin Payne the moth you are

dead boy detectives season 2 should open with Charles and Crystal getting chased by a killer ghost in Homebase with one of the axes off the shelf while Edwin is entranced by the light section like a moth

I’m not a woman but I am a lesbian who is shaped like a woman and this this this

My favorite part about being sapphic is when the things I love about other women become things I love about myself. One day I was tracing another woman’s stretch marks in a dim bedroom light. And then, seemingly by accident, I was doing it to myself in my bathroom mirror. I loved the feeling of a full hand of flesh when I grabbed a woman’s hips, and then mine didn’t need to be so skinny anymore. I looked at a woman’s lower stomach pudge and thought it was so soft and cute, then never wanted a flat stomach again. Loving women can be so healing when you come from a world that doesn’t.

I've talked a little about how desperate Charles is to please the people around him, but even more heartbreaking, I think, is how hard criticism seems to hit him.

After the case of the Lighthouse Leapers, Charles is at an absolute emotional low. Fast on the heels of the Devlin house, he's been forced to relive his trauma in real time, and when he acts to protect himself and Edwin, he's met with what he perceives as condemnation from the people he's closest to.

He's an absolute mess, here. As he reveals in the next episode, he's busily beating himself up because he doesn't think he's anything like a decent person.

And then we get this tiny little exchange that says so much in just a handful of seconds.

It's possible that the comments from Edwin and Niko here aren't meant as criticism at all. Certainly Edwin at least is usually much sharper when he wants to be. Here, he almost seems to catch himself; as soon as we see Charles' reaction to the first comment, he's quick to add that they're happy with a satisfied client. It's as though he realizes just a second too late how Charles is going to take that and makes an effort to soften the blow.

And then Niko chimes in, and Niko seems to be commenting more on what a disaster the night was all around, rather than pinning blame. But interestingly, Edwin seems to realize right away how it's going to go over with Charles; his smile just disappears as soon as she adds the "I guess."

And look at Charles' face here.

This boy is absolutely certain that they're telling him what a bad job he did.

This is 100% the reaction of someone who's spent his life with everything being his fault, scrambling to make it better so that his father didn't hurt him.