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My favorite genre of Dead Boy Detectives cast photos are the ones where their limbs are just...everywhere
I love descendants good lord.........especially when joshua robert colley shows up....oughhgg he's so pretty and for what....
Give me yaz fanart PLEASE joshua colley did not serve that hard for me to only be able to find one piece of art of that character
If the World Only Knew (Guitar / Vocal Version) by Joshua Colley i love you forever
Cleaning out my camera roll 2/
The cat king (Thomas) really shot himself in the foot with his shape-shifting crap
At first Edwin couldn't stop thinking about his lips, his abs, and the way it felt when he whispered in his ear. Like he was obsessing over him.
But after that, all he could think about, all he could see was Charles.
He even ruined Monty's shoot with that one.
Either of them might have had a chance before he made it impossible for Edwin to ignore what he really wanted
Charles' reaction to Edwin and Monty kills me every time
Also if anyone can find gifs of this particular interaction, send em to me (because studying Charles Rowland under the microscope is my hobby now). I couldn't find any, so I decided to make these, but the quality isn't good enough.
Dead Boy Detectives (2024) — Season 01 Episode 06
📕🪄🧪❣️ + Edwin Payne (requested by @manicpixiedreamedwins)
when you think of behind the scenes photos, please think about me
@netflix @warnerbrosentertainment please renew this show
May I offer you some cast pictures in these trying times?
Cleaning out my camera roll 5/
1/2/3/4/5
oh. ok. ummmm. so… he’s hot now? cool.
image dump because he’s the love of my life
JOSHUA COLLEY as MONTY Dead Boy Detectives (2024) — Season 01, Episode 06
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@netflix @warnerbrosentertainment please renew this show
If some of you can sign this petition I would appreciate it, if you can't sign it, please share it with friends or on the internet
They will come back - come back again, as long as the red Earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?
Guys this is gonna be strange to say but i need young captain hook from the rise of red coded characters.
Like the whole “lass” “we don’t fight till after school, why don’t you meet me there” and like the tension.
please i need characters like him, but with more content.
SCYLLA
Cast
“WE MUST DO WHAT IT TAKES TO SURVIVE!”
Y/N ADRIENNEÂ
THE SCYLLA
“I LOVE YOU TOO.”
MONTY FINCH
THE CROW
“CHRIST Y/N! SINCE WHEN COULD YOU DO THAT!”
CHARLES ROWLAND
THE BRAWNS
“YOU SMELL LIKE WHISKEY AND DEPRESSION, GET UP.”
EDWIN PAYNE
THE BRAINS
“YOUR MIND IS THE ONLY ONE I CANT READ.”
CRYSTAL PALACE
THE PSYCHICÂ
“HE REALLY LIKES YOU, YOU KNOW YOU CAN LIKE HIM RIGHT?”
NIKO SASAKI
THE ALMOST DEAD GIRL
“ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK THAT?”
JENNY GREEN
THE BUTCHER
“JUST IMAGINE WHAT I COULD DO WITH ALL YOUR PAIN.”
ESTER FiNCH
THE WITCH
“TRUST ME DAUGHTER, IT’S BEST I LOVE YOU FROM AFAR.”
CRAXAESÂ
THE DEAD BEAT DEMON DAD
”WHO ELSE IS GONNA PROTECT ME IF YOU’RE GONE?”
ADRIAN CRAXAES
THE DEMON LITTLE BROTHER
Trigger Warning: Religious themes, gore, murder, violence, suicidal thoughts, alcoholism, demons, blood,  self hatred, cannibal tendencies in flashbacks, child neglect, ptsd, self neglect, imprisonment, torture, consumption of other demons,  more warnings to follow
GIFs at the top are just meant for visuals. Reader doesn’t look like Wanda, she looks like you. Craxaes is a demon and you don’t need to look like his. That is simple the human form he chose.
Monty's Redemption
I realized why I want Monty to return for season 2 (if we get it). Obviously, love Joshua Colley; fantastic actor that I actually recognized from a Broadway miscast performance from way back in 2016. He played Eliza along with two other little boys and performed The Schuyler Sisters. Tangent: For those who did not already know this, you should absolutely watch it here. He was so good that I remembered him constantly whenever Hamilton was brought up. It happened enough that I went and followed him a few years later. It was a crazy while watching him, cause he felt familiar, but I didn't why, then I saw his name in the credits, and I was like, "Isn't that the name of the kid who played Eliza in that miscast? I'm pretty sure that's his name, let me check." Boom! It was him, and I immediately rewatched the miscast, and it was so crazy because his face has not changed at all! Like, obviously it's matured, but it's the same fucking face. Some people look completely different when they grow up, and some people literally look the same. (I'm one of these people. My face has not changed since I was a fucking toddler. Couple that with my short height and you have a childhood of bullying then an early adulthood of being mistaken for a child. RIP 🥲) Joshua's face is literally the same, it was so crazy lmfao
But other than loving the actor, I really want Monty to come back! I think it would be adorable if he turned back into a human, and joined the squad. He and Edwin would be an adorable QPR, and Edwin could teach him about being a human, since he probably only knows the bare minimum Esther told him so he could be in disguise. I actually wrote an essay about this a little while ago that I might rewrite.
But it is more than just wanting him back for the cuteness and fun of having him around. My urge for him to return feels too strong, too pinpointed, and I couldn't figure out why for a while.
Surprise, surprise! I figured it out!
It has to do with redemption! Charles literally says it when he pushes the backpack to him when he couldn't reach it.
Here's the thing, obviously I'd like him to come back to get a full redemption arc, but I figured out why I'm so set on him getting one. It's specifically Edwin.
There's something Edwin says about Monty that rubs me the wrong way. It's during the conversation he has with Niko on the roof. He says, "He was a good liar, for a crow." It always made my skin prickle, just a little bit.
It's because calling Monty a "liar" feels like an unfair label. Did he lie? Yes, absolutely. But he also didn't.
Everything Monty tells Edwin behind the butcher shop is true. The only lie is the reason he wasn't free to make his own decisions before. It wasn't a coma, but he was still trapped and "in the dark" metaphorically speaking. Even what he says about feeling braver is true.
He's essentially Esther's property; she can do with him what she likes. She quite literally rips him apart and puts him back together, making him a human against his will. Monty says, "I never asked to be human. With all these... feelings."
She forces a massive change in his entire being, mind, and life. Imagine how jarring it would be to suddenly not have wings that you were born with? To have no tail, beak, or claws? To be something completely other than you?
It was simpler for Monty when he was a crow. He was probably scared all the time, and just did as he was told. But once he becomes human, if you pay attention, you can see immediately that Monty does not actually like Esther that much, nor enjoys having to help her. He speaks his mind, and backtalks her, a couple times.
"That little slither bug is the size of a bus. It could afford to miss a few meals." - Ep05 When he says this, he says it with actual disdain in his voice. He's not just being sarcastic about it. Monty's voice and expression when he says it could miss meals looks like he genuinely doesn't like it.
"Well, I mean, you stood bleeding on the shore so Lilith would come out of the ocean and grant you eternal life. She never said you had to stay young and beautiful." - Ep05 Given how much she believes Lilith tricked her, and how much she cares about being young and beautiful, this was an incredibly ballsy thing for Monty to say.
"You didn't tell me that mushroom thing was gonna completely eradicate them. Or how gruesome it would be. Or how to-" - Ep06 Monty is genuinely distraught over this, and saying she didn't tell him implies his actions would have been different if he'd known. How so? We'll never know, but it's possible he would've tried to sabotage or refuse to help her. "Tried" being a key word here because it's clear that she had little-to-no care for Monty at all. He obeys her, but gets revealed by the Cat King, and she rips him up for it. There's really no way he could've survived if he'd tried to refuse/stop her.
Speaking of genuine feelings, Monty did actually like them. Yes, "them" plural. He says, "-gonna completely eradicate them." Monty could've said "him", referring to Edwin since he's the one he's in love with, but he doesn't. He's upset about both of them being destroyed. Earlier when Esther gives him the napkin of fungus, he asks her what she's going to do with Crystal. If Edwin was the only one he cared about, he wouldn't have bothered to ask.
He's not supposed to care at all! If he was still a crow, he couldn't have asked. He'd just go do it. He's her familiar; he pretty much has to. Based on Monty's emotional responses, and the fact that he helps Charles at the end, it seems like he has free will. And you can say, "Why didn't he refuse sooner if he really cared?" and at the end of the day, that doesn't matter. She would have killed him regardless of what point in her plot he betrayed her. He doesn't want to die! That's a very reasonable response to the situation.
The affection Monty has for Edwin is completely real, and develops quickly. After their first meeting, they're swapping books, and Monty seems to have actually read it. Saying it was beautiful is a generic compliment, but how would he know it was funny?
He was genuinely looking forward to seeing Edwin, and disappointed that the plans were canceled.
Esther even says, "Monty, ew. You're not besotted with that little brat, are you?" Funny how he actually never responds to that question here, but immediately shuts the notion down after Edwin rejects him.
And it's when Edwin tells him sincerely that he is his friend that Monty makes the decision to try and get him out of the forest.
I said in my other essay and earlier in this one that betraying Esther is a death sentence. There's no way she wouldn't find out if he helped them escape, but he was going to try anyway.
Monty may have lied about his identity as Esther's crow, but he didn't lie about the rest of who he is. That is why Edwin referring to him as a "liar", plain and simple, feels wrong. Monty deserves the chance to talk to Edwin, to actually explain himself, not under the threat of the Forest Elemental destroying Edwin, and without the Cat King's jeering. Honestly, I think he only ran because of the way Edwin called him a crow as though that on its own was disgusting or insulting rather than the real problem which is him being Esther's crow. I don't think Edwin would've actually cared about Monty originally being a crow, especially given the fact that the Cat King literally switches back and forth between human and cat. He's a human now (in that moment).
The way Edwin calls him a "liar" makes me feel like he didn't believe Monty when he said that he wasn't pretending, that it started off as that, but that it had changed into real feelings for him. It feels wrong for Edwin not to know/acknowledge that, especially if Charles tells him about the help he provided against Esther.
That it is what I want most if Monty is brought back.
(ko-fi)