Just A Lil Shakesqueer

with jenny’s interest in murder docs i think itd be really funny postcanon if one day she was talking to the dbda about one she was watching/watched in the past only for charles and/or edwin to go ‘oh yeah we solved that one a few years back, actually’ and her just grilling them on what happened

Me: *playing pattycake with @writingsofophelia *

Thinking about a role reversal AU but their causes of death stay the same. Charles was killed in 1916 for protecting someone. He dies alone and cold, but when he wakes up as a ghost knows he's not done with life yet. So he sticks around. The world is huge and now that he's part of the supernatural it's even bigger. He spends most of a century learning everything his curious little heart desires, but his self esteem is still poor so he doesn't think of it as being clever. Maybe being curious and nosy and he likes being able to help people with what little things he's picked up here and there.

Concept: the boys’ clunky “as you know” exposition from the pilot is because Edwin’s memory issues and dissociation, Charles’s ADHD, and their shared trauma that makes holding positive Truths difficult, all mean they’re in the habit of telling each other things repeatedly in case they were unheard or forgotten, and of asking for things to be repeated for reassurance that they’re still True (I will never let us be separated, I will tell you as many times as you need to hear)

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that