Edwin: What's This?Charles, Hugging Edwin: Affection!Edwin: Disgusting.Edwin: ...Do It Again.

Edwin: What's this? Charles, hugging Edwin: Affection! Edwin: Disgusting. Edwin: ...Do it again.

Poor Charles is sad. What might cheer him up?

For today’s @dbdpromptober : Magic

Welcome to the reverse verse! This is part 1 of 2 of a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are and I can't wait to tell you all about it, because I'm incapable of being normal and chill about these concepts, so I ran with it.

Charles Rowland was born in 1900, his mum was from India and moved to the UK after marrying Charles' dad, a soldier who was not... very loving. Charles' heritage gave him some problems, but none as bad as that one time in 1916 when he was sacrificed to a demon and spent the next 7 decades in Hell. He doesn't like to talk about it, except when it can get him what he wants. He was always an angry boy, or so he thought, but after his time spent in Hell, it became so much worse. He's explosive and unpredictable, and so he mostly avoids conflict. He doesn't need to fight anyone, as his charming personality and sweet smile (plus a few smart calculations) always seem to be enough to convince people to give him what he asks for. And when the fight is inevitable... well, he has Edwin for that!

Edwin Payne grew up very sheltered, in a deeply religious home, and he is proud of that. Don't try to argue with him, because he surely has a Bible verse that will help him win (and if not, he is not above using his croquet mallet now that he has someone to keep safe). Unfortunately for him, he realized at a quite young age that he felt attraction towards other boys. Even worse, somehow other people could tell as well, including those peers that ended up killing him for it (the rumour spread throughout school was that he had died due to AIDS, and most people just accepted it). He never acted on those unnatural urges of his, but when he met this ghost who had just escaped Hell... he decided not to risk eternal damnation, and to stay here with Charles, instead. Edwin has no interest in the supernatural or in magic, and sort of looks down on them, but luckily his friend's got that covered.

it turned into au art 💫

I think the "I love you" "Great, love you too, can we go?" Is actually one of my favourite parts of the whole staicase scene™. Because although it is VERY explicitly shown that those boys, in fact, truly love and care for eachother throughout the show, it's so important to me that they actually said it. And Charles response was immediate! Of course he loves Edwin! I don't know, to me, him refering to Edwin as his "best mate" is, ofc, very sweet and he really means it, but it feels kind of something said between "regular" cishet boys, or something? (I don't really know). But when he says he loves Edwin so easily it just shows that he really REALLY loves him! I mean, considering his background I'd say he probably has some issues with his masculinity because of social demands, perhaps, but when he's talking about Edwin? Fuck social norms. He's saying "love you too" to his best mate because he wants to. End of question.

I just love them so much!!!

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