Dead Boy Detectives Niko - Tumblr Posts
Rip niko sasaki, you would’ve loved ao3
Stop she would make those “if there is a screen, ao3 will be seen” videos
Rip niko sasaki, you would’ve loved ao3
Edwin, setting down a card: Ace of spades Charles, pulling out an Uno card: +4 Niko, pulling out a Pokémon card: Jolteon, I choose you Crystal, trembling: What are we playing
I'm so emotional about how Niko reacted to Charles forbidding them to come with him to hell
Because like... well, Crystal goes and actively seeks out her asshole ex who she only just got out of her head. Which says so much about how kind and caring and brave she is at heart and I love her for it but it doesn't ultimately end up being all that helpful to the situation at hand.
But Niko... it seems like Niko just passively accepts it. She knows she can't help with literal actual hell so she just stays behind and waits. And no one questions that. Everyone has always respected her ability to tap out of the scary adventures and that's lovely and if that was it that would be perfectly fine storytelling.
But it gets better. When Edwin and Charles return, we realize that she hasn't just been sitting and waiting. She realized that she couldn't help with Hell, so she looked ahead to what the next obstacle would be for her friends, and she looked at the Night Nurse and she realized there was a way she could help. So she sat with this woman who wanted to take away her friends and she played the fool and asked questions and convinced the night nurse to let her see the rules and regulations just to stop her chattering - knowing that if she could just find a loophole, she could buy them some time. So she dove into this book of regulations, and she found a loophole. She probably found a few, just in case the first didn't work.
And no one - not even the audience - realizes what she's done until it's done. It's brilliant and she makes it look easy. It's something only she can do, and it works with Charles' plan, even if he isn't trying to work with her.
Edwin might be book smart but Niko is the one who is willing to ask questions and listen to the answers. And the information she finds this way is always so critical.
I love her so much.
I NEED more dead boy detectives in my life
I NEED more Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne
I NEED more Crystal Palace Surname Von Hoverkraft
I NEED more Jenny Green and The Night Nurse
I NEED more wacky cases
I NEED to see them healing from their trauma
I NEED to know what’s going on with Niko Sasaki!
I NEED to see them figure out what the rest means!
I NEED more of them looking at each other like this
I don’t think you understand. This is a NEED, not a WANT!
Since Dead Boy Detectives is trending for some reason I thought I’d reblog this
Don’t forget to request a new season for Dead Boy Detectives through Netflix!!!
@netflix cancelling dead boy detectives before my first bar crawl is homophobic actually :/
but in all seriousness it's a really fun and sweet show and incredibly well done and deserves more than one season
the characters are amazing and it's so easy to become incredibly invested in each of their stories, there are heart wrenching moments as well as scenes that actually made me laugh out loud, and there are so many visually stunning shots
Btw for anyone who doesn’t like to use twitter/x or just doesn’t feel like using it, I take suggestions on what to tweet! I made a new twitter just for #savedeadboydetectives but I mostly retweet current stuff. So if yall want to spread anything new just put it in the notes or tags or whatever and I’ll tweet it with the proper hashtags!