In the second half of The Chrildren’s Crusade Edwin is scared when Charles is possessed by a malevolent force quite an understandable reaction whether it’s platonic or not though after returning to himself Charles remarks: “I was so scared, Edwin. Hints that Edwin is crushing on Charles are planted here and there throughout their various appearances. A new facet of Charles’ personality appears in his fascination with detective and spy themes and tropes in media (eg: “It’s always the dame that hires you that did it.”) Their first case is the missing children from the village of Flaxdon which leads to a very different event throughout The Children’s Crusade crossover. Rather than press matters with a stubborn teen she simply says she’ll return for him one day and leaves.Īnd with that Charles is ready to commence his post life existence and persuades Edwin to leave the school grounds walking hand in hand and start adventuring together as they will by deciding to solve mysteries and forming the Rowland & Paine Detectave Agency where “no case is too small” which occupied a room in an abandoned building in London. A strong bond between them already as Edwin tried to comfort Charles as best he could all things considered and when Death appears to escort Charles to his after life Charles quite emphatically refuses to go with her unless she takes Edwin also. The two boys met as Charles laid dying in the school’s attic since Charles became the bullies first target. Likewise for Charles, having turned the week before his demise.Įdwin too has returned to the school post Hell eviction after spending decades trapped in long corridor never ending corridors where he felt both isolated and stalked by something unseen in the after life. Scene of the crime? Well, you see, they murdered Edwin as a sacrifice in a Satanic ritual and then hid his body in an trunk in the attic. These same bullies were able to terrorize both Edwin and Charles simply because they too died young in the Great War (World War I) and the recently deceased gits’ souls made their way out of Hell, after the nether realm was emptied of its captives thanks to events detailed in the A Season of Mists story in Sandman, and returned to the scene of the crime at St Hilarion’s. The exact year of his death is better left vague because of time wimeyness in comics. They were also both bullied by the same trio of students, Barrow, Cheeseman, and Skinner, which is initially a bit confounding since Edwin died in 1914 and Charles quite recently in comparison. Just how did they die and become detectives? Now there’s a story!Īside from being dead, boys, and detectives the two lads have other commonalties: they were both students at St Hilarion’s School For Boys which was founded as a boarding school open to the sons of British Army officers. They have several adventures on their own before being joined by Crystal Palace who is certainly neither dead nor a boy. The Dead Boy Detectives Agency is comprised of teens Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland who are indeed quite dead and decided to become detectives as they had much time on their hands.
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