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Ghosts, as we know, keep their appearance as it was when they died (until they learn to change it).
Since Hell is a different plane of existence, any changes to their physical form sustained there remain until they learn to hide those as well.
Charles gets Edwin’s blood on his hands.
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"Looks like you're stuck with me."
Edwin could not believe what he was hearing.
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A collection of drabbels/ficlets exploring Edwin's feelings through the events of season 1.
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Edwin realises what it's like to be loved.
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The Cat King’s bracelet is put on Charles. The fallout follows him even into Hell.
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So Much Universe and So Little Time by Starcrossedstarfishes
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
15 Aug 2025
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Prince Edwin Payne, heir to the Edwardian Realm's crown, wishes he had met Charles Rowland under different circumstances. He unfortunately doesn't have such a luxury, as Charles is an enemy of the Realm, champion of the Resistance and is kidnapping him just at the moment.
Oh and did I mention they're in space?
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“If Mould calls you a bloodbag again, I’ll rip her fucking throat out with my teeth.”
Edith blinks. Stares.
Charles ever present smile is gone, replaced by a steady calm, blank except for the tic of her jaw.
“Just so we're clear,” Charles plucks Edith’s bag from her slack fingers.
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or, Charles is vampire royalty. Edith is meant to die to protect her. Charles has a few things to say about that.
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The ghosts managed to escape the predator's trap but only just, and not before falling victim to its transformative magic. Their long, comfortable existence was shattered in an instant as Edwin emerged a living human being, the rushing of his blood booming in the ears of Charles, freshly-minted vampire.
Horrified and desperate to find a way back, Edwin searches for a solution while Charles' thirst burns.
Above it all shrieked his towering thirst. Brand new and full grown, it was a howling need so insistent it seemed to twist within his flesh; a burning, reverberating agony.
And still, there was one thing louder.
Because there sat Edwin, looking down at him with dark circles under wide, frightened eyes, ripe fruit hanging low. He was coursing with hot, living blood, exquisitely defenseless, and Charles’ hunger demanded that he crush this easy prey. That he devour him. His bloodlust was an elemental instinct urging him irresistibly on, powerful and relentless as a tidal wave.
Charles clenched his jaw and steadied himself, refusing.
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The Case of Edwin Payne’s Odd Behavior by strangekiddo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 Aug 2025
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In which Charles sees the Cat King shapeshift into him in an attempt to seduce Edwin, confronts Edwin about it, and still doesn’t realize that Edwin is in love with him. Cue the arguing and angst.
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After defeating a witch, Charles and Edwin go to her house, not expecting a trap with blood red lightning to get them. But it did and now it's a race against time to put themselves back together again.
Or: Charles and Edwin break, both physically and emotionally
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The workers, hope lighting their eyes ablaze, Edwin, relief and love erasing his every fear, and Monty, come to life again, all raised their voices up with Charles.
“La la la la la la la!” they sang together.
Charles looked around, dumbfounded. He didn’t expect…
This was what his music was for. To bring people together. God or man, that didn’t matter right now. They were all equals as they raised their voices high and sang.
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or, epic iii, the dead boy detectives versionSeries
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Through Memory and Image by KittyBaffo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
08 Aug 2025
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Little eight-year-old Charles summons Lillith. Seeing his suffering but unable to take him away, she instead leaves him a blessing. Eventually the memories of her fade from his mind, like a dream he had once. Then he meets Edwin, and he dies, and they open the agency, and as they face their first witch the witch casts what would be a fatal spell at him and it does...nothing. Charles brushes it off, saying it must not have hit him, but Edwin doesn't buy it and goes down a research rabbit hole, but can't find any answers. (After)life moves on and they eventually find themselves in Port Townsend.
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What if Charles got adopted by the goddess of blood magic and scorned women, the "Mother of Monsters" herself, Lilith.
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Crawl Out Through The Fallout by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
06 Aug 2025
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Edwin Payne suffered a fate worse than death the day before the bombs dropped and the world ended.
Two hundred years later, he saves a boy named Charles Rowland.
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He looked him over, and realized it wasn't just his eyes that had seemed off. There was something more, something about his skin that sent up some sort of red flag in Charles's brain.It was missing on one hand.
Not even in a gory, bloody mess way like Charles had seen before. No, this was just… gone. And where he had expected to see bones or muscle or something, he instead saw… metal.
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When Edwin escapes from Hell, he returns with wings attached to his back. Wings that clearly mark him as a member of Hell. In order not to frighten his fellow ghosts and mystical creatures, he hides them away from the World. But can Edwin keep this secret forever?
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Edwin steepled his fingers in thought. “How does this concern us?” They’d been a bit picky about their cases lately. Charles gave him a look. Bedside manner, he said silently.
Daphne looked around before leaning forward and whispering: “She became a ghost.”
Edwin sat up a little straighter, his interest clearly piqued. “Come again?”
Daphne threw her hands up hopelessly. “I was keeping an eye on a patient while his nurse was out when my assistant came running in and told me that there was a little ghost girl in room 208 looking at her own body.” She lowered her voice to a whisper. “Her alive body.”Or: When a young client comes in caught between life and death, the only people who can help her are the Dead Boy Detective Agency
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Newly-dead Paul Rowland turns up at the Dead Boy Detective Agency, looking for answers about his son's death. Charles insists they take the case, and use it - and Crystal and Niko's help - to expose as many of the deaths St. Hilarion's has covered up as possible.
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“It’s just not fair! This damn world can take anything else from me, I don’t care, but it can’t have you!”
Edwin brings his hand to Charles’ cheek, wiping away the tears. “The world does not bend to the will of a single soul. No matter how determined.”
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Edwin has been bit by a zombie and begs Charles to leave, but Charles refuses to go.
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For ApocalAugust 2025
Day 3 - ZombiesSeries
- Part 2 of Gen's Works - DBDA ApocalAugust 2025
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You Look Like My Sweetest Dream (Wake Up I Beg You Please) by UneducatedAuthor
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Aug 2025
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Charles lived a pretty normal life, and he could never understand why that almost felt like a surprise to him.
He had breakfast, studied hard, hung out with his mates, and all of it was so precious, because he knows how much you have to appreciate Living.
It's just... It feels like there's dreams, at the corner of his eyes. Feels like the two girls, Niko and Crystal he met by accident know more about him then they should. Feels like someone is supposed to be at his side and isn't.
It feels like he's missing something.
(Charles is cursed to live as a human, with no memories of his afterlife and unable to interact with the paranormal world. The Dead Boy Detective Agency need him back.)
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When We Burn Together, We Begin To Understand The Smoke by UneducatedAuthor for PantryJesus
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 Aug 2025
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He's the one who left and the one who returns. He's full of questions in the face of certainty, and believes in humans more than anyone Charles has ever met. He makes Charles think that maybe love isn’t what saves you. Maybe it’s what lets you stop trying to be saved.
Or, the one where Charles meets Destruction. They talk about names, and fathers, and what it means to try to be something else. There are no easy answers. But it’s okay. They’re still trying.
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- Part 2 of The Beginning And The Endless
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Charles never thought he’d fall in love with an alien. That’s crazy, innit? Aliens certainly aren’t real in the first place, and they’re all sickly-looking green dudes. He’d never go for one of them, no matter how desperate.
But then he actually met one, and he realized that everything he thought he knew was wrong.
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Charles snoops around in a top secret government facility and finds something unexpected.
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For ApocalAugust 2025
Day 1 - AliensSeries
- Part 1 of Gen's Works - DBDA ApocalAugust 2025
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The Dust of Stars by NuriaSchnee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
31 Jul 2025
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The End of the Universe has started—or so everyone believes. Dark voids are appearing throughout the country and spreading to other planes. Death has gone missing, and reality is shattering. Charles and Edwin are in a race against time again, trying to find what is causing this before their world disappears.
A Season 3 fic.
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- Part 2 of Dead Boy Detectives: The Complete Series
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Crystal knows it’ll work out in the end. Her parents are going to get back from holiday, slip someone important some money, and she’ll be able to go home and her parents will disappear off on their next ‘business trip’. Until then, she just has to make it through wherever they have decided to keep her in the meantime, ‘for her own good’ as the police officer had said. She just hopes it's not going to be for long. She's an only child, who lives in a big house on her own most of the time. She doesn't know how she's going to survive sharing a house with god knows how many other children.