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Light flares up from the book, white and blinding. When she blinks away the spots from her vision the room is gone. The book is gone.
Dim green light casts a sickly pall down a long, decrepit looking hallway. She takes a breath and nearly chokes on the smell of dust and rot and something else, sharp and unnatural, like ozone. The light doesn’t seem to be coming from anywhere in particular. It gives the place an eerie unreality. It makes her skin crawl.
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And possibly I like the thrill (of under me you quite so new) by Leandra
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 Aug 2024
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After Port Townsend, Edwin tries to handle not only the fallout from his unrequited love confession, but also the inconvenient longing the Cat King has evoked in him. When Charles kisses him out of the blue, it sends them spiralling down a confusing path of lust and self-discovery.
To make matters worse, their newest case turns out to be more complicated and demanding than they initially thought. Together with Niko and Crystal, they set out to help Will, a ghost who wants them to matchmake for his still living boyfriend, so he can move on to the afterlife.
Their investigation leads them from cutely bespoke bookshops to gay clubs, and as far as the Dreaming, forcing them to confront some truths about themselves and step out of their comfort zone, once and for all.
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This takes place after the season ends. Both boys are a bit roughed up physically and emotionally from their trip to hell and Esther's treatment. They try to take care of each other but Charles is more hurt than anyone realizes.
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The Case of the Hellbound Souls by JUBE514
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
01 Aug 2024
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Edwin blinks, his hair in disarray, his clothing all rucked up from being carried. His blue eyes are blown wide open, looking around frantically.
Charles untangles himself, doing a little ungraceful flip-roll across the floor to get his legs and head the correct way around to actually face Edwin, scooting forward on his knees to grab ahold of Edwin’s shoulders. “Are you okay, mate?”
Edwin’s eyes lock onto Charles. There’s something weird in his gaze, looking right at Charles but not right at Charles. There’s ink on his shirt, half hidden by his blazer, smeared in with frantic motions of a fingerprint. He’s got a little sizzling mark right at the divot of his collar, already disappearing slowly, Charles can’t help but run his thumb over it, trying to wash away the pain like a smear of dirt on a cheek.
Edwin flinches.
Charles rips his hands away, still hovering only inches away. “Edwin, please, mate, you’re scaring me.”
Edwin looks confused, right into Charles' eyes, and asks—
“Who—who are you?”
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The Case of Charles James Rowland by hobbitsdoitbetter
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
14 Jul 2024
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His right arm swings back but before he can make contact Charles catches it. Squeezes it. Charles, having been dead longer, knows precisely how to hurt another ghost.
“Not him,” he bites out, teeth showing, body shaking. “Not my Edwin.”
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A client turns up asking for help moving on. He has unfinished business, you see… Business which is just about to walk through The Dead Boy Detective Agency’s door…Charles Rowland comes face to face with his past: can Edwin and the girls help him move past it?
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"No! I have no fever. Poppy's just feeling like "But you kinda looked pale. What if you're sick?" Chicken said, crouching lower on the ground.
The Cat King looks away, his vision started to blur. A little pollen can't- I'm not sick. I'm just... tired. Maybe a little nap?
"Ya! And what if you vomit?" Munchkin meows. "Edwin will come rescue you! Like he did last week!" Munchkin's eyes light up, standing up straight like he's looking up at a dream.
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- Part 2 of Cat King and toxic Flowers
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to your joy I tether (not a lot, just forever) by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
02 Aug 2024
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“I’m not in love with you.”
“Ah,” says Edwin, succeeding a pause that goes on longer than he plans it to. “I see.”
“Shit, no, sorry, that’s not what I—”
“Charles, you mustn’t apologize—”
“No, Eds, wait, wait. That came out all wrong.” And Charles clutches Edwin’s hand tighter, so Edwin clutches back, taking strange comfort in the curve of Charles’s fingers, the ridge of his knuckles. Terrain that is somehow more familiar to Edwin than the paths he’s carved through Hell. “What I meant is, I’m not ever gonna be, like, in love with you. Romantically. I just—” His inhale is a juttering scrape of breath excavated from deep inside, and Edwin feels it as though it is his lungs that draw it in. “I love you, Edwin. I’ve always loved you. And after you confessed in Hell, I thought—well, I thought what I felt for you had to change. But it didn’t, and it won’t. I’m never gonna have a romantic notion towards anyone in the entire world, and I love you, and it’d be aces to kiss you.”
[ or: an aromantic awakening, a kiss, several bouts of crying, and a long cuddle on the couch. more or less in that order. ]
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The Night of Nights by NuriaSchnee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
29 Mar 2025
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Ghosts are going missing all around London. The disappearances lead Edwin and Charles directly to a mysterious entity, known as The Summoner, that is about to make their afterlives very complicated.
A Season 2 fic.
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- Part 1 of Dead Boy Detectives: The Complete Series
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Edwin and her journey of self-discovery by wellthisiswhatido
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Sep 2025
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Now We're at the Starting Line (I Did My Time) by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
25 Jun 2025
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From the Astral Plane to a supernatural nightclub, from a haunted antique showcase to St Hilarion's itself, Edwin, Charles, and the rest of the gang solve cases while nurturing their relationships.
Tricky butterfly-men, ghosts from the past, Hell's own denizens, and more threats will prove no match for love and friendship.
Welcome to my rendition of Dead Boy Detectives: season 2.Series
- Part 1 of Starting Line 'Verse
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You'll Find Not But Heartache Here by oXCheeseburgerMilkshakeXo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Jul 2025
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“Well, his subjects can’t exactly be left alone, now can they? Due to the nature of their circumstances that led them to be under my brother’s specific ruling, it would be incredibly cruel of him to just leave.” The answer is frustratingly vague, and Edwin’s grip tightens on his pen as he glares down at his notes. There is something there, something in the way this other Cat Monarch speaks about the Cat King, something about the concern that lacked…something.
Or, the Dead Boy Detectives-plus Crystal-find themselves back in Port Townsend at the request of an unknown Cat Monarch. What they find leads them down a dark spiral into the elusive Cat King's past lives.
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"Oh, patron saint to the abandoned and the abused. You will find not but heartache here."
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Dead Boy Detectives: The Complete Series by NuriaSchnee
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
31 Jul 2025
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He doesn’t tell Edwin, after.
Like, he means to tell him, course he does. Whatever went down between them on the steps of Hell, they’re still best mates, yeah?
But Niko’s dead, and there’s arrangements to be made, and a plane ticket to book for Jenny because she wants to bring her body home to her mum. They burn incense in a temple in Osaka and cry on one another’s shoulders and Charles can’t bring himself to talk about what Esther Finch did to him in that kitchen in Port Townsend… He can’t bring himself to remember what she put him through.
Unfortunately for Charles, however, the sort of assault he experienced has a nasty way of bleeding out into everything in his afterlife that he holds dear…
*Warnings for sexual assault on a minor by an older adult as well as recovery from same. Note the warning people…
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Lost and Found by Laucha_512
Fandoms: Doom Patrol (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
11 Mar 2022
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The boys argue, it doesn't end well. Not exactly as you would expect
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i could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, i still carry for you by lesbicosmos
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Aug 2024
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charles gets hit by a witch's spell that was originally intended for edwin. edwin takes care of him in the aftermath.
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- Part 1 of painland week 2024
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When Edwin had gone to see the Cat King on a — date, he had thought Edwin would return disappointed, maybe even angry at the Cat King and swearing off ever meeting him again.
He didn’t expect Edwin to return like this.
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Oh No! My Delicate Sensibilities! They’re Broken! by hellyeahheistbooks
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
18 Aug 2024
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Edwin really appreciates the look of Charles in a dress. And so does that incubus over there.
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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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