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“Crystal, you've seen him without me. You have never seen me without him.”
When Charles is taken by a powerful and mysterious entity, already hurt from protecting Edwin; Edwin loses his mind. He will stop at nothing to get his partner, the love of his life, back.
It's not like it's the first time he's had to do it. (He honestly thought that at least the European supernatural community had learnt their lesson about taking Charles away from him. It seems like a reminder is due.)
Day 1 of painlandweek. Language of Love: Acts of service (because killing a b*tch and plunging into obscurity to rescue your other half counts); and Sickfic (because Charles is not having a good time, poor boy).
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- Part 1 of Painland Week 2024
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Jump Start the Battery by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Aug 2024
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Edwin overdoes it with a spell, nearly depleting his spectral energy in the process. Charles, of course, can't let that happen.
Written for Day 1 of Painlandweek- Love Language/ Sick Fic
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- Part 1 of Painland Week 2024
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Four cases from the Dead Boy Detectives casebook, featuring amnesia, corporeality, a time loop, and a chill hang sesh.
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Charles isn’t a stranger to having brilliant ideas, he has them quite often if you ask him, maybe slightly less often if you ask Crystal, but Edwin would probably agree with him.
However this one might just be his best one yet.
“I’ve given your confession some real thought, yeah? So… how about we give trying to date a go?” asks Charles.
After a few beats too long, Edwin is finally able to speak.
“Thank you, Charles, but that won’t be necessary,” answers Edwin tightly and doesn’t offer anything else.
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OR: In order to figure out his feelings Charles asks Edwin to date him, but is promptly refused. When an unexpected turn of events during a case leaves Edwin injured, Charles’ struggles with his feelings have to be put on the back burner. Unless he can somehow multitask…
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There is a client that reminds Charles of his father. He has not shared much of his past with Edwin yet so he pushes these feelings down and tries to get through the case. Charles grows more and more agitated as the case goes on. Edwin knows something is wrong and tries to get Charles to explain. This finally leads to the first true argument they've ever had, Edwin leaves to give Charles some space but Charles thinks he's pushed Edwin away for good.
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Everyone moves on from Charles. He isn't ready to let the past go, he stays bitter and upset. He realizes that everyone deserves happiness, someone who fits in with them perfectly, and he isn't the best match. But doesn't he deserve someone for himself too? Someone who won't move on?
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Mom Says It's My Turn to Jump on the Grenade by RoseGanymede95
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Aug 2024
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Charles tried to pay attention, because Edwin was really upset, and Charles still didn’t understand why, and it seemed like this might be important. It was just, they’d been at this for a while, and Edwin kept asking him the same questions and not leaving him time to answer, so. His mind may have wandered a bit to how he would reinforce the next cricket bat.
His attention snapped back to the present when Edwin said, “This can’t happen. You can’t risk this, I can’t be the reason you risk it. You have to move on.”
“Move on?” Charles repeated blankly. “Move on from what?”
“From here, Charles!” Edwin shouted, suddenly furious again, suddenly shouting even though his eyes were filled with tears. “You have to go with Death! You have to leave!”
“I don’t want to go with Her,” Charles said, nonplussed.
“Fine, that’s your business, but you can’t keep hanging around me!” Edwin snapped.
Charles’ world suddenly tilted on its axis, sending everything askew. “I can’t?” he asked, his voice small, his heart wide open and exposed.Series
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The Dead Boy Detective Agency have a new case, one that may bring up a little too much of Edwin's past.
Or; the Dead Boy Detective Agency meet Gregory Payne. It had never occurred to Edwin that his brother might still be on this plane.
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Before Edwin had been strapped to Esther’s torture table and very rudely used as a magical battery, he had been under the impression that the use of iron was the only way to inflict pain upon ghosts in the mortal realm.
However, because he was Edwin Payne and the universe seemed intent on making him pay for his ridiculously on-the-nose surname for all of eternity, those rules apparently did not apply to him.
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“Alright, listen,” Charles said, after trying not to think at all for at least five minutes. “Hear me out.”
“Any ideas?” Edwin asked, not looking up from his page.
“It’s just. What would actually happen if you cut my hand off?”
Edwin jerked his head up so fast, Charles wondered that he didn’t brain himself against the stone wall. He looked more offended than he had when he found out about the live snake in Charles’ bag.
“What the hell kind of a question is that?” He hissed.
“I’m not saying we should do it!” Charles backpedaled. “I’m just curious! These cuffs make us proper solid, don’t they? We could probably lop it off and get me out.”
“No,” said Edwin emphatically. “We are not discussing this. I don’t want you getting any ideas and chewing your own arm off like a trapped weasel.”
“Not my whole arm, just my hand.”
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Thirty-seven times.
He’s watched Edwin die thirty-seven times and he’s been in Hell for two hours.
Or: It takes the boys a lot longer to escape Hell and Edwin dies. A Lot.
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“That about did it,” Edwin says, patting himself down and straightening his bowtie. “Now, if you’re ready, I suggest we find a mirror and-“
“Did you just cough up a flower?” Charles interrupts. Flower, perhaps, is a slight exaggeration. It’s more like a petal, red and incredibly out of place here on the shore.
Edwin clears his throat, but this time no petals follow. “Certainly it’s nothing to worry about.”
Or: Edwin is suffering from a weird curse, but for some reason, he's refusing Charles' help. Charles is trying his best to fix it anyway, but Edwin is being oddly secretive about the whole thing.
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So I'm inspired to write some of my own prompts.
Edwin is in Hell, and see's Death come for Simon. This sends him into a spiral that might take more than just escaping hell to fix.
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ideas (because i have nowhere else to put them) by TMNTFOREVER666
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Jun 2024
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a collection of ideas. Because I've watched the show four times now and simply cannot actually organise my thoughts enough to actually write something, but the ideas have to go somewhere right?
if you take a fancy to one and want to steal it please go ahead, just let me know if you do so i can read it and marvel at how wonderful other writers are who can actually write!
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- Part 1 of Dead Boy Detectives - Because I can
Bookmarked by Dialyte
18 Jun 2024
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what the fuck why are these all incredible i need these to be written desperately
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Mystery Work
Part of Babyseraphim privated fics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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I Turned Back One Last Time (just to prove you were there) by isnt_that_wizard
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Jun 2024
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Since they'd fallen out of hell, the Night Nurse slamming the door on the awful baby doll demon behind them, Charles had been itching to touch Edwin. And it wasn't like his usual touch-oriented personality just wishing to have some sort of contact. He could control that easily enough after all this time.
No, this was something different.
This felt like a desperation. A need to be in Edwin's personal space, to keep his hands on him. He wanted to wrap his best friend in a hug and never let go, he wanted to sit as close as possible as they heard a new case. He wanted to take Niko’s place as she grabbed Edwin's hand to drag him to watch another one of her shows. He wanted to tuck Edwin against him as they sat on the couch. He would wrap an arm around Crystal and wish it was Edwin, who was merely across the room.
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After Hell, Charles is terrified of letting Edwin out of his reach for fear that he might get taken away again. He is, of course, being very subtle in his attempts to keep Edwin close.
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a series of moments when charles can't stop touching edwin to remind himself that he's real and safe, until it all finally catches up to him and he snaps
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This is all Gwen's fault. Merlin never wanted a stupid smartphone in the first place. Now, he has a smartphone and a supercilious, posh git bullying him on Whatsapp. He really should block the prat.
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The one where Merlin doesn't block the prat and finds out that, maybe, smartphones aren't so bad after all.
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14 Jun 2024
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this one broke me irreparabley and im not even mad. ill never recover from this fic it was so gut wrenchingly incredible.
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“Where are you buried, do you’ve any idea?”
“My body was never found,” he replies softly. “There is a memorial marker next to my parents’ graves, but my remains are not there.”
The idea is so horrifying that it stuns Charles into silence for a couple seconds. “I didn’t know that. Why didn’t I know that?”
Edwin’s shoulders tense. “The whole thing is bloody tragic enough as it is.”
Grabbing his wrist, Charles begins marching them back in the direction of the pond they used to get here.
Edwin doesn’t resist, but he does argue, because of course he does. “Charles, where are we going?”
“St. Hilarion’s. We’ve got a new case, don’t we?”
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Shadows of the past by ElinaRoss
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
05 Jun 2024
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The case started as just another mystery to solve, but the detectives never expected it to turn into something far more personal and haunting. As Edwin, Charles, Crystal and Niko begin the investigation, the threads of the case start to weave a path back to Edwin's own past – a past he's spent decades trying to bury deep within himself.
As Edwin's darkest nightmares come to life before his very eyes, it's the unwavering support of his team – the charming Cat King, his loyal mate Charles, and the rest of the crew – that becomes his anchor through the storm that threatens to engulf him.
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(title from the Hozier song because I'm creative and original)
“Come on, Eds. You can rest when we are back at the shop, promise. Just please wake up.”
Charles’s voice eeks with a barely contained tremor. His shaking of Edwin growing more frantic. But nothing. It was like Edwin was dead to the world… again.
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What if Edwin wasn't awake after Charles finds him after defeating Esther's snake? What if he doesn't wake up?
What if Crystal has to go into the mind of a ghost to get him out of his own mind? (Can she even read the mind of a ghost?)