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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    But all that don't really matter, in the end. ‘Cause the thing that pulls him in for real isn't that Crystal's alive. It's that she's larger than life.

    She's the most passionate person he knows, all acid and spit. Nine stone of piss and vinegar, his mum would've called her. She hurls the meanest insults and then turns right around and fights to bring justice for lost souls that the rest of the world forgot about, because she knows they matter. Sometimes Charles thinks that if he wasn't already dead he'd get burned up just being close to her, with how she's so full of fire.

    So then, it makes sense that he can't shake the feeling of wrongness while he looks at her sleeping in that hospital bed.

    Crystal Palace is never supposed to seem small.

     

    Crystal is hurt on a case. Charles spirals.

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    22 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    When Crystal gets sick, the boys are there to take care of her. Edwin might or might not panic a bit over this situation.

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    17 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    List Of Edwin’s Opinion On Music

    by Charles Rowland
    commentary by crystal, Niko! :3 and Edwin Payne

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    or: the one in which the gang presents music to edwin

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    07 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    It's been a year and some change since Edwin stood on a step below Charles, bloody, beaten, green eyes sparkling, and told Charles that he was in love with him. He told Edwin it didn't change anything between them, and it didn't. But it didn’t necessarily do nothing to Charles. No, he actually thinks it might have changed him irrevocably and all that. Because lately, when it comes to Edwin, he's been aching.

    Then, Crystal and Charles take on a new case: a ghost, 90 years old, still in the asylum she died in over sixty years earlier; lost and confused, and looking for her missing baby. As they work to untangle the story of this woman's life, they realise Edwin may be more wrapped up in it than any of them expected.

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    31 Aug 2025

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    “Were you like Brad and Hunter, when you were alive?” Niko asked dubiously.

    Charles stilled. “Well—maybe. I think I was always a little bit different from other guys, to be honest,” he said, like he was confessing something. “My old mates were definitely cut from the same cloth, though.”

    “Oh,” Niko realized. “Is that why you want them to be good guys? They remind you of your friends?”

    “Er…” Charles trailed off. He squished the ball of PlayDoh in his hands. Gray showed between his fingers. “Not exactly. My old mates weren’t, ah. Well. They weren’t good guys, in the end. I mean, Brad and Hunter do remind me of them. A lot, actually. But it’s more like, it would be really nice to know that guys like James or Pete could be nice.” He contemplated the dough in his hands with a small frown. “I just wonder, if those guys had been born a little later, maybe they would have turned out better? Maybe we might have been alright.”

    Niko followed his gaze. Charles seemed to be getting PlayDoh residue on his fingers. They were turning gray, now, too.

    “Were your friends nice to you?” Niko asked, suddenly worried.

    Charles met her eyes, but he had a faraway look on his face. “Sometimes,” he said. 

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    30 Aug 2025