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Is it dumb believing you might love me too? by Padmedala
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Sep 2025
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“Apparently, we were not on the same page.”
Charles snorts. “Yeah I’m bloody getting that.”
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A few days after Edwin confesses, Charles comes to his senses and asks Edwin out. But due to a miscommunication, Edwin doesn't realize that they're dating now.
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The first time Crystal sees Niko, she doesn’t realize that the other girl is a ghost.
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In an alternate universe in which Niko is a ghost, and Crystal attends the same boarding school where Niko died, they still become friends, and they still manage to piss off Esther Finch.
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- Part 2 of Psychic & Spirit Investigations
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“Mystery, Inc.?” Niko suggests.
Crystal smiles wryly. “I think that one’s been taken.”
“The Scoobies?”
“Isn’t that the same thing?” Crystal asks.
“No, that's what they call themselves in Buffy.”
Crystal laughs. “You know, for someone who died in 1963, you know a lot about pop culture.”
Niko shrugs. “I guess you have a lot of time to watch TV when you don't leave your room for 60 years.”
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In which Niko is a ghost, she and Crystal form their own detective agency, and along the way maybe fall in love.
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- Part 1 of Psychic & Spirit Investigations
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A Capricorn and an Aquarius Read Some Manga, and Other Discoveries by Padmedala
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
06 Aug 2025
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Edwin thinks that he may have succeeded in putting matter to bed, but then Niko sits up straight, struck by inspiration. “What if Charles liked a boy?”
“What?” Edwin blusters.
“Charles, he’s your best friend, right? Would it be wrong if he had a crush on a boy?”
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Set between episode three and four, Niko teaches Edwin to be kinder to himself.
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GROSS: So all the women you had on your arm at various award shows and Hollywood functions for the past two decades–?
TOZIER: All an act, I’m afraid. For the past twenty-three years, I’ve been completely monogamous to one person, and that person happens to be a man.
___Richie comes out. NPR interviews him about it.
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- Part 2 of Houses in Your Heart
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Part 1: I would do 'most anything to get you back by my side
- Will’s POV
- Set between season three and four
- It’s about Will coming to terms with his sexuality, admitting to himself how he feels about Mike, and finding some moments of queer joy.Part 2: I tried to laugh about it, cover it all up with lies
- Mike’s POV
- Set during season four
- It’s trying to help Mike beat the ‘head empty, no thoughts’ allegations.Part 3: Thought that you needed me more
- Alternating POV between Will, Mike, and El
- Set during the aftermath of season four
- It’s the scenes I felt were missing from season four.Part 4: I would tell you that I loved you
- Will’s POV
- Set during the year after season four
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Zombie-like frat brothers, going undercover at Rocky Horror, protecting your talking bird and dealing with complicated feelings all in one week— what could go wrong?
or, an everybody's alive scooby doo AU for halloween
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- Part 1 of these detectives are terribly clever!
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20 Oct 2025
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Edwin sighed and unfolded his hands to push his hair back. “I suppose this was inevitable,” he allowed.
Charles beamed. “That’s the spirit. Look at it this way — you’ve never been to a house party before, and here’s one that’s right up your alley!”
“Ominous and full of peril?” Edwin asked sardonically.
“Exactly!” Charles agreed. “This way you get to go to a party you’ll actually like, because it’s actually a mystery. And once you solve the mystery, the party ends. I couldn’t have thrown you a better one myself.”Series
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06 Oct 2025
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It was nice to be close to Charles like this. Edwin let the thought flow through his mind without censure. Because it was. Nice. Very nice. To get to just look at him for a while.
He’d always been a good looking boy. Maturity had only enhanced it. As did the kindness at the core of him that Edwin knew so well after so long together.
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Five kisses throughout their lives.
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30 Sep 2025
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“A deal. You pretend to be my boyfriend for a few weeks, show up at my house, escort me to social functions and such. Your overall person, manner and opinions should be enough to truly scandalise my parents. You will only need to be yourself, only less... charming.”
Charles gave him a bright grin. “You think I’m charming?”
Edwin ignored him. “And I will act all smitten with you. When they offer you the money to break up with me – and rest assured, throwing money at problems is their only way of handling anything – you will take it. I shall be horribly heartbroken to make them feel guilty and any subsequent romantic partner who is a bit more... mellow than you will be quite welcome.”
Charles stared at him, unsure of how he could’ve ever thought of Edwin Payne as innocent. “Damn... you are a conniving little bastard, aren’t you?”-
Charles Rowland's first impression of Edwin Payne can be summerized as privileged, rich and aloof – also incredibly pretty, but that’s besides the point. However, when Edwin presents him with a scheme to piss off his conservative parents and get some money out of them in the process, Charles can’t resist the siren call of causing mayham for some Tories.
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30 Sep 2025
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the bite that binds, the gift that gives by dear_monday, handwrittenhello
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Jan 2025
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It’s been three days, and Charles Rowland is dying.
“Will you stop squirming, you little menace,” says Edwin, exasperated. “I’m going to miss your femoral artery and then you’ll be sorry.”
Charles grins. “Oops,” he says. He’s a featherlight, endorphin-flooded creature. It’s hard to feel too sorry. It’s hard to believe that anything bad is ever going to happen again. “Guess you’ll just have to do it again, then, won’t you?”
Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne, then and now.
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- Part 2 of before the transformation takes
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28 Sep 2025