Sage_Owl
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August, 1916. Edwin Payne has five months to die, or face a fate far worse.
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towards the sea (yearning for contact) by Sage_Owl for ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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Charles Rowland has a better-than-usual day.
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One person's revenge is another's chance at redemption.
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Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne, semi-professional ghosthunters. No haunting too small, too strange, or too dangerous. What could go wrong?
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Rechargable stress toy: coming soon! (aka the alternate title of this fic)
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The tall fields whizz past, turning into trees, then fields, then back to trees again. Charles keeps driving—and he keeps looking, feeling it well up in his chest all over again, every time.
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- Part 1 of Brief Moments
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21 Oct 2025
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and death i think is no parenthesis by wordsinhaled for cutevamp
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 Oct 2025
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“Lovely,” Edwin says, and—it’s a bit ridiculous, isn’t it, how serious he sounds, when… it’s just Charles he’s saying it to, Charles who's mostly dressed, looking the same as he’s looked for three and a half decades now.
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- Part 29 of that certain feeling
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14 Oct 2025
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make for me a soft universe (and now i know what love feels like) by wordsinhaled
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
06 Oct 2025
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“So whose idea was this, then? Yours or mine?”
“Well, yours initially, but I suggested we use the potion.”
For DBDA Potions Week Day 2: Amnesia Potion
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- Part 28 of that certain feeling
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10 Oct 2025
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Edwin Payne was the best necromancer the Fifth House had ever produced. Death had touched his hands and his mouth and his eyes, had cradled his skull and marked him as its favourite son. He had plumbed depths of Fifth House history that had slumbered untouched for centuries, mining long-forgotten seams of knowledge. He had bled for it, starved for it, broken himself open and hollowed himself out. He had made a home of himself for spirit magic, his legs its foundations and his ribcage its vaulted ceiling. He had spoken with the dead, and he had walked the River.
Which was why it was so embarrassing that he was about to be murdered in his bed by some two-bit thug.
Seventy-three years after he was pushed into the River, a liminal place filled with hungry ghosts, Edwin Payne has finally succeeded in clawing his way out. All he wants is to be left alone with his research, but to his dismay, the head of his House insists he take a cavalier to protect him – and to make sure he’s behaving himself. But not everyone is happy to hear that Edwin’s back, and when an attempt on his life by the very man who pushed him into the River all those years ago almost ends in tragedy, it’s time to get even.
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08 Oct 2025
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(black is the colour) of my true love’s hair by ObsessedWithFandom for idliketobeatree, kira84
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
25 Sep 2024
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“Edwin,” Charles said, one splendid morning. “D’you notice anything different? About me?”
With his face angled towards the window, Charles was lovingly lit by the morning sun, caught as it was on his forehead and cheeks and chin, limning the straight line of his nose and pooling in the depths of his dark eyes, lingering on his lips as if in a kiss. Beyond the light: the curve of his ear, his rather exquisite jawline, the glint of his earring and necklace, his bare shoulders, lean and strong, the curls of his hair just brushing them –Or: The boys spend a morning in the office; Charles has a lightbulb moment.
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- Part 1 of give charles rowland long hair 2kforever
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08 Oct 2025