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spinning around and around in an ocean of grief (your ladder came down to the sea) by Ingi
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Sep 2024
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The first thing Charles ever notices about Edwin is that his voice is far too posh to sound as kind as it does. The second is that Edwin has pretty eyes and a face that was made to be painted.
Or: the cascade of events leading to the completion of Charles Rowland's long-standing bisexual realisation.
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10 Dec 2024
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to be alone, to be in love, to just be worth it by Ingi
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Aug 2024
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"I remember you now, y'know," Charles says after a beat, his voice still full of that horrible flatness, so at odds with how he'd been laughing just a few minutes ago. "Edwin Payne, yeah? Everyone was talking about you in November. That's why you huddle up here with your tea and your board games, innit? I would, too. I s'pose I am." He glances around the attic, Edwin's pathetic little escape, with more understanding than judgement, before his eyes snap back to meet Edwin's. "Why are you helping me? Why are you being all nice?"
"I don't understand," says Edwin, slowly. "What else could I possibly do?"
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09 Dec 2024
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It's taken literal Hell for Charles to realise that actually, when he told Edwin that he loved him in 1989, he might not have been joking after all. As the demon rushes up towards them, Charles turns on his heels, takes a step down, and kisses Edwin hard and quick.
Or: an exploration of Charles' easy "love you too" in Hell.
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That's How We Healed Each Other by Starcrossedstarfishes
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Nov 2024
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Soulmate and Alive/Modern Day AU!
Edwin and Charles are soulmates that can feel each other's pain--AKA pain pals. Unfortunately, this means that their soulbond is platonic and that one day, one or both of them will find their pleasure bond and their soulbond will be severed forever. Edwin's biggest fear is Charles finding his pleasure partner and no longer having their Bond. Charles' biggest fear is Edwin feeling more of his pain.
Join us for the whump and the journey to navigate their pain bond and (maybe) finding their romantic soulmates! (wink wink)
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08 Dec 2024
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I Would Know Him In Death, At The End Of The World by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Aug 2024
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Edwin gets a new book, and listens to some music. Charles is finally unable to continue being oblivious.
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08 Dec 2024
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After Port Townsend, Edwin has something he thinks Crystal should know. Crystal is trying very hard to become a better, more emotionally intelligent person. Fortunately, the bar for emotional intelligence is pretty low.
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08 Dec 2024
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Sometimes, especially after mentally taxing cases, Edwin just needs to read in silence for a little while. When it was just him and Charles, that was fine. Now that Crystal is also part of the Agency, it's a little harder.
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08 Dec 2024
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Edwin Payne's complicated relationship with his family by Stringsofstars
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
29 Dec 2024
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Edwin Payne hasn't had more than the occasional isolated thought of his family for a long time. They are all long dead, after all.
Unfortunately, as Edwin should have known, the dead never stay quiet for long.
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08 Dec 2024
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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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08 Dec 2024
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On their sixth Halloween together, Charles finally pieces together that Edwin doesn't go out this time of year, doesn't take cases, doesn't leave the office. He'd like to know why.
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07 Dec 2024
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The other boy slowly lowers his arm back to his side as he meets Charles’ gaze. His eyes are scrutinizing. “There isn’t time, unfortunately,” he says, hushed, “for a full explanation. So, in short order: my name is Edwin Payne, yes, I too was sacrificed to Sa’al by my classmates at St. Hilarion’s, and both of our souls have been traded to the creature that resides here. Unlike Sa’al, the creature has no qualms about torturing souls and prefers to chase its prey. It will be following the trail I have left behind. Hide here. I will lead it off.”
Or: Charles Rowland is sacrificed in the same ritual that killed Edwin Payne, seventy-three years earlier, only a short time before Edwin would have made it out of Hell on his own. Now, instead of being responsible for only himself, Edwin's got to get the both of them out of Hell. It's not going to be easy.
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Whoever held the greatest claim on his soul could be worse than Doll Spider. They might doom him to an eternity of pain that even he couldn’t imagine. But he didn’t care: this chance of freedom—of snatching victory from the creature that had stolen decades of his existence—was far greater than any risk.
“The claimant is unknown,” the Justiciar stated. “If they approach the court with the proper paperwork, or are willing to be put to the sword, we will revisit your case."
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Following their return from Hell, Edwin and Charles had thought themselves safe. They had believed that Hell and its denizens had no more claim on Edwin's soul.
Unfortunately, not everyone is of the same opinion.
When Edwin is summoned to a tribunal to determine whether the Doll Spider or the Office of Lost and Found has the greater claim on his soul, it is up to Charles, Crystal and the Night Nurse to put things right. The truth, however, may be more complicated than it seems - and more than one of the agency will be forced to confront their demons.
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07 Dec 2024
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“Ignus fatuus,” Edwin read aloud, “or foolish flame. You may recognize its colloquial name, will-o’-the-wisp.”
“…Come again?”
“Will-o’-the-wisp?” Charles shook his head. “Friar’s lantern?” Charles stared blankly, still looking confused. “Sometimes referred to as jack-o’-lanterns?”
“What, you mean the Halloween pumpkins?”
“Oh for Heaven’s sake, Charles.”
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or, Charles finds out what it's like to be the brains for a day, and Edwin is enraptured by his partner's endless talents. They kiss about it.Written for days 3 and 5 of Payneland Week: Love confession/first kiss and Casefic
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06 Dec 2024
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06 Dec 2024
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“Charles?” The boy asked, startling him from his thoughts. His voice was soft and kind, like his mum’s often was after a particularly rough night with his dad.
Charles looked up, his good eye blinking owlishly. “Who’re you?”
He looked back at Charles, lips set in a wobbly frown. If Charles had to guess, he’d say the strange, stuffy-looking boy was trying not to cry.
There was a long beat of silence. And then:
“Oh, my dear. What has she done to you?”
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Or, after tangling with the spirit of a mad scientist, Edwin is left with a seven-year-old Charles that has no memory of him or their afterlife together. Edwin learns about Charles’s childhood in steps, as Charles finds his way back to the family he’s built by working through the trauma of his past. -
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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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- Part 1 of Suo Gân & other melodies
Bookmarked by Dead Boy Detectives (gracefulpinecone)
04 Dec 2024
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Charles was always sure he’d made the right choice to stay. There was no one else he’d rather be dead with, no other Afterlife that could top this.
He always assumed Edwin felt the same. Through the running from Death, the promises to never split up, he always assumed Edwin would never want anything else either.
But Edwin never had a choice in the matter, did he? Not a real one anyway. For Edwin, it was either Earth or Hell. That’s not much of a choice. Charles had always known this, obviously. Edwin getting dragged back down to Hell was one of his worst fears- worst fears turned reality too. But Charles never considered what Edwin would do if he was actually given a choice.
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When Edwin’s asylum request is approved, Charles realizes Edwin actually has the choice to move on to his Afterlife now. He worries he might not be enough to get Edwin to stay, and the perfect Afterlife he’s built might not actually last forever.
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- Part 2 of dbda works
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04 Dec 2024
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my fics for dead boy detectives!
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04 Dec 2024
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just frame the halves (and call them brothers) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Sep 2024
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Walter R. Payne died one hundred and nine years ago in France. Walter R. Payne has not left France since, nor has his fellow soldiers. That is until a young psychic offers to help them move on. And better yet, the psychic knows Walter’s younger brother who he was not seen in over a century.
Edwin Payne has was killed one hundred and eight years ago. It was not in active combat, like he expected. He never even made it into the army. He died in his school, and spent over half a century in Hell for it. Edwin has changed a lot in the last century, and he’s been perfectly content to ignore the memories of his short life in favor of his new afterlife. Until, a new case comes up involving his older brother.
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- Part 1 of dbda works
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04 Dec 2024
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Charles reaches out his shaking hand, exposing his words. The boy reads them, then reads them once more. He undoes the button of his starched cufflink, rolling back his sleeve to hold out his wrist beside Charles’s.
What do you want? / You can see me?
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or: your soulmate's first words are tattooed on your wrist. Edwin always wondered if he'd meet his soulmate. Charles never wanted to.
Bookmarked by Dead Boy Detectives (gracefulpinecone)
03 Dec 2024