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unidentified affectionate objects by lyres for williamvapespeare
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
20 Oct 2024
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“Good thinking,” murmurs Edwin. “Perhaps it’s a benevolent sort of poltergeist. I wonder if -”
He’s cut off by a shower of daisies, the large, long-stemmed ones they put out in the shops for early spring.
“Aw.” Charles picks one up between thumb and index finger, turning it in his hand. “That’s pretty. D’you know, whatever’s making this happen, I feel like it honestly means well with us.”
Edwin isn’t listening. When Charles looks at him, he’s paler than normal, his jaw set in that not-at-all-good way.
“Please excuse me,” says Edwin, and walks straight into their mirror.(A teacup appears in the office, Edwin blushes a significant number of times, and Charles copes normally with being visibly showered in affection.)
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17 Apr 2026
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Anxious that Hell still has a claim on him, Edwin tests it, with unsettling results. Luckily, Charles is there to show him where he truly belongs.
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11 Mar 2026
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Jack’s first year in the NHL doesn’t go as well as he had hoped.
Or: Jack is perfect, until he isn’t, and when he isn’t, he’s a disaster. He’s trying to land somewhere in the middle.
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04 Jan 2026
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“Jack doesn’t want Kent to be a stranger anymore.”
A few breakups, a reunion, a trade, and a fair amount of Jane Austen along the way. Two years in the life of Jack Zimmermann, or: Jack and Kent’s long road to getting back together.
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- Part 1 of I love your precious heart
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21 Oct 2025
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03 Sep 2025
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Edwin's voice comes to him like a whisper on the breeze.
“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.”He cries then, clinging to the branches of the tree outside Edwin's window, for their lost future, for everything that wasn't and would never be. When his tears finally run dry, he climbs down the tree and strips by the pond.
“You can't just use our pond whenever the fancy takes you,” Edwin says primly, playful indignation in his tone.
“Can't I?” Charles says, and dives in. The water is freezing, a chilling embrace.
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08 May 2025
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back to back they faced each other by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Jul 2024
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The Night Nurse has a theory about Charles.
Everyone has favorites.
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04 May 2025
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Halcyon Days by cordelianoir
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
19 Oct 2024
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There were a lot of reasons why Charles Rowland had changed schools. His suffering grades, constant reprimands over being out of dress code and the school’s growing suspicions about his home life were only some of the reasons why Charles’ mother enrolled him in boarding school for sixth form.
There was really only one problem… well two problems, maybe three.
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When Cricket-star Charles transfers to St. Hilarion's, he urgently needs a Latin tutor. Enter Edwin Payne, a language genius but not very popular. As the two become friends, the past rears its head in ugly ways. Can the two navigate such a new, odd-couple friendship in the face of their pasts? And what happens if that friendship starts to blossom into more?
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- Part 1 of Halcyon Days Universe
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13 Apr 2025
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Even Charles can appreciate the subtleties of the choreography: Fire is boisterous, with great, choppy gestures, Water is in a blue outfit and flows gracefully, Earth stays close to the ground, with sure, stompy movements. It's Air, though, that captivates Charles’s attention: the boy is tall and graceful and pale, and seems to float, his feet barely touching the ground, showcasing astonishing feats of skill and athleticism. He spins and jumps so high, it seems as if he has wings.
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Charles has an epiphany during his sister's end of term performance, falling head over heels for ballet dancer Edwin.- Language:
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05 Apr 2025
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"We offer up," Charles reads, "this virgin sacrifice." He catches Edwin's gaze. "Only technically true. If we're looking for a technicality..."
"Charles," says Edwin, his eyes enormous.
"I know. If it gets you out, though, if there's even a chance—"
Charles and Edwin have sex in Hell. It solves all their problems and gives them everything they ever wanted.
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29 Mar 2025
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10 Nov 2024
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“For someone who claims not to like thinking,” Edwin says, raising an eyebrow, “you do a remarkably good job of it.”
Charles laughs. “Tell that to my old teachers, mate.”
“If they disagree, then they can’t be very qualified.” Edwin says this simply, like it’s just a fact of life. Like it’s plainly obvious that if anyone thinks Charles is stupid, it’s they who are at fault.
Or: Charles grew up poor and is likely to stay that away, his job at the magic store notwithstanding. By the time he meets Edwin, he's decided that he wants a new life. In between figuring out what's up with the mysterious wish-granting pigeons, and whether he can go to the Royal Ball, Edwin makes him want to take a chance on being happy as well.
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20 Oct 2024
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Charles is flummoxed when Edwin reveals that he considers relieving himself of his virginity after hating himself for so long for his desires.
What's a good friend to do but offer to be the afterlife's best wingman?
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08 Oct 2024
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From the DBD Kinkmeme: https://deadboydetectiveskinkmeme.dreamwidth.org/
PROMPT: The first time the saw each other in their orb form, and how they looked after the other in such a vulnerable state.
Mostly just looking for Orbwin and Chorb fluff <333
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09 Sep 2024
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28 Aug 2024
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fact of the universe by Nix_Nihili for tragedy_machine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Aug 2024
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This has to happen. He needs to get past these ill-fated feelings and if that includes making Charles happy? Well, then there really is no choice in the matter. Charles always deserves to be happy; it is a fact of the universe.
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Edwin, with Niko's help, tries to set up a date for Charles and Crystal. It doesn't quite work out.
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26 Aug 2024
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“You know…” Charles meandered weakly. “A chaperone. That’s part of the whole courting deal, innit? Someone to watch over everything, so guys like you” He shot the Cat King a dagger of a look. “keep their hands to themselves. And don’t kidnap people and force them to stay in your shit-hole of a town.”
Or: When the Cat King visits London to formally court Edwin, Charles appoints himself their chaperon – shenanigans, feelings and teen drama ensue.
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18 Aug 2024
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Charles, for his part, looked equally confused. “Hang on, whom I’m courting? Who did you think I was trying to court, mate?”
“That was what I was trying to ascertain, Charles,” Edwin said impatiently.
Or: When Charles asks Edwin about Edwardian courtship practices, Edwin becomes convinced that his best friend has found a new love interest: a ghost from the Edwardian era. After all, why else would Charles want to know about courting?
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30 Jul 2024
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Left for dead by Magneto on Alcatraz, John wakes up in the basement of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters to find himself faced with the chance of regaining a life he isn't sure he ever really wanted. While he struggles to decide how he wants to spend his future, the last surviving X-Men are beginning to learn that the cure isn't the only thing threatening their own.
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29 Jul 2024
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28 Jul 2024