12 Works in Cat King (Dead Boy Detectives)/Crystal Palace (DCU)
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look who’s homewrecked now by aletterinthenameofsanity for dear_monday
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
22 Nov 2025
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“Come the fuck on,” Crystal swears, “Are you fucking with me? The woods are actually sacred? Don't tell me that burying David is the thing that fucked me, because I cannot go back to that life if I can't get rid of his body-”
The Cat King scoffs. “Oh fuck no, these woods aren't sacred.” He shudders. “Honestly, I hate them.” But then he fixes her with the curl of a smirk, eyes gleaming with curiosity. “But you, Crystal Palace? You fascinate me.”
Crystal bites her lip, tasting blood, but she doesn't wince. She doesn't flinch. She has done far worse on this eve, and she has a feeling that she'll bargain for far worse if she wants to get out of this in time to escape-
“Can you help me?” She asks, and she's not one to ask for help, but she needs to get out of this town in time. She needs to run, and run far, and never fucking look back.
“Not unless you make a deal with me, sweetheart,” the Cat King says.
(After hitting the end of the line on her relationship with David, Crystal is burying his body in the forest when she finds out that the local legends about the spirit that haunts the forest are real. What she's not expecting, though, is that spirit offering to help her out.)
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out there on the high dive (flashbacks get me close) by aletterinthenameofsanity for artemisadore
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
21 Nov 2025
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“I’m the Cat Queen of Port Townsend,” the woman says, and it’s somehow both a casual thing and a declaration heavy with magical significance. Thomas can taste it on her words.
"And one of you is very much going to need to face a punishment," she says, but she seems rather bored by the whole endeavor, truly.
And Thomas wants to get her to react. He wants to earn something from her.
Thomas is lonely. He has something itching beneath his skin, carving a hollow out from within him.
Edwin is so stiff and uptight and clearly not onboard with the living. Charles is even more repressed than Edwin, whether he'd like to admit it or not.
And being lonely and empty and amnesiac and itching doesn't exactly improve a person's already tenuous self-control.
And so he blurts, like a reckless idiot with as much self-preservation as a bird landing right in front of a cat: “Why the fuck do you have a table of skeletons growing out of your floor?”
In an instant, the Queen’s gaze snaps to him.
“Y’know what?” the Queen asks, “I’m bored. Things around here get so incredibly mundane. But you? You’re fucking interesting. You’re going to come with me.”
(Role reversal time!)
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if I could paint the sky (all the stars would shine a bloody red) by aletterinthenameofsanity for Atariakana (Anakairata)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
20 Nov 2025
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Crystal is willing to do much to defend herself and her line and even gain a bit of power, but she would not commit the cruelties that David has.
Now, though-
Crystal needs to end those cruelties. She needs to stop David from destroying this place.
She needs to make it out of here.
She needs to escape.
But not just escape- she needs to win.
She needs to not just save herself and her own skin, but those of the little girls who David might take advantage of, the subjects that she agreed to foster as her own when she proposed marriage to this demon of a man.
She doesn’t give a shit what she has to do in order to get out of this place. To fight on her own.
Crystal is not of the Palace anymore. She is not of any sort of noble line, with a civil war destroying the realm.
But what she is still is the descendant of dragon riders.
Once upon a time, her aunts and grandmothers rode dragons. They carried the fire of the world in their veins.
And Crystal will not let the end of the world and the hand of a man with more power than her stop her from claiming her legacy and protecting her people.
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said a prayer to a dashboard jesus (death valley and worn out shoes) by aletterinthenameofsanity for fear0phobia
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Nov 2025
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He sees her like a mirage in the endless desert he’s currently driving through- the hitchhiker holding up her thumb to be picked up on the side of the road.
She doesn’t look like that much of a stranger- red curls half-pulled back, a purple crushed velvet jacket over a pair of jean shorts, tights, and a faded men’s shirt, earbuds in her ears. She looks the picture of studied nonchalance, as if she wouldn’t care one way or another if she got picked up by a passing car.
And yet there is something in her stance that betrays her hunger.
No- her need.
They’re in the middle of nowhere. She’s at least a couple of miles away from the nearest gas station, and all she has is her messenger bag. She might have a water bottle inside of that thing, but that’s not gonna get her too far.
And while Thomas is built a bit more impervious than most, humans very much are not.
Hitchhikers are a gold mine for what he hungers for- unending desire, a hunger for dreams and the road and getting out of town. Not just want, delicious as that is, but need.
(A siren picks up a hitchhiker on the road side, except, well- any liar can tell you that there's always more than meets the eye.)
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hope the taste in your mouth (is still as sweet as I wish it could be) by aletterinthenameofsanity for anything_thats_rock_and_roll
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), iZombie (TV)
18 Nov 2025
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Now, just because Crystal is dead doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have eyes.
Newbie is the kind of gorgeous that defies all gender norms, the sort of pretty that girls and boys would both kill to be and to kiss.
And yeah, he looks vaguely familiar, but most pretty boys do.
And Newbie beelines straight for Niko, where Niko has a fucking doggie bag ready for him, which can only contain-
“Niko!” Crystal hisses.
She can smell what's in the bag.
That's her food.
But newbie just winks at her.
“Don't worry, sweetheart,” he says, “I’m just here for a snack.”
(Crystal is a zombie mortician who eats the brains of victims to see their memories and solve their murders. She had to break up with her human boyfriend, Detective Charles Rowland, a year ago in order to keep him safe from turning.
But when a new man- a new zombie- enters the morgue, Crystal finds that she might have had more reasons than just life and death that her relationship with Charles didn’t work out. And maybe, just maybe, the new zombie might fill some of the hunger she’s been unable to quench since she died.)
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when your soul embarks by artemisadore for aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
18 Nov 2025
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For the loss of another one of his lives, the Cat King finds some unexpected company. Or, to be more precise, Crystal Palace finds him.
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dbda creature week, day two: shape-shifters & the undead
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too busy being yours to fall by aletterinthenameofsanity for thewritingotter
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
17 Nov 2025
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Greed and Lust, they are said to be. The goddess of hunger and the god of desire, said to have once devoured nations and toppled dynasties. She of the hollow, of the unending hunger, him of desire, unending, unslaking.
It’s been at least a few centuries since they were worshipped at the altar, but while their true names are lost to time, they say that legends never truly die.
And as they walk the streets of one of the largest cities in the world, that grand shrine to consumption and consumerism and lust and glitter, it’s not like their cause to exist ever really went away, did it?
He wears a kilt and a shirt of glimmering mesh and a robe of flowers; she wears flower-painted boots and a pair of overalls above a white t-shirt and a long purple coat. Long ago, they wore their flowers as crowns dripping with blood above their brows; now they are merely a decoration, a stain from a life long ago.
(Crystal and Thomas are forgotten gods. They still have fun with it.)
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This is my emotional support confusingly intimate Sims save by LesbianMastermind for XrDragonix
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Nov 2025
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What if Crystal was secretely a genius ? She's good at reading people, in any case, and she realized Edwin would probably enjoy indulging in his control issues... by playing God on the Sims.
Edwin keeps pushing the Cat King away, despite them being friends now. Despite Thomas constantly being around, being part of the Agency, trying to win him over with his charming personality. But he doesn't need to be won over. He's already been. Only it's easier having their Sims have a relationship than being in an actual relationship. So that's what he does. He makes Sim Cat King and Sim Edwin kiss. A lot. Because he's not doing the kissing himself, but some kissing needs to happen if he wants to stay soudn of mind.
Mods are involved. Sex mods are involved. But it's fine. It's research. It's not an issue. Noone will ever know.
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it's enough to keep you tied down by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Oct 2025
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“You know,” the King says, arms pinned behind his back as Lady Palace secures the rope- or, rather, the laces of her corset- around his wrists, “If you’d just told me that you wanted this, I would have been down. I know all too well that uptight girls like a little bit of rough play-”
He can hear the roll in her eyes as she says, “I’m far less uptight than you fucking think, Your Highness.”
She spits his title- not even his title, truly, considering the fact that he is a King and Your Highness is reserved for princes and princesses, not the one wearing the golden crown but rather the goddamn tiara- like it’s a slur, all mockery, all edge.
And the King would almost be amused by her attempt at being a fly in his ear- he has weathered far more creative kidnapping attempts than this- if it weren’t for the knife that presses to his neck. Things get a little bit more intense as the tip of the blade presses tight to his throat, drawing a single drop of blood from right underneath the outermost layer of skin.
(A bandit takes down a King, but neither one of them is exactly what they seem at first glance.)
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- Part 22 of dress you up in my love (cat king/crystal brainrot)
- Part 28 of ya girl does whumptober 2025
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i've busted bones, broken stones (looked the devil in the eye) by aletterinthenameofsanity for thewritingotter, laiqualaurelote
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
17 Oct 2025
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King is a famous name among the Underground. Everyone knows the devil himself and the way that he swans around in his stubbled legs beneath his skirts and his golden makeup above his leather dusters, making his bargains, sewing up his claims on souls.
But not everyone knows what he’s like when he’s bruised up, golden makeup smeared, letting out a groan as he hoists himself up in a back alley, spitting a glob of blood on the pavement in front of him.
Crystal Palace isn’t much better off herself. Even though there is something in her that is bruised, something in her that is built on shrapnel and a prayer, there is something in her that is too kind for her own good. Something in her that feels sorry for people who are wronged, even if said people are monsters in their own right.
What the hell- she’s a monster. She played partners-in-crime with David and gathered up her fair share of WANTED-poster-worthy crimes. She can name the blood stained beneath her painted fingernails, all those names that laced themselves around her neck like the executioner’s noose until the day she placed David’s pistol to the back of his head and pulled the goddamn trigger.
The devil’s got nothing on her.
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- Part 17 of ya girl does whumptober 2025
- Part 21 of dress you up in my love (cat king/crystal brainrot)
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you won't remember this (you feel it in your chest) by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Oct 2025
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Crystal Palace wakes up with a pounding headache and a pair of golden eyes staring at her above a cheshire smirk.
“So,” the man with flickering gold eyes drawls, “Welcome to Port Townsend, sweetheart."
Crystal rolls her eyes. “I’m not your sweetheart,” she says as she sits up with a groan, hand going to her side.
What the fuck happened to end her up here? And where even is here?
Crystal looks around, but finds absolutely nothing familiar about this place, about the concrete beneath her, about the ferry in the harbor next to her, about the bloom of pain in her side, scooping through her side to her stomach and her spleen like an unholy flower in an agonizing spring, about the man in front of her, with the entrancing mesh shirt on his chest and the skirt and the combat boots and the-
Fuck that. Crystal is not focusing on how hot someone is- no matter how hot they might be- when her body feels like it’s been cannibalized from the inside out, when she feels like she’s been chewed up and spat out, body, mind, and soul, when she feels like nothing more than a bleeding echo of a girl.
(Crystal wakes up demon-free in Port Townsend rather than London.)
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- Part 16 of ya girl does whumptober 2025
- Part 20 of dress you up in my love (cat king/crystal brainrot)
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no more wide eyes (I can’t pretend) by aletterinthenameofsanity for madnessiseverything
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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Charles Rowland can’t stand for this to end up with a bad ending. He can’t stand for this to not work.
Because if it doesn't-
If she dies-
Charles cannot bear to let his lack of ability be the thing that kills her. He can’t bear to let the fact that he is dead and that she is alive be the thing that renders her unable to continue.
As the Cat King breathes life into Crystal’s lungs, the sort of life that Charles has not had in so long, the realization starts to creep in that Charles would rather Crystal be alive, able to feel the Cat King’s mouth, able to grow, able to breathe, able to live, than to be with her.
Charles can never feel Crystal like the Cat King can. He can never live alongside Crystal, touching her, breathing with her, as the people like the Cat King can.
And that is a brutal realization to have. Charles cannot be the boy that he once was.
(When Crystal is hurt on a case, Charles realizes that he can't do CPR. When he calls in the Cat King to help out, this leads to realizations about more than just the case at hand.)
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- Part 12 of ya girl does whumptober 2025