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The Devlin murders lead to a very quiet walk home. So quiet that a little sound breaks through it all and then everything falls apart and then back into place.
Edwin followed the tiny meows until he came across a street drain. Cold sludge trickled through the nearly covered grating, and there, deep in the dark, sat a little glowing star of a white kitten. The grating must have been slowly degrading over time, because a perfect kitten-sized gap in the bars had broken away.
The kitten was damp, its fur pressed with the wetness of the pool it sat in, and its tiny eyes fixed up at the hole calling, calling, calling for mama.
Or: How Edwin loses his bracelet, because he made the Cat King happy.
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"Damn, what happened in here?" Crystal said to herself, crinkling her nose as if she smelled something foul. The young psychic stuffed her sunglasses and phone into her bag with her laptop and the various papers she had laboriously taken the time to print out (what, like she was actually going to pay attention on a school trip? C'mon, be realistic). "It's like a glitter bomb of love went off. I mean, it's always disgustingly lovey, but now it's like... Sticky. Like I won't get all this love off me for weeks."
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Crystal walks in on the aftermath of How'd I Get This Hallelujah? by skinnybritishdudes.
It really won't make any sense without reading that first. -
i will fall in love with you, over and over again by plutosapphicstay
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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“You’re a classic, aren’t you?”
Of all the descriptions the Cat King has given Edwin, a classic is not one of them. "I'm not quite sure what you mean."
"It's nothing bad to be, not in the slightest," the Cat King says, earnest. "You appreciate the way things are and the way they were, seeing the beauty in both sides. You probably got a bunch of first editions back home- Oscar Wilde, Allen Poe, all the best of the Lake Poets." He shifts forward on his knees to where Edwin sits, brings himself just an inch closer to the space between his legs. "Think Art Noveau, letters written by candlelight instead typed up in telegrams, dances in ballrooms instead of old clubs.”
The look in his eyes, the admiration, now Edwin sees where it’s familiar. The fascination, from that cursed first night- drawn out by Edwin doing nothing but being himself. “There’s just nothing like you anymore.”
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In other words, the CatWin season two where the Cat King ditches an Endless-sentenced exile in PT to chase after a second chance, Edwin meets him again for the first time on his side of the sea, and what they find is more than any mere fascination. I miss my idiots way too much.
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The Dust of Stars by NuriaSchnee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
31 Jul 2025
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The End of the Universe has started—or so everyone believes. Dark voids are appearing throughout the country and spreading to other planes. Death has gone missing, and reality is shattering. Charles and Edwin are in a race against time again, trying to find what is causing this before their world disappears.
A Season 3 fic.
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- Part 2 of Dead Boy Detectives: The Complete Series
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Everyone always assumes that Edwin is older. He wears a suit, he stands with his hands clasped behind the world’s straightest back, and he speaks with the vocabulary of a sixty year old scholar.
Edwin Payne is the definition of sensible maturity.
Right?
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Crystal is in for a shock when she asks why Charles and Edwin don’t try to find more similarly aged friends to hang out with. Edwin should be going out to book clubs or whatever it is old people do. She learned there was a ghost meet up for a Saturday kick about, exclusively for ghost kids, last week after the boys had had to sort out a bunch of older ghosts that decided the rest of the week wasn’t enough for them but that Charles had never gone as a social call.So why does Charles sit around the office pestering Edwin about going to the park and learning to box when they could be busy doing their own things?
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- Part 1 of Dead Boy teeny tiny minis
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A Deathly Attraction | Edwin Paine x Original male Character by Shooshooshoo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 May 2025
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After such an intense stream of adventures back in Port Townsen. Edwin, Charles and Crystal make their way back to London with a few more people than when they first left. With Crystal still trying to track down her parents and the boys taking a break from detective work. They stumbled across a revamped theater which holds a whole new stream of adventures that can change their very ‘lives’ as they know it (SLOW UPDATES)
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two ghosts w̶a̶l̶k̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶a̶r̶ cum into a jar by orphan_account
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Apr 2025
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"what is this?"
"oh, it's a jar of ectoplasm."
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aka the suspicious ectoplasm jar
aka, the cum jar fic.
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- Part 1 of drab n dim
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Para a bela criatura que capturou completamente meu olhar by ShineHalley
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
31 Mar 2025
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Crystal achava que estava reagindo bem a tudo considerando o aspecto geral da coisa. Ela poderia ficar alguns dias com aqueles vampiros esquisitos, já que eles aparentemente não matam humanos, e depois descobrir o que fazer quanto ao lance todo de David e suas memórias. Tinha que ter alguma coisa que ela pudesse fazer. Memórias simplesmente não somem assim do nada e Crystal sabia que tinha uma vida antes disso. Tinha certeza de que havia algo lá, algo que causava raiva e tristeza, mas lá. Era alguma coisa e ela precisava saber o que era.
Ou;
Observe enquanto Crystal busca incansavelmente pela verdade por trás do motivo para o demônio David ter roubado suas memórias e encontra tempo no meio disso para descobrir seu caminho, fazer amizades verdadeiras com detetives vampiros e se apaixonar por uma garota linda demais para se olhar por muito tempo.
(Ou, a visão de Crystal sobre os acontecimentos de "Seus dentes se sentem como o paraíso em meu coração imortal").
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- Part 3 of O Estudo de Caso das Criaturas Noturnas
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- Português brasileiro
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In the roaring 1920s, Edwin Payne, a shy and bookish young scholar, escapes the stifling confines of his aristocratic English life to pursue the greatest mystery of the ancient world: the lost city of Al-Kharath. Accompanied by his best friend Niko and the roguish adventurer Charles Rowland—an ex-soldier with a penchant for trouble—Edwin journeys deep into the Egyptian desert.
But danger lurks in more than just the shadows of the ruined city. As tensions rise and the sands begin to shift, Edwin must face not only the ancient forces awakened by their quest but also his own tangled emotions. In Charles, Edwin discovers an unlikely ally who challenges his self-doubt and ignites something far deeper than friendship.
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- Part 2 of The Sands That Bind
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Hell wants their favourite virgin sacrifice back, and the Night Nurse is not willing to keep filing denials for the rest of eternity. (She has better things to be getting on with). So what is a Dead Boy Detective to do?
Well, Edwin can go on the pull, or see a professional, or maybe pop over the ocean for a rendezvous with a certain Cat King… Though for some reason Charles keeps vetoing all of those suggestions.
Because he and Edwin can just sort things out between themselves, surely?
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Paperwork brings to pass what not even Hell, Death or Trickster shapeshifters could manage… -
Every part of you is mine - Podfic by sixbynine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
03 Dec 2024
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Payment for a job well done comes in the form of some enchanted rings that give Edwin and Charles real boy bodies.
Edwin's all for a thoughtful and detailed experiment - Charles has other ideas. -
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Charles wants something. Edwin figures out how to give it to him. Turns out they both want the same thing.
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Seus dentes se sentem como o paraíso em meu coração imortal by ShineHalley
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Nov 2024
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Charles sentiu algo surgir no fundo de sua alma, algo intenso e monstruoso, como o anseio e o lampejo de determinação que sempre o faz tomar as piores decisões. Aquele mundo não merecia Edwin, não merecia ele e eles definitivamente poderiam fazer muito bem um ao outro. Eles poderiam ser companheiros. Eles poderiam andar por aquele mundo juntos.
Ou;
Observe enquanto Charles se perde cada vez mais em sua devoção pelo garoto que o transformou em vampiro tantos anos atrás.
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- Part 1 of O Estudo de Caso das Criaturas Noturnas
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“We will need to find somewhere else to stay.” Edwin sounded more like he was talking to himself instead of Charles. “The gas is likely to linger for at least a week, given its potency.”
Charles jogged to catch up with him. “Maybe we can stay at Crystal’s,” he suggested. “She’s got a flat in London.”
Edwin considered this. “I don’t know where else we can go,” he muttered. “The backup office burnt down two years ago.” He gave Charles a pointed look.
“How was I supposed to know that one little Molotov cocktail would turn the whole place to ash?” he said defensively.
“Common sense.” Edwin thought for another tick before nodding. “Alright, Crystal’s it is. All of our things should be fine in our absence.” A ghost of a smile passed over his face. “You can ask her.”Or
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5 times someone mistook Charles and Edwin for an old couple + 1 time they were.
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“Guys! Do you know what day it is?” Niko smiles so excitedly you’d think she won the lottery.
“First of June,” Edwin responds. Just then, he catches Crystal smiling fondly but trying to hide it by looking down. “Why? Why are you smiling, Crystal?”
She looks up to him with an annoyed smile, biting her bottom lip.
“Yes! It’s Pride month, Edwin!” Niko almost screams from excitement, joining her hands against her chest. “Now that you came out to everybody, we need to get you to go to the Pride. We should all go together!”
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Or, Edwin and Charles finally get to go to their first Pride. Charles is oblivious, Edwin loosen up, the girls have fun, and feelings happen.
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- Part 1 of The Broken & Proud Dead Boys
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Every part of you is mine by sixbynine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
10 Oct 2024
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Payment for a job well done comes in the form of some enchanted rings that give Edwin and Charles real boy bodies.
Edwin's all for a thoughtful and detailed experiment - Charles has other ideas.-
Written for the DBDAKinkFest
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- Part 1 of Parts of Us
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“What the hell?! There is a bed here! Why do I have to sleep on the lumpy old couch?! I just went through hell, getting possessed can´t remember shit and…,” before she could continue her rant, Charles who had been about to lead her out of the room before she had started her rant, interrupted her.
“Been through hell...she says,” he almost scoffed. “You have no right to be anywhere near this room, this n…,” Charles quickly bit back the word nest, no need to give her any ammunition against them, “…this mattress!” Inhaling forcefully he tried to keep his rage under control. All his instincts were urging him to rip apart the insolent intruder who had dared to invade their sanctuary. His temper really hadn’t cooled down over the years.
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- Part 2 of You're Everything - Alpha/Omega AU
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For this cute prompt on the DBD anonmeme:
70 years in hell is out, 7 minutes in heaven is in! Any pairing with Edwin. His friends can have conspired to get him together with his crush Charles. Simon or Monty or Thomas (aka the Cat King) can rig the bottle so they are chosen...
Crystal had to hear all about Edwin's glorious personal journey out of the closet because she roomed with Niko, who would have been the right girl for Edwin if he weren't so gold-star gay you could make Olympic medals out of him. He asked Niko out, they had their first date and first kiss with each other, and they both came out, all in one roller-coaster of a week.
During mid-terms, too. Crystal could have strangled them. Well, not Niko, but anyway.
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Edwin finally tells Charles about what happened with the cat king. Charles takes it different then he expects him to.