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Inspired by this post about Crystal being a bit jealous or upset about the boys getting together. I also wanted to write her coming to terms with growing old and Charles staying young.
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Five years ago, Charles moved in with his best mate Edwin. It was great—a smashing success even! Too bad he’s started feeling sick and queasy around Edwin’s new boyfriend. Could he possibly be a little bit… homophobic?
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AIT(homophobic)A for hating on my gay flatmate’s boyfriend?
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Even Charles could probably have figured out the pretense for what they were doing was so, so flimsy, and he was bloody thick as hell, wasn’t he? Edwin had to know. He had to.
Still.
Charles sucked hard on Edwin’s neck.
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One afternoon, Charles is bored because they do not have any case which leads to the boys talking about music whilst being in love and oblivious :)
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I just wanna be a part of your family by necromancersnail
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
18 Sep 2024
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Edwin's parents die two weeks, three days, and 14 hours before summer vacation. He moves in with his aunt, but she's raised four children and she is not raising another. Edwin is kicked out and doesn't have anywhere else to go, except-
Well. Except he had a roommate at St. Hilarions. Edwin Payne does not have friends, but he did have a roommate, and one who was almost frustratingly kind. And Edwin knows where Charles Rowland lives.
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Or: Edwin's parents die and he moves in with Charles. They're gay or whatever
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There's a boy in front of him, with dark warm eyes and a hooked nose and Edwin wants to know him. Something stirs in his long beaten-down soul that tells him it's alright to trust him, that he could be a friend, that you are free from Hell and could find new purpose.
Yes Edwin, you might be dead. But that doesn't mean you have to give up. You didn't give up during those seventy years, are you truly going to give up now?
In the attic, two boys meet. One dying from bloody wounds he cannot see, and the other bleeding out from his soul. Charles and Edwin still meet that night but Edwin has only just made it up the Infernal Staircase and hasn't had time to figure out what exactly he is supposed to do now.
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in the name of love and something deeper still by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
27 Aug 2024
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"No, I- I think it's sweet that you care about him -that you want to protect him or his feelings or whatever- but you can't be alone forever for his sake," Crystal explains, panically.
Charles drops the girl's wrists then, turning his whole body away from her, the way a chided dog might cower in its cage.
"Maybe I can. I definitely feel like being alone right now," he snaps.
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In which, during a romantic rendezvous, an obviously distracted Charles Rowland, admits to Crystal that he cannot stop thinking about Edwin. Expectedly, an argument ensues, leading to a startling realisation for the ghost boy.
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It may be a cricket bat to Edwin, but to Charles Rowland it is definitely a lightsaber…
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I Swallow the Sound & It Swallows Me Whole by AddictHoe8469
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Aug 2024
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A few months after the boys return from the States and have fallen back into their normal case-solving ventures, they haven't had to deal with any cases involving Witches. This changes, though, when a client needs them to retrieve a spell book for her from one. Edwin and Charles feel a little apprehensive at first, given their past dealings with Esther, but they take it anyway. They believe the case to be pretty straightforward until pushed-down feelings and memories threaten to get in the way.
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Charles is still trying to figure things out after Edwin's confession in Hell, and a case with a witch forces him to confront that and his past traumas.
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Edwin Payne hates being touched. He hated as a child. He hated when alive. So he believes it's a blessing when he can't feel when others try to hug him or something. Though, that blessing becomes a curse when he meets Charles. So, is there a way he could ever feel a proper hug from Charles? Maybe even understand what a kiss feels like?
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- Part 3 of Bending The Rules
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Charles is secretly Spider-Man. He sneaks back into his dorm after a night of fighting crime, trying to keep his secret from his best mate, Edwin. Their friendship is strained by the secrets, and Edwin's suspicions grow. What will Charles do when he sneaks back in and Edwin sees him?
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Charles has never been one for drawing, except for the doodles he used to do in detention. Yet, in Edwin, he finds a muse. He can't bring himself to create a whole portrait; Charles could never do him justice. So he focuses on the little things instead.
(Charles draws the little parts of Edwin over the decades. It's for fun, until suddenly it becomes more.)
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- Part 4 of i could find you darling, in any life
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Edwin is floored and furthermore grief-stricken by the cruel realisation of just how simple things could have been, if he really were a woman, and not merely wearing one as a disguise.
He wonders if Charles could love him then, the way he is desperate to be loved.
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While investigating a reportedly-haunted, open house in their human disguises, Charles and Edwin are mistaken for a married couple, looking for a new home with their teenaged daughter. The ghost detectives are both confronted with the realisation of just how easy it might be to love one another, were they truly man and wife.
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Years before Edwin had been packed into the first motor car their family had ever owned to start his first term at St. Hilarion’s Boarding School ; Edwin was loaded into their Coach to see the very same doctor who would later sign his death certificate.
Edwin had been a frequently ill child, he knew they kept a doctor on retainer for all the times he fell sick and while they had made a few significant changes due to germ theory; Edwin had hated every single visit to and from the doctor.
It had been relative torture each time, there had never been an exception.
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My submission for day one of painland week!
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Charles accidentally spilled a love potion on himself, causing everyone around him to fall in love with him—except Edwin.
Painland Week Day 3 - Love confession/First kiss
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- Part 1 of Painland Week 2024
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nothing in the world belongs to me but my love mine all mine by lesbicosmos
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Aug 2024
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charles is slowly coming to realise the true nature of his feelings for edwin, but he hasn't told him yet, out of fear edwin has always moved on. luckily, niko is there to reassure him how utterly wrong he is
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- Part 3 of painland week 2024
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One perfect Monday morning, Charles casually uses the term 'soulmate' to describe his relationship with Edwin. It makes sense, right? Edwin is his best mate, and since they're dead, they're practically souls. It turns out, not so much... Later, Charles learns the true definition of 'soulmate,' and suddenly, everything makes a lot more sense.
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- Part 7 of PainlandWeek
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After being exposed to toxic spores, Charles is forced to visit a special health resort with medicinal waters to cure the after-effects. For most people, a short vacation to a spa would be great, but not for someone with aquaphobia who died of hypothermia in a lake. Thankfully, Edwin is with him to make things better, despite all the misunderstandings that might occur:
"I know you’re in love with me, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got any excuse to strip me.”
Edwin’s hands froze, and his entire body went rigid with shock. Even before Charles could realize the magnitude of his mistake, Edwin’s hands immediately pulled away as though he had been burned. The older boy’s face reflected a mix of fear and hurt.
Oh Fuck, fuck, fuck.
PAINLAND WEEK DAY 6: Free Day
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- Part 6 of PainlandWeek
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Pray, no more comparisons of tragic love, if you please. by Phantomy9
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Aug 2024
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It appears that the snowstorms in the middle of summer were not a result of global warming. A Yuki-onna is causing trouble, and the boys must stop it. Charles, ever curious, investigates the legend of this supernatural being and discovers that her story has many similarities to his own encounter with Edwin. Unfortunately, Charles doesn't finish it (again) and decides to draw another comparison to this tragedy (again).
PAINLAND WEEK. DAY 2: Myths/Legends
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- Part 2 of PainlandWeek
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Edwin’s back hits the wall as he does his best to scramble away with at least some of his dignity intact, feeling like a small cornered animal. Given the situation, perhaps he is.
“I told you we were friends.” The woman tilts her head, stroking a nail over the pointed edge of her ring as she shuffles closer. “Friends visit one another, do they not?”
Despair pays her new friend a visit. Everyone objects to this.