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Edwin Payne's Experience in Autoeroticism by read_write_thrive
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Jul 2025
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Edwin Payne had never quite figured out his own relationship with sexual arousal, much less masturbation, prior to meeting Charles Rowland. Though, he will admit, it is much more embarrassing than it sounds.
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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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Yes a thousand times
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tomorrow's a day of mine that you won't be in by read_write_thrive
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Sep 2024
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Everybody dies in the end, good and evil alike. Charles knows this in the abstract--it's part of his job, isn't it? Besides, he'd been dead for decades, you'd think that sort of thing would've sunk in by now. That doesn't stop the shock, surprise, anguish, and all those other complicated emotions from bashing him over the head when he hears the news.
Or; Charles's parents pass, which means he gets one final conversation with each of them.
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"I would be remiss if I did not explain further why I encouraged you to go with Death earlier," his new friend says.
"Yeah?" Charles fits a smile on his face and nods at the ghost. His fellow ghost, now. Edwin. He tried to get Charles to push off, and that has Charles a little nervous. But before that, Edwin said he wished they could be friends for longer, and he stayed with Charles all night, so he must like him at least a little. Charles can work with that. Everyone likes him eventually.
Everyone gets sick of him eventually as well, but before that, he can usually stretch things out a while.
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strawberry sunscreen (something just like this) by Ingi
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
23 Nov 2024
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Beautiful
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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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Charles isn’t a stranger to having brilliant ideas, he has them quite often if you ask him, maybe slightly less often if you ask Crystal, but Edwin would probably agree with him.
However this one might just be his best one yet.
“I’ve given your confession some real thought, yeah? So… how about we give trying to date a go?” asks Charles.
After a few beats too long, Edwin is finally able to speak.
“Thank you, Charles, but that won’t be necessary,” answers Edwin tightly and doesn’t offer anything else.
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OR: In order to figure out his feelings Charles asks Edwin to date him, but is promptly refused. When an unexpected turn of events during a case leaves Edwin injured, Charles’ struggles with his feelings have to be put on the back burner. Unless he can somehow multitask…
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You'll Love Me At Once (the way you did once upon a dream) by grayskiesandstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
25 May 2024
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“It is as I said, we are infiltrating a ball,” Edwin explains for at least the third time. “If we are to blend in then we will be expected to know how to dance.”
“I know how to dance!” Charles protests.
Edwin raises a brow. “Your version of dance involves far too much gyrating to be deemed appropriate for this kind of event.”
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Sparkles dance in Charles’ eyes as he looks at Edwin shrouded in a rosy fog, and for a short second, he can swear that he feels his undead heart beat out a rhythm that he already recognizes.
Oh.
OR: a love potion au where the boys tirelessly try to lift the spell from Charles
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It's been 8 months since the events of Port Townsend have brought Edwin Paine to where he is now: back in London, solving mysteries, growing closer to his friends, and forever pining for something he can't have...
Is it even possible to fall out of love with Charles Rowland? Edwin Paine doesn't think so.
However, one day a stray, black cat shows up on the rooftop. Unexpectedly, this feline friend may just offer Edwin what he so desperately needs....
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Chp 22
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Chapter 21
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A while had passed since Charles first met Desire. And now with more players in their game, Desire reappears to push Charles' buttons yet again.
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- Part 2 of Desire's Games
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Thorne Court and Other Stories by singtome
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
25 Oct 2024
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Thorne Court and Other Stories by singtome
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Charles knows it isn’t possible—incorporeal disposition and all—but Charles dove head first into Hell and managed to blow up a demon with a Molotov cocktail less than a year ago, so with that logic it could very well be possible that Charles’ long dead heart starts to beat again. It certainly feels like it is racing out of his chest, slowly crawling up the column of his throat.The wrongness of the haunted look in Edwin’s eyes swims in the forefront of his mind, and something in him already knows.
(Or: a new case leads them someplace far too familiar for Edwin, full of more than just ghosts.)
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"You will be fine," Edwin told him forcefully. Not so much like he believed it. More like he thought it might come true if he just insisted hard enough.
And they were ghosts and Edwin could do magic, so maybe he could just say it was so and fix everything. The parameters of the possible had been expanding almost every single day since Charles woke up dead three years ago.
"Oh, there it goes," Charles said, congratulating himself on how calm he sounded as his severed foot went translucent and colorless, and then disappeared altogether. "Okay. So it's gone for reals then. Edwin, I don't think anyone makes ghost prosthetics."
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Adorable
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charles losing a limb and personally feeling concerned but not like, horrified about it only to turn around and see edwin fully on the brink of a panic attack is truly the good shit
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Not the Intent by sixbynine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
18 Feb 2025
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Charles' idle curiosity tilts the conversation towards Edwin's school days and a particular punishment doled out by the school master at the time.
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After more than three decades of solving cases, everyone in the supernatural world knows who the Dead Boy Detectives are. Notoriety has its perks, but also its downsides. In order to infiltrate a ghost-kidnapping cult, the boys must pretend to dissolve the agency in an explosive breakup. This definitely won’t bring any unresolved feelings to light, right?
(AKA the "you've heard of fake dating, now get ready for fake breakup" fic)
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this is such a messy premise i love it
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A thousand years by Morgane (smilla840)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 May 2024
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Wherein Charles spends a lot of time obsessing over Edwin's non-existent boyfriend, Edwin has no clue what he's going on about, and they finally talk to each other. Kinda.
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- Part 2 of Friends old and new
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so so sweet
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‘Chill out, Rowland,’ Crystal said. Her and Niko were now walking back to where Charles stood at the side of the Great Hall. The song had ended a couple of minutes ago, but Charles had been too distracted to notice.
Crystal was staring Charles down with the sort of look you would give a misbehaving child. Niko was smiling smugly to herself, though, about what, Charles didn’t know.‘I’m chill,’ he responded, his voice just a little too high. He cleared his throat awkwardly.
‘I’m completely chill,’ he repeated, a bit more convincingly this time.
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Princess Niko of Port Townsend and her fiancée, Crystal, are invited to attend a ball in another kingdom to celebrate a coronation. They invite Edwin and Charles, a servant and a guard who they have become close friends with, to accompany them. The young new king, Thomas, has a fascination with Edwin, one that Charles is unhappy about. For completely platonic reasons, of course.
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After Port Townsend, Edwin and Charles encounter Sa'al, the demon who first conducted Edwin to Hell. To Charles' shock, Edwin and Sa'al have a fairly pleasant chat, which unexpectedly gives Charles a chance to reveal he's figured out what the rest means.
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