Sage_Owl
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It's not every day a jailbreak is filled with this many attractive people. Not that Charles is thinking about it much.
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It's lights-out at the library.
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Edwin has been running from Hell for a decade. A piece of it crawls up to London.
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The world's going to end, Edwin Payne is a bastard, and Charles Rowland has an essay due. A first meeting for the second time.
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Charles has a perfectly manageable crush on his boss. Honestly, it's not even worth mentioning.
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Charles is a musician at the peak of his career and Edwin tells himself he's content with watching him from afar and never contacting him again. Until Charles reveals something he probably shouldn't have about one of his songs during an interview. Despite his resolve, it's not something Edwin's hopeful heart could ignore.
No, he needs to talk to Charles and confront all the ghosts of their past.
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12 Jun 2025
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in corridors of dream (now with you forever) by ObsessedWithFandom for idliketobeatree
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Apr 2025
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Ever so slowly, things started changing. Charles spent more time in the library, never mind how his mates teased him, skimming through everything even slightly paranormal. Just in case. Sometimes he’d get to his room and his desk would be way neater than he’d left it; sometimes it’d be just the same, except that some old trinket had been pulled out from who-knows-where. There were flowers tucked in a couple of his books now, pressed flat and pretty, and Charles put them carefully back the few times they fell out, before he learnt how to hold the books up to prevent it. Once, when he was late for morning classes and stumbled out of his room with his tie all askew, he felt that cool brush like fingers at his throat, and no teacher gave him trouble for his appearance.
The day wasn’t anything special, except for that. Except that, at the end of it, Charles turned to the perpetual cold spot in his room and said, “Realise I never properly introduced myself, did I? My name’s Charlie – well, Charles, really. What’s yours?”
Or: Charles and his friendly boarding school ghost make each other’s acquaintance.
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04 Jun 2025
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Written to a (long ago, now) kinkmeme prompt: Charles touches a cursed object that allows him to hear Edwin's thoughts. At first he was going to tell Edwin immediately, but then he hears the loving things Edwin thinks about him, and he just wants to listen for a few days because he's never heard someone "say" things like that about him.
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He heard Edwin’s rich and affectionate chuckle, not out loud but in his mind, and realized all at once how aggressively he was fidgeting, the couch beneath him rattling. He jerked to a stop, making an embarrassed face and wondering if he should apologize for being so distracting when Edwin was trying to work.But, there goes the hummingbird, thought Edwin, a quick and simple phrase wrapped in a hundred soft layers of affection. Charles sat still, feeling his partner’s fond thoughts more than hearing them.
But it was more than just fondness, or even love–it was comfort Edwin was exuding. A gentle, abiding, and complete familiarity, the kind that brings safety and healing. It was hearth, bread, and blanket.
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24 May 2025
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Charles Rowland was drowning. There was something in the water with him... a flash of scales. For a moment, he swore he heard singing, and then before him, swam the most beautiful boy he had ever seen.
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Charles drowns, and becomes a siren, joining Edwin and his pod (Crystal and Niko.) Watch him learn how to navigate new instincts, and find his siren song while falling in love with the boy who saved him.*Rated E for mer-sex. Smut is contained entirely within the second chapter, for anyone not interested in the finer details of speculative aquatic biology.
Checking the underage sex box, purely because they’re both still teenagers. Everything is 100% consensual.EDIT: Work now contains (non explicit) art. (:
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- Part 1 of Shiny Things Verse
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21 May 2025
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Supernatural vs. Nature vs. Nurture by Starcrossedstarfishes
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Apr 2025
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"What are you doing?" Edwin demanded.
"Dunno...it's a bit freaky."
"Sorry, what is? A human infant appearing in our office? It's certainly not the oddest item that has ended up here."
"He is not an item, Edwin. And...he has the same eyes as you."
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When a trip to an enchanted forest ends with a living baby at the Dead Boy Detectives office, Edwin and Charles are now facing an unexpected challenge: parenting in the afterlife. Also, why does the baby look exactly like Edwin?
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- Part 1 of Parenting in the Afterlife
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18 May 2025