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a part of me that will never be mine by tragedy_machine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Oct 2024
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Edwin tells Charles he loves him in Hell, but when Charles quickly responds with his own breathless 'I love you', Edwin assumes his friend meant it platonically, so he gives up halfway through his confession, leaving out the crucial 'I'm in love with you' part. Dejected, he decides to keep his feelings a secret.
Meanwhile, Charles has been in love with his best mate for years, so when they unexpectedly exchange 'I love yous' on the staircase of Hell, Charles happily assumes that they've just started dating and are just going at a really slow pace.
Needless to say, they're not really on the same page.
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OR: because of a misunderstanding during the confession in Hell, Charles thinks they're dating now, while Edwin believes his love will stay unrequited forever
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16 Jul 2025
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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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15 Jul 2025
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“For someone who claims not to like thinking,” Edwin says, raising an eyebrow, “you do a remarkably good job of it.”
Charles laughs. “Tell that to my old teachers, mate.”
“If they disagree, then they can’t be very qualified.” Edwin says this simply, like it’s just a fact of life. Like it’s plainly obvious that if anyone thinks Charles is stupid, it’s they who are at fault.
Or: Charles grew up poor and is likely to stay that away, his job at the magic store notwithstanding. By the time he meets Edwin, he's decided that he wants a new life. In between figuring out what's up with the mysterious wish-granting pigeons, and whether he can go to the Royal Ball, Edwin makes him want to take a chance on being happy as well.
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15 Jul 2025
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Edwin is not entirely sure how they went from having an argument about Charles’s damn fool need to throw himself into danger without any forethought to this. To Charles’s hands on Edwin’s face and his tongue in Edwin’s mouth and Edwin feeling drunk with it, bowled over with the sheer sensation of it all.
-picks up directly after the end of keep my hand in yours. Edwin speedruns having a queer awakening while Charles finds himself particularly affected by a case involving domestic abuse.
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- Part 2 of 1999 au
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14 Jul 2025
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It’s just turned November in 1999, meaning that Charles has been dead (and thus with Edwin) for almost a full decade. If he had lived, he’d be 26 now. He is 26, sort of. He’s sure that he’s more mature now than he was when he died, but that might just be the natural result of a decade spent with Edwin standing next to him, raising a single eyebrow imperiously as if to say ‘really, Charles?’ every time he acts before thinking (so, almost all the time).
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10 years after Charles dies, he realizes that he's in love with his best friend. He handles this about as well as anyone could expect.
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- Part 1 of 1999 au
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Bookmarked by savwafair
14 Jul 2025