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"Sorry," Charles says, not very sorry at all, "no version of this where I didn't come get you, is there?"
an incomplete collection of other versions of charles's rescue of edwin, explored through alternate universes
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- Part 6 of dead boy musings
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The world's stopped turning (Yet you're still holding the knife) by Whimsical_Writing
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Oct 2025
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What if Edwins death was a lot more violent than he let on? What if Edwin did die that day, not by Sa'al but by a group of boys wishing to summon him? What if hell needed blood to be summoned?
(I dunno, i suck at summeries lol)
Written for Day One of Whumptober
"Please don’t cry”
Lamb to Slaughter | Ceremony | Beg for ForgivenessSeries
- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025 Fics
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The Dead Boy Detectives & Co. are on a new mission to save Edwin. Fortunately, they have some time to prepare for once.
Unfortunately, their target is an actual dragon.
But the Astral Plane holds more than just danger, with a certain someone also awaiting rescue.
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- Part 2 of The Blood of the Covenant
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Stories for two (dead) boy detectives (and their friends) by MarillaBlue
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Dead Boy Detectives
01 Oct 2025
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A collection of stories about the dead boy detectives; each chapter is a different story based on a different element (object, place, character) of the tv series.
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- 1,605
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- 1/?
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The Lives (and Afterlives) of the Dead Girl Detectives by mistyintherivers
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Oct 2025
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Edith Payne is precocious and peculiar - or so she is told. Her classmates regularly subject her to their favourite pranks and make school a living hell. She does not understand what it is about her that makes them hate her so much.
Charlotte Rowland tries to be chill and easy going, to keep on smiling. She pretends that she isn't bothered by the way that her dad treats her no matter how hard she tries to make things right or the 'jokes' her friends make. But here's only so much she can take before she has to start fighting back.
They both just want to make it our of St Hilarion's alive. Then, they are both killed, seventy three years apart.
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A series of moments from the lives (and afterlives) of the Dead Girl Detectives.
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It’s been a long while since Edwin Payne’s life could, in any way, be described as ‘easy’.
But one day, a boy that might make everything a bit better crashes into his life, and maybe they can help to heal each other along the way. -
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The first time Charles submits to Edwin is sort of an accident.
The case had gone fine. They'd ducked around the corner of a building to watch the blue light flood the street, and congratulated each other on a job well jobbed, and that was that. But something had rattled Edwin on the way back to the office, leaving him as tense as Charles has ever seen him: gripping the edge of the desk until his knuckles go white and staring into the distance instead of picking out a book, or speculating about their next case
Charles isn’t sure what makes him suggested it, but the words are out of his mouth before he can draw them back.
“D’you want me to kneel for you for a bit?”
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The client meets the smile with one of his own, his posture already loosening in response to Charles’ charm. “There’s an old lady who haunts the candy shop a few streets down from where I li-” he breaks off, smile fading. “Where I used to live. I told her I had a mystery I was trying to sort out, and she pointed me your way.”
Charles grins. “Good old Lizzie,” he says. “Not to worry mate. We’re aces with mysteries.”
A routine case looking into mysterious industrial 'accidents' goes sideways, resulting in Edwin leaning on his hell-forged pain tolerance to get them both out safely. Charles is less than thrilled about it.
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got the gun and the silver bullet (cast off my diamond ring) by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
30 Sep 2025
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“So, little bird,” Thomas says, eyes gleaming with the sort of casual predation that any mob boss learns young and early if they hope to survive. “You thought that you could cross me and live to tell the tale?”
At least Monty can spit a glob of blood on the tile floor next to him, Thomas’ precious gold-gilded floor taking up a bit of the iron in his blood.
Because Monty might be a sacrifice upon the altar. A lamb sent in to be slaughtered as a sign of goodwill between families.
But he is not about to go down, no matter how much his eye socket aches, no matter how much he knows he is about to ripped apart into fucking pieces, because he might be a bird, might be a finch, might have never been anything more than a bird in a golden cage, but even birds in cages have talons.
Fear costs too much. Fear kills a man, sends him to the fucking ground, and since Monty is already here, his knees already bruised from Thomas’ men shoving him to the ground after they found him going through Thomas’ things, trying to find his mother the information that she wanted, he has the luxury of recklessness.
(Catcrow mob boss au!)
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- Part 1 of ya girl does whumptober 2025
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Charles is a hockey player traveling to Seattle for his biggest game ever. He meets his tour guide Edwin. They spend the day together.
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A Little Sandy Aftertaste by thegirlofthorns for khorazir
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Oct 2025
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Charles wants Edwin to get in touch with the teenage part of himself, so he challenges him to a marshmallow-eating contest.
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rumour has it (he's the one i'm leaving you for) by msbirdiewrites
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Oct 2025
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Charles thinks back on the flings he has had over the last thirty-five years. While he enjoyed the excitement and physical element, these flings were like firecrackers. They burned hot and fast but were over almost as soon as they started. None of those people ever held a candle to Edwin, and they all knew it—or realized it soon enough.
or, a look at 5 people Charles dated before Edwin
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you stayed with me, even as everything froze by quietdetective for muirgen_lys
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Oct 2025
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Charles Rowland had found himself slowly freezing to death in an old attic.
He would've died alone, if a little friend hadn't come to keep him company.
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heavy words are so lightly thrown by boysforbugs
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
30 Sep 2025
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"I don't know if you have noticed but we are the Dead Boy Detectives, not a couple's counseling office." Edwin interrupts, words dripping with annoyance. Charles gives him a soft squeeze— a wordless scold towards his lack of bedside manner, but Edwin doesn't even spare a glance as he tries to subtly shrug the other boy's hand away, folding his hands atop the desk in front of him.
Charles tries his best to keep his face neutral, something in his stomach twisting at the brush off. He should be used it now, considering it's been four months.
Four months.
Four months since their return from Port Townsend. Four months since the Devlin House, and Esther, and David the Demon, and—
Hell.
It's been four months since Edwin looked Charles straight in the eyes and confessed that he loved him in a way Charles had never entertained; he had never even thought it was possible. Four months since Charles looked right back at his best mate—his favorite person in the world—and promised that this wouldn't change a thing between them.
Which it didn't!
At least, it didn't for Charles.
But Edwin..
Well, it just seems like Edwin wasn't exactly on the same page.
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seventeen going under by aletterinthenameofsanity for muirgen_lys
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
30 Sep 2025
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Looking at the people scattered throughout detention, you’d never guess that they all have the potential to form a band.
Sure, Edwin Payne is in orchestra, and Charles Rowland can’t stop tapping out what sounds like a drum beat, and Monty knows that he can sing, but Niko Sasaki, the school’s most famous shut-in? Being able to pick up a guitar and play it? Crystal Palace, the school’s socialite-cum-wild-child, more famous for her reckless partying than any sort of instrumentals, being able to sit down at the piano in the corner and weave the keys into a melody?
It should be impossible. It’s the sort of organic playing that belongs in a movie. Monty knows all too well that real life is not full of magic.
And yet, here they are, creating music together.
Sure, it’s a bit chaotic, a bit patchwork, but the cacophony is gorgeous to his ears. How could it not be?
It’s the fact that it’s raw, the fact that it’s unfiltered, that fills Monty Finch with light.
(Five students all aching for connection form a band in detention. Ten years after the band's breakup, they all reunite for a charity concert where misunderstandings are revealed and maybe, just maybe, they can all find a happy ending.)
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Something's wrong with Edwin. Crystal is trying to rebuild her life. Everyone is missing Niko. And Charles is trying to keep everything from falling apart. Into all this comes another bombshell: the cases that started it all, Edwin and Charles's deaths, might have started something else, too. Something darker. Something that threatens to break the Dead Boy Detective Agency altogether.
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Autumn's Aces - 9 Autumnal Prompts to Fall For by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
30 Sep 2025
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A collection of fall-themed prompts from my Tumblr followers. Each chapter is a unique oneshot, and the ship/friendship it's about is in the chapter title.
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After a forced swim in freezing waters, Charles encounters Edwin on his way home. Edwin offers his coat to Charles to help warm him up, and the rest is history.
But there’s something strange about Edwin’s coat that makes Charles incredibly curious. So he does what any curious guy does and he investigates!
(I don’t know how to summarize this, it’s just pure fluff)
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Entelechy, n.: the realisation of potential; the supposed vital principle that guides the development and functioning of an organism or other system or organisation; in philosophy, that which realises or makes actual what is otherwise merely potential.
Edwin, Charles, and Crystal return to London, where there's a lot to deal with, including grieving Niko’s death, integrating new colleagues into the Agency, and the fallout from their various revelations in Port Townsend. Edwin is especially struggling: unable to recharge his energy as he usually would, he finds himself more dependent on Charles than ever. Meanwhile, Charles is trying to sort out his tangled feelings and Crystal is attempting to get her life back on track...
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Assistant to Death, Edwin Payne, fucked up on his first solo job: firstly, he arrived too early, and then the charismatic boy who was dying stubbornly refused to go to his afterlife. Being transferred to the Lost and Found's data processing department was humiliating enough, but he realised Death must be having a laugh at his expense when he met his assigned training partner...
Or: Edwin and Charles become reluctant colleagues, escape their boring desk jobs to found a Detective Agency and stumble into a hell of a lot of trouble along the way…