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I Wasn’t Born to Lose You (I Want You) by desire_turns_to_ashes
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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Having been raised as the omega son of a Viscount, Edwin knew he would never have a choice when it came to love and marriage. It would be his father who decides and he had finally accepted that. What he couldn’t come to terms with was the fact that his soon to be husband was none other than his high school bully… Simon.
After an awful dinner with the family of his now betrothed, Edwin runs away into the night, unaware of how much his life was about to change. And that maybe finding love wasn’t such a foolish dream after all.
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- Part 1 of I Want You (So Bad)
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Compilation of 1k fic requests from tumblr and also the catwin discord!
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bad mood, bad year by ZombieQueen
Fandoms: とある科学の一方通行 | Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator | A Certain Scientific Accelerator, Toaru Majutsu no Index | A Certain Magical Index, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun | A Certain Scientific Railgun, Trese (Comics), Trese (Cartoon), Pantheon (Cartoon), Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Sword Art Online (Anime & Manga), Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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“That barren pasture. Empty, and salted. The dead space between the stars. Right here. And this is the seed that we must change for Heaven. (...) We could storm Eden and retake her.”
- Neander Wallace from “Blade Runner 2049” (2017)
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it changes when the sun goes down by dearheartdont for cutevamp
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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The prospective punter is fit, though. Cool green eyes below dark, thick brows. His swept-back hair loosened, so strands hang over his forehead. He looks like an old-fashioned film star with the monochrome of his dark hair against pale skin.
Charles' usual spiel—"Do like what you see? You can see more if you like…"—dries up in his throat, and instead he blurts out, "What's the word that means a politer word for something?"
The man's mouth opens, closes and opens again. "A euphemism?" The man's voice is posh, but pleasant.
Charles leans in closer to the window and smiles. "Thanks, mate. It was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't get it. You okay? I can help with directions if you're lost."
"I'm not lost," the man says. "I came here on purpose." His voice gets smaller. "For sex."
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1990s London. Winter.
Charles Rowland is a sex worker who needs to cover the rent.
Edwin is an attractive new punter with a Mercedes and a request.
(A PWP with shifting power dynamics, dom/sub undertones and a desperate Edwin on his knees in the moonlight).
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Одного прекрасного ранку студент юридичного вишу Едвін Пейн прокидається у своєму ліжку, робить свої вранішні справи та йде за кавою, як зазвичай. Аж раптом він розуміє, що його найкращий друг Чарльз безслідно зник. А найжахливіше те, що ніхто навколо, окрім самого Едвіна, цього не бачить і взагалі не пам'ятає, хто такий той Чарльз.
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Haunted by the grief of losing Niko and desperate to find meaning in everything that happened to him, Edwin’s drawn back to Port Townsend. Back to the idea that the suffering of a ghost like him, someone tempered in hellfire, can be forged into immense magical power. And he’d only use it to protect rather than ruin.
But magic like this always demands its price. Resisting the pull of his new power proves difficult, and sometimes Charles feels like the only thing keeping Edwin tethered to his old self. Yet Charles isn’t without his own battles to fight and truths to face.
As Edwin tries to protect his friends while safeguarding his secret, Charles fights to save Edwin from himself. Soon, the question becomes not whether Edwin is willing to pay the cost, but whether there will be anything left of him when the debt comes due.
OR: Edwin’s corruption arc vs Charles’ feeling realization arc, FIGHT
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When the Dead Boy Detectives are called on to take the case of a ghost horse gone mad, Edwin gets more than he bargained for: another chance to see the animal companion he had loved over a century ago.
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Wildland (Notes from Heather Mountain Lookout, North Cascades, Chelan County, Washington. May 7 - October 18) by mellxncollie
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
06 Sep 2025
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It's Charles' third summer as the fire lookout on Heather Mountain. Edwin, a writer looking for a bit of fresh air and inspiration, is the new relief lookout. Before even meeting, they begin to leave notes for each other around the tower.
aka the fire lookout au, a story told entirely by notes, journal entries, letters, and lookout logs.
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It’s almost three months since Edwin left Port Townsend. Three months of mourning Niko, of watching Charles and Crystal grow ever closer, and three months of being unable ignore that London is a city full of cats.
Three months since he admitted to the Cat King that he was lonely.
Can an accidental trip back to Port Townsend help with that loneliness? Can a shared understanding build into friendship, and even into something more? -
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After what would come to be called The Case of the Creeping Forest, Charles takes Edwin's place in the mandibles of Edwin's demon. Edwin won't stand for this any more than Charles would have (though Edwin HOPES Charles would be more sensible, he KNOWS thats not the case). Time for a very unfortunate rescue mission.
(And Cat King is too busy with his Ennui (and getting killed by the local (b)witch) to interfere.)
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Missed Connections And Lost Opportunities by UneducatedAuthor for JUBE514
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
06 Sep 2025
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Charles can't help but miss his best friend. It's been a long time since they've seen each other, but when you know what it is to have Edwin Payne as your best friend, you can't really forget it. But he has a good life now, he's building something Edwin would be happy to see. He even has a new favourite podcast, and the host of Dead Boy Detective is pretty aces. It would be awesome to ever meet him, but the guy is kind of famous for his privacy. Charles gets it.
(In which Charles is a Youtuber who loves the host of his favourite podcast, and Edwin is the infamous Dead Boy Detective, who never plans a face reveal, but misses his friend from high school, who he considers the love of his life. When Charles past comes back to bite him, old rocks are underturned, but the two find each other again.)
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Meet me on the Try Line by m_erlin_s, sixbynine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
05 Sep 2025
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Charles had played sports his whole life.
Football, Cricket, Basketball, Rugby - he threw himself into all of it with a passion like no other, and he was good, very good.
Playing on Eastfield Community's Sixth Form Rugby team meant Charles, and his teammates, regularly practiced with and competed against local private boys school: St Hilarion's.
Charles didn't usually pay much attention to the opposing team.
Then Edwin crossed his path.
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"I told you to stay down." Edwin doesn't shout, because instead of volume, he expresses his anger in sharpness of tone. It's like a slap in her face regardless.
"And I told you I can handle myself." Crystal screws the cap back on and pushes the bottle into Charles' hands.
Edwin only arches an eyebrow at her. "You were being dragged away."
"I didn't need your help," Crystal insists, and she doesn't even know why, because she most definitely did. She was seconds away from being turned into lemure food. If Edwin hadn't pulled her out, who knows what would have happened. She's not about to admit that, though. He doesn't need another reason to try and get rid of her. "I don't need you to save me. I don't need anyone to save me."
Edwin has the audacity to scoff. "I think we're both aware that that is a lie."
Crystal is really just trying to figure her life out, now that she's back in London: meeting up with friends, doing an apology tour, fixing the relationship to her parents, all the while being part of a supernatural detective agency. She really could do without Edwin being such a bitch all the time.
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Case15: The Mist Over Kalimpong by The_Consulting_Werewolf
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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How can a leopard that's supposedly dead be killing people in the tea estate? Why is Gayatri Sen worried about her life?
In the rolling hills of North Bengal, Edwin and Thomas seek the answers to these questions.Series
- Part 16 of A taper in a rushing wind
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While investigating a witch's house for a ring for a client, Charles and Crystal find a mirror that doesn't show people's reflections.
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Love Is An Ocean (Extended Edition) by MostlyGhostly (BlueMelon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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Thomas and Edwin hit it off after a chance meeting and fall hard and fast in love. Their chemistry is undeniable and despite a bit of pushback, Edwin is determined to integrate his new boyfriend into his friend circle.
Their Summer of love comes to a screeching halt in a mess of lies and misunderstanding. Left to pick up the pieces of his broken heart after two rounds of grief and betrayal, Edwin spends the next year going through the motions. Everything changes for him, though, when Niko convinces him to join her, Crystal and Charles on a Summer Holiday to Ibiza.
Perhaps things might not be as irreparably broken as he thought they were.
This fic is mostly completed and will update weekly, every Friday!
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August, 1916. Edwin Payne has five months to die, or face a fate far worse.
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opening doors and pulling some strings by dearheartdont
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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When Charles' master dies, he makes the rash decision to steal Sir Dagfinn's identity to compete for tournament prizes as a knight.
Charles' friends, Monty and Crystal, would be happy to just earn enough coin to fill their hungry bellies and return home to London. Thomas of Anglesey, a poet they meet on the road to Rouen, joins the gang as he needs new stories to tell.
Charles, however, has greater desires: to gain glory and prove that a peasant like himself can change his stars.
There are many obstacles for Charles to navigate: learning to joust, navigating courtly manners at banquets, and avoiding the suspicion and wickedly accurate lances of his fellow knight, Lady Esther.
It is the worst possible time to fall in love. But when he meets a handsome and quarrelsome Lord at a tournament in Rouen, Charles vows to gain his favour and his heart.
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A Medieval AU inspired by A Knight's Tale for Dead Bang Detectives 2025.
Art by birdsongisland (AO3)/ent-is-indecisive (tumblr)
Updates weekly, on a Friday.
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School Sucks And So Does Your Boyfriend by Yellowferns
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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Moving to Port Townsend from sleepy New Hampshire just to attend the world’s smallest college is either the best or worst decision Monty has ever made. But he can’t really complain much when dorm life is much better than living with his mom.
The thing is though, that while he won the jackpot and got to move across the country from his mother, he was still left with a roommate, who, in all likelihood, doesn’t know they’re rooming together. He also probably doesn’t know what century it is if his clothing choices are anything to go by. Maybe Edwardian clothing is making a comeback.
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Monty Finch moves across the country to attend college and is roomed with none other than one Edwin Payne and semi regularly, his boyfriend Charles. The only issue is, Edwin’s very attractive, and Monty is very into him. But what Monty doesn’t know is that Edwin is single and has been eyeing Monty when he’s sure he won’t get caught. -
piece by piece by williamvapespeare
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
05 Sep 2025
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It starts as most things do, with Charles shooting him a grin so warm it might have melted the glass panes of the original Crystal Palace, and quickened the fire of the Great Exhibition within.
“Don’t worry, mate,” he says. “I’m aces with kids.”
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My take on a "hand-waving memory magic lets the boys meet a younger version of Charles and it's all very sad" fic.