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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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"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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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. -
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When Crystal turns up with a case about a friend of a friend's family that has their own magical ghost butler, of course they're going to look into it. When it turns out that ghost is being magically controlled for free labor, things start to cut a little too close to home for Edwin, who doesn't own his own soul, for Crystal, who once willingly gave hers over to a demon, and for Charles, who would do anything for Edwin—up to and including when he no longer has a choice in the matter.
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Charles keeps waking up in places he has no memory of going to, with no idea of how long he's been gone or what he's done, and no good answers for Edwin when he makes it back to the office. Meanwhile, they've picked up a case - faceless ghosts are causing trouble in all sorts of places.
Or, five times Charles disappears and turns back up on his own, plus one time Edwin goes and finds him first.
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Infelicity [why did you say that?] by fallenStar_cygnus
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Sep 2025
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There are things to be learned as a certified 'mean girl in recovery'- a title so proudly coined by Niko. Things like patience and the word no and feeling inexplicably, crushingly left out when your friends aren't focused on you and you alone.
Crystal watches her ghosts orbit each other, help each other, and wonders why she wasn't allowed to have that.
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Greatest In The League by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Aug 2025
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Charles Rowland has it all figured out. He’s going to go to school, play hockey on a scholarship, and get a good job. That is his masterplan, and nothing is going to stand in his way.
Not even his lack of ice time. Or his questionable grades.
Thankfully, his new friend Crystal has the answer to all of this in the form of her best friend and world-famous figure skater, Edwin Payne.
They might just fall in love if they don’t kill each other first.
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“Edwin?”
Edwin spun to face the voice.
Charles stood in front of the mirror. The boy looked as he always had, with his curly hair and beautiful brown eyes. But tonight those eyes are different; they were framed by a rim of red. His beautiful eyelashes were damp and clumped together. A shaking frown replaced his brilliant smile.“Jesus, Edwin,” Charles whispered, his voice small and gentle.
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It was quite normal for recently deceased ghosts to come to them for help finding the person who killed them.
It wasn't very often, however, that the person they looked for was actually the victim.or: an amnesiac murderer knocks on the office door seeking to find the person he killed. charles, edwin and crystal find that the case is hitting them a little too close to home.
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"Looks like you're stuck with me."
Edwin could not believe what he was hearing.
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A collection of drabbels/ficlets exploring Edwin's feelings through the events of season 1.
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Edwin realises what it's like to be loved.
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Crystal remembers the taste of fish. She remembers the feeling of skin tearing under her teeth, thick and slimy; remembers how the rotten smell filled her nose.
She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, trying to swallow it down—but then she just remembers sharp bones scratching her throat, and dead eyes staring up at her from above a gaping mouth.
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David's possession leaves Crystal with more scars than she thought. Thankfully, she doesn't have to deal with them alone.
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“You okay?” a voice asked, and Crystal turned to find a boy next to her, looking at her with concern.
For a brief moment she wondered what it might be like to be the sort of girl who could let herself get chatted up by a cute boy. To be a regular seventeen year old who could have a fun little fling, maybe even indulge in the kind of fluffy relationship that you saw in teen dramas…
Except she had never been that sort of girl. The last boy she had kissed had been a ghost. The one before that, a demon.
So yeah, the likelihood of a cute teen romance was basically nil.
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OR: Crystal deserves good things, so I decided to give her a boyfriend. However, what started out as a single, fun idea became a sprawling story, delving into all her issues and then some… And she does get that teen romance, it’s just a bit more unusual.
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Slipshod: One Agency’s Attempt to Bring Niko Sasaki Back From the Dead by The_IPRE for DontOffendTheBees
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Aug 2025
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It is a messy process, mud spattering across all of them, the canvas they work on, the tarp that Crystal draped over her couch before they began. There is something satisfying to it even so, and as the afternoon wears on into evening, Edwin finds himself putting his frustration into the motions, exorcising the anger and heartbreak and grief that has been festering within his spectral chest in the months since Niko died before his eyes while he lay bound and useless.
He is not made useless anymore, though, and so as the pile of wedged clay in the center of the room grows, so too does Edwin’s certainty in his work. He believes in the process and the craft with all his heart, in all of the messy pieces that will give them a fraction of a better chance at success.
He has to.–––
crystal, charles, and edwin work to bring niko back the old fashioned way: by building her a new body from clay
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- Part 6 of ash's post-canon timeline
- Part 10 of becoming crystal palace
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echoes of the past (the bonds that bind us) by Lire_Casander
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Aug 2025
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when the dead boy detective agency is hired to find out what’s happening to ghosts being lured into a house-museum by the ghost of a woman allegedly killed by her husband, they find out that they’re in for more than they bargained for.
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Per aspera ad astra by ultraviolet_luves_converse
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Maze Runner (Movies)
15 Aug 2025
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They very rarely get live clients, mostly because most living people can’t see them, but also because they investigate the clients death, which is hard if the client is still alive. Gally nods, fixing his gaze on Edwin.
‘We, I need your help. Finding someone. Alive’ he has an american accent, which is unusual for them, seeing as most of their clients are born and raised londoneers, or at least from England.
‘Alive?Mate, did you have trouble reading the name? The DEAD Boy Detectives?’ Charles asks incredulously, eyes widening as he looks at Edwin and Crystal, who mirror his look of surprise.
‘Why us?’ Edwin asks, trying to smooth over Charles’s rude inquiry, while still getting some form of context from their perhaps-clients. Minho still hasn’t said anything, nails digging into his arms through the material of his jacket, pointedly looking away as Gally answers.
'Because, you’ve been in hell, and escaped’
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- Part 6 of The glader and the demigod
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The Case Of The Lovelorn Lyricist by ObamaTurnedMyFrogIntoAHomosexual
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
15 Aug 2025
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While working a case Edwin gets himself unknowingly cursed to make everyone who can perceive him fall madly in love with him. Everyone but Charles that is. As the agency tries to figure out a cure, the affected grow more and more desperate for Edwin. If only Edwin could figure out why Charles isn't affected, he might be able to understand the curse better.
Basically a really long version of that season 2 episode of Buffy the vampire slayer, but make it gay and less toxic
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A collection of short fics and fragments. Each chapter's labeled with word count & level of completeness: finished short pieces, ficlets that never got developed further, loose scenes that didn't end up fitting into other fics, stalled WIPs.
I'm furious the DBD characters were cut from Sandman s2. So my dumb revenge is to share everything I've written for this fandom on AO3. All the shorter stuff will be collected in this post. Nothing hits the cutting room floor.
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heavy words are so lightly thrown by boysforbugs
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
05 Aug 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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The apocalypse had come slowly, as if the earth itself were trying to delay it. It started in the plants, growing where they weren’t supposed to, whole redwoods poking their ways through skyscrapers, wild gardens taking over office buildings. People tried to remove them, but eventually, it just became easier to let them stay. Then, the creatures. The first incident was reported by a distraught son who'd gone deer hunting with his dad. He said that when his dad tried to shoot the deer, it just ate the older man, leaving bloody bones behind. The son lost his hand trying to get away from it. The animals turned, creatures of every kind becoming violent to the point where people were putting down their own dogs before they could be betrayed.
Cell towers were covered in vines and Wi-fi routers were grown through with roots and wandering branches, rendering phones almost completely useless. Governments had been mostly dismantled, leaders either dead or in hiding.
Niko's dead, Edwin needs to find somewhere safe before Crystal loses her mind, and Charles just hopes he stops finding corpses.
(DBDA ApocalAugust event Day 2: Natural Disaster/Reunion)
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Charles is looking idly at the group of instructors to try and guess which one may be Crystal, but the moment Niko’s name is called, everything else fades to the background. The boy walking towards his best friend is the most beautiful Charles has ever seen. It feels like time has slowed down as he watches him shake Niko’s hand and start talking to her in a light, melodious voice. He looks about Charles’ age, tall, his sweater a dark forest green that matches his eyes. Unprompted, Charles’ brain starts to wonder what those long legs would look like without the padded ski trousers, if they are as thin and elegant as they seem - nothing untowards, a pair of skinny jeans would be great.
“Close your mouth, you’ll catch flies. You are with me,” a voice supplies close to his side, followed by two quick snaps of fingers. “So? What is your starting level? Or do you want to spend our two hours staring at Edwin?”
“I-” Charles shakes his head to focus. “Zero, my starting level is zero.”