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Season 2 If Netflix Weren’t Cowards by LifeIsGoodIThink, NotBanana, TheOriginalDuckLord
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Jan 2026
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When the Dead Boy Detectives find a chance that Niko could still be alive, they embark on a case to get her back. Crystal deals with David. Charles is confused. Edwin is slaying, as per usual — though gayer than usual. Cases are solved, shenanigans ensue, and Charles gets there eventually.
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- Part 1 of DBD season 2
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Learning By Heart by Ice_Elf, Lundlaeva (Black_Crystal_Dragon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
02 Jan 2026
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Charles wakes up in the hospital after the incident with his mates and everything is—well, pretty aces actually. His dad’s being nice to him, his mates—former, now—have either been kicked out of school or are staying away from him, and he’s got a new roommate.
Edwin is kind and funny and really clever, and, best of all, he seems to think Charles is pretty great too. So what if he’s sometimes a little bit weird? Charles is still determined to get to know him better.
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Uni at St. Hilarion’s was nothing like Charles Rowland had planned.
His roommate is a werewolf, his co-worker at the coffee shop is psychic…
and, oh yeah, he had recently killed a bloke.
Charles now finds himself in a whirlwind of a second term, trying to navigate his past, his present, and all the feelings they have unraveled in regards to his future. Particularly involving one Edwin Payne.
((aka a University/Coffee Shop/Werewolf AU that somehow meshes together))
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Edwin Payne enjoys a good mentally stimulating puzzle. Always has, from the moment his mind developed linear thought. Happily, his afterlife has been quite pleasantly full of them. Supernatural mysteries abound and the Dead Boy Detectives are here to lay them to rest.
Only their usual cases aren’t quite this peculiar.
A post-canon character study examining the line between romance and friendship, the nature of "unbreakable rules" and how to save yourself with a little help from your friends
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When Charles and Edwin find a ghost baby they decide they must help him move onto the Afterlife. But without direct access to The Sunless Lands, how can they do that? One argument with a sexually frustrated Night Nurse later and enter The Day Nurse!
But who is he? And why does he seem oddly familiar..?
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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…
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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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I would burn the world to bring some heat to you by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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"The moment I run, it'll chase," Edwin whispers defeatedly, eyes panically searching the space.
"I can't get away from it, Charles. I can't- and... no matter what has happened between us, I can't let it have you," he explains resolutely.
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Edwin’s proposal was interrupted by the unexpected return of Hell. Now, the boys must fight for freedom whilst navigating the treachery of their own hearts.
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Der Fall der lebenden Leichen by JervisLWinchester
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Re-Animator (Movies - Combs)
24 Sep 2025
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Eine Klientin berichtet den Dead Boy Detectives etwas merkwürdiges:
Wenige Tage mach ihrem Tod, hat sie ihren Körper durch ihre Heimatstadt laufen sehen.
Selbstverständlich muss das untersucht werden.
Während Charles weiterhin versucht zu entschlüsseln, was er nun tatsächlich für Edwin empfindet, stellt sich heraus, dass der Fall um einiges größere Ausmaße hat, als es ursprünglich den Anschein hatte.
Die verrückten Wissenschaftler und die wandelnden Leichen sind nicht das einzige, das die Stadt unsicher macht… -
The Case of the almost perfect first date by Rebecca_Vollmer_2008
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Sep 2025
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It has taken him a while, but Charles Rowland finally realized that the feelings he holds for Edwin Payne aren't platonic. Now, he has the perfect plan for a romantic confession, because that is what Edwin deseves. But when the fateful day finally comes, things keep getting in the way, making it more complicated than he orginally thought.
Will Charles Rowland succeed at declaring his love? Or will he be too late? Again? -
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Most ghosts didn’t celebrate their birthdays.
But Charles Rowland wasn’t ‘most ghosts’.
Indeed, Charles’ birthday was a high point of the year, a guaranteed day of fun for himself and Edwin. The fun always helped to push down the unvoiced emotions below: the loss, the unresolved pain of his death, the feelings of failure and inadequacy. Charles saw no reason why this state of affairs shouldn’t continue forever.
But then he turned fifty.
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How a medieval poem changed Charles’ afterlife forever.
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Her Majesty’s Company of Gentlemen Monsters by hobbitsdoitbetter
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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A gentleman revenant.
An unfortunate necromancer.
A powerful medium and her delightfully sweet bodyguard.
Meet our favourite characters in slightly different circumstances…
And yes, OF COURSE everyone is still super gay :-)
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A Guide for Not Being in Love With Your Best Friend by fea_cardan
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
25 Aug 2025
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Charlotte is starting her senior year with wind in her sails. She and her best friend, Eden, are as close as ever, she met a cute girl who seeemed to be flirting back at her and she's getting out of her house in less then a year. Everything is going just fine.
Eden is starting her senior year with an ever growing sense of dread and an ever growing number of secrets.
When their newspaper club gains two new members their friendship takes a hit. Will the girls be able to work it out or will the things they've kept hidden destroy their relationship once and for all?
a fem payneland highschool au.
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I think you’re really special / I think you’re really cool by strangekiddo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
20 Jul 2025
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Charles Rowland is a uni student dragged to one of his school’s ballet productions by his friend, Crystal Palace. He’s expecting a show like any other, nothing more to it.
What he DOESN’T expect is the star of the production to be so insanely beautiful. He also doesn’t expect to instantaneously fall in love with said star.
What could possibly go wrong?
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He did not say no.
Edwin cannot stress that fact enough: He did not say no.
When the Cat King… importuned him. When he made his offer. When he made it clear that his interest in the Edwin was carnal, and singular, and predicated on an exchange, Edwin’s freedom for his virginity, Edwin could have said no.
But he did not.
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An AU where Edwin did indeed make The Cat King happy, and must then live with the consequences… Consequences he neither understands nor expects.Fortunately Charles, Crystal and Niko are there for him
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they will come back, come back again, as long as the red earth rolls... by The_Honourable_Daisy_Wells
Fandoms: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Varian and the Seven Kingdoms
22 Jun 2025
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In order to not get split up in the after life "best mates" Varian and Hugo are hiding from death. They declare it their unfinished business to help fellow ghosts move on by solving cases, they call themselves "the dead alchemist detectives". But their whole world changes when a mysterious stranger knocks on the door.
I wanted to make a crossover of two of my favourite fandoms, so here ya go. I know i am one of two people on the entire planet who is in both these fandoms but oh well... Thank you to IMMADATDISNEY and Humblefryingpan and RUUCCKKY for inspiring me to do this, love you guys ✨✨✨
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Comfort In The Facts (And Your Sunshine Smile) by LunaMaroon
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
23 May 2025
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Edwin found comfort in facts. Due to how much free time he currently had chained to Esther Finch's table, he made a list to help reclaim a bit of the sanity slipping through his essence.
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Crystal decides to leave without saying goodbye. Port Townsend finds itself at newly empowered Esther Finch's mercy. It’s almost been a week. During that time, Ester has been busy. Edwin and Charles have become her new favorite playthings, and Edwin is starting to feel himself slip away.
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On a night he is alone in the office, Edwin receives a client—an elderly lady who seems inexplicably familiar. As he listens to her case, he is wholly unprepared to discover exactly who he is speaking to... and what it will mean for his partner.
Written for The Case of What Came After: A DBDA Zine, a collaboration with the artist Natasha Cánepa (tashanimation)
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I wanna run against the world that's turnin' by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 May 2025
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Edwin and Charles have been together since a kissed they shared on the night of Charles’ death. The meddling of a certain Port Townsend witch threatens their once-steadfast relationship.
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