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Forgive and Forget by justafandomfollower for ghostinthelibrary
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
08 Oct 2025
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When Niko, working her way through the Dead Boy Detective Agency's entire extensive library, finds a way to banish David back to Hell once and for all, Crystal can't say no to her. It doesn't matter how much she doubts her own capabilities or if she doesn't really want to face David again. They need to get rid of him. For the agency. For Crystal herself.
Except David isn't interested in going quietly into that good night, and their carefully laid out banishment doesn't work. And Charles? Charles has never been interested in seeing his friends hurt. When David tries to pull Crystal through one of his portals, Charles takes her place. Now, while Niko hangs back at the office to come up with another solution to banish David, Crystal and Edwin have to track David down before he can destroy Charles' existence, send him back to Hell, and, oh yeah, turns out what they need might be genuine forgiveness from one of David's victims—aka, Crystal's old friends.
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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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I Wasn’t Born to Lose You (I Want You) by desire_turns_to_ashes
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Oct 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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Crystal Palace moves to Port Townsend, Washington. Already tired of her new school, she spots someone interesting: Niko Sasaki. She wants to ask her out, but her new friend Monty informs her of the rule: Niko can only date when her adoptive brother Edwin does.
Crystal doesn't mind that so much. After all, she's got plenty of her family's money, as well as a man who's willing to spend his own money to try to date Niko. The only problem is finding someone willing to date Edwin.
There's Edwin's best friend, Charles, but other than being devastatingly straight, he won't accept money or betray Edwin like that. There's Monty, who Edwin already turned down. And it seems like everyone else at Port Townsend high is scared of him. Which leaves one person: so-called bad boy Thomas King.
Crystal just has to trust that this won't all backfire.
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August, 1916. Edwin Payne has five months to die, or face a fate far worse.
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“God, you’re pathetic.” Crystal jumps at the sound of David’s voice, almost topples backwards from her awkward crouch. She turns to look for him on instinct, certain that she'll find him lurking behind her with a possessive hand on her shoulder, maybe even trapping her back in that dark and all-seeing plane, but he’s nowhere to be found. She’s just in a storm drain, necklace held tight in her hand, and those eyes are hers, anyway, just as much as the tree that he’s buried under.
David can’t do anything to her anymore. Somehow, that doesn’t make Crystal feel all that much safer.
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When a reminder of Crystal's past gets unearthed on a case, David rubs salt in the wound.
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- Part 2 of whumptober 2025
- Part 9 of becoming crystal palace
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Port Townsend, 1932: the streets are dark with something more than night. Crystal Palace: a dame with no past—but she does have a dead man in her bedroom. Niko Sasaki: her neighbour—and maybe a little more than that. Edwin Payne: a private investigator with a knack for making trouble his business. Charles Rowland: a homicide detective who joined the police force because he believes in justice—though this case may break him of that habit. Why do Port Townsend’s girls keep disappearing? What’s the deal with the local speakeasy, the Cat’s Pajamas? And who really runs this town?
A noir AU for the DBDA Big Bang, with art by meip
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Four lonely teenagers—a psychic girl with no real friends, a fledgling vampire scared of the future his parents have chosen for him, a half-human, half-sprite girl far from home, and a human mage trapped in a place where escape seems impossible—meet in London by chance. Each, on their own, can’t solve the problems in front of them. Maybe together, things will finally start to change.
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“I, a demon of the second circle, have been summoned before you, Charles Rowland, to serve you for a year and a day. During this year and a day, I must obey your every order to the best of my ability and with no intent to kill, harm, trick, inconvenience, or otherwise wish ill upon you. When our year and a day has concluded, ownership of your soul will fall to me, whereupon I am obligated to drag you to the appropriate level of Hell. That would be Lust, for the uninformed, which I highly suspect you are,” the demon finishes.
Charles takes all that in for a second, grappling with the idea that if Pain isn’t lying, then Charles is set to spend the rest of a very long eternity in Hell.
Crystal is gonna fucking kill him.
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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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One person's revenge is another's chance at redemption.
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“Hello there!” Charles greets amicably. “Come on in, we don't bite! Unless you ask nicely, of course.”
Thomas doesn't need to look away from the girl to know Charles has thrown in a cheeky little wink for good measure.
“What's your business here?” Thomas asks, always having far less patience for bullshit than his partner in supernatural crime.
Charles nudges him lightly with his elbow in reprimand, but the girl doesn't seem particularly bothered. “You guys are, like, the supernatural hitmen everyone's been talking about, right?”
The pair exchanges a brief but meaningful look. “That'd be us! I'm Charles Rowland, and he's Thomas King. We’re the Dead Dude Vigilantes.”
She looks them up and down with a keen, appraising gaze. “I'm Crystal, psychic medium. Cool name.”
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The Dead Dude Vigilantes, Thomas and Charles, and their newest client, a living psychic girl named Crystal, find themselves pursuing an unexpected job in Port Townsend. There, they meet the Forest King, a shape-shifting magical being who turns everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other on its head.
An AU in which Edwin and the Cat King reverse roles.
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Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne, semi-professional ghosthunters. No haunting too small, too strange, or too dangerous. What could go wrong?
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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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So Much Universe and So Little Time by Starcrossedstarfishes
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
15 Aug 2025
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Prince Edwin Payne, heir to the Edwardian Realm's crown, wishes he had met Charles Rowland under different circumstances. He unfortunately doesn't have such a luxury, as Charles is an enemy of the Realm, champion of the Resistance and is kidnapping him just at the moment.
Oh and did I mention they're in space?
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The Dust of Stars by NuriaSchnee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
31 Jul 2025
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The End of the Universe has started—or so everyone believes. Dark voids are appearing throughout the country and spreading to other planes. Death has gone missing, and reality is shattering. Charles and Edwin are in a race against time again, trying to find what is causing this before their world disappears.
A Season 3 fic.
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- Part 2 of Dead Boy Detectives: The Complete Series
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Crystal knows it’ll work out in the end. Her parents are going to get back from holiday, slip someone important some money, and she’ll be able to go home and her parents will disappear off on their next ‘business trip’. Until then, she just has to make it through wherever they have decided to keep her in the meantime, ‘for her own good’ as the police officer had said. She just hopes it's not going to be for long. She's an only child, who lives in a big house on her own most of the time. She doesn't know how she's going to survive sharing a house with god knows how many other children.
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Edwin meets Charles during their first year of university and is surprised by how suddenly a friendship forms between them. Being just friends, however, might prove harder than expected. If only Edwin had a single clue what to do with all these feelings that Charles has dug up within him.
Or: alpha Edwin trying and failing not to fall hopelessly In love with his new omega neighbor-turned-friend.
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Dead Boy Detective NSFW Doodles by cannibalisticCorpse for TheGoldenOath (VoiidVagabond)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Besotted Brats RPF, Dead Boy Detectives (TV) RPF
17 Jul 2025
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A collection of all my NSFW Dead Boy Detective sketches. These arts are typically 30min-1hr sketches. Feel free to request art in the comments. Trigger warnings and such will be in author's notes.
Filter chapter by chapter and scroll through the chapter titles to find anything specific.
Chapter titles are formated as:
Character or Ship (first character listed is the top), and the biggest kinks from that art, and any archive warnings will be tagged.
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After dropping out of university, Niko makes a deal with her fairy goodparents so they leave her alone for a year and a day, and soon befriends Charles. Crystal arrives at St. Kitt's and immediately clashes with Edwin, who despises her right back. The boys have their own things going on while Niko grapples with her fairy heritage and Crystal tries to find her place in the world post-possession.
Or, the Niko and Crystal version of Towers of Learning.
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- Part 2 of Walking to Do