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While Edwin and Charles are going away from the Afterlife with the Doom Patrol, they meet a boy running from Hell and then another one looking for him.
PS: I dunno how to tag.
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Then, he sees it: a long thread of gold extending from Edwin’s chest, looping through the air like a rivulet of sand. His own spectral form sprouts an identical one, stretching from below his sternum.
“Pretty,” Charles says, twirling his finger around the strand. “Is this supposed to happen?”
Edwin points towards their outlines. “Charles—“
His statement is cut off by a loud, raucous bark, startling them both.
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Edwin gets obsessed with the outcome of a personality quiz and casts a spell about it. Both he and Charles get more than they bargained for.(features an extra scene/additional illustrations!)
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- Part 1 of lux animalis extended universe
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Edwin and The Good Place by elisi
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Good Place (TV)
26 Apr 2025
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At the end of episode 7 the Night Nurse takes the boys away to be processed and taken to their afterlife. This story chronicles what happens next.
Charles: You ever think, what if Death did catch us? She'd force us to go to the afterlife and split up.
Edwin: I will make sure that never happens.Crossover with The Good Place. Crack ensues. 😊
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“I want – I want to tear my skin off,” Charles says, strangled. “I can’t – anyone looking at me, Crystal acting like it’s not a big deal, fuck – you.”
“Me?” Edwin asks, almost affronted.
“Well, there’s no way you want me anymore, is there?” Charles blurts. Then he looks mortified.
Or, Edwin has known Charles to be transsexual since '89. It is only when Charles is cursed to experience one of his worst fears that they talk about it.
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- Part 12 of Not Orpheus and Eurydice
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Edwin has been snatched back to hell (so this is essentially in replace of what canonically happening in episode 7) but he's managed to land deeper in hell this time in a layer he is not familiar with and of course there is even more horrible things down there that make the Baby Doll Spider look like child's play (I really love horror as a genre so this is quite intense)
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Fic title: Welcome to Paradise by Green Day
Gift for: BelSeries
- Part 5 of Happy Holidays, DBDA Haunt
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Written for this prompt on the DBDA Kinkmeme:
So, ghost rules don't seem to work in Hell, right?
Please give me an Edwin who has been stuck in Hell for decades, and he's been starving the whole time because he has a physical form there and needs to eat. I want to see the first time he gets to Gluttony, and him just having to stop and take something, even though he knows damn well it might get him killed again. Doesn't stuff himself or anything, he just needs something he's so hungry.
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Edwin seems to think about the idea for a while longer. Making sure to put a finger between the pages to mark his place, he closes his book to give Charles his full attention.
“Charles I’m afraid I do not see the point in us watching scary motion pictures. We’ve lived through our fair share of threatening situations, so we certainly do not need to subject ourselves to more of that in our free time.”
Charles looks at him with one eyebrow raised and a twinkle in his eyes.
“Mate. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but you’re a detective and yet you still really like those detective novels of yours, no? So how's that any different?”
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Charles spends a fun evening watching Halloween movies with Edwin and Crystal.
Until some not so fun memories start haunting him.This is mostly fluff with some angst thrown in to spice it up a bit. If you can find an actual plot in there, I must've dropped that in by accident.
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All my one-shots for DBDPromptober :)
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- Part 20 of Dead Boy Detectives
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Let Us Praise Those Who Sing In the Dead of Night by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Oct 2024
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Edwin had to save himself.
He could not wait and hope for someone to save him, he lost that dream years ago.
However, he was smart, and resilient, and sure. Edwin knew he could remember more than his classmates, he saw patterns and paths where others couldn’t.
If anyone could puzzle their way out of Hell, Edwin knew he could.
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The first thing he did when he got out of hell was to go look for a piece of paper.
He wasn't thinking about his notebook at the time, didn't even remember it. Any paper would've done, he just wanted to write it all down while it was still fresh.Edwin has had his notebook for longer than thirty years. At this point it was more than just a convenient place for his meticulous notes, it was a symbol of sorts, a link to his past, an object that gave him confidence, and his if-worst-comes-to-worst ticket out of hell.
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The Case of the Very Long Stairway (Edwin’s PoV) by I_Go_Down_With_Ships23
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
17 Oct 2024
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.... I mean the title kinda covers it. It’s Episode 7 from Edwin’s perspective.
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You make me glow by cordelianoir
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
13 Sep 2024
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Edwin’s mother had always told him that he’d know his soulmate not only by the glow, but because their mark would be on their hand between their thumb and index finger. Now that very spot was glowing with a soft blue light on his own hand.
As Edwin watched, the mark glowed brighter for a moment, then dimmed, then brightened again, swimming like sunlight streaming through water.
Somewhere to his left, Edwin heard a misery wraith scream. With a start, Edwin came back to himself.
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Soulmate AU where the state of your soulmate's soul is reflected on your skin. Edwin doesn't have one by the time he dies. Charles has a dead mark. This doesn't cause problems at all.
Inspired by JUBE514's beautiful art.
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Edwin is in Hell. Nothing is as it seems.
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Edwin is learning his new existence. He cannot feel, he cannot smell, he cannot taste the air. He does not hunger, does not tire or sleep.
People around him cannot see him. They hustle about their living business. Cars are fast, people speak into devices they hold in their hands. Music played is loud. Outfits appear even louder.
Looking upon others Edwin glanced down at himself. No longer in bloodied night clothes, he exists in his nicer clothes. Vest, jacket, bowtie, he appears neat and presentable rather than bloodied and tormented. He would have realized this sooner had he been able to feel the warmth that the layers of fabric should have provided him. The people around him do not appear to be dressed for warmth. Pants have tears, shirts are bright colors, he wonders if he did not escape back to Earth and instead wound up in a new realm all together.
A newspaper tells him he's still in England. That was not distressing to learn.
A newspaper tells him the year is 1990. That was very distressing to learn.
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Edwin escapes hell, and now needs to learn what it means to be a ghost.
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- Part 1 of Running Dead Boys
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To others, there was something off with Edwin.
It wasn’t just a vague feeling; it was as if there was a cloud of sorrow surrounding him, an invisible force that made others miserable.
He was strange in how he acted, too rigid at times, or overly animated when he spoke of his passions. Conversations with him had a tendency to drift into unusual territory, touching on topics that left others puzzled or uncomfortable. There was a heaviness in his presence, a lingering shadow that seemed to wrap around him like a well-worn cloak.
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Edwin and Despair have a different relationship than in cannon. There meeting in Hell therefore goes a bitt differently
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“He is gone,” Charles choked out, wet and desperate, “I can’t feel him Crystal, he is gone.”
It rang true, sucking all the oxygen in the space around them until it was painfully obvious that, even if soulmates could be separated by Death, Hell would have to try a lot harder. Even if the soul mark was gone and Charles grieved the loss of half his soul, he would wreak havoc until there was nothing left of him.
Or: the soulmate au where when Edwin gets taken to Hell the soul mark and ‘soul bond’ disappears, leaving Charles uncertain if Edwin is still even ‘alive’ yet he goes down to Hell anyways.
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Time passes differently in Hell.
Of course, Edwin only came to this once he escapes and realizes 73 years had passed since that night in the basement.
But when he was in Hell, time lost all meaning. In fact, he would argue that time didn’t exist in Hell. Not when there was no natural light he could see nor did his body need food or sleep. Time passed but it had no meaning. At least none that he could understand.
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hold me like water or christ, hold me like a knife by lesbicosmos
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Jul 2024
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Ghosts can't feel anything. They can't even feel other ghosts. All Edwin has felt in over a century is the pain he was repeatedly put through in Hell, and now he'd back there again. He wishes he could never feel anything ever again...until he feels Charles.
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fera bestia Latin. “Wild animal"
It’s not that Edwin cannot fight. It’s that who he becomes when he fights terrifies him.
Written from my own prompt table, for the prompt ‘Engage’.