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Charles is still grinning at him crookedly and it is making it hard for Edwin to think of anything else. He has a sneaking suspicion that their developing romance might have a detrimental impact on their efficiency with casework. The other boy must notice the way that Edwin’s gaze is riveted to his lips, because his smile gets impossibly wider and he takes a step further into Edwin’s space so that he’s stood between Edwin, still seated in his chair, and the desk. He’s careful not to jostle the microscope and its precious samples, which Edwin appreciates. Charles might be impulsive and impetuous, but he’s almost always careful about things that matter.
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or,As Charles and Edwin settle into their new relationship, they get drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse with a creature that feeds on fear.
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- Part 3 of 1999 au
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Edwin is not entirely sure how they went from having an argument about Charles’s damn fool need to throw himself into danger without any forethought to this. To Charles’s hands on Edwin’s face and his tongue in Edwin’s mouth and Edwin feeling drunk with it, bowled over with the sheer sensation of it all.
-picks up directly after the end of keep my hand in yours. Edwin speedruns having a queer awakening while Charles finds himself particularly affected by a case involving domestic abuse.
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- Part 2 of 1999 au
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It’s just turned November in 1999, meaning that Charles has been dead (and thus with Edwin) for almost a full decade. If he had lived, he’d be 26 now. He is 26, sort of. He’s sure that he’s more mature now than he was when he died, but that might just be the natural result of a decade spent with Edwin standing next to him, raising a single eyebrow imperiously as if to say ‘really, Charles?’ every time he acts before thinking (so, almost all the time).
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10 years after Charles dies, he realizes that he's in love with his best friend. He handles this about as well as anyone could expect.
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- Part 1 of 1999 au
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offer me that deathless death by dreamers_and_magicians
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Jun 2024
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It takes the better part of two days for Charles’s body to even be found, and in the end, Edwin is forced to turn on all the lights in the gymnasium attic where Charles had died in order to get a janitor to come upstairs. No one had even been looking for him, yet.
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orEdwin and Charles attend a funeral, look for a gravestone, and decide to become detectives.
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- Part 3 of a tale of two dead boys
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Charles Rowland is unlike anyone Edwin has ever met.
Edwin doesn’t initially intend to befriend him, doesn’t even expect himself to be visible to the living boy in the attic. Still, he remembers the cruel hands and mocking laughter of his own tormentors in life, and he doesn’t want to leave the boy curled up in the dark cold attic of an old gymnasium all by himself.
The boy looks up as Edwin approaches, asks who’s there, makes eye contact with Edwin instead of looking through him like most living humans do. Edwin’s nonexistent heart clenches in grief (he’s still not certain of all the rules of being a ghost, but he finds it rather cruel that his mind still remembers how his body experienced grief and inflicts that sensation upon him even now). He realizes that this is not a living boy. This is a dying boy.
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Edwin's perspective when meeting Charles for the first time.
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- Part 2 of a tale of two dead boys
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10 years after Charles dies, he realizes that he's in love with his best friend. He handles this about as well as anyone could expect.
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Eddie survives the final battle and life goes on.
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17 Oct 2025
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It’s like a knife to the gut, seeing in real time how Mickey doesn’t trust him as much.
“I’m glad someone was there for you.” Is all Ian has as he tries to stop his eyes from watering.
“Yeah, you sure as hell weren’t.” He spits out, and it’s angry and mean and yeah, fuck, it’s true, isn’t it? Mickey was in here all fucking alone, while Ian didn’t even bother to visit. Spent all his time missing Mickey, but trying to forget he ever existed. At the time, it seemed the best thing for both of them. Allowing a clean break, letting them both move on.
Turns out that ‘moving on’ is a little different when one person is locked up.
Ian swallows, wiping at a tear before it has time to fall. “I know.”
“See, this is fucking why I didn’t want to talk about this.” Mickey mutters, shuffling closer in an attempt to console and help.
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Ian and Mickey may be back together in prison, but they still have a lot to talk about so that the past won't keep hurting them.
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season 9-10
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18 Jul 2025
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Things Unknown But Longed For Still by Neous (Greyality)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
25 Sep 2024
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It all starts with another one of Crystal's dreadful jokes.
"Not that I'd expect some repressed Victorian virgin to understand—"
"I am not," Edwin cuts in before he can think it through.
"Victorian? Yeah, I know," Crystal says. "I just don't care."
"A virgin," he clarifies. She stares.
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Or Edwin's only experiences with sexual intimacy are from Hell. In this mostly soft glimpse into recovery from sexual assault, Crystal and Charles challenge Edwin's concepts of whether he really knows what physical intimacy is supposed to feel like and send him on a path toward exploring the difference between consensual and non-consensual touch.
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25 Sep 2024
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Forever and Ever is a Very Long Time by engineering_madonna
Fandoms: The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics), Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Jun 2024
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"In all the sorrow and pain that came with the realization that everything they’d built in recent times would end, Edwin was infinite."
It's been four years since everything changed in Port Townsend and the Dead Boy Detective Agency has really settled into itself. Everything great until Charles is left with an epiphany that may or may not make him question his feelings for Edwin and whether what he feels is platonic after all. At the same time, a new case arrives and the crew must solve the murders of two young teens looking for closure for the sole survivor of a séance gone wrong.
Featuring bi panic, a less emotionally constipated Edwin, manga that may or may not be porn, murder, mystery, and above all, love.
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- Part 1 of Forever Isn't Long At All
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09 Jul 2024
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"I dare you to hook up with him."
"What? The blonde guy?"
"Yes, the blonde guy."Or Even gets caught up in a dare, and Isak loses a little bit of himself in the process.
Aka the Dare!AU (with feelings) that nobody asked for.Series
- Part 8 of In Every Universe
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15 Nov 2022