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Written to a (long ago, now) kinkmeme prompt: Charles touches a cursed object that allows him to hear Edwin's thoughts. At first he was going to tell Edwin immediately, but then he hears the loving things Edwin thinks about him, and he just wants to listen for a few days because he's never heard someone "say" things like that about him.
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He heard Edwin’s rich and affectionate chuckle, not out loud but in his mind, and realized all at once how aggressively he was fidgeting, the couch beneath him rattling. He jerked to a stop, making an embarrassed face and wondering if he should apologize for being so distracting when Edwin was trying to work.But, there goes the hummingbird, thought Edwin, a quick and simple phrase wrapped in a hundred soft layers of affection. Charles sat still, feeling his partner’s fond thoughts more than hearing them.
But it was more than just fondness, or even love–it was comfort Edwin was exuding. A gentle, abiding, and complete familiarity, the kind that brings safety and healing. It was hearth, bread, and blanket.
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02 Nov 2025
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Despite himself, Charles was mesmerized by this strange version of Edwin Payne that had something of Hellfire to him. And he was so very close … “His eyes are decidedly less honest than yours. Intriguing... Never pegged Charles Rowland for a liar.”
“Careful, luv.” The voice was a sing-song drawl, accompanied by the same scraping sound drawing ever closer. “You know I get jealous.” There, lit faintly by moonlight, was Charles Rowland – face pale, grin wide and eyes cast in shadows, twirling a cricket bat that had been studded with nails glinting wickedly like iron stars. “What you think, Win? I say there can only be one.”A string of grave robbings leads the Dead Boy Detectives to stumble into a ritual, summoning versions of themselves, who have experienced a very different afterlife. Not only is there a pack of hellhounds on their heels, they also won’t stop at chaos nor bloodshed to carve out their place in the world – and remove their superfluous doppelgangers in the process.
As Crystal desperately tries to master her powers and keep the fabric of reality from unraveling, the boys need to stop their nefarious doubles. To make matters infinitely more confusing, the two delinquents are madly in love...Bookmarked by gremlininthemachine
29 Oct 2025
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Small and Fluffy and Thinking About Murder by muirgen_lys for ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero), quietdetective, Sage_Owl, paraph, handwrittenhello
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Oct 2025
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Crystal hates her roommates cat. It's not just that he savaged her the first time she tried to pick him up, or that he watches her as she moves around the flat, or that she knows from the bottom of her soul that if Charles had to decide whether to keep Crystal or the cat she'd be out without a moment's hesitation. It's how obviously and unapologetically Edwin hated her first, from the moment he saw her.
He hates her, right?
So why is he planting himself between her and David like a tiny kitty bodyguard?
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- Part 1 of Kitty Edwin fics
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15 Oct 2025
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towards the sea (yearning for contact) by Sage_Owl for ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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Charles Rowland has a better-than-usual day.
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14 Oct 2025
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A hunting trip. A bad feeling. An ambush.
An arrow, straight through the chest.
Merlin is dead. Until he isn’t.
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07 Oct 2025
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He knows that things like him accumulate followers—worshippers, vessels of devotion that Hell so deeply adored in its ranks. He’s not there yet, of course he isn’t. He’d only just crawled back into this plane, all ill-fitting self and no title to call his own. He has yet to grow, build himself up, draw the eyes of those that might one day call the boy who crawled out of Hell their God.
Edwin feels larger than life under Charles’s eager gaze, legs swinging freely from the shrine built around him by Charles’s immediate recognition.
in which edwin crawls out of hell as something less human and charles, no matter his state, finds a way to become edwin's knight.
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- Part 5 of dead boy musings
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03 Oct 2025
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Thirty times Charles told Edwin "I love you," and one time he said something slightly different.
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25 Sep 2025
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He Knows by LadyDyna
Fandoms: Sense and Sensibility (1995), Sense and Sensibility - All Media Types
22 Feb 2025
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Sequel to ‘Marianne’s Weapon.’ The day after the ball, all of the Dashwood’s friends and neighbors are discussing the strange ending to the dance—a certain gentleman’s bizarre outburst and behavior. Marianne is desperate to stop the discussion, and she is even more desperate to keep Colonel Brandon from figuring out exactly what happened. What if he already knows?
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08 Sep 2025
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“And what’s stupid is that I could really use some parental advice. Right?” Crystal laughs. “Like… I want my parents to help me find my parents.”
Through the door, she hears Niko say, “Wait. Then who are those people that you’re with?”
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Charles and Edwin wear their disguises more frequently, so Crystal doesn't have to talk to herself. This changes how they relate to each other.- Language:
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13 Aug 2025
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long as i can see the light by celestarium (meadowziplines)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
02 May 2025
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After the Kindly Ones, Dream agreed to stay with Hob for a while as a human, and not ask for Death's hand without talking to Hob first. But freak accidents happen, and Death herself shows up in the liminal space between life and death. And her question for Dream is, "Do you wish to live?"
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Title from "Long As I Can See The Light" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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- Part 75 of Sandman one-shots
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07 Jun 2025
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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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29 May 2025
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When they're kids, Sirius finds the only way to protect his little brother, is to bond them so Sirius can feel his pain and help him when he's hurt. Sirius doesn't think about the repercussions of it, he's seven with a one track mind to help his little brother who cries to him nightly with a fear and pain in his eyes that he has to do something about.
It ends the opposite way he ever thought it would.
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- Part 1 of Harry Potter
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28 Apr 2025
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Regulus grieves his older brother every day. With a new boyfriend, brilliant friends, and classes to keep him busy, he is on track to find the peace he has been deprived of since his brother’s sudden death six years earlier.
At least, that was what he thought, until he bumps into someone who looks a little too similar to the brother he thought lost.
[Or: a what-if where Sirius went to Rowena University]
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- Part 2 of finding peace
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28 Apr 2025
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“Do you want to come home with me, my little Reggie Weggie?”
The baby coos excitedly and slaps his slobber-covered hand right onto Sirius’s nose. It’s so soft and squishy that Sirius feels the most ridiculous urge to gobble it up whole. But as a sane person (debatable)—and someone who has fallen headfirst in incandescent love—he simply chuckles in delight and presses a kiss on the little fist.
“It’s settled, then.”
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In which Sirius receives an unexpected call from St Mungo’s one rainy evening and finds himself the brand-new guardian to the world's most adorable baby. He’s also an A-grade oblivious idiot who thinks Remus loves him like a friend (bless him), but it all turns well in the span of one moonlit night.(Main Story + Extras)
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27 Apr 2025
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No Place Safer by Starcrossedstarfishes
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
23 Apr 2025
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When Charles is taken, Edwin doesn't call for help.
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23 Apr 2025
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Dead Until Proven Alive by chrystal896
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
19 Jan 2015
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Bilbo is hungry, dirty and very confused. Why will no one tell him what happened to Thorin Oakenshield.
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- Part 1 of The Grace of Yavanna
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16 Apr 2025
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When Regulus received a letter containing the final words of his deceased father, his entire world was turned upside down. With his loving fiancé by his side, Regulus is determined to track down his big brother — the same brother he believed to be dead all these years.
The same brother who also believes Regulus is dead.
[Or: Regulus finds out his brother is alive and will stop at nothing to find him again, James is the best fiancé ever, the Potters are saints, and Sirius is a little broken.]
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- Part 1 of finding peace
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26 Mar 2025
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After weeks of begging, Regulus is finally given permission to ride his brother’s motorcycle. Nobody could have expected how the drive would end. Terrified of his brother’s reaction to his destroyed motorbike, Regulus hardly notices his own grave injuries.
Luckily for Regulus, a handsome stranger is there to help him. If only he could breathe through the fear long enough to enjoy it. But maybe not everything is hopeless.
[or, Regulus gets hurt but is more scared of his brother realising he broke his bike, Sirius is protective, and James is just happy to help]
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25 Mar 2025
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“Not quite yet,” Charles snags Edwin by the elbow before he can round the corner. “I hate to do this, really do, but I have to check.” Edwin breaks eye contact at once. He no doubt knows exactly what Charles is about to ask. “Are you entirely sure that there won’t be any demons about?”
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Edwin and Charles infiltrate a magical auction with one goal: to save a kidnapped infant from being sold off to the highest bidder.
Things, predictably, do not go to plan.
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23 Mar 2025
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You Could Not Possibly Understand by bondsmith
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Feb 2025
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When Dis won't leave Tauriel alone after months of verbal abuse, Bilba takes a stand when no one else will.
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05 Mar 2025