quietdetective
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there has been nothing i wanted more than to protect you from everything that hurt you by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Nov 2025
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Charles doesn't like to say he hates anyone.
Racists, bullies, abusers, he had a very strong dislike for them, but he cannot say he hates them.
Hate sounded too close to dad.
Maybe that was why it sounded right when he thought about Edwin's parents.
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Where the Weather Wouldn't Follow You by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Nov 2025
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Edwin Payne had known Charles Rowland once.
Before rehearsals and songs, before spotlights and the West End.
Edwin Payne had known Charles Rowland when he was just a boy curled up in an attic, when both were desperate to not be alone anymore.
Now, years later, Edwin had been cast to play Eurydice in Hadestown, and who does he see walk into rehearsals one day but his Orpheus, a boy who had left him in the cold?
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i am broken, and i do not know if you understand that i cannot be fixed by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Nov 2025
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Charles pressed his phone against his cheek, waiting, hoping, for Edwin to answer.
Edwin hears the phone ringing in the hallway, but he cannot bring himself to leave his bed to answer it.
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if i could stop you from hurting, i would do it every time by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
02 Nov 2025
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Charles was the last thing Edwin had seen, the terror in his face with his mouth opened, shouting at Edwin before it all went to black.
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it's an addictive thing, to see you enjoy yourself so by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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You see, Edwin and Charles have had the blanket for years now. An old, tattered looking thing, that allowed a ghost to taste the food they were eating. The only problem was, was that the enchantment should only work for one ghost.
And, well, neither boy wanted to take that from the other.
That is until Charles sees a loophole, it's Halloween, and neither boy have been trick or treating in much too long.
And maybe they get a bit carried away after the night ends.
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i've been hiding for so long, i don't know how to leave by quietdetective
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Nov 2025
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i came to you broken, and you caught every piece that fell by quietdetective
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Nov 2025
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such a small and delicate thing, treated so harshly by quietdetective
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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i've watched every tragedy, waiting my turn. but you came, and suddenly, i didn't want my turn to come by quietdetective
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Oct 2025
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Fatal and I went off the deep end nearly a year ago and shared a brain cell to create this AU, with help from others in the Payneland Party Server. The link is to some amazing art Fatal did, as well as some more lore on this little AU.
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Coffee's Reluctant Pirate Week Contributions 2025 by quietdetective
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 May 2025
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“Why didn’t you tell me about your father?”
“I was afraid you would think I was a coward, or weak. For not fighting back.”
“Do you think I’m weak?”
“No!”
“Ah. A coward, then.”Bookmarked by quietdetective
29 Jun 2025
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Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here (but my hope lives inside you) by CursedWonders
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Feb 2025
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The Case of the Very Long Stairway AU where Charles finds a version of Edwin that only remembers 70 years of hell
Or hell but I made it worse
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28 Feb 2025
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Hours before Arthur's coronation, he receives an oath from his manservant far more significant than any he would have ever awaited. Problem is, the oath is followed by a revelation he never saw coming.
Bookmarked by quietdetective
01 Mar 2023
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Are you dead? Sometimes I think I’m dead by junebugtwin
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
01 Aug 2021
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Seven is not supposed to exist, which is fine, because a ghost can't cause the end of the world.
Her siblings go about the rest of their miserable lives, and Vanya, who is there as much as she isn't, can only watch.
For the most part.
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02 Aug 2021
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Born To Take Care Of You by WyvernQuill for Butcher_of_Blaviken_666
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
25 Dec 2019
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"Which Duke do you work under?" Azirafell asked conversationally, snapping a mug of something hot and sweet into existence and taking a sip. "Because I do hope they're considering you for promotion."
"Ngh?" Raphael blinked, feeling a little like the muddy rug had been pulled out from beneath him. "What?"
"Well, an enterprising young demon like you…" Azirafell smiled at him in a way that was all Lecherous Temptation, Raphael could tell from the detestable effect it had on the very pit of his stomach. "...ought to go places, in my humble opinion."
"Hah." Said Raphael, very lost. "Demon?"
In which the Archangel Raphael watches over humanity, prevents the End of the World, and spends 6000 years falling in love with a demon who doesn't even know his real name.
It's fine...
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Bookmarked by quietdetective
14 Jan 2020