Cesare
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A collection of short fics and fragments. Each chapter's labeled with word count & level of completeness: finished short pieces, ficlets that never got developed further, loose scenes that didn't end up fitting into other fics, stalled WIPs.
I'm furious the DBD characters were cut from Sandman s2. So my dumb revenge is to share everything I've written for this fandom on AO3. All the shorter stuff will be collected in this post. Nothing hits the cutting room floor.
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Crowding him up against the wall, Charles keeps a nice tight hold of his jacket. Edwin's hands wrap around Charles', playing at trying to free himself but actually holding on, keeping them there.
"You're not going anywhere." Charles makes the next kiss hard and demanding, and it does the trick. Charles can feel it, like springing a lock, that magic moment when they get Edwin through the obstacle course in his head, built up of all the conditioning the Edwardian era was able to pack into his short life and all the long years of repression after.
"What the fuck," says Crystal.
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"I would be remiss if I did not explain further why I encouraged you to go with Death earlier," his new friend says.
"Yeah?" Charles fits a smile on his face and nods at the ghost. His fellow ghost, now. Edwin. He tried to get Charles to push off, and that has Charles a little nervous. But before that, Edwin said he wished they could be friends for longer, and he stayed with Charles all night, so he must like him at least a little. Charles can work with that. Everyone likes him eventually.
Everyone gets sick of him eventually as well, but before that, he can usually stretch things out a while.
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"Crystal, may we prevail upon you to keep an eye on the house while we apply a bit more scrutiny to the other suspect?"
"Depends," says Crystal. "Can I prevail upon you to read over the final draft of my paper and give feedback without getting snippy about it?"
"I do not," says Edwin in the snippiest possible voice, he has to be kidding, "get snippy."
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- Part 3 of stay all day, if you want to
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The boys urge Crystal and Niko to wait outside. Charles brings out the bat, Edwin readies his spellbook; Charles stretches his free hand back without looking and Edwin takes it immediately, following him inside.
"What kind of Hansel and Gretel shit, honestly," Crystal mutters.
"Hm?" Niko asks.
She doesn't know how to explain that she was backsliding into Old Crystal thoughts. "Uh, if we go around to the side maybe we can look in the windows and keep track of what's going on."
"Oh, good idea!"
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- Part 2 of stay all day, if you want to
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For Want Of A Mirror by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
22 Jan 2025
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“What are you doing?” Edwin demanded. “Crystal and Charles are in danger!”
The Cat King titled his head. “So are you. You can’t just go running off into the woods like that. That disgusting little growth could be on any branch or rock or ugh, tree.”
“Exactly!” Edwin said, putting as much heat into his words as he could muster. “Which is exactly why I need to go and warn Charles and Crystal about Monty’s betrayal and Esther’s trap.”
“Not happening,” the Cat King said. He used one finger, the end of it almost looking more like a cat’s claw than a nail, to point at his wrist. “As long as that bracelet is on, you fall into my domain. And I’m not letting something of mine be taken by Esther.”
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Aka the Cat King takes Edwin away during the forest scene to protect him from Esther's trap, leading Charles and Crystal to believe he died.
Bookmarked by Cesare
31 Jan 2026
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We two boys together clinging by Aliquis
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
27 May 2024
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“Fine, yes. I do think about it. Doing…that.”
It’s not quite the risk that was “Charles, I’m in love with you” on the stairs ascending from Hell, but he still feels like rolling underneath the sofa to hide. He doesn’t even know what he’s asking for, not completely.
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- Part 3 of Of a youth who loves me
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Bookmarked by Cesare
28 Jan 2026
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"Edwin hadn’t understood the appeal of girls, but he’d loved his cousin’s car. Gold trim, canvas cabriolet, purring on a four-cylinder Henriod rotary-valve engine. Riding in that car with the top down may have been the last time while he was alive that Edwin truly believed the world had wonderous things in store for him."
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Edwin needs every resource at his disposal to escape Hell and the only thing he can count on is himself.
Every part of himself.
He grows used to using his past bodies as tools to escape, as less than human, as his own form as a means to an end. Escaping Hell doesn't mean escaping those thoughts of being disposable, of his form as a utilitarian machine made to solve wrongs and always gain more knowledge and tools for when Hell inevitably comes knocking again.
Charles, and his warmth of spirit, deserves more than the wretch Edwin has become.
Bookmarked by Cesare
26 Jan 2026
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The one with the bone flute & energy sharing w/ creepy magician.
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sometimes in dreams of impact i still hear by aletterinthenameofsanity for Cesare, troublegoblin
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
15 Dec 2025
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All of a sudden, a hand lands on Charles’ shoulder.
It is instinct, buried in his blood a decade and half ago, through the shoulders of a little boy that was learning that not every touch was kind, not even those of your father, that makes Charles flinch back.
But Charles looks up and he sees that there is an angel in front of him.
Charles never would have imagined that angels were dressed in denim jackets and faded rock band t-shirts, but then again, he didn’t have whiplash when he was picturing angels on his knees in church as a kid. He was mostly focused on the way that he preferred his mother’s religion to his father’s, the way that he preferred Ganesha and the like to hate that was spewed from the pulpit every Sunday.
Maybe the reason why Charles never pictured an angel looking like this was because he was taught that angels were just extensions of a god that sought to punish, rather than all soft long hair and pretty lips and ink dark eyes that any painter would kill to capture.
And Charles definitely wouldn’t have pictured an angel as driving a pick-up truck, which is parked on the median a car’s length down from Charles’ wreck.
(Aka: the car accident meet cute au.)
Bookmarked by Cesare
05 Dec 2025
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take my hand (take my whole life, too) by msbirdiewrites
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
15 Oct 2025
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Soulmates are a remarkable thing. The universe giving you another person to be the other half of your soul. Someone to love you, unconditionally.
Or a slight canon divergence if Edwin and Charles were soulmates.