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It's one of the first things Charles notices about Edwin: he doesn't have a daemon.
While Anita curls around him, protective with teeth bared despite the freezing water drenching her fur, Edwin stands alone.
Charles hadn't thought it was possible to lose your daemon and stay sane, but he also hadn't thought that ghosts were real, so he just sort of accepts it and moves on.
When he finally does gather the courage to ask Edwin about it weeks later, Edwin goes awfully still, a wild, panicked look crossing his eyes for just long enough to make Charles regret saying anything.
Eventually, Edwin does respond, voice low and rough.
"Hell is designed to tear souls apart, Charles," he says, not meeting Charles' eyes. "I'm sure you can deduce the rest."
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Or what happens to a daemon in Hell and how one might find friendship, love, and peace in the aftermath
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15 Sep 2025
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Alex tries being normal. Nature says no. So does international organised crime.
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A school trip, a secret bunker, scorpia, and beans.Bookmarked by clarence_potato
08 Aug 2025
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Jean Moreau is an Institutional Nightmare by melancholylion
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
22 Jun 2025
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We all know Jean Moreau has problems, and that a lot of those problems are being solved by transferring to USC. But what about the problems he caused by transferring? What about the poor staff at USC who had to manage his transfer?
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25 Jun 2025
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17 Mar 2025
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Neil made three promises to his mother before she died: not to reveal his identity to anyone, to keep running, and to never use his father's bending. However, he has to break each one to protect his new family, and the world, whether he wants to or not.
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17 Mar 2025
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Super Effective Against Ghost Types by RoseGanymede95 for thefictionally
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Dec 2024
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“Were you like Brad and Hunter, when you were alive?” Niko asked dubiously.
Charles stilled. “Well—maybe. I think I was always a little bit different from other guys, to be honest,” he said, like he was confessing something. “My old mates were definitely cut from the same cloth, though.”
“Oh,” Niko realized. “Is that why you want them to be good guys? They remind you of your friends?”
“Er…” Charles trailed off. He squished the ball of PlayDoh in his hands. Gray showed between his fingers. “Not exactly. My old mates weren’t, ah. Well. They weren’t good guys, in the end. I mean, Brad and Hunter do remind me of them. A lot, actually. But it’s more like, it would be really nice to know that guys like James or Pete could be nice.” He contemplated the dough in his hands with a small frown. “I just wonder, if those guys had been born a little later, maybe they would have turned out better? Maybe we might have been alright.”
Niko followed his gaze. Charles seemed to be getting PlayDoh residue on his fingers. They were turning gray, now, too.
“Were your friends nice to you?” Niko asked, suddenly worried.
Charles met her eyes, but he had a faraway look on his face. “Sometimes,” he said.
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12 Feb 2025
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before the transformation takes by CatGotYourTongue (SexyCoinkiDicks), dear_monday, handwrittenhello, SexyCoinkiDicks
Fandom Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Jan 2025
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12 Feb 2025
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kick the last nail in by Cesare
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
06 Feb 2025
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"The tricky thing with ghosts is that you need to know who they used to be and why they're still hanging about, to get rid of them," Johanna says. "So if you want me a banish a ghost, you'll be on the hook for some research, and my time's not cheap."
"We can skip that. I know exactly who he is," Owen says. "His name is Charlie Rowland."
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12 Feb 2025
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(if I could bury all of your burdens) we'll start digging up graves by SerpaSas
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Feb 2025
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Charles sighs, his shoulders slumping. “It’s just— I need to ask you something, and I don’t think you want to talk about it, is the thing. And I don’t wanna make you talk about something you don’t want to, and I don’t want to make you uncomfortable, but I think I need to talk about it.”
Edwin considers Charles’ words, and together with his frazzled appearance and the way he is holding his hand, he draws a conclusion. Something he wouldn’t want to talk about, indeed. “Do you wish to ask me about Hell?”
But Charles shakes his head, and says, “Not exactly, no. Not about Hell, but about… what you told me there. On the stairs.”
Ah.
Well. That is… much worse than discussing his 73 years and one day of unending torment.
Charles is still holding his hand.
Or: the boys have a talk.
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11 Feb 2025
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That's Charlie. Her Charlie, her little boy. Hand in hand with another boy, the two of them stood close together, heads inclined toward each other.
The other boy lifts their joined hands and presses his mouth to Charlie's ring finger. Charlie smiles, purely joyful, a smile like he used to have when he was a child, before things got hard. He looks so handsome.
He's taller than she remembered, smiling down at Niko as she hurries over. As Niko speaks, his eyes go round, smile fading. And he looks right at her.
He's looking right at Maryam, and she sees his lips shape, Mum?
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19 Jan 2025
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I Want to Snarl and Show You Just How Disturbed This Has Made Me (You Wouldn't Last an Hour in the Asylum Where They Raised Me) by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Jul 2024
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You are born on an unseasonably warm January morning. The air is crisp, but the sun is shining, and the midwife remarks on the beautiful peculiarity of such weather.
It is a Wednesday, and if your parents know the old rhyme, they do not comment on how a child born when you are ought to be full of woe. Instead, they smile. They welcome you to the world.
They name you Edwin Payne.
When you are very young, so young that you can barely fit your hand around your father's favorite pen, you are happy.
You do not smile much, but you are constantly -thinking.-
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Or, an Edwin Payne character study in four acts.- Language:
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08 Jan 2025
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I And Love And You by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
10 Jun 2024
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“Well, so, since I think you’re the best person in existence, the thought that you love me, that’s pretty special”, Charles tries to explain. “And that makes me feel pretty special. That you could love me.”
Edwin stays silent for a while, but he doesn’t look away, seemingly figuring something out, making a decision, or a third thing somewhere in between.
“That makes sense”, he eventually says, speaking slowly, almost like he is still thinking about it. “In that case, I shall endeavour to tell you more often.”
Edwin tells Charles he loves him again and again, until Charles can say it back.
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- Part 9 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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24 Dec 2024
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i don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you by kirakrs
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
11 Oct 2025
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Kevin goes to California for his and Jean's interview. Andrew and Neil tag along. The Trojans have a cultural shock from the Foxes and find out more of the truth. Chaos ensues.
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13 Dec 2024
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Edwin gets tortured. This really isn't a big deal.
To him.
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02 Dec 2024
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what some circumstance stole by Chrome
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Sep 2024
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For a magic-user intent on siphoning pain for power, both Hob Gadling and Edwin Payne represent unique opportunities. United in dire circumstances, a man incapable of dying and a boy long dead forge an unusual friendship--and try to survive the experience.
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“When you died,” Hob said. “How old were you?”
“Sixteen.”
“That,” Hob said, “Is awful.”
Edwin shrugged. “Life is, I’m afraid,” he said.
“Can be wonderful, too,” Hob said. “I promise.”- Language:
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01 Dec 2024
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June (plus Nyla) adopts Zuko AU.
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29 Nov 2024
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“You want me to do what?” Jenny asks. She stares at Crystal and Niko and Edwin and Charles, four teenagers who do the dumbest things, and maybe save a few lives—or afterlives—in the meantime. Jenny never knows what to think, when it comes to the four of them. (Certainly not pride. Certainly not.)
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26 Nov 2024
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If I had to Perish Twice by JUBE514
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
07 Dec 2024
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There wasn’t meant to be anybody here. There were meant to be people who came through and evacuated everyone out. It was dangerous to be this close to Edwin without protection. It was- Edwin needed to leave. He tries to wrap himself smaller as well, copying the boy in the corner, brings down the flame he’s had burning in the palm of his own hand for light-
The boy gasps at the motion, eyes huge and wet and focused on the fire that dances in Edwin’s palms. “You- You’re one of them government people.” He says, his voice is so, so soft. Nobody’s spoken to Edwin in that tone in years. “You’re here to help, right? Can- Can you help me?”
His lips are almost blue.
Fingertips frozen.
He’s dying.
He’s dying, past the point of saving, if the way his pupils don’t react to the light of the fire is correct.
“Are you cold?” Edwin has to ask, he’s moving forward, even though his mind is screaming at him not to, how everything these past seventy years have told him that he’ll hurt anybody within twenty meters, if left unchecked for longer than a minute.
The boy nods, weakly. “I’m freezing, mate.”
The boy in the attic is dying of the cold, who is Edwin to deny him a few minutes of warmth?
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24 Nov 2024
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dead boy detectives has bewitched me body and soul so lets see where this goes. all of these fics roughly take place in the same timeline but they can be read standalone no problem.
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16 Nov 2024
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This Is How For Now We Touch by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
21 Jun 2024
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“I got us something”, Charles answers and pulls a box from the bag he’s been carrying, black and unwieldy, adorned in white scribbles. He’s holding it out like it’s something precious, which Edwin highly doubts it is, considering the look Charles gives him. “Something really really cool.”
Edwin takes a moment to look at the box, the poor quality of the cardboard and the horrible picture of teenagers that are trying to look frightened, and yes, some eye rolling will definitely be necessary here.
“Why on Earth would we need a Ouija board, Charles?”
The grin on Charles’ lips would be obnoxious if Edwin didn’t like him so much.
“To talk to ghosts, of course.”Charles gets them a Ouija board and sometimes, it's easier to talk about feelings when you don't have to say the words out-loud.
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- Part 13 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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13 Nov 2024