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Greatest In The League by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Oct 2025
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Charles Rowland has it all figured out. He’s going to go to school, play hockey on a scholarship, and get a good job. That is his masterplan, and nothing is going to stand in his way.
Not even his lack of ice time. Or his questionable grades.
Thankfully, his new friend Crystal has the answer to all of this in the form of her best friend and world-famous figure skater, Edwin Payne.
They might just fall in love if they don’t kill each other first.
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Meet me on the Try Line by m_erlin_s, sixbynine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
03 Oct 2025
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Charles had played sports his whole life.
Football, Cricket, Basketball, Rugby - he threw himself into all of it with a passion like no other, and he was good, very good.
Playing on Eastfield Community's Sixth Form Rugby team meant Charles, and his teammates, regularly practiced with and competed against local private boys school: St Hilarion's.
Charles didn't usually pay much attention to the opposing team.
Then Edwin crossed his path.
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Kiss me until I get tired by Lorelin
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
03 Oct 2025
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The air that escapes Charles's lips as he smirks is felt on Edwin's skin, and now he can't stop the flow of thoughts heading in the wrong direction. A hot knot forms in his stomach, seemingly not metaphorically twisting everything inside him.
Sighs, and Charles's attempt to make another movement doesn't help.
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Charles goes missing and Edwin gets help from an unexpected source.
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The sweetest sin by SueRose
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
01 Oct 2025
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Edwin Payne has wanted to become a priest, as long as he could remember, but... Things have turned out differently, after his apprenticeship in a small church in a small town called Port Townsend. It has been a year since... Since Charles Rowland and he is living a decent life. Until he receives an email and his world gets turned upside down.
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- Part 2 of You catch my gaze Payneland Series
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"Sorry," Charles says, not very sorry at all, "no version of this where I didn't come get you, is there?"
an incomplete collection of other versions of charles's rescue of edwin, explored through alternate universes
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- Part 6 of dead boy musings
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A Little Sandy Aftertaste by thegirlofthorns for khorazir
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Oct 2025
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Charles wants Edwin to get in touch with the teenage part of himself, so he challenges him to a marshmallow-eating contest.
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After a forced swim in freezing waters, Charles encounters Edwin on his way home. Edwin offers his coat to Charles to help warm him up, and the rest is history.
But there’s something strange about Edwin’s coat that makes Charles incredibly curious. So he does what any curious guy does and he investigates!
(I don’t know how to summarize this, it’s just pure fluff)
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There Aren’t Enough Words to Express it, But I’ll Try by LifeIsGoodIThink for NotBanana
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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Five times Edwin shared a love poem about Charles plus one time Charles shares a poem of his own.
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I would burn the world to bring some heat to you by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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"The moment I run, it'll chase," Edwin whispers defeatedly, eyes panically searching the space.
"I can't get away from it, Charles. I can't- and... no matter what has happened between us, I can't let it have you," he explains resolutely.
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Edwin’s proposal was interrupted by the unexpected return of Hell. Now, the boys must fight for freedom whilst navigating the treachery of their own hearts.
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you’ll always be my closest friend, I lost myself but I struggle too, so please tell me, was I good to you? by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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Case closed, job officially jobbed, everything is fine now, right?
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Edwin has not stopped drinking the potion, there is a mysterious white book the boys are unsure the origins of, and Charles desperately wants Edwin, but is scared that his feelings will only hurt them both.
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if I had to crawl, will you crawl too? by babyseraphim
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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What if you’ve gone mental, and imagined yourself a friend?
Edwin shakes his head. No. Absolutely not. He remembers escaping. He remembers braving Lust; shoving his way through Gluttony and Limbo. He remembers hiding in the St. Hilarion's attic, alone and unmoored, until Charles died a few months later.
He remembers that moment, too. Laughing for the first time in seventy three years. Having a friendly conversation for the first time... Well, for the first time ever. He remembers the sorrow, the pity, and the tiniest, tiniest bit of hope.
He remembers. He remembers.
…Doesn't he?
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Set in 1999. Edwin wakes up back in Hell with no memory of how he got there. As he makes his way through the Dollhouse, he uncovers the details of his situation in pieces. -
my love still with me, forever beside me by gh0st_ratt
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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Charles observes as Edwin pulls his gaze from a pondering stare to meet Charles’ eyes and he smiles. Edwin’s stripped down even further than before, silhouetted by the lamp behind him that softens the folds of his cotton shirt and highlights the knitted grooves of his socks. Where else could there ever be for Charles to be, other than painting demonic-banishing sigils on the floor as his love stares fondly back at him.
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we are born to die (and we all die to live) by artemisadore, muirgen_lys
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Sep 2025
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The dead boy knows he could be confronted with any number of awful things, from demons to sinners to beings beyond his imagination.
What Charles hadn't anticipated seeing was himself.
Or his reflection, anyway. The one he hasn't seen in thirty-odd years, so unfamiliar to him that he nearly jumps at the sight of the soft slope of his mum’s nose, the concentrated furrow of his dad's brow. He recognizes some of the other fragments intrinsically, like the liner-smudged eyes that a pretty girl did up for him at his first concert, and the well-worn, pin-riddled jacket handed down to him from his friend's older brother.
But it's the sum of the parts, the lanky frame holding it all together that gives him pause — makes him lean in for a closer look. The boy in his reflection is just so real, so enticingly, unfairly life-like, that Charles can't help but reach out and touch.
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Charles encounters a mirror that shows his reflection while on his mission to rescue Edwin from Hell. After realizing he can't travel through it, he moves on.
But what if he was pulled into Despair's realm instead?
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Thirty times Charles told Edwin "I love you," and one time he said something slightly different.
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Most ghosts didn’t celebrate their birthdays.
But Charles Rowland wasn’t ‘most ghosts’.
Indeed, Charles’ birthday was a high point of the year, a guaranteed day of fun for himself and Edwin. The fun always helped to push down the unvoiced emotions below: the loss, the unresolved pain of his death, the feelings of failure and inadequacy. Charles saw no reason why this state of affairs shouldn’t continue forever.
But then he turned fifty.
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How a medieval poem changed Charles’ afterlife forever.
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Charles has known Edwin a long time.
A really long time, and he knows exactly what his closest companion needs.Even if Edwin won't admit it.
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“I would rather get ripped apart than play this game with you,” he spat, letting all of the venom he was capable of sink into his words.
The boy’s face crumpled. It was as if Edwin had somehow found the exact worst thing to say to him, like he’d not only stabbed him but twisted the knife on the way out.
The last thing he saw before he died was the boy, face red from screaming as he reached out for Edwin.
It almost looked like he was sad.
XXXSome unknown events in Hell strip Edwin of his memories, leaving him with no knowledge of the last few decades. Charles is going to save him though, even if he has to drag Edwin out, kicking and screaming.
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Your Faith Like Silk Around My Neck by UneducatedAuthor
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
20 Sep 2025
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Charles is happy as Edwin's knight. It's all he needs, to be at his best mates side. And the challenge for Edwin's hand, well, it only bothers him because Edwin's great, and even though he's the Prince, it doesn't feel right that he isn't marrying purely for love.
But when Edwin involves him in the challenge, making him the one to determine who will marry into the royal family, Charles feels sick. How can he choose who will love Edwin the way he deserves? What does Edwin want for the person at his side? And why does it feel more and more like that's where Charles wants to be?
(Medieval AU, where Charles is the knight with Edwin's token, and the whole kingdom seems desperate for the hand of the one he loves most. Charles battles with who could love Edwin best, but the answer is closer than he would have expected.)
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"Do it, " Edwin says.
Charles' stomach sinks.
"Edwin, mate, wait a tick."
"I said, do it."
Both Charles and the doctor just look at Edwin.
He's facing away from them, still laying down. Exposed and vulnerable, relying on Charles to quite literally have his back. This is not fair, it's not fair at all.
"I can't keep running, if I die, then so be it. Just…do it."
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Edwin had told him, about his home planet being destroyed. The Wraith were too advanced, had too big of an advantage in the fight. They wiped his people entirely out of existence and fed on everyone they could snatch. Edwin had suffered enough from that, and then they had realized they couldn't feed from him and they thought it would be fun to make him their little toy. It was sick."Dead Boy Detectives but it's Stargate Atlantis, no prior knowledge about SGA is needed, probably.