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Charles and Edwin both get amnesia, resetting them to a few months before their respective deaths. To Crystal and Niko's shock and dismay, they don't get along at all.
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After an easy job goes awry due to Edwin's memories of Hell, Niko suggests that Edwin should take a Memory Potion in order to forget the bad times. Instead...
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- Part 2 of DBDA Potion Week 2025
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The Devlin murders lead to a very quiet walk home. So quiet that a little sound breaks through it all and then everything falls apart and then back into place.
Edwin followed the tiny meows until he came across a street drain. Cold sludge trickled through the nearly covered grating, and there, deep in the dark, sat a little glowing star of a white kitten. The grating must have been slowly degrading over time, because a perfect kitten-sized gap in the bars had broken away.
The kitten was damp, its fur pressed with the wetness of the pool it sat in, and its tiny eyes fixed up at the hole calling, calling, calling for mama.
Or: How Edwin loses his bracelet, because he made the Cat King happy.
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“So, what do you study at HFA?” Before the other boy can answer, Charles puts a hand on his shoulder. “No, wait, let me guess.” He puts a finger on his lips to think. “You don’t look like a sporty chap. No offense. And you’re taking your A-levels a year early, which means you got some brains inside that head of yours. You read. Very old books.”
“Sherlock Holmes is a classic!” Edwin looks offended.
“So… You’re definitely in the Humanities.” Charles turns with a smile for approval. “Am I right?”
“That is still sixteen different specialities.”
“Yeah, and I don’t know them all, so you’re gonna have to tell me, now."
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Or: Charles, Crystal and Niko are considered the inseparable bus crew. No one messes with them. When Edwin gets bullied in front of them, Charles takes it upon himself to include him into their group. What ensues is a true kind of friendship and the discovery of what love can help get through, all in the span of their last sixth form year.
Featuring an (almost) independent trans Charles, an insecure Edwin, Jenny playing legal guardian, walking shelter dogs and being the teenagers that they are.
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Одного прекрасного ранку студент юридичного вишу Едвін Пейн прокидається у своєму ліжку, робить свої вранішні справи та йде за кавою, як зазвичай. Аж раптом він розуміє, що його найкращий друг Чарльз безслідно зник. А найжахливіше те, що ніхто навколо, окрім самого Едвіна, цього не бачить і взагалі не пам'ятає, хто такий той Чарльз.
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Season 2 If Netflix Weren’t Cowards by LifeIsGoodIThink, NotBanana, TheOriginalDuckLord
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Oct 2025
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When the Dead Boy Detectives find a chance that Niko could still be alive, they embark on a case to get her back. Crystal deals with David. Charles is confused. Edwin is slaying, as per usual — though gayer than usual. Cases are solved, shenanigans ensue, and Charles gets there eventually.
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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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Love Is An Ocean (Extended Edition) by MostlyGhostly (BlueMelon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Oct 2025
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Thomas and Edwin hit it off after a chance meeting and fall hard and fast in love. Their chemistry is undeniable and despite a bit of pushback, Edwin is determined to integrate his new boyfriend into his friend circle.
Their Summer of love comes to a screeching halt in a mess of lies and misunderstanding. Left to pick up the pieces of his broken heart after two rounds of grief and betrayal, Edwin spends the next year going through the motions. Everything changes for him, though, when Niko convinces him to join her, Crystal and Charles on a Summer Holiday to Ibiza.
Perhaps things might not be as irreparably broken as he thought they were.
This fic is mostly completed and will update weekly, every Friday!
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heavy words are so lightly thrown by boysforbugs
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
30 Sep 2025
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"I don't know if you have noticed but we are the Dead Boy Detectives, not a couple's counseling office." Edwin interrupts, words dripping with annoyance. Charles gives him a soft squeeze— a wordless scold towards his lack of bedside manner, but Edwin doesn't even spare a glance as he tries to subtly shrug the other boy's hand away, folding his hands atop the desk in front of him.
Charles tries his best to keep his face neutral, something in his stomach twisting at the brush off. He should be used it now, considering it's been four months.
Four months.
Four months since their return from Port Townsend. Four months since the Devlin House, and Esther, and David the Demon, and—
Hell.
It's been four months since Edwin looked Charles straight in the eyes and confessed that he loved him in a way Charles had never entertained; he had never even thought it was possible. Four months since Charles looked right back at his best mate—his favorite person in the world—and promised that this wouldn't change a thing between them.
Which it didn't!
At least, it didn't for Charles.
But Edwin..
Well, it just seems like Edwin wasn't exactly on the same page.
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Autumn's Aces - 9 Autumnal Prompts to Fall For by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
30 Sep 2025
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A collection of fall-themed prompts from my Tumblr followers. Each chapter is a unique oneshot, and the ship/friendship it's about is in the chapter title.
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Four lonely teenagers—a psychic girl with no real friends, a fledgling vampire scared of the future his parents have chosen for him, a half-human, half-sprite girl far from home, and a human mage trapped in a place where escape seems impossible—meet in London by chance. Each, on their own, can’t solve the problems in front of them. Maybe together, things will finally start to change.
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The Case of the almost perfect first date by Rebecca_Vollmer_2008
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Sep 2025
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It has taken him a while, but Charles Rowland finally realized that the feelings he holds for Edwin Payne aren't platonic. Now, he has the perfect plan for a romantic confession, because that is what Edwin deseves. But when the fateful day finally comes, things keep getting in the way, making it more complicated than he orginally thought.
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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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Dead Boy Shenanigans [and those of Living Girls] by fallenStar_cygnus
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
18 Sep 2025
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a series of incorrect quotes originally posted on my tumblr [@falling-star-cygnus]
Some of these have already been turned into fics by yours truly, some are being written as this is posted, but please! enjoy the sneak peeks and original plans and memes >w•
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Charles keeps waking up in places he has no memory of going to, with no idea of how long he's been gone or what he's done, and no good answers for Edwin when he makes it back to the office. Meanwhile, they've picked up a case - faceless ghosts are causing trouble in all sorts of places.
Or, five times Charles disappears and turns back up on his own, plus one time Edwin goes and finds him first.
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Did you miss me brother? (if you remembered me at all) by Awesome_3893
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Sep 2025
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Alexander Payne had few personal items with him in the trenches. A wooden carved cross his father had gifted him years ago, on the day he first left for St. Hilarion's. Flowers he pressed carefully between pieces of paper, waiting for them to dry so he could send them home to Anna, his bride-to-be. A few assorted letters from friends. A picture of him and his parents, as stiff and lifeless as they always seemed to be. Most precious to him, however, was the singular photograph of his younger brother Edwin and the treasured few letters the younger boy had sent. These were stored more carefully, at the top of the tin where they were less likely to be crushed.
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Alexander Payne died during World War 1, in November 1915. He has spent the last 110 years confined to the battlefield where he died and the small town nearby, oblivious to the fact that his younger brother Edwin died merely a year after he had. When Alexander learns about the Dead Boy Detective Agency, he simply hopes he can find a way to break whatever tie is keeping him here, and instead comes face to face with Edwin for the first time in over a century
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St. Hil's Guide To Surviving A Demon Summoning by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero) for ghostinthelibrary
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 Sep 2025
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Everything was supposed to go back to normal after Charles interrupted Simon’s little demon ‘prank’ on Edwin. Except, Edwin can’t sleep without seeing monsters or his classmates dying horrifically, and he is convinced there is something stalking them through the halls of St. Hil’s.
And everything only gets worse when their classmates start disappearing…
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i will fall in love with you, over and over again by plutosapphicstay
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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“You’re a classic, aren’t you?”
Of all the descriptions the Cat King has given Edwin, a classic is not one of them. "I'm not quite sure what you mean."
"It's nothing bad to be, not in the slightest," the Cat King says, earnest. "You appreciate the way things are and the way they were, seeing the beauty in both sides. You probably got a bunch of first editions back home- Oscar Wilde, Allen Poe, all the best of the Lake Poets." He shifts forward on his knees to where Edwin sits, brings himself just an inch closer to the space between his legs. "Think Art Noveau, letters written by candlelight instead typed up in telegrams, dances in ballrooms instead of old clubs.”
The look in his eyes, the admiration, now Edwin sees where it’s familiar. The fascination, from that cursed first night- drawn out by Edwin doing nothing but being himself. “There’s just nothing like you anymore.”
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In other words, the CatWin season two where the Cat King ditches an Endless-sentenced exile in PT to chase after a second chance, Edwin meets him again for the first time on his side of the sea, and what they find is more than any mere fascination. I miss my idiots way too much.
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Compilation of 1k fic requests from tumblr and also the catwin discord!