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The Dead Boy Detectives & Co. are on a new mission to save Edwin. Fortunately, they have some time to prepare for once.
Unfortunately, their target is an actual dragon.
But the Astral Plane holds more than just danger, with a certain someone also awaiting rescue.
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- Part 2 of The Blood of the Covenant
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I'd Want to be Held by You by MostlyGhostly (BlueMelon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Oct 2025
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CATWEEN 2, WEEK 1: Eldritch Entity (NFWMB)
“You came for me, even though you knew it was a trap.” that was the Cat King's voice, though it sounded as though there were multiple of him speaking at once.
What should he say to such a statement? Of course he had come. What else was he to do? He could never have let it be, never have left the Cat King to perish when there was something that he could potentially do to save him.
“Yes.”
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- Part 1 of CATWEEN 2025
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Lovelink by MostlyGhostly (BlueMelon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Companion (2025)
01 Sep 2025
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Thomas is a socialite and a model, perpetually single after a string of bad relationships and his friends are sick of his hopelessness when it comes to men. As his thirtieth birthday approaches, one of them (Celebrity Manager, Esther Finch) decides to take matters into her own hands and gets him a Companion.
Wouldn't it be funny if she changed all of his settings to conflict with Thomas' personality? She certainly thinks so.
When Thomas is gifted Edwin on his birthday, he is confronted with two things: 1) Clearly, none of his ex-partners ever actually loved him if this was how it was supposed to be, and 2) He might need better friends.
AKA The Companion (2025) AU that nobody asked for <3 (Edit: I have been informed that this is gross misinformation and in fact, KissMyAsthma asked for this fic)
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Edwin Paine is a lot of things, but above all, he’s trying to be a Good Friend. Even if that means watching his best friend that he’s in love with romance someone else. Still, that doesn’t mean he literally wants to watch them together. If only there was someone to distract him during all these hours of new-found loneliness?
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You'll Find Not But Heartache Here by oXCheeseburgerMilkshakeXo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Jul 2025
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“Well, his subjects can’t exactly be left alone, now can they? Due to the nature of their circumstances that led them to be under my brother’s specific ruling, it would be incredibly cruel of him to just leave.” The answer is frustratingly vague, and Edwin’s grip tightens on his pen as he glares down at his notes. There is something there, something in the way this other Cat Monarch speaks about the Cat King, something about the concern that lacked…something.
Or, the Dead Boy Detectives-plus Crystal-find themselves back in Port Townsend at the request of an unknown Cat Monarch. What they find leads them down a dark spiral into the elusive Cat King's past lives.
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"Oh, patron saint to the abandoned and the abused. You will find not but heartache here."
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My Body hurts Me as the World hurts God by MissAlrauna
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
17 Jun 2025
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A crow turns into a flightless bird.
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- Part 2 of Someone You can build a Nest in
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Thomas had one weakness that Esther Finch preyed on. Pandora Khaos was his soulmate, his everything. Esther decided a good way to keep a tight leash on the King was to leash his soulmate.
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- Part 11 of Dead Boy Detectives
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After having literally gone thrugh hell twice, Edwin wants nothing more, than to feel. To actually feel! And to be able to forget. To just let go of these bad feelings. Thomas tries to help, the only way he knows. But it does not quite work. Because Edwin wants Charles. But he is not allowed! Like he is not allowed to want anything at all. He can not allow himself to actually want at least the pain. The thing Thomas can give him. But... He needs this!
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- Part 1 of The Payne - Relief series
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a pretty thing, full of fear (well, not here) by EmitTime
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Apr 2025
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“I’m fairly sure we can figure something out.”
The Cat King watched for any sign that his offer might be accepted, but instead bore witness as Edwin’s expression fell from well-practiced stoicism, to a shuttered, haunted look. Thomas parted his lips to suggest an alternative deal, but it was too late.
The damage was done.
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Set during S1E2. Edwin’s private audience with the Cat King brings up past trauma neither are prepared for.
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C.A.T.S. (The Meaning Behind The Name) by Maria_Lightwood_Chase
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Feb 2025
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C.A.T.S. is many things - a three time Grammy AOTY awards winner, a 4-person country-pop/pop-rock/country-rock band, and an enigma.
No one knows what their name means. It's clearly an acronym. but what does it mean? There are other questions too: Why did Monty Finch all but disappear for three years? How does Edwin Payne write so many love songs and yet is never seen out with anyone? And AGAIN, what does their name mean?
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Or, a music artist AU feat. payneland, catcrow and palaski, and a lot (A LOT) of pining -
Favor For a King by Animal_Arithmetic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Feb 2025
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There's a reason Steve Harrington hasn't died yet.
He's got nine lives.
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Thomas King, Cat Dad by day, Bartender at a gay club by night, about to be homeless if he doesn't find a new place fast. When an ad for a shared flat pops up, it seems too good to be true, especially when his roommate is the hottest man he's ever seen (even if he is scarily quiet and barely leaves his room).
Edwin Payne works from home, always pays his rent on time and has the worst luck out of anyone in the universe, ever. Which would sound dramatic if he wasn't dead. He's not sure if his luck is getting better or worse when a (very attractive) man moves into the recently vacated room next to his, and can somehow see him when no one else can.
As their relationship develops, Edwin worries that Thomas will leave if he finds out that Edwin is a ghost. Meanwhile, after things start adding up, Thomas is worried that Edwin's unfinished business will be finished if he reveals that he already knows.
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All roads lead to the Cat King or what if instead of enticing Edwin, Monty falls in love with the Cat King. Esther won't like it.
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- Part 2 of Monty the crow
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The Case of The Cat, The Sword and The Light Show by MostlyGhostly (BlueMelon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Dec 2024
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After Edwin is injured in a brush with some Ghost Poachers goes sideways, he decided that it was finally time to learn how to fight for himself properly.
But fisticuffs were never really his thing. No, Edwin liked swords.Who better to help him brush up on his skills than his very own Renaissance Cat?
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- Part 1 of Renaissance Cat
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At first, he saw nothing but the usual dark void, the piles of forgotten toys and dust bunnies. But then, like a ripple in the air, a figure began to take shape. The pale, faint outline of a man slowly emerged from the darkness—a young man, no older than eighteen, wearing clothes that looked like they belonged in another century. His face was drawn and solemn, with dark eyes that seemed to hold a lifetime of secrets.
“I’m Edwin,” the figure said, his voice barely more than a whisper. “I didn’t mean to startle you.”
Charles blinked. "You're a ghost?"
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While wandering the streets of Port Townsend, Cat King finds an injured crow.
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Totally-not-lonely Cat King reluctantly bonds with a traumatised-former-enemy crow.
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After a gala which Thomas had never wanted to go to, he unexpectedly found a man in the clearing only some meters away from the estate. Enraptured by him, Thomas is determined to learn of his name, and his price? A dance under the stars.
Neither of them were to know what the dance would unfold out to be, or the story that their unsung melody would behold. Yet, they were content to dance under the stars, drifting away from the night and into their own symphonies
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- Part 1 of A Song of A Thousand Melodies
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It's been a week since Edwin and Cat moved into a new apartment together. Cat attempts to cook for Edwin, but things go wrong and it triggers a mental health episode. But Edwin loves him for who he is - warts and all.
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CW: mental health.
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- Part 12 of Perseid_Lion's Dead Boy Detectives
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Дело в заколдованной броши, они поняли это ещё неделю назад. В броши, присланной кем-то в подарок Кристал, броши, которую случайно взял в руки Эдвин. Заколдованной чёртовой броши, из-за которой теперь раз в несколько дней он будто бы усыпает на несколько часов крепким сном, а на самом деле – погружается в сосредоточие кошмаров внутри собственной головы.
Призраки не спят, это все знают.
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CATween Week 2: Graveyard Shift (Cemetery/Trapped)
When the gang (plus Thomas, of course) discovers that Edwin's remains are being buried at St Hilarions, they embark on a quest to liberate them, and finally put them in his family cemetery, where they should have been. If justice happens to be found for more than one of them that night, well, it's no more than that infernal place deserves.
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Edwin, Thomas, Charles and Crystal go grave-robbing and decide to make it look like the skeleton simply escaped of its own accord.
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- Part 2 of CATween 2024