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Haunted by the grief of losing Niko and desperate to find meaning in everything that happened to him, Edwin’s drawn back to Port Townsend. Back to the idea that the suffering of a ghost like him, someone tempered in hellfire, can be forged into immense magical power. And he’d only use it to protect rather than ruin.
But magic like this always demands its price. Resisting the pull of his new power proves difficult, and sometimes Charles feels like the only thing keeping Edwin tethered to his old self. Yet Charles isn’t without his own battles to fight and truths to face.
As Edwin tries to protect his friends while safeguarding his secret, Charles fights to save Edwin from himself. Soon, the question becomes not whether Edwin is willing to pay the cost, but whether there will be anything left of him when the debt comes due.
OR: Edwin’s corruption arc vs Charles’ feeling realization arc, FIGHT
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16 Aug 2025
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A Reason Worth Dying For / A Reason Worth Trying For by SandgrassBagel
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
24 Sep 2025
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Castiel's death hits Dean with a finality that leaves him drowning. Drowning in grief, in regret, in self-loathing, in heartbreak, in liquor. So when he stumbles across Lilly Sunder's notes on angels and, subsequently, a passage mentioning a gate to opening the Empty, he is determined to get Cas back.
No matter the cost.
Three weeks after Cas' return from the Empty, he is slowly healing from what the spell to retrieve him took. Three weeks after Cas' return, omens of angels and demons are scattered around the country. Three weeks after Cas' return, the Empty is bleeding.
Dean swore he would get Cas back no matter the cost. And he has, at the cost of endangering the balance of life and the afterlives. Dean has learned from dying and being the one left behind that it is easy to die for someone, but it is much harder to face the costs of surviving alongside them.
Even so, this time, Dean will not watch Cas die. And Cas has not and will not ever allow the same.
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14 Aug 2025
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A week after Jack left, he brought Castiel back from the Empty — whole, alive, and standing in front of Dean like nothing had changed, though everything had. Dean’s grateful. Of course he is. But now that Cas is here, really here, Dean is left face-to-face with everything unsaid between them. He knows what Cas confessed before dying, and worse — he knows damn well what he feels in return. But saying it out loud? That’s another story entirely, because there's something broken inside of him.
Dean asks Cas for something no one’s ever asked of him before: to go back in time, to the moment something broke, and stop it from happening. Stop the moment that taught Dean to be afraid of what he wanted most. Stop the moment Dean got broken.
Stop John Winchester.
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07 Jul 2025
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What does John see when he looks at Cas?
Cas doesn’t look like a monster.
But neither does Dean.
John stands, slow. He holds out a hand. Calloused like Dean’s hands are calloused. Scarred the same way that Dean’s hands are scarred. There’s the smell of him in the air too. Earthy and dark, slightly sour around the edges. The room feels suddenly choked with it. Claustrophobic.
Cas probably smells like the fabric softener they buy in bulk at Costco, but so does Dean so he can’t tell.
John says, toneless, “I hear you’ve been driving my car.”
. . .
The closer you are to what you want—
Dean's twenty-nine year old mother, his undefined relationship with Cas and their small family. Some kind of impossible reconciliation with John Winchester. Michael, out of his head, without destroying the world. His father's approval. To see the Grand Canyon.
—The more vulnerable you are.
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07 Jul 2025
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Right Kind of Trouble by AmberXBoone, corrupt_touch (AmberXBoone)
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
08 Mar 2026
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Castiel Novak has been all over the world, managing pop stars and indie rock bands and 1980s hair metal comebacks. But the rockstar life has caused his personal life to fall apart and he finds himself newly divorced without anyone waiting for him at home. So, one Saturday night, he finally takes up the Management Company's invitation to see one of their biggest acts, Angel Sigils, fronted by Dean Winchester, often described as a reckless bad boy by more than one music magazine.
And Dean is mesmerizing and everything that Castiel needs for a night. Until he's woken up in Dean's bed by a call naming him Angel Sigils' new manager.
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07 Jul 2025
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Dean Winchester lives a quiet, rough-edged life in South LA—just him, his truck, and a job that keeps his hands busy. But when a new neighbor moves in next door, everything shifts. Castiel is quiet. Skittish. Carrying something he won’t say. Dean’s not looking to get involved, but some things are too loud to ignore.
What starts with a knock on a door becomes something neither of them expected: a slow, sharp, deeply human story about what it means to survive—and what it means to be seen.
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03 Jun 2025
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Despite himself, Charles was mesmerized by this strange version of Edwin Payne that had something of Hellfire to him. And he was so very close … “His eyes are decidedly less honest than yours. Intriguing... Never pegged Charles Rowland for a liar.”
“Careful, luv.” The voice was a sing-song drawl, accompanied by the same scraping sound drawing ever closer. “You know I get jealous.” There, lit faintly by moonlight, was Charles Rowland – face pale, grin wide and eyes cast in shadows, twirling a cricket bat that had been studded with nails glinting wickedly like iron stars. “What you think, Win? I say there can only be one.”A string of grave robbings leads the Dead Boy Detectives to stumble into a ritual, summoning versions of themselves, who have experienced a very different afterlife. Not only is there a pack of hellhounds on their heels, they also won’t stop at chaos nor bloodshed to carve out their place in the world – and remove their superfluous doppelgangers in the process.
As Crystal desperately tries to master her powers and keep the fabric of reality from unraveling, the boys need to stop their nefarious doubles. To make matters infinitely more confusing, the two delinquents are madly in love...Bookmarked by stephalattes
29 Jan 2025
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Find me under the mistletoe, stealing kisses by Lorelin
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
24 Dec 2024
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"There, great? Did it work?" Charles's lips curl into a smile. He pulls away, feeling a sweet, piercing warmth spreading inside him, echoing in his long-since-stopped heart.
Edwin stands frozen for a few seconds, his green eyes fixed on Charles. There is a ringing silence between them for a moment, his gaze tracing over Charles as if he were reading the pages of a book line by line, and he feels his insides twisting into a metaphorical knot. The mark of a kiss on his cheek is too tingly, and for a moment he wants to commit it to memory – the touch of Charles’s lips on his skin.
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17 Jan 2025
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don't go sharing your devotions (lay all your love on me) by Hephanna
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Jan 2025
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In their attempts to rescue Niko from the Astral Plane, Edwin, Charles, and Crystal accidentally summon a second Charles Rowland from another universe.
Charles never gave much thought to whether he'd get along with an alternate universe version of himself. Technically, he should, this Charles was just like him: funny, clever, kind - a dead boy detective.
Except, this second version of Charles doesn't seem to know how to keep his bloody hands to himself, and off of Edwin.
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17 Jan 2025
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"A Good Detective Does What He Needs To..." by soulfulsam
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Nov 2024
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When the Cat King follows Edwin to London wanting to court him, Charles is desperate to keep the Cat King away from his best mate and get him out of their lives for good. And he's willing to do anything to make that happen. Anything.
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30 Nov 2024
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And possibly I like the thrill (of under me you quite so new) by Leandra
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 Aug 2024
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After Port Townsend, Edwin tries to handle not only the fallout from his unrequited love confession, but also the inconvenient longing the Cat King has evoked in him. When Charles kisses him out of the blue, it sends them spiralling down a confusing path of lust and self-discovery.
To make matters worse, their newest case turns out to be more complicated and demanding than they initially thought. Together with Niko and Crystal, they set out to help Will, a ghost who wants them to matchmake for his still living boyfriend, so he can move on to the afterlife.
Their investigation leads them from cutely bespoke bookshops to gay clubs, and as far as the Dreaming, forcing them to confront some truths about themselves and step out of their comfort zone, once and for all.
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30 Nov 2024
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Charles is flummoxed when Edwin reveals that he considers relieving himself of his virginity after hating himself for so long for his desires.
What's a good friend to do but offer to be the afterlife's best wingman?
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30 Nov 2024
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“A deal. You pretend to be my boyfriend for a few weeks, show up at my house, escort me to social functions and such. Your overall person, manner and opinions should be enough to truly scandalise my parents. You will only need to be yourself, only less... charming.”
Charles gave him a bright grin. “You think I’m charming?”
Edwin ignored him. “And I will act all smitten with you. When they offer you the money to break up with me – and rest assured, throwing money at problems is their only way of handling anything – you will take it. I shall be horribly heartbroken to make them feel guilty and any subsequent romantic partner who is a bit more... mellow than you will be quite welcome.”
Charles stared at him, unsure of how he could’ve ever thought of Edwin Payne as innocent. “Damn... you are a conniving little bastard, aren’t you?”-
Charles Rowland's first impression of Edwin Payne can be summerized as privileged, rich and aloof – also incredibly pretty, but that’s besides the point. However, when Edwin presents him with a scheme to piss off his conservative parents and get some money out of them in the process, Charles can’t resist the siren call of causing mayham for some Tories.
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26 Nov 2024
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The Night of Nights by NuriaSchnee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
29 Mar 2025
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Ghosts are going missing all around London. The disappearances lead Edwin and Charles directly to a mysterious entity, known as The Summoner, that is about to make their afterlives very complicated.
A Season 2 fic.
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- Part 1 of Dead Boy Detectives: The Complete Series
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22 Nov 2024
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GLOVED HANDS - A Payneland One-Shot by jestingjinx
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
19 Nov 2024
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While working on a case involving a shrieking poltergeist, Charles Rowland is triggered into a trauma-induced panic attack before Edwin's eyes.
Edwin, determined to help his post-life partner, pulls Charles from the ashes of his childhood trauma.
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19 Nov 2024
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The Dead Boy Poets Society by ThatMerryWandererOfTheNight
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (Comics)
31 Oct 2024
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This collection of poetry is my contribution to the Dead Boy Detectives Promptober 2024. It will be updated with additional poems as we move deeper and deeper into the season of mist. Safe travels!
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19 Nov 2024
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it’s worth a little blood to get your arms free by dear_monday
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Oct 2024
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There it is: the dark dorsal fin cutting through the water, the thing they don’t talk about. Not since Charles first asked Edwin to turn him, back in ‘92, nineteen and already so in love with Edwin he couldn’t see straight, and Edwin turned him down flat. It stung, but Charles has tried not to hold it against him. Forever is a lot to ask of someone, after all. So they don’t talk about it, and that’s fine, isn’t it? Until it’s not.
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- Part 1 of before the transformation takes
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11 Nov 2024
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In Port Townsend, Edwin had given his blessing to Charles and Crystal's relationship. He thought he would have been able to manage it.
Months later, Charles and Crystal were ready to take a step further. But Edwin didn’t expect the heartbreak that followed.He felt his heart shattering into a million pieces, almost surprising himself that he could perceive it as a physical sensation. In just one moment, the ground had shifted under his feet, depriving him of anchoring points, letting him fall.
He didn’t know how long he’d been sitting there, quietly sobbing like a wounded animal alone in the office, but he was going mad. So he made a crazy, impulsive decision. With shaky hands, he wrote a note to Charles in case he came back before he did, then jumped through the mirror to Port Townsend.Bookmarked by stephalattes
11 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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10 Nov 2024
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An encounter with an enchanted puzzle box locks up most of Charles’ memories and leaves him thinking he and Edwin are in love. With a recipe from Tragic Mick for a potion to counteract the spell and strict instructions to go along with Charles' delusions, all Edwin has to do is keep up the ruse for three days. He can make it three days. Right?
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10 Nov 2024