DemosthenesReturns
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(if i let you get too close) you’ll set your spell on me by wordsinhaled
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Aug 2024
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C’mon, Edwin, he says, every time, in the end. And somehow, that always seems to do it.
or: Charles constructs intricate rituals which allow him to touch the skin of Edwin Payne.
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- Part 3 of that certain feeling
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23 Jan 2026
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Meet me at the Try Line by m_erlin_s, sixbynine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
29 Nov 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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06 Oct 2025
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After a while, waves all around them, black water struck by pure white of the reticent moon, the boy crawls slowly forward, through bone and blood and guts. Eddie’s entire being goes rigid.
Death is coming closer, curious.
He wants to see if the teeth are real.
If it’s what the older men on boats spoke quietly of, whiskey bottles running low, dull sheen in their eyes as the nights wore on and cheery stories burned down to embers of real horror, the primal kind.
The men Eddie works with don’t fear sharks.
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21 Sep 2025
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Private Edwin Payne, 2nd City of London Battalion, died August 16, 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
This is true.
Private Edwin Payne, 2nd City of London Battalion, died when shrapnel struck him, collapsing his lungs.
This is false.
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Reeling from his father’s death, Charles doesn’t know what to do when he finds a young man’s wartime journal in with his late dad’s things. How did it get there? Why is there a bloodstain on the cover? And, most importantly: what does the ominous final message on the back page mean?
“It’s here.”
Bookmarked by DemosthenesReturns
29 Jun 2025
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my home is your body (how can I stay away?) by KiaraSayre
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
31 Mar 2026
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Just because Edwin and Charles made out that one time doesn't mean anything has to change. Edwin will make absolutely sure of that.
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- Part 2 of ruin our friendship
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29 Jun 2025