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Jenny sidled over to Crystal. “What did I miss?”
Crystal didn’t look away from her entertainment, smile not so much wolfish as hyena-ish. “Charles is about to tear Edwin a new one.”
Jenny raised her eyebrows. “Seriously? I kinda got the impression they didn’t… work like that.”
“They don’t,” Crystal said, “generally. Which is why it’s great. Now shhh, they’re about to get to the good part.”
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“It can wait until tomorrow, Charles, the case - ”
“Is over, and you’ve been making that argument every day for the last month. It’s been seven, Edwin, you’re a month late, we’re doing it now.”
“I really don’t feel that’s necessary,” Edwin said as he phased through the door, and Crystal heard the stiffness in it even before she could see his face. The face was all tight, and Charles’s was, too, as he followed Edwin through, although Charles was trying to cover it by looking confident and firm.(Edwin tries to avoid unpleasant-but-necessary medical care, Charles has to fill a role he does not enjoy, and Crystal may, somehow, not entirely against her will, be getting roped in as a platonic third to Charles and Edwin's totally-not-a-decades-long-marriage.)
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It’s about three years in that Edwin happens to be looking at Charles when he yells a certain word - or, well, he’s generally looking at Charles when he scolds him, but this time he’s, like, Looking, in a paying attention sort of way. So this time he sees when Charles can’t stop the flinch, and Charles is pretty sure his eyes go kinda, like, wide and glassy, and it startles Edwin out of the yelling, because Edwin never means to upset Charles when he yells, really. Just vent his stress a little.
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It was Boxing Day, 1993, when Charles first saw light-up shoes. He and Edwin were taking a walk to admire the fairy lights. Edwin was crazy about fairy lights; first time he saw a large display he'd gone so googly-eyed and captivated that Charles thought there was something wrong with him. Turned out he was just delighted, though, so they made it a point to see the lights, now, whenever they got a chance. And there'd been a white Christmas, in the town they'd mirrored to that evening, so the lights were glittering off the snow, and every time Charles turned to look at Edwin, Edwin's eyes were glittering, too.
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He listened, carefully, and when he heard nothing from the hall, he darted for the phone. He told maintenance he’d been locked out, didn’t explain any further, while keeping his eyes and ears trained on the hallway and his spare hand pointlessly over his naked chest, and then went back to his hiding place.
It was surprisingly few minutes - though it felt like forever, with the fear of someone coming in to innocently do their laundry - before the elevator dinged and a cheerful voice called “Payne?”
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Who else will hold it together and keep the spirits up? You? Are you gonna do that, huh?
After Port Townsend, Edwin decides he needs to be responsible for his own happiness.
It's harder than Crystal's pastel printouts make it sound.
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i need to tell the truth (you don't have to lie) by MycroftRH
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Oct 2025
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Charles decides it’s been quite long enough, Edwin needs an answer, any answer’s better than none, but no matter how hard he tries Charles still doesn’t have an answer - so he goes out and buys a truth potion and drinks it. This does not go as smoothly as he had planned.
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Edwin stood up and went to put the book back on the shelf. "There is a ritual which I believed we could use, but I was mistaken," he said.
Charles blocked him from the shelf. "What's wrong with it?"
Edwin tried to dodge around Charles to put the book away, which didn't work at all. Crystal snorted. "It requires more energy than I possess," Edwin said quickly, and made a final dodge around Charles, succeeding thanks to the distraction.
The book got up on the shelf and Edwin stalked back to his desk, grabbing another book up seemingly at random and preparing to stick his nose in it. Charles put his hand on it and pushed it down. "That's what I'm for," he said, which Crystal didn't understand at all. Stupid magic boys.
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We all know the standard seer's warning: "If you look into your future or your past, you may not like what you see."
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“It’s Essence,” Ethel said, finally, and Niko could see Monty biting back the “yes, I can read”. “It draws out your deepest, darkest desires.” She raised an eyebrow at Monty, who had opened his mouth skeptically. “Not those ones. Nor your daydreams. The desires that are actually at the core of you. Your deepest drive. Your essence.”
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Charles and Edwin get paid in magical wine, and the full Agency settles in for a night of light-hearted intoxication. It doesn't stay light-hearted.
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Edwin didn't have a death form, quite, not like other ghosts did. His soul had, technically, never known death; he was already snatched from the earthly plane before the ash of his body began to drift to the table. No matter how stressed he was, he didn't shiver blue, like Charles, or grow emaciated, like Aletha downstairs who lost her battle with cancer, or lose half his insides, like the unlucky sailor Frederick.
But his soul did, sometimes, remember that it was supposed to be in Hell.
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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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Thirty times Charles told Edwin "I love you," and one time he said something slightly different.
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“There has always been something wrong with me,” Edwin said, as though it were simple fact, and Charles shoved down the flush of anger so harshly and quickly he barely felt it first, because Edwin didn’t need that, right now. “Perhaps that flaw was sin, and it was only a matter of time.”
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Charles was not quite back, yet, from dealing with his part of the Case of the Wibbling Wiedergänger, and Edwin lay down on the floor in the office to wait. He had long since lost any capacity to track time while experiencing it, so he didn’t really know how long it was before Charles phased through the door.
He did know that when he looked up he saw the most beautiful thing in the universe. He hadn’t fully realized how different the Charles of 1989 was from his Charles, or how long it had been since he had seen his Charles, but the weight of all those years hit him like the most joyful agony he had ever experienced.
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- Part 1 of The Case of the Wibbling Wiedergänger
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Crystal desperately wants to play something other than Clue, Edwin runs away to look at fish, Charles has to initiate some difficult conversations about trust, disclosure, vulnerability, and old fears, and Niko’s just happy to be here.
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People always expect Edwin to miss things from 1916. Charles expected him to miss aspects of life. Niko thought he would miss people. Crystal, and a number of their clients, generally the ones who are either quite unpleasant or quite concerned that Edwin will be unpleasant, expect him to miss larger aspects of society.
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“Why didn’t you tell me about your father?”
“I was afraid you would think I was a coward, or weak. For not fighting back.”
“Do you think I’m weak?”
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define e = Character('Edwin', color="#00ffff") by MycroftRH
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Jun 2025
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One of the girls Charles is supposed to be dating in the game has this boyfriend. He’s clearly supposed to be an antagonist, you’re supposed to tell the girl she deserves better and eventually beat the guy up, or something. He’s snappy and condescending and so forth, designed to get on the player’s nerves so you don’t feel bad about stealing his girl and do feel the urge to make the girl like you by going after him.
It’s pretty obvious Charles is supposed to hate him, but the thing is, he’s the only character in the game whose lines are actually funny.