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The only thing that Thomas had come to trust was the orgasmic rush of lust, and that was why he was on the prowl tonight. What better way to distract himself from all that family bullshit than by finding someone hot and willing to chase some physical thrills together?
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Love Is An Ocean (Extended Edition) by MostlyGhostly (BlueMelon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Feb 2026
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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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It's been 8 months since the events of Port Townsend have brought Edwin Paine to where he is now: back in London, solving mysteries, growing closer to his friends, and forever pining for something he can't have...
Is it even possible to fall out of love with Charles Rowland? Edwin Paine doesn't think so.
However, one day a stray, black cat shows up on the rooftop. Unexpectedly, this feline friend may just offer Edwin what he so desperately needs....
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I must've left my self-esteem at the base of your bedsheets/ Where I used to leave my socks by LesbianMastermind
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Feb 2026
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The first time their lips touched, Thomas had had to reach out, because Edwin had almost keeled over, utterly shocked. It’d been so long since he’d felt something good touch his skin. And Charles had said it when he’d kissed Crystal that first time, he could feel it in his head, if not on his lips. But when Thomas had touched Edwin, it was warm, and urgent, and he’d felt it in every inch of his body and his mind. Before any real feelings for the ruler besides a deep sense of friendship and appreciation, it was the lure of touch, of real skin on skin brushes, of pleasure, that kept putting Edwin on his path even though the bracelet was long gone, and the deal, dealt.
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Edwin and The Cat King have engaged in a casual intimate relationship. Well, it's casual for Edwin, because the Cat King is actually pretty deep in this already. Each time they have sex, the ghost leaves without much in terms of tender touches or aftercare, and each time, breaks a little more of the King's heart in the process. They're going to talk this through, but they'll have to be obtuse idiots about it first. Also, the cats are trying to get involved, I guess.
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“And this-” he shifts his grip and pulls the necklace taught around Charles’s throat, “how does this make you feel?”
Charles can’t suppress the shudder, nor the choked gasp. He isn’t sure he wants to. “Good.” It’s the tamest word swirling about his head that gets pulled into the air.
“Oh, I’m sure. I knew I clocked you right away, with that ridiculous bat twirling and the death glare.” The Cat King’s other hand comes up to grip Charles’s chin. Charles wants to fall forward, closer to warmth and touch and bliss. “A barking little pup eager to prove himself to his master.”
in which charles gets dragged into self-discovery, the cat king is a menace, and edwin is very lost but very on board.
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- Part 9 of dead boy musings
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Having finally allowed himself to want, and found himself wanted in return, Edwin has swapped loneliness for love...but he hasn’t yet quite found the words to say that to Thomas. Expressing desire was much simpler than declaring love, and burying himself in his latest project is easier still.
Thomas simply cannot believe his luck in having Edwin as his boyfriend. He’s happy and he wants everyone else to be happy, so when he becomes concerned for the best butcher in town nothing’s going to stop him looking out for her...whether she wants him to or not.Series
- Part 2 of Coming to Terms & to Love
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A witch attempts against the Cat King's life by twisting the logic in the same ancient spell that made him who he is.
She feeds off nine souls of nine cats in the right order to command Thomas to her reach, and do exactly what Desire did but backwards: untangle the parts that made him. Unfortunately that meant doing it at the same place Desire did it, wich so happens to be in London, and a series of things go insanely crazy:
1 - The Dead Boys Detectives get involved.
2 - Edwin Payne.Or
How far would Edwin allow his feelings to take him if he were to lose Thomas?
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Sluttiest thing a man can do is love and cherish his cat by LesbianMastermind
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Feb 2026
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Thomas is exhausted. The day has been shit, he's had two three-hours train rides in the span of eight hours total, and his suitcase is packed enough to kill his back every time he's had to lift it in stairs or because the cobbled stones made the lugging it behind him way too loud. He's sweaty and gross, and can't wait to come back home, shower, then shove his boyfriend on the couch to snuggle against him and complain about his work trip having been postponed while he was on the fucking train, and two hours and a half away already. Thankfully, he can come home to his boyfriend and cat, who will, hopefully, not have murdered each other in the eight hours he's been out.
He can't believe what he finds when he comes home. If anyone told him about it, he would have laughed in their faces, and called them an idiot to everyone he knows. As it is, he might just use it as blackmail material instead.
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C.A.T.S. (The Meaning Behind The Name) by Maria_Lightwood_Chase
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
29 Jan 2026
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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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Edwin tells himself he is content with running his bookshop in solitude, and ignores how that solitude has been shading ever further into loneliness. It’s his own fault he’s alone, after all. But as winter deepens and the holiday season approaches, he saves an injured cat and brings it home out of the cold...
When Edwin was younger, he was often alone but seldom lonely, despite having no friends save those in his beloved books. But the books never chided or teased him, and always invited him into their world, and in many ways he never felt the lack of company from others his age.
What a difference a few years of a having a friend made.
But that thought is the first step down a road Edwin refuses to think about. He locks away the ache and concentrates on keeping his footing on snow-slick concrete, instead.
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For a demigod, you’d think the Cat King wouldn’t need any sort of assistance when it came to sleeping. But here he was, on his deceptively comfortable bed and wide awake. He didn’t have any sort of stress that could cause insomnia like this. Especially now that Esther was gone and Edwin was safe and… oh. That was it.
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At a event thrown by the Lost and Found Department to celebrate the first year of "legal service" of the Dead Boy Detectives agency, The Cat King finds himself jealous when seeing yet another being making a move on his boyfriend.
Edwin thinks is sweet and makes him flutter just to think about someone loving him so much it hurt the thought of losing him.
Later on, he finds out just how sharp the claws of jealous can actually be.
He hates it.
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Baking my long distance situationship into a biscuit because I love him by LesbianMastermind for KissMyAsthma
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
08 Jan 2026
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“I have a few questions for you, if you could grant me a few moments of your time ?” The ghost comes strolling from the mirror in a shirt and slacks, sleeves rolled up to show very enticing forearms, without a care in the world for either the cold he cannot feel or Thomas’ self-control.
The Cat King turns his face toward Edwin, who is so much closer than he usually is.
“Uh… Okay ? shoot, I guess?”
This is indulgent and strange. When Edwin comes, he usually makes his visits known in advance and Thomas has the place a little more prepared for him. There is always a chair, for him to sit in, more decadent than his own throne : upholstered in a pine velvet, dark old wood shining with polish and magic.
"Could you perhaps talk to me about your previous incarnations ?
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Edwin has a very specific wooing plan in mind, something Thomas is very unaware of and very unprepared for, but it is said that Christmas time is a great time to start building a relationship. It has a success rate chance of 100% but to be fair, so would doing it from the inside of a dumpster, at this point. He's not doing that, we're talking about christmas cookies here, focus.
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He wasn’t foolish enough to die for love, especially one that didn’t want him.
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When the Cat King starts coughing up flowers, he knows his infatuation with Edwin Payne went a bit too far. But since the ghost made no attempt to contact him over the months, the Cat King decides that it’d be better to forget the fascinating detective rather than die from unrequited feelings.Written for Catwin Floriography Zine
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Edwin couldn’t stop thinking about it, that…moment with the cat king, the bracelet that laid on his wrist, that wasn’t doing anything except reminding him over and over again of… that. Charles wouldn’t stop asking him about it and he didn’t know just what to say, he felt as if he had to hide it, as if he had to forget it, erase it from his memories, as if it was… forbidden.
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The Language of Flowers speaks volumes. This is what happens when an uncommon Supernatural Being and a Ghost Detective decide to listen to it and let it take them where it may.
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Written for the Catwin Floriography Magazine by @Catwinevents.
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Roll for Wisdom by LesbianMastermind for MostlyGhostly (BlueMelon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Jan 2026
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.—"Okay, so. I know I look cool and shit right now but I had a kinda nerd phase in the 80's and I played Dungeons and Dragons —it's a roleplay game, Edwin—a few times and really enjoyed it. Mick had a book lying in his stock and far as I can tell it's completely average and not magic ; but it made me want to try that again… I mean it's not really important but—"
"We can do that."
Charles says it all cool and collected, but he's cut Thomas off and looks way too into the idea. So. Fish clearly hooked. Crystal looks amused by her boyfriend’s eager reaction. Thomas isn't looking at Edwin—whom, by the by, knows perfectly well what DnD is, a fact Thomas is well aware of, even though he was a little surprised to realize it.
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Thomas devises a devious plan to make his boyfriend happy. It might mean making one Charles Rowland happy, but that is not too hard a feat, when you know what the boy likes. Thomas knows, for example, he used to play Dungeons and Dragons a lifetime ago. That, he can work with.
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set my alarm, turn on my charm by KissMyAsthma for LesbianMastermind
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Jan 2026
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"Dead Boy Detective. To what do I owe the pleasure? Is the future so bad that you decided to come back in time already?"
Something that looked almost like a smile appeared on the ghost's lips. "Not at all." After a beat of silence, Edwin said, "Crystal asked me if I've made any New Year's resolutions."
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lead me not into temptation by Choccy for artemisadore
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
01 Jan 2026
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“How do you expect me to trust you? You’re a Lust demon,” Edwin spat, the disgust and distrust evident in the way the words formed around his lips.
Thomas tilted his head, and an unnervingly wide smile started to spread across his face, “I’m not a demon of Lust...”
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...for seasonal infections. So when Edwin ended up sick for Christmas, his boyfriend was more than eager to keep him company. Not only could Thomas avoid his family, but he'd also take care of Edwin; and that's what loving partners did, right?
Tooth-rotting fluff, written for catwin secret santa exchange