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1. if I died tomorrow, i'd haunt your future family by pinkpurpleblue

   Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   25 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne
   • Charles Rowland (DCU)
   • Crystal Palace (DCU)
   • Angst
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Protective Charles Rowland (DCU)
   • Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland
   • Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Has Trauma From Hell
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Post-Canon
   • Good Friend Crystal Palace (DCU)
   • Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne and Crystal Palace are Like Siblings
   • POV Alternating
   • I cannot overstate the amount of Edwardian historical inaccuracy and handwaving that y'all have to just forgive me for
   • I fear google searches did not cancel out my shitty education
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • somewhat britpicked but if you see something wrong pls let me know
   • Hurt Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne
   • Chapter Length Will Vary
   • and the first few will be shorter

   Summary

   Edwin hadn't explicitly said it, but the whole 'there's no time' routine and scary words like 'siphon' and 'fractures' don't leave a lot up to imagination.

   Crystal can't imagine a world where a ghost getting all their energy used up means there's anything left afterward. Fuck, if Esther hadn't needed him as a long-term battery, isn't that what that god-awful machine would have done? Crystal's gonna find Edwin after this is all over and he's all healed, because she needs to smack the shit out of him.

   She doesn't have many friends. She can't afford to lose any more.

   OR

   Edwin falls victim to a particularly nasty magical object, devouring his spectral energy from the inside out, starting with his memories. Luckily, he has a psychic and co-dependent best friend at his side. Less luckily, the only way for them to save him is to delve into his past, into memories from when he was alive, and of course, from Hell.

   Language:

   English

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