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"...each movement of wetting, washing, drying, and reaching his arms towards his prescription applicator was fluid. Purposeful and complete; like he was never so sure of anything in his life."
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“So, what do you study at HFA?” Before the other boy can answer, Charles puts a hand on his shoulder. “No, wait, let me guess.” He puts a finger on his lips to think. “You don’t look like a sporty chap. No offense. And you’re taking your A-levels a year early, which means you got some brains inside that head of yours. You read. Very old books.”
“Sherlock Holmes is a classic!” Edwin looks offended.
“So… You’re definitely in the Humanities.” Charles turns with a smile for approval. “Am I right?”
“That is still sixteen different specialities.”
“Yeah, and I don’t know them all, so you’re gonna have to tell me, now."
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Or: Charles, Crystal and Niko are considered the inseparable bus crew. No one messes with them. When Edwin gets bullied in front of them, Charles takes it upon himself to include him into their group. What ensues is a true kind of friendship and the discovery of what love can help get through, all in the span of their last sixth form year.
Featuring an (almost) independent trans Charles, an insecure Edwin, Jenny playing legal guardian, walking shelter dogs and being the teenagers that they are.
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(all of a sudden) i’m the man of my dreams by ObsessedWithFandom
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Aug 2025
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It’s not a lie. Charles will defend that to his last breath (maybe, possibly, definitely). He never lies to Edwin.
The rest of the world might not see it the same way, though.Or: Charles has a secret. Surprisingly little changes.
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He hadn't thought at all about gender in that moment.
He'd been thinking of survival and freedom. The light from the open door guiding their ascension to familiarity, friends, and a further future together.
He was pulled back by his arm, spun back to the spiraling dark abyss they could easily fall back into, if they weren't careful. Edwin's heart laid bare in Charles' hands, the personification of all his insecurities rushing up on eight legs behind him to rip them both apart.
Charles internal exploration with a dash of transmasc au.
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Charlotte Rowland died in St. Hils’s uniform skirt, which she loathed with all her being, because it was too short and showed off her cover-up shorts any time she did anything. (And that was when she was lucky enough to be wearing the shorts; the staff didn’t much approve of them.)
When she rose from the floor and left her body behind, she left the skirt with it. Stood in front of Edwin in a tank top and slacks, and ran from Death in clothes that felt better on her skin even as she could barely feel her skin at all.
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“I want – I want to tear my skin off,” Charles says, strangled. “I can’t – anyone looking at me, Crystal acting like it’s not a big deal, fuck – you.”
“Me?” Edwin asks, almost affronted.
“Well, there’s no way you want me anymore, is there?” Charles blurts. Then he looks mortified.
Or, Edwin has known Charles to be transsexual since '89. It is only when Charles is cursed to experience one of his worst fears that they talk about it.
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- Part 12 of Not Orpheus and Eurydice
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Know Thyself by muirgen_lys for Dead_but_still_sarcastic
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
27 Feb 2025
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The sight of the body in its nest of blankets comes with the same shock of wrongness it always does: the jaw a little too soft, the curves he knows are hidden under those layers of blankets, too noticeable even when he drowned them in loose jackets and baggy trousers. The little cues that still said girl no matter how short he cut his hair.
For a moment, the sense that that body belongs to a stranger is so strong, that he genuinely doesn’t register that he is looking at himself, pale and silent and unbreathing.
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“But when I was born,” Charles continues, “everyone thought I was a girl. My whole life, all anyone ever told me was that I was supposed to be a girl. But I knew I was a boy, no matter what anyone said.”
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“Yeah,” Charles laughs, “I guess we are kinda the same, aren’t we? You weren’t supposed to be a boy either.” He pauses, watching Monty nod before hesitantly asking, “Do you miss it? Being human?”
Monty hesitates, ruffling his feathers. Finally, he slowly dips his beak to the board.
YES
Charles hums, drumming his fingers on the desk. “Well, then why don’t we find a way to turn you back?”
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- Part 5 of It’s not the Cis Boy Detectives
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Charles may be aromantic, and Crystal may be a lesbian, but somehow that doesn't stop this weird dynamic they've got going on. Niko helps them figure it out.
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- Part 1 of Developing Normal
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Whose gravestone is that? Mine you dumbass! by Just_an0ther_author
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Jan 2025
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Edwin's eyes roam over the gravestone, he reads the inscription, 'In loving memory of, Charlotte Rowland, beloved daughter.' He thought for a moment. When Charles had brought him to a cemetery, Edwin figured it had to be important. And well it didn’t take a genius to realize who the grave belonged to. This must be Charles' sister.
"Oh, Charles, I didn’t know you had a sister," Edwin said, trying to offer comfort. In all the years they’ve known each other, he's never mentioned siblings, but it must have been hard.
"I don’t have a sister," Charles responded looking at him with his brows furrowing in confusion, like he was looking at a particularly slow child.
"Then whose grave is this?" he couldn’t help but ask, confused as well.
"Mine, you dumbass!"
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Or: Charles was trans this entire time and Edwin never realized.
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How Not to Rescue Your Best Friend from a Maneating Dragon by BirdNonsense
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
29 Dec 2024
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Charles has been on a mission to rescue his best friend for the past seven years. Despite being royalty, when Edwin went missing, he was simply written off as dead. Charles refuses to accept this, and has spent his time in the army chasing any rumors about his whereabouts that he can find. When the trail goes cold after evidence of Edwin being held captive by a witch, Charles nearly gives up. That is, until a dragon turns up on the border of the kingdom, being a nuisance and possibly kidnapping a familiar young royal...
Charles manages to convince the neighboring kingdom's prince to support a mission to rescue the damsel and kill the dragon, but all may not be as it seems. -
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On a Sunday evening, Charles Rowland saws off his hair with a pair of kitchen shears. He creates manhood out of thin air, and that’s a miracle all in its own right, he thinks, as dark curls drift down to rest against the tops of his bare feet. He washes his hands, scrubs the silvery blades clean beneath a gushing faucet, and the joy that erupts in his chest feels like the kind of purifying light he’s only ever heard about in scripture.
Charles Rowland is a boy.
When he tells his father as much, there is too much blood in his mouth for Charles to feel anything but dreadful. There is supposed to be holiness in the act of creation.
Where is the divinity in this?
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a look at transness and charles rowland, spanning several decades.
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It’s been weeks since Charles was able to get himself off and he was horny, the first time he gets some time to himself he tried to sort his problem, but Edwin walks in on him before he can finish
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- Part 2 of Queerplatonic paineland
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When All My Friends Forget My Name (I Won't Go Back and Be the Same) by WhatsYourNameMan
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
21 Nov 2024
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But it gets him thinking about what he’d do, if he couldn’t say his own name, what he’d have people call him. He can’t say he’s all that fond of the idea; it’s far too similar to before he’d gone to St. Hil’s, when he’d had to pretend to be a girl and not tell anyone the name that was truly his.
And then he gets to thinking about Edwin, about how the two of them only ever call each other by their full names and surely he must have had a nickname at some point, so he just blurts it out.
"Did your mates ever call you Eddie?"
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- Part 1 of It’s not the Cis Boy Detectives
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Skeletons Come To Life (in my closet) by Dead_but_still_sarcastic
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
23 Oct 2024
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They didn’t have a mirror in the office; there was never any need for one since ghosts can’t see their reflections. Charles glanced around the office before settling on trying to see his reflection in the glass of their window. As he walked over to the window behind Edwin’s desk, he hoped it’d be clear enough to show him how his disguise looked.
Why is Edwin always the woman? Why is Charles always the man? As long as they’re both comfortable, that’s enough for the pair. They just need to know how to be comfortable
Prompt 3 for Deadboyween: Disguise
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Viv knew exactly why she was having trouble sleeping, too, and she thought that should get her off the hook, as if knowing the precise shape of her anxiety would make it go away. It was a nice thought, like in a fairytale where you just had to figure out the monster’s name and it would leave you alone. But she’d known this particular monster’s name for a while, and it hadn’t had the decency to shove off yet.
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- Part 2 of lizzie payne & viv rowland (dbd modern au)
- Part 11 of dbdpromptober 2024
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After his second trip to hell, Edwin ponders on his rescue and realises that Charles looked different in hell. His features softer and less pronounced. More feminine. So of course, Edwin sets to investigating this anomaly to help him understand and support his best friend.
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Lizzie Payne does not need help managing her scar. But maybe, if help is offered, she can accept it.
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- Part 5 of dbdpromptober 2024
- Part 1 of lizzie payne & viv rowland (dbd modern au)
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But I'm an Egoistic Queer Under Any Definition of the Word by Twisted_Foxlore
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Aug 2024
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To love each other is to know one another. Two times Edwin and Charles bared themselves before their partner and the acceptance thereof.
Prompt 6: Free Day
Title from Two Wuv by Chonny Jash
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Learning When to Take Care of Yourself by irlcatheravery
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
22 Jul 2024
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After a minute of walking in silence, Edwin is bothered. He pulls his gloved hand away from Charles and crosses his arms around his chest in frustration. “Are you going to talk to me or are we going to keep walking?”
“I think you should sit this case out.”
“I beg your pardon?”
Or this case leads the Dead Boy Detectives into a labyrinth and Charles advises Edwin to sit it out (he doesn't listen).
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- Part 3 of Trans Boy Detectives