#demon detective au

[mlady-magnolia]

Spooder cuddles!

[jube-art]

Idle thoughts. Idle doodles.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne (Despair AU)

Charles can't help himself. He steps forward, despite Edwin's protests, his glare, the fire that begins to spontaneously lick its way up Edwin's arms, and pulls Edwin into a hug. "God, mate," Charles says, burying his face in the crook between Edwin's shoulder and neck, feeling Edwin's tight posture and the iron-hard tension in his spine through his suit, wishing more than anything that he could bring relief to Edwin's soul, "I should have been here with you. You didn't have to save my soul like that."

"I didn't save your soul," Edwin says, and for the first time, his voice cracks. "I claimed it." Some shiver runs through Charles' soul at that, but it is not an afraid one. It almost feels like excitement, like relief, like love. "You are mine, I'm afraid, and I am deeply sorry for it-"

"Don't be," Charles says, all ferocity, because the hellfire should be burning him but all he has ever felt is warm in Edwin Payne’s arms. "I'm yours. I have been since the moment we left that attic. Hell, I probably was yours before that, from the moment you handed me that lantern."

-aletterinthenameofsanity, you go down just like holy mary on a cross

@bigtirednoodle

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[eikichi-supremacy]

If nothing else Koenma is a Kuwabara stan and I'm right there with him o7 (I need to write the kuwameshi fic that goes with this fr)

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

.... well this noir Vaggie au edit got waaay out of hand ha ha!

self indulgent au lore under the cut bc WEEEE

Detective Vaggie finally got enough blackmail on Valentino for Charlie and Angel to pin him in a corner, but as Vaggie expected, Angel Dust ends up doing what almost every other Sinner has done after Vaggie hands the evidence over to them, and chooses to just accept Valentino’s renegotiated and seemingly better soul contract rather than break it and make a mortal enemy out of an Overlord

Of course the first thing Val does is force Angel Dust to destroy the evidence they’d used against him, just like every other Overlord Vaggie's worked against always has, leaving Angel at his mercy again

And also leaving Charlie devastated. She'd given Angel her promise of protection as soon to be crowned king of hell-

(long story) (Lucifer wanted to kill Vaggie for scarring Charlie a few years back and Charlie had to beat him up to stop him) (the Overlords, led by Velvette and the Vees, decided to flex their power by saying this invalidated Lucifer as king and made Charlie the new ruler of hell) (she reluctantly accepted because..)

-hoping it would be enough to counter any Overlord threat against Angel once he was free

Ironically though, Angel Dust having come to see her as a friend after all this and not wanting to put her in the line of fire ends up with him sticking with Val instead, who gloats about it, and tells Charlie to her face what he'll do to her friend and her pet P.I. if she (as soon to be king) doesn't back down and let the Vees do all the real running of hell (like they already have been)

Charlie the Pissed let's slip she's had enough of Val as she leaves his studio (both her and the studio being on fire)

No one takes her little threat seriously, except for Vaggie, who sees Charlie picking up and weighing Vaggie's spear in her hands when she thinks she's alone. Vaggie freaks out realizing Charlie is about to go do a murder

So Vaggie decides to break her own no-more-murder vow AGAIN for a girl AGAIN (last time was for Velvette) and she kills Valentino before Charlie can reach him, regaining her wings (kinda), absorbing his demonic energy (yuck), belatedly becoming one of the Vees like Velvette had once wanted (not in the way Velvette had wanted), and accepting all Val's soul contracts including Angel’s, which she breaks

She also breaks the truth of everything to Charlie on coronation day-

(maybe also breaking up with or getting dumped by her, even though they weren’t even dating)

-confessing to the murder and her exorcist past

Now that she’s an Overlord and Charlie’s about to be King of Hell, anything publicly personal between them (like Vaggie staying the basement of Charlie's abandoned hotel instead of sleeping in an alleyway next to a dumpster every night) would throw the other Overlords into a rage over the power imbalance with normal sinners caught in the crossfire or getting used as canon fodder, something neither Vaggie or Charlie can stomach

Besides which Vaggie feels 0% worthy of Charlie anymore after breaking her no-murder vow, and Charlie is feeling more things than she knows how to name about that and the exorcist thing, none of them good

Their last kiss (for now) leaves claw marks on Vaggie’s face to match the scar she gave Charlie all those years ago-

(which Charlie has finally also confessed to her about, to Vaggie's horror, Vaggie having blotted the memory out after binge drinking with Husk the following week)

-the scar from when Vaggie happened to still be holding her spear as Charlie reached out to help her, and ended up lashing out instead of flinching back, unintentionally driving away Charlie and their happy life together

(this shit luck is what pinged Overlord Husk's gambling powers and led him to Vaggie, meanwhile Angel dropped a paying client to go check on the random demon chick- Charlie- soon to be nicknamed Apple Slice by him- holding her bleeding face in her hands as she stumbled down the street in a daze)

Charlie and Vaggie made do with other friends when what they both most needed was each other

They’ve both been miserable and lonely since then, had only just started to build up what they should have had together all along while camping out at the old hotel working on Angel's case together, but the case is done and now…. this

This is NOT a good timeline for them (yet)

[atomra]

I had to draw my favs doing an outfit swap! Neuro and Alucard would get along great 😎💙 (feat. atom)

[impcarcass]

Long time no see, fellas. All I got is a sketch. As you can see, moon is very upset about his bald ass head.

[cc-tinslebee]

you know what time it is!! Dead Boy Detective Magnus Archives au baby!

Charles Rowland, avatar of the Dark. Mr. Pitch: creatures hidden in the dark, shadow figures and monsters, blindness, coldness, dark water.

Edwin Payne, avatar of the Desolation. The Torturing Flame: pain, loss, burning, and destroying things before their potential is realised.

Crystal Palace Surname von Hoverkraft, avatar of the End. The Coming End Waits For All And Cannot Be Ignored: uncaring and unstoppable, close ties to dreams, manifests through them.

Niko Sasaki, avatar of the Spiral. It Is Not What It Is: spirals, patterns, and fractals, hallucinations and illusions.

Monty Finch, avatar of the Stranger. I Do Not Know You: the creeping sense that something is not right.

Esther Finch: avatar of the Flesh, evader of the End. Viscera: bodies being unnaturally twisted, reshaped, and butchered, bred for meat, the human realisation that we are all meat and bone.

David the Demon, avatar of the Corruption. The Crawling Rot: the feeling one’s skin crawling, also manifests as unhealthy love and companionship

The Cat King, avatar of the Hunt. Blood: the need for the chase.

Jenny Greene, avatar of the Lonely, tormented by the Eye. The Forsaken: alone or disconnected from the rest of society. It Knows You: fear of being watched, exposed, followed.

[uzi-x33]

you and me we’re not the same.

i am a sinner, you are a saint.

CHAT IM DONE YIPPEE!!!! they’re so siblings:3 i love the traumatized mafia kids😋 spreading my bisexual dazai and lesbian yosano bestfriends agenda with this one🔥🔥

[mindfulofbrit]

Manjoume is one of those annoying ghost influencers because he wasn't doing well trying to go viral elsewhere.

The Domino Academy Ghost Club likes to explore places reported on Sho's Ghost Sighting Blog to debunk or prove the existance of non-human entities.

For some reason Manjoume has a difficult time recording whenever Haou's around. The footage keeps getting corrupted. Weird.

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Sorry, I didn't want to completely finish this piece but I wanted to share it because Manjoume's face is hilarious, and Tetsu gave me a ton of terrifying anime faces to reference.

He's not pointing at Haou, btw. He's pointing PAST Haou at some creaking or something.

Here's what his face looks like under the effects - his 'shadow look' is not seen outside of camera lenses.

[celestialvoid-fanfiction]

Sterek Dead Boy Detectives AU: Derek and Stiles are detectives, taking on the cases with supernatural connections that the living aren’t capable of handling. They extinguish supernatural threats and helping lost souls find peace and move on to the afterlife… oh, and they’re dead.

Both boys never found peace, never moved on. Now they are on the run from Death, trying to help others find their peace.

A client contacts them to help her friend, Lydia, a clairvoyant who’s possessed by a demon.

They are able to exorcise the demon, but Lydia is left with no memories and no idea who she is except for her name. While Stiles and Derek argue about whether or not they let her stay with them (because the dead shouldn’t interact with the living), Lydia picks up a missing child poster and has a vision. The child is alive.

Lydia teams up with the boys to help them find the child, but things take a turn when Stiles uses magic on a cat, a misdemeanour that the Cat King demands he answer for. His punishment? He is trapped in Beacon Hills until he counts all the cats. That wouldn’t be too bad if they hadn’t also pissed off a witch. And, on top of that, they’re still hiding from Death.

[mlady-magnolia]

Demon Detective AU

Hunt down the demons plaguing Penacony and exorcise them. That was the Bureau’s job. Caelus’? Well… his was a bit more complicated than that.

[jube-art]

Payneland server got me thinking about Incubus Edwin

[ghostinthelibrarywrites]

😈!!

Thanks for the ask! Here's a snippet from the next chapter of young blood (never get chained):

Charles’s childhood home doesn’t look much like it did five years ago. In the days after he banished his father, his mother redecorated one room at a time. The walls are painted bright colors now and every surface is cluttered with knick-knacks that are no longer at risk of being smashed against the wall during an argument. His father’s armchair, which seemed to exude menace even when he wasn’t sitting it in, is long gone, and his mother keeps her craft table in the space it took up. There’s nothing left of Paul Rowland here and the house is better for it. The only thing that hasn’t changed in the kitchen. The countertops are still the same chipped, faded yellow vinyl, the fridge still covered in old photos of Charles and childhood artwork. Everything is in exactly the same place that it’s been in for as long as Charles can remember, from the collection of ceramic elephants on top of a cabinet—too high up for Paul to easily break—to the overflowing spice rack to the cast iron cookware hanging from the walls. The only difference is that Edwin Payne is sitting at the kitchen table opposite from Charles’s mum, making polite small talk about a book they’ve both read, while Charles cooks dinner.

Make Me Write

[aliensubstance-011]

Demon!Edwin Au

Me and a pal have been throwing this idea around for a little bit and I'm obsessed so here's a Demon!Edwin AU:

Edwin still crawls out of hell around the same time Charles is dying, but really wasn't expecting to find a very much still living human

So, as to not scare him to bad (the guy's dying, and Edwin certainly isn't a cruel demon), Edwin takes human form

He's... seen those enough to get it right...right?

So Charles, in his dying moments, meets Edwin. It's just that his limbs are a little too long, his joints twist just a bit too far, eyes just a little too lifeless

Oh, and he looks like he's from the early 1900s. So Edwin lies and says his a ghost- which Charles believes, until he's a ghost himself.

In which Charles figures that Edwin definitely isn't a human, but it's not like he's doing any harm, is he?

At first, Edwin doesn't particularly care for this human- he's just another one off to his afterlife, and Edwin is far more concerned with getting used to this new body.

But this human is...kind of charming, actually. and when he decides to stay with Edwin? Well, Edwin has 30 years to fully figure out his human/ghost persona.

Onto more general stuff:

Edwin doesn't particularly care about mortal life- human beings are like little ants to him, they live, they die and go to their afterlife.

But to Charles? Other people, especially helping them, is important to him- and Charles is important to Edwin.

So Edwin tries. They form the Dead Boy Detectives, and the plot of the show moves on!

That 'We didn't matter. Him and I' scene is mainly about Charles, but he slots himself in there to not only because it somewhat reflects how demons treat each other in hell, but because Edwin is extremely distraught about how anyone could treat Charles the way most people in Charles' life did.

Overall, Edwin is very bad at being a demon, but only a little bad about being a human ghost.

[sonofhelios2005]

Dead Boy Detectives AU, Demons. This AU would have both Charles and Edwin as demons. It is actually possible for humans to become demons in DC so it's not entirely impossible.

In this, AU Charles and Edwin would both attend St. Hilarions in the 1900s and are each other's best friends. They are both outsiders amongst the students, Edwin, because his mannerisms and behaviour are considered effeminate and Charles for being half Indian during a time when racism was truly rampant. They became close because of this and protected each other. Simon is much more vicious here because Charles actively stops him from bullying Edwin and frequently embarrasses him in fights which he loses, Simon is also very irrationally jealous that Edwin hangs around Charles and instead of him making his behaviour worse. When Simon and his friends try to scare Edwin with the fake sacrifice, they beat Charles and take him, too. Both Edwin and Charles are tied up together on the floor. Simon and his friends summon Sa'al who kills them. He's genuinely regretful about taking Edwin and Charles on a technicality.

In hell Edwin eventually ended up in the Dollhouse being chased by the Doll Headed Spider Demon (DHSD), As he's chased by the DHSD Edwin learns the layout of hell in the hope he can evade his demon and find Charles. Charles eventually ends up with a demon of Wrath, who alternates between tearing Charles apart disguised as his father and forcing Charles to fight against other souls until they bloody puddles on the floor. Charles isn't in a position to run like Edwin, so he hardens himself through his torture so that when he meets Edwin again, he'll be strong enough to protect them both. It takes 30 years for them to be reunited. They then both escape deeper into hell because the DHSD and Charles Wrath demon expect them to head upwards towards limbo. The deeper they go into hell through the lower Circles, the more time distorts for with years passing for only months on Earth.

Charles and Edwin spend centuries wondering hell learning and fighting. Edwin learns magic from damned souls and from books taken from the libraries of demons. Charles learns to fight the various denizens of hell, the damned souls, demons, and other creatures that live in the various circles. He becomes an expert in many forms of combat and killing. Over these hundreds of years, both of them have changed, adapting to hell very well and becoming demons. Despite being demons, they still retain some morality and don't desire to cause random pointless destruction. One day, they encounter Sa'al again, who is impressed with their survival. in exchange for capturing a few souls who had escaped him, Sa'al offers to show the boys how to Earth. They agreed and soon found themselves on Earth in 1989, 70 years after they died.

On Earth they quickly find bodies to possess as their true forms are very horrific. Their first priority is to recreate their human bodies as they have no desire to possess random people. This takes them a few months but eventually they are able to possess their own 16 year old forms. They don't become detectives here instead they are deal out vengeance for victims whose tormentors go unpunished. They are rather violent in their methods completely willing to kill or inflict horrific punishments. Over the years they gain a very dangerous reputation but a respected one.

I'm not entirely sure what they would look like as demons, but certainly not human. I'm also not certain if they would embody anything particular as demons, perhaps vengeance? Time being weird in hell is from Supernatural, obviously.

This won't be an actual story as I have no writing ability. It's just my mad rambling.