#edwin's harem

[shaylogic]

Edwin dating Charles:

Edwin dating Cat King:

Edwin dating Monty:

[paraphwrites]

payneland is finally getting togther. charles is trying to take things slow ("he's edwardian, crystal, i can't rush in and scare him off, can i? gotta take it slow") and he thinks he's being really respectful and nice. edwin, who knows charles kisses girls he's not even been on a date with, kisses girls he barely even knows- assumes charles simply does not want to kiss him. wacky miscommunication ensues with edwin increasingly trying to get charles to kiss him, and charles finding increasingly wacky ways to avoid it. in the end four lesbians yell at them to just fucking kiss already.

[i--see--everything]

They need to renew Dead Boy Detectives for a second season so Edwin can have more love interests.

[theongp]

Just me replaying this scene for (ab)normal amount of times not only because it's my top 3 scenes of the series but also because I CAN'T STOPPING LOOKING AT EDWIN'S BACK

Sexy, delicate back, shoulders, neck, hairline and face

I think I am just as bad as The Cat King (and Monty and probably Charles in the near future) when it comes to simping for some Edwardian uptight gay boy named Edwin Payne

[schelluminium]

Is this Edwin?

[theashesofthefirststar]

I know we make jokes about Edwin’s harem but it’s deeply tragic how every man who has ever desired Edwin romantically has also hurt him in profound ways. Simon is the reason Edwin was sent to hell. Monty abused his trust and nearly got him and Charles killed. The Cat King manipulated his repressed attraction and leashed him like a pet, keeping him trapped in a town with a murderous witch. All the while, the man Edwin actually loves, the man who has been nothing but kind and gentle and devoted towards him, does not love him back. Not in that way. Something Something Love is a punishment for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

[silverstarssart]

Edwin the harem protagonist is collecting bitches left and right like pokemon. They saw a repressed Edwardian twink and said "I wanna be under that" and honestly good for them.

Twink magnet for lonely cats, crows, and nonbinary hoes

[moderndaypandora]

i recognize that simon and edwin meeting and parting in hell is narratively very good and provides closure for all. but imagine if simon had agreed to try and escape with edwin. and charles doesn't have time to really question it, because anybody who likes edwin is aces in his book and it's hell, they need to leave. (edwin, out of courtesy to their third companion, puts his plan to confess on hold until they've escaped.)

suddenly the edwin harem of "supernatural boys who all hate each other but are attracted to that negative rizz" gains another member, and at some point edwin is going to have to mention that simon was the boy who sacrificed him to hell.

the chaos. crystal's bitchy commentary. charles going from friendly smiling to clutching his cricket bat. niko's whispering "200k slow burn schoolboy rivals to lovers" with heart eyes. it'd be chef's kiss good. edwin fleeing to his books and praying that nobody, but especially not the cat king, finds him because there has been SO MUCH emotion already. hysterical.

[totallynotmeems]

y’all body swapped payneland would be so funny. especially because they don’t technically have bodies so you would have to find a very good way to explain how it worked.

like just imagine the shenanigans of having to keep up their ghost reputations

edwin having to learn how to use the bat would be easy

him learning how to be friendly? the hardest feat of all

charles already knows how to take notes basically

he does not know how be a sassily gay edwardian boy

or how to deal with the harem of admirers that edwin has

[freddos616]

imagine being closeted and repressed and you randomly gain a harem in 2024 completely by accident. edwin payne you will always be famous.

[occasionaloneshots]

I wish I could personally hand Niko DBDA fics like how in Supernatural there’s people who write fics about Sam and Dean

Rip Niko Sasaki you would have LOVED fanfics about Edwin and his Harem

[shaylogic]

Edwin journaled about his conflicted feelings on a Charles, Monty, Cat King. And how would the boys react to learning Crystal was a former bully?

[paraphwrites]

inspired by that one answer from mr zack, i give you- season 11 of dbda, a baby is left on the gang's doors.

edwin is, immediately, team hire a ghost nanny. "we are not the dead boy orphanage." he storms off to re-shelve books. however while he is reshelving he stumbles across some parenting books and decides to read it to simply educate himself, as they may be stuck with the lifeform for an entire day. anyway three hours later edwin's at the local magic book shop, hair horribly tousled, demanding all of their books on child-rearing, parenting, and how not to permanently traumatize your child. he also questions modern medicine and what the current amount of cocaine is best to be used to counter colds.

charles, on the one hand, is totally trying to collect baby toys and make sure this kid has the brillsest childhood ever. but also charles is terrified to come within a meter of the baby, because what if he manages to traumatize him? what if he really is like his father? he decides to distract himself by assembling some ikea baby furniture. it... does not go well. jenny finds him, distraught, hiding in the bag of tricks, and tries to calm him down. in the end it is decided that abuse is likely not contagious, charles probably will not traumatize the infant by being in the same room as it, and charles is no longer allowed to go to ikea.

crystal immediately decides to track down the shitface who left their baby in the hands of four teenagers, a millennial, and an interdimensional scottswoman. crystal is actually moderately successful at solving this case, via a combination of a tracking spell, facebook, and taking on the identity of three different instagram influencers. when crystal does find the parents, she gives them a proper tongue-lashing --she's really using all of her daddy and mommy issues here-- and she's properly going at it for at least seven minutes until she realizes the parents are fucking dead and that's why they can't care for their baby. a horribly emotional conversation is had, as the parents basically apologize for crystal's shitty parents, and how this family could never move on until they knew their kid is safe and well-adjusted and happy.

niko is trying very hard to set up a nursery but she keeps getting derailed by various side-quests, because there are some interesting people vibing about a babyshop. in the end niko is roped into solving 2 cheating scandals, setting up the cashier and the stockwoman, resolving 1 money laundering scheme within a fabric store, befriend 3 separate pet birds, set up 1 pet bird owner group chat, officiate a wedding between two adorable 5 year olds, resolve a generational long feud between these two very wealthy families, and adopt 4 cats. she does not, however, find the fabric for the quilt she was going to make. or instructions on how to make said quilt. but someone who knows how to make a quilt now owes her a favor, so maybe-

jenny is actually not paid enough. she's literally not. she sees the baby, asks if they should call CPS (resounding "NO") and then fucking walks away to hang with her harem. however she does make sure the baby is securely with the night nurse, and makes sure the night nurse knows that if they need absolutely anything to call her immediately. while jenny is out, her harem and her do buy all the non-essential but fun baby items (clothing, accessories), and jenny is coerced into getting matching items.

god look the night nurse is trying her damned best, but everyone else is so fucking busy that the raising of the child falls onto her. it's a damned good thing the principal had made everyone learn about the species they were gathering (one to eighteen year old humans). so the night nurse just kind of girlbosses parenting. and, where credit is due, the baby is relatively non-problematic. they end up keeping the baby so the night nurse just walks around with a babycarrier on her chest. charles carries the baby's diapar bag -- he fully could put it in his bag of tricks, but the two backpacks makes him feel very adult and parent-y. everyone lives happily ever after & the baby is raised excellently & becomes someone in the lost & found department.

[b0y-bl00d]

Hey have u guys ever heard of a little show called dead boy detectives. Something something a walk is the ghost way to get coffee something something. Anyways here’s Edwin and his animal harem

[theongp]

Not a big fan of fictional sexual/romantic relationship that "involved more than two people" until these four showed up in my fangurl life

Sadly there's no M/M/M/M fic of them yet and not even 3some fic of Cat King x Edwin x Charles, unbelievable. Besides, I can't read many Catwin's fic because I can't stand the scenario, the universe where Edwin and Charles stay friends for the rest of their death. The things you have to accept when you decided to live on both ships I guess.

P/s: I think I haven't passed by any fanart of Edwin's harem either and that's just sad :(

[technically-human]

Apologies if this has already been asked— in reverse verse, do we think Charles is more jealous because he’s angrier, or less because Edwin’s not nearly as receptive to Thomas or Monty? What does Charles make of the Harem in general?

Great question, and great username.

Charles is very very jealous, but not of The Crow King or Thomas. He's jealous of Niko. Not in a romantic way, but because he's convinced himself that Edwin doesn't actually like him at all, and he sees Niko as the ideal person to be Edwin's friends, so the only one here who could take his place.

He hates the Crow King with an unmatched passion, because Charles was actually the one who offended a crow, and yet Edwin was the one punished and whisked away. He feels guilt, and fear, and anger, and he redirects this whole thing to the Crow King. It doesn't help that Charles can't actually do anything to him.

I think he might have found Thomas funny at first, because he obviously didn't have a chance and yet he tries so hard, but he would very quickly start to dislike him when he saw how uncomfortable he made Edwin

(Some feelings that Edwin has been trying very hard to repress are coming to light, and so he gets a bit paralyzed and can't be as cold as usual towards Thomas. But Charles doesn't know this, he just thinks something about this cat familiar is scaring his friend)

Charles saw how Simon killed Edwin (at least the end of it) and he didn't much care for it. I think he probably would've tormented him for a while had Edwin not stayed. Since he did, the priority was leaving instead of revenge. Oh well, there's always Hell for guys like him.