#palaceland

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Crystal Palace/Niko Sasaki, Crystal Palace/Charles Rowland (DCU) (minor), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Crystal Palace & Charles Rowland & Niko Sasaki, Crystal Palace & Charles Rowland (DCU), Monty (Dead Boy Detectives) & Charles Rowland (DCU), Charles Rowland (DCU)/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Crystal Palace (DCU), Niko Sasaki, Monty (Dead Boy Detectives), Jenny Green (Dead Boy Detectives), Cat King (Dead Boy Detectives), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Meet-Cute, (not between charles and edwin), (unfortunately canon circumstances disqualify them. although charles might disagree), Bisexual Charles Rowland (DCU), Implied/Referenced Character Death, (a la backstories), charles seeing a repressed gay edwardian twink: is this an aroace?, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Missing Scene, charles being the bi big brother of his own dreams!, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, sometimes confession scenes with mutual pining… are worse, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Love Confessions, Friendship/Love, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, these boys are doing a relay race of fall in love → realise → confess. and they’re doing SO badly, Charles Rowland Has ADHD (DCU), Autistic Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, edwin’s autistic rizz is its own character tag, Niko Sasaki Lives, i’m sorry but i think niko could’ve been saved with the power of gay, no beta we die like the dead boys Summary:

Loving Edwin was the easiest thing in the world. Charles got so used to it that he could sometimes go months without thinking about it, until Edwin did something kind or charming or literally just stood there catching the light in exactly the right way, and it would hit Charles all over again, like getting socked in the face. It certainly made for some interesting decades together.

 Or: Charles falls first. Edwin falls harder. Surprisingly little changes.

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palaceland this paynland that, just make them a poly couple 🤨🤨

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Dead Boy Detectives Ship Names

Alr so there seems to ongoing discussion pertaining to this and I'd like to add my own two cents

Edwin x Charles

So what I've seen online so far is just various mashups of their names in the classic way such as: Chedwin, Payneland/Paynland/Pain(e)land -> What I haven't seen is Charwin or Rowpayne (I do like Payneland apart from the bit where if you say it out loud it sounds like pain land)

I however think it could be cute if they had one of the other types of ship names (e.g. Ineffable husbands, firstprince, wolfstar, frostiron). If it didn't have the potential to get too confusing I would advocate for the ship name 'Dead Boy Detectives or DBD' simply because that is already their shared title (alas that wouldn't really work as it's also the name of the show). Another name I'd like to more seriously put forward is BestMates. It's cringe sure but the way Charles says it in the confession scene. I feel like some name that references them hiding from death or escaping hell together could be really cute too but I can't think of one rn. I don't think they need separate ship names for romantic or platonic since I think trying to box their relationship into a category like that when it is its own thing is unfair.

Edwin x Cat King

We all agree that the cat king is called Thomas right? I feel like that seems pretty unanimous so far. Tomwin? Edmas? PayneKing?CatWin? WinKing or KingWin. Ngl KingWin feels right to me cuz the cat king spends most of his time trying to win Edwin over so their shipname also being a nod to their relationship triumphing is kinda fun.

Charles x Crystal

I haven't seen any suggestions yet here either so lemme try. PalaceLand, CrystaLand, RowLace, LaceLand etc...

Edwin x Monty

Personally I like Crowin or Paynebird. But here is some more: Edmont, Montwin, Monpayne...

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I feel like ive covered all the ships that could most frequently be refered to but lmk if ive missed one and also please lmk what you think? I'm interested!

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the best part of this chapter is when edwin said “IT’S MORBIN’ TIME” and morbed all over those guys

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at the same time crystal/niko: cute stargazing date :3 charles/edwin: Let’s Talk About All My Childhood Trauma

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Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Crystal Palace/Charles Rowland (DCU), Crystal Palace/Niko Sasaki, Charles Rowland/Niko Sasaki, edwin paine | edwin payne & crystal palace & charles rowland & niko sasaki Characters: Crystal Palace (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU), Niko Sasaki, Night Nurse Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, obviously niko not sure who else we would care about, Coming Out, Bi4Bi Crystal Palace/Charles Rowland, Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Established Relationship, for crystal/charles, Getting Together, for Everyone else, Friends to Lovers, Friendship/Love, First Kiss, me @ these kids: everyone’s dying/dead bitch let’s get you a polycule, technically v-shaped polyamory but this is looking more like a triangle with a tail, Autistic Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Autistic Niko Sasaki, Charles Rowland (DCU) Has ADHD, the ULTIMATE autism/adhd solidarity fic, on a scale from charles/edwin to charles/crystal to charles/niko how slow is your burn?, all of them talk a lot of shit about having a thing for biting when in fact they all have it, no beta we die like niko didn’t! Summary:

It had been pretty obvious to Crystal from the start: their closeness and comfort with each other, the way they moved in sync, the way Edwin couldn’t quite contain his jealousy at Charles’ interest in her. She’d seen it before (where?), a relationship that one person wanted open and the other didn’t but would go along with, out of love. Ah, lack of communication. The enemy of polyamory.

Or: Crystal comes to the horrifying realization that these boys are not dating, and leads them to enlightenment (polyamory).

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Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Crystal Palace/Charles Rowland (DCU), Charles Rowland/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Crystal Palace (DCU), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, (in terms of backstory), Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Internalized Biphobia, Bisexual Charles Rowland, Bi4Bi Crystal Palace/Charles Rowland, charles fancying a boy: 'i just want to be his friend :)', Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Character Death, (a la backstories), if i describe charles' death does that count as major character death?, no beta we die like the dead boy detectives, and niko is in the north pole okay! she's fine!!, Charles Rowland (DCU) Has ADHD, Autistic Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, charles and edwin really are adhd/autism solidarity, Coming Out, Love Confessions, Friendship/Love, Friends to Lovers, Charles Rowland Has a Sword, because WHY did he only have it once??, charles is also covered in blood (for hotness reasons), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, how is that not a tag yet, it gives me life how many little compliments edwin sneaks in on their cases in canon ❤ Summary:

It didn’t start as much. As anything, really. Charles noticed him in the hallways only because he was new, which was rare in Year 11, and because he smiled shyly whenever Charles said hi. Aysar, he’d introduced himself, and Charles liked the way the syllables formed in his mouth. He wanted to be Aysar’s friend.

Or: five boys Charles didn't date, and one he did. well, i’ve finally finished my fic, so i guess it’s time to plug! maybe the real dead boys were the friends we made along the way :)

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me @ charles: everyone's dying/dead bitch let's get you some bisexuality