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What happens when Hell freezes over? They call in the Dead Boy Detective Agency. Hell has been cursed with ice and snow and it’s up to Crystal, Charles, and Edwin to thaw it out with some Christmas Cheer.
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Thanks for Being You (I Don't Know How to Be Anyone Else) by kya_kya
Fandoms: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
11 Sep 2026
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Reggie has never been one to judge, has never been one to hate. Alex doesn’t even think that Reggie has a hateful bone in his body. All Reggie has ever been is supportive, loving, reassuring. No matter the situation, he has always stood by his friends. Maybe this wouldn’t be any different. Maybe…
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Alex comes out to Reggie, and he is very Reggie about it.
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12 Sep 2026
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“Charles?” The boy asked, startling him from his thoughts. His voice was soft and kind, like his mum’s often was after a particularly rough night with his dad.
Charles looked up, his good eye blinking owlishly. “Who’re you?”
He looked back at Charles, lips set in a wobbly frown. If Charles had to guess, he’d say the strange, stuffy-looking boy was trying not to cry.
There was a long beat of silence. And then:
“Oh, my dear. What has she done to you?”
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Or, after tangling with the spirit of a mad scientist, Edwin is left with a seven-year-old Charles that has no memory of him or their afterlife together. Edwin learns about Charles’s childhood in steps, as Charles finds his way back to the family he’s built by working through the trauma of his past.Series
- Part 1 of Fragile: Handle With Care
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13 Aug 2026
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Charles starts pacing. He never used to, when he was alive, but thirty years and he's picked up all sorts of habits from Edwin. Edwin paces when he's thinking, but mostly Charles does it when he needs to move and there's nowhere to go. There's a pulse thrumming at the base of his throat, which is all kinds of weird. That only happens now when his body forgets he's dead; when it's reacting to something bigger than he is, base and animal.
"If it's an enchantment, then you can sort it," Charles says. "I don't reckon there's a spell out there Edwin Payne can't work out, yeah? We just have to find the right book."
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20 Jul 2026
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if I died tomorrow, i'd haunt your future family by pinkpurpleblue
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 Sep 2026
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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.
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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.
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13 Jul 2026
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Learning By Heart by Ice_Elf, Lundlaeva (Black_Crystal_Dragon)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Jun 2026
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Charles wakes up in the hospital after the incident with his mates and everything is—well, pretty aces actually. His dad’s being nice to him, his mates—former, now—have either been kicked out of school or are staying away from him, and he’s got a new roommate.
Edwin is kind and funny and really clever, and, best of all, he seems to think Charles is pretty great too. So what if he’s sometimes a little bit weird? Charles is still determined to get to know him better.
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28 Jun 2026