#nikrystal

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this is canon, right?

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I ship it.

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

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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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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).