#paynelandfic

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU) Additional Tags: Love Potion/Spell, Love Confessions, Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Bisexual Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, Gay Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, POV Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, no beta we die like esther finch, Payneland Week 2025 Summary:

Edwin's first instinct, his most selfish one, is to run, to get as far away from Charles before he is forced to experience his best friend reciprocating his feelings, with the full knowledge that it is merely an enchantment, that he must find a way to cure Charles of this affliction, that he will never truly experience what he wants most.

@painlandweek - Day 5: Love Potion/Love Spell

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU) Additional Tags: First Kiss, Accidental Kissing, Love Confessions, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, POV Charles Rowland (DCU), Bisexual Charles Rowland (DCU), Gay Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, no beta we die like esther finch, Payneland Week 2025 Summary:

Charles hadn't even thought about it, was the thing. After spending so long trying to work out how he felt, trying to get things right, he'd gone and mucked it all up. The one time when he was trying not to just be impulsive, to act in the moment, he'd gone and ruined it.

@painlandweek - Day 3: Accidental Kiss

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU) Additional Tags: Forced Proximity, Trapped In A Closet, Kissing, Boys Kissing, Flirting, Dirty Talk, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, First Time, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Established Relationship, Gay Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, POV Charles Rowland (DCU), Bisexual Charles Rowland (DCU), Hair-pulling, Horny Teenagers, Smut, Payneland Week 2025, no beta we die like esther finch Summary:

Until the last month or so, Charles wouldn't have seen any problems with being trapped in a small space with Edwin, besides the obvious trapped part. In fact, they'd been in similar situations more than once back before Charles figured his shit out and started kissing Edwin. But, now, well, he's trying to be a gentleman, isn't he? In Edwin's time, people were expected to wait until they were married and all that, so the least Charles can do is take things slow. Even if it's driving him mental, kissing Edwin and touching him, but stopping before things get too heated.

@painlandweek - Day 4: Forced Proximity

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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 Characters: Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland, Crystal Palace - Character, The Cat King Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mild Smut, like so mild it's barely there by my standards, Kissing, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Idiots in Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, feeling realization, Crystal Palace has the brain cell, POV Charles Rowland (DCU), not quite coitus interruptus, Ambiguous/Open Ending Summary:

“Don’t you dare try any funny business.” Edwin may think that talking to this guy alone is the best plan, but he’ll still knock the whiskers off of him if he lays one finger on Edwin in any way Edwin doesn’t want.

“Why? Are you two… special friends?”

And, before he even thinks about it, Charles moves to stand right next to Edwin, “Yeah, and what of it?”

@painlandweek Day 5

[sasakisniko]

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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 Characters: Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Angst with a Happy Ending, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, POV Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, POV Charles Rowland (DCU), Bad Parent Paul Rowland | Charles Rowland's Father, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Torture, Canon-Typical Violence, Getting Together, Feelings Realization, Kissing, Idiots in Love, Canon Temporary Character Death, the one we actually saw onscreen y'all i'm not torturing you with stuff you don't know Summary:

Edwin grows up wishing he was lucky enough to have a soulmate, that he had someone who would understand him, or even try, someone who wouldn’t treat him as an object of scorn at best.

Charles grows up wishing he didn’t. After all, his dad is his mum’s soulmate. He doesn’t think that this connection would be any good for either him or whoever is on the other end of it.

For @painlandweek Day 7

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU), Crystal Palace (DCU), Niko Sasaki Additional Tags: Beach Episode, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Established Relationship, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, POV Charles Rowland (DCU), Fluff without Plot, Cuddling & Snuggling, Flirting Summary:

The boys have a day off from casework. Crystal and Niko invite them to go to the beach.

@painlandweek Day 4