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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.