#sa'al

[deadboydetectivesource]

@dbda-creature-week Day 7: The Unknown - the supernatural creatures and monsters of Dead Boy Detectives

[neurodivergent-fangirling]

I don’t think anyone has written this AU yet:

Edwin and Charles first meet at school in early 1916 when Charles freezes to death in the attic. Edwin didn’t realize he was dying and is horrified, and Charles as a ghost tries to reassure him. Edwin can’t see, hear, or feel Charles, but he can sense the ghost is there.

With practice, Charles learns to manipulate solid objects and writes messages for Edwin. They continue to meet in secret in the attic and become friends. Charles defends Edwin from bullies by day and keeps watch over him by night. One time, Edwin wakes from a nightmare, and Charles reassures him. As he drifts off again, he can almost half-see Charles there, half-hear his voice wishing him sweet dreams.

But Charles doesn’t watch Edwin every second. He patrols the school, and one night he returns to the dormitory to find Edwin missing, as well as several of his tormentors. He searches frantically, and reaches the cellar just as the boys finish the summoning ritual. Charles isn’t fast enough to save Edwin from Sa’al. As Edwin dies, he can see Charles clearly for the first time and screams his name.

Charles watches his best friend dragged to Hell and absolutely loses it. He tracks the book back to its source and then spends the next several decades learning everything he can about the occult and supernatural, searching for a way to bring Edwin back or open a door to Hell for himself. Nothing works. He even speaks to Death herself, but she can’t help him, and he won’t move on with her. Edwin is his unfinished business, but he can’t save him. He doesn’t want to become a mindless vengeful ghost, so he returns to the school and dedicates his existence to protecting other boys, to ensure what happened will never happen again.

Decades later, Edwin crawls out of Hell in his bloodstained pajamas and finds himself back in the school cellar. He lies there, exhausted, and until he hears a familiar voice calling his name. He looks up and sees the impossible—a face he’s only seen twice before yet will never forget—and he answers, voice full of disbelief and longing.

“Charles?”

They both have some major trauma to work through. They both watched, powerless, as their best friend was taken from them. They both blame themselves for the other’s death. But they’re together now, and nothing will ever separate them again.

[mellxncollie]

Edwin Payne & Sa'al | Dead Boy Detectives 1.01

[majorlb]

listen.. a while back some friends and I all talked about what kind of trauma that would be kind of equivalent to hell for Edwin in an alive au (kidnapping. brain tumor. psychological torture. worse bullying)

hear me out on this batshit scenario:

Saul (Sa'al), the escaped serial killer who was hiding in the rarely used basement of the school, and kill the other boys one by one, but decides to let Edwin live (simply because. or maybe he hears a noise and Edwin survives by pure luck)

Edwin has to watch the whole thing, tied down in the basement, be found in the morning, surrounded by his dead classmates. (maybe physically injured as well)

[thegrapebehindtheslaugher]

I love how the DBDA demons are like:

🕷👶Spider made out of baby doll heads👶🕷

👹😈Sa'al😈👹

And then there's David

[incorrect-deadboy-quotes]

Edwin: We all have our demons. Edwin, grabbing Sa'al: This one's mine!

[deadboydetectives-ao3feed]

by mistyintherivers

Edith Payne is precocious and peculiar - or so she is told. Her classmates regularly subject her to their favourite pranks and make school a living hell. She does not understand what it is about her that makes them hate her so much.

Charlotte Rowland tries to be chill and easy going, to keep on smiling. She pretends that she isn't bothered by the way that her dad treats her no matter how hard she tries to make things right or the 'jokes' her friends make. But here's only so much she can take before she has to start fighting back.

They both just want to make it our of St Hilarion's alive. Then, they are both killed, seventy three years apart.

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A series of moments from the lives (and afterlives) of the Dead Girl Detectives.

Words: 5628, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine's Mother | Edwin Payne's Mother, Original Characters, Simon (Dead Boy Detectives), Sa'al the Demon (Dead Boy Detectives), Demon Spider Made Out Of Baby Doll Heads (Dead Boy Detectives), Mary Rowland | Charles Rowland's Mother, Paul Rowland | Charles Rowland's Father

Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland

Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, (the ghosts), Dead Girl Detectives, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Bullying

[marbienl13]

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

Charles makes good on his promise to Edwin to come and rescue him.

Together with his friends and two uneasy allies, Charles sets out on a mission. But it was going to be Edwin himself who would play an important role in his own rescue attempt, and if he failed his task, none of them would make it back from the Zenith Base.

(A re-telling with a twist of the “The Singularity” quest of “Horizon: Forbidden West” – but with our beloved Dead Boy Detectives characters.)