#anyway anyway i headcanon that after light kills L and he and misa live together she realizes that she's trans okay bye

[sabaramonds]

a sight beyond death: timeline differences & other notes

so i wrote a fic. its partially alins fault. because the timeline diverges with changes i feel are relevant but didnt write in full bc the fic itself starts up after many of them, i decided to compile them here for perusal, alongside some other background headcanons alin and i decided upon regarding L, B and wammys house. probably a very long post, i will update later as well if more comes up or i forgot something 👍

jan 1 2004 (just over a month after light got his death note), sayu goes to deliver a change of clothes for her father and encounters misora naomi at the station. hearing her intent on meeting with the kira task force, sayu strikes a conversation because of her father, and the two of them wait together while sayu waits for her father to call her back after she messages him.

naomi is able to get in touch with L after speaking with soichiro via sayus phone and joins the task force; she informs L of her suspicions regarding kira being able to kill with methods besides 'heart attacks'

due to naomis information, suspicion on light increases

jan 8 surveillance begins on the kitamura and yagami families. during this week, sayu gets into an argument with her mother sachiko regarding her grades and when sachiko compares her to light (unfavorably), sayu storms off. while light is at cram school she goes into his room and triggers the diary trap, setting the house on fire. the investigation has hiccups here because of the fire but it doesnt actually matter in detail rn cuz i am not writing it all

at some point in january, B escapes his prison. because he needed so much medical attention, L arranged for him to be in a long term care facility as he recovered from skin grafts and physical therapy, because after losing B wouldnt leave anyway (he fully intended to resign himself to this until he saw the kira news). when he recovered from his final surgery and was being arranged transport to an actual prison, he escaped :) yay!!

roger alerts watari and L of this happening and L decides not to worry about it. naomi is like dude. i think we should worry. i decided he doesnt tell her about B escaping

the yagami family begin living in a hotel as their house undergoes reconstruction after the fire, though they contemplate moving to another local residential area. kiras murders slow marginally, a pace unnoticed by most, as light is unable to write as often and with as much as privacy in the hotel

when he makes it into to-oh in april his family decides to let him live on campus for a semester because the house isnt ready yet. L thinks this is awesome because he can just wire the dorms. light has to keep taking a potato chip and eating it 🙄

april 25h the phrase shinigami is used by the 2nd kira in the videotapes, as is a reference to "eyes". Ls visceral reaction is because of B, which he informs only naomi of in private he doesnt say anything actually because he doesnt feel like it

june 8th, a week into confinement, light gives up his ownership of the death note

june 9th, L wakes up to B atop him, having broken into his room. due to the fact misa & light have forfeited their death notes, he can see both their names and times of death when L involves him in the investigation, so there is nothing noticeably off about them

theres like a full week of everyone being super disturbed by L and B before the yotsuba group starts killing people as "kira" other additional notes/headcanons: i decided Ls real name is not L Lawliet because that sounds stupid as hell im sorry. but i also decided no matter what even if i decide on a name i like, i wont ever reveal it in the story. only B will ever know and any time it gets spoken or thought by him (or by shinigami) its going to be redacted Bs grandfather is actually japanese. he has no idea if his grandmother is because he never met her/she died before he was born; he met his grandfather several times. this is why he repeatedly uses japanese aliases and why naomi didnt go huh? whys some white guy got a japanese name? however, one of Bs parents is welsh and he probably grew up in wales. why...? its funny. B and L actually had a lot of impact on each other and they sort of cannibalized one anothers identity and mannerisms in their childhood even though L wasnt always at the orphanage. after A died they both subconsciously picked up some of his habits as well, as if to keep him "alive" in them both (and in the identity of L) so like, basically B used to sit like a frog and L started doing that because B does it; B chews his fingers because L does it; they both hold things the way they do because A used to do that; they both started preferring strawberries over their old favorites because strawberries were As favorites....so on. "L" is, in a way, already an amalgamation of B, A, and L; L himself had little sense of self and identity as he was molded by wammy into a "genius detective", and B and A, who were not only the only two people in his age range he ever socialized with but also two people being conditioned to become backups of him as a person....well uh there was a lot going on. basically. ❤ so tldr B and L are essentially amalgamations of each other. and of A. yay. unrelated to B, L and A but when were talking about all this alin and i realized that mello would have been 2 years old during the fall of yugoslavia and his childhood was probably insane even before watari scooped him up for his genius orphan exploitation program. just thought that was ummmm Interesting <3

[kittenn1011]

My reaction to the Death Note Movie:

- “Okay this is very murican”

- “this is not Light. Light is nothing like this.”

- “I was gonna give you room for making an American version of Light’s character-- ie, the perfect American son rather than the perfect Japanese son-- but this bitchass is just an embarassing bitchass.”

- “Since when did Ryuk have magical reality altering powers?”

- “Good thing my bookcase is next to me and I can grab the How to Read because this lore is bullshit.”

- “Why the shit isn’t it heart attacks though. Did you really just want to show off your effects? Why would they assume magic if it’s accidents rather than definitely a bunch of people working together? They thought it must be that when other people were dying of heart-fucking-attacks so...”

- “What even is this bitchass’s character besides being a bitchass? He’s whiny and annoying, isn’t good at anything in particular, has no drive to do much in particular...”

- “Also was this written by the idiots who I didn’t actually think still existed who think that Light actually has feelings for Misa of any significance for any other human beings at all really?”

- “Light naming himself is lame. Also, isn’t ‘kira’ just a Japanese pronunciation of the English word ‘killer’, not actually the Japanese word for killer??? Did they even watch the source material, it was stated directly....?”

- “Wait, is Misa actually the Light of this movie? What the fuck.”

- “Okay, you know what, I just want this bitchass dead. If white Light is to Mia white Misa what real Misa was to real Light, and they actually take it and run with it, I think I’ll be able to live with it.”

- “What the shit is wrong with Ryuk? The actor and effects are fine but he’s not himself at all really.”

- “Okay, black L is the best part of this movie tbh. Too bad Light is too much of a bitchass to give him the real mental workout that he deserves.”

- “But back to that heart attack thing, they went to magic way too fucking fast when it was a series of accidents.”

- “white Misa might be able to give him that workout if she’d just kill Light already.”

- “What the shit?”

- “What the actual shit?”

- “NO BUT THAT’S NOT HIS FUCKING NAME AT ALL WHY IS THIS WORKING.”

- “eXCEPT he WOULD’VE JUST FUCKING DIED. IMPOSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES = INSTADEATH, RYUK EVEN SAID SO IN THIS very MOVIE. LOOK I GET YOU DIDN’T ACTUALLY EVEN LOOK AT THE RULES OF HOW THE DEATH NOTE WORKS BESIDES LIKE THE FIRST ONE BUT YOU’RE NOT EVEN MAKING THE RULES INTERNALLY CONSISTENT. so if Light wrote “Quilish Whammy calls (XXX-XXXX) and tells the person who answers the phone the real name of the famous detective known as “L”” and Whammy doesn’t fucking know the real name of L... even though it’s JUST FUCKING L, he would... die of a heart attack after forty seconds. But Light wrote WATARI which is EVEN LESS LIKELY TO WORK THAN JUST FUCKING WRITING L TO KILL L. AND IF HE DID KNOW THE NAME OF L, HE WOULDN’T BE IN A TRANCE AND SHARE ALL THIS OTHER PRIVATE INFO ON L BECAUSE LIKE LIGHT DIDN’T WRITE THAT DOWN. UNLESS SPECIFIED, NO.”

- “WHAT’S THIS ABOUT BURNING. FUCKING FUCK. DEATH ERASER IS NO. IF YOU WERE GONNA, WHY NOT JUST MAKE A MOVIE OF THE PILOT CHAPTER AND LIKE NOT BECAUSE NO THE HUMAN WHOSE NAME IS WRITTEN IN THIS NOTE SHALL FUCKING DIE. WHY IS THIS A RULE???”

- “Seriously, why.”

- “I actually forgive the fall of Black L because technically we never do see how L might react to the man who raised him dying at the hands of Kira, especially so randomly and quickly. He might actually lose his calm calculating demeanour in favour of some rash actions... but still, it’s L, so I doubt he would actually, but it’s not the dumbest thing this movie has done so black L is forgiven.”

- “GO MISA. Seriously Bitchass white light, give the note to who I’ll now be calling white-actualLight-butagirl or Mia for short... and move on. You have no drive, she’s the only one who could wield the Death Note interestingly. Kira was fucking her idea, goddammit, even. This is ridiculous.”

- “And there’s a chase scene. of course there is.”

- “Is that a scifi space gun?”

- “That was random.”

- “Okay Light here’s the thing... that plan isn’t clever and wouldn’t’ve worked. There’s no “conditional” statement in the death note. The human whose name is written in the note shall die, and the specified actions should happen unless impossible, in which case the victim will die of a heart attack. if you wrote Mia’s fucking name down and that she’d fall to her death after grabbing the note, she’s going to grab the note. If it’s impossible for her to grab the note-- which, to be fair, I do think the real rules have some sort of requirement for nothing too out of the ordinary... for example, “telling L’s real name” or “writing a message in a language you don’t know” or something like that. Memories are vague, but that’s why Light’s messages to L were hidden in creepy poems, I think??? Anyways, even if Mia would never grab the Death Note because she loves Light... she’d still fucking DIE.”

- “Also, I don’t think Light could control how paper falls with the Death Note. It’s not controlling a person’s actions, so I think it’s out of the scope of its power. Most of Light’s more elaborate schemes had circumstances controlled by himself or other people who he is controlling, not only by the Death Note itself.”

- “WHYYYYYY”

- “Oh, it’s over?”

- “Okay, headcanon of movieverse accepted. Black L wrote down White Light in the Note and then lived happily ever after and there is never a sequel.”

- “At least it was good for a laugh.”