#lawlight easter egg

[rowwiz]

so is nobody else aware that L and Light's names are technical opposites of one another?

ok, so, this requires a lot of elaboration, so bear with me here. first thing to clarify is Light's name. without too much deliberation, Japan has this phenomenon (to my western understanding) wherein certain parents will name their children after English words. (this could potentially include other western languages; i am unsure.) as japanese is a syllabary, most of the time, these words cannot actually be pronounced properly in japanese. these names are often also written with presumably completely unrelated characters. light's name is one of these, having to be pronounced as "raito" in japanese, and written (as he so kindly explains to naomi) with "tsuki," the character for "moon." these names are called "kira-kira names." i am not joking. (that L never made a joke about light's name being literally a "kira-kira" name leaves me with a harrowingly destitute void in my soul.)

last thing we need to do is look at the translation for "Yagami," which approximates (to my knowledge!) as meaning "high," as in "high in power" (not "high" as in "stoned," because that's probably more like L's thing).

so, if we take an extrapolation of this, and replace light's names with their written functions—his forename as being a kira-kira name and being written as moon, and his surname (depending on how it's written) meaning "high"—we can evaluate an interpretation of light's name as being, extensively, "kira-kira moon high."

maybe my fellow death note crazies can see where i'm going with this. now, let's look at L's name, which is far more self-explanatory. his name is L Lawliet (in case you are somehow on the death note tags and were not already aware), which is pronounced "L low-light." (which, as s a side note, is a hilariously unintuitive pronunciation for his name, implying that Light (if he ever heard it) would almost certainly misspell it (made even more likely as a native japanese speaker, even given how good his english is) and potentially make him immune to a human using the death note by misspelling it six times.)

so, if we put the *phonetic* pronunciation of L's name next to the *written* extrapolation of light's, and reduce light's name to its logical conclusion, we get "L low light" and "Kira moon high." (hyphon in L's name and hyphon + second 'kira' in light's removed, as light himself is not both kiras, and removing the second kira also removes the hyphon in his name, whereafter we then logically can remove the hyphon in l's name. like homoerotic algebra.)

furthering the analogy, and allowing a little leniency (given all the other obvious similarities) that "light" can be taken as the opposite to "moon"—as in, "sunlight," and furthermore, "sun"—we output "L low sun" and "Kira moon high."

if you interpret L as the sun and Light as the moon, then congrats, it's already spelled out for you. if you interpret L as the moon and light as the sun, then it's like they carry the symbolic celestial analogies of one another in the other's name, which is some crazy soulmate shit. if you're like me, and interpret them as being both but in different ways, then both ways are true simultaneously. (to me, it speaks to how similar they ultimately are that you can interpret them as being both the sun and moon, albeit in different fashions.)

either way, they have gay ass little names and i can't believe i've never heard anybody talk about this before. so eat up, death note tumblr. enjoy your meal.

[craetor]

//the wonders of pre-isolation Isolation Lawlight in Light's cell

It's Light sitting there all day, everyday, thinking. Usually in L's presence because it's not supposed to be torture this time, but counseling. And I actually don't write fics that don't heavily lean into romance but I've been really considering to write snippets of little ideas for L & Light's interactions in that setting, since there's also been requests for a fic about how the story would altenate for Light to be caught, and how these conditions affect Light in response.

From moments of "Good morning. I brought breakfast - Don't throw it again", to subtle remarks that aren't exactly malicious in nature, yet coyly bring Light back to the reality of his situation, like: "The investigation is over. You can call me L from now on."

Them reestablishing their whole relationship, since the obscuring factor of their prior roles are now redundant and slowly being dismantled. L learning a softer, messier side of Light that isn't all about following principles or being superior; Light letting himself understand L's burden, as he expands on it directly, unafraid of the exposed soft spot being jabbed right into, which would probably make Light the only other confidant in such types of information next to Watari.

Lots and lots of time to talk & feel eachother's presence as they marinate through silent reading or random programs on a cheap TV, fixed atop an out-of-place fancy highboy.

Yes, I've made a comic on this. How many easter eggs can you find?

[captainhysunstuff]

Dumb visualization of my post about how cute it is whenever Light genuinely compliments someone~.  link

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