#pairings: lawlight

[kittysauce]

Thank you for lesbian lawlight I’m obsessed with them

you are SO WELCOME asker i would die for them

[13eyond13]

You know even if L and Light were both extremely heterosexual men, I still don't get how either one of them wouldn't find it alarmingly sexy that the other one was secretly trying THAT hard to constantly impress them and read their mind and personally entertain them and trip them specifically and ONLY them up

[captainhysunstuff]

When I was typing a lawlight tag, I saw the autofill option for lawsuit, and I immediately thought, “No, that’s L and Mikami’s ship name.” Because Lawliet and prosecutor, y’know. And now that’s all I can think about.

[pinelohearts]

Lawlight Week, Day 4: Torture/Confinement

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“𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝙷𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚌𝚑𝚒, 𝙻 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚒𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎. 𝙷𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚏𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎: 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝙻𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚈𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚒 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚕.”

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Pairing: Lawlight

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings

Notable Tags: Psychological Horror, Psychological Torture, Solitary Confinement, Extremely Dubious Consent

[llawlieta]

What’s your most unpopular DN opinion? (It can be about canon, fanon the fandom)

This is a hard to answer question for me because I don't know that I have many unpopular opinions, or any at all?! So I'm just going to ramble a little bit at you. I hope this is the quality content you were looking for.

I am FAR from confident that my own characterization of Light and L is right, but I sometimes feel like my view of them is an unpopular one because I see different sides of fandom taking certain traits and pulling in totally different directions - Light is either dramatic with a hair-trigger temperament and ready for Violence OR he is very soft and fluffy. (Or, he is either constantly openly and shamelessly putting women down or actually a #feminist.) Same thing with L. L is very soft and gentle and full of angsty feelings, or (and I think the following is a view that some people have adopted as a rejection to the Uwu L ™ characterization that was king in the early days of the fandom, sjsksjd) he is a confident asshole with almost no consideration towards other people beyond what is useful to him to be able to solve a case.

But then of course I know this is a bit like saying nothing because all fandoms will do this to their blorbos, and all characters are more complex than you'd think from a cursory search through their Tumblr tag. I was discussing this with a beloved friend and she illuminated me by mentioning that fandom... just loves Drama and Heightened Feelings... People consume the source material and want more Feels out of it (especially media like Death Note, I'd imagine, which really doesn't spend more time than necessary dwelling on anyone's feelings) and so they take... Light having a yelling fit and make it a very prominent trait of his personality. Or L having a soft moment and fill him with soft feelings that are coming out all the time. Which is a reasonable instinct to have! even though I think the interesting part of those moments in canon is precisely the fact that they are extraordinary in some way.

So I AM saying nothing and this does happen in every fandom, and contrary to what that cursory search through any fandom tag would tell you, a lot of people certainly treat the characters with subtlety and pay careful attention to all of their dimensions. I mean, evidently, most people do it much better than I could ever hope to do!! (In my defense I have to say that if I stress myself out with writing Light and L properly in-character I will drive myself insane, so not doing it is Self Care for me). But, ah! hopefully this is still some sort of answer, anon!

The L thing bothers me more, because he is my beloved boy and because I think people insist a bit too much on the view of him as confident asshole who doesn't give a fuck. Cleverer people than me have discussed this, particularly in the Lawlight server in which I am, but L does in fact Give Some Fucks. I'm noticing it more now that I'm rereading the manga! A lot of soft little L moments are making me sort of understand why people back in the early fandom days really ran with that Soft Uwu L interpretation haha. It's not remotely accurate to reduce him to those traits! but it's not accurate either to reduce him to the opposite ones?

And I feel like the same phenomenon happens with Lawlight, My Beloved Ship. Sometimes it feels like, if people don't portray them as a very soft and fluffy couple, they can portray them as a couple that would be so toxic and unhealthy that they couldn't have a normal, loving relationship without mind games and manipulation always running through the undercurrent of it. Idk we all know these boys are crazy insane but I don't think they'd be quite THAT toxic!!

Rereading the manga has made me have the realization once again that (I think) L and Light honestly just fit together very well, and don't hate each other with nearly as much venom and intensity as one might think, and there's a lot of common interests and genuine mutual appreciation and fun in their relationship. Particularly in a no notebook AU where there'd be no need for 70% of their mind games of course lol, but it's also there just, like, canonically.

↑ they discuss the news and buy groceries together and read different books silently on the couch actually.

[god-of-this-new-blog]

“What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?” — Gone Girl

Heavily Inspired by @quicktimeeventfull ‘s fic Animal Games

[nothingmorethanhotleefjuice]

My favourite link between death note and any tragedy is the fact that both death note and Othello could have been entirely fixed by the main couple splitting up to be in gay relationships with their closest friend.

[darklight-owl]

GIRL HELP i've been talked into shipping something again but not for fluff reasons this time but for "wow this is an awful relationship and makes the canon so much more horrible I'm fascinated" reasons. I need to study them under a microscope right fucking now.

[vivi-scera]

hey what's up! i wanted to drop in and say ur mellonear fanfic was AMAZING. easily one of the best works in the tag 💕. please please tell me ur going to write more for them. i just can't get over the amount of detail you put into it... if u don't mind talking about it... i just want to know how ur mind works pretty please 🤲

who— can you guys pls come off anon i'm begging and crying!!!

anyway THANKS SO MUCH. here i was bitching and moaning to my friends that that piece didn't turn out as well as i would've liked. can think of 2 or 3 fics off the top of my head that i love way more. but i'm so glad you liked it <333

and sad to say i am, in fact, not writing more for them <\3 i feel like i've said everything i can say about them? i mean they have like 10 lines total together how much more could i possibly extrapolate sdkjflhsf. i'm not a huge au writer tbh i pretty much only like working within canon. but you'll be happy to know i do plan on writing another death note fic (an au one though, surprisingly). just not for meronia. not telling which pairing but. near is in it trust. obvi it'll have meronia subtext.

and thank you thank you for the compliment about the details even though >.< i thought i didn't put in nearly enough. literally read that semi-canon side story in its entirety and only put in 2 things from it. and one of the things i straight up plagiarized <3 but we're gonna say i just referenced it.

i think i mostly just wanted to focus on how like childish yet mysterious they were. imagine you're kira, a functional god, and these 2 kids are running around without your knowledge trying to thwart you. you don't know what they look like, what they know about you, what they are to each other, what their names are, etc. etc. (they also represent the two halves of your would-be lover but we're not gonna go there). at the end of the day, they don't even care that much about YOU, a god (because they already had their own and well. you killed him)!! i guess i wanted to further emphasize that the stakes (for catching/stopping kira), for near & mello, weren't that high. at least,, not as high as beating each other (SO romantic). it was as if it were, as i referenced, just a game to them!! but a game sort of rigged against them, favoring the wammy industrial complex ofc. (the house always wins wink wink). but also,, it's all very tragic in the sense that they really have no other way to look at things. just child soldier things yknow.

idk there was some insane untapped story-telling potential there in the canon. the set-up sort of gave near & mello their own godhood statuses and stripped kira of his own. if i were to rewrite part 2 of death note i'd either keep it all strictly in light's pov or keep it all strictly in theirs. it did a disservice to the story/characters, imo, by attempting to keep the same dynamic/pov going from part 1. i'm not gonna lie and say the 2nd part was as good as the 1st sorryyy. because they were somewhat misutilized i never even considered the (incestuous) implications until someone ;) started posting about them ofc. then i thought about how much their dynamic reflected my personal favorite pairing of all time (knowers know) so i kind of took some preconceived notions and applied them. actually i was originally writing fic for afore-not-mentioned pairing and i'm pretty sure i just used lines from that to get started lmao.

anyway that's all i got atm. if i think of more i wanna talk about i'll write more <3 thx again for the ask!! feel free to ask more ofc ;3

[chameliyun]

Fic Rec Friday - #8

should probably actually have at least one Death Note fic on here with my pfp lol. and it's the Friday before L's birthday, after all

Intro post | tag

Rec #8: Offer Me My Deathless Death - bonesandcacti Fandom: Death Note Rating: T Pairing: L/Light Yagami Word count: 61,399 (9 chapters) Summary: L is a vampire who has been alive for hundreds of years. Light keeps reincarnating, and L always finds him. Every time, they fall in love, but Light does worse and worse things each life. Other notes: lots of fun lore (shinigami and vampires), maybe slightly predictable plot but nonetheless interesting. one of my favorite Death Note AUs.

[13eyond13]

Truly amazing that after all this time we are still getting fresh fanart and fics of L and Light being bonkers crazy horny for each other on the semi reg

[captainhysunstuff]

the inherent homoerotisism of killing your rival

It is pretty homoerotic, right guys? *looks at my various OTPs*

[c0rpsedemon]

i have a bad habit called 'daydreaming about what would happen if the webcomic that i definitely work on besides making tumblr posts and infodumping to my dad had a megafandom' and i've come to the conclusion that it would suck royally . that being said, while i do 100% acknowledge that future fame and success isn't a good thing to put thought into have you considered that, in case of the hypothetical event that it does happen, my daydreams about the situation will have been valuable and have let me dodge a serious potential bullet by changing jack's color scheme from blue to gold

[dukeofdelirium]

“lawlight is bad because they have a power imbalance”

girl these men are trying to have the other killed. they are literally obsessed with each other. Light loves to run and hide from L while fantasizing about strangling him with his bare hands and L loves to chase Light around and illegally detain his ass. Light possesses a power that literally no one should ever have granting him the ability to kill whoever he wants as long as he knows 2 things about them and L has a frankly unethical amount of judicial power and he’s also so rich he can do whatever he wants.

the whole reason L even has as much power as he does is so that it matches the level of power Light has. L was literally created to be Light’s equal.

nothing about lawlight is unbalanced lol. the entire ship hinges on them being equals in power and in intellect. no one can match them but each other. no one really knows them but each other. and to be fucking honest, no one deserves to be paired with them but each other bc why would you subject anyone else to whatever L and Light have going on

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[lawlietisms]

i headcanon that light sat in his room after going to to-oh college and just thought. "i am not gay, that random emo boy i played tennis with is not hot." lawlight will forever be such a funny pairing to me because it's basically just light going "I'M NOT GAY STOP WASHING MY FEET IN A HOMOEROTIC MANNER" and l being entirely clueless and seeing him as his very first friend

[corviiids]

[death note spoilers]

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The night Ryuzaki dies, L appears in Light's bed.

In Light's arms are a towel and a pair of pyjama pants, neither of which belong to him. L sits cross-legged in a standard king, hunched over a slim notebook computer which is creasing and no doubt heating the sheets to a fire hazard. The desk is mere inches away. Light had lost the fight for a four-poster with a canopy, which might have granted him some meagre protection from the blue light of L’s ever-on laptop, but it hadn't mattered anyway, because L had soon after migrated to the bed they shared given it had no impact on his horrendous posture anyw

Whose memories are these?

L glances up.

“You can shower first,” he says, zeroing in on his towel and pyjama pants in Light’s hands. “I’ll be a while.”

“I can't find my loungewear.”

“It's in the hamper. You can borrow mine.”

“Thanks,” says Light, and wakes up.

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lawlight, 3.8k, a fic i wrote on a plane about light having nightmares in which he is in a romantic relationship with the recently murdered L.