crack AU where L gets fed up with the task force complaining about him being chained to Light, snaps, and just brings in Near with the explanation that the issue is clearly that L is too old and Light should be supervised by someone within his age range. Cut to Light being absolutely livid for being demoted to a babysitter and getting chained to said baby (he doesn't know that Near is actually 13 and not like... 6. this also means he feels utterly insulted by L by calling Near "someone within Light's age range"). Fast forward a bit and Light and Near are actually getting along, which results in Watari overhearing L muttering "it should have been me..." more than once, with a depressed expression.
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Near can’t think of a more ridiculous way to spend the holiday season than having Kira accompany him while looking for a limited edition festive model train set. Or, Near braves the Christmas shopping crowd and runs into Light Yagami.
Silly fic of Near and Light Christmas shopping that I wrote as a gift for myself 🫶 Light finally gets Ryuk a silver Game Boy Advance SP, and Near doesn't know what to do with the information that Kira is a Mario fan.
crack AU where L gets fed up with the task force complaining about him being chained to Light, snaps, and just brings in Near with the explanation that the issue is clearly that L is too old and Light should be supervised by someone within his age range. Cut to Light being absolutely livid for being demoted to a babysitter and getting chained to said baby (he doesn't know that Near is actually 13 and not like... 6. this also means he feels utterly insulted by L by calling Near "someone within Light's age range"). Fast forward a bit and Light and Near are actually getting along, which results in Watari overhearing L muttering "it should have been me..." more than once, with a depressed expression.
Fandom: Death Note
Pairings: None
Rating: T
Summary: Almost two years after the arrest of Kira, Near has finally succeeded L, but his reign hasn’t gone unchallenged. Faced with an unsolvable string of murders threatening both his position and his life, the third L must seek help from an unlikely (and unlikable) source: his imprisoned predecessor, Light Yagami.
AN: As some of you may remember from *coughs in embarrassment* three months ago *cough*, I ran a contest in which the top three finishers were promised short fic as a prize. Since I am trash at long last rediscovering the glorious concept of “free time,” I’ve finally had time to sit down and work on the promised prizes.
First up: swordsinthesnowdrift–who’s ending up with quite a bit more than she bargained for because “Light survives the series and ends up in Near’s custody AU” just so happens to be my favorite AU as well, so what was supposed to be a one-off is instead Chapter One of at least a twelve chapter saga with alternating Near/Light viewpoint chapters. I’d say I were sorry, but I’m not. At all.
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I've been trying to figure out why I'm in a weird mood today, and it just hit me: the last time I wasn't either writing or planning out something for the Noelverse on Christmas was Christmas 2013.
Huh.
hi @grimalkinmessor ! I'm your secret santa :>
drew you some terraito for your @dnsecretsanta gift, I hope you like it 🖤🍎
i have never once celebrated Christmas even once in my stupid baka life but the holiday is dear to me because of The Aesthetics. please don't look at anything too hard i beg
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im sorry for massacring you, humanised rem and ryuk......
nia
Near holding the L, Light and Mello plushies
eugouuuuuuu i love his little round nose and his big eyes he is so cute i cant take it i wanna squeeze him so bad look at that little face. how can anyone hate him. he is so tiny why is he sitting like that i love him ouueuuuuuu
my silly ass is NOT passing math class
thinking about Matsuda in the epilogue. The manga epilogue chapter, set a year after yellowbox, where Matsuda and Ide discuss Light and Kira, even though the world’s mostly gone back to pre-Kira. And it’s clear from Ide that Matsuda’s theories around what happened on the 28th come up a lot. Matsuda thinks that Near used the notebook on Mikami, and that he fed Mello the information he needed to manipulate him into kidnapping Takada and proving the notebook as fake. And it’s so, so painfully clear that Matsuda is desperately clinging onto anything that would make Light seem more sympathetic. That all the cards were stacked against him, that Near was secretly evil and self-serving too, that maybe Light didn’t even have a choice in what happened at Yellowbox. Because, as Ide said, Matsuda cared about Light. More than the others. He’s wracked by guilt over what happened- who wouldn’t be? Matsuda’s light-hearted, optimistic personality he even managed to keep during the whole Kira case is reduced to a facade, a mask of his old self. He’s depressed. He’s angry. He’s grasping at straws to justify the past five years of his life spent devoted to and admiring a serial killer who saw him as nothing more than the dirt beneath his boot. Someone he thought he could trust. Someone he literally risked his life to protect, when he told Mello he was acting as L, so prevent Soichiro from having to expose Light’s identity as L. Kira may be evil, but Light was good, right? So Kira couldn’t be truly evil, because Light wasn’t; couldn’t be.
i’m thinking about Matsuda in the epilogue.
hehe L(f) on a shelf
got the little hat and scarf and knew what had to be done
Lightnear but Near is the one chasing after Light. ❤️ It is just so fun to think about Near flirting with Light and Light just… he has no idea if he’s being serious or if he’s only messing with him to get him to confess AND that just makes it even better for me. They’re so entertaining to think about and put into situations with their different personalities. (๑>◡<๑)
alone.
why did they do this to him twice lol
Why does everyone on TikTok infantilize Near? Like omg they’re acting like this man is 5-7 years old! He’s 18/19 when Light gets caught, there’s no reason (especially after the timeskip) to think that he’s a child. It’s the fact that everyone is like “OMG LIgHt GOt bEaTEn bY a LiTtlE kID!!1!” And that they all think Meronia is some form of pedophilia because Near is “obviously a child” 🙄. Just because Mello appears older than Near he’s only older than him by like 2/3 years AT MOST! And when you try to tell them that you’re hit with “HES A CHILD” and just like NO! Just because YOU cannot think of him as anything other than a kid doesn’t mean that he is a kid.
Shout out to that one manga translation that casually lets Near curse two times
Hi everyone! So I’ve been thinking about running a Death Note rarepair event around March-April 2025, but I want to make sure there’s enough interest before I go ahead with anything. Could you please vote on whether you would participate, and which dates work best (assume prompts will be released a month before):
you know that post that’s like “I love it when the villain switches sides but they don’t have a redemption arc so they’re still the villain just helping the others out” that’s peak light/near dynamic to me
how am i supposed to go to work when im literally thinking about The Character
If I don't stare at The Character for at least one hour a day, I start to wilt