#could be lawlight could not be lawlight

[majorilycomplucated]

Death Note FIC Idea

Attention Death Note fic writers, I have a plot idea Watari and Roger are partners in crime and discovered L's talents by him stopping WW3 at age 8, but the twist is that instead of the kid's parents dying naturally. They target gifted kids and murder the parents instead, forcing them into the orphanage so they can mold them into L's successors. The reason is Wammy's inventions aren't making as much money as they usually would. With a genius kid like L sculpted into being a detective, imagine all the money they'd get? They gaslight the fuck out of them to make them think they never even met their parents and whoever wasn’t cracking under the manipulation was put under intense pressure to melt their brain into mush. (Could be a subplot of what happened to A and Beyond) Yes, I know. This is all very dark and doesn't sound much like Watari. However, in the novel... (SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS KEEP SCROLLING)

I'm pretty sure Mello says something like "L was Watari's greatest invention" and also hints that the first generation of kids were merely test subjects and designed to fail. That means both Roger and Wammy didn't care about these children... L included (not talking about LCTW, love that Watari), he was just seen as an invention so grand he had to be copied. (plus his room growing up was literally a padded cell soooo) Now with that out of the way, this makes a lot more sense. It would follow the original plot of the anime and manga - Light is still Kira, L is the Detective trying to execute him, HOWEVER... When Light gives himself amnesia, this is where it all comes into play. As Kira, he had researched about all these parents getting murdered. They never found the culprits, so he pushed it aside until he had a lead. Well. Meeting L and seeing how Watari acts around him... he finally has something to connect it to.

Before he gets his memories back? He's helping L escape the Wammy House manipulation and to help him learn the truth of what really happened and to become Lawliet. Not just L. Break free of the mechanic chains that he was raised in and taught instead how to be a person. How to be human. Boom, that's my story idea. If you couldn't tell, I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort

Imagine the angstttttt

The disbelief, the anger, the accusations, the defending... until finally... he looks and thinks back and realizes that Light is right. Once he's free of the manipulation... can he save the others? Or will Near, Mello and Matt suffer the same fate as past kids?

[fishgirl514]

sorry yeah we queer coded your boyfriend. he’s arguing with his brash and emotionally reserved rival over something trivial for comedic effect. they have a special, vaguely suggestive bond that sets them apart. hm? oh uhh. yes they are blue and red

[dnbrainrot]

(From the Death Note encyclopedia in the official box set)

“He’s likely not capable of loving a woman” yeah but he sure does have an obsession with a certain dark haired man instead

[shokano19]

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death note doodles from a while back

[spiraling-trap]

drew a cover photo for the lawlight playlist i made. yes the reference was magnet vocaloid

the playlist is 2000s emo btw. obvi

[littlegrnghoul]

Yeah..

[historygay420692]

honestly we are so lucky L didn’t win bc he would’ve caught light and been so freaky about it. im talking crucifixion level gay shit

[grimalkinmessor]

Thinking about an AU where there is no Death Note Light literally just develops the ability to causes heart attacks through knowing someone's name and face and having enough active malice towards them that their heart just explodes. Thinking about how he'd be in denial about it for longer. Thinking about how he'd go even more insane with his God Complex. Thinking about Ryuk just being the first person to find out about it because he watched Light glare super hard at Shibamaru Takuo right before the guy collapsed convulsing on the ground and died. Thinking about Ryuk IMMEDIATELY tagging along for the fun of it and shoving his way into being Light's best friend within fifteen minutes of this discovery. Thinking about Light killing people on accident because his powers are now emotion-based. Thinking about Light blasting rage music through his headphones so he can kill multiple people at once. Thinking about L feeling his heart stutter in his chest so often around Light that he's convinced he has feelings for him but it's really just Light's power knocking at his ribcage because he only has half of L's name. Thinking about—

[cornymember]

soulmates

[captainhysunstuff]

@lawlightweek2024 Day 2: Soul mates (sort of)!

L runs into a newly brandished Detective Light Yagami at a park, and the two easily reconnect~.

This wasn't my original plan for this prompt, but I still wanted to get across that these dudes just kind of... belong together, y'know?

[frootloopsl]

i missed them

[maiumeni]

[kiyomitakada]

okay fuck it i went to a leonardo da vinci exhibit today and now i have a leonardo da vinci death note AU in my head because i am a parody of myself so you can fucking have it i guess what do i even do with this

light yagami: young genius polymath who is good at literally everything

unfortunately for him he is a foreigner in italia (his family immigrated) so the government is not letting him anywhere near their weaponry projects. instead he does art. yes light yagami painted the mona lisa no i do not take criticism i’m in too deep

his portraits are predictably amazing. smash hit. soon aristocracy from all over italy is contacting him to draw them and their mother. this means he doesnt even have time in the day to draw giant fuckoff warship designs anymore. what point is there to life, he sulks.

eventually he accepts a commission from one kyosuke higuchi! we’re italianizing him because i really don’t think this AU works otherwise but let’s call him higuchi anyway. higuchi is a fifty-something duke of something or other who has recently married one misa amane who is twenty-something (the same age as light). misa is the subject of the portrait because higuchi just loves his darling wife so much (read: they had a shotgun wedding and higuchi needs to keep up appearances)

light is like wow someone who isn’t white it’s been like five years. i kind of feel bad for her, this situation is very suspicious. hello miss amane if you’ll just sit down over there while i get my brushes

misa (seeing the first person who has been even remotely sympathetic to her absolutely horrific life, noticing he hasn’t tried to make any advances on her at all [this is a good thing]): I AM DRASTICALLY IN LOVE WITH YOU.

light: what

misa’s plan of seducing light predictably fails because he’s light, so she explains she has to get the fuck away from higuchi somehow

light is like okay well i am sorry to hear that but what does this have to do with me.

misa, tearing up: im a damsel in distress! also i can get you information about his court

light: whats his job

misa: financial advisor

light: oh fuck yes okay

so light’s plan is now to worm into the yotsuba court to get funding and hopefully sway them enough to let him pitch his cool weaponry ideas so he can Change The World. he does need income in general too (both for himself and his family; expected lifespan was way shorter then obviously).

misa’s plan is to kill higuchi somehow which will be much easier with light as backup she thinks

so. light packs up and moves to the yotsuba court which is thrilled to have THE light yagami portrait artist (i do more than portraits…) in their employ

oh yeah, misa mentions, the prince of the yotsuba court is kind of… weird

light: you could have told me this before

misa: ehe. dont worry about it!! it’s just um. he had a weird personality shift a few years ago? and now he refuses to wear royal attire. he always dresses like a peasant.

light: well it’s not like i’m going to be there to judge him on fashion am i.

THAT’S RIGHT. SIKE THIS IS AN ISEKAI NOW. yes L does remember light killing him <3 he (L) woke up in fifteenth century renaissance italy in a twenty-something-year-old body immediately after the heart attack. by some miracle he already knew italian.

so everything is going swell until one day light walks into his workshop to find the prince flipping through his notebook

light, sleep deprived: hey what the fu—i mean. uh. good morning your highness

there’s no need for that formality. call me L.

(…but your name doesn’t start with an L?) thank you, your highness L. um. sorry i know my handwriting’s messy.

on the contrary i find it completely readable, as long as one reads backwards and caesar shifts it three letters forward.

(oh SHIT he’s onto me) haha what are you talking about?

in fact i think this mechanical dragonfly contraption is rather ingenious.

oh aha that’s not important, just a passing fancy honestly

[ignoring him] if only you had some better way of providing torque, because as it stands the spring engine is extremely poorly designed.

what the fuck did you just say to me

[they end up physically fighting over the notebook because of course they do. meet cute!]

some more details:

ryuk is the patron light eventually gets after being in higuchi’s court for a bit

rem is higuchi’s personal assistant, who was disowned by her own royal-blooded family because her family sucks. she hates her job. if it weren’t for misa she’d probably be on the other side of the country by now

i don’t know where the wammy kids are. they’re definitely competing to be the heir to L’s throne but also they’re not related because there is no way that all the wammy kids (the whole orphanage of wammy kids) could have come from the same person. maybe some kind of insufferably high collar royal boarding school? did they even have those? help me

kiyomi and teru are both advisors in other courts (which are extremely corrupt, light seethes, in his perfect world there wont be any of those anymore) (you work for a court light) (thats different)

okay i’m done for today. you never know about tomorrow though. /threat.

[ @deathnotetober day 12: isekai ]

[corviiids]

your lawlight bfu au where they don't kill each other actually but Light in the believer fashion threatens to kill L jokingly and L doesn't know if he's joking so he prepares just in case and that's why they manage to stay alive in all this. Light joking about killing L makes him not actually want to do it bc the hypothetical situations satisfy his urge to actually do it

hear me out

[crushforty]

lawlight nendoroids in doll clothes

[spiraling-trap]

there is something so transgender about these two. not sure exactly what it is but it’s so transgender