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I need a Death Note hockey AU where lawlight are on opposing teams in the NHL and they always end up fist fighting on the ice every time they play each other. Neither are known as goon players, so it’s always a surprise for the fans to see their beloved captains fighting! Each other, no less! It happens so frequently that a rivalry is established between both teams and the NHL fully leans into it. Alas, neither make it to the playoffs.
The following summer passes and so does the draft, until Light is unexpectedly traded to L’s team and.it’s.pandemonium. People are freaking out. It is the scandal of the decade!!!!
#do you feel me#do you see me lawlight nation#death note au#bazpangofic#like !!!!!!!!!!!#no and then there’s a mid szn trade#after what I am dubbing our Yotsuba Metaphorical Arc#where they are ENEMIES TIMES A MILLION again#and then they both get to the Stanley cup finals !!!!!#fuckkkkkkkkk#ryuk pls someone write this I am so very lazy and have so many WIPs#death note
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Near and L for the character ask
Near:
favorite thing about them:
So after L’s death I needed a little, uh, break from Death Note because I was too depressed to read on. I was in a weird & shitty mental place anyway, so I just deliberately spoiled myself, and that’s how I found about Near, how he was going to convict Light and survive. After a few months, that was also what motivated me to pick up DN again. Near was a source of huge comfort for me from the very beginning, practically before I even came to know him - and then I was pleasantly surprised how well and intriguingly he was written. He was now the second character I could relate to as an autistic! (I don’t think I relate to any character who’s ~canonically autistic~, lol) I quickly came to love him as much as I love L for all the reasons listed above. And it’s difficult to single out just one of the many things I love about him, but if I had to choose one personality trait… it would be how genuinely realistic and level-headed he is.
least favorite thing about them:
I’m definitely someone who loves his favourite characters not just despite but because of their flaws. I very much disagree with his opinion on Kiyomi, but it doesn’t bother me that he’s a bit judgmental. It’s what makes him… him.
favorite line:
brOTP:
mainly him and Mello…. I will forever cry about what could have been, honestly
OTP:
I don’t have a OTP for him per se, but I like Natebit
nOTP:
him and L - I could never ship L with one of the Wammy’s kids
random headcanon:
his favourite video game is Minish Cap and he once made Vaati and Ezlo finger puppets
unpopular opinion:
he’s better written than L, but I consider this to be a very subjective opinion & totally get why people disagree with me here
song i associate with them:
I have a few, but I think I never talked about how I associate “Ask” by The Smiths with him. This would be a very fun Meronia song! (I for some reasons have so many songs I associate with that ship, even though I don’t really ship it, technically) (I don’t mind it either though)
favorite picture of them:
If you could see my Near folder… you would realise that it’s kinda impossible to pick just one, so I picked one semi-randomly:
L:
favorite thing about them:
My absolute favourite thing about him is how he’s genuinely, authentically eccentric and doesn’t give one single fuck what other people think about him. And he doesn’t shy away from using his quirks against people, confusing them with his contradictory character and just let’s them overcomplicate him. - Without really doing anything. It’s amazing how full of bullshit and authentic he’s at the same time.
He’s refreshingly confident in his weirdness, and inspired me a lot to be more open about my ~eccentricities~ as well. He doesn’t have any cool quirks but is a cool character anyway, and that’s one of the biggest reasons he means so much to me on a personal level. I also think he’s quite hilarious, attractive in a trippy, ugly but natural way, and obviously a huge reason why DN is so entertaining in the first place. It’s difficult to not feel a bit… or a lot in love with him.
least favorite thing about them:
My least favourite thing? That there wasn’t a panel of him looking directly at the reader, saying, “The alias “Ryuzaki” means nothing to me and the only reason I use the name in the first place is because I’m petty and childish and like to collect the names of the (pseudo-)detectives I subdued”.
favorite line:
Because this made me feel….. a lot
brOTP:
Hmmm… him and Soichiro. He’s generally pretty polite and says “thank you” several times, but I like that he even thanks Soichiro in his head this one time:
Their relationship is underappreciated, in my opinion
OTP:
…………….AU!Lawlight
nOTP:
him x everyone who isn’t Light, Aiber or Wedy
random headcanon:
He sometimes draws very ugly portraits of the people he’s talking to while pretending to make notes
unpopular opinion:
He’s not sadistic
song i associate with them:
Don’t Swallow the Cap by The National
favorite picture of them:
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Hey it’s late but for the character meme would u do L?
Thanks so much, dude! This is gonna get long, and I’m very sorry.
doI like them:
Ahh, L is my absolute favourite! I’ve written a literal essay on this topic, lolol. I still don’t fully understand why I adore him, ‘cause he’s such a jerkwad to everyone ninety percent of the time, which isn’t normally my kind of person, y'know. But I fucking love his sly, deadpan humour, and how he’s such an unapologetic weirdo and a goofball while also being sort of seductive & dangerous & confident simultaneously. Basically I have a super embarrassing crush on him lmao. I mostly blame Alessandro Juliani’s voice and clever interpretation of L’s personality for that, but also I just really appreciate L as a highly original and fascinating character.
5 good qualities:
Confident. He is nothing if not this. You don’t confront telepathic murderers over national TV and ask them to kill you without a healthy dose of self-assurance.
Proactive. Lis not lazy in the least.
Extremely thorough. L half-asses nothing.
Funny. He makes me laugh so much, both because he’s doing something funny on purpose or he’s just being super weird. It’s such a huge part of what makes his character so appealing, and I just love it.
Creative. L is amazing at wiggling out of tough scenarios and coming up with very creative solutions to difficult problems. He really keeps Light on his toes.
3 bad qualities:
A show-off. L loves to slyly flaunt his obscene wealth and talents randomly at everyone; the man doesn’t have a humble bone in his body. He’s definitely one of those people who would just shamelessly agree with any compliment you pay them, and then probably add a few more points to it that you missed about how awesome he really is.
Hypocritical. He’s a huge, manipulative liar, and just as morally ambiguous as the criminals he catches, if not more; but he’s also pretty self aware about it, at least. I think that’s one of the biggest differences between him and Light; L doesn’t refuse to acknowledge his own flaws.
Pragmatic to the point of cruelty. L doesn’t give a fuck about your feelings, as long as he gets the results that he wants. This works very well for his job, but it causes a lot of suffering for the good people around him in delicate social situations. I think the best examples of this are when L upsets Aizawa so much that he ends up quitting the task force and breaking down in tears; or when L ignores and belittles Matsuda to the point that Matsuda nearly ends up dying just trying to prove himself useful to the investigation. Those are the parts of the story that really test my love for L the most; I hate seeing him be so mean to my noble task force sons who just want to help.
Favourite episode/etc: I particularly love episode 18, when L first handcuffs himself to Light and we get to slow down the plot and see a more human side of L emerge. His sulking is ridiculous, as is the three-way date with Light and Misa; and of course, that fight scene is a classic for any LawLight shipper (“I won’t be satisfied unless you’re Kira.. Now that you mention it, you’re right. I think I wanted you to be Kira.”…c'mon, you can’t tell me those aren’t hot lines, especially the way he growls them while staring Light down like a predator, hahaha). God, I hate how often the dumb phones interrupt their crazy sexual tension. Fuck off with that business and just let them angrily makeout already, amirite??
Otp: I think it’s pretty obvious by now that I passionately ship Lawlight! I normally only like pairings that somewhat make sense with what we know about thecharacters’ preferences from canon, and also have some sort of interesting chemistry or angle to them, and Lawlight is the ultimate in that way for me. It’s one of those ships where I’m just like, aahh they’re too perfect together; I can’t really imagine Light being happy with anyone else, even as no doubt fucked up and easily unhealthy their situation would be a lot of the time, haha. They are clearly obsessed with and motivated by each other in canon, and have such good chemistry together as enemies as well as friends. It’s good enough that I’m still hung up on it way more than I should be in this, the Year of Our Lord 2017, lol.
brotp: I think L’s obvious respect for Soichiro is really interesting and endearing. AndI love that Soichiro treats him in a fatherly, patient, and respectful manner in return. They have a really interesting relationship in the canon, and it makes me wonder about how L might’ve turned out with a more normal upbringing and a well-intentioned father figure who wasn’t just using him as a little case-solving machine.
ot3: I said this already in my character ask for B, but BxLxLight is my favourite Death Note threeway by far. No matter which way it goeswith that trio, it’s hot and interesting and has a lot of potential for comedy and/or angst. I need more of it.
notp: Hmm. I find it very difficult to imagine Matsuda and L together realistically, because L is always a cruel bully to Matsuda. And Matsuda clearly likes girls a lot in canon. So that one’s never really clicked for me mentally; but I still appreciate when people do those more imaginative crack-ships like that nonetheless, so it’s whatever, you know?
best quote: (after his dramatic fake pause when Light asks him how he thinks it would feel to be accused of being Kira): “It was one of the worst feelings ever.” Lololol.That is the perfect deadpan L moment; Light so deserves to be subtly mocked, and it just kills me so good every single time.
headcanon: L has a thigh-high stocking fetish, and he often likes to fantasize about making Light wear Misa’s tights.
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My pitch for an American Death Note movie
And now I would like to take a break from angry posting about how shitty the upcoming noteflix movie is going to be to pitch my own, not perfect but less shitty, version.
WARNING: This is REALLY long. I was only gonna fix White Yagami and make up a few sentences of plot but then I got really into it. (Also I was just making it up as I went so if it’s good maybe Netflix should hire me.)
First up, I’m not trying to retell the story of the manga/anime, because there are already movies that do that. I’m pitching a story for an American audience, with some big changes. My intent is that this would work either as a standalone film (for an audience that is unfamiliar with the series) or it could exist in the same universe (for the existing fans/the new fans who go back to the source material because the movie is good.) More on this later.
Okay, so there is no White Yagami. In fact, there is no Light at all because I firmly believe that his character/story makes no sense if you take away his Japanese upbringing. And if I’m going to change Light, then I may as well change all of the characters/world around him. I have put like zero thought into naming or creating new characters tho, so for now I am just going to call our protagonist Proxy!Light. (Bear with me guys, there’s a lot of this.)
Act 1: The Fall
Proxy!Light is an African American student in his late teens living somewhere in the USA where there is a high crime rate, racial tension, religion and a corrupt police force. (I’m Australian so I don’t know the exact location. Maybe somewhere in the Bible Belt?) He is more likely to make an emotional decision than a rational one, he comes from a happy nuclear family and he is not an apathic genius. He is optimistic, caring, a bit naive but overall a genuinely good guy who wants to make the world a better place. He is in his senior year of high school and is trying to get his grades as high as possible to land a scholarship, because he has no chance of attending university without one. He wants to be a lawyer, but failing this will probably try for the police force. No matter what, he wants to be in the justice system, protecting and serving his community.
He finds the death note, and Ryuk or a Proxy!Shinigami (again, more on this later) explains what it is. He refuses to use it, because killing people is wrong, but keeps it so it won’t fall into the wrong hands.
This would be a good place to throw in some religious imagery: Proxy!Light attending church with his family, Ryuk and the power he offers are presented as being an evil, corrupting force, etc. But Proxy!Light hasn’t fallen yet.
One day, Proxy!Light’s father is murdered by the police. It’s the same story we’ve seen before: he was doing nothing wrong, but was racially profiled and the police used lethal force. Proxy!Light’s world is shattered. His father, a good man, is demonised by the media while the police force, which he has always seen as a protective presence, fabricates a case to make the innocent man they killed seem guilty in the eyes of the world. Proxy!Sayu places herself in the front lines of a social movement which demands justice for her father and is labelled as a criminal who incites riots. Proxy!Sachiko tries to go the official route and hold the officers who killed her husband accountable, but the case never even makes it to court. Eventually she is forced to drop it when she starts receiving threats against her children.
Proxy!Light is unable to cope with what happened. His grades drop and he loses any chance of a scholarship. Law school is out of the question now and he has been thoroughly disillusioned on the police force. Everything he believed in has been turned on its head and he knows that there is no way that it can be made right again. He decides to take justice into his own hands and uses the death note to kill all of the police officers involved in the death of his father.
And now we enter Act 2: the arrival of Proxy!L and Proxy!Misa.
We open in church again. The preacher (priest? minister? wizard? idk) is praying for the officers that died, and encouraging people to remain calm and sensitive in this difficult time. Someone asks if the heart attacks that killed all those officers was an act of god. The preacher says no, because god is a loving force, not destructive (or something to that effect.) Most people seem to approve of this message, including Proxy!Sachiko, but there are some in the crowd who disagree. They argue that the officers were murderers, and if god did kill them it would be good old-testament justice. Proxy!Light likes the sound of this.
Proxy!Sayu gets up and addresses the crowd. She does not care about the religious implications of the police officers dying of heart attacks, she cares about the facts that their deaths did nothing to solve the problems embedded in their community’s broken justice system. She will be continuing to organise peaceful protests until their concerns are heard, and she encourages everyone to stand with her.
Throw in some more religious imagery here. Proxy!Light has now fallen. The support of the crowd fuels his belief that he is doing the right thing, but when he sees that his remaining family are opposed to him he begins isolating himself from them.
And now the real fun begins.
Proxy!L is not the World’s Greatest Detective, and he is in no way similar to the Ryuzaki persona we all know and love and/or hate. He is an FBI agent and a complete fucking asshole. Maybe he’s a genius, maybe he’s just really good at his job, but he definitely arrogant as all fuck and a nightmare to work with. I am picturing him as older and surly. Like, he thinks he should have been promoted above field work a long time ago but it’s never happened because no one can stand him. But if you want to cash in on that sweet lawlight fangirl goldmine (yes pls) then he could be a young, attractive prodigy. Either way, he shows up to this terrified and racially divided town and takes over the investiagtion into the sudden and unexplainable deaths of several police officers.
Proxy!L is accompanied by his partner Proxy!Naomi. She is basically exactly the same and is definitely still Japanese or Japanese-American, because that will be important later. She is the only one who can stand Proxy!L because she takes none of his shit. These two care deeply for each other and are an unstoppable team, but things are tense between them right now because Proxy!Naomi just got married, and after this case is wrapped up she will be leaving the FBI.
The partners show up in the wake of some violent backlash from the police. The surviving officers are angry over their friend’s deaths and believe that Proxy!Sayu and the other protesters are responsible, so they declare the protest to be a riot and shut it down, placing Proxy!Sayu and as many other prominent protesters as they can grab under arrest.
Proxy!L and Proxy!Naomi arrive at the tail end of this mess. They berate the officers for their hysteria and over the top violent reponse, and immediately take over. All of the low-level protesters are let go, but the FBI agents want to interrogate any of the organisers that they have in custody.
This is where we are formally introduced to Proxy!Misa. She is one of Proxy!Sayu’s friends who has been organising protests with her. We have seen her participating in collective action with Proxy!Sayu a few times before but this is the first time we have spoken to her. The girls have not been treated well in the arrest and are already hostile. Their interrogations are cut together, and now it’s exposition time!
We see Proxy!L and Proxy!Naomi working together, using different strategies with each girl and we start to get a feel for their dynamic and the fact that they are a great team. They tell both girls that there have been more deaths than anyone realises. All over the country, police officers and other people in the justice system have been mysteriously dying of heart attacks. Everyone who has died has been accused of corruption and/or the unlawful deaths of POC. No one in the public has connected the dots yet, but it’s only a matter of time, and then there will be nation-wide hysteria and violent crackdowns on POC communities like the one we just witnessed at the protest. No one wants that, which is why these two are here where it all started trying to hunt the killer down. Proxy!Sayu reacts with anger and disgust. She knows that things are bad and wants to create change, but doesn’t believe it can be accomplished with violence and death. Proxy!Misa’s feelings are more complicated. She take the position that the deaths are the result of divine retribution, and while she doesn’t openly endorse the killing, she thinks that people who do bad things should be held accountable no matter what. During the interrogation she reveals her backstory; she survived a home invasion as a child. A criminal killed her parents and took her hostage, but the police managed to subdue him non-lethally because he was white. The fact the the man who terrorised her and destroyed her family is alive and in jail while POC are being killed by police for no reason is what drove her to join Proxy!Sayu’s movement.
Meanwhile, Proxy!Sachiko has learned from one of the protesters that were released that her underage daughter has been placed under arrest and she is furious and frightened. She and Proxy!Light head to the police station and demand that they be able to see Proxy!Sayu. The police are dismissive at first but when pushed become openly hostile. Proxy!Sachiko is torn between the need to protect her daughter and not wanting to escalate the situation and endanger her son. Proxy!Light doesn’t give a shit. From the way he starts spitting his new anti-cop rhetoric in this place full of armed cops you might think that he has a death wish (spoiler alert- he kinda does.) Luckily, Proxy!Naomi and Proxy!L arrive just as things are about to turn ugly. Proxy!Naomi smooths things over while Proxy!L just stares at his shiny new N#1 suspect. The girls are free to go, and on the way out of the building Proxy!Misa introduces herself to Proxy!Light and asks him to walk her home. When he agrees, there is a split second where her eyes flash red.
Proxy!L and Proxy!Naomi discuss the case. He wants to focus on Proxy!Light but she thinks their best suspect at this point is Proxy!Misa. This is where we can introduce some of the tension between them over the fact that Proxy!Naomi will quit and leave him soon. They come to agreement over how to proceed with the investigation. They are both encouraged by the fact that they seem to have zeroed in on the killer so quickly, but are frustrated because they have no ideas about how the heart attacks are being caused. Neither of them seriously consider the supernatural angle.
On the way to her home (I’m imagining that it’s night now, and the two have wandered into some visually interesting/appropriate location) Proxy!Misa tells Proxy!Light that she knows he killed the police officers who killed his father. He tries to lie his way out of it but he is a bad liar. She reveals that she has her own death note and was able to identify him by using the shinigami eyes (which she also explains.) Finally, she tells him that she has followed his example and started killing people all over the country. At first, Proxy!Light is opposed to this. It was personal for him, and he claims that justice has been done and she has screwed things up by attracting the attention of the FBI on to them. But he very quickly comes around to Proxy!Misa’s way of thinking. The two of them have been given a great gift, and they should use it to bring justice to everyone in the world who has been denied it up until now. He even pushes the rhetoic one step further. If they are re-making the justice system, then it will be their job to take over as judge, jury and executioner until things have re-stablised. They should start killing crininals too, and gradually remove all bad people until they have created a new world full of only good people.
It is clear that Proxy!Light has been building toward this for a while, and was just waiting for an excuse to go full-Kira. Having a willing partner is the catalyst which gives him the confidence to push on. I am trying to downplay the obsessive and stalkerish nature of Proxy!Misa, so let’s assume she is willing to throw herself into this cause like she threw herself into the protests. The two teens feed off each other’s bloodlust and we become aware that we are witnessing the creation of something terrible. More religious imagery, as we cut into a montage of several days worth of the two planning and creating their world together, scribbling in notebooks while the death toll climbs into the hundreds and dramatic orchestral music plays.
And from here I don’t have a detailed plan on how the rest of the story would play out. I know that I want to have Proxy!Light and Proxy!L interact directly and have a bit of chemistry (probably Proxy!L fixates on him as wants to get close to figure out how the heart attacks work.) How their dynamic plays out will depend on the age gap between them and some other factors which I haven’t put a lot of thought into. I have downplayed the genius aspect but I want there to be at least one big dramatic mindgame showdown between the two of them, as a shout out to what we all loved from the original story. Proxy!L wins the battle of wits, but Proxy!Light plays a trump card in the form of his supernatural advantage, allowing Proxy!Misa to kill Proxy!L at the end of act 2.
Act 3: Everything goes to hell
Proxy!Naomi is reeling from the loss of her partner. She has now been forced to accept that the supernatural exists and she needs to take down two meglomaniac teenagers who literally weild the power of death itself.
Proxy!Light and Proxy!Misa continue to go mad with power and try to reshape the world with death.
I want some more social/religious commentary around wether what is happening is right or wrong and some hints of a cult of followers building and meeting violent opposition from people who condemn the killings. This is going on in the background while most of the third act is focused on Proxy!Naomi and Proxy!Light trying to kill each other.
The twist is that Proxy!Light can’t kill Proxy!Naomi with the death note because, while she goes by her married name, the name that he needs to kill her is her maiden name. Proxy!Misa can’t read it with her eyes because it’s written in kanji characters (which is why it’s important that she’s Japanese!) I don’t know exactly how it plays out but the film ends with Proxy!Naomi killing Proxy!Light. Roll credits.
Okay, now remember how I said there would be more stuff about how this could possibly fit into the canon? That’s because I have two main ideas about how you could do this. 1. This movie is set post-canon. I definitely think this could work, with only a few tweaks. Proxy!Light and Proxy!Misa would be inspired by the original Kira, the police force would know that someone had a death note and was coming for them, etc. This would probably make the movie more rewarding for the fans of the original story, because we would see how things are in the post-Kira world and you could have cool stuff like the shinigami who drops the notebook being a reincarnation of Light Yagami. The disadvantage to this is that it’s more alienating to audiences who aren’t familiar with the original story. 2. The story is set pre-canon, probably 90s or earlier. I think this is the better way to do it, because we know from Ryuk that death notes have ended up in the human world before. In this case you would take away Proxy!Misa’s notebook, and bend the rules a little. She is just a supporter who makes an eye trade using Proxy!Light’s notebook. You would also have to dial back the scale of death, make it that all the murders happen in one place instead of nation-wide so it coukd feasibly be hushed up later (which is why it’s not mentioned in canon.)
OKAY WOW. This was a much longer ride than I meant it to be. I’ve really tried to tell an American-ised version of the Death Note story which is interesting and rewarding for fans and new audiences alike. (If we have to have one, at keast make it good, right?) I hope I’ve stuck to some of the core themes of the story while also making the adaption original and not compete garbage. I would love to hear other people’s ideas!!! Either for more changes/ideas for things we could do with this pitch or a pitch of your own! I’m going to track the tags:
#saynotonoteflix #saynotowhiteyagami
#my posts#death note#saynotonoteflix#saynotowhiteyagami#say no to noteflix#say no to white yagami#netflix#netflix death note movie#light yagami#l lawliet#misa amane#naomi misora#sayu yagami#sachiko yagami#american death note#movie pitch#movie maintenance#my fic#fix it#please tell me what you think guys#and if you have ideas for your own version please tell me#i am really into denying reality right now
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