#like i firmly believe u can write about anything but some concepts require more skillfullness for various reasons & idk if i have that

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re: Watari being L’s sugar daddy

A) I’m fascinated and need to know everything about your thoughts on this.

B) It would make his relationship with Light all the more high stakes since it might be idk a path to liberation of a kind.

ghgfjgnjlfgh truly i forgot that i'd posted about this while so so sleep-deprived and without context. this is the fic i was referencing.

my feelings on this are essentially that sugaring is a really respectable but also vulnerable job, in some ways more so than other forms of sex work despite often being perceived as safer. i think a lot of people (understandably) see watari as something of a parental figure to L but i think it's also possible to read watari as more of a client of L's who expects and is willingly given certain things in return. L is in charge of the relationship but Watari is the one who provides the resources. there's a contract here that is known but unspoken. the distribution of power is complicated because L is providing the service but he is financially dependent on watari. truly sugaring has nothing to do with their canon relationship but i think you can get a similar effect in an au this way.

in this au at least L is really happy with his job. (he also normally does FS but sugars for watari specifically for various reasons.) i'm kind of cautious of the trope of liberating people in the specific context of sex work BUT in a more broad sense i'm really obsessed with the idea of of light being a force that frees L from what is in many ways a very constrained and claustrophobic life; my feeling is this is something which could and absolutely should be explored more re: canon compliant/divergent fic tbh.