what are some of your favorite wammy boy headcanons?
Oh, Hello! This is a very exciting ask, so thank you! I have many of these so I’ll try to work off of ones I haven’t seen as much of before rather than just ones I like (this is also because I like them all.)
Near: This is the most important and self-indulgent ‘headcanon’ I have but I’m a firm believer in citing the films/drama, and so: Near is Thai. He was born in Thailand and speaks/reads Thai as his first language. He was an orphan that was adopted after assisting in an international case in Bangnum, probably at a younger age than most of the Wammy’s kids, per L: Change the WorLd.
The incidence rate for albinism rises to 1 in 500 in some areas in South Pacific (as opposed to closer to 1 in 10,000 elsewhere), so it’s not even that much of a stretch to keep his original Manga appearance. This adds significantly to how much he stands out to everyone, because he’s too pale to looks like most other Southeast Asians, but has distinct facial features, and a generally smaller stature, which make him stand out amongst most of the European Wammy’s students.
Mello: Despite taking the most drastic measures out of most of the successors, I think Mello actually has the strongest moral compass out of the Wammy’s kids (including L). His attachment to catholic imagery, emphasis on how hard he works, and the circumstances leading up to his death suggest to me that he has a strong ethical viewpoint, probably established by organised religion, that Wammy’s was never able to teach out of him. Note how he allows Takada modesty, and does not mistreat the people he kidnaps, whereas L… did not grant Misa the same mercy in his custody.
This doesn't make him a good person, however. Mello is more than willing to kill to get what he wants. It just means he has a stronger sense of righteous ‘good’ than most of his peers.
Matt: I mention this in one of my fics, but Matt’s first crush was 100% Riku from Kingdom Hearts. I have never played a KH game in my life, but I’m absolutely certain of this. The highly competitive rival who pushes himself too far in order to stay relevant, only to recover to the ‘good’ side with the power of his heart? Cool and collected but with a jealous streak? Plus, have you seen what he looks like? That’s just Near and Mello wrapped into one pixelated Gameboy package. Matt’s first wet dream.
Beyond: I think Beyond, despite not really being able to attach to anyone, harbours a protective fondness over the other successors, especially those close to the top. I imagine he was able to figure out they were next early on, if they ever met, as Near was barely 10 years old when Beyond was arrested. He probably has their lifespans memorized. Wammy’s staff probably saw a lot of Beyond’s behaviour in Mello, as well– I think he was brash, impulsive, manipulative, and violently insecure.
Unlike Mello, however, he wouldn’t care much about the opinions of other children, not even his rival for first place.
A: I don’t have a lot of concrete thoughts about them, although I’ve seen many headcannons that I like. Generally, since A is largely a ‘fridged’ character, I change them to suit what would best work for a fic they might be mentioned in.
I do think, however, that they were the most like Light, rather than L, than any of the other successors. Popular, handsome, talented, and with a complete disdain for the human race.
Linda (honorary Wammy’s boy): Linda was given ‘artistry’ as a talent which has always felt a little sexist to me. While I think she is an accomplished artist, she’s actually much better with applied mathematics than any of the boys– Near things largely in terms of statistics, but Linda follows more complex modelling systems as well. Given that she was able to recreate Near and Mello’s faces almost perfectly, I attribute much of her success at Wammy’s, and also talents with maths, to an eidetic memory. Because her recall is so strong, she has an incredible knack for patterns, rivalled only by Near’s autistic tendency to process things by patterned details. Their shared talents with numbers and probably made them rather close, although I don’t think Near was all that interested in her.
L: I don’t want to say that L is textbook Manic/Depressive, but I always figured that L had intermittent episodes of manic physical energy/activity that would contrast his usual “sitting in a weird position for 17 hours straight.” Basically, I think L, especially when he was younger, got the zoomies. Wammy’s probably tried to redirect the energy with sparring and sports, which is why he’s so good with tennis (although tennis is largely an intellectual sport) and martial arts. They probably found L on rooftops and such quite a lot– I can imagine him running up 11 flights of stairs at 2 in the morning.
I also have thoughts about K and F from the films/drama, but I figure you weren't asking about those.
671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1225 – Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of Dominican friars to Morocco.
1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon is the last attempt of the Byzantine Empire to retain its cities in Asia Minor.
1358 – Battle of Mello: The peasant forces of the Jacquerie are crushed by the army of the French nobility.
1523 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
1539 – Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1596 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries".
1719 – Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.
1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
1838 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1854 – The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1868 – Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1898 – Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.
1916 – The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 – Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
Honestly god bless the Angel gang? They're such good friends to Wayo, like get you a squad who's ready to square up for you.
Kit! Finally!🥰Admitting! His relationship! With! 🥰Ming!🥰
Also i don't like where this thing with Park is going. 😤😤😤 We already getting some psycho, over possesive vibes when Phana's car got vandalized. Now he's putting salt in Wayo's wound like that? Big red flag. 🚩🚩🚩
Also the bathroom scene? Idk? Like, love me some smooches but?? Probably need to read the novel for this. The whole jealous Phana thing for next week's ep is already hurting my heart gdi- with Park of all people- 🚫🚫🚫
Let me talk to y’all about my favourite couple on my favourite show right now.
It’s Ming (Joong Archen Aydin) and Kit (Nine Kornchid).
Like, every single MingKit scene is a romantic epiphany.
Sure they started out not interacting, so it’s easy to overlook them if you haven’t read the books (like me) or seen the first season (which I have, but the #2Moons2 reboot is on a whole other level). Their first interaction was in the Moon/Star practice room, where Ming ignores Kit in favour of talking to Beam but Kit low-key checks him out with a little look (that Nine does so well) and a once-over as Ming walks away.
Ming didn’t really acknowledge Kit until the beach trip, but we find out he’s known who Kit was...always. Then, in Ep. 9, we find out he’s been watching Kit since Grade freakin’ 9! Ming even followed him home once just so he would know where to walk Kit home if he ever worked up the courage to ask him out. He’s been watching Kit from the sidelines because, as he told Beam, Kitkat was “so small back then, such a lovely boy - just like he is now”. He was charmed that Kit’s family was so protective over their lovely little son, and I think it’s made Ming protective of him too, subconsciously at first and then very much consciously. I can just imagine confident player Ming flirting with all those girls he’d gone out with in high school and not quite sure why he’s always so distracted when cute little Kitkat walks by.
Like, look at how Ming looks at Kit:
(Spoiler alert: Joong looks at Nine like this a lot too).
That Ming adores Kit is a given; the boy is whipped and let’s thank a whipped Joong for bringing how much he stans his co-star in real life to the role of Ming; Nine is remarkable as Kit and I cannot believe this is his first acting role. Nine also obviously adores Joong and is annoyed by Joong in equal measure and it seeps through a little bit whenever Kit is with Ming.
Let’s face it, these two love each other: Nine lets Joong crash in his dorm room for days at a time, he drives him wherever he needs to go, he tutors him into the night, he pushes him to study for his exams, he gets up when Joong wakes him at midnight, hungry and whiny like the growing boy he is, and makes him a delicious-looking beef curry... oh, you thought this happens on the show? Nah, fam, this is real-life.
(Spoiler alert: This is how Nine looks at Joong most of the time lol).
Nine and Joong are so, so, so good at showing what Kit and Ming are feeling on their faces and they play off each other so well because they are best friends in real life and they’re always in each other’s orbits. Their kisses are natural and sweet and sensual and romantic and they exude a soft sexiness that makes me melt.
It’s quite literally breathtaking.
Exhibit A: their first kiss
*This was also Joong’s first ever kiss and he had it with Nine! He’s also had his second, third and every other kiss since with Nine and I think that’s a little ( a lot) magical.
Exhibit B: the way they looked at each other after their first kiss
A+ acting.
Or was it?
Exhibit C: their second kiss
For science, here’s Joong and Nine reacting as they watch Ming and Kit’s first kiss on-screen:
Here’s them reacting to one of the other couple’s sharing their first kiss (#ForthBeam):
Thanks to @joongnine here’s how they hugged at their epic confession scene in Ep. 9 (which was a whole-ass MingKit episode that I have probably watched more than 50 times, yolo)
I love Ming and Kit but I love Joong and Nine: their chemistry, their friendship, the way they look at each other - that affection and trust and understanding and comfort and love that they have for one another is so rare. The fact that these very young actors feel secure and safe enough along with their co-stars (who are also lovely, talented guys), and with their production team, to demonstrate that love to us is a blessing. I’m so super thankful to the casting directors including the executive producers, director Aam Anusorn and writer Chiffon Cake for trusting their instincts about not only Joong and Nine, but also Ben and Earth (#PhaYo) and Pavel and Dome (#ForthBeam). Perfect casting, perfect characterisation - they got everything right.
There are 2 episodes left in the series and I know I’m going to feel so lost without this show. On the bright side, I still have Ming and Kit being all flirty at the gym to look forward to:
I hope #2Moons3 becomes a reality soon. I need to see these characters grow and develop further, especially now that they’ve found the loves of their lives.
In conclusion, if you haven’t seen #2Moons2 - you’re missing out. Find it on Mello Thailand’s YouTube channel here with full English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdBRSSNKkMqst-qjPpnaXhA
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