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* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: {{spoiler|Astraea}}
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: {{spoiler|Astraea}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: L after {{spoiler|Light is poisoned by Astraea.}} [[It Got Worse]] after {{spoiler|Light regains his Kira memories and kills Watari and Misa.}} Also Light {{spoiler|after breaking up with L... and [[Lonely At the Top|taking over the world,]]}} and Matsuda [[Horrible Judge of Character|after discovering his faith in Light's innocence was unfounded,]] Sayu and Sachiko after they are told that Souichiro and Light are dead, and Mello after discovering how L lied to him.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: L after {{spoiler|Light is poisoned by Astraea.}} [[It Got Worse]] after {{spoiler|Light regains his Kira memories and kills Watari and Misa.}} Also Light {{spoiler|after breaking up with L... and [[Lonely At the Top|taking over the world,]]}} and Matsuda [[Horrible Judge of Character|after discovering his faith in Light's innocence was unfounded,]] Sayu and Sachiko after they are told that Souichiro and Light are dead, and Mello after discovering how L lied to him.
* [[Britcom]]: Yes, in an anime fanfic. [[Useful Notes/British Accents|Light and L sound]] [[Foe Yay|like they]] [[Hypothetical Casting|should be played]] by [[David Tennant]] [[Doctor Who (TV)|and John Simms]]. It's a [[Justified Trope]] since L and several other characters were raised in England [[Translation Convention|and naturally since the original story was in Japanese they wouldn't be speaking American English either.]]
* [[Britcom]]: Yes, in an anime fanfic. [[Useful Notes/British Accents|Light and L sound]] [[Foe Yay|like they]] [[Hypothetical Casting|should be played]] by [[David Tennant]] [[Doctor Who|and John Simms]]. It's a [[Justified Trope]] since L and several other characters were raised in England [[Translation Convention|and naturally since the original story was in Japanese they wouldn't be speaking American English either.]]
* [[British English]]: [[Translation Convention|Most of the characters speak this way, see above.]] Matt has more of a Cockney accent and [[Jerkass|Near]] [[Eagle Land|is American.]]
* [[British English]]: [[Translation Convention|Most of the characters speak this way, see above.]] Matt has more of a Cockney accent and [[Jerkass|Near]] [[Eagle Land|is American.]]
* [[Broken Ace]]: Light and {{spoiler|V}}.
* [[Broken Ace]]: Light and {{spoiler|V}}.
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* [[Dirty Coward]]: Light, lampshaded "you're like a rat in the desert!"
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Light, lampshaded "you're like a rat in the desert!"
* [[The Ditz]]: Matsuda
* [[The Ditz]]: Matsuda
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me]]: Light {{spoiler|after he survives a chemical attack and the taskforce babies him.}}
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Light {{spoiler|after he survives a chemical attack and the taskforce babies him.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Matt to V}} and {{spoiler|Mikami to Light}}.
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Matt to V}} and {{spoiler|Mikami to Light}}.
* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: {{spoiler|Mello to V. Justified because V, [[Luke, I Am Your Father|his mother,]] was trying to keep him out of harm's way.}}
* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: {{spoiler|Mello to V. Justified because V, [[Luke, I Am Your Father|his mother,]] was trying to keep him out of harm's way.}}
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* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Matt is not impressed by Kira and Light finds it irksome that he doesn't bow down in worship like all the others.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Matt is not impressed by Kira and Light finds it irksome that he doesn't bow down in worship like all the others.
* [[Due to The Dead]]: {{spoiler|Though Light had Watari killed,}} he is respectful of {{spoiler|Watari}}'s room and treats it like a shrine.
* [[Due to The Dead]]: {{spoiler|Though Light had Watari killed,}} he is respectful of {{spoiler|Watari}}'s room and treats it like a shrine.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Whoo boy... Matt got pressured into working for a terrorist organization in order to keep his boyfriend safe {{spoiler|he was pressured into this by his boyfriend's MOTHER no less}}. L and Light are mortal enemies and deeply in love with each other and that goes about as well as you might expect they ''were'' [[Tragedy|happy together]]... until {{spoiler|Misa conspires with Astraea to return to Light his Kira memories.}} After his [[Relationship Upgrade]] with Light, [[Horrible Judge of Character|L considered Misa to be one of his only friends]] even if she is a [[Serial Killer]] that wants him dead. Light caught L talking with Mello in a clandestine meeting and [[Crazy Jealous Guy|assumed he was cheating on him.]] Light kills {{spoiler|[[Yandere|both Watari and Misa when they both became a threat to his relationship with L and then he kept L drugged up for about a week.]] Later when L regains his senses he pretends to be all forgiving [[Kiss of Death|and gives Light a hug]]... [[Cold-Blooded Torture|and then throws him down onto a bed of broken porcelain.]]}} Then there's the Yagami family. [[Heteronormative Crusader|Mr. Yagami is loudly against Light and L's relationship]] {{spoiler|[[Disproportionate Retribution|and so Light used his death to advance his schemes.]]}} L had unknowingly become Light's [[Morality Chain]] and so when L {{spoiler|breaks up with Light and tells him he should be committed}} Light becomes very cross and {{spoiler|[[Take Over the World|Takes Over The World]]}}. When Light {{spoiler|leaves}} L made up some excuse for his mother and sister-something along the lines of [[Star Wars (Film)|Kira betrayed and]] [[Death Faked for You|murdered Light]] and so Sayu wants Kira dead because she believes he killed Light. Matsuda strongly believes in Light's innocence up to the point where Light had him tied to a chair while practicing his [[Evil Laugh]] [[Break the Cutie|and so his idealism has been crushed.]] Both Kira and L {{spoiler|have hit the [[Despair Event Horizon]] since their breakup and haven't been getting much done and this is noticed by their underlings. Light is rapidly losing his grip on his remaining sanity and has been relying on [[Beleaguered Assistant|Mikami]] more and more to do all the administrative duties of ruling the world. [[Lonely At the Top|Also since Light feels secure in his rule and he has too much time on his hands]] and wants to forget about L he has developed a drug problem.}} Aizawa only stays on because he fears everything will fall apart if he leaves. Both Mello's {{spoiler|mother and boyfriend were killed by Kira- and on that last note Matt's death was a [[Psychic Assisted Suicide]] and [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|he dies in Mello's arms.]] Then there's Mello's mother and her [[Dark and Troubled Past]] Mello was a [[Child By Rape]] and his mother was trained to be an assassin by Wammy's house. She was never allowed near her son as he grew up and the man she loved committed suicide.}} And then Near is just... Near the "poor copy" [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Boy]].
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Whoo boy... Matt got pressured into working for a terrorist organization in order to keep his boyfriend safe {{spoiler|he was pressured into this by his boyfriend's MOTHER no less}}. L and Light are mortal enemies and deeply in love with each other and that goes about as well as you might expect they ''were'' [[Tragedy|happy together]]... until {{spoiler|Misa conspires with Astraea to return to Light his Kira memories.}} After his [[Relationship Upgrade]] with Light, [[Horrible Judge of Character|L considered Misa to be one of his only friends]] even if she is a [[Serial Killer]] that wants him dead. Light caught L talking with Mello in a clandestine meeting and [[Crazy Jealous Guy|assumed he was cheating on him.]] Light kills {{spoiler|[[Yandere|both Watari and Misa when they both became a threat to his relationship with L and then he kept L drugged up for about a week.]] Later when L regains his senses he pretends to be all forgiving [[Kiss of Death|and gives Light a hug]]... [[Cold-Blooded Torture|and then throws him down onto a bed of broken porcelain.]]}} Then there's the Yagami family. [[Heteronormative Crusader|Mr. Yagami is loudly against Light and L's relationship]] {{spoiler|[[Disproportionate Retribution|and so Light used his death to advance his schemes.]]}} L had unknowingly become Light's [[Morality Chain]] and so when L {{spoiler|breaks up with Light and tells him he should be committed}} Light becomes very cross and {{spoiler|[[Take Over the World|Takes Over The World]]}}. When Light {{spoiler|leaves}} L made up some excuse for his mother and sister-something along the lines of [[Star Wars (Film)|Kira betrayed and]] [[Death Faked for You|murdered Light]] and so Sayu wants Kira dead because she believes he killed Light. Matsuda strongly believes in Light's innocence up to the point where Light had him tied to a chair while practicing his [[Evil Laugh]] [[Break the Cutie|and so his idealism has been crushed.]] Both Kira and L {{spoiler|have hit the [[Despair Event Horizon]] since their breakup and haven't been getting much done and this is noticed by their underlings. Light is rapidly losing his grip on his remaining sanity and has been relying on [[Beleaguered Assistant|Mikami]] more and more to do all the administrative duties of ruling the world. [[Lonely At the Top|Also since Light feels secure in his rule and he has too much time on his hands]] and wants to forget about L he has developed a drug problem.}} Aizawa only stays on because he fears everything will fall apart if he leaves. Both Mello's {{spoiler|mother and boyfriend were killed by Kira- and on that last note Matt's death was a [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide]] and [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|he dies in Mello's arms.]] Then there's Mello's mother and her [[Dark and Troubled Past]] Mello was a [[Child By Rape]] and his mother was trained to be an assassin by Wammy's house. She was never allowed near her son as he grew up and the man she loved committed suicide.}} And then Near is just... Near the "poor copy" [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Boy]].
* [[Eagle Land]]: [[Jerkass|Near]] speaks with an American accent.
* [[Eagle Land]]: [[Jerkass|Near]] speaks with an American accent.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: L and Light/Kira.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: L and Light/Kira.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Light, L, {{spoiler|V}}, Near in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6866923/1/Last_Night_I_Dreamt_Somebody_Loved_Me Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me]'' but he seems to have lost his claws in the main story.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Light, L, {{spoiler|V}}, Near in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6866923/1/Last_Night_I_Dreamt_Somebody_Loved_Me Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me]'' but he seems to have lost his claws in the main story.
* [[The Masochism Tango]]: Light and L. Full stop.
* [[The Masochism Tango]]: Light and L. Full stop.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Astraea, the Greek Goddess of Justice. Also, quite possibly V-[[Shout Out|she has a]] [[V for Vendetta|Vendetta.]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Astraea, the Greek Goddess of Justice. Also, quite possibly V-[[Shout-Out|she has a]] [[V for Vendetta|Vendetta.]]
* [[Metaphorically True]]: L tells Sayu that Kira betrayed and murdered her brother.
* [[Metaphorically True]]: L tells Sayu that Kira betrayed and murdered her brother.
* [[The Mole]]: Light, naturally. {{spoiler|And V.}}
* [[The Mole]]: Light, naturally. {{spoiler|And V.}}
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* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Mr. Yagami
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Mr. Yagami
* [[Not Good With Rejection]]: when L essentially breaks up with Light, wanting to have him committed, Light becomes very cross and {{spoiler|[[Take Over the World|Takes Over The World]]}}.
* [[Not Good With Rejection]]: when L essentially breaks up with Light, wanting to have him committed, Light becomes very cross and {{spoiler|[[Take Over the World|Takes Over The World]]}}.
* [[The Not Secret]]: 1) Light and L's "secret" relationship. 2) L, Astraea, Matt... pretty much everyone [[Selective Obliviousness|but the Kira Taskforce]] knows that Light is Kira.
* [[The Not-Secret]]: 1) Light and L's "secret" relationship. 2) L, Astraea, Matt... pretty much everyone [[Selective Obliviousness|but the Kira Taskforce]] knows that Light is Kira.
* [[Not So Different]]:
* [[Not So Different]]:
{{quote| '''Sayu:''' I guess I'm frightened. And angry. Kira killed my family, not just Dad and Light. He killed all of us. And I have no time for L and his 'investigation.' If it wasn't for him then they'd still be alive. But then, Dad and Light believed in him. They thought he'd defeat Kira. [[What the Hell, Hero?|I'm angry at him because, well, you expect this from Kira; killing is what he does. But L has betrayed my family.]]}}
{{quote| '''Sayu:''' I guess I'm frightened. And angry. Kira killed my family, not just Dad and Light. He killed all of us. And I have no time for L and his 'investigation.' If it wasn't for him then they'd still be alive. But then, Dad and Light believed in him. They thought he'd defeat Kira. [[What the Hell, Hero?|I'm angry at him because, well, you expect this from Kira; killing is what he does. But L has betrayed my family.]]}}
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* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Light annoys L when he begins listing his many, ''many'' ex-girlfriends.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Light annoys L when he begins listing his many, ''many'' ex-girlfriends.
* [[Original Character]]: V.
* [[Original Character]]: V.
* [[Out Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|V by Light. However she does manage to [[Heroic Sacrifice|protect her son]] by [[Half Truth|ommitting the fact]] that Kira has made [[Murder By Mistake|a literal error in judgment]].}}
* [[Out-Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|V by Light. However she does manage to [[Heroic Sacrifice|protect her son]] by [[Half Truth|ommitting the fact]] that Kira has made [[Murder By Mistake|a literal error in judgment]].}}
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Matt for {{spoiler|V}} and Mello and Light for L:
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Matt for {{spoiler|V}} and Mello and Light for L:
{{quote| '''Matt''': I know you're Kira or whatever... [[Sarcasm Mode|this is me impressed.]] Doesn't change the fact that if you start any funny business with her, I'll shoot you through the fucking wall. I'm quicker than you and your little Diary of Death. OK?}}
{{quote| '''Matt''': I know you're Kira or whatever... [[Sarcasm Mode|this is me impressed.]] Doesn't change the fact that if you start any funny business with her, I'll shoot you through the fucking wall. I'm quicker than you and your little Diary of Death. OK?}}
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* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Near deduces the following about Kira from speaking with Light on the phone:
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Near deduces the following about Kira from speaking with Light on the phone:
{{quote| '''Near:''' Kira, if it was Kira, sounded like a Japanese male in his late teens to early twenties... Slim build. He was probably wearing a suit since he was definitely wearing a tie. Irritable.}}
{{quote| '''Near:''' Kira, if it was Kira, sounded like a Japanese male in his late teens to early twenties... Slim build. He was probably wearing a suit since he was definitely wearing a tie. Irritable.}}
* [[Shout Out]]: There are ''tons.'' Matt hums the ''[[Star Wars]]'' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8 Imperial March]" when [[Big Bad|Kira]] enters [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|the meeting room.]] Also when Light gets a scar on one of their misadventures of getting shot at he grumbles in his [[Internal Monologue]] that it makes him look like ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]''. Also in the [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6866923/1/Last_Night_I_Dreamt_Somebody_Loved_Me deleted scenes] Mello compares Light to the [[Byronic Hero]] Heathcliff of ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'' and his [[Freudian Excuse]] [[Fridge Brilliance|is similar in this ficverse.]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: There are ''tons.'' Matt hums the ''[[Star Wars]]'' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8 Imperial March]" when [[Big Bad|Kira]] enters [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|the meeting room.]] Also when Light gets a scar on one of their misadventures of getting shot at he grumbles in his [[Internal Monologue]] that it makes him look like ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]''. Also in the [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6866923/1/Last_Night_I_Dreamt_Somebody_Loved_Me deleted scenes] Mello compares Light to the [[Byronic Hero]] Heathcliff of ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'' and his [[Freudian Excuse]] [[Fridge Brilliance|is similar in this ficverse.]]
** "[[Resident Evil|Matt had just been spectacularly killed by a zombie riding a unicycle.]]"
** "[[Resident Evil|Matt had just been spectacularly killed by a zombie riding a unicycle.]]"
** [[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|"One does not simply walk into Mordor."]]
** [[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|"One does not simply walk into Mordor."]]
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* [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide]]: L points out to Light that his subordinates have opened death camps. Light denies he has anything to do with it (after all, [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|why would he need to]]? [[Pragmatic Villainy|His means of mass murder is so much more efficient]]).
* [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide]]: L points out to Light that his subordinates have opened death camps. Light denies he has anything to do with it (after all, [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|why would he need to]]? [[Pragmatic Villainy|His means of mass murder is so much more efficient]]).
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Light, he makes {{spoiler|V}} [[Just a Flesh Wound|shoot him in the arm]] so that he will look innocent to the investigators.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Light, he makes {{spoiler|V}} [[Just a Flesh Wound|shoot him in the arm]] so that he will look innocent to the investigators.
* [[Writtenbythe Winners]]: Light upon meeting {{spoiler|Matt}} and realizing, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|to his horror, that once he's secured his new world this would go down as the first meeting of Kira and Astraea-this is going to be in the history books!]]
* [[Written By the Winners]]: Light upon meeting {{spoiler|Matt}} and realizing, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|to his horror, that once he's secured his new world this would go down as the first meeting of Kira and Astraea-this is going to be in the history books!]]
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' meets ''[[Torchwood]]'' meets ''[[The Smiths (Music)|The Smiths]]'' meets ''[[Brazil (Film)|Brazil]]''.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' meets ''[[Torchwood]]'' meets ''[[The Smiths (Music)|The Smiths]]'' meets ''[[Brazil (Film)|Brazil]]''.
* [[Yandere]]: Misa towards Light and after Light regains his Kira memories he becomes both possessive ''and'' obsessive of L. He begins making up excuses to himself why he isn't going to kill him now like "it's not a good time," or "I want to break him first" (suggesting he really does love him underneath the psychosis. [[Hypocritical Heartwarming|Light becomes very angry and upset]] [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|when someone else tries to kill L]].) Light arranges things so that {{spoiler|Misa kills Watari, [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|and then he kills her]] because he felt threatened that Watari was going to make L break-up with him and that Misa (a Yandere herself would try and kill L so that she and Light could be together).}} Light keeps L drugged up for weeks afterwards and spends so much time with him that his infatuation [[Everyone Can See It|becomes rather obvious to everyone]] at which point Light even considers killing his own father because he's against their relationship. {{spoiler|Later he does use his father's death to further his schemes.}}
* [[Yandere]]: Misa towards Light and after Light regains his Kira memories he becomes both possessive ''and'' obsessive of L. He begins making up excuses to himself why he isn't going to kill him now like "it's not a good time," or "I want to break him first" (suggesting he really does love him underneath the psychosis. [[Hypocritical Heartwarming|Light becomes very angry and upset]] [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|when someone else tries to kill L]].) Light arranges things so that {{spoiler|Misa kills Watari, [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|and then he kills her]] because he felt threatened that Watari was going to make L break-up with him and that Misa (a Yandere herself would try and kill L so that she and Light could be together).}} Light keeps L drugged up for weeks afterwards and spends so much time with him that his infatuation [[Everyone Can See It|becomes rather obvious to everyone]] at which point Light even considers killing his own father because he's against their relationship. {{spoiler|Later he does use his father's death to further his schemes.}}
* [[Yaoi Guys]]: Light and L, Matt and Mello
* [[Yaoi Guys]]: Light and L, Matt and Mello
* [[Yes Man]]: Mikami. Light notes that his vocabulary is limited to "Yes, Kami."
* [[Yes-Man]]: Mikami. Light notes that his vocabulary is limited to "Yes, Kami."
{{quote| '''Matt''': He's always prissy, sitting at his desk like, 'I'm the king of you' to everyone and then Kira prances in and ol' Miki's literally throwing himself on the ground all, 'Take me up the arse, oh mighty one.' Bloody eejit.}}
{{quote| '''Matt''': He's always prissy, sitting at his desk like, 'I'm the king of you' to everyone and then Kira prances in and ol' Miki's literally throwing himself on the ground all, 'Take me up the arse, oh mighty one.' Bloody eejit.}}
* [[You Are Grounded]]: L is amused when this happens to Kira.
* [[You Are Grounded]]: L is amused when this happens to Kira.

Revision as of 09:33, 26 January 2014

A Cure For Love by halfpromise is a Death Note L/Light fanfic which begins when Light and L fall in love during the Yotsuba arc and Light's master plan is derailed when an assassin steals the Death Note. The threat of Kira is dwarfed when Kira's powers seem to have fallen into the hands of a terrorist organization known as Astraea and Light and L are united to find the culprit-but for how long...

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A Cure For Love provides examples of:

 Matt: She called him 'Kira-sama' today. She looked like someone had shoved some dog shit down her throat as she said it, but she said it all the same.

 Light: OK, 5 across. Dunderhead, 7 letters...

L: Matsuda.

Light: Ha. Not funny. I think it's...Ryuzaki...no, sorry, my mistake, it must be halfwit.

L: The answer is always the obvious one, Light-kun. I think you're making a mistake.

Light: Right and down...

L: Is that an offer or are you asking? This is a ridiculous crossword. Have we two, apparently the greatest minds of our age, really been reduced to doing a quick crossword?

Light: It's the best we have. Stop being a child.

L: Do you like the crossword more than me?

Light: It talks less.

L: And afterwards you can wipe your arse with it.

Light: You're speaking in English again.

L: I thought that you liked it when I talked.

Light: No, that's a misunderstanding on your part.

 L (to Light): Did you forget where the light switch was or are you endeavouring to save on our carbon footprint?

 Matt: I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't you.

 Light: "It was a boring story, sorry if you were expecting some deep and meaningful tale of woe. My childhood was fairly uneventful. I suppose I get hung up on innocuous things which you don't want to hear about."

 Light: I am sorry though. Really. I think I was confused.

L: You were confused?

Light: Hmm.

L: But you're not anymore.

Light: No. Well, a little. Mostly embarrassed and... maybe I should see a psychiatrist?

L: Do I really have that effect?

Light: No!

L: Look, we'll forget about it. These things happen, I'm sure. I've read accounts of soldiers in the Belgian Congo being taken unaware by... waking up in the night and hormones and bad things.

Light: You have? Soldiers in the Belgian Congo?

L: They're very manly.

Light: They must be.

L: And the Spartans. Remember the Spartans.

 Sometime ago, Matsuda had left a post-it on one of the laptops in which he'd accidentally managed to wedge a biro into the CD drive in an attempt to extricate something.

"Pen is stuck in drive"

Only the 'pen' and 'is' were written too close together. L now had a 'penis stuck in drive' post-it stuck on his laptop screen. He was considering framing it.

 Near: You snore.

    • The content of Light's drunken ramblings was apparently quite disturbing as Near relates this to L by way of Mello:

 Mello (to L): I get the impression that he's going dig up the grave and crack open your coffin like some fucked up Heathcliff.

  • Irony: Mr. Yagami thinks L is corrupting Light.
    • When Light is mocking Near by trying to guess what the N stands for he unknowingly guesses his real name (or at least something close to it).
    • Also:

 Matt (to Light): You're socially a bit awkward, y'know?

 L: Light Yagami is dead and there's nothing I can do to help him now.

Mello: You can't blame yourself, L. He's in a better place.

L: Pffff... Yes. He certainly is.

 Light: You're not trying to do something stupid are you?

L: I'm not doing anything stupid, Light. Apart from speaking to you.

Light: Good, because I would hate to kill you.

L: Mmm... I'm sure you would.

 Sayu: I guess I'm frightened. And angry. Kira killed my family, not just Dad and Light. He killed all of us. And I have no time for L and his 'investigation.' If it wasn't for him then they'd still be alive. But then, Dad and Light believed in him. They thought he'd defeat Kira. I'm angry at him because, well, you expect this from Kira; killing is what he does. But L has betrayed my family.

    • And:

 L (to Mello): Kira is vengeance. Selfish vengeance. You're just two people who have thrown their toys out of their cot because they feel injured. Kira is angry at the world as he saw it and you're angry at him.

Mello: I'm nothing like Kira.

L: No, you're the same. Same motivation, different scale of destruction.

 Matt: I know you're Kira or whatever... this is me impressed. Doesn't change the fact that if you start any funny business with her, I'll shoot you through the fucking wall. I'm quicker than you and your little Diary of Death. OK?

    • Also:

 Light: It was you, wasn't it? You fucking tried to kill him!

V: I'm sorry, Light.

Light: Not going to cut it, V. I thought that you didn't want to kill L.

V: I don't.

Light: If you touch him, I'll kill you. I'll kill all of you.

 Light: I wonder what N stands for... 'Nobody', 'Notus', 'Nomad', 'Nincompoop', 'Norman', 'Nemo', 'Neo'... 'Norris', 'Nathaniel', 'Noah', 'Ned', 'Nando', 'Napoleon', 'Nelson', 'Nickelodeon', 'Nicodemus'...

L: Near... It stands for Near, Light. Remember it. I'm glad that you're showing an interest though, for I never expected any less of you. However, I am most insulted on his behalf that you think that he could be named after a lost fish or Keanu Reeves.

  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: L does this indirectly when he asks Light's help to figure out what a criminal is going to do next and then gives Light his own psych file to read.
  • Replacement Love Interest: There seems to be a bit of tension between Mello and Near. Also Light was considering screwing Mikami.
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Astraea. Later when L begins La Résistance under Kira's rule Mello sees a simple solution to the Kira problem- he proposes that they find Kira and blow his head off. L notes that it's perfectly practical plan... but he has no intention of doing it.
  • The Runaway: Mello and Matt from Wammy's House. Light too, sort of, from L and his family. He's fleeing L having him committed but he has a place to go- he takes control of Astraea and then takes over the world.
  • Sanity Slippage: Light becomes more and more batshit as he's torn between his duties as Kira and his love and loyalty for L. It Got Worse:

  "There was a tree which grew out of a wall below Light's window. It looked like it was bursting through but was probably holding the whole sorry mess together at the same time. It twisted like a cobra. Violent attempts to kill it, the blunt sliced ends to thick trunks just led to many children; thinner branches crawling upwards. It refuses to die. In the summer it had purple flowers."

    • Light's heavy notebook usage and his new drug addiction isn't helping. Also L has this for a while too after Watari dies until he gets Bored With Insanity later. It's also revealed that L's "insanity" was being caused by Light drugging him.
  • Sarcastic Devotee: Matt to Astraea.
  • Save the Villain: L keeps doing this for Light.
  • Selective Obliviousness: At first Mello REFUSES to believe Near's theory—that L lied to him and that Light Yagami is Kira.
  • Serial Killer Killer: Light and Misa of course and V. She was already damaged when Wammys house got a hold of her and decided what with her Sociopathic tendencies she was beyond saving so it would be more productive to just make her a more effective assassin.
  • Sex Face Turn: When Kira returns, Light is much more reluctant to kill L now that they've been sleeping together.
  • Sherlock Scan: Near deduces the following about Kira from speaking with Light on the phone:

 Near: Kira, if it was Kira, sounded like a Japanese male in his late teens to early twenties... Slim build. He was probably wearing a suit since he was definitely wearing a tie. Irritable.

 "...any therapy would likely further enable his abilities to manipulate others. His intelligence and superficial charm, combined with his pathologic egocentricity and internalised morality, make him a dangerous individual deserving of clinical management and incarceration. He is driven by some, as yet, undefined goal. Kira's targeting of criminals gives a certain mask of sanity and 'goodness' in terms of his reasoning, but, due to his narcissism and deep-rooted antipathy, I doubt that they are exclusively or will remain his true aim of attack. At this point in time I would score him high for the Factor 1 scale of emotional psychopathy on the PCL-R, though his neurosis are not fully incapsulated within those criteria. He appears, at times, to show feelings of strong empathy, despite his apparent incapability to love." Light slammed the folder and the words shut. "What a load of utter rubbish. I don't care. Really. I couldn't give a flying fuck."

 L: It must have quite distressing to come home and find your family murdered only to watch the perpetrator evade justice... However, considering that psychological trauma, she is most definitely and unsurprisingly unbalanced. She exhibits signs of erotomania in relation to you, Light-kun.

Light: I wouldn't go that far... It's a crush. I can handle it.

L: Yes, by avoidance. I dealt with a case where the victim handled it in the same way as you're doing. Didn't end well.

Light: They died?

L: No, but 56 other people did when their stalker decided that their deaths would be an appropriate tribute.

Light: Oh, that's comforting.

 Light: I'm not gay.

L: Oh, my apologies, I forgot that you're the sexual scourge of womankind. You obviously only have sex with me because you roll over in your sleep and misjudge the distance. Maybe you're sleepwalking... or maybe the term, 'sleepfucking', would be more appropriate. Maybe you're completely unaware of what you're doing.

Light: It happens.

 Matt: He's always prissy, sitting at his desk like, 'I'm the king of you' to everyone and then Kira prances in and ol' Miki's literally throwing himself on the ground all, 'Take me up the arse, oh mighty one.' Bloody eejit.

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