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Character Name: L
Character Journal: hunch_ofjustice
Canon: Death Note
Point in Canon: During the time L is handcuffed to Light to try to clear him of suspicion of being Kira, so that there's a lull in the Kira case. (In episode 18 of the anime, "Ally.")
Age: 24
Appearance: LOOK AT HIS BAD SELF.
Abilities: HIS SOOPER BRAIN. No, really, he’s very likely the smartest person on the planet. Also, he has the ability to eat nothing but sweets and not go into a coma and die, which is pretty impressive. Finally, he knows a bastardized form of capoeira from Naomi Misora and practicing with videos. So he can kick you in the face.
Personality: L is a shrewd little weirdo. Earth-shatteringly brilliant, of course, but intellect alone doesn't make a man. While he exhibits textbook autistic symptoms (repetitive behavior, selective interests, finger-biting, and atypical eating, to name a few), he is also self-aware of his own huge idiosyncrasies and will use them to his advantage. He knows he looks like a creep, so when investigating, he will often play up said behavior to throw the suspicion off of himself. The world's greatest detective can't possibly be that freak in the corner. He can also do a good impersonation of a drunk frat boy, so he has diversity in his acting skills.
He strives to uphold justice at all costs. It is something he believes in, and, at the same time, he finds solving difficult cases fun. If there's no thrill in it for him, he likely will not get involved. He has no qualms bending rules to get the results he wants. For example, he routinely hires con men and thieves to work for him, and they comply because he has enough dirt on them to put them in jail forever. He will also allow torture to obtain information in interrogations. He is, or at least, was -- an atheist, and he was so shocked at the possibility of the existence of a shinigami, he had a freak attack and fell out of his chair.
He has a signature sweet tooth -- he will refuse all other foods besides sweets, although fruit seems to be safe -- and just awful posture. He crouches instead of sitting, citing that his reasoning will decrease 40% if he sits normally. He will imbibe both tea and coffee by the gallon. Normally, he has very distinctive speech patterns and is likely fluent in a variety of languages, being that he works worldwide. Slightly head-canoned, but it's also likely his English has a high class British accent, since he grew up in England. Unless he is using an American dialect deliberately. Which he might actually do in the manor, to throw people off... He hates wearing shoes and socks and prefers to go barefoot.
Finally, when it comes right down to it, he is not always very nice. He CAN exhibit great kindness, but if he finds people stupid or annoying he will mock them, often with very subtle sarcasm.
To conclude, L is awesome. The end.
History: Very little is known about L before he became L, the world’s greatest detective. Up until the Kira case he had solved 3500 difficult cases worldwide, and declined to get involve with cases he was not interested in. Usually there had to be ten bodies or at least a million dollars at stake before he would step in.
His real name is L Lawliet, and he was born on October 31, 1982, although every record of this has been erased. He was orphaned at around eight years old and somehow found himself at Wammy’s House in Winchester, England. Sometime in there, Quillsh Wammy, later more famously known as Watari, discovered L’s great potential and helped mold him into a detective mastermind. After five years at Wammy’s House, L began to travel the world with Watari, solving cases.
Two years before the Kira case, there was another monumental case in L’s life, although very few people understand its significance. The Los Angeles BB murder cases brought L to the suspended FBI agent, Naomi Misora, and with her help they tracked down the killer. He was a young man called Beyond Birthday, known better to L as B, one of the children being trained by Wammy’s House to become L’s successor. B was driven to madness under the pressure of living up to L, and disappeared from Wammy’s House. He started the LABB murders as a game to prove he was, in fact, better than L. He even began dressing as L (although how he knew what L looked like to begin with is open for debate) and acting like an exaggerated facsimile of L, all in an attempt to “beat” L. This case had a tremendous affect on L’s psyche, seeing that B likely wouldn’t have even existed if not for him. Thankfully, with Misora’s help, L was able to stop B before his final murder can be carried out - on himself. Still, L understood the implications of the case: the true burden of being needed on such a large scale, and that the necessity to create duplicates could paint him as a villain as well as a god. Also, B’s act brought to L’s attention that L is, essentially, a freak of nature, and that the line between sanity and insanity is very thin indeed. For this reason, perhaps as a reminder to himself, the alias which B gave Misora, Ryuzaki, is later adopted by L himself as one of his many pseudonyms.
The most important and most famous of L's cases is the Kira case. L travels to Japan and becomes personally involved with the National Police Agency to pursue Kira, who is killing criminals with heart attacks with the goal to establish a new world order. Almost immediately, L suspects Light Yagami, the police chief's son, to be the culprit. Although he never has proof, he is correct: Light has a notebook from a shinigami called a Death Note, and he only needs to know a face and write the person's name in the Death Note and they will die. From here, L and Light enter a deadly game of cat and mouse. L installs security cameras in Light's room, but Light outsmarts him by having Ryuk -- said shinigami -- scope out where all the cameras are, and acts like a ridiculously normal teenager to throw L off the trail. L is unconvinced maybe because Light looks at porn like he's studying a freaking frog ready for dissection, a clear sign of sociopathy. (Creators have stated that although L tells Chief Yagami there is a 3-5% chance that Light is Kira, L is actually lying -- he is quite certain Light is Kira. The same goes for later on, when L tells Light that Light is his only friend. It's all part of L's investigative plan.)
To continue his investigation of Light, L enrolls at Light's college and confronts him, revealing himself as L. The two continue in their little cops and robbers game, competing in metaphorical activities such as a tennis match, frantically trying to outdo the other. Light continuously has an unfair advantage over L, having the help of both a shinigami and a second Kira -- Misa Amane, an up-and-coming model, has her own Death Note and the power of a devoted fangirl. She also has shinigami eyes, which allow her to see the true name of any human. Completely unfair advantage.
Thankfully, L's mad reasoning skills continue keep him ahead of Light's game, even with all the cheating. He finds out about Misa, has evidence collected from her home that links her to the second Kira, and has her detained. Then he lets Watari interrogate her with some VERY morally lax methods, but hey, GREAT JUSTICE is at stake here. Misa's shinigami, Rem, who has a very low threshold for Light's bullshit, confronts him and tells him he must save Misa or she will rip him a new asshole. Thus Light hatches a brilliant plan to toss away both Death Notes, which will erase both his and Misa's memories of being Kira. He hands himself over to L's custody, under the act that he suspects he might be Kira subconsciously.
L's like, well, okay, let's put you in jail. :Db
Light then denounces the Death Note, and Rem has gotten Misa to do the same, so they both get the most convenient case of amnesia that ever was. That's what L thinks, at least. That's why he keeps them locked up for about two more months before letting them go. (He actually has Chief Yagami drive Light and Misa out to the middle of nowhere and has the chief pretend to execute them both, under the reasoning that if Light really was Kira, he would have no qualms killing his own father to remain alive. Again, L IS RIGHT, but with the amnesia, Light does no such thing. CHEATER.)
After that confrontation, L handcuffs himself to Light to make sure he hasn't somehow tricked L (which he has) and will somehow return to being Kira without L noticing (which he will). Then L falls into something of a depression because the case comes to a stand still, he really wanted Light to be Kira (BECAUSE HE IS), and he has to deal with Misa's vapid high-pitched blathering on a daily basis. There's a two month period where NOTHING HAPPENS, so that's where I'm pulling L, in the middle of that somewhere, before the lead on the Yotsuba Group comes up.
First Person Sample:
One of my fav threads with him.
Third Person Sample:
(From a private RP, with L helping out Bruce Wayne train Terry McGinnis for the next Batman. Don't look at me like that, it's amazing. At this point, L is unconvinced about Terry’s overall character and dedication to the cause, so he does the obvious: he goes undercover as a student in Terry’s school to observe him in his natural habitat. Unfortunately, L’s never experienced high school, so things were bound to go a bit… haywire.)
Now it was lunch time. L sat alone, crouched in a hard-backed cafeteria chair, eating the lunch Watari had packed for him. Delectable sweets, of course, although disappointingly mushed in the brown paper bag he'd been forced to store them in. Lockers where illogical. So tall but with very little storage value. And then being forced to ask for a restroom pass...
"Hey, faggot."
L didn't even take his eyes off of Terry McGinnis, sitting a safe distance away. When the greeting was repeated, his black eyes slid from his target to the very tall and very wide young man leering down at him.
"I assume you are attempting to refer to me in the derogative sense for a homosexual person. Unfortunately, not only is the description inaccurate, but the word 'faggot' has several true meanings, foremost a bundle of sticks--"
"A faggot AND a freak," the young man boomed. "You're in my seat."
"I'd no idea there was assigned seating in the cafeteria," L said, looking away again. "In fact, I believe you are attempting to assign ownership to something that cannot possibly be owned by a student. These chairs are propety of the school."
In the next moment, he realized the young man was not alone; several other students with the same meaty quality to them had surrounded him.
"I ain't gonna ask nicely again," the ringleader said.
"No inquiries were given, so that is clearly a lie," L said, still calm.
Then L was given a hard shove in the shoulder and, given his already precarious perch on the hard chair, it was enough to send him sprawling to the linoleum. The shock of the blow was also enough to keep him on the floor for several seconds, blinking at the young man's audacity and trying to ignore a sudden flood of something he rarely felt: humiliation.
Links: http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L_Lawliet has all the fun bits.
Notes: I’m hoping the name that goes on his door is Ryuzaki, since it is his main alias at the time he’s being pulled from the series. That way he can appear to others as Ryuzaki, and make ~*~mysterious~*~ posts via Blackberry as L. With a paper in front of the screen with an L drawn on it. Shut up, it’ll be awesome. Not to mention Rachel and I already have a plot planned that involves B showing up and locking L in a closet and taking his place for awhile. I mean, what? >_>
Also, I hope he can show up with half the handcuff chain still attached to him. Because that's kinda hilarious.
Character Name: L
Character Journal: hunch_ofjustice
Canon: Death Note
Point in Canon: During the time L is handcuffed to Light to try to clear him of suspicion of being Kira, so that there's a lull in the Kira case. (In episode 18 of the anime, "Ally.")
Age: 24
Appearance: LOOK AT HIS BAD SELF.
Abilities: HIS SOOPER BRAIN. No, really, he’s very likely the smartest person on the planet. Also, he has the ability to eat nothing but sweets and not go into a coma and die, which is pretty impressive. Finally, he knows a bastardized form of capoeira from Naomi Misora and practicing with videos. So he can kick you in the face.
Personality: L is a shrewd little weirdo. Earth-shatteringly brilliant, of course, but intellect alone doesn't make a man. While he exhibits textbook autistic symptoms (repetitive behavior, selective interests, finger-biting, and atypical eating, to name a few), he is also self-aware of his own huge idiosyncrasies and will use them to his advantage. He knows he looks like a creep, so when investigating, he will often play up said behavior to throw the suspicion off of himself. The world's greatest detective can't possibly be that freak in the corner. He can also do a good impersonation of a drunk frat boy, so he has diversity in his acting skills.
He strives to uphold justice at all costs. It is something he believes in, and, at the same time, he finds solving difficult cases fun. If there's no thrill in it for him, he likely will not get involved. He has no qualms bending rules to get the results he wants. For example, he routinely hires con men and thieves to work for him, and they comply because he has enough dirt on them to put them in jail forever. He will also allow torture to obtain information in interrogations. He is, or at least, was -- an atheist, and he was so shocked at the possibility of the existence of a shinigami, he had a freak attack and fell out of his chair.
He has a signature sweet tooth -- he will refuse all other foods besides sweets, although fruit seems to be safe -- and just awful posture. He crouches instead of sitting, citing that his reasoning will decrease 40% if he sits normally. He will imbibe both tea and coffee by the gallon. Normally, he has very distinctive speech patterns and is likely fluent in a variety of languages, being that he works worldwide. Slightly head-canoned, but it's also likely his English has a high class British accent, since he grew up in England. Unless he is using an American dialect deliberately. Which he might actually do in the manor, to throw people off... He hates wearing shoes and socks and prefers to go barefoot.
Finally, when it comes right down to it, he is not always very nice. He CAN exhibit great kindness, but if he finds people stupid or annoying he will mock them, often with very subtle sarcasm.
To conclude, L is awesome. The end.
History: Very little is known about L before he became L, the world’s greatest detective. Up until the Kira case he had solved 3500 difficult cases worldwide, and declined to get involve with cases he was not interested in. Usually there had to be ten bodies or at least a million dollars at stake before he would step in.
His real name is L Lawliet, and he was born on October 31, 1982, although every record of this has been erased. He was orphaned at around eight years old and somehow found himself at Wammy’s House in Winchester, England. Sometime in there, Quillsh Wammy, later more famously known as Watari, discovered L’s great potential and helped mold him into a detective mastermind. After five years at Wammy’s House, L began to travel the world with Watari, solving cases.
Two years before the Kira case, there was another monumental case in L’s life, although very few people understand its significance. The Los Angeles BB murder cases brought L to the suspended FBI agent, Naomi Misora, and with her help they tracked down the killer. He was a young man called Beyond Birthday, known better to L as B, one of the children being trained by Wammy’s House to become L’s successor. B was driven to madness under the pressure of living up to L, and disappeared from Wammy’s House. He started the LABB murders as a game to prove he was, in fact, better than L. He even began dressing as L (although how he knew what L looked like to begin with is open for debate) and acting like an exaggerated facsimile of L, all in an attempt to “beat” L. This case had a tremendous affect on L’s psyche, seeing that B likely wouldn’t have even existed if not for him. Thankfully, with Misora’s help, L was able to stop B before his final murder can be carried out - on himself. Still, L understood the implications of the case: the true burden of being needed on such a large scale, and that the necessity to create duplicates could paint him as a villain as well as a god. Also, B’s act brought to L’s attention that L is, essentially, a freak of nature, and that the line between sanity and insanity is very thin indeed. For this reason, perhaps as a reminder to himself, the alias which B gave Misora, Ryuzaki, is later adopted by L himself as one of his many pseudonyms.
The most important and most famous of L's cases is the Kira case. L travels to Japan and becomes personally involved with the National Police Agency to pursue Kira, who is killing criminals with heart attacks with the goal to establish a new world order. Almost immediately, L suspects Light Yagami, the police chief's son, to be the culprit. Although he never has proof, he is correct: Light has a notebook from a shinigami called a Death Note, and he only needs to know a face and write the person's name in the Death Note and they will die. From here, L and Light enter a deadly game of cat and mouse. L installs security cameras in Light's room, but Light outsmarts him by having Ryuk -- said shinigami -- scope out where all the cameras are, and acts like a ridiculously normal teenager to throw L off the trail. L is unconvinced maybe because Light looks at porn like he's studying a freaking frog ready for dissection, a clear sign of sociopathy. (Creators have stated that although L tells Chief Yagami there is a 3-5% chance that Light is Kira, L is actually lying -- he is quite certain Light is Kira. The same goes for later on, when L tells Light that Light is his only friend. It's all part of L's investigative plan.)
To continue his investigation of Light, L enrolls at Light's college and confronts him, revealing himself as L. The two continue in their little cops and robbers game, competing in metaphorical activities such as a tennis match, frantically trying to outdo the other. Light continuously has an unfair advantage over L, having the help of both a shinigami and a second Kira -- Misa Amane, an up-and-coming model, has her own Death Note and the power of a devoted fangirl. She also has shinigami eyes, which allow her to see the true name of any human. Completely unfair advantage.
Thankfully, L's mad reasoning skills continue keep him ahead of Light's game, even with all the cheating. He finds out about Misa, has evidence collected from her home that links her to the second Kira, and has her detained. Then he lets Watari interrogate her with some VERY morally lax methods, but hey, GREAT JUSTICE is at stake here. Misa's shinigami, Rem, who has a very low threshold for Light's bullshit, confronts him and tells him he must save Misa or she will rip him a new asshole. Thus Light hatches a brilliant plan to toss away both Death Notes, which will erase both his and Misa's memories of being Kira. He hands himself over to L's custody, under the act that he suspects he might be Kira subconsciously.
L's like, well, okay, let's put you in jail. :Db
Light then denounces the Death Note, and Rem has gotten Misa to do the same, so they both get the most convenient case of amnesia that ever was. That's what L thinks, at least. That's why he keeps them locked up for about two more months before letting them go. (He actually has Chief Yagami drive Light and Misa out to the middle of nowhere and has the chief pretend to execute them both, under the reasoning that if Light really was Kira, he would have no qualms killing his own father to remain alive. Again, L IS RIGHT, but with the amnesia, Light does no such thing. CHEATER.)
After that confrontation, L handcuffs himself to Light to make sure he hasn't somehow tricked L (which he has) and will somehow return to being Kira without L noticing (which he will). Then L falls into something of a depression because the case comes to a stand still, he really wanted Light to be Kira (BECAUSE HE IS), and he has to deal with Misa's vapid high-pitched blathering on a daily basis. There's a two month period where NOTHING HAPPENS, so that's where I'm pulling L, in the middle of that somewhere, before the lead on the Yotsuba Group comes up.
First Person Sample:
One of my fav threads with him.
Third Person Sample:
(From a private RP, with L helping out Bruce Wayne train Terry McGinnis for the next Batman. Don't look at me like that, it's amazing. At this point, L is unconvinced about Terry’s overall character and dedication to the cause, so he does the obvious: he goes undercover as a student in Terry’s school to observe him in his natural habitat. Unfortunately, L’s never experienced high school, so things were bound to go a bit… haywire.)
Now it was lunch time. L sat alone, crouched in a hard-backed cafeteria chair, eating the lunch Watari had packed for him. Delectable sweets, of course, although disappointingly mushed in the brown paper bag he'd been forced to store them in. Lockers where illogical. So tall but with very little storage value. And then being forced to ask for a restroom pass...
"Hey, faggot."
L didn't even take his eyes off of Terry McGinnis, sitting a safe distance away. When the greeting was repeated, his black eyes slid from his target to the very tall and very wide young man leering down at him.
"I assume you are attempting to refer to me in the derogative sense for a homosexual person. Unfortunately, not only is the description inaccurate, but the word 'faggot' has several true meanings, foremost a bundle of sticks--"
"A faggot AND a freak," the young man boomed. "You're in my seat."
"I'd no idea there was assigned seating in the cafeteria," L said, looking away again. "In fact, I believe you are attempting to assign ownership to something that cannot possibly be owned by a student. These chairs are propety of the school."
In the next moment, he realized the young man was not alone; several other students with the same meaty quality to them had surrounded him.
"I ain't gonna ask nicely again," the ringleader said.
"No inquiries were given, so that is clearly a lie," L said, still calm.
Then L was given a hard shove in the shoulder and, given his already precarious perch on the hard chair, it was enough to send him sprawling to the linoleum. The shock of the blow was also enough to keep him on the floor for several seconds, blinking at the young man's audacity and trying to ignore a sudden flood of something he rarely felt: humiliation.
Links: http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L_Lawliet has all the fun bits.
Notes: I’m hoping the name that goes on his door is Ryuzaki, since it is his main alias at the time he’s being pulled from the series. That way he can appear to others as Ryuzaki, and make ~*~mysterious~*~ posts via Blackberry as L. With a paper in front of the screen with an L drawn on it. Shut up, it’ll be awesome. Not to mention Rachel and I already have a plot planned that involves B showing up and locking L in a closet and taking his place for awhile. I mean, what? >_>
Also, I hope he can show up with half the handcuff chain still attached to him. Because that's kinda hilarious.