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L Lawliet Application Part I

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OOC Information
Alias: Lexi
Contact Info: AIM is tinmaiden, email is you_say_it_like_lowlight@yahoo.com
Other characters: Nope.

IC Information
Character: L Lawliet
Canon: Death Note
Point in canon: Near the end of his life. This would be episode 25 of the anime, directly after his last conversation with Light and before announcing his plans to task force to try out the notebook for real in order to test the 13-day rule.
Age: L is 25, but he looks 17 or 18 and has very childish mannerisms.
Personality: Introverted, Intuitive, Thoughtful, and very Judgmental, L is not the most patient soul when it comes to the incompetence or flippancy of others. He can easily spend hours doing one thing, no matter how mundane it appears to others, as long as he deems it important. L is most comfortable when others control certain aspects of his life, such as his food, travel arrangements, and clothing, and can be a bit directionless if people like this are absent. Incidentally, he cares little what others think of him. His moods are fairly static, ranging from bored to mildly interested, at least on the surface. Despite his affected aloofness, in the rare cases L’s interest is sincerely piqued, he can behave unpredictably. His moral compass is famously flawed, and though he opposes the series' antagonist in Death Note and is on the same side as Light's "good" father, one gets the impression that good, evil, and a "strong sense of justice" are frighteningly ambiguous to L himself, despite the pretenses he acts under. He likes games, he likes to win, and if ethics get in the way, he prefers not to address them.

L has many quirks. A few include his constant craving for sweets, his tendency to hold things very delicately, and his habit of assuming a crouching pose rather than sitting normally. As a rule, L is often misunderstood due to his underdeveloped social faculties and blunt way of addressing things.

Re: L Lawliet Application Part II

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L's social skills leave much to be desired. L is not heartless, but has a difficult time with empathy. He is also liar and extremely manipulative. As far as personal relationships go, they're possible for him, but reliant on an incredible amount of understanding and patience from the other person (HINT: he responds well to nurturers or an opportunity for competition.) Despite his childish demeanor, he is well aware of his genius, and feels slightly isolated from- and superior to- the rest of the world. This can create difficulty in interaction with people L believes to be less intelligent than he is; he can come off as rude, arrogant, and cruel, among other things, meaning that he makes enemies ten times easier than he makes friends.

L's raw intelligence is an integral part of his character, and the nature of it is worth a bit more detail. L has a very smooth learning curve; he picks up new subject matter and skills as quickly as is believable (in the DN novel "Another Note" he learns Capoeira just by watching a few videos and having a move performed on him) and some things (like languages; he speaks many) even faster. He is ambidextrous and both right and left-brained, allowing him to excel at both analytical and creative endeavors. L is highly intuitive, so much that his "hunches" often beat proof to the punch, but he always makes sure that he has at least basic evidence before doing something risky in a case. He can usually distance himself from his own emotions during crises or potentially upsetting events (in exchange for having occasional odd reactions like fear, amusement, or melancholy to things that seem inappropriate.) He is good at detecting patterns and likes numbers a great deal. He has a photographic memory and can speed read several things (such as computer screens) at the same time.
History: PL is the main antagonist (or one of two antiheros) in Death Note. He is the source of conflict for the first two arcs of the story, opposing Light's dream of a united world under the rule of Kira, a self-proclaimed "God" who justifies the mass murder of criminals to create a better world. L is the young, eccentric genius responsible for solving over 1000 of the world's most difficult cases, working as a high-stakes international detective with only one man, Watari, working as his liaison to the outside world. From the beginning of the story, L is convinced that Light is Kira based on incomplete but compelling evidence and simple intuition.

Re: L Lawliet Application Part III

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Very little is known about L, even in canon. Contrary to popular opinion, he is not fully Japanese; "Word of God" in Death Note Volume 13: How to Read" is that he's a mixture of Russian, English, Japanese, French, and Italian heritage. Based on evidence in the Re-Light specials that came out recently, as well as in parts of the anime and the novel Another Note and the alternate-continuity novelization of L: Change the WorLd, we can conclude that his career as a detective began when he met Watari at the age of eight. His genius was recognized and nurtured (leaving other faculties like social skills radically underdeveloped), and over the course of 17 years he successfully cracked 1000 of the world's most difficult cases. During this time, an orphanage/school called Wammy's House was founded by his mentor for the sake of recreating a genius like L to take his place in the event of death or insanity. The house produced such characters as Beyond Birthday, Mello, Matt, and Near as notable alumni,and many others, all of whom regarded the idea of "being L" as an ideal just within their ability to someday attain. His contact with them was limited to conferences on computer screens, in which his face and voice were disguised but he answered questions and delivered lectures and insight. In Death Note: Re-Light II, he was shown giving such a lecture, and was asked by a child if anything scared him. He answered monsters, and went on to reveal himself, and his eventual undoing, as "lying monsters."

Given tremendous control over the world's police forces (and usually their unquestioning cooperation), L was known for his arrogance and his tendency to treat his profession as a game, only taking on cases that personally interested him. When the Kira killings (mysterious deaths of criminals caused by unexplained heart attacks) gained national attention, he decided to take the case almost immediately, confident in his ability to trounce any criminal mastermind he decided to go after. He was both thrilled and discouraged by the fact that, no matter what he did to back Kira into a corner, he was outmaneuvered. His main suspect, Light Yagami, was a brilliant and promising young student, the son of a police chief who had gleaming and idealistic visions of a world without murder, but without any concrete evidence, his gut feeling wasn't enough to convict Light of anything. During the course of the story, L was forced to reveal himself to Light and work alongside him when a second killer surfaced, and after imprisonments, countless hours of surveillance through cameras and being handcuffed to L himself, and repeated, blunt accusations, Light managed to kill L by convincing a Shinigami that it was the only way to save the girl she loved. L was technically a part of the story until the bitter end since the "dead man switch" was planned years in advance and his successors took over the case, but as a character, his existence was ended by being just one step behind Light..
Abilities: L is a genius, which in itself is his primary ability. He is very good at taking tests, chess, tennis, and puzzles, and he speaks a menagerie of languages from modern-day Earth. He also somehow manages to stay fit while not moving much and eating enough candy to give an army diabetes. He is trained in the martial art Capoeira.
Items brought along: The white t-shirt and crummy jeans he's wearing, crummy and damp white sneakers, a cell phone, two lollipops.
Stigma: Kira (ie, Light Yagami), the mastermind mass-murderer responsible for the deaths of many criminals in L's home world. Eventually, L himself dies through circumstances set in motion by Kira. Shinigami (Gods of Death) would also work well.

Re: L Lawliet Application Part IV

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Samples
Regular Post: (Taken from Microcosm RP, a community where I currently play L) It's expertly done. Detail has been attended to, there is a convincing body, and a variety of intricate clues that are almost impossible to detect. It looks like a lot of crime scenes L has dealt with, except that it is textbook. So textbook that he can solve even the derivatives just by referring to a basic, detective-novel formula.

He stands by passively, in plain clothes, watching unchipped forensic zombies dutifully dusting for prints. He steps over, purposely knocking a trash can in the way of one of them, hoping for a reaction, outrage... anything... but the unchipped duster just continues after a polite greeting to the supervising detective who has made his job three times as difficult by spilling garbage all over it.

He feels like there's a hamster wheel, and that his brain is on it, and he is itching to see if he can unhinge that wheel just a little bit. That's why, as you pass what appears to be a crime scene, set up for the sheer purpose of giving a detective something to do, there is a young man doing his best to disrupt it.]

Re: L Lawliet Application Part V

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Log Post: (Taken from Micro Metropolis, where I currently play L.) It was dark when L opened his eyes, and so for a few moments, he wondered if he had. A restless sleeper, L had apparently kicked off his blanket at some point in the night, ending up curled in a tight fetal position on the firm mattress. Though he seldom slept, he understood that sometimes, it was necessary, and he had likely been taken to bed by Watari when he had reached the point of clear physical exhaustion. It had happened before. However, Watari never undressed him, that being unspoken taboo in their contract, and so it was startling and unsettling when thin fingers plucked at paper instead of soft cotton. Lights flickered on dimly, seeming to react to his regaining consciousness, and he was greeted to a more barren resting place than the typical hotel room. There was a sterility to it, and a whiteness, but what startled L the most about the entire situation was that he didn't know what was going on. He was a detective. Being in the dark about something meant that he was failing at his job and his nature.

The assortment of equipment in the room, along with the steel frame of the bed and the hospital gown, gave L the uneasy thought that perhaps there had been an accident, or maybe he had been ill. Starting with his head, he ran his hands quickly over his body, even stripping out of the paper gown to look for unexplained injuries. He felt fine, which left only his mental health in question. L swallowed, remaining calm, taking deep breaths and chewing on the pad of his thumb compulsively. His mind was everything to him, and if something was wrong with it, his entire life would change.

L was so deep in thought, crouched on top of the bed with the hospital gown discarded on the floor, that the announcement startled him into toppling over sideways. Fortunately, he removed his thumb before accidentally biting it off. 'Welcome to Micro-Metropolis, You will be expected to participate in any number of exciting and stimulating exercises. If you have any questions, please consult the laptop assigned to you. Have a nice day, and enjoy your stay. ' Listening intently, L initially questioned the explanation, given that it wasn't any sort of explanation whatsoever, but the mention of the laptop propelled him into action. He knew computers, he understood them, and, granted there was an internet connection, he could find out where his liaisons were. He booted up the laptop on his bedside table in record speed, continuing to chew on his thumb and staring at the words as he processed them. L read things quickly and understood them more quickly, but he found himself reading, and re-reading, and then going back to stare at every individual word. If he hadn't been naked in a sterile facility questioning his sanity, he would have dismissed it immediately as a joke in poor taste. More deep breaths, more thumb biting, more uneasiness... but overall, L's objective was to keep his head level. He spent the next half-hour taking inventory of everything in the room, eventually discovering his clothing and dressing himself after checking them for bugs. No wires, no cameras... not on him, anyway. L was sure that he was being watched, especially after what he'd read and the audio message he had received.

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