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Am rereading Another Note and I've noticed a couple of things. Early on, Mello implies in his narration that Naomi was suspended because she was too good as well as being Japanese and female, so they'd given her forced time off for failing that one case with the teenaged kid she couldn't shoot. And then a few pages later, it seems as if L might have had a hand in it so she'd be free to work with him. Wouldn't put it past him to do that and even make it look like it was the result of some prejudice among the guys at the top, but it had eluded me the first time.
Also, Naomi has trouble with a teenager because he's a teenager, and that makes me wonder how she would have dealt with Light had the Death Note plot gone that way.
And I'm wondering how old Beyond Birthday is actually supposed to be; this is pre-Death Note, so L is in his early twenties, and Beyond is younger than him, presumably, so he's in his late teens or early twenties. He's described as a man and not a boy, so mid-teens is probably stretching it. There's this whole thing about how L is so awful because he caused A and B to go insane in parts of fandom. But if A and B were young, then L was young, too. I think it's unfair to blame L solely for that, anyway, though.
Also, Naomi has trouble with a teenager because he's a teenager, and that makes me wonder how she would have dealt with Light had the Death Note plot gone that way.
And I'm wondering how old Beyond Birthday is actually supposed to be; this is pre-Death Note, so L is in his early twenties, and Beyond is younger than him, presumably, so he's in his late teens or early twenties. He's described as a man and not a boy, so mid-teens is probably stretching it. There's this whole thing about how L is so awful because he caused A and B to go insane in parts of fandom. But if A and B were young, then L was young, too. I think it's unfair to blame L solely for that, anyway, though.