Fic: [Nathan Barley/Death Note] The Secret of Sound (PG)

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Title: The Secret of Sound
Fandom: Nathan Barley/Death Note
Characters: Jones, L, Mello, Dan, Watari
Rating: PG
Warnings: SPOILERS for Death Note up to Chapter 59/Episode 26
Word Count: 4150
Disclaimer: Nathan Barley belongs to Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker. Death Note belongs to Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
Notes: Written to fulfill MY OWN (

Comments

[thirstyrobot]

Oh, man, I liked this a lot! :D I know nothing of Death Note or I probably would've liked it even more, but it makes perfect sense to me that Jones would be a bored little prodigy with too many sounds in his head, and that more than even not caring about taking over the legacy, he'd actively not want it because he sort of knows who he is without it.

I love him laying his ear against the piano and naming himself after the teacher and stuff like He was even fascinated by the process of recording, and he learned how music settled into the plastic grooves of a record, or into flimsy, seaweed-like magnetic tape. All those sounds, trapped in there, playing over and over again - like ghosts.

And not wanting Dan to get mixed up in it (and also EEE Neutral Milk Hotel! :D), and just a great big AW JONES <3 <3 <3 <3

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:D I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Genius!Jones was incredibly fun to write. I've wanted to write something about his childhood for ages.

NMH was a very awesome suggestion from liljfrostbite, and I'm really glad she mentioned it, because I feel like it goes really, really well with "My Death". I don't know a lot about music but I think that would be a pretty awesome mix. XD

AW JONES! <3 Thank you!

[silent_fields]

You've done a really great job fitting the two worlds into each other. Jones' discovery of coffee was super cute. I really liked L's view of Jones, that he was high on the list because he didn't want L's job. I just want to snuggle young music maker Jones though.

I really loved this part, as I think describes Jones perfectly in any setting:

His quest to figure out where sounds came from led him into trouble more often than not. He took things apart, things he wasn't supposed to take apart because they were precious. And when they were in pieces, he still didn't have any answers. They'd lost their magic. The sounds had died.

<3

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It's allll L's fault that Jones is so, er, stimulated all the time. XD (Even though I suppose Jones drinking coffee all the time is fanon, how the hell else does he stay up for four or five days? It's either that or speed!)

I'm glad you liked Jones' musical past and that it came out all right. I was a little worried about not having the knowledge or terminology for everything correct (I'm about as unmusical as you can get unfortunately). XD

Thank you!

[ftw302]

In one of the episodes Claire laments that he's just had 8 cups of coffee and a gram or something, some sort of drug reference. That's before Jones pops in and offers to help out 'cuz he'll be up for 3 or 4 days.

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Noooo I don't want to think of druggy Jones ;_; CLAIRE SHUT UP

[ftw302]

I liked this, and I actually know about Death Note, so I understood what was going on...huzzah!

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<3 Thanks. Also for your Twitter encouragement/enabling. :P

[the_reverand]

I love prodigy!Jones! Staying awake and needing to be told why he shouldn't and taking things apart, even the piano. :) And Dan at the end, not wanting to smoke. Weird priciples indeed! :D

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Yeah, Dan's like "You're not supposed to smoke around kids, are you? And shouldn't we childproof the kitchen?" jaldjslalk

[eggnogged]

Oh, I don't know anything about Death Note, but this makes me want to look it up! It sounds like an interesting universe.

I really enjoyed this! I love the idea of Jones the child prodigy, and how he chose his name, and how he's kind of lost in his own universe of noise and doesn't care about competing with anyone.

He needed to know everything. He was even fascinated by the process of recording, and he learned how music settled into the plastic grooves of a record, or into flimsy, seaweed-like magnetic tape. All those sounds, trapped in there, playing over and over again - like ghosts.
That bit is perfection, it's a beautiful image and rings very true to your Jones.

Lovely! <3

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Death Note was my last big fandom before Boosh, though the best parts of the fandom have kind of died out unfortunately. :( Now all that's left are the creepy fans, heh.

Also, who could resist a series that has this as an opening sequence?

(This is not a joke. That's really the opening for the latter half of the series ...)

I'm glad you liked it! I love genius!Jones, way too much fun to imagine. :D