The Art of Meeting Your Idol (Death Note, G) L/Mello

[mayfic]

Title: The Art of Meeting Your Idol
Fandom: Death Note
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Pairings: L/Mello
Summary: Meeting L is strange and not what Mello expected, but he wanted to take in every detail, anyway.
Notes: Written for a prompt on Tumblr.

Comments

[versipellis]

I love the description in this. It feels very real, and you feel the vulnerability of Mello and his hero-worship very strongly.

[mayfic]

Thank you! :D A lot of Mello's vulnerability is linked to L in some way or another.

[fatalna]

If the person was stupid, then they wouldn’t be in the house, at all. I love this line, because it reminds me of "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum."

I like that Mello is at once fascinated by and cooly analytical toward L, that he regards him with a critical eye even as he gravitates toward him (including his "fleeting wonder", something that gets packed in a barrage of sensory information he receives at their first meeting).

Just thought of something, how weird would it be to be looking for one's own successor, while still being very much at the prime of your life?

[mayfic]

Thank you! :)

Yeah, I think Mello would be a little critical on top of his fascination with L, because Wammy's House teaches the children to be perceptive, he's not sure what he's expecting but he has an image of what L looks like in his head, and it's possible that he learned to judge adults before he went to the house. Not only that, but also I imagine that many of the Wammy's House children are prone to being very aware of external stimuli.

That's the thing. The fanbase likes to come down hard on L for...supposedly neglecting his successors, I guess. But he's so young. If he was ten years older, he'd still be young. If Another Note is any indication, he had successors in his teens. That means that Watari wasn't hiding the fact that he might die before he hit adulthood.