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Light has learned that from his life.
The world’s just a stage and you’re the actor that has to put on an act that will please the most people.
Just remember your lines.
It never bothered Light, he assumed that was what everyone felt like.
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Or, I make Light suffer (with love) with L and they're in high school together with no kira or death note
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- Part 5 of Lawlight...
- Part 1 of College/High school AU (Lawlight)
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On April 25, 2004, the task force discover that the false Kira video has been of no avail against the second Kira's threats.
L is to be brought before the cameras.
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God Is a Concept Invented by Lonely Boys by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
31 Aug 2025
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The chain between them shuddered.
They were bound together by more than cuffs and secrets. They were tethered by ego, intellect, obsession, and something that might—might—have been love, if either of them had ever been taught how to name it without drawing blood.
They were tethered by the tragedy of being the only two people alive who could meet the other on the battlefield of belief and not flinch.
They were gods, both of them. Incompatible, inevitable, insufferable.
And so very lonely.
Or, how they played god and fell like men.
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- Part 19 of Checkmate
- Part 13 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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The Altar Remembers What the Witnesses Forgot by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
24 Aug 2025
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Light stares at the ceiling and contemplates godhood. Again.
Because that’s what this is, isn’t it?
Not love. Not lust. Not whatever hideous tragicomic comedy of errors last night was.
It’s worship.
And L—L is a demon kneeling at the wrong altar, daring the god of death to smite him. And Light, well—
He is the altar.
The fire.
The knife.
He is the god.
And gods are not merciful, but they are very good at pretending.
Or, the god kissed the heretic, and called it penance.
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- Part 18 of Checkmate
- Part 12 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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Entropy Looks Like a Kiss Between Gods by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
17 Aug 2025
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He takes L’s hand again.
Presses his lips to the wrist, the palm, the tips of his fingers like he’s cataloging something fragile. Like he’s making a study out of tenderness.
“Do you think you could love me if I wasn’t good?” Light asks.
L looks down at him with eyes like locked doors.
“I think I already do,” he says.
Light bites his lip. It almost bleeds.
He kisses L’s hand again, feverish.
And then, softly:
“I think I want you to catch me.”
L’s hand tightens around his.
“I think I already have.”
Or, no one tells you how intimacy ruins gods.
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- Part 17 of Checkmate
- Part 11 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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i don't believe in god (but i believe you're my saviour) by lawliest
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
13 Aug 2025
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Streams of glistening light filtered into the room, spilling golden rivers onto Light's silken skin. L almost worried about touching her, feared that she would taint her sacred temple with her sinner's hands, as though any grazing touch she left with her fingertips would further doom Light's soul to eternal damnation.
Light wasn't a goddess, but L wouldn't think twice about worshipping her.
or, L knows she's going to die soon, she hopes to make her last moments worthwhile.
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Kings and Queens on a Board Made of Broken Hearts by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
10 Aug 2025
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“You know,” L said, “Kant believed moral worth depended on acting out of duty rather than inclination.”
Light snorted. “That’s rich coming from the man who just sucked me off for science.”
L gave him a withering look. “And you, Light-kun, with your utopian fantasies of a perfect world built on sacrifice and control—you think that’s moral? You’re just dressing inclination up as destiny.”
“I am destiny,” Light whispered.
“No,” L said. “You’re just afraid.”
Light’s whole body went still.
L leaned in, slow, deliberate. Until their foreheads touched.
“You’re afraid,” he repeated. “That you’re not as divine as you pretend. That you’re not worthy of the crown you keep making out of corpses. That if someone loved you—truly loved you—they’d see the monster underneath and still say no.”
Light exhaled like it hurt. “And what about you?”
“I’m afraid I’ll see the monster and say yes.”
Or, a chess game is only romantic if no one wins.
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- Part 16 of Checkmate
- Part 10 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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“The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day… I got in."
Wammy Inc CEO and founder L Lawliet was known for his dreams of a new, digital, way to evolve society. Everyone knew about it. But his son Mihael, better known as Mello, knew the bedtime stories. Battles of light, worlds of code, and most of all: a brave program named Light who fought for the users.•••
Written for Lawlight Week, Day 5: Chained + Free
This work is accessible to those who do not know either Tron or Death Note.
Podfic version.- Language:
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- Words:
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- Chapters:
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L tangles their fingers together, slow and deliberate, like he’s testing a hypothesis about intimacy.
“I think,” he murmurs, “you’re afraid of being known.”
Light closes his eyes.
“I think you’re obsessed with the idea that someone might look at you and not flinch.”
L’s breath brushes his cheek.
“And you hate me because I did. And I stayed.”
Light opens his eyes. “That’s not true.”
“It is.”
“No. I hate you because you see everything—everything I am, everything I could be—and you still want me. That’s what makes you sick.”
L doesn’t flinch.
“Maybe,” he says, “I’m just the only one honest enough to admit what wanting you really means.”
Or, they were always going to ruin each other beautifully.
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- Part 15 of Checkmate
- Part 9 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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What Survives the War Between Mirrors by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
27 Jul 2025
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“You want to be good,” L says, voice low. “But only if it means being right.”
Light says nothing.
“You want to be loved,” L continues, “but only if it means being obeyed.”
Light grips the sink so tightly his knuckles go white.
“You want to be God,” L murmurs, stepping closer, “but only if no one knows you’re terrified of dying.”
Light turns.
His voice is cracked glass. “You don’t know me.”
L places a hand over Light’s chest. Right over his heart. Right over the evidence.
“I do,” he says.
Or, they both mistook hatred for something else entirely—and that was the problem.
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- Part 14 of Checkmate
- Part 8 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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Love Is a Death Sentence, Tenderly Served by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
20 Jul 2025
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“Do you regret it?” Light whispers.
L doesn’t answer immediately.
Then: “No.”
“Even if I’m Kira?”
“I think,” L says, voice steady, “that loving someone doesn’t mean forgiving them. It means knowing what they are, and staying anyway.”
“That’s dangerous.”
“That’s why it’s love.”
Light swallows. His mouth is dry.
“You’re insane.”
“Yes.”
“I think I’m starting to fall in love with you.”
L turns to face him.
“I think,” he says, “that’s why I’m afraid.”
Or, what happens when gods fall in love with their own executioners.
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- Part 13 of Checkmate
- Part 7 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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“The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day… I got in.”
Wammy Inc CEO and founder L Lawliet was known for his dreams of a new, digital, way to evolve society. Everyone knew about it. But his son Mihael, better known as Mello, knew the bedtime stories. Battles of light, worlds of code, and most of all: a brave program named Light who fought for the users.•••
Written for Lawlight Week, Day 5: Chained + Free
This work is accessible to anyone who is not familiar with Death Note or Tron Legacy.
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Y/n finds out they will get to spend more time with L on the Kira case.
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- Part 1 of L Lawliet/Reader oneshots
- Language:
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- Words:
- 471
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 13
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Feathers by Rainbow_fairytale for Taime_Riddle
Fandoms: Death Note (Live Action TV), Death Note: Another Note, Death Note (Anime & Manga)
16 Jul 2025
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Following Light’s execution, L slowly falls apart. Losing Light caused L to begin losing his morals, and L can’t seem to make himself care.
When a new Kira makes an appearance, L has no choice (mostly due to Himura and Near) but to step up and solve the case. But is L ready to face Light again?
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Two Monsters Learning to Bleed by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
13 Jul 2025
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“You think I’m Kira,” Light says, voice tight.
“I know you’re Kira,” L replies calmly. “I just haven’t proven it yet.”
“So why haven’t you turned me in?”
L’s voice is barely above a whisper. “Because that would mean losing you.”
Light freezes.
“...That’s not how this works,” he says, too quickly. “We’re not—this isn’t a relationship.”
“No,” L agrees. “It’s an investigation. Into intimacy. Complicity. Divinity. Madness.”
“You’re quoting Kierkegaard at me.”
“You’re quoting your bedroom eyes at me.”
Or, how justice handcuffed itself to a tragedy and called it intimacy.
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- Part 12 of Checkmate
- Part 6 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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The Shape of a God in a Mirror by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
06 Jul 2025
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L placed the cup on the table. “And what should I be looking for?”
Light smiled.
“A god.”
Ritsuko was upside down on the ceiling, idly braiding strands of stormlight into her hair. She didn't comment, but the air thickened like a closing book.
“You’re not a god,” L said.
“No,” Light agreed. “But I’m what happens when a man tries to become one. That’s the same thing, in the end.”
L’s fingers tapped the porcelain in rhythm. “And what am I, in this myth?”
Light stepped closer. Their faces were mirror-close. Twin blades.
“You’re the only thing that made me doubt.”
Or, the one where Light Yagami forgets how to lie and L forgets how to stop watching.
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- Part 11 of Checkmate
- Part 5 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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“Ryuzaki!” Light cried, cradling L’s body. He’d done it! He’d outsmarted the World’s Greatest Detective! Now he was free to create his new world, deemed fit for a God.
Then he heard something that made him blink in disbelief.
L, against all odds, was still breathing.
Or, an unexpected factor throws Light's plans into disarray, threatening everything he'd ever worked for.
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Gods and Monsters Playing Chess with Human Hearts by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
15 Jun 2025
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And L—L was tired.
Not physically. But in the way that gods get tired after they realize mortals aren’t clay statues waiting to be judged, but hungry wolves with smiles like Light Yagami.
“Because I needed to know,” L said softly. “Whether it was only theory. Or if I’d already begun to want you more than I wanted the truth.”
He reached for a chocolate bar from the nightstand drawer. Bit into it like it owed him an answer.
“And?” Light asked.
L looked up.
And smiled.
“I don’t like the answer.”
Or L fell in love with the god he was supposed to unmake.
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- Part 10 of Checkmate
- Part 4 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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“We should stay here,” L says in tandem with the trickling stream.
“And do what?” This.
“Slowly decompose?” Yes, please.
Light entertains his proposal with a gentle laugh because he has a warm bed at home waiting for him. A warm meal. A father, a mother, a sister.
L feels a million nettles all over his body. “If that’s what you want.”
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Love is Just Another Kind of Linkage by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
08 Jun 2025
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“…Did you mean it?” Light asks.
L doesn’t look over. “Mean what?”
“When you said you wanted me.”
L is quiet for a while. “I don’t know. Want is a slippery word. Sometimes I want you the way a drowning man wants air. Sometimes I want you the way fire wants oxygen—just to burn brighter.”
Light’s breath catches.
“And sometimes,” L says, blinking slowly, “I think I just want to understand what it means to feel, and you’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems real enough to make me feel anything at all.”
“Oh,” Light says faintly. “That’s—awful.”
“Yes,” L says, expression unreadable. “It’s very inconvenient.”
Or, the space between "I think you're Kira" and "I think I love you" is exactly the length of a chain.
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- Part 9 of Checkmate
- Part 3 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay