Rambling about a fic I'm writing...

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Well, I haven't typed up any fics to post in here, yet. I'll try to get some of that Death Note au  (that needs a name) typed tonight, though.

*thinks*  I'll talk about that for a moment, then.

A week or so ago, I finally got around to reading the very end of the Death Note manga. This involved a some "Squee!", some "Nooooo!", and lots of "WTF? Light you're supposed to be smarter than that damn it!" *grumbles*

Afterwards, I was talking with my dear friend Archie about how neither of us particularly like Near, and how he's not as good as L. So I asked who would be, and Archie responded, "Good!Light." My fanficcing brain instantly thought, "I must write that."

So I am.

Keep in mind, this is Good!Light, not Amnesia!Light, and takes place after That Which Shall Not Be Spoiled. Probably well into the second half, though.

Talk more after I've actually typed and posted some of the thing, though.

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SPOILIZERZ!!!!!!!!!

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*is a dear friend*

Good!Light is a concept that you would need to develop yourself, since he doesn't really exist in canon, not in the sense that would try and make himself a true successor to L, anyway.

But you know that already.

So the AU aspect would be something that occurs before the warehouse confrontation to make him turn away from his life as Kira in favour of L's idea of what justice should be.

And then he'd need some way of proving that he wasn't Kira, in order to avoid having that same justice applied to him by Near/Mello et al.

But then, you know that too, so, I've sort of lost track of why I started writing this. Oh well...

Re: SPOILIZERZ!!!!!!!!!

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Well, getting or losing a note doesn't (to our knowledge) change someone's basic personality, but Amnesia!Light isn't evil to me. Arguably still unstable, but not evil. I think that it won't be too hard to develop. *already has an idea or two*

...Hmm. I'm not sure if Light's justice will be the same as L's. He is not the same man, after all, for all their similarities. I suspect he will have a different focus.

As for Near/Mello...Well, I know he'll need to avoid them somehow (to say nothing of Ryuk) but I don't want to have him hiding his past. I don't know why, but that seems rather distasteful to me. If nothing else, he'll have to solve the case somehow...I wonder if Mikami would act as a double?

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Re: SPOILIZERZ!!!!!!!!!

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Amnesia!Light isn't evil to me. Arguably still unstable, but not evil. I think that it won't be too hard to develop.

Well, that's why this fic is within the realms of possibility; you can make non-amnesiac-but-still-good!Light without constructing a new personality for him, and apparently already have some idea about how to go about it.

I'm not sure if Light's justice will be the same as L's. He is not the same man, after all, for all their similarities. I suspect he will have a different focus.

Light's sense of justice probably wouldn't be the same as L's, but it'd be a damn sight closer than it is in canon, is what I was getting at.

As for Near/Mello...Well, I know he'll need to avoid them somehow (to say nothing of Ryuk) but I don't want to have him hiding his past. I don't know why, but that seems rather distasteful to me.

The thing about this is, he's gonna have to hide his past, because otherwise he'd either have to confess to being Kira, resulting in either death or incarceration, or kill off anyone that might uncover the truth and then take up the position, which would sort of go against the kind of person he's trying to become. The only way he's going to be rid of suspicion is by proving that he's not Kira, which would almost certainly require finding someone else to act as Kira for the investigators.

To that end, Mikami would do anything he asked, provided it were physically possible, and Light could convince him that he was doing God's work.