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...

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This Comment Has Spoilers. :-P

When I first read the 12th manga, I did a lot of shrieking and screaming and sobbing manically and sniffling. I felt -so- bad for Light, yet, in a way the death was very beautiful. Not because he lost, but I think the ending illustrates something deeper. All of the main players in the Death Note story, the geniuses for sure - Light, L, Near, and Mello - they are all bastards, in my opinion, but they are fighting for a cause that they believe is right. Ryuk's part in the ending really stuck out to me, and how they talk about how when every human dies, there IS no heaven and hell (which represent Justice) but instead, everybody goes to the same nothingness. And even though Near "wins", the victory turns sour when, in the epilogue, Matsuda mentions that the crime rate has gone up again.

For these reasons, I don't think Light was "evil". He just killed a lot of people on a holy crusade. After all, it is stated that most of the public actually supports Kira, and not out of fear, but because they like what society is becoming. Essentially two groups of people consistently hate Kira - the government and the criminal underworld.

As for Amnesia!Light... I think he's probably the best, and one of the only examples of a genuinely noble person in Death Note. He, and Soichiro Yagami, but Soichiro is a lot more conflicted than Light is. Innocent!Light is such a GOOD person, and during that point in the series we are really contrasting how morally questionable L is.

Power can change a personality, but I also don't think that it's so much a CHANGE as it is an amplifier of certain traits. Light is passionate and analytical - the Death Note emphasized these parts of his personality until he was willing to do whatever it took to win, no matter who or what came in his way.

Also... I despise Near. Grr. He's too apathetic and uncaring to be a hero!

I would love to read your fics, too. :-) Can't wait for them to get typed up!