jami!!!!!

i believe that misa could learn a lot from fem!L that could help to change her perspective, and the same can even be said for L.

for someone like misa, who’s spent a great deal of her life yearning for the attention of men in order to feel safe and desired, believing that the key to achieving this is through being conventionally attractive or by competing with other women, i can only think that it’d be refreshing for her to meet someone like L who does not care for her own nor others’ appearances in the slightest.

finding someone who finally looks at you the same, whether you’re all dolled up or dressed down, since they’ve seen past your appearance from the start? that’s freeing; that’s comforting. it’s startlingly intimate, whether you want it to be or not.

L’s presence would be begrudgingly relaxing to misa, and her contrasting beliefs would help misa to start living for herself, instead of for the eyes of others.

as for how L benefits from this relationship?

L is a person who has a phlegmatic temperament, tinted with melancholic edges, so it only makes sense that she’d benefit from misa’s intense and reactive nature. this contrast in behaviour would bring out L’s passion (in a similar way to how L’s relationship with light does in canon) and help her to get her out of her head, while also helping misa to mellow out on the days where she needs it most.

because misa isn’t merely ditzy and chatty—she’s also very often feisty, challenging, impulsive, and fiery. she has a bite to her and is intelligent in her own way (let us not forget that she threatened to kill any girl who so much as went near light + devised an entire plan to record higuchi’s kira admission).

misa’s a bit deranged, and she has hidden depths to her. once L discovers this, i believe it wouldn’t take long for her to be intrigued and pulled in by the girl, wanting to poke and prod to see just how bratty, biting, and dangerous misa can get.

misa, for her part, would enjoy the challenge to her viewpoints that L presents, her sarcastic and wry nature, along with the disheveled and intense look L has that misa’s past partners would have lacked. (the last point in particular would draw misa in since she’s always been with shallow, ‘gentlemen-y’ and superficially perfect guys, so L represents this messy sort of energy that misa has always actually been attracted to and wanted to exude in her own way.)

at first, misa would maybe be appalled by L (or at least act as if she is), while secretly envying her unbothered attitude towards most things, and L would be disinterested in misa’s seemingly shallow lifestyle and personality.