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While L is standing up, giving a little explanation about his deductions to the Task Force, Light zones out since he already knows L’s thinking so well and can exactly predict what the man will say. He’s already at that finish line with L while they wait for the others to even find the trail. So instead of listening, he dreamily focuses on the shadow L casts on the wall, the man’s profile and stature cut against stark white. He shifts inch by inch until his own shadow covers and subsumes L’s, until no trace of spiky angles from unruly hair or the gentle slope of slumped shoulders remains. When L finally stops speaking, Light can imagine if the man wasn’t even there, and a pit in his stomach opens up like a sinkhole. The edges crumble inward and expand to cover his peace of mind, inch by inch, and subsume him.

Anybody ever think about how strange it was that when L heard the word ‘shinigami’ for the first time he flailed around and fell out of his chair (which seemed very at odds with his stoic and under-control personality at all other times)? Meanwhile the rest of the team, who are given to occasional freak outs and outbursts, are calm.

l lawliet has the fundamental belief that as long as the destruction is under his own control then it is a Necessary Sacrifice. this is why he is upset about the fbi agents and naomi and ukita but gets lind l tailor to stand in for him without a blink and tries to let the yotsuba group murder people to test if his theory is correct. if they die for a purpose, if they die as part of his plan, then it’s okay.