Hello, My name is Kocho (though I go by so many names because I cant keep my usernames in check) and I am mainly in the Death Note (DN) fandom though from time to time I am multifandom and will post about my other interests.
𓆝 Speaking of interests, these are all the fandoms I’m in: Death Note (obviously), Demonslayer, Attack On Titan, Alien Stage (Zomst), Hannibal, Silmarillion (anything Tolkien related), Nana, Bungo Stray Dogs, Claymore, HxH, Alice In Borderland ect
𓆝 Ships: honestly I will ship anything I am probably the least picky person out there when it comes to ships. But those who frequent my blog are probably familiar with my favourites.
More about me….
𓆝I go by she/her I like to write fanfics on ao3, make art and play music. I'm also a lesbian, and I have been for as long as I can remember. I’m a Canadian university student studying full time and working part time but I try to stay relatively active online.
𓆝 I’m also chronically ill. A little fun fact about me is that is what got me into my main fandom, Death Note. I read a fanfic called white chocolate roses by ruruka and I felt very represented because L has a similar condition to mine. I highly reccomend the fic.
About my own fanfics, I have plenty. I have one ao3 account, though it is divided into two pseuds based on the theme of what I write.
𓆝The first pseud is SapphicKocho: named just like my username, this has the most amount of fics, mostly from Death Note, though some from Kny and BSD. The fanfic I would reccomend the most there is:
𓆝 The Thorn at His Side: this is my ongoing lawlight longfic that I started writing two years ago. It’s my baby, and my favourite passion project.
𓆝 My second pseuds is Dove, where I post dead dove fanfiction or fanfics I don’t particularly like all that much (ahem-sustenance). They will often contain heavy trigger warnings. Luckily you can just filter out that pseud if that’s not your thing. I also will rarely promote fics I write on that account here.
𓆝 I also have a twt account, but it is largely nsfw, and I don’t want any minors following me there. I sometimes reblog nsfw things here as well from time to time, but I try to keep it intentionally vague, unless I’m linking a smut fic I wrote.
My ask box and dms are always open, keep in mind that I love to ramble and talk so if you ask about one of my interests, I will return your energy.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
im a bad person to ask because i haven’t really read any lawlight in the last year since ive been writing for them and have a big fear of writing something derivative of someone else’s hard work. so i don’t have a lot of newer additions or ones that aren’t already popular
but here is a list of my favs under the cut! and a short summary of why i love them
my dear @mkira434 has an amazing crack fic rate my professor. she is endlessly hilarious both in fics and in real life and an incredibly intelligent, cerebral person and writer which translates directly into what she writes. she also has an interview with a vampire AU which i’m HOPING will update soon (cough cough maria)
another friend @deathnoting has an EXTENSIVE catalogue of great death note fics. my favorite is strange mercy because the prose is some of the best i’ve seen in fanfic and there is a delicious intimacy and realism throughout. she knows her way around those characters damn well and is always doing something innovative and novel with them. her writing is a joy to read on a structural, technical level just because she is a damn good writer. truly a gem to the fanfic world. “i miss him. that boy you’re wearing.” like holy punch to the stomach!
okay OBVIOUSLY the hinterland doctrine series by @halfpromise. it is genuinely a masterclass in not only fanfic but in fiction. the writing style is delectable and never leaves you bored, having the ability to be hilarious, satirical and absurd in one moment and tragic the next, all while remaining extremely highbrow and impressive throughout. the characters are wonderfully horrible and human, the dialogue is laugh-out-loud funny, and it uses interaction with canon lore in such an inventive way that i have genuinely never seen before. it is highly political and psychological without being preachy, extremely thorough in its character and world development, and overall a fuckin ball to read. there is a certain precision in this work, whether that be in aesthetics, tone, dialogue, that i find incredibly impressive. it knows exactly what it is and is unafraid to challenge convention and comfortability in a way that results in something very singular and rewarding. “what i know of love is that it's rage; a sort of floundering seizure of rage without direction” COME ON.
another fic i love is the life and time of detective l lawliet and repentant murderer light yagami by devilinthebox (don’t know if they have tumblr) because it’s such a realistic popculture-y exploration to how the kira investigation could be received by the world. has a super interesting narrative structure of being a biography written by mello with intermittent interviews and diary entries. it’s incredibly romantic and seductive, taking place in various cities around the world while L and light enjoy a lavish wealthy lifestyle. and their relationship is incredibly turbulent throughout with wonderful melodramatic, theatrical dialogue. another read that is never boring.
here are the rest of my favorites from my notes app. fair warning; it’s been a few years since i’ve read some of these LOL
Beyond y.y omg I loved his laugh… I can’t believe I drew it.
Remember I don’t speak english. Please note me if there is a mistake or something that you like. I loved the tags btw. ( deathnoting: I think I will draw them, and there is a few drawings of them in my deviantart haha I hate my old drawings. I can’t send you a private ask, I don’t know why )
thanks for the feedback, I asumed nobody would like it hahaha I live on the edge (?)
I was reading True Elision (do you remember that post about old fanfictions? ), my favourite Death Note fanfiction of all time… I wanted to get over it, but I’m afraid is too good as I recall *cries*
Then I remembered an AU I wanted to do when I was young, about Beyond Birthday being alive, escaping from prison and meeting Kira-kun.
Back then, I thought I couldn’t draw it.
haha i know Death Note is old stuff but I draw what I want. It hurts more than you could think…
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Okay now that I know you read Nights and got introduced to Beyond because of that fic I’m very curious to ask how that fic shaped your own headcanons and characterizations of him :) Also what was your favorite chapter?? If you have multiple feel free to rant about them, I loved Chapter 7 as that was when things became off the rails and it was incredible :D
Thank you so much for asking this question, I LOVE talking about Nights by youremyqueen, especially Beyond's characterization in that fic!! Since I read Night's before I read LABB, my characterization of Beyond is much more influenced by that fanfic then the actual canon.
I think what I take the most inspiration from it for my own headcanons for BB, is the way Beyond talks, and his revels in cruelty, the fact he isn't very sympathetic, and how he is a source for most of L's fucked up issues. Firstly, when it comes to the way Beyond talks in Nights, his dialouge is VERY long-winded, and doesn't know when to shut up. And most of the times, what he is saying only makes half-sense, which makes it even better. All while also being insanely witty, enough that the reader, and the characters around him, can't stop listening to what he has to say. I think I have a dozen quotes in my screenshot folder of just dialouge lines from him from Night's.
However, in LABB, though he certainly is witty, he doesn't ramble like he does in out of pocket ways I especially enjoy in the fic. I also like to think that he has a way of speaking that makes him magnetic, characters around him cant help but like it. I love highly influential characters, especially unorthodox ones.
Another thing I like is Nights is that he is a sadist (also a masochist, lets be honest) and enjoys inflicting it. In LABB we don't really know if he enjoyed the killings, all we know is that 1. he did the killings for the purpose of getting L's attention, and 2. he did it out of curiosity, because for the third killing, Beyond Birthday's goal was to find out if a human can die of an internal hemorrhage without rupturing any organs, and so he then drugged and beat Backyard Bottomslash's (I will never get over that name) left arm without breaking the skin. I see in some fics, people write Beyond as hesitant towards the killings, only doing it out of necessity to get to L, while not actually being particularly happy carrying them out. Now that is an interesting interpretation, I don't personally subscribe to it, I much prefer him killing out of both curiosity AND to satisfy his inner cruelty. Like we see in Nights.
And though I think Beyond canonically is a sympathetic character, he was clearly groomed by Wammy's and forced to live in the shadow of L as his copy, which pushed him to do alot of what he does, I much prefer when he is less sympathetic. I mean, Mello, canonically feels sympathy for him in LABB. Even I feel a little sympathy for him in the canon. But what I like about Nights, is that we can see Beyond was always a little fucked up. I mean, he certainly had trauma that shaped his worldview, but ever since him and L were kids, he was causing ALOT of chaos. I really like characters like that, I mean just look at Light.
I always like when Beyond's crimes outweigh any justification for why he did it. I also like that even though he is not a sympathetic character in Nights, he is easily one of the most likable in that story, he is one of the main drivers of the plot, and is still ridiculously entertaining. I like when authors can write a likable character without making them sympathetic. (oh and quick thought here, I also like how Nights plays into the supernatural aspect of him, making it so he cant die, and how many of the ways the prose describes him are uncanny. One of my favorite ways the fic describes Beyond is in this line: "B's grin is spreading, macabre, hellish-he looks like Bosch's Garden of Earthly delights personified in semi-human form...")
And lastly, I like how he is quite literally what shaped L to be who he is in the present day in that fic. I take a lot of inspiration in my own fics of Beyond being the main source of trauma for L. Since L is my favorite character, (and I love to whump my favorite characters), having someone like Beyond be L's trauma personified in physical form is great for me. Its also why I adore the aspects of the story that delve into flashbacks of L and B's childhood. Its why I love to write my own scenes for what I imagine B and L's childhood was like and insert them in random moments in my own fic(s).
This also leads into your other question about my favorite chapter, and that being chapter 23, the devil you did. I love how L is upset that Beyond is there to rescue him (sort of), and the way the prose is written where his childhood/past blends into the present, making everything disorientated, is PERFECT. I also like how you don't really ever get a full picture of L and B's childhood together (if we are only thinking of Night's and not the other fics in the series like and then come mornings, which I also still love), so your able to come up with your own interpretation for the things that happened. It's awesome. And then Beyond and L take turns trying to beat each other up, so that automatically makes it high on the list for me. I especially like when Mello walks in since they are taking too long only too see L absolutely beating the shit out of Beyond while the other is grinning. I really like how Mello mistakes Beyond for L there. And then Wedy, Mello, B and L all drive off on the most awkward car ride of all time, which really is the cherry on top (I adore how much of a key player Wedy is in the fic as well).
I mean, I have a lot of favorite chapters, so its really tough to choose, but like you mentioned, chapter 7 is also one of my favorites, with Aiber beating up Light on L's command, and L having this ongoing bit about lying about his childhood by starting it off by copying popular books like Oliver Twist. That's just sooooo funny to me. I also love the chapter where Light tries to kill L, fails, then laughs at L for getting scared while he himself is also reeling from the scare of L leaving him, trying to 'escape.'
And then my other favorite chapter, or should I say "batch" of chapters is when Beyond is brought to the task force headquarters. I love people reacting to him. And my favorite part is when L realizes B is missing and he's going to go after Light in his cell because COME ON L what did you expect? He kept talking about Light in front of Beyond, brought him to the same place Light was vulnerable at, and didn't realize that Beyond's jealous ass was immediately going to go try and harm him?
Oh and I know this post is getting really long 🫣, but another thing I love about Beyond's characterization is the fact he keeps coming back alive. He will always make some ridiculous comment too when he does so, it never fails to make me laugh.
also, since I went looking, I found the bookmark I made a few months after reading Night's for the first time.
thanks again for the ask, and giving me the chance to ramble! :DD
huh....rambling....sounds like someone else I know....
hii I love your works. have you considered making a nsfw tumblr? I got ip banned from twitter lmao and I'll miss following you in there
hello! I have considered it in the past, but I probably wont. Just because I don't know what I would post on an nsfw tumblr, I always associate tumblr with -> sfw stuff. Also because DNtwt is much more active then DNtmblr, so I feel like two accounts here wouldn't be worth it. But I still might, I'm always open to it. I'm sorry you got ip banned :(
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
After reading the bloody chamber by Angela Carter I went deep dive on red riding hood in literature and oral tradition and read a bunch of articles and I can firmly say I want to write a piece on how Little Red Riding Hood relates to Beyondlaw, or at least my version of Beyondlaw, though I'm afraid that's incredibly niche.
Predator and prey, hunter and victim, match so well with the detective and criminal dynamic that Beyond and L have. Yes, the easiest reading would make Beyond Birthday the wolf and L the girl. Beyond is the murderer and monster and L is the one who encounters him. However Angela Carter's wolf stories repeatedly blur the distinction between human and beast. In the oral version of Red Riding Hood, "The Story of Grandmother," the girl unknowingly consumes her grandmother's flesh and blood before climbing into bed with the wolf. This idea of consumption, I think, closely parallels the idea of successorship at the Wammy's house. Beyond wishes to consume L, his predecessor, in order to become him. He wishes to inherit L's position and identity. L, in turn, fears being replaced or, in this case, absorbed. And just as in Angela Carter's stories, the line between them begins to blur. like GUYS!!
Everytime I try to go write my red riding hood au (beyondlaw), I get reminded of that video of “if little red riding hood was realistic” where the guy has the thickest Liverpool accent and it cracks me up so badly I can’t take it seriously and write
I've been following you for a little but I just noticed the handle lol. Thank you for blessing us with Lawlight yuri!!! There is seriously not enough of it. I love their dynamic as women....
no THANK you so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed the fic, it was so fun to write. Light and L have such a fascinating dynamic when gender bent into women, and you're right, there's not nearly enough lawlight yuri.....i might just have to write more
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
HELP I just found the author of that fic is controversial as hell and was publicly beefing with Cassandra Claire. They have a whole fanlore article written about them here
