#ace!light

When Sayu finds Light with a dirty magazine & he explains that 'no i was just looking at articles of Kira & L' and that makes Sayu go 'oh yeah! you're gonna be a detective in future so being the nerdy brother of mine that you are you're studying for that, too. wow.' LIKE SHE DOESN'T EVEN QUESTION IT FOR A SECOND. She just knows that Light's statement is true at its face value & since she knows him well: therefore I raise you ACE Light.

Then this exchange between Ryuk & Light:

Ryuk makes a reference to finger-banging and Light's response? 'Looks are all that count!' Light is so ace it's cute haha.

Instance #3:

Light looks at p0rno mags and Soichiro is SHOCKED. Now of course it's because he thinks that Light was too upstanding/well-behaved for this sorta thing but I cannot help but wonder... if Light being interested at looking at girls that way, might've seemed a lil too far-fetched to Soichiro. And just how is Light looking at the scantily-clad women? Take a look:

Of course, Light's goal is to pretend that this is why he was checking if anyone entered his room and yet he cannot look more disinterested. It's not convincing that he'd go all through the trouble of ensuring nobody entered his room and look like -_- towards the p0rno mags he had tried so hard to hide. He's in the privacy of his room (yes there are hidden cameras & no Light isn't meant to know about them) and the least he can do in what I remind you that it's a Shonen manga which means that it's targeted towards young male teens so they couldn't show him jerking off or anything is to look like he's interested/attracted to these women but nope.

Light with all his acting skills cannot manage to look interested (let alone sexually interested) in women shown in these mags. So Light is not straight confirmed. Ace Light strikes AGAIN.

This is just an aside:

Ace!Light is done with Ryuk & the ridiculous sexual positions he comes up with for Light & L lol.

Another aside:

"Misa: Hey, Light. Wanna come sleep with me tonight?

Light: Wh-what are you talking about…?

Misa: Ha ha ha! Just kidding! You're saving me for after we catch Kira, right? You don't have to be shy about it!

L: Yes, Light. There's no need to be shy.

Light: I'm not being shy!

L: No need to be so serious either."

Hahaha look at L & Misa bullying our dear ace!Light XD

Instance #4 (sorta):

If we needed more proof of Light not being straight- it's that look on Sachiko's face. She is positively stunned haha.

Instance #5:

Here is Misa hinting at something (presumably romantic/sexual) they'd do under covers and Light just completely dismissing it with a 'whatever'. #ace light

Canon shows us again & again how disinterested Light is in dating women (he does so only for achieving his Kira goals). Canon also hasn't hinted at Light preferring to date men (no offense to those who headcanon Light as gay as I'm one of those people (i hc him as homoromantic asexual)). So it's logical to assume that Light is ace. Yeah yeah I know you don't really need canon basis for your headcanons but as I said before Ace Light is more than just a headcanon to me :D

“Part of him was afraid that his friend would agree with the voice in Light’s head that told him that there was something wrong with him, that he was broken; when he finished speaking, though, the friend in question hadn’t seemed phased and certainly never showed any sign that he sided with that voice. Instead he simply replied: 

“Have you ever considered that you’re asexual?”

That was the first time Light had ever heard that word. And after his friend explained to him what it meant, he found that it fit him perfectly.”

For the past four years Light has struggled with identifying his sexuality. Every label he seems to choose for himself seems to fail him in one way or another, and he's beginning to feel like he'll never figure himself out. But when he's handcuffed to the detective L during the Kira case, he realizes he has feelings towards the other man that he can't ignore. However, maybe Light's inability to run from his fear this time is a good thing.

ao3 link here

@random-blep​ wanted to answer the question you posted on my reblog of this post so I made my own post to talk about my headcanons a bit :)

- So I actually have two different opinions on this, lol. I project onto Light a lot and my asexuality is actually one of those things that I’ve decided we share, so I do headcanon Light as ace. 

- With L I think it could go either way. I’m cool with him being ace and cool with him not being ace. Both headcanons offer quite a bit of validation to me, as I’m terrified of never being accepted by future partners bc of my asexuality (rip). So in lawlight scenarios where Light is ace and L is not, I’m happy bc L doesn’t care about Light’s asexuality and loves him anyway. In an ace4ace Lawlight scenario, I’m happy bc of course L will accept Light’s asexuality, being ace himself.

- So I think my final answer is Light is definitely ace, and I don’t really have a preference for L. It just depends on the day I guess??? (right now I’m feeling ace!L though <3)