@meroniaevent day 3: Furby + Rebirth

What if, when Mello died and went to heaven, God said “you need to make amends with your rival before you can proceed,” and sent his spirit back to Earth?

However, he needs a vessel. Conveniently, Near is in possession of a body perfectly suited to the task, with manipulable electricity and capacity for speech, in the form of a beautiful tentacled custom furby.

Mello is horrified. Near is delighted.

It takes a while for Mello to make peace with his new form - by all accounts, sparks fly (more literally than metaphorically, at least at the beginning) But eventually, he learns to exist within it.

Near prepares for him a new outfit, suited to his aesthetic preferences, and gets assistance on cases (more competitive on Mello’s end, pointing out flaws in Near’s work, but Near appreciates it all the same)

Their relationship grows. Evolves. Blossoms into something strange and beautiful. All who witness it are scarred for life. But they don’t care. What they have is special. Wonderful and unnerving and special. This is heaven now.

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(Text description flowed out of my fingers while half asleep the other morning, and it’s only just now I’m rereading it. This goes up nearly unedited. Half asleep / fully asleep brain, my best friend forever. Your words will remain unsullied)

(I have several wips for this concept laying around and have grown awfully attached to furby!Mello au. 💘 Thanking everyone who has listened to me talk about it and given inspiration 🥹🥹🥹 You know who you are)

He sees Rester as a father figure, espicslly since he slipped up and refereed to Near as ‘son’. Poor kid freaked out at first but now Rester can’t shake the title of being the SPK official Dad.

Im not one for Gevanni x Near since I think that Near and Gevanni simply related to each other and became good friends. Near acts interested in Gevannis former work In the FBI and loves to watch him ramble about it. Gevanni is the one who has to make Near sleep after a few days of being wide awake. He reads him stories, tucks him in, and stays in the room because Near suffers from night terrors. When he was really tired, Near called Gevanni “big brother”, and even though Near still kind of sees Gevanni as that, he doesn’t remember actually calling him that, and Gevanni doesn’t bring it up, even though it made him feel really good and important.

Halle Lidner and Near’s relationship is different from the other two. She isn’t a sister or a mother figure to the boy, and she always thought she was the one left out, the one he didn’t care about other than for work purposes. But after Mello held a gun to her head, Gevanni showed up at her apartment and said that Near sent him because he was worried about Hal’s safety. Sometimes, ( a lot) Near asks Hal for advice regarding not-case matters, and he likes to ask how she’s doing a lot, and vice versa.

She's so brave, sweet, smart, and beautiful.