#htr13

HELLO thank you for these great questions <3

9. How did you get into writing fanfiction?

hjgkdfsdhfjdskgjs [nicki minaj meme] so there's this mobile dressup game...

the abbreviated version is that i got really into a mobile dressup game while recovering from a greivous hand injury obtained in a bad kitchen accident with a mandoline slicer (ALWAYS WEAR CUT PROOF GLOVES! THE GUARD CAN SLIP!!!) and wanted So Bad to read fanfic of this plucky journalist and mysterious softspoken mafioso (liz colvin + vittorio puzo of dress up time princess gotham memoirs fame) (there are still under 150 fics for the ship last i checked) but all the fanfics that existed at the time (like 20 total) were SO grimdark (valid choice but not my vibe). so when i could type again i started typing fanfic of them... not intending to ever post it... then i was like well maybe i can post One small thing... and here we are 4 years later :-) obviously not still writing for that ship but i retain some affection for theym ngl

10. Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?

MANY!!! beyondlaw is at the top of my list at least for a ficlet. i think more L ships in general would be fun, but i'm always shy about writing him bc i don't feel i understand him very well as a character. halle x gevanni femslash also.

You probably mean this post? https://13eyond13.tumblr.com/post/174189697553/ohba-obata-calling-each-and-every-member-of-the

In one of the later interviews, Ohba and Obata talk a bit about Near’s ‘dark side’ and how that is expressed through his finger puppets (that’s also where the famous statement that Near doesn’t like L so he made his puppet ugly comes from, although to be fair that is mostly expressed by Obata, Ohba seems a bit surprised by that). They don’t talk a lot about his motives i think, but they do mention that Near’s even more against Kira than L was and that he’s a bit of a cheater...

That scene is a bit hard to interpret to me as well! I remember it being commented upon in the HTR13 book too:

Hmm, yeah I think in canon Matt is mostly shown doing surveillance type work for Mello. Spying on Misa and whatnot. He's also shown playing a GameBoy or something. I think he probably kinda just gives people those vibes, of like the geeky tech dude who will help you break into an institution, or who picked it up as a job or a hobby on his own.

In the behind the scenes book Ohba said his personality was that of an introverted cocky person who doesn't like going outside and who was the third smartest person at Wammy's. So that kinda sounds like the typical hacker stereotype from movies and so on as well:

Here is the part in question!

It says: "I wavered a lot on their ages. At first I even considered making them L's sons."

Nothing about whether or not L was having sex 😅