#onesided

where did the time go?

Like the way that love is expressed in this fic is 1) obsession 2) death 3) ownership, right. And Light and L are freely giving and taking these things for each other (just because they want to), BUT one of the things that drives L up the wall is that he doesn't have any claim to Light's Last Death. Because it's one of the last things that belongs to Ryuk.

But Ryuk was there first!!

He used to have the ability to be there TWENTY FOUR SEVEN before Light started ACTIVELY rejecting the death note and therefore Ryuk's ownership. One of the first things Ryuk ever said to Light is "your death belongs to me". And, if you read anything past the original manga canon, it's absurdly clear that Ryuk is exactly the same amount of obsessed with Light as L and Light were with each other - unwilling to give up his own life for the other's, but will consequently spend the entire rest of his existence mourning.

But in And Another Thing (and possibly canon) it's one-sided, and that's where Ryuk gets relegated to the sidelines. Light doesn't want him there as badly as Ryuk wants to be there. He's already giving everything he has to L. So instead Ryuk clings to the last vestiges of claim he has to Light (his final death, and whatever he can manipulate for entertainment) and wonders all the while if even holding onto this much is a mistake.