ArbitraryAppellation
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After a failed suicide attempt, Light finds himself in a mental hospital. He does not want to be here. He does not want to be treated like a broken thing. He does not want to make nice with the other patients, especially not his roommate, L. But one night, Light finds himself drawn to him.
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Light decides to bake a cake for L's birthday, but finds that his work is embarrassingly sloppy. There's no way this cake could measure up to the expensive sweets his boyfriend eats each day.
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In order to distract L from the Kira investigation, Light pretends to have a crush on him. It's a difficult role to play, as Light has never had a crush on anyone before. But with time, Light starts to question the nature of his feelings for L. Is Light simply dedicated to beating his rival, or could his obsession with L be the sign of a gay awakening?
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Written for Day 26 of DeathNoteTober: Love and Hate.
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we were in love, we were in love by ArbitraryAppellation
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
08 Oct 2025
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Light Yagami is a good Christian man--or at least, he tries to be one. The only person who has ever seen beneath his mask is L. L was a friend. A bad influence. A person that Light should forget. But years later, he still can't get L out of his mind.
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Written for Day 8 of DeathNoteTober: Holy.
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A few days before L dies, Light tells him he loves him. L doesn't say it back.
Light thinks about this moment for the rest of his life.
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A collection of oneshots from an AU where Light and L are professional tennis players who first met at a youth summer camp and go on to become some ungodly combination of friends, enemies, athletic rivals, and lovers. Some fics may be direct sequels, others may be more standalone.
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Nine months after L’s death from ED-related complications, Light comes to visit L’s partner, Beyond Birthday, at their home in England. Light had been in love with L, but it’s hard to say what that means now. The three of them met through the ED-focused website Light owns and moderates. Light claims to have recovered but he hasn’t; Beyond never made any such promises.
Because it’s not fair, it’s not fair, it’s not fair that Light is grasping for the wisps of him when Beyond had all the rest, and hadn’t Light loved him the most and the best? Hadn’t he deserved him? But he swallows that down because it doesn’t matter anymore. No one has him.
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- Part 1 of weightless
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23 Jun 2025
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“The chain isn’t long enough for you to be outside the room,” L repeats for the third time. “I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine. I get it.” Light drags his hand over his face. “I’ll be fine.”
“I’ll give you noise-cancelling headphones,” L offers. He’s already texting one-handed to ask Watari where those are. “And you can sit on the floor so you don’t have to feel the bed move.”
Light crosses his arms, visibly fighting down something sarcastic. “If you can give me headphones, you can give me a blindfold, too.”
“Why?” L widens his eyes at him. “All you have to do is not watch.”
prompt: "au where beyond is alive but still in prison. he and L have an established (though unhealthy) relationship where they have filthy d/s phone sex all the time. L continues to do this even while chained to light, who is like? can you please do this somewhere else? some other time???? but then he gets sort of into it"
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15 Sep 2025
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Blood flow to your heart had been blocked—that’s how you died. And in that heart of yours, there was only regret.
Human beings have perfectly unspectacular deaths. They die in the most unremarkable ways. I don’t even remember half of them and by theory, I should know everything there is to know. I certainly know everything about you. Including your death, which I will admit, is an exception to the unremarkable deaths I have had to oversee. There are many words I have accumulated over the years of your life to describe you. Exceptional is not one of them. You are human and all humans are the same. That’s not something that has any exceptions. It’s your death. I will remember it.
You died on top of a staircase.
Before Light can be sent to Nothingness after his death, God needs to have a conversation with him.
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10 Aug 2025
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Then — then something feels wrong, something thick runs down his leg — different to the thinness of water, slower, dripping in slow pivots. It’s wrong, so terribly different that Light forces himself to look downwards.
Blood, is his first thought. His second, is that it's running in rivets down his leg, thinning out from water to drip onto the floor in light splashes. The further up, the thicker, the darker and it’s so horribly foreign that a semi-truck of shock hits his throat, oesophagus and trachea to constrict tightly.
Oh, Light thinks a little manically, all wires crossing to blare the sound of panic, panic, panic in his every nerve. Shit.
He tilts his head, spine twisting, monstrously cold at the way his body suddenly feels so real, to look at the scattered trail behind him, ending at the spot he had been just a few steps away from the shower. Blood red, staining the tile floor.
“L?” Light calls, measured in every way he can conceive. Any inflection he has, he smothers to death.
(Or, L and Light discuss philosophy to distract Light from the fact that he’s currently bleeding out over a toilet. It’s as weird as it sounds, but it works for them)
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29 Jul 2025
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(our bodies could fall apart) at any second by findingsaturn
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
15 Jul 2025
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“I’ll have four pumps of caramel, four pumps of peppermint, four pumps of blueberry, four pumps of strawberry, four pumps of lavender, and two pumps of peach. And one pump of toffee.” Ryuzaki glances at Light with what almost looks like remorse. “And one pump of blood orange.”
How about I shove a blood orange up your ass, you abomination-drinking cunt? “Of course. Anything else?”
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Misa invites Light’s least-favorite customer to her birthday party. Unfortunately, Light also thinks the guy is really, really hot.
(lawlight week day 3: first meeting)
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26 Jul 2025