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Jan. 25th, 2025 10:08 pmCHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: L Lawliet (and a dozen other aliases)
AGE: 25
CANON: Death Note (anime)
NAME: L Lawliet (and a dozen other aliases)
AGE: 25
CANON: Death Note (anime)
CANON HISTORY: wiki character page
CANON PERSONALITY:
L Lawliet is an oddity. Maybe that's not the nicest place to start, but it is by far the most honest. In many ways, he's very much a product of his upbringing. Orphaned and taken in at a young age by Watari, L was raised with the express purpose of putting his impressive and unique genius to use. It worked so well as a template, that now the entire orphanage that he came from is basically committed to producing a viable successor. L was never going to be a normal kid, a normal teen, a normal adult. He's incredibly intelligent and perceptive, and less than incredibly social-skilled.
Some of the most prominent and unmistakable characteristics of L are his behavioral quirks. Rather than sit in a chair like a normal human being, L prefers to crouch, knees up, feet on the chair. He has a near obsessive habit of biting his thumb when he's thinking. He despises shoes and takes every opportunity to not wear them. He dresses in the same sort of outfit as often as possible -- a frankly too-big t-shirt and even-too-bigger pants. He doesn't sleep, evidenced by the prominent circles beneath his eyes. He fidgets, fingers always moving, but he touches things as delicately as possible, as if exerting any more pressure would be intensely uncomfortable. His tone is generally level and almost bored sounding, lacking what might be considered a normal level of emotion and intonation. He eats exclusively sweet foods; his sweet tooth cannot be reasoned with. All these little weird habits together make for a very strange and off-putting personality. L is the guy you'd see on the subway and try to find a seat farther away from. The thing is, with this list of strangeness, L is fully aware of each and every one of his quirks. He knows, and he also knows how people view him. There's a remarkable amount of self-awareness of his strangeness, and a complete lack of caring of what other people may happen to think of him. Social acceptance and conformity are not concerns in the least.
What is important to L, what is paramount, is his intellect and his deductive abilities. He is the world's foremost detective (as well as the second and third best detectives, through a creative use of aliases) and he only consults on cases that catch his attention. There is something arrogant and capricious about his nature; L is aware of his abilities and his status, and he uses both to his advantage. He suffers very little self-doubt about his abilities, and even in the Kira case, even if he accepts he's risking his life, he fully believes he'll solve and apprehend the correct suspect. In point of fact, he does, imprisoning both Light and Misa, but he doesn't have the evidence to prove their guilt. L doesn't deal well with failure, and seems to be drawn into a funk about his inability to prove what he is certain is true.
L can be blunt and abrasive, choosing to get to the point rather than be cautious or sensitive to people's feelings. That said, he does try to remain polite to the people that he likes and respects, something that is particularly clear in the way that he treats Aizawa and Chief Yagami, and contrasted sharply with how flippant and dismissive he can be towards Matsuda. That said, he does value the people he works with and the risks that they take being part of the Task Force. He wants to keep them safe if at all possible, but he also has a certain level of risk that he is willing to accept, for them as well as for himself.
L is a skilled liar. He bends and breaks the truth for his own purposes and investigations, and he's good at it. He uses subterfuge to entrap suspects more than once, quite successfully. There is also something of a ruthlessness to the detective. He has his lines he won't cross, but he willingly has put criminals scheduled for execution in harm's way. He also was willing to imprison Light and Misa for an extended period of time, putting them through what basically amounts to hell. As much as he's an agent of law and justice, he also employs criminals to help in the investigation. L is a morally gray character, but it's usually at least a lighter shade of gray than the criminals that he is pursuing.
That isn't to say L is without his redeeming qualities. He's very bright, and he does care about people in his own way. He's taken on the Kira investigation because it interests him, but he is fighting to stop a prolific serial killer, at risk to his own life -- a risk that in the end is what is his undoing at the hands of a Shinigami. He even comments to Light that he'd like to think that they could be friends. He seems genuinely fond of Watari, and trusts him completely. He also has firmly placed his trust in the Task Force, even if occasionally the lengths he's willing to go to are more than they are comfortable with.
Generally L seems to react very minimally to life, though he can be shocked and react sharply, though it quickly settles back to his baseline calm. He is capable of acting more normal -- demonstrated by his acting around Misa before she is apprehended, and the persona he took on talking to Matsuda on the phone when the other was in a compromising situation. L knows enough about how normal people work and react to be a good detective and observer, to know how people will and should react and act in certain circumstances.
Over all, L is brilliant but broken in many ways. He's isolated and usually chooses to remain that way, interacting most often through a remote webcam feed. His sense of humor is understated and dry, and often goes over most people's heads. But he does care about the greater good and about serving Justice.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
- L is very intelligent. He is a remarkably gifted detective. He's clever with an excellent memory and a strong ability to read people and situations, to know how things will play out. He's good at constructing situations that force others to play their hand and demonstrate the flaws in their stories. L is the sort who sees the world as an unfolding game, and he's several moves ahead of everyone else. Until he's not.
- L is an accomplished liar. Boy is he good at lying. He uses this skill fairly prolifically when it comes to unraveling suspects and solving his cases.
- He's shockingly more athletic than he looks -- good at both fighting/self defense and, of all things, tennis.
- The ability to have bed head without ever sleeping. Supernatural in nature, surely.
CANON PERSONALITY:
L Lawliet is an oddity. Maybe that's not the nicest place to start, but it is by far the most honest. In many ways, he's very much a product of his upbringing. Orphaned and taken in at a young age by Watari, L was raised with the express purpose of putting his impressive and unique genius to use. It worked so well as a template, that now the entire orphanage that he came from is basically committed to producing a viable successor. L was never going to be a normal kid, a normal teen, a normal adult. He's incredibly intelligent and perceptive, and less than incredibly social-skilled.
Some of the most prominent and unmistakable characteristics of L are his behavioral quirks. Rather than sit in a chair like a normal human being, L prefers to crouch, knees up, feet on the chair. He has a near obsessive habit of biting his thumb when he's thinking. He despises shoes and takes every opportunity to not wear them. He dresses in the same sort of outfit as often as possible -- a frankly too-big t-shirt and even-too-bigger pants. He doesn't sleep, evidenced by the prominent circles beneath his eyes. He fidgets, fingers always moving, but he touches things as delicately as possible, as if exerting any more pressure would be intensely uncomfortable. His tone is generally level and almost bored sounding, lacking what might be considered a normal level of emotion and intonation. He eats exclusively sweet foods; his sweet tooth cannot be reasoned with. All these little weird habits together make for a very strange and off-putting personality. L is the guy you'd see on the subway and try to find a seat farther away from. The thing is, with this list of strangeness, L is fully aware of each and every one of his quirks. He knows, and he also knows how people view him. There's a remarkable amount of self-awareness of his strangeness, and a complete lack of caring of what other people may happen to think of him. Social acceptance and conformity are not concerns in the least.
What is important to L, what is paramount, is his intellect and his deductive abilities. He is the world's foremost detective (as well as the second and third best detectives, through a creative use of aliases) and he only consults on cases that catch his attention. There is something arrogant and capricious about his nature; L is aware of his abilities and his status, and he uses both to his advantage. He suffers very little self-doubt about his abilities, and even in the Kira case, even if he accepts he's risking his life, he fully believes he'll solve and apprehend the correct suspect. In point of fact, he does, imprisoning both Light and Misa, but he doesn't have the evidence to prove their guilt. L doesn't deal well with failure, and seems to be drawn into a funk about his inability to prove what he is certain is true.
L can be blunt and abrasive, choosing to get to the point rather than be cautious or sensitive to people's feelings. That said, he does try to remain polite to the people that he likes and respects, something that is particularly clear in the way that he treats Aizawa and Chief Yagami, and contrasted sharply with how flippant and dismissive he can be towards Matsuda. That said, he does value the people he works with and the risks that they take being part of the Task Force. He wants to keep them safe if at all possible, but he also has a certain level of risk that he is willing to accept, for them as well as for himself.
L is a skilled liar. He bends and breaks the truth for his own purposes and investigations, and he's good at it. He uses subterfuge to entrap suspects more than once, quite successfully. There is also something of a ruthlessness to the detective. He has his lines he won't cross, but he willingly has put criminals scheduled for execution in harm's way. He also was willing to imprison Light and Misa for an extended period of time, putting them through what basically amounts to hell. As much as he's an agent of law and justice, he also employs criminals to help in the investigation. L is a morally gray character, but it's usually at least a lighter shade of gray than the criminals that he is pursuing.
That isn't to say L is without his redeeming qualities. He's very bright, and he does care about people in his own way. He's taken on the Kira investigation because it interests him, but he is fighting to stop a prolific serial killer, at risk to his own life -- a risk that in the end is what is his undoing at the hands of a Shinigami. He even comments to Light that he'd like to think that they could be friends. He seems genuinely fond of Watari, and trusts him completely. He also has firmly placed his trust in the Task Force, even if occasionally the lengths he's willing to go to are more than they are comfortable with.
Generally L seems to react very minimally to life, though he can be shocked and react sharply, though it quickly settles back to his baseline calm. He is capable of acting more normal -- demonstrated by his acting around Misa before she is apprehended, and the persona he took on talking to Matsuda on the phone when the other was in a compromising situation. L knows enough about how normal people work and react to be a good detective and observer, to know how people will and should react and act in certain circumstances.
Over all, L is brilliant but broken in many ways. He's isolated and usually chooses to remain that way, interacting most often through a remote webcam feed. His sense of humor is understated and dry, and often goes over most people's heads. But he does care about the greater good and about serving Justice.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
- L is very intelligent. He is a remarkably gifted detective. He's clever with an excellent memory and a strong ability to read people and situations, to know how things will play out. He's good at constructing situations that force others to play their hand and demonstrate the flaws in their stories. L is the sort who sees the world as an unfolding game, and he's several moves ahead of everyone else. Until he's not.
- L is an accomplished liar. Boy is he good at lying. He uses this skill fairly prolifically when it comes to unraveling suspects and solving his cases.
- He's shockingly more athletic than he looks -- good at both fighting/self defense and, of all things, tennis.
- The ability to have bed head without ever sleeping. Supernatural in nature, surely.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Linden "Lin" Lawson
AU AGE: 25
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: N/A - he's still a hot mess, a walking fashion disaster who's never heard of a comb, or sleep, or eating a vegetable.
AU NAME: Linden "Lin" Lawson
AU AGE: 25
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: N/A - he's still a hot mess, a walking fashion disaster who's never heard of a comb, or sleep, or eating a vegetable.
AU HISTORY:
-Until he was about 4 years old, he had a fairly typical upbringing. His parents were starting to think that their kid may have been fairly bright, if a bit odd, but in general it was a happy little home. Lin has fairly vague memory of all this -- partially because he was so young and partially because it was a little too painful for a long time for him to think about it, so he's avoided those thoughts and consequently they've faded.
- His parents were killed in a car accident when he was four. Lin was in the car, but between being strapped into a carseat and in the backseat, he got out unscathed, but neither of his parents made it. Incidentally, his parents were driven off the road by the car that happened to be carrying Derek Matthews and his family the night Derek's parents were also killed. [PERMISSION OBTAINED FROM DEREK/DRACO'S PLAYER]
- At that point he goes to live with his rather eccentric maternal grandfather. Grandpa was pretty well-off, and Lin was something of a traumatized kid, so there was a lot of private tutors and instruction rather than school. Homeschooled, Lin took his GED equivalent and SATs, enrolling in university in his mid-teens. Since then he's gotten his bachelors degree (around age eighteen) in sociology and political science, his masters degree, and is now working on his PhD in sociology. He's done his coursework and is mid-dissertation. He's also teaching undergraduate classes and has been doing so for the past few years while he works on his doctorate. He's a weird professor. His ratemyprofessor-dot-com page is full of student testimonials about how his test are impossible, no one's ever seen him blink, students have definitely gotten homework back with an empty lollipop stick stuck tot he paper. But! He knows his stuff, and wants to help his students learn.
- As a hobby, side job, Lin has written a few short stories (and has a few longer unfinished projects) in the murder mystery genre. He's done a little online publishing and had a few pieces in local anthologies/publications. Right now his dissertation is eating his life though, so more creative pursuits are slowed down and on the back-burner.
- There was a brief period in his very early teens when Lin decided he should rebel, because isn't that what kids are supposed to do. It didn't go very well, drinking was unpleasant (unless it was really fancy fruit mixed drinks and what 13 year old is going to make himself fuzzy navels?) and smoking even worse. Shoplifting was boring because he was a little too good at it. Also it was wrong, but you know. Kids. Anyway, he got tired of the effort it took to rebel when he'd rather be reading or writing or eating M&Ms. But he did make a few friends at the time who he is still oddly in touch with, fellow former (or current) delinquents or not.
- Lin lives with a long-suffering, beleaguered flatmate who doesn't understand how someone can exist with as little sleep as Lin seems to get. But other than that, they get along just fine.
AU PERSONALITY:
In many ways, Lin shares a lot of similar personality traits as his canon counterpart. The somewhat off-putting intensity and aloofness is still present. He's more likely to observe before he acts, but once he acts it's decisive and confident. He doesn't worry about some of his stranger quirks (the sleeplessness, the disdain for shoes).
He does not, however, possess some of his stranger unconscious habits. He sits like a goddamned grownup normal person in chairs, doesn't subsist entirely on sugar, isn't quite so precise in how he handles things, and while still very blunt, has some shred of tact because his grandfather insisted on some manners in his house. As he regains his memories, the tricks of posture and the insatiable sweet tooth will start coming back, and honestly it will be the subconscious habits returning that freaks him out the most and makes him wonder if his brain is no longer his own.
Because Lin grows up without being molded into the ultimate detective, he's a bit less driven and laser-focused on one thing. He actually had time to be a kid and have his little rebellious phase, so he's less single-minded than his canon counter-part. He can focus, and when he sets his mind on something, it has all his attention. But he allows himself hobbies (writing creatively, watching movies, sitting at coffee shops and just people watching).
That said because of the way he lost his parents, Lin is also cautious with interpersonal relationships. He's cordial-ish and semi-polite -- most of the time -- but he doesn't really know how to get close to people easily. So once he makes friends, they're important to him and have his full loyalty, and that is hard to shake. He's more capable of making lasting friendships than he is in canon, given that he's been around people more, but he's also warier of getting hurt.
Lin is also more prone to actually smile and act alive than he is in canon. He's been able to be free without responsibility and the crushing weight of his own flawless reputation weighing him down. That said, by nature he's fairly serious and not terribly reactive. But he can and does soften slightly when he's in a good mood or around people he likes. He's still very difficult to rattle, and tends to take things in and think on them before actually letting his reaction be seen.
His relationship with his grandfather is an odd one. The old man provided for him, but was very much hands-off, so Lin is more independent than L is in canon. Where canonly, Watari seems to provide everything that L needs, Lin is used to taking care of himself more.
Because he's used to being out in the world and not hiding behind a computer screen and a webcam, Lin is better at people than L is in canon. He's more used to being surrounded by his peers, and he's not quite as isolated. As he starts remembering, he may pull back into himself more too, which may cause trouble in the relationships that he does have.
-Until he was about 4 years old, he had a fairly typical upbringing. His parents were starting to think that their kid may have been fairly bright, if a bit odd, but in general it was a happy little home. Lin has fairly vague memory of all this -- partially because he was so young and partially because it was a little too painful for a long time for him to think about it, so he's avoided those thoughts and consequently they've faded.
- His parents were killed in a car accident when he was four. Lin was in the car, but between being strapped into a carseat and in the backseat, he got out unscathed, but neither of his parents made it. Incidentally, his parents were driven off the road by the car that happened to be carrying Derek Matthews and his family the night Derek's parents were also killed. [PERMISSION OBTAINED FROM DEREK/DRACO'S PLAYER]
- At that point he goes to live with his rather eccentric maternal grandfather. Grandpa was pretty well-off, and Lin was something of a traumatized kid, so there was a lot of private tutors and instruction rather than school. Homeschooled, Lin took his GED equivalent and SATs, enrolling in university in his mid-teens. Since then he's gotten his bachelors degree (around age eighteen) in sociology and political science, his masters degree, and is now working on his PhD in sociology. He's done his coursework and is mid-dissertation. He's also teaching undergraduate classes and has been doing so for the past few years while he works on his doctorate. He's a weird professor. His ratemyprofessor-dot-com page is full of student testimonials about how his test are impossible, no one's ever seen him blink, students have definitely gotten homework back with an empty lollipop stick stuck tot he paper. But! He knows his stuff, and wants to help his students learn.
- As a hobby, side job, Lin has written a few short stories (and has a few longer unfinished projects) in the murder mystery genre. He's done a little online publishing and had a few pieces in local anthologies/publications. Right now his dissertation is eating his life though, so more creative pursuits are slowed down and on the back-burner.
- There was a brief period in his very early teens when Lin decided he should rebel, because isn't that what kids are supposed to do. It didn't go very well, drinking was unpleasant (unless it was really fancy fruit mixed drinks and what 13 year old is going to make himself fuzzy navels?) and smoking even worse. Shoplifting was boring because he was a little too good at it. Also it was wrong, but you know. Kids. Anyway, he got tired of the effort it took to rebel when he'd rather be reading or writing or eating M&Ms. But he did make a few friends at the time who he is still oddly in touch with, fellow former (or current) delinquents or not.
- Lin lives with a long-suffering, beleaguered flatmate who doesn't understand how someone can exist with as little sleep as Lin seems to get. But other than that, they get along just fine.
AU PERSONALITY:
In many ways, Lin shares a lot of similar personality traits as his canon counterpart. The somewhat off-putting intensity and aloofness is still present. He's more likely to observe before he acts, but once he acts it's decisive and confident. He doesn't worry about some of his stranger quirks (the sleeplessness, the disdain for shoes).
He does not, however, possess some of his stranger unconscious habits. He sits like a goddamned grownup normal person in chairs, doesn't subsist entirely on sugar, isn't quite so precise in how he handles things, and while still very blunt, has some shred of tact because his grandfather insisted on some manners in his house. As he regains his memories, the tricks of posture and the insatiable sweet tooth will start coming back, and honestly it will be the subconscious habits returning that freaks him out the most and makes him wonder if his brain is no longer his own.
Because Lin grows up without being molded into the ultimate detective, he's a bit less driven and laser-focused on one thing. He actually had time to be a kid and have his little rebellious phase, so he's less single-minded than his canon counter-part. He can focus, and when he sets his mind on something, it has all his attention. But he allows himself hobbies (writing creatively, watching movies, sitting at coffee shops and just people watching).
That said because of the way he lost his parents, Lin is also cautious with interpersonal relationships. He's cordial-ish and semi-polite -- most of the time -- but he doesn't really know how to get close to people easily. So once he makes friends, they're important to him and have his full loyalty, and that is hard to shake. He's more capable of making lasting friendships than he is in canon, given that he's been around people more, but he's also warier of getting hurt.
Lin is also more prone to actually smile and act alive than he is in canon. He's been able to be free without responsibility and the crushing weight of his own flawless reputation weighing him down. That said, by nature he's fairly serious and not terribly reactive. But he can and does soften slightly when he's in a good mood or around people he likes. He's still very difficult to rattle, and tends to take things in and think on them before actually letting his reaction be seen.
His relationship with his grandfather is an odd one. The old man provided for him, but was very much hands-off, so Lin is more independent than L is in canon. Where canonly, Watari seems to provide everything that L needs, Lin is used to taking care of himself more.
Because he's used to being out in the world and not hiding behind a computer screen and a webcam, Lin is better at people than L is in canon. He's more used to being surrounded by his peers, and he's not quite as isolated. As he starts remembering, he may pull back into himself more too, which may cause trouble in the relationships that he does have.
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