Remember it's true, dignity is valuable

Some important bullet points:

• Please don't take L's picture ICly or capture him on video unless we're going for an interaction that involves him getting rid of the picture. It's a life-or-death issue in his canon. Talk to me about your ideas!


• L always goes by an alias in game settings, usually "Ryuuzaki." He doesn't look very Japanese, so feel free to have your character ask him about the name.


• If your character considers L a friend, the chances are that he's keeping much closer tabs on them than they're aware of.


• L's exasperation with your character is never my exasperation with you, and his IC concerns rarely overlap with my concerns as a player. (In other words, while it's IC for L to occasionally be a jerk, I would not use him as a mouthpiece.)


• In thisavrou, L is a CRAU who spent several years in ataraxion, often under significant stress (pull point is from in-game events around January 2015). The reason I apped a CRAU was mostly to skip the "new game culture shock" phase: he's used to being on a spaceship, aware of the existence of things like aliens, wizards, and elves, and slightly more likely to form bonds with other characters than in canon. But it means...


• L is around 28-29 years old at his pull point for thisavrou, and looks it. He could not convincingly pass as "twentyish" the way he does in canon.


• If the Netflix film version of Death Note is the only version of the story that you're familiar with, it might be helpful to tell you that this L has a different background and history than the one in the film. While there are obviously going to be some similarities due to their similar roles in the story, original canon L was not part of a government program or anything like that, and is more or less British. The Kira case itself is also different in the original version than in the J-Drama and Netflix adaptations.

OOC

Permissions are mostly "maybe," but my preferences are:

• Fast-moving threads. I'm willing to backtag, I'm just not great at it due to health issues. It's always OK to contact me about handwaving stuff in a dropped thread, or prioritizing your thread, or etc.: I'll do whatever I can.


• No threadjacking on my posts by players who aren't also tagging me. Most people don't even look into threadjacking permissions, so having a stance on this issue is kind of moot (if you've seen me threadjack, it's in games where it was so common that there was no point in objecting to it). Why am I even bothering to leave it in this permissions list? A cry in the night, I guess.


• No 4th-walling. I might be OK with this on very rare occasions… but L is a secretive character, and the concept itself is pretty cracky. If the other character understands how important it is to him to keep his secrets, is not going to blackmail him with it, and the player understands that it might initially make L regard the other character with a lot of suspicion/hostility, I might say yes.


• Please don't recruit castmates for me without talking to me first. Castmates who decide to app on their own are something else -- that's not my call! -- but I'm really only ever "looking" for Naomi Misora, who nobody plays. I have a bucket of other DN cast preferences/permissions: we can discuss them if they're ever relevant.

IC

Again, mostly "maybe". Be sure we're talking before doing any of the following, even if I've stated here that it's probably OK. Context would be important, and some characters might not be able to get physically close enough to do some of these things.

My decisions, especially about the more intense stuff, are based almost entirely around wanting to avoid playing myself into a corner. I don't want L to be all angst all the time, and I want to be careful not to eliminate IC motivations to participate in the game's plot. It's hard to write a character if you can't think of a good reason, based on their personality, why they would be doing something.

I'm also not interested in acquiring a full-time dedicated Life Ruiner for him, because I don't think that kind of CR can usually lead anywhere but a frustrating impasse: most game settings are life-ruining enough.

• Probably: Hugging, Kissing, Flirting


• Context-dependent: Injuring my character, Stalking my character (he should probably notice), Using telepathy on my character (same considerations as fourth-walling), using magic on my character (what do you want to do?)


• Probably not: Killing my character in a game with permadeath, mind-controlling my character (may say yes if it's mild and he has some recourse for future revenge)


• Nope: I'm super uncomfortable with rape and "rapey" situations and for the most part do not want to be involved in them in any way as a player. Not triggered, just utterly repulsed by the idea of intentionally incorporating it in my entertainment.

Romance/Sex/Shipping:

Maybe.

Is he already shipped in the game? If so, then no. L is pretty cagey and deceptive when he wants to be, but not really a player romantically.

If he's not already taken, the CR has to be right, it will require some buildup, and I'm in it for the long haul because I don't app/drop games that often. Romance allows for development in the direction of intimacy and trust, which is otherwise very difficult for this character. We should discuss shipping before it goes anywhere, if it looks like it might. What I look for in a ship for this character is stability and blossoming trust between partners in crime.

I'm not that interested in playing out relationship drama past a certain point (there are always going to be issues, especially considering who he is, but I don't want to play out real abuse, cheating, death of the partner, etc.). It's not something I think he'd stick around for, and/or it would negate the attempts at development in terms of learning to trust people, or force me to play him through a long period of depression to stay in whatever game. There's no point in spending a lot of time building up and playing a ship if it would just confirm his tendencies to keep to himself, plus it's not really IC for his trust to be misplaced.

FWB-type sex might be feasible if he's not already shipped, but we should discuss it a lot beforehand. It'll involve tenderness without much real intimacy, and probably not a lot of character development, and would most likely be the occasional hookup and not a real ship. If the other character gets involved with someone else, he'd probably end it, for personal privacy reasons.

Finally, for ships and other extremely close CR, I would strongly recommend that you've seen or read Death Note (you can watch the anime in lieu of reading the manga; changes from the manga to the anime only affect L in a couple of scenes). L is a very complex character in a way that's easier for you to experience than for me to explain.

• Preference for ship characters is for women in their 20s who are kind and pretty.


• Preference for ship players: please be reliable and a good communicator. Ideally, if this ship is in a game, you have also read or seen the part of his canon that he appears in and/or we've discussed character dynamics ahead of time. I don't want you to be surprised by what a stalker he is.


• L probably wouldn't make the first move, and is probably pretty inexperienced to begin with.


• FTB is fine but I don't require it.


• Soap-opera scenarios won't work for this character in a game long-term. No love triangles (if he's not going to win, he'd walk away before it got to that point; I don't think he's impressed with divided loyalties), no constant hurt/comfort where he's always in the comforter role. I also don't want to be dragged into negative CR with psychopathic or powered villains via a SO tangling with them: L is cautious, ruthless, and very cognizant of his lack of powers, and would probably eventually end the relationship to remove himself from danger.


• The "nope" about rape and rapey situations bears repeating here.


• I'm not into m/m, particularly with canonmates -- there aren't many male Death Note characters I think L would go for. I have zero interest in L/Light (worth mentioning so Light players don't waste their time or get their hopes up).