Inkdeath Note: Origins
By Little Miss Dragmire
Authoress Note: This was just a random idea I had a while ago. For a while, I thought of using it as a basis for a more detailed Inkheart/Deathnote crossover, but that ended up being too much of a bother, so I decided to just post this.
Disclaimer: I own neither the Inkworld Trilogy or Death Note.
After facing defeat at the hands of The Bluejay and his allies, the evil Silvertongue known as Orpheus escaped to the north, to unexplored lands. There, he wrought his revenge: a revenge on the Bluejay, on his family, on his ally the Fire Dancer, on Violante, heir of Lombrica and Argenta and her son, and even on death itself. His plan and the effort it took to enact it cost Orpheus his life, and was not apparent until millennia later, when his story had passed into the most obscure of myth.
The first thing Orpheus did to enact his plan was to read into existence thousands of White Books, the magic originally created by the Bluejay as a bargain for his life. The White Book would hold back Death (and Death's children, the White Women) for anyone whose name was written in it. However, these White Books were twisted by Orpheus: no longer would they preserve life, only bring death. Then, by the type of magic that could only come from the written word, he bound each and every one of the White Women to a Book, so that the years of every Woman's existence were directly tied to their Book. In order to survive, the White Women now had to use the Books to kill humans before their time. The years the victims would have had were then added to the Women's own. Because of this warping of their purposes (for the White Women were originally created to ease the passing of those already near death), Death, the master of the White Women, abandoned them. Without Death, the White Women gradually forgot their original purpose, and even their forms changed. What once were identical, beautiful, pale women, began to take on traits seen nowhere in the natural universe, and became monsters. One thing they did retain though: they could still magically see any human's name and remaining lifespan. Even their home, The White Castle, changed, becoming more blank and desolate, until it became known as simply Nothing. The Women themselves were also called by different names. As the people of the world spread out, they began to assign different names to these bringers of death. Thus did Orpheus avenge himself on Death and its children.
Exhausted by the effort of creating so many warped Books and binding creatures of Death to them, Orpheus still managed to read into existence his final plan of revenge. He read that one day, generations into the future, a man of the Fire Dancer's bloodline would use one of the twisted White Books to kill a descendant of the Bluejay. He did this because the Fire Dancer was the Bluejay's closest friend and was often called his shadow. And because his anger at the Fire Dancer was even greater than his hatred of the Bluejay, he breathed into existence words that would cause this descendant to die a terrible death. As for Violante, at the same time, a descendant of hers would die in an attempt to save the Bluejay's descendant. Orpheus wrote of others, all descendants of people he hated, but partway through his reading, the effort of reading all this into existence finally ended his life.
So yeah… the idea is that Light is descended from Dustfinger, L is descended from Mo, and Naomi Misora is descended from Violante. Oh, and the Shinigami are just really messed up White Women. If someone wants to do more with this concept, feel free to, just send me a link so I can read it.
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