Answer Key
A bunch of question you probably want answered. I know, I know. If you have any others just ask but I'll try to clear things up for those of you I may have lost along the way.
(sorry!)
How is L dead but alive?
- It wasn't L after all, but Lenore – his shadow. Since day one they had worked as a team; L crunched the data while Lenore went out to collect it. Since they were both referred to as L and often looked identical there was no way to tell they weren't the same person.
Who is this Lenore anyway?
- An OC of mine created to explain why L was there when he should be dead. If L had been alive he would have been a good deal older as well. (Near is around 25 when this story takes place)
What about the scars?
- The scars are from an encounter with Beyond Birthday when she was working with L on the case as his double. Her injuries were great enough to force her out of action. The reason she could take her shirt off was because of the surgery necessary to recover coupled with her decision to take on a more masculine body with the purpose of continuing the case as L. Hence the gap.
Why are Ide, Aizawa, and Rester dead?
- Even though it's not the scientifically accepted way of doing it…I made up a way to interpret the numbers that you see above the heads of people in the Death Note books. Nears are listed near the end, along with Lidner, Gevanni, Mogi, Aizawa, Rester, Ide and Matsuda. The way it came out is that after the series Near only has two or so years left, so I designed the story with the main purpose of how to save Near. And in order to stick with that I had to go along with Rester, Aizawa and Ide being dead and buried by the time the story takes place.
How long has Near known everything?
- Nears pretty sharp (understatement of the century) so he knew pretty much since the beginning.
Is that thing about only 6 Death Notes being active at once true?
Yep. It's in the official Death Notes themselves. How to Read L
One god of death is allowed to pass on a Death Note to only 3 humans at a time.
It is possible for a single god of death to hand out up to 6 Death Notes for example by handing 3 humans 3 Death note each.
In other words, one human could own all 6 Death Notes.
How to read LI: However, if a seventh Death Note is owned by a human in the human world, nothing will happen even if used.
Why is there no YAOI?!
shrugs
BUT WHY'D YOU KILL L!? AGAIN!?
… -.-;
I didn't kill L again, technically. L was dead from the start. Ultimately I couldn't have Lenore stick around. She was only meant to be L's doppelganger. And with L gone there was no reason for her to stay around any longer. She was the same age as L anyway, and when she traded her remaining lifespan for the shinigami eyes she wouldn't have had much longer anyway. I did a dice roll to determine the numbers in her lifespan and after trading for the eyes there was almost nothing left.
So let's lay it all out then.
Five years after L's death, Near gets a call from his old mentor Lenore who is taking over the role of L to finish investigating the phenomenon of the Death Notes. In their investigation they find a girl named Ayame who is using the notes to kill classmates. She was helped a week earlier by a man named Kenneth Morane aka Harry who is really out to claim the book. He lures her into a trap to kill her and take the book when the police abduct Ayame. Ayame escapes and tries to go to her friend Suzume's house but on the way Suzume opts out and tries to leave. Ayame tries to kill her at the same time Yukio does and both cancel each other out. Samuel, who is on the scene, interferes after Ayame has a heart attack caused by Yukio. Yukio is chased off and leaves his note behind. Suzume is taken into custody and Ayame dies at the scene.
Near confronts L about his survival after they inform Ayame's parents of her death. 'L' reveals the scars she got during her fight with Beyond Birthday – an event Near hadn't known about and couldn't understand until he realized that the scars were impossible for L to have and that she must be a second L. This reminded him of the note L had been holding that said 'NEVERMORE' and of Edgar Allen Poe's poem which mentions a woman named Lenore (the second L's name) who has died.
After their hideout is discovered by Omega and attacked they separate. L makes herself a target and lures the main forces away into chasing her while Ryuk and Tau look on. Upon arriving at base they make plans to leave the country and head to Whammy House. At Whammy House they all have access to all the records from the last case. (Well, those that weren't destroyed by Watari or were recovered.) In the files L reads about the watch and after trading for the shinigami eyes on the roof finds out that Near only has a few days left to live. L makes a plan to go to a secret auction and wait for Yukio who she knows will show up. She writes his name into the piece of the Death Note while at the auction – including that he will kidnap but not kill her and allows them to take her. L leaves Ryuk behind with her original Death Note to tell Near about the plan - saying it's to recover the final Death Note. He arranges for two military helicopters to fly low along the coast near the meeting place and sneak up on them. When L and Near pass the Death Note takes effect and kills Yukio as described ( it was written that he would ask for a trade of the 5 Death Notes – having bought one in an auction and that he would swap them for L. Using Tau, L got in contact with Yukio's shinigami who admitted he was about ready to kill the man himself any day now and expressed his displeasure at continuing his existence but didn't know of any way to kill a shinigami other than to let his time run out. L tells Sol about saving another's life and Sol agrees to protect Near with the death note – giving his remaining time to Near when he kills the sniper. L also wrote that the second in command would die from a stray bullet and as she was trying to keep him away from Near the sniper shot through both of them as written by L in the Death Note who described her own death as being assassinated, knowing that she would die within a few months in any case due to poor health and the halving of her remaining time.
Afterwards Near completely takes on the role of L with Roger working as Watari. The Death Notes are dropped in a deep ocean trench in a watertight case to prevent them from ever being destroyed, therefore keeping them active and deactivating every other Death Note that may fall to earth – no matter how many there may be.
About the title.
I came up with the idea for the story while daydreaming and listening to the song Reset by Ayaka. The song is the theme to the game Okami. It's a beautiful song really.
I think that's everything. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask. As for me, I have cake to eat.
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