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Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Author: Aishuu
Summary: L and Raito meet under different circumstances.
Notes: One of the fandom's first epic AUs.Title: True Elision
Author: Ezan
Summary: Raito dies and becomes nothing. But the Shinigami need his soul, so they give him a second chance. They recreate his spirit and send him to a hellish trial where he must face his living nightmares. Intense romance comes late in fic.
Notes: Very interesting concept, lengthy and well-executed.Title: Coexistence is Boredom
Author: Sakurazukamori6
Summary: A new deathnote. A new plan for world sanctity. And an entirely misled Catholic clergy. Raito and L take their respective places on the sides of their own justice. A final battle waged in the Garden of Eden.
Notes: One of the first divergent epics of the fandom. Quite good.Title: Poison Apple
Authors: RobinRocks and Narroch
Summary: [LxLight] Death Note with a Disney spin. Maybe their poison drenched love, this twisted fairytale of most wicked beauty, is all that matters, even when L is dragged back from his grave and faced with his poisoned apple again.
Notes: A bit purple, but lots of fun. Also: long.Title: Of Music
Author: Mikanis
Summary: Light is at the theatre, escaping from his life as he does every performance. Fate hands him her calling card in the way of a stranger sitting across the room. Can Light maintain his life when this one man manages to slip into it like he belongs there? AU.
Notes: Slow-moving and lovely.Title: Misunderstandings
Author: knights_say_nih
Summary: L doesn't understand what's gotten into Light. Or that the rules of the game have changed. There's a hell of a lot L doesn't understand, and that's just not right. Featuring a memory-loss!Light, who is very young, and a jaded, angrier L, who never lets an inch of it slip.
Notes: This one bites.Title: Methods of Interrogation
Author: subdee
Summary: Is it interrogation, or torture? A battle of minds on an uneven playing field.
Notes: Love how this is written.Title: Uncertainty
Author: elwing_alcyone
Summary: Wammy visits the orphanage, and has some doubts.
Notes: Lovely pre-canon work, complete with brilliant ending line.Title: Between the idea and the reality
Author: feast
Summary: Second-person post-series fic. Everyone and the end.
Notes: Bitter and biting and intense.Title: Curtain Call
Author: feast
Notes: The inside of Light's head at a pivotal moment, reminding us all of why he should be punted through a wall.Title: and the world comes tumbling down
Author: spontaneous monotony
Notes: A short and unsweet drabble on the most obvious of comparisons.Title: We Fat Ourselves For Maggots
Author: V
Summary: Ryuuku watches over his family.
Notes: Amazingly brilliant, one of the fandom's best and most unique fics.Title: Death Note claim on 1fandom
Author: Ruri
Notes: Fifty one-sentence themes. Lots of gen, some not, all good.Title: Mortality
Author: Aisling
Notes: Light at the funeral. Lovely.Title: Denial is a Fool
Author: scelerus
Summary: Raito is as stubborn as he is intelligent, and when his intelligence fails, his stubbornness is all that he has left.
Notes: Badass afterlife fic.Title: Remorse
Author: Trismegistus
Summary: People change.
Notes: Ouch.Title: For What It's Worth
Author: Keelywolfe
Notes: Also ouch.Title: Fostering the Notion
Author: Saulie
Summary: “…Light-kun is interesting, Yagami-san.” And what the hell is that supposed to mean? L and Soichiro and a brief conversation.
Notes: Lovely and understated.Title: Impossible to Ignore
Author: crazythorn
Notes: Stalkeriffic boys are stalkeriffic.Title: just that and paper cranes
Author: darkeyedwolf
Notes: This is pretty much a classic.Title: Come To My Terminal
Author: darkeyedwolf
Notes: A crackfic in the best way.Title: Office Politics
Author: rageprufrock
Notes: Probably one of the most-recced fics in the fandom, because it is made of solid black humor and epic win. Also, everything this author touches turns to gold.Title: Christmas in July
Author: stereonights
Summary: I have no excuse for this except that they go to college together and college boys will be college boys.
Notes: Utterly freaking hilarious.Title: Let Him Eat Cake
Author: Harukami
Notes: Hilarious in-character pr0nz.Title Best Present He's Got Yet
Author: mousapelli
Summary: L has some birthday presents for Raito, but he's a little tied up. Chained up. Whatever.
Notes: Quite, quite silly.Title: (Parenthetically)
Author: Mei
Summary: What goes on in L and Raito's minds beyond prose. (Look deeper.)
Notes: Short and silly.Title: This Is Such a Pity
Author: marksykins
Summary: Changing the rules mid-game.
Notes: Oh, boys.Title: amanuensis
Author: Celrevia
Notes: Screamingly funny. No summary for fear of ruining the screamingly funny. For serious.Title: Lost Boys
Author: Le'letha
Summary: Ficlet collection. The bits and scenes that nobody saw, that didn’t happen, or that could have been. Increasing amounts of increasingly disturbing slash.
Notes: A lovely collection.Title: 20 Themes
Author: firedraygon97
Notes: A mix of short drabblets, with lots of silly.Title: Untitled
Author: biztheinsane
Notes: Hilarious drabble of hilarity.Title: Adaptation
Author: Silver Pard
Summary: Even Light’s plans don’t take spontaneously changing gender into account. Fortunately, he can adapt.
Notes: Hilarious genderswitch crackfic.
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