[ SECRET POST #3203 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3203 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

See, this is interesting to me because while I definitely agree that Light is most definitely not attracted to women (he never shows the slightest bit of sexual interest in them and seems contemptuous of their attraction to him) I guess I'm not sure where you see him being all that attracted to men?

He has a strong intellectual rivalry with L, sure, but he never really shows any kind of attraction to him.

Not that I'm against you (I actually do ship L/Light because I find their dynamic so compelling.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Well, there were a couple little things here and there that could be read as possibly intentional queer subtext. One panel in the manga that struck me as odd was one early on, when Light, still in high school, is walking and chatting with some male friends. (One of the few instances that shows what his "normal" life would've been like, and that he did actually have some friends) They're talking about New Year's cards (which are traditionally sent out in Japan) and Light, kind of randomly, tells one of his male friends that he's waiting to receive his New Year's card from him. Then the male friend tells Light that he only sends cards to girls. It's kind of an odd and random scene, almost out of place, and can be read as Light's awkward attempt at flirting, only for the friend to dismiss him by asserting his heterosexuality. Then there's the stuff with L, some random odd stuff, like Light looking at porn for L's viewing, the fact that there are evidently cameras everywhere in the Kira investigation headquarters except in the room L and Light share (which is also odd), and not to mention the fact that the author deliberately and clearly alerts the reader to the possibility of a sexual relationship by having Misa make a gay comment about L and Light (after L introduces the handcuffs), which neither character denies. And even though it's played as a joke, the fact remains that neither man ever once has a female love interest, and the author also makes it clear that there's a mysterious nature to L and Light's relationship which neither the task force nor the readers themselves are allowed to see all of (such as the bedroom with no video cameras, which we never get to see).

That's the stuff particularly that struck me as very easy to read as queer. Not to mention Light's story is all about him putting on a face and being the perfect model student and son, and only when he goes home and locks the door can he be himself - this is true even before he found the Death Note, so Light "playing a role" and having a hiding his true self is pretty canon. Adding to his blatant disinterest in women (he's apparently even told his classmates, pre-Death Note, that he doesn't want to date until college), the fact that he's not interested in women is pushed so far upon the readers that, given other possible gay undertones (including the direct suggestion by Misa), it seems like the reader is at least supposed to consider the idea to me.

It also seemed like Light was more interested in and less critical of Teru Mikami than he was of his female Kiras, and Mikami's weird orgasmic SAKUJO's and his Kira worship seemed kinda sexual to me, so there was that, too. lol I mean the other female Kiras were sexually attracted to Light as well, seemed like a pattern!