A Cure for Love: Difference between revisions

* [[Britcom]]: Yes, in an anime fanfic. [[Useful Notes/British Accents|Light and L sound]] [[Foe Yay|like they]] [[Hypothetical Casting|should be played]] by [[David Tennant]] [[Doctor Who (TV)|and John Simms]]. It's a [[Justified Trope]] since L and several other characters were raised in England [[Translation Convention|and naturally since the original story was in Japanese they wouldn't be speaking American English either.]]

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Light {{spoiler|after he survives a chemical attack and the taskforce babies him.}}

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Whoo boy... Matt got pressured into working for a terrorist organization in order to keep his boyfriend safe {{spoiler|he was pressured into this by his boyfriend's MOTHER no less}}. L and Light are mortal enemies and deeply in love with each other and that goes about as well as you might expect they ''were'' [[Tragedy|happy together]]... until {{spoiler|Misa conspires with Astraea to return to Light his Kira memories.}} After his [[Relationship Upgrade]] with Light, [[Horrible Judge of Character|L considered Misa to be one of his only friends]] even if she is a [[Serial Killer]] that wants him dead. Light caught L talking with Mello in a clandestine meeting and [[Crazy Jealous Guy|assumed he was cheating on him.]] Light kills {{spoiler|[[Yandere|both Watari and Misa when they both became a threat to his relationship with L and then he kept L drugged up for about a week.]] Later when L regains his senses he pretends to be all forgiving [[Kiss of Death|and gives Light a hug]]... [[Cold-Blooded Torture|and then throws him down onto a bed of broken porcelain.]]}} Then there's the Yagami family. [[Heteronormative Crusader|Mr. Yagami is loudly against Light and L's relationship]] {{spoiler|[[Disproportionate Retribution|and so Light used his death to advance his schemes.]]}} L had unknowingly become Light's [[Morality Chain]] and so when L {{spoiler|breaks up with Light and tells him he should be committed}} Light becomes very cross and {{spoiler|[[Take Over the World|Takes Over The World]]}}. When Light {{spoiler|leaves}} L made up some excuse for his mother and sister-something along the lines of [[Star Wars (Film)|Kira betrayed and]] [[Death Faked for You|murdered Light]] and so Sayu wants Kira dead because she believes he killed Light. Matsuda strongly believes in Light's innocence up to the point where Light had him tied to a chair while practicing his [[Evil Laugh]] [[Break the Cutie|and so his idealism has been crushed.]] Both Kira and L {{spoiler|have hit the [[Despair Event Horizon]] since their breakup and haven't been getting much done and this is noticed by their underlings. Light is rapidly losing his grip on his remaining sanity and has been relying on [[Beleaguered Assistant|Mikami]] more and more to do all the administrative duties of ruling the world. [[Lonely At the Top|Also since Light feels secure in his rule and he has too much time on his hands]] and wants to forget about L he has developed a drug problem.}} Aizawa only stays on because he fears everything will fall apart if he leaves. Both Mello's {{spoiler|mother and boyfriend were killed by Kira- and on that last note Matt's death was a [[Psychic -Assisted Suicide]] and [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|he dies in Mello's arms.]] Then there's Mello's mother and her [[Dark and Troubled Past]] Mello was a [[Child By Rape]] and his mother was trained to be an assassin by Wammy's house. She was never allowed near her son as he grew up and the man she loved committed suicide.}} And then Near is just... Near the "poor copy" [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Boy]].

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Astraea, the Greek Goddess of Justice. Also, quite possibly V-[[Shout -Out|she has a]] [[V for Vendetta|Vendetta.]]

* [[The Not -Secret]]: 1) Light and L's "secret" relationship. 2) L, Astraea, Matt... pretty much everyone [[Selective Obliviousness|but the Kira Taskforce]] knows that Light is Kira.

* [[Out -Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|V by Light. However she does manage to [[Heroic Sacrifice|protect her son]] by [[Half Truth|ommitting the fact]] that Kira has made [[Murder By Mistake|a literal error in judgment]].}}

* [[Shout -Out]]: There are ''tons.'' Matt hums the ''[[Star Wars]]'' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8 Imperial March]" when [[Big Bad|Kira]] enters [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|the meeting room.]] Also when Light gets a scar on one of their misadventures of getting shot at he grumbles in his [[Internal Monologue]] that it makes him look like ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]''. Also in the [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6866923/1/Last_Night_I_Dreamt_Somebody_Loved_Me deleted scenes] Mello compares Light to the [[Byronic Hero]] Heathcliff of ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'' and his [[Freudian Excuse]] [[Fridge Brilliance|is similar in this ficverse.]]

* [[WrittenbytheWritten By the Winners]]: Light upon meeting {{spoiler|Matt}} and realizing, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|to his horror, that once he's secured his new world this would go down as the first meeting of Kira and Astraea-this is going to be in the history books!]]

* [[Yes -Man]]: Mikami. Light notes that his vocabulary is limited to "Yes, Kami."