#I know it's just ohba's poor writing here but you know. I was thinking about this while cleaning

[nateriverswife]

not only i do not subscribe to the idea that Watari imposed L's role on the wammy’s residents (for different reasons) or that wammy’s was created just for L, but I also don't understand how that would work. Mello and Near are from the fourth generation (debatable but regardless, they don't seem to be from the second) and if they are the successors, it means that the people chosen from the prior generations either died or decided to back down. It's highly unlikely that everyone died, and if they decided to back down, that simply means that people can just do so, which goes against the most common headcanon in this fandom. I could accept that they all went into hiding, if only it weren't for the fact that Mello, Near and L are highly competitive individuals so there must be someone before Mello and Near that wanted to be L, especially because the way Wammy’s is structured leads to competitiveness. So what happened to those people, that at the time L dies are mostly adults? I think they would surely be the first choices, just because they are older. They don't even have to be individually the smartest people, because they can work together. I will always think that A and B's generation is also L's, so it would make sense that after A's death, the project was put on hold for a while, so nobody was actually chosen from the 2nd and 3rd generation (still debatable - do they actually exist or Mello’s came immediately after?). They probably weren't even introduced to the idea of a successor programme, so they had no idea of that, and only after, as L was getting more well known (and maybe even after B's attempt to ruin him or whatever he wanted to do) or when he started the Kira case, the successor programme was reinstalled. Still, no one is forcing anyone to be L. Near and Mello want to win, to be him. As Mello could just walk out of the Wammy’s, they could also say, fuck no, but they didn't. True that the Wammy’s could idolise L, but if we take as canon what he said to the kids and the fact that some began to dislike him, he doesn't want to be seen as an idiol and the kids are not brainwashed into thinking that.

#whatever this is just me rambling #I could go on about how it's so obvious that Wammy’s has no classes about teaching people #to be detectives which I often see in fics #also. I know what Aizawa and Matsuda say after coming back from the Wammy’s #but I think it's just a very generalised view of the orphanage cuz if it's meant to create L's successors #where the hell are all those before Mello and Near? why didn't Roger tell them about L's death too? #because they simply are not there which means that wammy’s is not a L's factory #unless as I said. they all died or went into hiding. which both are highly unlikely #I know it's just ohba's poor writing here but you know. I was thinking about this while cleaning #death note #wammy’s house #l lawliet #mihael keehl #nate river #dn.general