WAMMY’S HOUSE

1992, 13 y/o

🎨 DESIGN NOTES

:maxresdefault-shinigami-eye-iso: Elliot Lawrence

1987-1992 Age 8-13

El, L, Justus, Deneuve, Coil

About

BACKGROUND & FAMILY

• British parents

Elliot is an actual orphan. His guardian is Quillsh. He lives permanently at Wammy’s (at least 5 years if we assume he came there at 8, then he stays there until he’s at least 13). As a teen, he is quite bitchy and wound-up, and he rebels heavily against Quillsh. Quillsh cannot deal with Elliot and treats him suboptimally, but is nevertheless emotionally very attached to him.

• One time, Quillsh asks Elliot to come to him, and Elliot just cannot cope at all because of autism. He is wound-up, fidgety, and close to a meltdown. But Quillsh constantly tries to talk him into “normal” behavior, which annoys Elliot. Like saying, “sit normally, boy,” and so on. And Elliot obeys, but the meltdown can no longer be stopped. You can see how he’s crumbling, trying to hold himself back, while Quillsh tries to make conversation and ignores all his symptoms. And Elliot snaps, somehow grabs the cup of (luckily only lukewarm) coffee, throws it at Quillsh, and runs out of the office.
• His alias “L” maybe comes from Quillsh calling him “El” as a short form of “Elliot”?
• I want Watari and L to have some kind of reconciliation event where everything goes down the drain and they’re kind of forced to work together and find a way to communicate without bashing each others head in. They leave Wammy's together shortly after this and start working together on this whole worlds best detective thing.
• L came to Wammy’s at 8 years old, so in ~November 1987. He had a different alias back then (I‘m imagining he chose something super cringey like "Justus“ - latin for "the righteous"). So the staff that‘s still in charge there when he was a student remembers him when he comes around but nobody (besides Roger and Watari) know that this is the person behind the great detective alias L.

TWICE EXCEPTIONAL

He passed Wammy’s required IQ test with a score of 150. Which is insane, even more insane considering he was 8 when he took the test.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

I always interpreted L as so hypersensitive and lonely that he doesn’t know how to actually process it or communicate it appropriately, probably because of what I believe (and many others) is a case of autistic alexithymia. I think it made his death matter and it struck so much harder. It had more thematic implications on his and light’s relationship. I think after years of having people run it into the ground that you will never be normal, that you are dysfunctional in your relationships, and that you’re a selfish liar would ultimately fuck up your perception of yourself. I think that’s L’s problem. He was always just a tool to other people. He never got the chance to prove himself capable of human emotion so at this point he just believes what people have to say about him.

I thoroughly believe L should have stimmed more canonically. He did, in his own way, yk lots of chewing and visual stims, like stacking or playing w his food and his constant want to be chewing on or tasting sumthn. BUT GIVE HIM FIDGET TOYS! LET HIM ROCK BACK N FORTH BRO HE SITS IN THE PERFECT POSITION DUDE! UGHHH! Like yea he wasn’t supposed to be autistic (from what I’ve seen in forums and wtv) and I assume L tries hard to mask even if he doesn’t mask everything. But I wanna see him stimmmm!

RELATIONS OF INTEREST

UNSORTED

• L is NOT sporty and most definitely NOT a tennis champion. Der hat auch ne ganz ungesunde Fettverteilung. So overall sieht der recht schmal aus, hat aber nen Bauch.
• L hat sau schlechte Zähne. Die sind nicht nur schief, sondern er hat auch ständig Karies. Eigentlich bräuchte er mal ne Zahnspange und regelmäßige Besuche beim Zahnarzt, aber der Junge ist einfach uneinsichtig. Seine Mundhöhle badet halt einfach regelmäßig in Unmengen Zucker. Und zwar permanent.
• L riecht. Der hat auch so dunkle Ränder am Nacken und so. Seine Hände sind immer irgendwie bapsig und schmierig, bah. Der hat auch ganz schnell so richtig große Schweißflecken an seinen Kleidern.
• ROOM 213 | L was one of the few exceptions at Wammy’s, being an actual orphan and living there permanently, so he got his own room and didn’t have to share it with a roommate. It had enough space to be a room for 4 kids but since he lived there full time, Watari decided it’s better. And it was A. MESS. The floor was so severly littered with all kind of shit, there was a shape on the floor where the door scraped the stuff out of the way upon opening. I can imagine he rarely pulled the curtains open and rarely opened the windows, so the air in there was thick af.

HOUSE Marple

ROOM 216

IQ 150

ALIAS Justus

NATIONALITY British

SEX & GENDER Male (he)

DOB *** 31.10.1979**

LANGUAGES

• English (native)
• German (basic)
• French (basic)

RIGHTHANDED

DENEUVE/COIL/L

🎨 DESIGN NOTES

:maxresdefault-shinigami-eye-iso: Elliot Lawrence

1992-2004 Age 13-24

El, L, Justus, Deneuve, Coil

L und Quillsh machen die Welt unsicher, oder sicher, wie mans nimmt. L arbeitet als Detektiv— neinein— als DREI Detektive. Baut sich da was auf. Was man halt in seiner Freizeit so macht.

L finanziert mit dem Geld, das er von seinen 3 weltberühmten Detektivpersonas so kriegt, Wammy’s mit. Und bietet Spezialförderung an.

ERALD COIL

Erald Coil is the name of the second most famous detective in the world. The actual Coil is no longer active at the beginning of the series, and L uses their name as an alias for some of his cases.

Coil's gender is not specified in the series in Japanese. However, since Aiber poses as Coil, it's suggested that Coil is male.

RELATIONS OF INTEREST

UNSORTED

In addition to using Coil and Danuve's names, L had "at least three digits' worth" of others.

L’S RESIDENCE | I headcanon Watari offered L a secluded mansion or something similar at some countryside in scotland or something. Watari is rich after all and I’m sure he owns property. L set his space up in the attic and doesn’t really uses any of the rest of the house. He has staff that regularly comes to keep the property clean and neat but the staff never met L and doesn’t really know who they’re working for. Maybe the mansion is even urban legend talk in the surrounding area. They saw a creepy figure staring out of the attic windows and the kids try to break in every now and then because everybody thinks it’s unoccupied. Maybe someone from the staff threw a party there once because “pff come on, nobody lives there, it’s an empty house, nobody will know” and L heard activities downstairs. Maybe he crept downstairs and mingled with the guests pretending to be a friend. The residence has a server room, maybe in the cellar.

• Every time he’s at Wammy’s for a visit, L treats himself generously at the chocolate supplys. The same chocolate that’s also given out as rewards to the students. And when he’s around for the special assignment for Mello he tells the staff “Bah what kind of naff chocolate is that?? That’s what you give out nowadays? Did you ever try Lindt, they’re really good - go get some in the future.” “Uuh whatever you say, Justus.” And they had Lindt at Wammy’s ever since, that’s where Mello got his taste for quality from haha. They 100% give out these little golden chocolate bunnies but Roger makes sure to prep the tiny bells before handing them out. You don’t want to be in a building with 60 hyperactive kids stimming with tiny little bells all day long.
• The way I put it so far, yes, he absolutely cares about the kids at Wammy’s. He wants to give the kind of help to them he needed when he was younger. That doesn’t mean he’s doing a good job but at least he tries. Something that always kinda bothered me with how people see the relationship between L and the Wammy’s kids is how L is often portrayed as being a cuddly dad-like figure. The way I want to portray him is that L is not and never intends to be some sort of parental figure for any of the kids and the kids don’t view him as that either. Nobody is having soft feelings for L and they for sure ain’t cuddling when they meet. The contact between the kids and L is always professional. Friendly but always with a respectful distance. Keep in mind that all of these characters probably don’t like their personal bubble invaded and have a weird relationship with physical contact. L is just “some dude that smells funny” to the kids. And L sees the kids as “tiny hyperactive adults with sticky hands”.
• Officially, this "Justus“ guy is one of the main investors of Wammy‘s. He wants to support children like himself. He‘s keen to hand out hefty scholarships for the kids with the most potential. So they welcome him with open arms when he pays the school a visit. L makes sure to keep his distance to the kids and to only interact with the staff when he‘s there. There‘s one exception though: the special assignments.
• When he’s around for a visit at Wammy’s, L behaves like he’s still one of the kids. He raises his hand for every question he has.

KIRA CASE