L Lawliet

Character
Name:	L (professional name) Ryuzaki (竜崎, Ryūzaki?) (pseudonym) L Lawliet (エル・ローライト, Eru Rōraito?) (true name)
Occupation:	detective
Relationships:
Fandom:	Death Note
Other:
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L (pseudonym "Ryuzaki", true name "L Lawliet") is a character in the manga and anime Death Note.

Canon

A detective shrouded in mystery, L arrives in Japan to catch Kira.

Fandom

Tropes:

• autistic: based on his behavior in the story, fans headcanon L as autistic
• sweet tooth: in the story, L is frequently shown eating lots of candy and other sweet foods. Fandom often embraces this as imagery in L fanart and characterization in fanworks.

Shipping

• L/Light -- by far the most popular ship in the fandom
• L/Misa
• BB/L
• L/Light/Misa

Example Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Fanart

• L, ^{Archived version} by Chihiro Howe, 2013
• L 📱, ^{Archived version} by ザビ, 2021

Other

• thinking abt that time in one of my art classes when the prof put up a silhouette of L from death note..., ^{Archived on 15 August 2021} by cubistemoji, meme/meta about the character design for L
• L and Autism by DrWorm, essay and "elaboration on the topic covered in this post by v_voltaire" (October 2004)

Links

• L on the Death Note Fandom.com wiki
• L filter on FFN
• L (Death Note) works on AO3
• #L Lawliet, #L death note, and #death note l on Tumblr
• #L on Pixiv