Why do you seem to loathe L?
Do I only..."seem" to loathe L?Is there any doubt?
You want to know 'why'. Why, oh how, could B hate L? The World's Greatest Detective, savior of countless lives and solver of previously thought unsolvable cases - the man is incredible. A miracle, to us all. At leasssst...that's what the oh-so-informed masses came to think.
But, Misora, you have a bit more experience with L than most. How close did you manage to get to him, I wonder? Did you hear his voice, synthesized or no? Could you have even met him, gone out to lunch, and had a meaningful one-on-one conversation?
Not that it would matter.
You could hear his voice, meet him, go out to lunch, have a meaningful one-on-one conversation and then bring him home to fuck, and you would still know nothing about L.
I hate L because I know him.
I met him as a letter on a pretty glowing computer screen like everyone else, and I was told my most ultimate goal in life, how I would determine my self-worth for the rest of my days, was to become that letter on the pretty glowing computer screen.
I didn't know anything about that letter exceeept that it was great. For all my young genius and capability, I couldn't be great on my own. I had to be L.
And that's all well and good for an adolescent eager to prove himself, until...he starts thinking. Thinking leads to wondering and the whole point of wondering is to realize. What I happened to realize was that the only difference between L and I~ was a letter. He was only great because of that letter, and there was nothing stopping me from becoming something better.
B could be great without L, and he would be.
Seeing the face behind the letter showed me I was already there.
L wasn't a man, but a child, curled up on his pedestal like some kind of bloated sloth. He didn't care about a single life he saved, but only if the circumstances endangering them were amusing. The world was a puzzle in his bony little fingers, and even while he radiated arrogance, selfishness, apathy, immaturity and feebleness, we all looked to him as a God.
But he wouldn't look at me.
Even me, who was closest to L, and already better than him in so many ways. But he never expected any of us would take his place. We were prototypes back then, built to fail, and I wouldn't be surprised if he considered himself immortal.
My feelings don't seem so unreasonable now, do they?
In the end, I hate L because there is nothing about him worth liking.