It is Near (✨yet again✨) with his nightly thoughts. His little letters, if MPC would.
Linda. Near drew you today. You were smiling, in the drawing. You looked happy in it. Near doesn’t think he’d seen you smile since… before Mello made his departure from the House. Near sort of forgot what it was like, seeing you like that. Near drew your hair braided, with afropuffs. It… suits you, Near thinks. It’s bouncy. Bright. Near can almost imagine the colorful elastics Linda would use. He hopes that Linda still has Many Colors now. She deserves it.
A. Alternative. Near is sorry, that he does not have another name to use for you. A deserves a better name than that. Near found a song that made him think of you today, A. Radium Girls (Curie Eleison) by Rachel Summers. Near remembers… A’s guitar, how he would play it when Near was little. Before the testing got too intensive and the work piled up so high. A was good at it. Near doesn’t think he ever said that enough. Near doesn’t think he ever got the chance, before A died. Near has… he has so many things he wants to say to A, but they would probably end with Near crying. Near just.. wants A to know he wasn’t forgotten. That A was more than just some warning story about what happened if you threw yourself too far into your work. A was loved, and A was remembered, and Near thinks Matt had A’s guitar. [he treated it with the reverence it deserved, Alt. Do not worry.]
Maybe someday Near will have the bravery to put pen to paper about his thoughts on L, on Kira, on Beyond Birthday. But until then, Near will just… send his little letters.
[Near, Death Note, Fictive]