Sincerely curious! Since the kids in your AU have families and communities to go home to who know who they are, why the aliases at Wammys? Also - how did their parents react when Mello and Matt left for LA?
Ohh you're opening a book here haha
Iâm trying to answer as compactly as I can.
About my concept of Wammyâs, just so weâre on the same page: Instead of an orphanage for highly gifted children to become Lâs successors, Wammyâs is a special boarding school for "twice exeptionalâ children. They specialise in the education of intellectually gifted children with learning difficulties that are not able to fully unfold their capacities in a traditional school environment due to mental disorders such as Autism or ADHD or other issues. Itâs a tiny school, and probably the only one of this kind in the whole UK, with a maximum capacity of 60 students with approx. 20 teachers. L is still involved here but only really takes action on the best of the best. For the other kids, heâs more like a fun urban legend in Wammyâs and his name doesnât hover above the kids as this unreachable and downright depressing entity everyone is so eager to surpass. No, these kids are just trying to live their lives.
About the aliases: Wammyâs has kids from all walks of life from all kinds of different ethnicities and backgrounds. Multilingualism is absolutely common there. Many have difficult family relationships and have had a troublesome life. So, I think there's a high percentage of kids from immigrant families at Wammyâs, that maybe have names that are a little difficult to pronounce or have great potential for bullying and thatâs Wammyâs way of tackling this? Or maybe Wammyâs sees this as a way for kids to practice self-expression? Maybe theyâre just trying to get them all used to having to work with fake names, since L has his eyes on them to maybe one day replace him? Maybe itâs just a poorly executed gamification of daily life for kids that have it hard enough already? Like a neat little game of âHow well can you keep something that should be easy to find out hidden from eveyone elseâ? And you know what the kicker is? The kids absolutely own this game. Iâm not saying that Wammyâs is doing any good with their methods in my AU but at least theyâre TRYING to offer the kids there some life quality (canon Wammyâs is a hellhole, letâs be real here). Iâm pretty sure that the parents are advised to not use their kids real name on campus to not ruin that whole concept and they even go so far that they have seperate, relatively secluded parking places where parents can pick up their kids a little more discreetly. These are all pretty weak explanations in my opinion. But, you know, real life is sometimes stupid and boring too and things donât always have to make sense. Or do you have a logical explanation to the alias conundrum? Iâm grateful for any food of thoughts!
And about how their parents reacted when they left: Before his death, L suspected that some students from Wammyâs House might pick up on his work on the Kira case. To protect their identities in case of his passing, he made arrangements for the families of the most likely candidates (namely Near, Mello and Matt but also some other kids) to be put in a witness protection programme asap. Overnight, the families were kidnapped, questioned, everyone was confused as hell and the agents could only tell them that their kid was "involved in a potentially compromising international crime busting whateverâ. They just vanished and are now living in a different country under different names etc. They didnât even get a chance to see their kid one more time. The authorities are still searching for Nikola (Mellos dad). Ivanka (Mellos mom) threw a massive tantrum and had several mental breakdowns at the news of her son being involved in serious criminal activities and even called Nikola (highly unusual, as they never ever have contact, ever!) in a moment of absolute despair and ranted about his bad influence on the boy. Ana and Jakov (Mellos siblings) couldnât give two shits about Mello anyways and are more scared and angry about the whole situation now than they are worried about him. Chris (Matts dad) just hears âcrimeâ and goes full âthis is all my faultâ-mode blaming himself for not being there for Matt enough. All of his optimism is suddenly out the window. Matt is such a weakspot for Chris, its heartbreaking. Iâm gonna expand on that in a seperate little story about Matt and Chrisâ life before Wammyâs. Itâs gonna be adorable, promise.
Phew. Thanks for asking, taking the time to read and understand. Love you all <3
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