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L's ability to love???

So I thought I'd give my 2 cents on this little debate in the fandom.

Is L a good person? Can he love? Is he manipulative?

Eh, it's isn't a straight forward answer.

L's an extremely complex person, went through lots of childhood trauma, never grew up in a normal environment, and has a mind unlike most humans. I've stated before but he's definitely morally grey, he finds loopholes. He follows the law but walks in thin fucking ice. He'll always manage to find a loophole that saves his ass, but is morally questionable. Anyone with extremely tight morals would say he's a bad person but someone with the 'if it's legal then whatever' viewpoint wouldn't really care.

And yes, he can be very manipulative. If you're a detective you have to be. Catching criminals isn't easy, you have to spin a little web to trap them in. But he does have some level of empathy, remember when Aizawa quit and Watari revealed that L had made sure that if something that resulted in the police officers losing their jobs they'd be financially stable? He does care about people up to a point. He cares more about those closer to him, the ones that are actually surrounding him rather than strangers.

He's definitely in a grey area but he's not as bad as light that's for sure.

Then there's the communication thing, he definitely doesn't really know when he oversteps a boundary. Most likely due to joe he grew up, he'll either tell a huge lie to cover things up (like saying Light was 3% when he was actually like 100%) or brutally honest. No in between. Because of his situation as a child it's not a stretch to assume he never learnt how to effectively communicate in a way that would be deemed socially acceptable.

He isn't perfect, us L stans aren't saying he is. We knew he's not a shining beacon of justice but that's what makes him an interesting character.

But that all leads to the question... can he love?

I think he can, but it would take a huge amount of work. You'd have to get him to trust you, something he doesn't do easily. You'd have to be not easily offended, as he can be brutally honest. You'd have to be ready to stand your ground and put him in line when he steps out of it, case wise and in general. You'd have to be prepared to take care of him, since he can't bloody do it himself. He'd be a hell of a handful, but he does have human emotion, he just doesn't understand them as well as anyone else would. Once again, probably due to his childhood.

Once you managed to break down all those barriers, then he could fall for you. He said it himself, that he could possibly fall for someone when Misa kissed his cheek.

You'd have to definitely be the leader of the relationship, making sure he eats something healthy for once, making sure he's having water and not just coffee and tea all the time, making sure he gets at least a little bit of sleep, making sure he sees the sun every once in a while.

The more you try and get into his head that you are genuinely in love with him, and that you can be trusted, and that you'll help him with life, and then he may fall for you.

He's closed off but not afraid to state his opinion. While he may straight up not sugar coat his words, he'll hide lots of his true thoughts. You've gotta work it out of him.

He'd be extremely hard work, but once you get to the trusting position, he'd be easier to handle.

Lots of people think he's incapable of love and that he'd just be using people, but consider this.

If you managed to win his trust, of you were willing to help him get through life, if you were going to be the person that gives him the love and support he never got as a child, would he really want to lose that?

The human mind is a complex thing, we get attached to things we missed out on, or things that helped us through something.

He missed out on a family as a child, so when someone comes along and says "hey, I'll give you that support, love and trust" would he really want to let that go?

Even if he didn't realise it himself, subconsciously he wouldn't want to let go of the only chance of love in his life. Humans thrive of relationships and friendships in many different ways, but we need contact every once in a while.

So yeah, I think it's possible for him to love. It's only human. He is a human despite being so robotic sometimes.

He wouldn't want to lose something he already lost once.