#dykegerard

[notbeyondbirthday]

1, 2, and 21 for Beyond!

Hiii Isa!!! Thank you for the ask! 🥰

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

He has everything. Obsession. Vengeance. Trauma. He's doomed by the narrative. He's a freak. He's a fake. He's a funhouse mirror for the most beloved blorbo in this fandom. His very existence raises so many questions about L, the successors, Watari and Wammy's House and I'd go as far as to say his existence gives them all dimension. The destructive nature of Mello's rivalry with Near is the first implication we get that the existence of Wammy's House as an institution and by extension, Watari and L, may not be an unequivocally good thing after all. There are risks and consequences. Beyond Birthday takes that implication and makes it an observable fact and from there the possibilities are endless.

Death Note does not address Watari's motivations or ethics nor the ethics or efficacy of someone like L having the incredible unilateral power and influence that he does, which is a shame because it's such an interesting angle to approach the story from.

I have seen people say they don't like the addition of Wammy's House or dislike what the LABB adds to the story if you don't just handwave it as a spinoff. I get that. Wammy's House is about as unrealistic a concept as the existence of L himself so it can feel superfluous. For me, the LABB makes the mythos surrounding L more believable. Are we meant to believe all was well in the creation of this superhero figure? I can't, so the LABB makes sense in that regard...it represents the collateral damage of such an unrealistic endeavor. It's too much power and too large of a burden to rest on any single person. However, if you're invested in a particular characterization of L, Watari, the successors and their relationships or upbringing before reading the LABB (especially if those characterizations are on the wholesome side), the LABB might fly in the face of all that. (Though, if they went through with making Mello and Near L's KIDS instead I would've fucking hated that. He would NOT DO THAT.) Anyway, it is ultimately a spinoff so people are welcome to dismiss it on those grounds. If I'm being completely honest though, the LABB is what gives the successor side of the story the depth and stakes that make it truly compelling for me. I LOVE the successors in the main material but we just don't get enough of them! The LABB gives them more context even if I refuse to accept Mello's goofy ass narrative voice in the novel (I just don't think he talks like that, but. Hey. Maybe he does. Mello understanders weigh in!) Anyway sorry this got so long and off topic, my point is that I love everything about him but what I love most of all is that he's an entire story in and of himself. If he exists every character he's even tangentially related to gets another dimension, a fucked up dimension and I'm into that shit.

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

Beyond Birthday represents extremes to me. Obsession, imitation, competition - he takes everything farther than anyone else, too far, in pursuit of his goals. He wipes down his crime scenes to the lightbulb sockets. When he decides to challenge L, he's not even interested in living to see the fruits of his labor. His selfhood, his body, his life are reduced to tools he uses to undermine L, and he views Naomi Misora the same way. You can see this in how he speaks about her as Beyond Birthday, rather than Rue Ryuzaki:

I don't think this is just him underestimating Naomi, I think this is him being so obsessed with L and their 'game' that he reduces everyone and everything to their role in that construct. His victims and himself included. Besides that, we see an incredible amount of self-awareness here. He understands the impression he makes as Rue (a freak), he actively curates his mannerisms (down to his laugh) and flat out tells us how detached he is from his own ego when he says: "There are things I must do before B can surpass L." With this context it's not hard to understand how he successfully convinced the families of his victims to hire him to solve their murders. Rue Ryuzaki is just another piece in this game and arguably, so is B...and they can and will be changed and discarded as the game requires. We see the man rifle through an underwear drawer, crawl around the floor, and listen in on someone in the bathroom...there is no shame, no limit, nothing that deters him from his goal, even his own self-destruction. B truly is an extreme freak, even pretending to be an extreme freak to that extent makes him an extreme freak in and of itself, and that's my favorite canon thing about him.

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

Oh man, I LOVE writing dialogue for B...my characterization of him is dramatic and provocative and often verbose. He is here to get a reaction out of you, full stop. I think that's why I enjoy roleplaying with him, there is so much joy in forcing other writers to put up with him always trying to fuck with everyone. I love coming up with elaborate schemes for him to try and pull off for the same reason - the feeling of coming up with something so harebrained that even I wish Beyond would use his cleverness for something productive is so satisfying. Additionally, getting into his head and trying to untangle and express his...fucked up, often self-contradictory reasoning, thoughts and feelings without him ever willingly opening up about any of that is a fun challenge. As far as what I don't like...well, it's mostly self-inflicted but as fun as writing B is, I also feel a lot of pressure to get it right. B will want to take charge of any given situation or dynamic; he is fearless, capricious and extreme. There is not much if anything I would past him... so I often wonder if I'm going far enough. I never want my own limitations to get in his way and I think so much and so deeply about this fucker it sometimes feels like I'll never actually be able to properly express those ideas. For example, despite all of my ranting and pondering about B's inner world, in my one published fic, On Killing, Curiosity & Cats, it's mostly L's feelings and internal monologue I am explicit about (even though I am not at all an L expert). It felt easier, or perhaps safer, to show and imply things about B rather than state them outright. Writing him feels like a delicate balancing act, especially if I'm going to publish it! Sometimes Beyond Bitchboy just feels bigger than me.

character ask game

#isa i am. so sorry i wrote you an entire essay #but this was fun!!!! #ask #dykegerard #beyond birthday

[lightyaoigami]

26/31/40!!

26. a scenario that you’ve replayed multiple times?

if i speak i will be imprisoned and killed and rightfully so. actually jk who cares i will speak. i had a ships passing in the night scenario happen to me last year and it was quite distressing and i had to play it through a billion times to convince myself it would flop. then i cured myself by writing yaoi fanfiction.

31. what type of music keeps you grounded?

great question. emo tbh (i am who i am) or piano music like erik satie, saint-saens, or chopin. this is perhaps the most groan worthy answer because it's so on the nose but my favorite piece of this nature is danse macabre.

40. how do you take your coffee?

ALWAYS ICED babey!!! i was an iced coffee gay before such a term existed. i usually get a cold brew with a splash of half and half.

#ask meme #dykegerard

[mizzmellos]

Okay so another pic I need but will never draw: Mello + Rod & Near + Rester two parter. First is them fighting over whose big henchman is better <- wanted to draw this for a while. I think L shows up w Mogi and wins. Second is Mello looking smug with a bunch of shopping bags and Rod with a bunch of cash -> Near jealously asking why Rester hardly ever buys him surprise new Gundams. And Rester turning red because Near doesn't understand Mello hopped on the dick for that Moschino.

#anyway just had to get this out of my head 😇 to make more room for dykegerard's comment on my kink poll #<- still fully reeling

[kougaonn]

Pink vibe for sure

i got that friendly boy swag. that trustworthy and silly aura

#text #dykegerard 🕷

[yourdyingwish]

dying @dykegerard

#no she’s good #good and 5’7’’

[e-clv]

Me and @dykegerard got to meet our wedding photographer this weekend (Christina Hernandez! She is great) and she shot some photos of us while we were camping. I have a bigger post to make about the art project we were working on this weekend, which she also kindly photographed, but until then please enjoy our butch-femme cozy cabin fantasy, because I love these pictures lol ✨

[blueiight]

got tagged thank u who did it (my notis is a mess)

last song:

currently watching: nothing rn :( im boring

currently reading:

current obsession: u should fucking know by watching me lol

@greedydemands @wordforworldisforest @gayvampiredivorce @dykegerard @javert @slaygentford @nlbv @hiriaeth @knifeeater @the girl reading this

#yn. #yn do sum maymays.

[nalyra-dreaming]

Why is Lestat such a cheater if he loves Louis so much? I can maybe see Antoinette because she met Lestat's need, but he was already showing interest in prostitutes and soldiers just after turning Louis during their "happy times". Not to mention the opera society lady or Lestat's response to the twins when he first meets them....

Ok, we need to divorce this a bit from the cheating with Antoinette, because even within the show there is an acknowledgement of difference here.

Remember Louis' rather unperturbed "she burn quick?"

It's right before this, Lestat answers "see for yourself".

Louis refers to what I by now call a "feeding fling". Someone Lestat found interesting enough to flirt with for food. He likes to do that, to play. We have to remember, they don't have restaurants for new food, playing around and going to some extravagances, long hunts whatever are their equivalent of going out for food.

Louis left Antoinette and Lestat with the expectation that she would burn after (despite the fact that she is his employee at the Azalea at that point(!)).

Louis may not like to do those extravagant kills, but Claudia does, too, canonically. A lot of other vampires do, too.

They befriend, play, have some fun with, then kill.

For them, that's normal. And Louis does not (at that point at least) mind those. Has likely done so himself during the first few years if the tenor and that evening are any indication.

The soldiers served various purposes, there's nothing easy about the scene, and it deserves its own meta post *laughs*

The prostitute is just appealing to him, and is doing so on purpose. And she likely wasn't the only one doing that.

The opera society lady likely happened in the time frame when Lestat was not at Rue Royale, though I would not put it past Lestat either way... and, again, that is just playing around and entertainment, which is pretty clear imho when you look at his rather dismissive attitutde. No Netflix. Ahem.

And the twins...

a) they're all hungry

b) Lestat knows they will try to kill him this night. He is looking for the trap.

c) The twins smells of rosemary, and absinthe smells close to that. That is why he doesn't eat the one later at Rue Royale, because he thinks Claudia has poisoned them. (Btw, I've said it before, I'd really like to know what Claudia used, but it couldn't be absinthe and laudanum here? EDIT: @dykegerard pointed out that Claudia got arsenic, the absinthe and laudanum was book)

Antoinette... is different, because Lestat does not kill her. Returns to her. He does that repeatedly, and because of various reasons, but the underlying reason to it all is that he needs love. And... for a LOT of reasons... Louis withholds that love at times.

This is no shifting blame, just a fact.

There's a dozen and more reasons for Louis to withdraw, and it is, in a way, a downwards spiral for them all, because cause and effect repeat, and then get mixed up and... it's a mess.

I know Lestat's behavior gets simplified to "cheater" a lot, but for me... it (all) is way more complicated than that.

#Anonymous #asks #amc iwtv #iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire amc #iwtv amc #iwtv 2022 #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #loustat #antoinette brown #cheating #ask nalyra

[iero]

HUGE tumblr crush on girlgerard and dykegerard ngl

I hope Mira is seeing these and seeing all the love that she is getting. Well deserved!

Also, Isa! Her and Amanda are the absolute CUTEST couple on this side of Tumblr! :)

#answered #Anonymous

[notbeyondbirthday]

💌!

Literally reminded me that reading fanfic and writing fanfic and sharing it is fun, your smut is masterful and I feel solidarity with you because we both know what being in court is like and have heard Lips of An Angel by Hinder

#self #dykegerard #ask

[lightyaoigami]

Super anonymously saying oh no my hand slipped I accidentally left Monica this message saying she's dope as hell and her white-knuckled grip on the deranged mind of Light Yagami never fails to impress me

oh no how will i ever guess who said thi--ISA?????? ;_; <3

#ask meme #dykegerard

[mizzmellos]

Send me more stuff for when I get home PLEASE I still have an hour at work left 😬

#send me more m2 kink stuff to make me laugh. you wont top dykegerard but you can try.

[kougaonn]

Akira for tha character bingo 🫡

BINGO!! he makes me crazy...

#text #asks #joker #dykegerard 🕷

[yourdyingwish]

Cunt was truly served…ran into @killthewire who I had never met before which was so fun!! So nice to meet you :-)

Also tagging @quinnathans @dykegerard and @panetarygo :)!!

[e-clv]

Ok lesbian visibility day here’s what a femme dyke looks like!! Femme is my sexuality and my gender identity and so much more. And of course this post features my gorgeous butch @dykegerard who celebrates my femme identity every day ❤️ hooray dykes

[blueiight]

last line challenge(tagged by @weather-mood thank u so much🤎)

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words:

Revulsion marred his delicate features.

five words, five people: @downstairsbar @wordforworldisforest @dykegerard @enterprisery @nlbv

#yn. #yn do sum maymays. #blue prompts #blue wips