I'm reposting this because my other one got screwed up. I'll practice cutting the posts later.
So, if you think it's a duplicate post, you're semi-right. *sighs heavily*
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“The first child, A, was unable to handle the pressure of living up to L, and took his own life.” – Death Note: Another Note, page 105.
My topic of conversation today is one character that has had many theories about him, but never really shows up in canon: A.
Yes, “A” is a boy that was one of the first, and until Death Note Rewrite 2: L no tsugu mono, where Near remembers things about Whammy’s House that we wouldn’t otherwise see, had no picture.
Everyone kept theorizing different things about A, who Mello briefly mentioned in Death note: Another Note, but no one actually had anything CANON to work off of, and so kept changing A’s gender around, as well as A’s personality. A was an enigma that everyone wanted to know, but got nothing.
HOWEVER, there is a clip in Death Note Rewrite 2: L no tsugu mono, where a significantly noticable blonde male is seen talking and laughing with a couple kids. In this same scene, B is seen in the background walking by in his L clothing. But, that is not important to me.
Who I am talking about is A.
A.
Since Near apparantly remembers in shades of yellow or blue, we can’t really clarify this for sure, but here is A’s description (I will also include a picture; the only canon one. I’ll place it below this post.) :
Hair: Blonde, wavy, ends just above his shoulders.
Face: Kind of oval-ish, and slender.
Eyes: (This is actually what people theorize, since in Near’s memories everyone has black eyes. XD) Baby-blue.
Skin-tone: Looks to be a peachy color, but it also looks like it’s pale in a shade of yellow, so it’s really hard to tell. Darn Near and his weird-colored memories!
Clothing: A white sweater, dark-blue jeans, and a red coat with a pink-ish stripe across the chest. His shoes are not visible.

As you can see, there is really nothing entirely canon to go off of. BUT, the fanbase has made a few theories about him!:
- B and A were in a relationship, but B broke it off because he was too obsessed with L.
- B was the cause of A’s death shortly before leaving Whammy’s House, by telling him when he would die. NO ONE should know when they are going to die, seriously.
- A kind of hated L, but idolized him at the same time.
- It was the pressure of being the first in line that killed him, not B.
- A, B, and L were all learning at Whammy’s House at the same time, and A couldn’t handle the extensive training.
- A and L had a relationship going, and B drove him to suicide to get him out of the way. (I doubt this one.)
- A is a girl. (O.O WTF? Mello said “his”, didn’t he?)
- A has brown hair.
- A was Emo.
There are many others, but this post is already huge and I won’t include them.
My point is, there is a major LACK of information about this guy. No one seems to appreciate the fact that his death made Whammy’s House easier on the later generation (Mello, Near, etc.).
My point is this: As soon as Death Note: Another Note came out, people made hundreds of B fanart, but A has very little! Before people veven KNEW B, as soon as they heard about him, he had a fanclub!
Now that Near has shown us his yellow-tint memory of A, we can actually do fanart of him. Thank you, Near, and I ask you people this:
Will you spread the A love? Will you draw fanart of him, and share your love for him? After all, his sacrifice made things so much easier for the others! He was important to B, L, and everyone else in Whammy’s House – even if he was also a ghost story – so why not us?
SPREAD THE A LOVE! <333333