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DN Rarepair Week 2025

@dnrarepairweek

March 17th-23rd | Be rare or be square!
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THANK YOU!!

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to this event over the past week! In just 7 days, there's been a total of 81 independent submissions, which absolutely blew me away; it was a success beyond what I could have imagined.

Massive thank you to @lightningblade who helped me with brainstorming and @yaoi-hate-machine who designed all of the graphics - I couldn't have run this event without them! Thank you as well to the few other people who volunteered to help out beforehand. I didn't take up all offers, but I really do appreciate them either way <3

If you didn't get your submissions in on time, don't stress! This account will be monitored until 5pm AEDT on April 1st, so there's plenty of time if you want to send them in late. You can use #dnrarepairweek25 or tag @dnrarepairweek as normal, or contact me via @empressofthewind if I don't reblog within 48 hours.

In the meantime, here are the submission links for easy searching:

Day 1: Shinigami | Premonitions | Fate

Day 2: Successors | Competition | Duality

Day 3: Firsts | Pining | Fluff

Day 4: Temptation | Deception | Angst

Day 5: Secrets | Blackmail | Vices

Day 6: Fake Dating | Disguises | Proximity

Day 7: Judgement | New World | Free Day

Fanart | Fanfiction | AO3 Collection | All

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DN Rarepair Week is over!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated! The official thank-you post will stay pinned, but with the full submission list finalised, I wanted to do a breakdown of stats for anyone who might be interested:

  • In total, there were 131 entries into my spreadsheet, with exactly 100 unique submissions after duplicates were filtered out (i.e. the same submission entered for multiple prompts)
  • 76 submissions used one sole prompt, 17 submissions incorporated two, and 7 submissions used three
  • 32 individual users participated in the event! The number of submissions per user ranged from 1 (achieved by 13 participants) to 7 (achieved by 2 participants - congrats!!!)
  • There were 21 submissions for day one, 14 for day two, 26 for day three, 21 for day four, 18 for day five, 13 for day six, and 18 for day seven
  • The most popular prompt was "fluff", with 11 unique submissions; the least popular was "duality", with only 2
  • 73 submissions were fanfiction only, 21 were fanart only, and 6 contained elements of both
  • 48 works were submitted to the DN Rarepair Week AO3 collection
  • There were a total of 50 different rarepairs featured as the central focus of each submission; 30 of these had only one entry
  • 39 different characters were featured as part of a central ship (4 of these I had to Google to make sure they were actually in the show!)
  • Light Yagami appeared in the most different ships, in a total of 10 different pairings and trios
  • The most popular rarepair was tied between Matt/Mello/Near and Matt/Near, with 6 unique submissions each
  • 1 ship actually surpassed the rarepair threshold on AO3 during the event! That ship was Mikami/Light, now sitting at 304 works

On the whole, I'd say this event was a massive success, and I'm super grateful to everyone who joined in! Most importantly, I hope everyone had fun, and possibly even discovered a new ship to be obsessed with in the process 👀

I've also thrown in screenshots of the spreadsheet itself for anyone who wants to see the full dataset (the last three columns indicate submissions that used multiple prompts, to make sure I only counted them once):

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[day 3 of @dnrarepairweek: pining | l/aizawa]

Fact: Shuichi Aizawa is a married man.

Fact: Shuichi Aizawa loves his family. It doesn't take being the world's greatest detective to see that — it's obvious to anyone with eyes. L had told him to destroy all photos of himself that weren't on his person and he'd responded by stuffing a veritable photo album of his children (two of them: Yumi Aizawa, nine years old, and Taro Aizawa, one year and three months old) and wife (Eriko Aizawa, thirty-six years old, forced to quit her researcher job when her husband had joined the task force — one more life dropped into the perpetual machine of destruction that is L Lawliet) into his wallet. He'd offered it up to surveillance when they'd shifted into working in the new skyscraper that is headquarters, chin tilted as he stared through his (correct) guess for which camera L was looking through, like he was about to ask, what are you going to do about it?

Fact: Shuichi Aizawa is falling apart. Tension in his family unit. Tension in his employment, which L is deliberately heightening. It's only natural.

"You were watching to see whether I'd quit the force or not," Aizawa says, voice low like the onset of a storm.

#day 3#pining#l/aizawa#lawzawa#fanfiction#kiyomitakada#dnrarepairweek25
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[day 5 of @dnrarepairweek: secrets | kiyomisa]

“Do you remember how to use a gun?”

Amane blinks, and for a second Kiyomi wants to hit herself for asking — because Amane looks so soft in low light, so unassumingly pretty, every bit the rising pop star she’s meant to be — but when she tilts her chin up her eyes glint dark.

“I’ve never held one in my life,” she answers.

She isn’t looking at the gun in the holster slung on Kiyomi’s waist. She’s looking up at Kiyomi’s face, expression open, so inexplicably, blissfully unaware of the danger Kiyomi poses to her that the only explanation is that she is perfectly aware.

“If you had,” Kiyomi says, careful, “do you think you’d be good at it?”

#day 5#secrets#kiyomisa#takada/misa#fanfiction#kiyomitakada#dnrarepairweek25
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[day 6 of @dnrarepairweek: fake dating | mikalight]

Light hears the classroom door click open, but only looks up from his after-school homework when the pile of papers hits his desk with a thud.

He has to squint to read the title of the cover page. Relationship Contract: Premise and Rules of Etiquette. There’s two signature lines on the bottom: Teru Mikami is already written on the first, letters so neat they could be printed.

He looks up. Mikami is brandishing a pen in his face.

“I’m not signing without a lawyer present,” Light tells him.

“My deepest apologies,” Mikami says. “I’ll come back in four years.”

Light snorts. “Someone’s sure of himself. Isn’t 28 the average age for passing the bar exam?”

#day 6#fake dating#mikami/light#mikalight#fanfiction#kiyomitakada#dnrarepairweek25
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[day 7 of @dnrarepairweek: judgment | audio drama 'verse | l/ryuk]

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Light walks back to his apartment on his own after the funeral. His face is devoid of tear tracks. He’s staring off into the distance, eyes fixed on absolutely nothing; if L were to float in front of him, he could almost pretend Light was looking at him.

L is not one for self-deception. He stays where he is.

“I didn’t think he’d be so sad,” Ryuk remarks, once Light has returned to his bedroom and fallen face-first onto the bed. Ryuk and L are in the living room now.

“Of course he’s sad,” L almost-snaps. “He’s been honest to two people in his life, and one of them just killed the other.”

Ryuk frowns. “He’s been honest to me.”

“No he hasn’t. He likes you too much for that.”

There’s a silence. L falls back on the couch, not that he can feel the cushions physically anymore, and stares at the ceiling.

#day 7#judgement#fanfiction#l/ryuk#kiyomitakada#dnrarepairweek25
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A special new client~~

written for Death note Rarepair week 2025

Day 7: free day

@dnrarepairweek (Im really sorry for such a late submission..)

New divorce/insurance lawyer Mikami Teru is questioned by a cop with a false name because of the "family" that he used to associate himself with..

IM SO SO SORRY FOR THIS BEING SO LAST MINUTE, I really don't even know if the thing is still open rn... Im so sorry..

But hey I finished it!

#day 7#free day#fanfiction#mikami/gevanni#mikavanni#imnotaweebiswear3#dnrarepairweek25
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Have We Met Before? - Truly_Hopeless - Death Note (Anime & Manga) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org|Organization for Transformative Works

Apologies, this is a very last-minute entry using an idea for a single scene for a larger AU that's been playing in my head. I do not have time to flesh out further details or extend the scene because I need to clock into work soon and am dealing with a terrible ear infection. If I'm feeling better later, I may go into further detail but for now this is all I can offer just to make sure it's in before the deadline.

Pairing: Anane Misa and L

Prompt: Day 5/Blackmail

Rating: T

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#day 5#blackmail#l/misa#lawmane#fanfiction#truly-hopeless#dnrarepairweek25
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Anonymous asked:

I couldn't participate, but will you host this event again next year ? I'd love to try then !

I might!! It depends on how involved I am in the DN fandom and how busy my life is by then, but if I do decide to run it again, you'll get plenty of notice :-)

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truly-hopeless asked:

(One last question, and an apology for being so late) I find myself caught between two ideas and feel I'll only be able to do one for this challenge due to the work schedule and time zone difference. The ideas utilize separate ships that, at time of writing, are under the 300 story count on AO3 set to make it count as a rarepair, but I have trouble deciding which would be better to use: a non-canon ship that I've been meaning to write for for awhile that technically (just barely) counts as a rare pair or a canon ship that is farther under the limit and could be interesting to explore?

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The wheel has spoken!

#asks#truly-hopeless
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