>>13018901identical intelligence
constraint of role is the only delinator.
Light was never an evil person, he was literally corrupted by the death note and you got to watch his total moral destruction. The only case in which Light completely defeats the Death Note is the case in which
>he wins both and all subsequent games, ending the game itself completely>he ends his death, living forever, and attains eternal youth (feasible in the universe, became Shinigami, could have just been so in the human world)>he becomes absolute ruler of the worldThis would have allowed him a gigamesh-style victory over the corruption of the Death Note.
L is the identical, contra(not counter) personality of the same individual. He would have corrupted to the same position, and would have only developed that corruption in the opposite direction. He would have also defeated the Death Note to the same end.
L/ight Yagami. Same person in two lives, fighting with himself, impelled by an equally ridiculous unifying circumstance to balance out their didactic upbringings.
That's it. The successor to L is the successor to Light, holding both L and Light's tainted and untainted ideals and methods.
