Best Mello Angst Fanfics
The best angst fanfiction featuring Mello (Death Note) on AO3, curated by popularity. Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration.
Top Mello Angst Fic Recs
4 angst fics featuring Mello, followed by other top-rated stories.
Our almost Love Story.
Angstby BrideOfDemons · MattMello
Tres días sin hablar.Un cuarto que casi los mata.Y la jodida realidad de enamorarse.
when i get up this is what i see, welcome to reality
Angstby mello_meowow · MattMello
Mello risks his life to save Nears and ends up with a traumatic brain injury. Near becomes L's successor and tries to live with the guilt. Mello wakes up each day to a shattered reality, missing the thing he always valued most about himself. And Matt... well, he stays with Mello. What else would he
A race against fate itself.
Angstby Imfromgaydisneyland20 · MattMello
L Lawliet knows he’s bound to die to Light Yagami’s hand.That’s inevitable.Bound by their shared fate.He’d seen it coming, seen firsthand in his last life, his other universe, as Light Yagami watched the life drain from his eyes.He couldn’t stop it then.…He could stop it now.
mail for Mail.
Angstby rottenredapples · MattMello
Mello and Matt grew up in the Wammy’s house together, each year growing closer together until they were inseparable. On December 13th Mello turned 18, he was required to leave the Wammy’s House, he promised he would write to Matt and they would meet again. It was boring without Mello, but as promise
ThrashNet
by symph0ny0fdestruction · MattMello
It's the early 2000s and Matt and Mello each run popular fansites sites for rival metal bands, and yeah, they fucking hate each other. But between infighting online, they keep running into each other at concerts. Fucked up on cocktails of drugs and alcohol; things turn nasty, sexy, and dark very qui
Stay Tuned
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx · MattMello
"Promise me, Mihael, if we get separated, we'll find each other no matter what," I whispered, idly grazing the strings of my guitar. "If I can't find you, then you'll have to become a freaking rockstar and be on every music channel, so there's no way I don't find you, Mail," Mihael replied, and I kn
Wintering
by Guns_N_Poses · MattMello
“Um… hello?” Mello said carefully, his English stiff and nervous. “I um. I’m Mello.” When there was no answer, Mello took a cautious step closer. “You like dogs?” The other boy hissed—an actual hiss—and a nearby husky barked sharply, echoing his warning. Mello stumbled back, startled. The boy’s lips
Ashes & Amber
by deathnotediv4 · MattMello
Mail Jeevas was devoured by curiosity and abandonment; Mihael Keehl was driven by ambition and replacement. Wammy’s House was where it began. Where innocence, youth, and ethics ran free, childish and sweet. Los Angeles taught them how to survive outside their cages, but not how to remain whole as ti
Backstage Pass
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx · MattMello
The prize: Mello, singer and guitarist of Mind Pollution, the million-dollar rock star who sells out arenas, tops charts, and leaves fans screaming and swooning. The contestants: nineteen hopeful guys and one Matt, who mostly came for the paycheck. It’s reality TV. It’s supposed to be fake. But thin
Meet The Kids
by LeviAckerman_is_my_husband · MattMello
"Kira has adapted to his new life, as well as he’s going to as long as he still remembers what his old life was. Or as L says, ‘Light’s life’, it's not his anymore, because he’s not Light Yagami anymore, he is Kira. And he will be for the rest of his new life. And he will share that new life with L,
Birthday Boy
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx · MattMello
At 00:00, Matt turns eighteen.At 00:09, still a virgin and still hopelessly in love with Mello, he downloads Grindr in the hope of fixing at least one of those problems.
Going Bananas
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx · MattMello
After discovering that the Takada abduction was a trap designed to get them killed, Mello and Matt fake their deaths and flee to a tropical island under the deeply unfortunate aliases Clive Bananas and Percival Mango. Near thinks he has removed two dangerous variables from the Kira case. Unfortunate
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Mello in Angst Fanfiction
Mello — L's volatile second-ranked successor, a chocolate-snapping Wammy's House orphan who joined the mafia rather than work beneath Near. His scar, his rosary, and his partnership with Matt fuel a fanon presence far larger than his page count.
Angst — Stories focused on emotional pain, drama, and intense feelings.
Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration. Mello's (also known as Mihael Keehl) role in Death Note makes them a natural fit for angst storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in Death Note fanfiction.
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