Beyond Birthday

**Beyond Birthday** (ビヨンド・バースデイ, *Biyondo Bāsudei*) also known as B.B and Gamma ( Γ ). is a former successor for L from Wammy's House.

## Appearance

Beyond is described as a young man with black hair and shadows under his eyes. He wears long-sleeved white shirt and faded jeans. He is thin and fairly tall but always walks hunched over. Much like L, Beyond often sits with his knees pulled up against his chest.

However, he does not actually look like this. Beyond Birthday was said to have worn many layers of make-up in order to disguise himself.

## Character

Little is known about Beyond, though he and A were the first two children in line to succeed L. The pressure of Wammy's House proved to be too great for A, which caused A to commit suicide, while B left Wammy's House at some unknown point.

It is unknown which actions are genuine traits of Beyond’s personality and which actions are just him imitating L. Beyond is once seen eating strawberry jam out of a jar with his hands. He appears to crave jam. He also has a habit of crawling around on all fours and biting on his thumbnail.

Beyond was, congenitally, born with the eyes of a Shinigami, which allowed him to see and know when exactly people around him would die, as well as knowing their full names. The eyes made Beyond a strange child, eventually causing Wammy's House to take him in. It is unknown how he could have possibly been "born" with the eyes.

## Plot

When Cupid became known to the world Beyond came up with a plan to surpass L, as the "World's Greatest Criminal," hoping to solve who Cupid was first. He introduced himself to secret organization who were being affected by Cupid’s antics and offered his services to put a stop to them hoping to utilize their resources in his rivalry against L. As proof of his skill he gave them a list of names and when they would die all of which proved correct. When Philip a higher up in the organizations asked him how he did it he played it off as a coincidence refusing to explain how he did it.

Despite his annoyance at BB’S antics Philip couldn’t argue the fact that with no way to fight Cupid his organization was on the countdown to extinction. He agreed to Beyonds demands to hire a group of people and an unlimited expense account. In order to starve off L eventually figuring out his existence B headed to Tokyo using his own resources, with Philip as his only go between and decided to go by the name Gamma.

BB hired four people referred to solely as Alpha, Epsilon, Beta and Delta and they knew him only as Gamma. The reason he hired Epsilon, Beta and Delta was not for their skill but their situations. As he looked over their file he noticed that they all had indications of wishing to be free of their current predicaments. His suspicions were confirmed when he sent them to perform surveillance on L’s building. He overheard them planning to work together to use Cupid to help them get off the grid and bring down their respective organizations.

When they returned he sent Alpha the only company man he was forced to hire out to get him more jam so that he could tell them that his only goal was to defeat L if they helped him in that endeavor he would reward them for their loyalty. Delta was about to agree only to be cut off by Epsilon who wanted proof of trust. She asked him how he was able to predict people’s death. Gamma explained his eyes to them. With no real choice they agreed. It was some hours later when L made his response to Cupid.

As expected by all, the video started with L’s usual scripted moniker as the only thing on screen before the detective in question began speaking is his usual electronically distorted voice. However not only did L deny Cupid’s request he had a recording of the first Cupid denying the new ones legitimacy. This was far bolder than Gamma credit for as he essentially painted a target on his back. However he decided that he could use this, as stated by Epsilon and Delta L suspected that his action would cause a huge protest and riot so he began to make plans to storm the building.

The crew’s van stopped several blocks from the building. The street ahead was already jammed with people. Gamma and Epsilon remained outside to oversee the situation, while Alpha went with Beta. Gamma made sure that he knew that she wasn’t expendable. It was Delta job to rile up the crowd by asking them if they wanted to help them break in. When one of the pointed out the buildings security Delta told them that they had explosives. The others began passing out masks to the crowd. As Alpha, Beta and Delta headed off together into the crowd Epsilon asked Gamma what they would do in the meantime. He told her to continue to distribute the mask and look for anything interesting. Once the fun starts, they’ll make their departure.

As he scanned the crowd Gamma caught a brief glimpse of Mariko and noticed that he couldn’t see when she died. This caused him to rush forward, surprising Epsilon at his sudden vigor. Gamma’s eye darted over the crowd as he ran through. He was just about to declare it a figment of his imagination when he caught another instance of it. Once more, however, it was so brief he couldn’t truly catch it. Clenching his teeth he continued to push through the crowd, but it had grown too thick and his progress was slowed to a crawl. Several minutes later he could only look around in frustration, his target nowhere in sight.

Delta led the last of the crew into their shared meeting room where Epsilon and Gamma were already waiting, Gamma consuming yet another jar of jam. Beta shook her head at Delta who was basking at once again feeling the high of adrenalin while Epsilon cautioned him not to let it go to his head. Beta and Alpha informed Gamma about how Ranma prevented them from finishing. Gamma confirmed that he did pick Alpha after studying Nerima. Delta was able to use the worshipers as distractions to get into upper stairwell giving Beta backdoor access into the system.

The crew were busying themselves in various ways as they waited for Beta’s surveillance. She nearly jumped out of her chair when her computer came to life gaining everyone’s attention, save Alpha who continued reading his doujin. Seeing that there was nothing for them to do as Beta roamed L’s network Delta commented on how excited she was. Epsilon initially brushed it off as her being in her element but even she felt it was to much when Beta started maniacally laughing.

Gamma told Delta that it was time to arrange for phase two. He warned that the people they Gamma was planning on sacrificing weren’t going to be happy, but Gamma already had plans for that. With Delta’s departure he had Epsilon seduce Alpha he was about half way through his jar by the time Epsilon and Alpha departed the room. A short while later, Delta returned just as Beta gained control of the network. Sadly L’s paranoia caused him to encrypt near everything, so she could only see through the outside cameras. When she found the surveillance of the Tendo Dojo Gamma had her rig up a time delay on the signals. He then went back to his room to check out the feeds.

When he came out Epsilon had returned. By this point L should have figured out that he was involved, meaning that he was make him extra caution. So in order to distract him Gamma had Delta get a few yakuza to attempt to penetrate the workers coming in to conduct repairs. The obviousness of this would be just enough of a distraction for Beta to manipulate bank record to make it look like Gamma had paid the real repairman off. So while L was looking at them he wouldn’t realize just how compromised he was.

Gamma was aware that even this wouldn’t distract L for long so they need to capitalize on their advantage while they still could. Beta was eventually able to find where Maho lived, breaking in while the room was empty Gamma was quick to realize that something wasn’t right and after looking around Delta found a bulkhead that was about the right size for a computer terminal and chair. After studying it Beta quickly realized that she wasn’t going to break into it anytime soon. Gamma however was more focused on the fact that there was no surveillance inside

Delta pointed out that it was a lady’s home and while Gamma doubted that L would let such notions of modesty affect his judgment, Delta doubted that any woman would allow themselves be oogled on camera. The others agreed and Gamma headed their suggestion and luckily they were under no such restrictions. All Beta was able to put in the room was a mic. Gamma was left t wonder who this woman was to L.

Later while monitoring the dojo Gamma began to wonder if he had blundered into a trap as there was nothing of interest. As he wondered what it was about this family that L found so interesting, L adjusted the camera so that it zoomed in on on the dinner table as the occupants of the house gathered. While for L was just adjusting the camera to better catch later activity Gamma didn’t have that option needing as he couldn’t monitor recordings, only the live feeds. When he saw Nabiki however a small smile began to spread across his face as he wasn’t able to see her death date meaning that he had found Cupid.

Since his discovery Gamma practically remained glued in his chair, alone in his room, listening intently to the audio feed from the Tendos, looking for confirmation. He received it when he overheard Nabiki talking to an invisible third party about getting Mousse to place cameras into L’s building. As he dealt with the recording so L wouldn’t see or hear it Gamma felt this growing sense of frustration, not understanding where it was coming from he put on a hoodie and headed out with intent.

Catching up to Nabiki as she was buying her camera he told her he knew that she was Cupid before taking her into an alley. Making sure she faced forward so that she couldn’t see his face he told her he just wanted to talk. Cutting Nabiki off from trying to deny it, he told her about how L had the dojo bugged, suggesting that she took better precaution as he could no longer cover up for her. With Nabiki left confused he left before she could say anything.

He returned to the hideout to find Epsilon waiting for him. He dismissed her question about his whereabouts by stating he was just dealing with matters before asking if Beta had anything. Epsilon told him that Beta was just able to confirm that Maho was working with L and that she was working cover at the Nekohanten. As he looked over the recording they got Gamma finally realized why he was so frustrated. He was able to find Cupid first not because of his intelligence, but because of a supernatural gift he was born with.

Trying to think up a way to salvage the situation his thoughts moved on to Nabiki, while she was Cupid, her personality didn’t match up with Cupid’s early actions. A slight smile returned to Gamma's face as he realized that he still hadn’t found the orginal Cupid. He also decided to keep the knowledge of Nabiki to himself and work through the others hoping that would eliminate his unfair advantage.

Ever since they had accessed the listening devices Gamma had been laser focused on that, until much to Epsilon’s annoyance he suddenly started engaging with his crew. When he asked them for their input after a condensed replay of various recording from both the Tendos' and from Ms. Nakako's residence. Epsilon said nothing despite feeling that the conclusions were so obvious., Instead Beta took the lead, concluding that there were 3 Cupids. Much to her further annoyance he agreed with her assessment as well as a few others made. She began to wonder if he was messing with them. Tired of trying to figure Gamma out she eventually decided to just play along and joined in on the conversation. Gamma came up with a plan but needed further monitoring. So, until he was ready, they would simply observe and prepare.

Later Gamma, Beta and Delta were interrupted from the various activities they were doing by Alpha bursting through the door and dragging him off before demanding to know if it was true that Epsilon was going to die in less then a year. Realizing that Phillip had told Alpha about his ability Gamma neither confirmed nor denied it, but he did point out that he didn’t cause the deaths. When he asked Alpha why he was suddenly so concerned, he just told him that he had a thing for damsels in distress. Gamma informed Alpha that Cupid seemed to be able to change fate meaning that it was possible to save Epsilon. He smirked when Alpha told him that he would do whatever he needed from him to capture Cupid.

A while later, Epsilon entered the main room finding the others all gathered there. Alpha looked at her before looking away, quickly, dropping onto the coach, arms crossed, lost in thought. Epsilon regarded him for a moment before walking over to Gamma who smiled back at her. He told her that Alpha had decided to join their cause. He also told her that he seemed to be taken with her and suggested that she take advantage of this when the time comes. Epsilon simply looked at him with a level gaze before walking away, causing Gamma to smirk before returning to the others.

## Notes

Gamma, who we already know as BB, for those not familiar with him, is from Another Note, the Los Angeles BB murder cases, so he is a semi-canon Death Note character, but just like I mentioned for Naomi, this is set before that book, so he hasn’t quite gone off the deep end yet… relatively speaking.