Stephen Gevanni

Gevanni reads as one of the team's younger members, his black hair worn with a fringe that falls to just above a pair of pale blue eyes. A dark suit is his constant uniform, and a firearm is rarely far from reach.

A remarkable range of skills sets Gevanni apart: he can pick locks, run investigations, tail a target unnoticed, and reproduce another person's handwriting convincingly. Even as the SPK's numbers are thinned by death, his faith in Near never wavers, and that loyalty makes him central to the endgame. Tsugumi Ohba dubbed him a sharp, good-looking talent recruited for sheer ability, and the official guide credits him as indispensable to cracking the case. In his off hours he favors ships built inside bottles and has little patience for unreasonable bosses.

For much of the early operation Gevanni keeps the SPK's communications running, connecting Near to the man posing as L during their online duels and restoring the network after the team relocates. He also serves as Aizawa's driver to and from headquarters. His importance grows once the investigation shifts to Japan and Near pins his suspicion on prosecutor Teru Mikami. Tasked with tailing the man around the clock, Gevanni studies his routines so closely that the pattern feeds the schemes of both Near and Light. In the end, that surveillance lets Near see through Light's design, while Gevanni and Rester manufacture a perfect duplicate notebook overnight and switch it for the real one.

Three years after Kira falls, a one-shot chapter places Gevanni alongside Anthony Rester and Halle Lidner as Near, now operating as the new L, addresses the world.