Stephen Gevanni

Stephen Gevanni (ステファン・ジェバンニ, Sutefan Jebanī), works with Near in the SPK in order to catch Kira.

Appearance
Gevanni is a young man with black hair and light eyes.

Character
Gevanni is very talented, having skills which include lock-picking, investigating, monitoring and following suspects. He is also good at imitating the handwriting of other people. Even after numerous deaths in the SPK, Gevanni remains a loyal member. He has a key role in Near's plans, and becomes essential to solving the case by following Mikami.

Series creator Tsugumi Ohba described Gevanni as a "good-looking hotshot" who received an invitation to join Near's team because of his skills.

According to Death Note: How To Read 13, Gevanni likes "ships in bottles" and dislikes "unreasonable superiors."

Plot
He had been assigned to tail Mikami when Near realized he was X-Kira. His meticulous analysis of Mikami's personal habits will play a role in both Light's and Near's plan, but will ultimately allow Near to realize Light's true plan, and as such to swap the true Death Note with a fake Death Note, made and written with Mikami's handwriting by Gevanni himself.

In the one-shot chapter set three years after Light's death, while he didn't have any speaking lines and any involvement in the short story, he did appear in one panel alongside Rester and Lidner. This suggests that he may still be working with them under the new L, Near.