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i think probably my opinion of L is forever influenced by this one porpentine game i played that included a snippet about a princess whose entire education growing up was to 1) avoid being assassinated 2) die extremely gracefully when she did get assassinated
i really really cannot recommend actually playing this game enough it's a browser game (the ones where you just click on links to move the story) and takes maybe 30 minutes max but here is a transcript of the start of that section to show you what i mean,
(links are in [brackets])
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You are the empress of the starry diadem, lordess of the sun-cursed towers, visionatrix of the inner sea, controller of foundries, trade routes, war zones, of anything laws may touch and everything susceptible to grace. Outside your domain are outlaws and damned things.
From the highestĀ [tower]Ā of your palace your edicts soar on blemishless birds of aĀ [rare]Ā color, edicts to shatter borders or rise up empires.
[But...]
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[tower] -> (a spire of birdshit but a powerful symbol)
[rare] -> (for their species, anyway)
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...but you are still a child.
You play with your bone foot,Ā [scraping]Ā out patterns in the dust under the table. Your tutor sits by the window planning lessons.
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She looks over [sharply].
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You're under the table rubbing your bone foot, waiting for something to happen. Your tutor sits by the window planningĀ [lessons].
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They prepare you for the day you shall be assassinated by draping your body in red streamers and arranging you aesthetically across carpets and divans.
You are instructed in
[the art of dying in the proper light]
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Evening's crimson light is perfect for covering up [blood].
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Mid-day is unfortunate. Better toĀ [die] in the interior of the palace by some inconstant candle than face the brutal light of the sun which seems to delight in raising up every wrinkle, every blemish.
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Death in theĀ [morning] is second-best, resembling as it may certain scriptural descriptions of death, that "misted passage" or "foggy road". But perhaps such an allusion is lost on the masses.
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Various aesthetic scenarios naturally assert themselves. Perhaps stumbling into the garden and coming to rest by the pond? I can see it now, arm flung out by the water but not so close you feed the fish, bare feet stained with dew and sticking with white petals, symbolizing that you remainedĀ [pure] unto death[...]
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[pure] ->
The empress has always saved herself for death, because death will only accept a maiden. If the empress is not pure in death, how can she birth the next empress?
For all know each empress is born of the union between woman and death, and they are known by the fleshless foot that tears their mother. These foot-boned children are found no later than a year after the death of eachĀ empress. By this sign the circle is unbroken.
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They prepare you for the day you shall be assassinated by draping your body in red streamers and arranging you aesthetically across carpets and divans.
You are instructed in
the art of dying in the proper light
[the art of shaming your assassin with your composure]
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If the assassin looks superstitious or basely spiritual,Ā [shame] them with beatitude.
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If they appear beyond all piety, shame them with glacialĀ [calm].
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If they have no eyes (there are prophecies) then let no flinch pass your frame when they lower the wire around your neck or touch the dagger to yourĀ [ribs].
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[60 repetitions of cold needle jabs or until you stop trembling.]
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They prepare you for the day you shall be assassinated by draping your body in red streamers and arranging you aesthetically across carpets and divans.
You are instructed in
the art of dying in the proper light
the art of shaming your assassin with your composure
[the art of emulating the appropriate saint with your death pose]
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Fortunately the saints died in an absurd number of [ways].
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Pierced by arrows, burnt to death, thousands of tiny cuts, beheaded, forced to fight wild animals, clubbed, dragged apart, crushed under slowly stacked stones, dropped from cliffs, ridden over by horses (wild), ridden over by horses (domestic), buried alive, made to drink poison, dragged behind ships[ā¦]
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You have a lot of [leeway].
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[Study each of their expressions.]
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They prepare you for the day you shall be assassinated by draping your body in red streamers and arranging you aesthetically across carpets and divans.
You are instructed in
the art of dying in the proper light
the art of shaming your assassin with your composure
the art of emulating the appropriate saint with your death pose
You have learned from these repetitions.
You areĀ [grown].
I know they're wondering why Kira didn't kill them along with L, but this just makes them look unfathomably depressed out of context
"you'll be so busy with our kids you'll forget all about your former job as an FBI agent, the thing you were ruthlessly good at haha" cut to Naomi look absolutely dead in the eyes. Death Note truly has the most tragic woman in it...anyways glad Raye Penber is dead š¤Ŗ
it's easier to name the characters in death note who weren't doomed from the beginning actually
really rushed matsukami thing.. i have to write a fic on them i have to i cant stop thinking about them
i just remembered that before i watched death note for the first time, i was under the impression that l and light were the same character. i thought light turned into l when he used the death note and was then called dark yagami.
āWHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUāRE SHOOTING AT?!ā
I love L with all my heart but I have to admit that he is quite the garbage boi... what would you say are some of his best/more redeeming qualities?
Hmmm, I love him as well, and itās pretty hard to strike the proper balance when talking about / writing L because heās pretty specific and often walks the line between so many opposites with his characterization: good and corrupt, polite and rude, reserved and dramatic, honest and dishonest, egotistical and humble, etc etc.
I know I said heās quite rude and cruel at times, but heās usually quite polite with his words and seems to be genuinely considerate of and worried about others at times. He expresses concern for Soichiro, Aizawa, Aiber, and others when theyāre doing risky things under his command, and urges them to take care of themselves. He really seemed upset about Ukitaās death, chose to reveal himself to the task force and put himself at a greater risk because he was regretful about the FBI agents dying, and even him getting mad about Matsuda disobeying his orders was probably somewhat concern for his safety as well. He gives the task force lots of safety precautions like their fake badges and their belt buckles that double as emergency buttons, and he secretly set up a fund that would ensure their families were taken care of if anything happened to them while they were working on the case. I think he hides good and generous things about himself just as much as he hides shady things, and that heās weirdly humble in certain ways as much as he is a show-off.
He definitely does a lot of good by solving crime and putting away dangerous and violent offenders. Even if itās mostly because he finds it entertaining, heās still making a positive impact on society, and he always does his best to make sure he has solid evidence for convicting the criminals before they are brought to justice. He wouldnāt be in such a powerful position where even the worldās police are at his beck and call if he wasnāt geniunely doing an amazing job.
Heās a funny and entertaining character. I laugh out loud at him so much in the manga, both when heās trying to be funny and when heās probably not.
I dunno, Iām kinda tired and donāt feel like writing an essay, but I think his flaws do get exaggerated sometimes and thatās partially because he was regarded as an innocent angel cutie patootie by the majority of the fandom for such a long time when DN first came out. I always try to take a balanced view of the characters but sometimes Iām sure I swing too far one way or the other, and so much of what L does and says is ambiguous and up for interpretation by the audience. So it heavily depends on how you interpret him personally as well.
for manga that spends a lot of time focused on members of the police, i felt like dn really wasnāt likeā¦ singing any praises about it at all.Ā
if anything, the police were shown as being incredibly incompetent at solving problems that could not be solved by pure brute force, and their dependence upon responding to authority was ultimately just letting light use them as puppets for whatever he wanted and would run them around in pathetic circles.Ā
meanwhile, everyone was at their most capable when acting autonomously and not while not allowing themselves to be forced into following someone elseās orders. such as near continuing his investigation with the few who stayed to help him after losing support of the government, misa getting information using her personal social strengths during the yotsuba arc, aizawa when he stopped listening to light and followed his own intuition and conscience, matsudaās actions at the conclusion of the story, etc. the whole case was solved because people chose to continue of their own volition and the establishments of the police and the state did jack shit and even ended up being a roadblock to capturing kira.
idk i just found that interesting. i just wish that all the people who were in the NPA stopped being cops because youād think by now theyād realize that the whole system is rotten and they only exist to serve whoever has the biggest stick, and you donāt have to have a fucking badge to make a difference or solve things for yourself. so i honestly did not have any attachment to the NPA members in the aftermath at all because they just went back to upholding the same bullshit system that folded over almost immediately.
misa amane, ai detector
In a more serious response to @kiyomitakada 's post. I personally always read Death Note as a cautionary tale against grooming children into a position where they would rather be dead than see themselves as a failure.
Light became Kira because of the sunk cost fallacy. The desire to rid the world of who he deamed "the rotten" was a mindset he was implied to have been groomed into. So when he kills those first 2 people, it makes him see himself as a failure. And Light, who has made his image of himself to be that perfect individual, has a crisis of identidy. It is presumably the first time he has ever had to face true failure in his eyes. So what does he do? Simple. He takes the first out him mind provides him. A marytr complex that absolves him of faliure.
He would rather become a serial killer than see himself as a failure.
L is probably the easiest character to tie this theme to. He would literally rather be dead than wrong. He was groomed to be the perfect detective. He had never failed to solve a case before the Kira case. Ego drove him for a good chunk of the story, not justice, ego. The inability to be wrong was what got him killed in the end. Even if he was right! And that is the paradox of the story. As the audience, we know L is right, but in story it is repeatedly stated that he really has very little to actually go off of. So he dies for the sake of the case. He won at the end, but at the cost of his life.
He would rather be dead than a failure.
Misa is an interesting example of this. She displays this mindset in a very different way. For her, it is all about love. As a woman,(especially a woman written by Ohba) she has been groomed from childhood to see love above all. The goal of women being to eventually find heterosexual love and get married with children. So Misa's love of Light is something she is willing to give up everything to make it true. Even as she knows he does not and will not truly love her.
She would rather be dead than a failure.
I'll knock out the Task Force and SPK real quick, as theirs is pretty short in comparison to the others. By agreeing to join the investigation against Kira, they fufill this themetic role to a T. They literally say they would rather be dead than fail at catching Kira. Soichiro Yagami being the prime example of this. His goal was to catch Kira and to prove his son innocent no matter the price. He does so at the cost of his own life.
They would all rather be dead than failures.
Moving onto the successors. Let's start with Mello. He was groomed to be the succesor to L. To take on the mantle and be the best detective in the world. L dies before ever choosing one. The goal doesnt die with him though, instead the goalpost shifts into beating both him and Near. He runs off with the Mafia and does everything he can to beat Near. Which in this case would be ending the Kira case. When push comes to shove, he also dies for the cause. Knowing deep down, that to fufill his goal of succeding L, he needed to do something drastic and help Near.
He would rather be dead than a failure.
I'll also include Mikami and Kiyomi in this section as they are the succesors to the first and second Kira respectively. Kiyomi's reasoning and grooming are pretty much the same as Misa's (because it's Ohba) so there really isnt much more to add to her on that aspect. Mikami on the other hand is what I would consider a more idealistically pure version of Kira. He does genuinely believe in the mission statement. Time and time again throughout his life, he puts himself in situations that are bad for him for his beliefs. Taking on the mantle of Kira was no exception. In both endings, he dies. One denouncing Light, one not. But it doesnt really matter as the end result is the same.
They would both rather be dead than failures.
Then there is finally Near. The character who seems to shoot down this entire theme. He does win in the end. He didnt die and didnt become a failure. So what have I been yapping about this whole time? Well simple. He didnt die, but he also didnt live either. As seen in the A-Kira story, he is essentially dead. Struggling with the role of L in terms of what that means for his identidy. Near did essentially die in that warehouse. The new L was the one that left alive, just for the purpose of endlessly solving cases. He doesnt even get to have his own name.
He would rather be dead than a failure.
Stepping back from the story, there is a more meta textual reason for this. Japan's work, school and general culture demand compliance and perfection from those in it. There is something so deeply sad about seeing sucide rates skyrocket over the past couple years. Especially during exam season. Even if they manage to do decently well for themselves academically, the work culture is so brutal that kills people constantly. Either due to sucide or overwork.
These kids, these people, would rather be dead than be failures.
What does that say about us?
yagamane is just so brutally interesting to me because it absolutely denies you any catharsis. none. it just sucks. it sucks so much. it's nuanced and tragic and awful and it doesn't do anything with that. it doesn't go anywhere. it's like this cesspit of toxic waste that refuses to satisfy you with any narrative denouement. there's no justice or transformation or heel turn. light hates his girlfriend. uses her. needs her. casts her away. she gets drunk at a dinner party with the other woman and declares it a victory when she's thrown out. he dies. she kills herself. she dies. he dies. they both die. they don't even die together. even the narrative doesn't pay misa amane any mind. she's outlived all her lovers. but there's no satisfying ending to that, she just dies. light just dies. there's nothing beautiful. they're both just dead.
The most fascinating thing to me about Misa and Light's relationship is that you'd expect her to love him first and foremost for being Kira, considering how they met and why she sought him out. However, that is not at all the case. Her affection and loyalty belongs to Light, as a person, independently of the fact that he is Kira. We see that during the Yotsuba arc and after Misa gives up her ownership of the notebook post-timeskip. She might be a Kira supporter but even then, she makes her priorities clear: she loves Light. Kira is simply someone she feels gratitude for and agrees with. But the world Kira is trying to create is not as important to her as being with Light is. When she doesn't remember who he actually is, she's no longer a fanatic. She's someone who simply would like to express gratitude and maybe return the favor, but won't give up things she cares about.
And yet - Light being Kira is the only reason she met him. She was going to do anything to meet Kira. That's what makes it so odd.
I think what makes Light as simply Light Yagami better than Light as the person who is also Kira is the fact that a concept/mystical hero can give you reassurance and hope but only a person can make you less lonely. And Misa Amane is tragically lonely after the death of her parents. Kira is the only one she has. So until she meets him in person, Kira, the "god", is who she clings to and is utterly devoted to. I think the reason why it doesn't stay that way when she loses her memories is because at that point, Kira is no longer her literal everything. She met Light, an actual human being. A pretty guy she decided she wanted to be her boyfriend. Someone real. Someone she can actually have by her side, someone who she can be with. That is why Light becomes a priority. Why her entire world centers around him, why she'll sacrifice anything to keep him and why, once she thinks of Kira and Light as separate people, that includes Kira too. Now Light became all she has - because how can someone she doesn't even know count as "someone she has" in comparison to someone she can see right in front of her?
what I think Misa Amane would look for in a romantic partner
Although this post will be about Misa, it is in fact the third out of a series of seven, going through several more of the Death Note main characters. Light and L can be found on my blog already, whilst Matsuda, Mello, Near, and Matt are currently in progress. The next two paragraphs of this intro will be identical for each post, so if you've already seen a different part of this series of posts feel free to skip ahead to the headcanons.
I'm going to leave my headcanons gender neutral because although I do see certain characters as certain sexualities, I know other people see them in other ways, and I also just don't think that gender is particularly relevant to what I want to talk about. Plus, in Light's case (for example), I headcanon him as aroace, so I'm going to write this as what I think he'd look for in a romantic partner if that wasn't the case, because this post would be pretty boring if I stuck by that belief.
On a similar note, I'll be going over personality traits rather than appearance - I just find that far more interesting to discuss. With that said, onto the post!
Misa Amane
Throughout Death Note, Misa shows herself to be an incredibly dedicated girlfriend, sticking by Light's side even when he treats her very poorly. In order for her to be in a healthy relationship, she'd need someone just as loving and devoted so that the give and take in the relationship would be fair. An ideal partner for Misa would be constantly doting on her out of their natural desire to take care of her and express love for her, not due to any pressure or feelings of worship like those that Misa harbours for Light. A relationship with her would be difficult to keep balanced, but with the right person it could be incredibly healthy.
As someone with Mandarin as their first language, reading kanji names feels like an elevated experience. Since all the characters mean something.
å¤ē„ę (night, god, moon) - yeah, sounds like our tragic protagonist. ęµ·ē (sea, silt) of Amane Misa means I always subconsciously associate her with the seaside. é¾å“ (dragon, mountainous) for Ryuzaki means I see something deeply jagged, harsh, primal in L. Also interesting to me how Misa as the sea and L as the mountains parallel each otherā¦ together they form the landscape (of Lightās little game aka the whole story) Iām overthinking. Definitely.
But yes. Itās like you can taste the names or something. And names are quite important in dn.
