eddie!!

[siire314]

moonriver sketches

[joskippy]

I'm sorry grimmer

[iwontknowyouanymore]

you know, the older i get, the less i believe soichiro would be homophobic towards light. he spent years being willfully blind to light being kira, so if it turned out light was just into big tiddy goth men (ryuk specifically), i think soichiro would just breathe a sigh of relief. gay son with questionable taste in men significantly more acceptable than international serial killer 😂

[iwontknowyouanymore]

you know, the older i get, the less i believe soichiro would be homophobic towards light. he spent years being willfully blind to light being kira, so if it turned out light was just into big tiddy goth men (ryuk specifically), i think soichiro would just breathe a sigh of relief. gay son with questionable taste in men significantly more acceptable than international serial killer 😂

[iwontknowyouanymore]

first chapter of death note is SO funny, like this kid is literally brandishing his notebook like "boo! look how many people i killed, babe" and ryuk's like oooooooooooooooh. match made in literal hell 😂

[dakakapo]

I think death note would’ve really benefited if they had Ryuk holding light like a cat

[trashyshrew]

[maraelknown]

Если комнаты вспомнили тебя, то кого они вспоминали?

[janzenillustration]

Apples are like alcohol or cigarettes for us Shinigami.

[eddiezes]

light wrote so many names in just 5 days not only because he's a fucking lunatic, but bc he genuinely had no idea what to expect when the "owner of the note" (who, in a way, he knew existed and knew would eventually come) finally showed up.

before ryuk appeared, light only had a blank note and its rules of use. there was no way for him to know what kind of being owned that notebook.

it could've been someone who would support him, admire him, punish him, kill him, allow him to keep using it, simply take the notebook back, or just be completely neutral...

and with all of those possibilities on the table, light had to prepare himself for whatever was coming.

light could've thought the shinigami would be furious that he had used his notebook without permission and would simply kill him. so he wrote as many names as he could because, if he was going to die anyway, then he might as well take hundreds of filthy criminals down with him.

but that possibility is logically weakened by the fact that the notebook came with instructions. light still had no idea why the shinigami had dropped it into the human world, but he probably wasn't going to just kill whoever used it.

when he finally meets ryuk, light doesn't seem to be expecting him to kill him. instead, he seems to expect ryuk to claim his soul (as in, condemn him after he dies, not kill him on the spot) as punishment for using a shinigami's notebook, while also allowing him to continue using it. because that's what light wanted: to negotiate.

if that conversation had gone in that direction, i think this is what light would've asked for.

"did you come to take my soul?"

"yeah."

"that's fine. but let me keep using the notebook first [insert monologue about creating a new world and purifying humanity] after that, you can take my soul."

besides that, if the shinigami was willing to negotiate (light wouldn't have taken "no" for an answer*), he may have written so many names to impress him as well, showing just how committed he was to his goal, hoping the shinigami would think, "wow... he's actually serious about this," and agree to his proposal.

and maybe he even thought that a god of death would admire what he had done. after all, supposedly a god of death's job is to kill, and light had done a hell of a lot of that.

he probably thought, "damn, this guy is awesome."

and maybe, just maybe, a god would understand his motivation... and allow him to continue.

in fact, among all those possibilities, light could've seen that time alone with the note as a test.

i highly doubt light expected ryuk to be so completely neutral. he seemed genuinely surprised when ryuk explained that he simply didn't care. but no matter which possibility turned out to be true, light had to kill as many people as he could.

light spent 5 straight days killing without stopping, barely sleeping or eating, and lost 4 kilograms (while dealing with the guilt of killing people, of course), all because of the anxiety and excitement of eventually coming face to face with a shinigami and having to negotiate with him for his life and for his new world.

and when ryuk finally appeared, light smiled and said he had been expecting him.

[7irys]

The sin

[talonsinhismouthtues]

quick note that I am not dead and this is still happening in September

adding @purplink8 as co-moderator. Say hi!

Enjoy the cup noodle figures I’ll be using for the banner in some arrangement or another because I am many things but a competent artist is not one of them

if you turn Light he is touching Ryuk’s knee. That’s not my editorializing. That’s what the figures do…

Ryuk is sooooo detailed. I’m obsessed. Salt ramen because I’m salty I didn’t own them sooner.

[victorsandvanquishers]

Wasp Tongue Melody - Chapter 2

Fandom: Death Note (Manga)

Ships: Light/Ryuk

Ratings: M+

Warnings: undiagnosed depression and personality disorder

Summary: Light knows he's not the sanest person around, so it doesn't surprise him one bit when he realizes that he's attracted to a prettyboy cannibal that may or may not be terrorizing the streets of Tokyo.

[AU - Light x Shinigami Ryuk, but make it 100x worse]

Chapter Summary: Light's a smart boy. He knows that the feelings churning inside him aren't typical for a boy his age, but he's also smart enough to know to keep his mouth shut.

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Enjoy the clownery. Don't forget to leave a review~ ( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧

[iiiiime]

Average char between Soichiro and Matsuda

[eddiezes]

lately, i’ve been thinking about Light and Ryuk spending decades together, just the two of them again, and everyone sees Light as just a lonely man who, for some reason, never got married, lives alone, and goes everywhere by himself... but he’s just with his invisible husband

Although he’d probably never let himself have that reputation, I want him to get over it and accept that he’ll only be happy when he puts that damn reputation aside

[navigatorsghost]

I love this concept absolutely yes 100%. But also I raise you extremely single middle-aged senior detective Light Yagami who is always always hanging out with equally-single senior prosecutor Teru Mikami and claiming it's for work, and everyone who can't see Ryuk thinks they're just secretly gay and doesn't realise they're actually a polyamorous throuple.

[eddiezes]

hmmmm... i like mikalight and, above all, polyamory, but i think that kind of takes all the fun out of it for me here.

the whole point is that light appears to be single. everyone around him sees him as a man who, despite being successful, for some reason never got married and lives alone... he travels alone during his vacations, and if he's not talking to his coworkers or spending time with his family, he's alone.

and he simply likes being alone. that's how everyone sees him. but then there's ryuk, and the truth is that he only lives alone because ryuk's company is the only one he genuinely enjoys.

bc, on top of that, i need to explain that, after thinking more deeply about this au over the last few days, i've realized that it's built around the fact that light yagami would never, ever come out as gay, nor would he have to deal with the pressure of feeling like he should, because at the end of the day, his partner is literally an invisible supernatural creature, and that's the biggest advantage of this relationship for him.

and even though he lives alone, it's obvious that a lot of people would think "light yagami is gay and has a boyfriend hidden away somewhere."

(which is hilarious to me, because i feel like he'd be annoyed by that and think that not even coming across as just a "widower who never got over the loss of his fiancée" (considering that he got rid of misa after defeating near) was enough to give him some peace.)

but technically, that would be a lie, and light wouldn't even need to try to prove otherwise.

but if there's another man who's always with him, no matter who it is, that completely undermines the whole premise of the concept. light yagami is single, but he's always talking to and hanging out with another man, so everyone is going to think "they're gay," and they'd be right! plus, it completely takes the spotlight away from ryuk here.

i created this au bc i simply wanted them to get those days back when life was simple, when it was just living with ryuk without L, without the task force, without the spk, without the mafia, without a second, third, or fourth kira... and without anyone else getting in the way.

in fact, i've literally avoided thinking about how the "kira's kingdom" would be functioning after all these years, or how light would be balancing being kira with being a working adult at this point, bc i just want to think about moonapple

(i even tried to come up with another reason for light to still have ryuk's company that didn't involve kira or the new world, but i'm still working on that!)

and that's why the first part of death note is my favorite. it was just the two of them.

[lizard-spams-your-dash-too]

Ryuk says he drops the death note because he's bored but the dude has a genuine distaste for other shinigami and his realm. He thinks they're lazy, he thinks they're wasting time. He is also deeply nihilistic, like he talks about shinigami like there's no point to their existence except not dying. That they hold no value.

This is especially interesting because it reflects Light and how he sees the world as deeply corrupted. They both say "this world is rotten". Light and Ryuk are truly two peas in a pod.

[chama-018]

chibi akatsuki i love you…