The Skull Pile 2: Electric Boogaloo

Sideblog/backup for main @reaperlight Writer and fanfic author | She/Her biromantic ace | Tired Millennial from Oregon, formerly California | Warren 2020 | Multifandom blog, mostly Death Note, some Venom, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Batwoman, Watchmen, Good Omens, and unsettling politics

[quoms]

The thing about Those White People Baby Names is the way they so poetically express the tension between individuality and rigid conformity. These parents all want to name their child something unique, because they value the concept of uniqueness, yet simultaneously they abhor it in practice… ergo, 30 different spelling variations on the most normative possible names. This homogeneity-masquerading-as-diversity is inseparable from capitalist consumer culture and in fact is directly analogous to the experience of walking into a grocery store and being asked to “choose” between 50 varieties of toothpaste with the same exact ingredients, 12 brands of laundry detergent, etc.

[itd-be-gay-if-you-didnt]

Somebody’s third eye is WIDE the fuck open??!!!!!!!

[char-aznable]

[catasters]

[mysharona1987]

[nevermindtheb0ll0cks]

[mikami]

If I said this made any more sense last night than it does now, I’d be lying.

[ruindunburnit]

what… is Yamamoto doing there?

[pitchbla-ke-deactivated20190803]

Who IS that guy, though? Ive seen him mentioned in fanfiction, even, but im like… I don’t remember him in the manga? XD

[ruindunburnit]

Okay, so Yamamoto was Light’s high school pal. We don’t know much about him (not even his first name) since he was in a couple of chapters in volumes 1 and 2, but we know that: – he lives in Light’s neighbourhood. – he seemed okay about Kira killing criminals, but was afraid he’d be offed for a bit of petty shoplifting he did in middle school. – he’s a fan of the X-men comics. – he ‘only sends New Year cards to girls’.

He’s basically your average glasses-wearing high school boy who somehow is friends with genius/cool guy Light Yagami.

He was later, much later, brought back in chapter 108 (a chapter that had many allusions to chapter 1), where we see him as a young member of the NPA and fairly recent addition to the task force’s inner circle (where yes, he’s addressed as ‘Yamamoto’). Here we learn: – as of this moment, he does not know who Kira was. – he has been out drinking with Matsuda, but doesn’t enjoy it (because Matsuda has been using alcohol to cope with his PTSD/survivor’s guilt, most likely). – Ohba may not have been aware that he was the Yamamoto from the early chapters when he was shoehorned in.

He did go on, actually, to be a character in chapter 109 (which, by the art style (Obata’s art style did morph a little in the transition from Death Note to Bakuman) may be where this clip of him is from). I haven’t read it in a long time, but if he does find out who Kira was, it would be then.

Additional: I headcanon his first name to be 'Koichi’.

[misas-biggest-fan]

Death Note is the story of several people with incredible potential who use it to twist themselves into the worst version of themselves possible and ruin their own lives

[mysharona1987]

[arcticium-deactivated20170301]

夜神月 | Yagami Raito

[forgetful-nerd]

Eddie: Peter stop! you’re eating my tater tots!

Peter: *munching on tots* Bite me, Eddie.

Symbiote: *jumps out* ok!

Eddie: *having a heart attack* NO! VENOM NO!

[lifeofcynch]

[expelliarmus]

[mamotte-blog1]

Yagami Raito & Insanity “ I am justice.”

[mytsubasa]

raito teaching you how to make love to a death note

[fieropasto-deactivated20210613]

Find someone who looks at you the way Light looks at his Death Note

[deathnotewiki]

“Death Note’s Raito”, OceanLord (DeviantArt)

[textsfromlastnote]

(843)

(suggested by yagami-raito-kun)

[harlothane]

[lux-mea--lex-deactivated2015110]

“…Is Light coming…?”

1) He’s on all four on L’s grave. 2) He makes this suggestive hip movement…  3) ….when he asserts his victory over L. Wrongness level silent hill reached 4) btw, he really talks to L. He’s screaming and laughing. Alone in a graveyard. 5) then the transition to a more ruthless, more determined, more unstable Kira is achieved. A Kira who bears in his mind the memory of the time passed with L, when he was determined to put an end to Kira. Imagine his mind 6) His eyes change to the point you wonder if a new character is introduced because one episode ago he was memoryless!Light and even first!Kira wasn’t like this it’s unsettling.  7) Red is fury, wrath and passion. His eyes gleams purple which is the color of pride. 8) Matsuda’s double entendre………………

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9) “This is my perfect victory! That’s right, I win!” - he says exactly the same thing to Near at YellowBox: a) he really did see his rivalry with Near as an extension of his earlier rivalry with L, and feels the need to establish dominance one last time b) since he sees Near as a continuation of L, and he’d “defeated” L, he probably underestimated Near throughout second arc (hence the slip-ups) c) Kira likes gloating over people he has killed / is about to kill. L hit the nail on the head when he said Kira is childish and hates to lose.

[stvltiloqvent-deactivated201709]

By the way purple also = royalty which is how Light sees himself

[stvltiloqvent-deactivated201709]

Additionally, childishness/naivety also means an inability to comprehend consequences to their fullest extents, which is what made Light so dangerous, since he had a murder weapon and for the most part treated his rivalry with L/Task force and Near/SPK as a game (hence the language - “victory”, “ win”, etc.). It never really hits him that the losses in his dangerous “game” are permanent, which is initially why it hit him hard, seeing the first death of a person he’d been in close contact with (see: tears in his eyes as he caught the dying L at HQ). But it also adds to the unsettling fickleness of his character as Kira, as he replaces L’s friend!Light with Kira!Light astonishingly fast. Within seconds of tearing up he is already able to put his grief aside and smile gloatingly over L’s last breaths at the HQ, and within days, he’s laughing (maniacally) triumphantly at his grave.

Another thing worth noting - there is a sort of irony here, since despite parallels between his gloating over L’s grave and his gloating at YellowBox, he falls to his knees for very different reasons. Here, him being on his knees actually helps him establish dominance, since his mobility shows that he is still very much alive, while his former rival L lies dead 6 feet under him. At YellowBox however, he is forced to fall to his knees, literally because of the bullet wounds, figuratively because he grovels at Ryuk’s feet. At YellowBox, him being on his knees reduces him to submissive dependency in front of his rival.

[lux-mea--lex-deactivated2015110]

[rotted-strawberries]

Is it just me or does Light look sad that he doesn’t hear one of L’s childish responses in return, though? Like those last two gifs??

[lux-mea--lex-deactivated2015110]

Oh. My. God. Genius.