so Light sees Misa as an idiot. but can we please talk about how Misa has VASTLY MORE experiential knowledge? like ok she:
understands what death and murder actually mean. while she may have wildly misinterpreted this and acted inappropriately, she actually knows what it means for innocent people to die. she makes her decision to become the second kira after having a long-running, close relationship with death
unlike Light, Misa doesn’t avoid people on the presumption that she’s better than them. while L and Light are busy playing mind games, Misa gets Higuchi to admit that he’s Kira based on her social intelligence. Light may understand people better in the way that he can analyze them and tear them apart, not denying that. But Misa can actually relate to people. Misa does not dance around people’s heads trying to make them her puppets. She’s very blunt about what she wants.
Misa is self made. While not downplaying Light’s professional achievements, it’s obvious that being Soichiro’s son allowed him to get into police work much sooner than he would have otherwise. Furthermore, while acting as Kira, he used this police information to his advantage. When he says no one else could have done it, he’s probably right. No one else had the same advantages as him. But Misa, as dependent on Light as she may seem, is actually much more able to act independently. She acts as Kira without him to begin with. She tends to plan on her own and do things more spontaneously. This is because, unlike Light (desperately crying out for Mikami, Misa, and Takada, lmao) she BUILT AN ENTIRE MISA MISA BRAND. As naturally talented as Light is, Misa is equally talented but in a different field. And this DOES provide her comparable- though not the same- advantages.
tl;dr i love Misa Amane
