“Light was a good (maybe even average) boy who got corrupted by the Death Note”, and the person saying this fell right into his trap, somehow worse than the Task Force. EVEN IN THE MANGA: a) he thought that the world was "rotten" before he got the Death Note; b) he considered killing his classmate to test whether the Death Note is actually real; c) he was scared of his first conscious kills for less than two minutes; d) he killed 200+ people in his first 5 days of having the Death Note, before Ryuk introduced himself to Light. [MANGA PANELS BELOW]
All in the first chapter. Even with "I've had nightmares and lost weight" - but they did not influence his thoughts and choices.
"Maybe he had some kind of a psychotic break" - and there are plenty of mentally ill, heavily spiritual, young killers in the world who kill someone, get psychosis, and don't proceed to kill hundreds of people.
Even going to ignore how, in the Yotsuba arc, he thinks of how his morals are extremely similar Kira's, only he wonders whether he would become the murderer to act on them.
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1 - Light before finding the DN.
"This world is a rotten mess..."
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2, 3 - Light after writing in the DN for the first time and before believing that it might be real, considering killing his bully classmate to test it.
"Somebody... It would be okay to kill. No, who ought to die."
"Sudou. Try killing him? No, I should avoid anybody I actually know... Am I being too careful...? A guy like that, nobody's even going to notice..."
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4, 5 - Light being scared of having killed people for less than two minutes after killing them.
"I... I've killed two people... I've... killed... two people... Me... What do I do... Get... rid of this evil thing. ... No..."
"I was actually doing a service, killing him... But what about the second guy...? That wasn't worth the death penalty, what he did... No, wait... This is what I've been thinking all along--"
"This world is a rotten mess. It really needs to be cleaned up. I... With this notebook, I can actually do it...."
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6, 7 - Light deciding that he should be killing people because he is "the only one who could do it".
"Do I have the guts...? Just two, and look at me... Well, it's only natural. They are human lives... Of course it isn't easy. Can I take it? Maybe not. But.... Come on, I can't quit. So I lose my peace of mind. So I sacrifice people's lives... Somebody has to do this!! The world needs to be cleaned up."
"Just suppose I gave this notebook to someone else, could they do it? Nobody would have the guts. But I do... I could do it... Not just that... I'm the only one who could do it. So I'll do it!!"
"I'm using the Death Note... to change the world."
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8-9 - Light having written at least ~240+ names in the first ~5 days after finding DN, before Ryuk even appears. Yes, Light was expecting Ryuk to "take his soul or something". But it sure did not mean he had to go on a killing spree.
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