@phayse// uncommon character questions // accepting
9: Does your character dream or are their nights filled with an empty blackness? Describe a dream they’ve had or a night they couldn’t sleep and what they did to preoccupy their time.
before becoming finding the death note , light had basically normal dreams - things like flying or falling or forgetting to put on clothes before going to school . he rarely had dreamless nights , unless he was overly tired ( like if he pulled an all - nighter helping the police with a case &. still had to finish his work for &. go to school in the morning . )
after finding the death note , however , his dreams took a dark turn . the more he killed , the worse they got . before L ‘ s death , most were of himself as a god seated on a throne of human skulls , millions of faceless people coming to kneel at his feet . these were his favorite dreams &. often left him with a crooked sort of smile as he slept .
during the yotsuba arc , light started having dreams of himself as a monstrous version of kira armed with a scythe instead of a pen , swooping from the sky to steal the souls of those deemed sinners . while these were rare , they left him uneasy upon waking . because there was no way to prove that he was not once kira .
however , as things stopped going his way , the dreams worsened . the faceless people started climbing his throne with their broken , bloody fingers &. clawing at his clothes &. his skin to draw him down to their own level of hell . even worse still , he started to dream of a shinigami - esque monster looking over his shoulder , scythe in one hand , note in the other waiting for the day he could have light ‘ s own life . surprisingly , this dream monster did not resemble ryuk . it looked more like a grotesque version of L with over - sized eyes &. lips &. a tongue that lolled from the creature ‘ s mouth . in his worst nightmares , the creature devoured him alive .
on nights when light cannot sleep , he often practices meditation or performs some meaningless task like cleaning until he gets over whatever thought was keeping him awake . when he is handcuffed to L , he either collapses from exhaustion or imagines patterns in the ceiling paint until sleep takes him .
28: Are they afraid of death? Do they have any regrets?
light does fear death , though not out of some belief in a higher power or a realm of hell . he is afraid of not existing , of being forgotten . he is afraid of vanishing into the unknown , and what that will mean for him .