Light only ever being his true self with Ryuk... Light lying to everyone except Ryuk.... Light pushing away Ryuk subconciously or not when he lets the taskforce see Ryuk... Light willfully ignoring how it's hurting both of them... Ryuk seeing his lover human falling to madness and killing him in an act of mercy a selfish act of his boredom... Ryuk mourning Light for the rest of time.... Ryuk chasing after Light by in other people... oughghgh...
EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY!!!!!!! SCREECHES
God this is such a wonderful fucking ask I gotta turn off my music to answer this with my full attention I swear to God thank you anon you GET it
Light lying to everyone except Ryuk Light lying to everyone except Ryuk!! And listen there was no mask to even be peeled away here like tbf part of the joy of lawlight is that L does manage to peel away at least some of the mask layer by layer but like. He dies before he gets through all of it. But Ryuk saw like barely a flicker of it in the very first episode and then after that the only ONLY times Light lied to Ryuk was when by proxy he was lying to himself - and even then, his self-lies are so ass backwards and convoluted and contradictory and even ridiculous that it is so, so easy to see through them if you have even the slightest idea of how to be looking. That mask was never even there for Ryuk. Was it because he can't be killed and so therefore did not have the same weaknesses turned pitfalls that L was subject to? Not even. Perhaps this immunity would have helped L in reaching his final goal, but Ryuk never needed extra time to get around the roadblocks, because they weren't even there for him!! Light never hid from Ryuk FUCK
And and - no wait anon listen to this shit - and Light fucking trusted Ryuk dude. No listen that shit is so important to me. In this fucking anime of mind games upon mind games upon back up plans upon mind games, if Ryuk told Light something, Light believed him immediately and that fucking grabs me by the throat ok.
That's the only thing I even have to add off the top of my head anon because you fucking nailed it this exactly!!!! You fucking get it!!!!! And oh my fucking god I never thought of it as an act of mercy before how fucking dare you my heart-
















