#death note rambles

[gh0stbeeee]

"Death Note if Light Yagami was smart:" and then they just yap about how much they don't understand Light's character. Like yes, Light very much knows he would've won if he kept his head down. Duh. But there wouldn't have been any winning without playing with L, because he wanted to get close to L for the game of it. He enjoyed playing cat and mouse, outsmarting L under his nose. It was enrichment for him, the rush of it all was the whole reason he kept going as Kira.

[starpalzz]

genuinely my experience with watching death note was so weird. My brother texts me saying he watched death note and we should watch it when he visits from college? Cool!! We watch the first half in one day. Cool. My brother has to leave, i am firm on watching the rest of it with him. Not as cool. Life gets rough not being able to have death note with me constantly. Seeing it when i close my eyes, physically feeling thoughts of it inside my brain, unable to focus on anything else, experiencing auditory hallucinations, watching it whenever i can…not as cool. Genuinely it didn't even make me happy, just feel apathetic. If i didnt have it i would feel extremely depressed and unmotivated and honestly just kinda sad. Think that one scene from the captain underpants movie where they’re trudging into school. My brother finally visits!! Yay!!! We watch another 10 episodes before we have our whole house swap(divorced parents and all fml) spends another 5 days waiting for the other to be like “let’s watch death note!!” And thinking the other doesnt want to. Bad. Very bad. FINALLY i decide to just start watching it again with him! Yay!! BUT my chud dad decides to get tickets for zootopia 2 right as this is happening, so we need to figure out how we want to do this. Long story short i ended up watching episode 36, then zootopia 2, THEN episode 37💔✌️ and THEN i had to go to my best friends house for a sleepover 10 minutes later. I showed up with my eyes all red and puffy with my legs shaking from crying so much🙋‍♀️ 0/10 would not recommend watching it like this

[lattetona]

someone said that dn scene was just like.. presented euphemistically and light did in fact rub one out on camera for l and his father but listen. metatextually. analytically. hard disagree.

for one, dn is well known for presenting and making its audience consider every aspect of a situation pretty consistently, that's just not it's filmmaking style. but also if it rly was doing that they def could've made it.. clearer. a reaction cutaway, showing him unzipping his pants. like.. anything.

second, i might be misremembering but im pretty sure the 'suspiciously perfect' vibe of light's whole evening routine was legit one of l's reasons for continuing to suspect him lol. anyway watch the mother's basement video on the potato chip scene it's good

[gh0stbeeee]

say what you will about light yagami. But his first reaction to seeing a woman getting harassed by a man was "that guy should die." And I appreciate that.

[gh0stbeeee]

Hey. Just had a crazy fucking revelation regarding L.

I was just thinking about his obsession with sweets, and how that was such a specific character trait that it felt almost odd to me. And I've heard people discuss how that was kind of the point, that maybe sugar was a coping mechanism for L, and it was an easy energy booster for L's fucked up metabolism— and yes it does fit his character in it's particular strangeness.

I propose something that builds off of that.

The way L consumes sugar is... interesting. He eats it in a way that looks like he isn't really tasting it, at the very least just eating it for energy. L rarely gives indication that he enjoys what he's eating, even though it's all he eats. And I do believe that he enjoys sweets on some level, but much like his detective work, it's encompassed him in a way that he needs excess of it to feel even a little satiated. It's almost like an addiction.

And the way he adds sugar to coffee... that can't taste good. It's coffee soaked sugar. Yet he drinks that everyday, multiple times a day.

No matter what he thinks of it, he chokes it down.

And obviously what came to my mind was the term "sickly sweet."

You know what else is often described as sickly sweet?

The taste and smell of death— decay specifically.

I think it's so interesting, and so fitting for L's character, that one of his defining traits is the fact that he quite literally smothers himself in the taste of death, because he's so addicted to consuming it he can't stop even if it must be having serious ramifications on him. Remind you of anything else he does?

And Light's obsession with destroying the rot in the world, while L almost exclusively consumes what people say will rot your teeth and your body from the inside out... interesting. Very very interesting.

[gh0stbeeee]

I don't know if I said this on here before, but I think that the most effective punishment that Light could have ever gotten was to win and just, rule the world. Because he would have gone absolutely fucking insane, this guy hates everyone he's around all the time and he gets so bored so incredibly easily. And the way he wanted to rule was from the Shadows. Do you want to know what that means? Middle men. Probably really insufferable brown-nosing Middle Men, and a lot of them. Light's victory as Kira, god of the new world and ruler of the Earth, would have been filled with emails, phone calls, and dealing with the most inane bureaucracy the world could possibly conceive cuz I just know there would have been someone in there that just wanted to fuck everything up for him and so they would send him the most egregiously stupid paperwork to have him fill out and I think it would have been the most miserable existence and it would have been everything he deserved. I could not think of a better way to make a man reflect on himself and repent than to give Light Yagami exactly what he wanted because I don't think this guy really understands what it would have been like to be in charge of humanity in all of its chaotic glory. All that plus no L to entertain him for the rest of his life? He'd be begging for death. I'm talking grey at 30, withering into a husk. Death was too easy on him. i love him dearly but he deserved to suffer with a greek mythology level of irony

[gh0stbeeee]

Ngl I need more content of Light having fun. Y'know? Like in canon, his dry and ironic sense of humor is fantastic. He's so insane and smug and says the most out of pocket shit, he'll kill someone in cold blood then turn to ryuk like "hee hee ho ho get good loser. Wanna play Mario Golf?" And while that may be lowkey hyperbole, that is his essence. He's a little shit, doing little shit things and messing with the entire fucking world. He does the most heinous shit then talks about it so lightly as if its just Tuesday. It's like watching the joker go grocery shopping. Imagine living in the world of death note, everyone on earth is terrified of this god-like figure that started smiting people, powerless to do anything except hope that L somehow comes out on top in this battle between two faceless forces. Cut to L and Light in a café, both of them wondering in sync if they could get away with tripping eachother on the way out. But while L would do it to try and profile Light (not really he just wants to), Light does it for shits and giggles. L is just as bad tbh.

Happy birthday Light, my favorite villainous character. And a toast to lawlight, the most toxic couple to ever deserve eachother.

[gh0stbeeee]

Ugh... thinking about lawlight yuri with closeted butch Light... and femme L who only indulges behind closed doors because if she wore her preferred soft and feminine clothing in front of the task force they wouldn't respect her (so says Watari)... thinking about L noticing that Light is forcing herself to wear skirts because its Expected even though she looks longingly at her coworkers suits... thinking about Light stepping into who she really is while L is a silent support... thinking about two lesbian girl geniuses having to deal with external and internal misogyny, because patriarchal based society, while trying to be themselves... thinking thoughts... and then they make out