#julysalad

[13eyond13]

Omg can you please talk about Light and Soichiro more? I'm so in love with their father-son dynamic.

I don't think Soichiro would necessarily want to kill Light like he said he would, but I think he would be deeply heart-broken. It's obvious he's proud of Light and thinks his son is so much better than Soichiro himself, so all his life his thoughts were "my boy will have a bright future ahead of him". Also, Soichiro probably knows the impact he has on Light, because I imagine it's very gratifying when your son wants to follow in your steps and pursue career in law enforcement. So, I think if Soichiro knew at some point that his son is Kira, his reaction would resemble Soichiro's reaction from DN Drama. I think his confrontation with Light is 100% canon, because Soichiro looks so hurt. I imagine, he's thinking like "Light is a brilliant boy, I made everything possible so he wouldn't feel need for anything in his life, he has a loving family and he seems to respect me so much and wants to pursue the same career as I and he's so passionate about justice — why, why would he choose to use this awful thing, why would he choose to become Kira? Is it my fault as his father? Did I do something wrong during his upbringing?" And if Light is caught I think Soichiro wouldn't pretend he rejects Light or sth, I think he would still want to understand why, and I think if there was a chance to save Light Soichiro would take it (even if it means he would never get to see Light again or sth)

I like your thoughts about it, and I think you're right in that Soichiro would be thinking a lot of things like that. I don't really remember how it was in the drama other than I remember finding Soichiro very cold and intimidating most of the time in that version of things.

I think the parts that make me think Soichiro might be harsh about it are that he also was willing to put Light through incredible scrutiny and stress during the investigation in order to prove his innocence, and to also prove that he himself was being unbiased and sticking to his own morals to the people at his work when his own family was being investigated. Light must have known that Soichiro let L put 64 hidden cameras illegally into his bedroom, for example. And that part with the fake execution was probably incredibly traumatic for them both if it's being looked at realistically. I sometimes think a lot of Light's serious behaviour in the Yotsuba arc is not only due to losing his memories, but also because he's trying to appease his father and get back into his good graces due to the fake execution being so frightening, too. Light acts almost like a carbon copy of his dad most of the time in that arc, which somewhat seems like he's trying his best to win back his father's approval or trust, just as much as it seems like he has learned almost all of his own morals and stances on things from Soichiro. I think the last thing on earth Light wanted was to fall out of his dad's favour or make his dad disappointed or angry or ashamed. And that a lot of his passion about his ideals and choice of career was because he looked up to his dad and just wanted to spend more time with him, as he was also super frustrated that his dad's work was never finished, so to speak.

Soichiro also tells Light on his deathbed that he is relieved to see with the shinigami eyes that he isn't actually an owner of the notebook after all, which means he had always had some doubt in his mind about Light's innocence the entire time. Even if Soichiro was right to always be somewhat doubtful about it, I can imagine that would still be pretty devastating to hear for Light, too.

[give-l-and-light-therapy]

For L: don't you think the world will become boring again, if you eliminate Light?

"Hello, julysalad.

You certainly have a point in saying the world will become boring if I eliminate Light. Things had always been dull before he came into my life, all the cases that I had been assigned were relatively easy to solve except for one in particular. Life was just the same routine over and over again, solving cases and then receiving new ones to solve that were not very exciting.

Once he came into my life, it began anew. The monotonous cycle of my previous life was over. I finally had something to be excited about, someone to be excited about. I finally had a case that was actually worth my time as well as a person that was actually worth my time.

It'd be a shame for all this to be over, after all, it feels as though it has only just begun. But, for the betterment of society, for the world, it must be done. Some sacrifices just need to be made, and that includes someone I might actually care about for once.

-L"

[baranedizille]

Жду ваших артов сильнее чем результатов ДВИ 😔

Я тоже!

Ладно-ладно, приятно знать, что кто-то их ждёт, спасибо 🤧

И удачи с поступлением!!

[orientalld]

Omg I really love you and your art it's amazing Can you pls draw more Hannigram arts, or one must pay for such requests?? Anyway, I wish you good luck in further drawing ;)

Thank you very much!!I take free request all the time (75% of my fanart actually) but i have too much to draw all of them, sorry!Also you can support me on Patreon coz I’ll take 3 free requests for sketches there this Sunday =)

[13eyond13]

Do you think Light's family would accept him if they learned he was gay? If so, do you have any suggestions about their reactions?

Because of the time period it's set in and because of him being in a pretty traditional and conservative home I have a feeling they'd definitely struggle with the idea of it, and I think it would completely blindside them to even consider the idea of him being gay as well. Things have thankfully come a long way on this front in pop culture and so on since the early/mid 2000s; it was pretty common for people to be openly homophobic back then, and there was barely any positive representation of gay people in the media and celebrities and so on, even in the places that were considered very progressive about gay rights (like Canada, where I am... gay marriage was only legalized here starting in 2005, and only 4 countries in the world had legalized it by then). So I think it's more likely Light would rather keep that part of himself separate and hidden from his family as long as possible, and maybe even from himself. Especially because there are such big expectations placed on him as such a high achieving and promising and ambitious and obedient son. Though I don't really see him as somebody who would be as adamantly opposed to thinking of himself as gay as he is sometimes characterized as by the fandom, I do see him as somebody who definitely thinks doing what is expected of him and fitting in with everybody else is important, even if it's not what he genuinely wants to do. He has an extremely high tolerance for just doing things to keep up appearances and get ahead rather than because he actually feels like doing them, is very good at keeping parts of himself hidden and living several different lives all at once, and he doesn't place a huge importance on things like sex and romance in the first place. So I think that Light would be much more likely to do something like stay closeted to his family than he would come out to them. I feel like both Sachiko and Soichiro would want him to be happy and hope he could feel like he could be honest with them, but they'd probably be really shocked and awkward about it at first if he did come out to them or they did find out somehow, at the very least. I think Sayu would probably be the best about it, as she's from a younger generation and seems to like it when Light loosens up and acts more comfortable with her. And I think she seems like she's not really straight herself, judging by her little crush on Misa.

[13eyond13]

So ahh, idk if you answer this kind of question, but why did Ryuk go to Earth instead of Sido?

There's a rule that Shinigami can't go to their realm if their DN is on Earth and Ryuk uses this as a reason to stay with Light most of the time, but technically he's not the owner? He's carrying his own DN on his belt. Also, for some reason Light was able to see Ryuk after touching DN and not Sido. I just can't grasp the concept behind this, every shinigami has only one DN attached to them, but if another shinigami takes it it becomes theirs in that moment?

hey, that's a good question and one that's a bit confusing for me to think about as well. I will try to think up a way this makes sense based on the rules we were given, but successor arc canon is extremely fuzzy in my mind at the moment, the eye technicalities and notebook swapping stuff are some of the things that confuse me the most in the story, and I could very well be forgetting some rules or mixing things up. I'm also just getting my list of rules to reference from a Quora answer, since I don't have my manga boxset handy (X). So please keep in mind that I haven't actually gone to dig out my manga to fact check all the rules, and I'm just kinda guessing about this stuff too.

So apparently Ryuk sneakily stole Sidoh's notebook without him noticing and then dropped it to the ground on earth, telling others that it was actually his notebook:

And there's a rule that states any notebook dropped to earth automatically becomes property of the human world now:

So maybe Ryuk stealing Sidoh's notebook and dropping it to earth is like overriding/erasing Sidoh's claim to ownership of the notebook? The human who first uses it once it lands on earth becomes the priority owner of it instead, and then the first shinigami who attaches themselves to that person becomes the notebook's death god. I think Ryuk became that notebook's shinigami since he came down to earth first and touched that notebook and introduced himself to Light.

There's also another rule that seems to indicate that it's possible for a shinigami to claim ownership of another death god's notebook by stealing it or cheating them out of it somehow, so maybe Ryuk owned it already even before Light picked it up:

This particular scenario could be similar to what happens when a shinigami dies while attached to a notebook. If a notebook has no current shinigami owner then apparently the ownership of that notebook is usually transferred to whatever god of death first touches it after that:

So maybe Ryuk stealing Sidoh's notebook and dropping it to earth means that Sidoh now owns zero notebooks, and that Ryuk owns two notebooks... the one he stole from Sidoh, and the one he always has attached to his belt. Once Light gets Rem and Ryuk to swap their notebooks this all gets very confusing to follow for me, and even more so once fake notebooks are also added into the mix. But that's the best guess I can come up with right now lol

[13eyond13]

Ryuk

I actually love Ryuk so much, but I also forget about him constantly because he plays his part as an audience surrogate just hanging out and watching and commenting on everything with us so well. He's so good at swapping back and forth between being funny and serious and scary at times, too

[13eyond13]

I still can't comprehend how Obba managed to create a character like Light, because it's really hard to describe it? I absolutely love him, and i hate him, and i love to hate him and GOD he's hilarious with his overthinking and evil laugh and grand speeches. Like, he's so over the top I can't-

I wish i knew how to create character that interesting, but i suppose it just happens?..

I knowwww, I wish I knew the secrets of it as well, he's a classic