Death Note and Platinum End
Hiya~
I just read the first volume of Platinum End, and I was struck with how different the protagonists of Death Note and Platinum End were. But the similarities also gave me pause that I just had to talk about it!
Platinum End are made by the same people who made Death Note by the way so~
I'll only be using the first two chapters of both manga at the most as references. I don't want you guys to get spoiled after all~
Heck, by the end of this, the protagonist of Platinum End might make an appearance in my DN fic since he grabbed my attention so easily.
~~~SPOILERS AHEAD OF FIRST TWO CHAPTERS!!~~~
Meet Mirai Kakehashi. A boy burdened with years of abuse from his aunt and uncle that he decided he wanted to die.
An angel, as you can see, stops him from dying and offers him power that basically make him GOD. Anyone would love to have wings right? Wings are the key to freedom. *nudge*nudge*to DN fans who know who wanted wings*
Not only wings, the power to make someone fall in love with you in a period of time. That can make Mirai want to live now right?
WRONG.
He can care less about BOTH of these powers, he just wants to die. That's all. He's happy to die and that's that. His life has been horrible, and at the chance of flying away from his problems or trying to find love, he doesn't take it.
Those two things won't help him be happy.
DYING WOULD.
Everything about living, he does not find pleasure in it. His whole life has been pain, constantly. He doesn't care about these powers, nor does he care that he's an actual SMART kid for a middle schooler.
Despite that, he says there's no hope for him. No future.
It's just so interesting...understandable but interesting.
"Humans are so interesting."-Ryuk
Despite his initial refusal, he said yes as a joke to probably make the angel stop joking and go away, only to actually get BOTH of the powers instead of just one of them.
Later, he finds out the truth about his aunt and uncle's wicked ways by using the Arrow Of Love, the one that makes a person fall in love with you and willing to do anything for you. He accidentally wishes the aunt to die and his reaction-
Pure HORROR. Which makes sense of course*waves hands carelessly* ANYBODY would be horrified that they just commanded someone to die, while seeing it happen in front of them no less.
He feels disgusted with himself as well as the angel that she's taking it all in stride with a smile. Saying his aunt deserved it and she should kill his uncle too.
Mirai didn't like it, he was bewildered that an angel would speak of death so casually and that she seems to WANT him to kill, under the farce that the angel just wants him to be happy.
Mirai though, does not wish to be happy by using his powers. He wants NORMAL happiness, not happiness that he has to get by killing and lying and using others with the Arrow of Love.
He still states this after the angel says he's one of 13 people able to become GOD. He has the power to become the New God of the World by competing with the others, and he doesn't WANT IT.
He does not wish to compete at all to become the New God, he just wishes to be happy. He even states repeatedly for the angel to take back the powers, not interested in having them.
He got chosen apparently BECAUSE of his lack of happiness and hopelessness. CHOSEN. SPECIFICALLY.
Because he was unhappy. Like...what?
While the other candidates probably got chosen because they wanted to change the world or something since that's also a viable option to become God.
Despite this, it seems he's going to try to leave peacefully until the other candidates decide to speed things up...and doing their own wicked dark ways to become God.
Even if Mirai wishes simply to be 'happy', to live, he's going to have to use that smart brain of his to stay alive.
But that's just a theory~ Next post will be my observations about Light~ ^.^