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something something light writing multiple possible spellings of his second victim’s name in the death note because he only heard it being spoken and doesn’t know what characters it is written with and not getting it right within his first four tries this time rendering the death note useless and thinking the first heart attack was just a freaky coincidence
i was on a "thinking about ryuk" kick earlier and. i get the appeal of saying he's the only one who sees light in his entirety — it makes perfect sense, he's the one who light monologues to about his grand plans, he's the one who light stays with practically 24/7 for five years — but i don't think it's completely true?
ryuk to me has this tendency to assume that light is straightforwardly malicious (see: he thinks light was lying when light says he'll avenge his father if soichiro ever gets killed by kira, he doesn't really get why light wants to do things like reveal his location to L until light explains he wants to eliminate L entirely, he takes the "i wish i had wings" thing seriously as though it's supposed to be part of light's Master Plan instead of a little quirk that light was clearly feeling vulnerable about, he's surprised when light isn't willing to kill sayu in the second arc). like there's real fondness for light in there as well, he congratulates light for getting into college for instance, but i don't really feel like ryuk has ever. understood him fully. he's trying, he gets better at it over time, but he does have a bias.
and i think, also, that this is because ryuk has another tendency to assume that light is just like him.
which makes sense, because light is the one who offers up "i was bored, too" as a genuine point of commonality between them. and then ryuk jumps to "you know, you'd make a really good shinigami!" and "hey light do you want the eyes" and then at the end "we eased each other's boredom for quite a while." he does notice when light is acting weird and tries to adjust his viewpoint (he goes ! when light starts doing his "i've never been so humiliated in my whole life" thing) but given that he only figures out light genuinely cares for his sister when he refuses to sacrifice her, after five years of watching this whole family dynamic, i don't think he ever actually gets there.
which is. sad. it's really goddamn sad. you know you're really fucked when even the demon haunting you can't figure you out
i just remembered that before i watched death note for the first time, i was under the impression that l and light were the same character. i thought light turned into l when he used the death note and was then called dark yagami.
Little Things About Light Yagami That I Love
He almost always leans on his hand while sitting.
He isn’t quite fond of guns.
This is anime-only, but he likes walking around with his eyes closed.
Despite how the fandom seems to believe he’s ambidextrous, I think he’s right-handed. He wears his watch on his left arm and uses his right hand to write when he has both of his hands available. Him being able to use his other hand when necessary does not make him ambidextrous.
He’s rather quiet. He doesn’t engage in conversation a lot.
He likes video games.
His room is usually dim-lit.
He uses the subway to go to To-Oh.
He has his own stupid little tv in his room.
L calls Light “homocidal” and Light’s like “it’s spelled homicidal” and L just stares.
whenever someone calls light yagami a psychopath i start frothing at the mouth.
Best things about Light Yagami:
He once ate a piece of a notebook that can kill people to destroy evidence.
He plays Mario Kart with a god of death.
He gets to his entrance exams (which will pretty much define his future) 10 mins before the test because *he hates waiting*.
He basically built a bomb inside his desk and decided he could get away with it saying he didn't want people to read his diary.
This scene.
L everytime Light sees him:
Lind L. Tailor: I consider this the most atrocius act of murder in history.
Light: ...
Lind L. Tailor: You did not slayyy
Light: *kills Tailor*
Death Note Arc's Out of Context
L arc:
Misa arc:
Yotsuba arc:
Mello arc:
Mikami arc:
Near arc:
“Light only won against L because he had two shinigami on his side”
Meanwhile those two shinigami in question:
Rem: I hate you, btw do anything I don’t want you to do and I’ll kill you, btw go get Misa out of jail somehow even though there’s physical evidence against her or I’ll kill you, btw if your plan takes too long I’ll kill you.
Ryuk: apel
Mello: A shinigami was scared of me.
Misa: Huh? Two shinigamis died for me.
Light: And? A shinigami played Mario Kart with me.