#(Can you tell we have a degree in German literature and are very much injecting small details of things we learned into our blorbo here?)

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20 and 24 for the ask game pls 🙏

Thank you for asking! :3

20- did Light deserve to die at the end?

Interesting question to answer, because we in the system apparently can't agree on this. I (🏹) am the one answering this ask, however, and my opinion is that he did not. Elaboration on my thought process:

If allowed to be tried through official channels / the regular justice system, Light would almost certainly have faced the death penalty, which I think would not have been "deserved", because I am not in favour of giving any government body any power over life and death to begin with. A step further, I don't know exactly how one would go about rehabilitating him if one didn't want to go the "simply keep him imprisoned and isolated from society at large" route, but I suspect making him safe for the average person to be around would be as easy as taking the Death Note away from him (he never tried to kill anyone using any other weapons, even at the very end; he's not the hands-on murder type, and clearly has a moral code of some sort / does not kill completely at random). Hardly a "this man needs to be executed for the common good" situation.

Light's death was effectively Ryûk's decision, made because "Light got boring" (and if not killed, would have simply languished in prison forever or been death penaltied anyway), which I think is a shit reason to kill anybody -- even accounting for the fact that Ryûk is a shinigami with moral standards inapplicable to human beings. It wasn't even a mercy killing, Light didn't want to die. Not deserved in that sense either.

However: I will acknowledge that Light dying was the most narratively satisfying way for Death Note to end, and other guys in here are absolutely cheering for the answer to be "yes he deserved it so much!! Then Perish!!", so... make of this what you will.

24- any headcannons you want to share?

immediately forgets every headcanon we've ever held about anybody in Death Note, oh no

Most of the headcanons I can think of right now come from a very specific crackfic AU we have with our best friend @xenomorphvevo, and are perhaps too crack-y and in-jokey to be transposable to non-lolrandomxD Death Note (such as Near's favourite Bionicle being named Johannes Mikael Hoffnung more about that in the tags)...

but! In one of our current WIPs Near is very skilled with lucid dreaming for plot purposes, and I think that would make sense outside of said WIP too. Like, he strikes me as the type to experiment with his own mind, why not with his dreams? And he would likely get really good at it over the years.

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