#Matsulight

[smallsinger5901]

Matsuda still holding onto so much hatred of Near years later because of his subconscious desire to still care deeply about Light despite everything… oaughhhhh

[requinum]

I may be becoming a matsulight truther, I fear (<- went through the entire tag already)

aka please read metempsychosis by @palant1r it was my first matsulight fic but it will certainly not be my last!!!

[katzeni]

I don’t really like how this turned out but I wanna share it anyway…

[totheidiot]

there is an appeal to shipping matsulight because i just know that light would hate it if he had a crush on matsuda. he makes the realization that he is attracted to matsuda and. it makes him want to chew glass. he watches the matsuda try to pull open a door that obviously has push written on it and he wants to break something so badly. he is like. "no way i want this dumbass. somebody sedate me." and making light mad is always a valid reason to do just about anything.

[russiantapo4ek]

this handsome bastard has made older men fall in love with him

[lyfjaeiru]

Matsulight or something idk, I’m going insane /hj

[lightyagamidideverythingwrong]

same people different fonts

[mapsareforbraindeads]

“but you were fond of light, weren’t you?” my guy. ide. just call him a fag 😭

[zanypatroldelusion]

why's matsuda still a twink in his 30s

is he just exempt from twink death

the grim reaper never came for his twinkyness i guess

[fearofgodandtolkien]

I'm sure someone's thought of it before but Jesus Christ Superstar x Death Note parallels. especially with Light as a false Jesus.

"Jesus Must Die" being sung by L, Soichiro, Ide, and Aizawa. L is the only one who knows who Kira is.

"Everything's Alright" being sung by Matsuda to L. (yes this is lawtsuda propaganda).

Matsuda, Misa, and Mikami all singing "I Don't Know How To Love Him", with Misa and Mikami clearly singing about Light and it being left slightly ambiguous whether Matsuda is singing about L or Light.

"Hosanna" being the world responding positively to Kira and Caiaphas/L monologuing at the task force about the evil of Kira with Light monologuing to himself about how he's really super great and everyone outside is right.

"Pilate's Dream" sung by Soichiro, agonized over L's accusations and his trust in his son.

Light singing "Gethsemane" to Ryuk.

"Superstar" being sung as Light dies.

There are some lyrics that would need changing, obviously, and I can't figure out how to get in some of the good songs off the top of my head (or pull a lot of the characters like Naomi and the Wammy Boys :( ) but I think I got something here.

[smallsinger5901]

thinking about Matsuda in the epilogue. The manga epilogue chapter, set a year after yellowbox, where Matsuda and Ide discuss Light and Kira, even though the world’s mostly gone back to pre-Kira. And it’s clear from Ide that Matsuda’s theories around what happened on the 28th come up a lot. Matsuda thinks that Near used the notebook on Mikami, and that he fed Mello the information he needed to manipulate him into kidnapping Takada and proving the notebook as fake. And it’s so, so painfully clear that Matsuda is desperately clinging onto anything that would make Light seem more sympathetic. That all the cards were stacked against him, that Near was secretly evil and self-serving too, that maybe Light didn’t even have a choice in what happened at Yellowbox. Because, as Ide said, Matsuda cared about Light. More than the others. He’s wracked by guilt over what happened- who wouldn’t be? Matsuda’s light-hearted, optimistic personality he even managed to keep during the whole Kira case is reduced to a facade, a mask of his old self. He’s depressed. He’s angry. He’s grasping at straws to justify the past five years of his life spent devoted to and admiring a serial killer who saw him as nothing more than the dirt beneath his boot. Someone he thought he could trust. Someone he literally risked his life to protect, when he told Mello he was acting as L, so prevent Soichiro from having to expose Light’s identity as L. Kira may be evil, but Light was good, right? So Kira couldn’t be truly evil, because Light wasn’t; couldn’t be.

i’m thinking about Matsuda in the epilogue.

[katzeni]

I was watching NPMD and the song, ‘Nerdy prudes must die’ had me thinking.. what if Light came back from the dead as a vengeful spirit and started knocking everyone from the task force off musical style lmao

the scene with Richie specifically reminded me of Matsuda. Go watch NPMD if u haven’t!!!!!!! It’s on YT!!!

This was super rushed , I apologise ☠️🙏

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

get his ass, matsuda

[deathnotepolls]

best light ship that ISN’T with L?

[lyfjaeiru]

Cute smiles ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

[dicenote]

I made some art based on @palant1r's incredible fic, metempsychosis. Seriously, if you haven't read this, you should. This fic literally changed me- I don't wanna give away anything, but you absolutely ought to read it, especially if you are a fan of Matsuda and/or MatsuLight.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (this is another thing I adore from the fic, it's such a smart idea and it adds so much to the story!)

Matsuda's position and clothes look a little strange. Why do you think the artist chose to depict him in this way?

What do you think is the significance behind the objects placed around Matsuda?

Please give at least a sentence-long answer to each question and respond to two of your classmates.