#and then when i rewatched DN one of my first fic ideas was related to near and lock picking lmao

[blondiest]

hello! can i ask you near & 13 (contraband?)

Hello!! Thank you so much for the ask, I love this one...!

So. I'm mainly considering Wammy's era Near here, largely because I imagine that's the time in his life when he has the most actual restrictions on the sort of thing he'd be allowed to own — as L, obviously there are still things that would be contraband, but I imagine there's little real threat given the privileges granted to L more broadly. Also, off the top of my head, I'm coming up empty for something he'd own as L that would be genuinely illegal.

For a long time, I have really, really liked the idea of Near being able to pick locks. He has so many different skills / hobbies, many of which require very good fine motor control... I can just very easily see him having taught himself to pick locks for fun. This is something I imagine he would be able to figure out from reading up on lock design or what have you in books in the Wammy's library, or by looking at early online resources for it. When he was at the orphanage, he of course didn't have the means to buy a real lock pick set, so he painstakingly made his own by bending & shaping bobby pins and paperclips and such. He would break into various off-limit rooms— not really for any particular purpose, just to see that he could do it and could get away with it. He'd re-lock the door after, and no one would ever know he'd been there. If I'm entertaining the idea of a somewhat more mischevious Near (tbh it's entertaining to imagine Near like this in general, but I especially like picturing fem!Near this way) perhaps he'd move something slightly, or maybe even steal something temporarily, only to return it a few days later.

headcanon asks for characters / ships & their possessions ❣️

[stvlti]

For 002, Ritsu and Misa

send me a ship, a character, or a list of 5 characters

002 | RITSU

How I feel about this character

hmm, gotta be honest, it’s been a while since i last read an MP100 manga update, so these thoughts aren’t gonna be reflective of how i might feel about his current characterisation in the manga. regardless, regardless… here goes. 

let’s just say that i never particularly liked him when i watched the anime adaptation. the big cleanup arc lost a bit of its nuances when it was translated to the screen, so at first all i thought was wow, Ritsu’s actually a little bit of an ass and a pushover. but then i read the manga, and then rewatched the anime, and suddenly it clicked. he’s not aloof because he’s an asshole, and he doesn’t make friends easily because he’s a private person that can’t trust people with his emotions, like the other side of the coin that makes Mob an emotionally-repressed person, but because of the childhood traumatic experience he has with Mob. and just, generally growing up with a sibling that’s by all accounts mentally ill in a sense. i can’t relate to the specific circumstances he’s in because i’m an only child, and my parents aren’t mentally ill or inadvertently abusive, but the bit about not wanting others to know your true emotions is kinda what i’ve been doing for the better part of the last 5 years… 

and then, the whole thing about being the kind of model student you are simply because that’s what others have expected you to be, that’s also A Mood. i kinda gave up the ghost after high school but the funny thing is i was a prefect at some point, and even though i was progressively swearing more and more like a sailor behind closed doors, and i was growing more and more restless about certain institutional traditions, i still put on an act for the disciplinary teachers because i’m a girl, i get scholarships every year, and that’s expected of me if i want to keep being perceived as such, lol. (well, not wanting to disappoint my parents is another major factor, but that’s why i never said ritsu was a 100% relatable character, just one that is relatable enough for me to project a bit onto haha.)

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

i don’t, really? i mean, Riteru (Ritsu/Teru) is an interesting dynamic to explore in fanfics and headcanons, but they’ve pretty much never interacted in canon lol. so it’s not exactly OTP material for me. (i also don’t really get Ritshou tbh, i don’t think their interactions have been given as much depth as Teru and Mob’s, so i don’t actually ship Ritshou.)

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

hmm i don’t think i have any BROTPs for him. next question.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

well i already said what i said in q1. i used to think he’s a bit of an ass haha. still do actually, i think he’s kinda classist in the way he thinks he can just kick delinquents and other less fortunate members of society to the curb? hmm idk, this boy makes me conflicted.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

well i saw a comic circulating here where basically he talks it out with Mob and they expressedly forgive each other for the things that’s happened in the past, and i’d like that in canon.

my OTP:

isn’t this kinda a redundant ques? refer to “all the people i ship romantically with this character”. i.e. i don’t have an OTP for him.

my cross over ship:

??? none

a headcanon fact:

i like the one where he keeps a spoon on him at all times. wait, that’s canon, right? then idk. (i mean, i had an hc at some point about how Shou actually keeps a cactus named Ritsu, but that would be a Shou hc, not Ritsu hc, hhhh)

002 | MISA

How I feel about this character

well, i’ve only written several meta about this girl, whatever would make you think i have opinions about her /s

well, just to sum it all up briefly, like most casuals i started out finding her character a bit meh. not very well-written and pretty misogynistic in design (as in, she is clearly moulded after a terrible stereotype and the fact that she is the one fem chara with the most screentime in Death Note. OHBA SHOULD BE ASHAMED). but well, shortly after i finished DN the anime, i recalled the things i learned in my Feminism literary theory unit earlier that academic year, and i wrote this meta; and although i didn’t necessarily agree with these potential interpretations just yet, i could start to understand that she is much more than your average kawaii yandere. 

later that year i started a module called Transnational Feminisms, which not only dismantled the idea that there is only one way of being a feminist / writing feminist characters, it also helped me understand i shouldn’t even limit myself to reading her character from Western feminist values (so, beyond De Beauvoir, Sedgwick, and Judith Butler). i should consider, obviously, the cultural contexts of gender expectations in Japan, etc. i have yet to write an actual post about this but yeah, i do have some follow-up thoughts to that feminist meta i wrote, and the long and short of it is that, considering the social context she is honestly a character with a subtle, subversive potential that Ohba probably didn’t even recognise.

(doesn’t mean i agree with canon’s treatment and portrayal of mental health issues when it comes to Misa though. Ohba can choke on his poorly researched and unqualified understanding of trauma.)

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

NOT LIGHT YAGAMI. people i think that Misa deserve: Rem, and Sayu. probably others as well, but Rem and Sayu are the only ones i can conceive of who canonically do / will care about Misa on a personal level.

(but honestly tho Sayu is pretty gay for Misa in the TV Drama)

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

hmm. her friendship with Mogi i guess.

(it’s not necessarily an OTP tho since i don’t have much feelings about their dynamic, but he’s good for her.)

My unpopular opinion about this character:

well, even though she’s a unique and subtly complex character, she still has issues. she was manipulative towards Light, there’s no question about that. in a twisted way i don’t think that, as long as Misa upholds her canon beliefs and attitude about love, she will find a partner in anyone other than an emotionally-distant and manipulative (in a different way) asshole like Light. i think a lesser partner would have caved to her every whim and demand. (that’s why actually, even though i think she deserves somebody that will love her back, i do not wish to actually make Misa/Sayu canon. Sayu deserves a healthy relationship.) 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

well, depends which canon we’re talking about here. as i have mentioned time and time again, @casuistor and @mikami both wrote an analysis on how, unlike manga!Misa, anime!Misa is actually more cognizant of the one-sided nature of her relationship with Light. so if we’re talking solely about anime canon, then i do wish she’d have seen that Light is not worth her time!! and get Rem out of the “friendzone” before she dies for nothing, please.

my OTP:

Remisa, duh.

my cross over ship:

none. (i rarely get ideas for crossover ships tbh, so unless there’s a well-written fic that can convince me of the dynamic of a particular crossover ship, i’ll just stick to my high school concepts of Wayfire and Howellight… hmm yeah very subtle about your own history in the RPF community Eugenia)