#aromantic misa

[eternal-cupido]

(Mostly) Silly General Death Note HCs 

Light Yagami 

Actually the most pretentious little shit 

He was def the most out of pocket kid when he was younger 

Either listens to classical or white girl pop, no in between 

somewhere on the aroace spectrum  

Had a not-like-other-girls/teenagers type phase that he never left

scared of little dogs

No way he's neurotypical 

Hyper-fixated on something super specific like Flight MA-370 or rigor mortis

HEAVYYYY on the Spoiled rich kid + Gifted kid burnout combo

paces around his room and gives his secret plushie stash monologues

L Lawliet

Also neurodivergent 

Vocaloid listener 

might be queer in some form but had never seen the point in labeling it

great with animals just can't have them because of how often he moves for cases

Only actual food he likes is butter noodles 

So over caffeinated it's actually concerning 

Has/Had Mental Health Issues 

Not as socially anxious as I've seen some of y'all write him as 

He just doesn't give a shit about social norms

Misa Amane 

Didn't actually fall in love with light, only her idea of him

She ended up being super disappointed when she actually met him. 

Our fav alt-girlie

It was like a "never meet your idols" situation 

Has to have at least severe trauma or maybe even PTSD from the killing of her parents. Which definitely played a part in her whole character arc.

Will outlive almost everyone because of the Shinigami that saved her (I refuse to accept cannon)

Listens to bands like Sleep Token, Dayseeker, and Paramore 

Has a pet cat she treats like her child 

[couldaromanticismsavethem]

MISA AMANE FROM DEATH NOTE

Justification: “i mean come on [gestures]

okay to be actually serious her whole thing is that shes massively in love with a serial killer (it's okay she's also a serial killer) but she never actually seems attracted to him she's just misinterpreted her gratefulness about him saving her into romantic attraction. which is The Most Beautiful Thing In The World to her. she would literally rather die than lose the perfect ideal of romance that she made up in her head. i need to introduce her to avenwiki and watch her have a mental breakdown.”

“She needs to stop being so into Light because he sees her as disposable and doesn't like her but she is soooo heads over heels for him. If she's aromantic then she wouldn't be so blinded by love.”

[panspy]

i know light yagami would love reddit

[chemicalarospec]

Death Note has great potential for a Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge/Demolition Lovers AU in its themes but not in characters: Light Yagami's aromantic af and would never care enough about someone to do anything for them. Maybe, though... an AU with a twist: the Devil and the dead Lover in one in Light -- Misa kills for him and then he abandons her because he only wanted those 1000 evil men gone. But I do think Light becoming the 1000th evil man from all the killing and realizing that would be an epic moment. Maybe there's no Lovers, it's just Light making a deal with the Devil to keep himself alive and then he has to die anyways. Yeah, that would go off.

I have to stop making MCR AUs for everything I like.... Actually no I don't; this is good for society.

[buffporcupine]

death note headcanons

because i know my death note mutuals aren’t getting what they wanted from me

light

-can crack his elbows the way one would crack their knuckles

-probably had to do a musical elective in his first year of middle school and chose guitar cause he thought it would be easy but it wasn’t.

-the type of song he really enjoys is very specific. going to hell yet i tried so so hard to please god song. i missed my only chance song. why wasn’t i like the other kids song. thrones playlist. i could elaborate but i won’t

-as for sexuality, i see him as not wanting to put a label on whatever he is in theory but in practice being some type of bispec (probably berriromantic) for romantic attraction and then somewhere on the asexual spectrum for sexual attraction.

-as for gender i see him as agender whose not really in labeling himself as anything when it comes to sexuality and gender.

-agender but probably 100% fine with being super male presenting. he just wants to keep out of gender as a convo and that’s great. good for him

-no!!!!! i refuse to say this mf is aromantic (because it’s not accurate and it’d be an insult to aromantic people to say he’s aro)!!!!!

-just because he manipulated misa and kiyomi into doing his bidding and didn’t love them doesn’t immediately make him aro. i’m sure he could have found someone if he wanted to, and he could have loved them if he was with them to love them, but he wasn’t with them to love them he was with them to use them.

misa

-half belgian half japanese. her parents met in belgium while her father was on vacation.

-also im torn bcos i wanna write an au where misa is mexican and that’s it everything else is the same as canon but i’m pretty sure that’s just me wanting her to be even more Like Me (tm)

-speaks a little bit of english, way more french, and obvi japanese. finds linguistics interesting but doesn’t have enough time to research it that thoroughly

-likes being short and “small” small girl aesthetic i guess but sometimes wishes she had longer legs so she could wear skirts w/o looking silly and short

-panromantic does not see gender at all when becoming attracted to someone. i see her as def on the ace spectrum, maybe something like demisexual or aegosexual. could be me projecting dunno.

-she’s probably dated both girls and boys before

-would NOT break up with someone in a rude way or just dump them. she’d put a lot of effort into an apology and explanation into why.

-if she met miu iruma they’d be best friends. sorry i bring danganronpa into everything guys

-can we please just appeciate mexican misa for a second. she’s cooking sopa de fideo for the task and being the bilingual hot girl we all needed

-mexican misa

-as for her music taste she probably listens to upbeat english language music and sappy love songs. “there is a light that never goes out” and “melt with you” sound like go-tos for her sorry. i could also see her being a bimbo pop ayesha + britney manson girlie though

-tbh whatever your race/ethnicity is you could project it onto misa and it’d work. i love it. anyway d d d d d d d did i say m m m mexican misa

-i think she’d love love love getting her hair done!!! sensitive scalp mf but she’d still love getting her hair done

-mexican misa visiting mexico and getting braids and cute clothes and her fave candy

-was not a theatre kid. sorry guys but her middle and high school didn’t offer theatre 😔😔

lawliet

-chronically dehydrated just because he forgets to drink water. he tries to drink water and always gets afraid of developing kidney / liver problems but he just keeps forgetting. what the fuck L

-soup stan i think he’d love some good soup. soup stan x soup cooker (lawmane)

-i think you could have a really deep convo about anything with L. if you’re passionate about anything he’ll just listen and he’ll talk to you about what he’s passionate about to. he loves to think and would def entertain you with a convo about whether a hot dog is a sandwich or something dumb like that you know.

-he’s a thinker he just loves discussions

-has a british accent when speaking english bcos watari and lived in england you know. he thinks british accents in english sound good tho and LOVES making fun of how silly new york accents are (me too bro. me too)

-if he went to middle school or the japanese/british equivalent of it, he’d def be the type to choose some weird ass elective fucking creative writing instead of the “normal” guitar, choir, band, orchestra and shit

[lgbtheadcanonpoll]

[princessuncertain]

Light Yagami (Yagami Raito)

Tokyo February 28 1986 - January 28 2010 Yokohama

Japanese

He/him

ESFJ

Aromantic asexual

Engaged to Misa Amane, engaged to Kiyomi Takada prior to her death

Police officer, detective, vigilante, cult leader, mass murderer.

"Where are you, Misa? Where's Takada? Someone... What do I do now...?"

Charged with-

First degree/assisting first degree murder (x200,000)

Second degree murder (x2)

Third degree murder (×2)

Deceiving authorities

Arson

Doxxing

Distributing unlicensed weapons

Neurotypical, but held a God complex and extreme perfectionism.

His mother, Sachiko, described him as a wonderful boy and Kira a cursed monster for taking him from her.

Twelve people attended his funeral.

[randomanimehoe]

HELLO!! So if you’re up for it, I was wondering if you wanted to share some of your DN head canons? It’s cool if you don’t want to, but if you do then I’d love to hear them!! Ever since watching the show in January, I’ve taken more of a silent interest in the show up until a friend of mine started talking about it again and now my interest has become public 😂

Death note head cannons 

Absofrickenlutely! Thank you so much for requesting! Enjoy the Death Note headcannons! (Sorry if it’s. Bit short or OOC, I haven’t had practice writing for this  fandom yet) 

-Light Yagami’s favorite potato chip flavor is salt and vinegar but he ate classic potatoes chips during that one episode to further throw off L. 

-Misa is actually a lot smarter than the fandom Govea her credit for and was well aware of the fact that she was manipulating Rem the whole time. (She never felt bad about it)

-Rem partially wishes she never met Misa due to the constant threat that light pressed on not only Misa but her as well. Rem was mainly afraid for herself in the beginning since we know that Shinigami are afraid to die.

-Towards the end of the show, Ryuk wasn’t having as much fun as he did at the start. He thought that Light was insane and the thrill was sort of gone after L’s death.

-L is asexual but not aromantic and has trouble distinguishing platonic for romantic feelings. 

-Miss introduced Rem to Sanrio. To everyone’s surprise Rem actually liked it. Her favorite character is Kuromi.

-Light is the definition of a homophobic homosexual. (That’s just a fact)

[starrystarryknights]

Headcanons: sexuality

Misa is a lesbian but she is trapped in comphet. Her obsession with Light has real attraction within it but she doesn't love him on a physical or mental level.

Light is bi but if he wasn't a horrible person he'd probably identify as gay more than anything, since he leans masc. He's asexual but not aromantic. Gay republican Light!

L is, get this, bi as well. He shares attraction to both men and women equally, but for him personally, it's hard for him to be attracted to anyone.

Drop a question in my ask if you want more headcanons by me on a specific subject

[1800naveen]

Anyone got any Illyrian or Hewn city ocs?

I got one for each and I'm giving them angst all around (I mean, have you seen where they were born?) LOVE ANGST

Isolde:

Illyrian female

She's 90 years old

She fights to make Illyria a better place but no one takes her seriously

Got her wings clipped at 18 and later on ripped them off because there's no point in keeping them, had a nasty scar on her back.

She ended up giving up on this dream of hers and Illyria, moving to the spring court

She lives in a cave that she designed to her liking (get it?)

She has good parents who do their best to protect her. (might have to give them names later)

Hates Rhysand for not helping the women that suffer at the hands of men, leaving them to be crippled and used as broodmares.

Just like many Illyrians, she doesn't accept Rhysand as her high lord. Not the biggest fan of Feyre either. (Feyre using Illyrian wings even though she's aware the women get clipped: ☺️)

After her first week in the spring court, she asked Tamlin if he could possibly heal her back of her wounds where she tore off her wings and possibly grow her wings back when she found out of his healing and shapeshifting powers.

He does actually heal her wounds but for the wings part, he accidentally gave her dragon wings. Also the ability to shapeshift into a dragon. He was going to change it but Isolde stopped him. That was the moment when she accepted Tamlin as her high lord.

Personality wise, she's chilling most of the time and keeps to herself by resting in her cave.

She plans on getting her revenge for what happened to her and other Illyrian women (she may or may not slowly go mad with vengeance clouding her judgement)

Tamlin doesn't want her going back to Illyria in fear that she'll carry out her revenge plan.

What is her revenge plan? I don't know, can't think of something. But know that most of Illyria won't be safe (gonna turn her into a war criminal)

She's for the ladies.

Yara Nisa-Mortimer

Yara- small butterfly or lady of the waters (for this, it means lady of the waters). Nisa- has a few meanings but one of them is night. Mortimer- dead sea.

118 years old.

Was born in Hewn City as an only child to her parents, Nila Misa and Carys Mortimer. They're good people (I know, shocking)

Has great swordsmanship, great with knives and daggers, and spying. When you live in Hewn city, you need to know a few things in order to survive.

When she was 20, Rhysand came to pay a visit and while he was busy, she successfully snuck out of Hewn city, now free.

She also found out about the existence of Velaris and everything that goes on there. She was not happy at all.

Took her a week to reach the spring court as she would spend a day in each court for rest and food. By the time she made it, she looked like hell.

She didn't have enough strength and passed out but luckily, Tamlin was nearby and took her in.

She lives in a black cottage. She also chills in rivers or lakes in her "mermaid" form.

Aromantic asexual because the way men treated women down there terrified her and considering how women can get sold off, that was the deal breaker.

Here's how I imagined them since I can't draw for shit! Found the pictures all on Pinterest.

Yara:

dark sea nymph vibesss. THIS ART IS SO PRETTY (couldn't find credits for it)!

Isolde:

Yuhh. (The watermark I think is near the cloak on the right side but I can't make it out.)

[informl-onthings]

OKAY last ooc question for now but do you have any tips for like acting as Light? I know this is an L blog but you are a genius and I trust your intuition cause you're doing so well at playing L! I'm planning on making a Light blog purely because death note is a current obsession and even though I hate him lovingly I would love to play as him too but I need TIPS cause this bastard has too many facades and stuff >:( - Misa (I promise I only get more annoying from here on/hj)

OOC: DON'T WORRY ABOUT BEING A BOTHER! I'm very talkative when stuff I'm into is talked about, so send an ask whenever!

I'm no genius but thank you so much for the compliments! I don't have much experience playing these characters but their psyche and reactions are so interesting that I can't help but go mental over them; none of these goofs can be labeled as one-dimensional because, although they do stem from character archetypes, each one brings something new to it, without being a copypaste of the genre. My relationship with Light is very similar to yours lol, I hate him but he's such a great character that I appreciate his complexity.

Therefore I can't guarantee that I'm the best person to ask for this, but here are my thoughts anyway!

Light's character keeps the 'model student' trait up until the second half of the show, it's an asset that is extremely useful to him as both a cover and advantage in terms of gaining trust/information easily; this doesn't get to his head unlike the DN, despite how many times he uses it, it's all that it is to him, a title. He weaponizes it but doesn't view it as an achievement, it's more like a standard that he has to live up to; a "normal" person would jump of joy or at least be happy to be the number one student nationwide, to be praised no matter where they go, but he doesn't care, ergo: he's not a bragger. Sure, he utilizes his high intelligence to get his way, acknowledges his superiority to others in intellect, but he never outworldly brags about, he rejects it. On the outside he is moderately humble and denies/gently pushes away the flattery he's given, even though he knows it's true; the same goes for women, he knows he's popular and uses that, the only time he's proud of it is when he's talking to Ryuk about, which sounds like explaining attraction to an aromantic or science to a philosopher.

One common misconception that has been floating around for decades about his character is his personality pre-death note, which I am very against; the statement that Light without the Death Note would have been a wonderful guy who’s modest and kind is so fundamentally wrong that it’s jarring to me. It’s so reflective of the treatment of serial killers in real life that I can’t not mention it; if the person who committed the crime was “good” or performed good actions, then something turned them into a monster or drove them to do whatever crime they did. While they can be conditioned/solicited by outside sources, saying it happened out of the blue is erroneous; I can understand why people would think that, even more so if they were someone they trusted or saw in a good light, because believing otherwise would crush them. No one does things that major without reason, yes they can be pushed to do it, but the intent is there, it has been, it doesn’t appear out of thin air, take this as an example; when you cry while laughing, it’s because you laughed too hard, when you unintentionally leave the light on it’s because you forgot about it, when you miscalculated it’s because you weren’t paying attention to your calculations etc…

How does this have anything to do with Light? People seem to believe that he’s ‘innocent’ or wouldn’t have become a mass murder if he hadn’t found the note; this is mainly the Yotsuba Arc’s fault, which led to misinterpretations of his character, it’s true that Light feels horror at the sight of these killings because of the sheer brutality, but he’s not completely against them either. In that same scene, Light is contemplating if he could really fit the profile of a merciless serial killer, subsequently reiterating his possible motive for doing something so cruel; eradicating evil. He admits that and we hear it, yet his innocuous behavior is the only aspect the fandom highlights, not his self awareness or the re-affirmation of his established morals. This conveys the message that it’s all the DN’s doing, and while all of this mess wouldn’t have happened without it, it’s wrong to say that it’s the root of all evil when it’s not. The DN served as a catalyst for Light’s nihilistic morality to be enacted, exteriorized, the switch that flipped his passive worldview into an active one; Lighr saw the world as rotten long before he picks up the notebook, the world has always been full of weeds that need to be removed to him, the DN was just his means to do it, the apple for Eve, if you’re looking for a religious metaphor.

Another thing is how he interacts with people. The obvious thing we can learn is that he’s extroverted and a role model for other people to follow and idolize, but he’s actually the most alienated university student ever, take Patrick Bateman from American Psycho as an example — he has everything, he embodies the ideal American man, except he doesn’t feel human at all and feels alienated from humanity which drives him to commit murder. Both of these characters know they aren’t like everyone else, know that the expectations that they are raising are just a cover for an empty soul that can’t understand why it’s different. Light consistently draws this line between himself and other people because they’re not equal to him, he’s something else that doesn’t follow human nature or behavior; he has been emulating it since day one, which is why his attempts at behaving ‘normally’ to avoid suspicion actually increases it and doesn’t feel normal to us, the audience, at all. His words and mannerism, neatness and appearance, are what people expect of him, his conversations prioritize what other people want to hear instead of what he wants to say.

I have no clue if this helped at all, I’ve tried writing down my thoughts as coherently as possible, please don’t be afraid to ask questions if there’s anything I said that confuses you!

Thank you sm for the ask! -K.

[13eyond13]

Hello, new Death Note fan here. First, thanks so much for this blog of yours. Because it came out 10+ years ago, I'm afraid will hard to find any active DN acc until I came to your blog. I understand more about Death Note's characters and story thanks to you...💐

I just start DN anime and manga last year (I know it's so late), because many people said in reviews that DN is not that good and mostly overrated. After finishing it, I think, how wrong that opinion was....

Do you mind if I ask some questions :

- Is Beyond Birthday became like that because of A's suicide?

- I read somewhere that Death Note (especially L and Light's relationship) is subtext mlm like Hannibal NBC & Merlin BBC, do you agree?

- One of my friend is DN fan since 2008, and every time she watched (more than 100x) L's death, she still cried. And coping it with read L/Light fics, are you like that too?

- "L and Light are both ace and aromantic", do you agree?

- Until the end, does L figure out it was Light = Kira the whole time?

- If Mello and Near work together from the start, can Light got captured more early?

- If Light were female, do you think L/Light ship will be more common?

- Until now, have you found any couple (canon or non canon) from any media (books, tv series, movies, anime/manga, etc) that the dynamics remind you of L/Light?

- "If Ryuk were an ikemen, than Light/Ryuk ship will be more popular than Light/L", do you agree?

- Do you prefer L as top or bottom or switch with Light? Why?

- In what moments that you start ship Light with L?

Sorry for my long ask (got too excited) feel free to answer whichever you want to. Thanks @13eyond13 ....

Hi! Aw, thanks for the kind words, and I'm so glad my blog is still helping new fans out that way somehow! 😊

Let me try to quickly answer your questions here (sorry if the answers aren't very in-depth, I don't have a computer with me currently and I'm just replying to you with my phone)

- Did Beyond Birthday become like that because of A's suicide?

This is not something that is commented on directly in the novel, so it's up to fan interpretation and headcanons for that! There is only one sentence about A, and we actually don't even know if A and B knew each other or interacted with each other in any way:

Personally I DO think it's fun to imagine it's part of B's past that he and A did know each other and that it did affect him somehow, but I'm not sure if his character was actually written with that notion in mind.

- I read somewhere that Death Note (especially L and Light's relationship) is subtext mlm like Hannibal NBC & Merlin BBC, do you agree?

I think you can definitely easily read homoerotic subtext into their relationship, but I also believe most of it was not really intentionally put there by the manga creators Ohba and Obata. I think SOMETIMES there were deliberate suggestive jokes and whatnot in the manga that indicated there was some level of awareness that things between them could be seen as suggestive – like when Matsuda is questioning them only sharing their cell phone numbers with each other, and when Misa questions L's orientation whenever he handcuffs himself to Light. That doesn't mean that reading them or their relationship in a shippy way isn't valid or legitimate or interesting to do! Just that I dont think it was written with the writer knowingly going into things like "ohoho time to slyly queerbait the audience!" or something. I think Hannibal's creators were extremely deliberate with everything homoerotic that goes on between Will and Hannibal for example, but I think it happened a bit more unintentionally in Death Note originally.

- One of my friend is DN fan since 2008, and every time she watched (more than 100x)  L's death, she still cried. And coping it with read L/Light fics, are you like that too?

Haha oh wow 100x! I'm not like that personally because I had L's death spoiled for me by a comment I saw on the very first episode of the anime, so I knew it was coming! I was still really upset about it of course, he IS my fave. But actually Light's death in the anime gets a stronger emotional reaction from me than L's. I think I only ever cried during Death Note at that part where Light is thinking about his younger innocent self while he's wounded and running away, something about it gets me every time... And yes, I definitely wanted to read a lot of fics to resolve all my messy feelings about the two of them afterwards!

- "L and Light are both ace and aromantic", do you agree?

I can see why people might see them that way, though it's not my personal headcanon for them! It's one of those things people can decide for themselves rather than something I think there is an objectively "correct" answer about, really.

- Until the end, does L figure out it was Light  = Kira the whole time?

I'm not 100% sure if I'm understanding your question correctly. But I think L is always something like "PRETTY DARN SURE" Light is Kira, though he also knows he needs to have the concrete proof to back that certainty of his up. He DOES know it without a doubt once he actually has his heart attack and sees the look on Light's face in the manga, though! He thinks something like "I knew it! I wasn't wrong..." before his eyes close. Which in some way is maybe a small comfort, to know that he was able to solve this ultimate mystery for himself and know he was definitely correct about it before he died.

- If Mello and Near had worked together from the start, could Light have been captured more early?

A very good question! I unfortunately feel a bit too rusty on my successor arc plot stuff to know how to answer this one well, but I do think that Near and Mello made a very effective team whenever they collaborated, for sure.

- If Light were female, do you think L/Light ship will be more common?

I don't know if it would be more COMMON necessarily, but perhaps it would just have a slightly different sort of fanbase and legacy as a ship? I think a lot of people kinda like, and have always liked, how gay it is though? and I don't know if that really hurt the ship's popularity so much as maybe increased it even. But I'm definitely not an expert on this stuff or anything, hahaha

- Until now, have you found any couple (canon or non canon) from any media (books, tv series, movies, anime/manga, etc) that the dynamics remind you of L/Light?

Not exactly like it, no! It's quite unique to me in many ways. MAYBE the closest thing I can think of right now is NBC Hannibal, simply because of the unresolved tension and morbid dark humour and constant innuendo and cop/criminal investigative sort of stuff going on between them? But I think canon Hannigram was darker in some ways than I find canon Lawlight to be, and the parallels aren't exact by any means...

- "If Ryuk were an ikemen, than Light/Ryuk ship will be more popular than Light/L", do you agree?

Hahaha, I feel like it would be more popular as a ship than it currently is, but I'm not sure it would eclipse Lawlight! I feel it's hard to beat the antagonistic chemistry L and Light have simply due to how their roles are set up in the story as the detective and the criminal and whatnot.

- Do you prefer L as top or bottom or switch with Light? Why?

I prefer it when they take turns in fics and don't stick rigidly to one thing or the other! I think maybe because it seems realistic to me that they'd want to experiment that way with each other, and also because I just find it more interesting to read smut if they're doing stuff in a variety of ways.

- In what moments that you start ship Light with L?

I think I basically immediately felt a strong tension and chemistry between them. But I was introduced to things via the anime, and the rain scene definitely seemed extremely shippy to me and like "there's no way they weren't into each other" hahah. I think the rain scene was the main reason I went looking for shippy content about them afterwards. But I find that the manga is actually shippier to me than the anime sometimes, even though that rain scene isn't in it. Maybe because to me it feels a bit more like they're mentally and emotionally on the same page about things more often in the manga, and both seem pretty aware of the sly mind games they're playing with each other the whole time. And Light stays very fixated on and oddly reverent towards L after his death in the manga as well, which ultimately remains probably the shippiest thing about them in canon to me...

[losergendered]

ID: a set of 42 images in 21 pairs. each has one image of the listed death note character, with a white outline in front of their corresponding flags, and a second image which is a blank flag splice. END ID

Light Yagami from Death Note is an antisocial narcissistic gay aromantic aplatonic man. He is in a complicated unlabeled relationship with L Lawliet and a diauamoric relationship with Teru Mikami.

L Lawliet is an autistic avoidant cassgender boylike arospec MLM guy who's apathetic towards pronouns and is in a complicated unlabeled relationship with Light Yagami.

Misa Amane is a borderline lesbian who is in love with Rem, an agender GNC lesbian who uses they/she/he.

Ryuk is alloaro and agender, though he mostly aligns with maleness, uses male terms and doesn't understand or care for attraction.

Near is an autistic schizoid narcissistic genderless aromantic boygirl who uses any pronouns.

Her closest friend and biggest rival, Mello, is a bipolar GNC alloaro trans man who is in a wavership with Matt.

Matt is an avoidant bisexual trans man who is in a wavership with Mello.

Misa's ex, Kiyomi Takada, is a bisexual woman who is in a relationship with her bodyguard, Halle Lidner, who is a trans lesbian.

Lidner's friend and co-worker, Stephen Gevanni, is gay and has developed feelings for Teru Mikami, who is a borderline schizotypal gay man who is in a diauamoric relationship with Light Yagami, who he is also in love with.

Touta Matsuda is a bisexual man who has a crush on Light Yagami.

His friend, Kanzo Mogi, is also a bisexual man who is close friends with Misa Amane.

Their co-worker, Shuichi Aizawa, is a previously bicurious straight man and his best friend and ex, Hideki Ide, is homoflexible.

Light's younger sister, Sayu Yagami, is bi with a male preference.

Naomi Misora is unlabeled and her fiance, Raye Penber, is heteroflexible.

Aiber is bisexual and queer and is in a lavender relationship with Wedy, a high femme bi lesbian.

[grimalkinmessor]

Hello! I am very intrigued by your headcanons towards Death Note characters since I read your post about your Light's ones. So I wanted to ask what are your headcanons about L and Ryuk??

Ooo I haven't thought much about those two in terms of headcanons.

I'll start with Ryuk because I have a few more on hand for him, just because they tie into my Shinigami lore hcs :3

☠️ -Ryuk used to be human once! All Shinigami save for Nu and the King used to be human. Now my personal headcanon for that is that you have to kill a certain amount of people before you can become a Shinigami, and the Shinigami realm is rotten and dying because they just don't make killers like they used to :/ Ryuk is the youngest of them, and he made the cut because he was an arsonist! :D As a human Ryuk was a punk, a highly insane anarchist with a taste for gunpowder and blood. He blew up so many buildings with people inside that he made the cut for Shinigami-dom.

☠️ -An add-on to the above and a slight spoiler for Cosmic Entities, Ryuk the Human was killer on the guitar. His riffs were fucking amazing, and he rocked with a lot of underground artists before he overdosed and died. Of course when he became a Shinigami he forgot about all of that, but if he ever, say, regained a human body, he might remember a bit of it :3

☠️ -Ryuk's highly addictive personality is half a leave over from his human life, and half because of how young of a Shinigami he is. The older a Shinigami is the more apathetic they get—which is why I headcanon Kinddara as fairly young too, because she has a LOT of bloodlust rattling around in her. A lot. Gelus and Rem aren't young, persay, but they're definitely not as old as they others given that they both fell for Misa. Whiiich brings me to my next headcanon!

☠️ - Ryuk is asexual! :D And aromantic. He was ace when he was human too, but they didn't really have a name for it back when he was alive so he never labelled it. And as a Shinigami, he just assumed that other Shinigami ALSO didn't feel those urges because, you know, they're Shinigami. Ryuk still gets attached to people even as a Shinigami (I headcanon his relationship with Light as queerplatonic in every universe and you will pry that from my cold dead hands) and he's not really sex-repulsed, he would just honestly rather have an apple.

☠️ -Case in point: Ryuk gets depressed after Light dies. He gets the reputation as a storyteller because...well, that's kind of all he does after that whole Kira mess ends. (That Shinigami from the relight is NOT Light I will fight you on that—) He reminisces about it like a war veteran and tells anyone that asks anything they want to know about the various Kiras and Light. Especially Light. He's very proud of Light. Ryuk doesn't seem to even be interested in the human world afterward, nor in playing or gambling with his fellow Shinigami. He seems more resigned to his boredom than before. Almost like he's grieving someone. Huh...

🍰 -L'S TURN: I have multiple contradictory headcanons for how L ended up with Watari, but my most realistic one is that his mother died directly after giving birth, but she was a bit of Jane Doe. The only thing she had with her was a messenger bag with a worn French book and a map of the area in it. Since she died before she could name her child, the hospital staff looked through her stuff and found the initials L.L. written on the inside of the book, so one of the nurses just wrote that down on the birth certificate, along with the first word she found on one of the pages. It was in the woman's bag, so it was obviously important to her, right? Maybe she'd like her child named after her favorite novel. Buuut half of the first name smudged and left the kid with a singular letter L instead of actual initials. Oops. The matrons at the orphanage don't have time to worry about shit like that so the singular letter stuck. Congrats kid, that L no longer stands for anything, you're a part of the alphabet now 🫡

🍰 -L definitely pulled a Tom Riddle in his first orphanage and stole literally everything he could get his hands on. If a kid argued with him or tried to tell on him he would beat them up. He was that quiet kid in the corner of the room, eating everyone's candy from that generous man that passed by the day before because they didn't defend it or hide it well enough. And L was definitely a biter as a kid, so get to close to his little thief corner and you'll walk away with teeth marks in your fucking arm or leg or face. Around the matrons, however, L was—well, not normal, but he definitely didn't bully the other kids around them because they'd grab him and drag him around and crack his hands with a ruler, and even at a young age he knew that he couldn't win in a fight with someone that much bigger than him.

🍰 -L also knows plenty of foraging hacks from his time as an orphan. His original orphanage was on the outskirts of the city, so he got very good at learning which plants were edible by watching the forest animals and identifying them on his own. So when winter came along and food got scarce, L had little pouches and cups of dried flowers and berries and roots hidden in his room to eat. Like hell this little glutton is going to stick to his assigned rations—are you nuts? It's survival of the fittest out there 😤

🍰 -As a consequence of the above, L grew to really like rabbits. He watched them a lot to learn which plants he could eat and eventually got really hyperfixated on the idea of the idea of trying to catch one. He'd go out and hide and wait for the rabbits to show up, and then chase them. He had to get more creative when they proved to be faster than him, and eventually he set up a trap and caught one. L managed to keep it as a pet for about a week before the caretakers found out and made him get rid of it. Which was honestly just as well; L was nearing his limit with his rabbit fixation and eventually he would've started to neglect it.

🍰 -The book L's mother brought into the hospital was one of his only non-stolen possessions growing up, but because it was written in French, L had to learn French in order to read it. And he did. By the time L was seven years old he was pretty much bilingual—one of the reasons he caught Quillish's attention as a little prodigy. L learns languages quickly, but only when he's interested, so he might learn five languages in rapid succession or he might procrastinate learning another language for two years. By the time he hits sixteen he's fluent in nine different languages. He stalls at around thirteen when he's twenty and doesn't really see the need to pick up anymore.

🍰 -At one point, Quillish attempted to force L into healthier eating habits by only giving him healthy foods, but this backfired spectacularly because L threw a fit and refused to eat any of it. Quillish didn't want to back down though, so he told L that if he didn't want to eat what was in front of him then he could go hungry. And because is L is a petty bastard and runs on quick fuel sugar, it didn't take him long to pass the fuck out after a day of refusing to eat the bullshit Quillish locked him in with. Quillish tries this three more times before giving up and just sneaking vegetables into his sweets. When L is older, they have a long conversation (argument) about it and eventually L begrudgingly agrees to replace at least a quarter of his sweets with fruit—sweet enough for him to tolerate but healthy enough to appease Quillish. Hence the banana scene that everyone loves :)

[tempural]

Any thoughts about Light x Ryuk ship?

It's great! I haven't found that much art or fic of Light being (or trying his dang best to) dom over Ryuk, but the idea of some horrible jackoff like Light just idly toying with Ryuk (who could bite his wiener off anytime) is really fun!

There's also the appeal of them both being vaguely asexual and vaguely aromantic. They're only together canonically by accident. Ryuk finds Light interesting, and Light occasionally likes to use Ryuk. I don't think shinigami have genitals, at least not humanoid ones, and don't generally have humanoid sexual desires. But Light is SO interesting to him, why not play around further in the human world? Meanwhile Light is so clearly uninterested in sex (poor Misa! Actually I have my own weird ideas about Misa x Ryuk (with poor third-wheeled Rem)).

IDK how to really connect them in the sexual sense of the ship. There's def no traditional romance. But I love that Light and Ryuk are just roommates hanging out in a fated yet unimportant relationship! There's a lot of just fun to be had with Ryuk hovering around Light 24/7, and taking up his entire bed :P Plus there's no reason why Ryuk NEEDS Light to feed him apples.. but he really likes it from him :3c

Hey. Here's an old drawing from 2016 of Light feeding Ryuk an apple :)

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Aromantic Misa and L.