#death note another note

[luovuusedit]

First step for my Another note fan game!

The game will feature:

Items, puzzles, multiple choices, multiple endings, a special ending cutscene, game over screens (?), quick time events, and so on.

I wanted to re-use the DS sprites for the characters, but it felt wrong and lazy so, I decided to draw them in my style.

I gotta think about the other poses and expressions.

Something about L's voice doesn't convince me tho....

I think once I'll finish the game, I'll make it available on my itch.io profile.

[chikiinn]

i got really inspired by some artists drawing L which partly brought me back into fandom

[bugblast]

beyond confronts a shinigami and vice versa

^ the shinigami in question

[kroosluvr]

when there's smoke there's fire

[freindsssssss]

Another Note is crazy because the entire story is the result of the worst game of telephone you've ever seen. It's narrated by Mello, writing it years later after he learned all this information from L, who is, by the way, a Chronic Bullshitter. In fact the story is INCAPABLE of being even halfway true. Because it's not even L's story. It's from Naomi's point of view. My brother in Kira you made half that shit up ����😭

[theoldworldsrunnerup]

Made several different batches of... these?? (What do you even call these things) a while ago. Here are some of my favourites

[rainworlds7]

"if L's a genius, then B's an extreme genius. If L's a freak, then B's an extreme freak."

[corpsedessert]

For the labb fans <3

[smallsinger5901]

it’s hilarious to me how differently wammys house is depicted in the different media surrounding death note

wammys in labb: horrible. Horrible fucking place. Ruined the lives of all of L’s successors, put immense pressure on everyone until someone killed himself, someone else went on a killing spree and another person willing and knowingly sacrificed themselves just to be of use. *spits on the ground by its feet*

wammys in L change the worLd: everyone fucking loves watari so much L feels so guilty that he died that he considers himself personally responsible. There were generations before and after L and in them only 26 per generation got a letter signifying that only if they wanted to, their specific interests could help them change the world. The mere thought of it redeems one of the main villains (an ex-wammys kid)

wammys in the anime/manga: woahh look at that look place L came from (never mentioned again)

wammys in the 2015 tv drama: seemingly just watari and his two(three) adopted sons that he loves more than anything. Simultaneously the most heartwarming and heartbreaking thing ever

wammys in the musical:

[frootloopsl]

them....

[deathnotewiki]

August 22, 2002:

Beyond Birthday attempts suicide by setting himself on fire to make it appear that he is the final victim of the serial murders.

Naomi Misora arrests Beyond Birthday.

[motahzu]

shgshhsh

[thanatelle]

My Beyond Birthday design! A couple notes about it, LABB spoilers ahead;

- This is from before BB left Wammy's, so he's not in the L makeup and he's not in a white shirt. This is his actual face.

- Normal people can't see the shinigami eyes, so I made his eyes blue and pupils permanently dilated instead. (I'm shaking please get him some brown contacts)

- I tried making him look different from L, but close enough that if he went into disguise someone who only vaguely knows what L looks like couldn't tell them apart. (Since in the novel he's described as 'wearing a lot of makeup to look like L')

[applestorms]

trying to break down beyond more so here's some random thoughts:

he's very particular about the ways in which he's unhinged/insane, and oddly conscious about every weird thing he does. everything is meant to one-up L: excess sugar (jam + coffee sludge), uncomfortable body movements, presenting as a Genius Detective to hide his own crimes, etc. his weirdness is unnatural and, at least in the ways he specifically tries to replicate L, not innate to him specifically. there's a version of beyond, perhaps pre-L, who is weird in his own unique way.

for a serial killer, he has very little interest in the killings themselves. despite executing all these violent murders, even one of a 13 year old girl, every one of his victims is killed only after they're drugged to unconscious and the mutilation of their bodies is all post-death, for the sake of his puzzles alone. seemingly the only reason why he bothers with murder is because that is what L focuses on, and because his eyes make him so intimate w/ death.

his motives are clearly focused around L, perhaps both as a reaction to L and as an attempt at initiating some kind of interaction? iirc mello claims near the end of the story that his sole purpose is to give L some kind of unsolvable case, but clearly some of his behaviors must be done to antagonize L specifically, since almost nobody else (other than the meta audience) knows who he's presenting himself as/clowning on.

ultimately, it's his ego that gets him. he underestimates naomi's abilities often throughout the story, feeding her clues to ensure that his own puzzles get solved-- perhaps out of a lack of respect for her intelligence, but also to present himself as even more capable? to brag as much as he can?

the congenital shinigami eyes is honestly one of the most fascinating ideas any death note side story has ever presented. there are so so so many questions you can ask here-- is beyond genetically part shinigami? is he or his birth family somehow connected to a death note? how can he read the lifespans? mello describes beyond's shinigami eyes as follows:

Killing people was, for him, normal. Killing people who were fated to die anyway was no effort at all. Mmm, I guess I should explain the idea of the eyes of a shinigami. The phrase is only too familiar to me, but if I don't explain it, some of you will cry foul. The eyes of a shinigami. These eyes could be given out by any shinigami in return for half the recipient's remaining life. Normally contact with a shinigami was a prerequisite for acquisition, but Beyond Birthday had traded nothing--he had seen the world through those eyes since before he could remember. He knew your name before you said it. He knew the time of death of every person he met. ...I hardly need to explain just what effect this would have one his personality. You might think they would hardly be useful without a Death Note, but that is simply not the case. The ability to see someone's remaining life is the ability to see death. Death, death, death. Beyond Birthday lived his life unceasingly reminded that all humans would eventually die. From the time he was born he knew the day his father would be attacked by a thug and die, knew the day his mother would die in a train crash. He had these eyes before he was born, which is why he called himself Beyond Birthday. Which is why a child as strange as him was taking in by our home, sweet home--Wammy's House. (pg. 94-95)

it's unclear exactly how much of this story mello heard from L and how much is him interpreting/theorizing w/ his own ideas. the potentially biased narration is a fantastic layer in this story.

he is the second known wammy's kid to overtly attempt suicide, though his attempt is of course incomplete. we have no idea about the circumstances surrounding A's suicide, though i find it notable that A is mentioned at all as their presence makes this a pattern. this also seems important in conjunction w/ mello's infamous opening line: "I am your narrator, your navigator, your storyteller. For anyone else but [Near and Kira], my identity may be of no interest, but I am the old world's runner-up, the best dresser that died like a dog, Mihael Keehl. I once called myself Mello and was addressed by that name, but that was a long time ago. Good memories and nightmares." (pg. 12)

sidenote: love his use of "the old world," in that quote, i wonder what the original japanese is... fits well w/ the whole idea of L as the god of the old world. anyway,

his relationship with naomi is also Fascinating to me, particularly since it really doesn't seem like either of them have a speck of respect for the other. lmfao. i should really fic write for those two sometime... i really just need to do a proper character study on both of those bitches. lol.

edit: almost immediately upon posting this i open back the damn book back up to this quote:

If he attacked her with intent to kill, he would absolutely fail. He knew that he would. Ensuring his path of escape was far more critical. Naomi Misora was nothing more than L's servant, and if she died there would be dozens of replacements-- from the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA-- even Secret Service. So he had only been testing her. Seeing if Naomi Misora was capable of being L's substitute. "Hmmm...mmmm...hmmm...Huh huh huh huh...no, hee hee hee? I could go with ho ho ho ho, but that's a little too jolly...anyway. Oh, Naomi Misora-- you are pretty good. A shame to waste someone like you in the FBI." She had passed the test, so far. (pg. 95-96)

so. shit, idk. i guess he does still have some respect for her, albeit tempered by that classic death note sexism. shrug.

the beyond vs. KIRA comparison has a lot to consider, particularly when it comes to their egos and how they choose to cover up their crimes. L's reaction to either of them is also intriguing-- as much as i like to point out L's lack of respect for beyond he does admittedly take on the case even when it doesn't quite fit his usual standards (10+ deaths and/or 1 million dollars). he's at least somewhat aware of what his legacy is setting up, though how much he actually gives a shit about any of those kids is somewhat debatable...

[valfeathers]

get out the way (get out!)

[freindsssssss]

Death note lore is crazy because you'll just be scrolling through the tag and you'll see people be like "remember that one time in Death Note, More Shit: the mysterious bingus bongo murders of LA volume 20 1/2 secret edition which is narrated by mello who is NOT m, because "m" is the author of the novel that was based off of a movie that was based off of Death Note (yes in that order) called L Does More Stuff Again which isn't canon at all. do you guys remember. the guy named schlorpus dorpus"