#death note rambles

[gh0stbeeee]

Random Death Note headcanons

L has a bit of an overbite, he had braces as a teenager but he never wore his retainers so it came back a little.

Misa was a little ragamuffin as a kid, she loved going outside and being messy with her hair unbrushed, but she realized she couldn't put her hair in twin tails if it was knotty so she improved her hygiene as she grew up.

Light has always wanted to grow his hair to his shoulders and part it in the middle because he thought it looked really elegant, but he never did because he was worried people would think he wasn't respectable.

Also, Light was a bit chubby when he was young. He developed an eating disorder as he grew up because of how family and other adults would comment on his body. Keep in mind this was healthy baby fat, and he is now perpetually a little underweight.

L has a ridiculous metabolism, so despite his diet he is naturally skinny and light weight. In contrast to Light, he wishes he could gain a little weight.

Misa knows Light doesn't love her. She stays with him because he became a rock in her life despite his coldness and manipulative nature, and he keeps her grounded. She is scared of independence, due to ptsd. Light isn't aware of this exact reason, but neither does he seek to know her. His optimism and confidence eases her anxiety, just as Misa's blind worship encourages him. Toxic af for eachother.

Light is on the aroace spectrum, but he never sought to experiment to find out what exactly he is. He is completely neutral to both genders, with a preference for intelligence. (Sapio.) He never learned the proper terminology for sexuality beyond hetero and homo.

L is completely ambiguous in terms of sexuality. He has attractions, but they disappear quickly and he never acts on them. He suspects he is aroace spec, but he never confirms it.

Lawlight was violently timid. Their passion for eachother was insane, but neither knew what to do with it. One minute they were kissing chastely, the next they were beating the shit out of eachother. They had sex a couple times, but they were more focused on the intimacy and mind games than the pleasure.

Misa was comphet and her obsession with Light stopped her from exploring herself (and Rem her monster girlfriend that loved her more than her life.)

Near found the HQ security footage years after the Kira case ended and to say it made his opinions of L and Light more complicated is an understatement. (I want to write this fic.) He saw L's true morality, and the endeared relationship between L and Kira. He saw innocent Light, and thought that he wasn't so bad.

[1ns3n1ty3x1sts]

you had me wondering if i qualified to be light yagami so

yeah this is a better option lowk HAHAHA

YOOO WHERE U TAKE THE TEST FROM

i think mello suits u better than light btw 😭

[kiras-law]

light "if someone tries to read my diary i will set my drawer on fire" yagami

[empressofthewind]

what's funny to me about Death Note is how casually the authors will drop the most insane lore you've ever heard and then just move on as if it never happened. like here's a girl whose parents were killed in front of her and who also would have been murdered by a crazed fan if he hadn't mysteriously dropped dead before her eyes. yes we WILL proceed to call her stupid and annoying for the rest of the series and never address how this affected her. btw did we ever mention that L is an orphan who has been working as a detective since he was 10? and that the orphanage where he grew up is now dedicated to raising child prodigies on the principle that their entire existence is worthless if they can't live up to L's standard? no? well he's dead now so here are his successors. yeah one of them joined the mafia at 17 and commits violent crimes because he believes it's the only way to prove that he's worth anything. yeah the other one had to take on the only case L couldn't solve entirely from scratch at age 13 with no prior detective experience. no the implications of this won't be addressed. also one of the new anti-Kira investigators has a vendetta against Kira because someone close to her was killed by him. will that ever be explored in canon, you ask? well you're not going to believe this-

[fluffyblue-multifandommess]

"Yagami Light as a youtuber would probably plagiarise" WRONG Yagami Light is insanely intelligent and looks down on literally every single other human person, he would rather stab himself in the eye than using the works of someone else - someone who can't be anything but beneath him. Pre-Death Note youtuber!Light would make long-ass videos about Everything Wrong With Society with completely unhinged takes about how xyz small innocuous thing is responsible for gang violence with numbers* to back it up.

"Light would plagiarise" get the fuck out of here.

*numbers which he completely twists to his own bias - without even knowing it because he thinks way too highly of himself

[otherbug]

watched relight because im so normal mode about dn and. this specific scene right before the wammy's house flashback really got me.

i think he was looking for, like, the closest thing he knows to comfort. he walks in, quiet. after watari asks him what's wrong i just imagine him standing there for a second before flatly saying something like "I believe I'm going to die soon, Watari." because he KNOWS. he's heard the bells all day.

i feel like manga L is like, yeah i'm gonna die but it's whatever. i still won't lose. i got backup. meanwhile anime L DOES NOT want to die. he's sad and so emo about it he literally stands in the rain. he wanted to see this to the end. he was getting so close, one last test and the case would be solved. but he knew that wasn't going to happen, and it was possibly the first time he needed watari for reasons other than tasks or his inventions or case work.

L just needed him. and it reminded him of when he first went to wammy's house with Watari. and the scene of young L squeezing his hand, needing that comfort when facing the unknown. the unknown, instead of being life in a new place, being what will happen after his death. what will happen to him and the case he's risked his life for.

thats why i feel like this scene was shown right after that. because that's the last time he remembered needing that comfort. its the same feeling.

or it was just him instructing watari with the delete all data in case of emergency thing. but i feel like he'd have that planned for a while before.

[undergoing-mitosis]

gay people can't flirt normally it's always gotta be shit like this

[gabriel-shutterson]

I enjoy all of the Light OCD discourse, because, like, yeah. There’s obviously symptoms. I LITERALLY have OCD and I see some of myself in him. But as a psych major, with several psych major friends…. Light is legitimately just impossible to diagnose. Because, sure, he has symptoms of OCD. But some of these symptoms overlap with autism. Some of these symptoms overlap with ADHD. Some of these symptoms overlap with BPD, some of these symptoms overlap with OCPD, some of these overlap with narcissism. And once you come to what you think might be a conclusion— how do you know that this is true? When it comes to most of these disorders, they have to be present from childhood. We only get to see small clips of what Light is actually like as a person, without the notebook. How can we be sure that these symptoms were actually present before the notebook— let alone, since he was a child? A lot of things are speculation. And then you have to take comorbidy into account….

I do enjoy the OCD interpretation, I really do! Like I said, I have OCD. Moral OCD too, which is what Light probably has. But I find it honestly hilarious that people well versed in psych cannot pinpoint what is wrong with this man. He has Light Yagami Disorder, an in-universe special. And I love him for it.

[werwlf]

[gh0stbeeee]

Lawlight is unhinged.

They are obsessed. Completely enamored with one another, can't sleep because their mind is flooded with the other. Absolutely enthralled and amazed and terrified because a god has met another of its kind and they don't know what to do.

They devour one another, a fucked up cannibalism of the mind spirit and blood. They lap at the wounds they inflict on one another, kiss eachothers brutal injuries with the most tender care and love like cauterizing fire. They press their mortal bodies against one another, always touching, fingers twisted and legs tangled. Their lips are hungry maws ripping and biting at one another, kisses tearing and bleeding their faces while their wide eyes are locked and their beings are entwined on a level incomprehensible to others.

They smile at eachother, like little secrets or screaming victories. White teeth gleam, sharper than they should be. Grins are threats, promises, and intimate. Their love exists in a language that cannot be read by other people. It's just them, no one else. No one else matters.

Just lawlight.

[ambulancie]

I see your “ship so good one of them died” and I raise you

“ship so good one of them killed the other”

[mossy-rot]

death note really is just like watching the worst polyam couple you've ever met

[kiras-law]

this is a love letter to light yagamis big brown eyes

[an1muuarts]

i was thinking how light's name must be funny if you can understand japanese

like, light's name is a kira-kira name. aside from the obvious joke, it means that his name has a different pronunciation than usual.

the kanji for his name (月), is usually pronounced as "tsuki," but instead it's "raito" or "light". (which is actually kinda cute, too bad most of the english speaking people see the name "light" as something like a self-serving name)

and his surname is comprised of "night" and "god"

putting all these together, the rough localization of his name is

Moonshine Darklord

[gummy-sharks666]

Meronia is so beautifully tragic. Near always looked up to Mello, always believed that he couldn’t beat Kira without him, but Mello would for the rest of his short life, always believe that Near looked down on him… even after death Near would thank him and contribute his success to him…

And the sad thing is I don’t think Mello would’ve ever been able to accept that. I truly believe Wammy’s House and the pressure put on those kids to be the next L is what created Mello’s inferiority complex. I don’t think Near could’ve fixed that either, dealing with his own trauma and the way he expresses his emotions so unconventionally. Sometimes I wonder if Near still feels so much guilt and anger at himself for not being able to make Mello understand, even though it wasn’t his job to, especially as a clearly autistic person unable to express appreciation and love in a “conventional” way.

But anyway!

[lemonycranberries]

hey so i'd never actually heard the entire death note musical before and now i'm listening to playing his game for the first time ever and. i am SHAKING what the FUCK is this gay ass song