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cannot believe light is cheating on takada with misa and on misa with takada and on takada with the daydreaming he does about L every time someone on the task force isn't directly speaking to him

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i know there's a lot of cool smart guys and people who wear leather jackets in death note but matsuda is still the coolest bc he did a handstand on an apartment building balcony

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yotsuba arc lawlightmane dark comedy romcom when

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i’m in the midst of death note brainrot (again) and would love to hear your thoughts on misa’s character

I WAS LITERALLY SAYING THE OTHER DAY TO MY PARTNER THAT I CAN FEEL AN AUTUMN DEATH NOTE REWATCH COMING ON..... maybe maybe maybe

misa is so freaking fascinating to me!! maybe next death note rewatch will be an extra special misa focus edition 🔍 she's just so fucked up in such a fun way that tbh i kind of feel is a missed opportunity, especially in the latter half of the story (the anime at least - haven't read the manga). she's so self-centred and i love that for her. her motivation to be kira pours from her own heart. while light has never personally suffered at the hands of crime afaik, misa very much has - both her family's deaths and her own being attached. her devotion to the cause is not just for the sake of saving the world but for saving herself, back on that night. it's like this vicarious way she can get back at "criminals" because she couldn't prevent her own family dying. it's ground into her!! that is the kind of experience you can't just shake out of her!! you can set misa on any path away from kira and i truly think she would barrel right onto it because the existence of kira gives her those warm and fuzzy feelings of retribution or maybe even safety that just like, filters right into her obsessive love for light

i like that even though she's clearly devoted to light, she's still an independent operator (well as much as the writing allows at certain times. eyeroll). i think light's whole attitude around "managing" her approach to being kira is so fkn illustrative of the derision with which he views a lot of people lol. there's something so interesting about how he views misa as impulsive and emotionally driven, so she's deranged, but obviously he is different even though their core beliefs are the same. like you might be using strategy but your goal is the same. idk

YOTSUBA ARC MISA AND POST TIMESKIP MISA ARE SO SPECIAL TO ME PERSONALLY. yotsuba arc because i'm like. oh my god the fact that she is not given ANY narrative space to either literally or metaphorically beat L's ass is a fucking choice BUT the fact that her dislike of him seems to come out as purely petty spats while he and light are chained together is so fucking funny. hater arc, but also, you could write a 9k character study unpacking all of this. it all kind of loops around to this iron-clad optimism that everything is somehow gonna turn out alright... and at that point in time, she doesn't even know how much shit she's gotten herself into. i do really really love that moment in this arc where misa gets her memories back after visiting the tower (when matsuda falls off a balcony. you know the one) but light doesn't have his and L is not even clued into what's happened. and light so so so wants to catch kira and clear his name and misa's sitting there like :)) like, i know she's gonna conspire to give light his memories back ASAP because that's The Plan but come on that brief glimpse in time is so fun and for misa her access to the death note & shinigami is such an important and consistent bargaining tool in her own survival. it was cool to see her have a monopoly on it, no matter how brief

they're so fucking worsties

there's definitely something to say here about her relationship with rem too but honestly i'm gonna have to go back to sources on this one. for me i've always kind of felt some parts of the fandom try to bend rem and misa into the "cute background lesbian couple" template that so many fandoms run on and i'm like. mate. you're not selling me. rem loves misa but misa is just too awful and/or deranged for all of that. i've always kind of felt their relationship was tragic in part because misa didn't fully understand the depth of rem's love for her / took it for granted until rem died. but again, i need to go back to sources

OH and this is getting long but i have the softest spot of all for post-timeskip misa. she is so me and my husband by mitski core. her life is falling to shit around her. her lifespan has been quartered. and she gives up her memories!! her knowledge of the death note has always been her key to survival and light sweet talks her into giving it up and this is the bit where i start hollering and screaming. and from then on, she doesn't even realise how much shit she's in. it's not just that she's in a failing engagement. it's that her fiance has wrung her for everything she had to give and she is being left to the wayside. her suspicion that light is having an affair is almost framed as comical but it's all she fucking has!!! she loves him because it's all she has. she has to choose between light and kira like this is some cosmic fucking joke and she cheers on light apparently trying to catch kira because she loves him. because what else exists in her memory from the last five years of her life???? FUCK

post-timeskip misa is genuinely fucking tragic to me because like. through the sheer power of sweet talking light manages to entirely defang her. she's lost rem. she has a book, she has the eyes, but she uses them solely under light's discretion. and then she gives up her memories because light asks. and like she is 100% a terrible person with the whole mass murdering thing but that kind of adds to it in a way. you get me

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the death note musical is SO awesome however the one thing i mourn is Can you imagine how deranged a near and mello duet would be

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good morning everyone and welcome to dn.posting FM. thanks for tuning in to the show. anyway this morning im thinking about how L supposedly 'never got around to choosing a successor' between mello and near but at the same time had primed light and the task force for months before his death to name light as successor of the title L within the team. most likely at least mildly aware of the conflict over succession already brewing in wammy's house. not only placing light in an obvious position as kira (and a position light would never refuse, with how it benefits kira) and building him up as a common enemy. L had light right where he wanted him even after his own death

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wammys house is just like a family (?) unit can be so dysfunctional

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death note is so there was love there except for the desperate horrible black hole that was kira and the death note. on the edges, love tried to persist

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kai faebriel gotta say. i love your autism. slay

danny i KNOW this is you

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i keep going to say "not to be controversial but [lawlight bullshit]" as if that has been controversial at any point in the last ten years.

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misa: oh. it's you. hi ryuzaki

L: misa. FMK light kira and second kira

misa:

L: think fast

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near realises the x-kira light hand picked is a weird guy with fluffy black hair and just does the biggest sigh ever

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i literally forgot light punches L in the face bc L said he was depressed

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me: im not going to be a feral L girlie im an adult now and appreciate that there are no truly moral characters in this story

me seeing the top third of his head in a flashback: MY BABYYYYYYY MY BABY BOY

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still reviewing that near fic and man. mello and near make me so so crazy sorry

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WYM DUB NEAR IS VOICED BY CATHY WESELUCK