#fuck Light Yagami

[moistotaltrashmammal]

so im going through the death note comics and.

look at him. look at my boy.

[fail-sco0b]

Fuck it, going back into my death note era, prepare for L drawings and lawmane

[cecenyss]

If I had a death note the world would be so much better

[moistotaltrashmammal]

God honest reaction:

Why was Light Yagami wrong?

Short answer: 'Cause he was an arrogant little bitch.

Long answer: It's pointless to even discuss if something like the death penalty is morally right (it's complicated), if it does anything to disencourage crime (it doesn't), and if it can be exploited by powerful people to kill innocent people/political enemies (it can and it has).

These arguments don't matter, because Light's "point" wasn't "We need harsher punishments for criminals/the whole world should implement the death penalty", and the point of the story wasn't "Who is right? Light or L?" because even L's goal to stop Kira contradicts this. He wasn't after him because he believed killing criminals is wrong - he literally said that he wanted to find out who he was because it would be the biggest challenge of all times. Both Light and L used false moral pretenses to justify torturing/killing people for their own selfish interests (and to intimidate/impress each other)

Light's real point was "I'm a God, and I get to decide who lives and who dies" while the point of the story itself was "Death is equal/all humans, no exception, die." The story begins with Ryuk telling Light that, when the time came, he would be the one to write his name on the death note, and that all he could say about the after life is "Humans who used the death note went neither to hell nor heaven" and while some people assumed this meant that Light would become a God of Death (and some adaptations kinda hinted at it), it was actually just Ryuk fucking with him - the manga ends with Light begging for his life, while Ryuk taunts him and says that he won't go to heaven or hell, but rather to the void/emptiness, and not because of the death note, but because he is human, and all humans have the exact same fate, no matter who they were, and that the only reason Light got to live as long as he did was because Ryuk was amused by his actions - but now he was bored.

Both Light and L were wrong because they assumed they were inherently superior to others - both ended up having the same fate as each other and as all of the people they used, manipulated, tortured and killed. And in some ways, L's defeat felt more graceful and more victorious than Light's, because he accepted that he was going to die. Light on the other hand kept making the same mistakes over and over again:

1 - Assuming that a God of Death, one that straight up said he was NOT on his side, was NOT his friend, and would NOT give a shit if he was caught, thought he was important enough to keep helping him out forever (hence him begging Ryuk to kill the task force when he was found out, and then begging not be killed - again, even though Ryuk always made it clear that he would kill him someday)

2 - He kept understimating his enemies, and because of it ended up exposing himself. In the very beginning, L tricks him into killing a man in live TV just by hitting him where it hurts - his ego - and at the very end, he is finally exposed as Kira because he assumed that Mello and Near would never join forces to stop him, and that even if they did they simply would never be a match for him (or L) anyway.

So yeah, Light was wrong and all I can say about his death is this:

[dnbrainrot]

(From the Death Note encyclopedia in the official box set)

“He’s likely not capable of loving a woman” yeah but he sure does have an obsession with a certain dark haired man instead

[greensaplinggrace]

I actually like it when ships hurt each other in long lasting and unforgiveable ways. I like it when they leave vicious, glaring scars. I like when they leave traumas. I like when they stab each other and torture each other and ruin each other’s lives and violate every inch of each other’s values. and I like it when they fucking kill each other permanently dead. 

[sporadictimetravelgarden]

an incomplete list of death note things i thought were just jokes until i found out they were canon:

the potato chip scene. how is that real.

apples

the whole “this is something only kira would do, on the other hand, if i don’t do it, he’ll definitely think i’m kira, but . . .” and “kira would never do that, unless he is kira, in which case he would do the opposite of what i know he would do, so that actually increases his likelihood . . .” dynamic that light and L have is not an exaggeration. they really do overthink everything to that degree

the thing that looks like a monster is more mentally stable than the normal human boy

light isn’t attracted to misa

[moistotaltrashmammal]

Exactly.

I kept putting myself in the shoes of Light: if some bug-eyed weirdo with a diamond-cut jawline was staring at me while I was taking an exam, seemed to be tailing me throughout the day, and then told me "Hi I'm allegedly the greatest detective in the world" ?????

I'm sorry.

I would be on the fucking news.



the thing about Light is that he thinks the average person’s reaction to just about anything is to be completely unfazed. He genuinely thinks that having any sort of reaction (shock, joy, sadness, anger) to crazy news is suspicious and that a normal person would never have a reason to be surprised by anything

which is EXACTLY what makes L 10000x more suspicious of him

[corviiids]

in the one (1) month since i watched death note for the first time i sure have been doing a fucking posting

bonus:

[urban-caravan]

so you think you can tell heaven from hell?

[moistotaltrashmammal]

tfw you realize Light adopting the name Kira is another instance of Light failing to define himself based on his own standards and instead adopting the expectations of

s o c i e t y 🤌

[rebisrot]

[p1xzels]

i never realized light holds L’s hand but not misa’s ohhhhhh I’m sick. I’m sick

[numbuh424]

The unstoppable, mighty hurricane and the immovable, cold, hard truth.

[applestorms]

hey. hi. hello. um? hey?

we, as a fandom, simply do not talk about this moment often enough.

[smallsinger5901]

THIS IS THE FUCKING CARD FOR MY COLLEGE’S CHESS CLUB