#in the musical she says smth like ��i don't mind if my lifespan is halved because i haven't been alive since the day my parents were killed” | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

gaysamurai · 7 months ago

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death note would be so much improved if the writer were interested in how misa's experience of seeing her parents murdered in front of her as a child traumatized her and gave her a warped sense of good and evil and made her feel detached from her own life but instead they just used it as an excuse to make her obsessed with light

#in the musical she says smth like “i don't mind if my lifespan is halved because i haven't been alive since the day my parents were killed”#n im like wow! characterization!#it would be fascinating if at some point she became disillusioned with light because either #1) the savior who punished her parents' killer became too caught up in the cat-and-mouse game with L and lost focus #(spending all this time on getting rid of people in his way rather than killing the criminals she thinks deserve to be killed)#2) she sees him killing everyone who stands in his way regardless of whether they did something wrong and at some point #he kills innocent parents of young children that make her suddenly see herself in the victims of kira rather than in kira #those are two different directions you could go in that are both more interesting than what we got #i know that people like that she kills even more indiscriminately than light/“is more evil” but that doesn't go anywhere!#she just ends up doing his dirty work and sometimes causing problems for him by being less cautious #they need to have an ideological conflict just like L and Light do for her to be a player in the game #she is potentially the most powerful character in the show with both the knowledge of the dn and the eyes #but because it's never a question that she's faithful to light there's no danger #now if it were at any moment unclear where he alliance lay...

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