#mello

[fearofgodandtolkien]

reblog if your ADHD symptoms also would give a shinigami the creeps

My favourite thing in all of Death Note is that Mello was so ungodly terrifying and weird he gave a shinigami the creeps

[skara-skoot]

orphans idk

they’re playing dress to impress

[deathnotewiki]

November 19, 2009:

With America’s announcement, the Japanese government and those of other countries fall into chaos.

The American vice-president (now president) announces the disbandment of the SPK.

Mello comes to SPK headquarters and shares information with Near.

[76696c]

happy meronia reunion day!

19th november 2009 for the manga

19th november 2012 for the anime

and this part from 13, that keeps being stuck in my head. makes me wonder if this scene would've been a bit different, if near had actually said it.

[imninakk]

I miss drawing Near with that 😩 face

[omegadazai]

I always wonder if Near has ever given Mello his shit eating grins while growing up. Because from all the interactions we got to see of them, Near always seems very respectful and polite towards Mello, meanwhile he is just a menace to everyone else

[jkl-fff]

Matt, flustered: How is he this strong?!

Jakov, in a thick Croatian accent while still carrying them: I am eating whole ox for protein and lifting huge weights every day! As you will soon be doing with me. Jakov the jacked and the Gays of Gains they will call us!

Mello, deadpan: Jakov, drop the fake accent.

Jakov, in the same accent as Mello: Ugh, fine, you're no fun.

Matt, mindblown: What--You--But--What?!

Jakov: Had you going, though, right, mate? You really believed I was, like, the Slavest Slav to ever Slav.

Matt: Do we even weigh anything to you?!

Jakov: Nah, it's like holding a couple of grapes.

Matt, incredulous: But I'm ... not small? How? Nobody's carried me since I was a little kid ...

Mello: Jakov, drop us before my boyfriend has a brain aneurysm or something.

Jakov: No, I wasn't kidding, you both need some muscle. How will you defend yourselves if someone attacks you?

Mello: With one of my guns or knives, which I'm always carrying.

Jakov: ... Seriously? Can I see?

Matt: (What am I feeling? What is going on? Am I into this? What the fuck is my life?)

does Mello have a workout routine or something like that? he strikes me as someone who works out a lot and eats healthy food and stuff like that

Remember Jakov, Mello's brother? He's the one that turned gym-bro post-canon. Mello has always been and will always be a beanstalk.

[neallo]

the frost

mello/near | rated T | 1,620 words

“So?” Mello shifts his weight from one foot to the other. Brushes his wrist against the handle of his gun, just to remind himself that it’s there. “What the hell do you want?” Near smirks. “Who said I wanted anything but your company?” He twirls a strand of hair around his finger. The gesture is so familiar that it makes Mello’s chest ache. “Perhaps I wished to spend time with an old friend. It’s been a long while, hasn’t it?” Mello scoffs. “Oh, is that what we are?” A tilt of Near’s head. His smile skews, bafflingly, a bit more genuine. Bizarre little bastard. “Isn’t it?”

[zlobnyyzlobar]

But mama I'm in love with a criminal

[xxlmug]

Wammys house headcannons

Ah, yes the most terrifying place is an orphanage with children tailored to be a man of pure exhaustion and deductive behaviours that limit his exposure to humans and human experiences. A perfect place for trauma to occur.

So here are my headcannons for them, well all I can remember anyways. I will include L, Mello, Near, Matt, A, and Beyond Birthday mainly in these but here we go.

1)

After A committed multiple stories aroused on why he did: some were that he hated L and did it out of spite, some said that he was too perfect and offed himself out of fear or stress, some said that he was murdered and the orphanage tried to cover it up in reality only one was correct.

Near as a child heard these and wondered if it was true that A passed out of his own volition, slowly as the Kira case ended and Mello and Matt passed he grew to realise becoming L's successor is a suicide pack within itself and that it's no surprise that A passed.

2)

Mello and Matt often stayed up all night just talking, nothing relevant to crime and such but before they both died they did this one last time and they talked about L. It's safe to say that neither were happy by the end of it.

3)

Sometimes L wonders why A truly never spoke to anybody about his stress and considers himself a bystander in A's passing and he feels terrible.

4)

The orphanage tried its hardest to be this good place for children but due to the reason why it developed it produced more lifeless husks of people or people like A who caved under pressure who commited suicide or at least tried to or left the orphanage all together.

That's it. It's 2 in the morning and I am exhausted and decided to write some shitty headcannons that weren't happy at all. I love A and BB and desperately want cannon designs for BOTH of these lil gays.

Bai xx.

[rxvera]

As you lay awake the night before it's all over...

[b1ggm0n3y]

The Creature 💤

[Quick Style Practice w/ Mello]

[skara-skoot]

i like to say Near is my favorite but here we are…

[vamphorica]

How would a female Mello, matt, and Near be?

absolutely wonderful question, anon, thank you so much. if you've been on my blog for any length of time, it is probably not surprising that i've given this a lot of thought and, putting aside my intricate transgender speculations for the time being, let's gender swap the wammy's creatures, and consider how that could impact their narratives within death note.

note: i will still be referring to all three using he/him pronouns, but this is not intended to be intentionally contrary. feel free to substitute whatever pronouns your heart desires throughout.

♀ mello -> mihaela may be a little bit obvious, haha, but if mihael is a croatian name that means 'who is like god', and we need to retain the letter 'm' for obvious reasons, i think it works well as a feminine alternative name. mello is relatively androgynous as an alias, if not slightly masculine, but i think it is fine given what i'm about to talk about.

mello's canonical gender expression is already nonconformative, so it is interesting to speculate what he would he look like if he were a girl. one of my absolute favourite genderbent depictions of mello is this piece by thekatzone because it still retains mello's visual ambiguity but in the opposite direction. i do think he would dress more masculine as a woman not only because his subversive appearance is a very significant aspect to his character, but also because of how it might relate to his position in the mafia.

mello spends a significant amount of time in the manga and anime in hypermasculine environments despite his presentation, and i think it is important to retain this idea even if he were to be genderbent. i do think mello would have had a much harder time, if it was at all possible, in attaining a leadership position within the mafia as a woman. the women who frequent the base are implied to be sex workers, and so i'm genuinely curious as to whether mello would have felt able to approach the organisation as a masculine presenting woman, or whether he'd seek out a different group. in which case, what would that group be? would he have been able to effectively carry out his insane plans in the same capacity?

i have very little doubt mello would still have been ambitious, but i actually don't think that he would have been able to pursue his goal to catch kira before near as he went about it in the series. certainly light would not have taken him seriously if the voice he heard down the phone was higher pitched, and that alone could have greatly impacted how sayu's kidnapping played out, as underestimating mello could have easily resulted in her death.

♀ matt -> apparently mail as a name means 'pleasant', and that is very funny to me. i quite like the name maille, which is irish, so fits nicely with a vague headcanon i haven't fully developed. i also learnt it is the name for a brand of mustard, and i think he would appreciate that. matt as a pseudonym might have to be changed to matilda, or martha.

while i am under no illusion that matt would be the kind of girl to give a shit about their appearance, i do think in another life, he would have made an excellent e-girl twitch streamer. i can imagine him wearing cat ear headphones and miniskirts, and referring to "chat" every five seconds. rest in peace, mail, you would have loved twitch subs.

regarding matt's gender identity in the canon series, i think that it worth considering how he might have responded differently to surveying others as a woman rather than as a man. i think matt's approach to watching others is very informed by his own personal biases, which I think are definitively masculine. The most clear example of this is how he describes misa as "an awfully cute japanese girl" which, while isn't necessarily the worst thing said about a woman in this godforsaken series, demonstrates that matt's perspective on women is superficial at best. this isn't helped either by the fact that he completely fucks up when guessing misa's age, even going so far as referring to her as a "child".

i think a female matt would probably feel the most overwhelmed of the three by societal expectations of women, and may even distance himself away from femininity. i'm not trying to suggest here that matt's comments imply he's misogynistic, but i actually think matt is the most masculine of the wammy's kids, which may be controversial, i don't know. i believe that he retains his masculine personality in this genderbent scenario.

♀ near -> i love the japanese pronunciation of near's name, nia, as a girl's name that he could use as an alias. natania has the same meaning as nate – 'gift of god' – which does not match his character at all, haha, but that is what i managed to come up with.

near is the easiest to consider gender swapping because to me, he's a girl anyway. you can point to his female voice actors in the anime, or his long hair in the 2020 manga one-shot, but he is also so clearly coded as a feminine character, a contrast from not only mello's aggressive impulsivity, but the masculine environment of law enforcement. with halle as a notable exception (who herself is very masculine, but another post, perhaps), near is markedly different from every other character in the series. some might say he resembles his predecessor, but i think they are very distinct from one another as characters.

my personal opinion relating to mello and near's gender identities (which you may disagree with) is that mello expresses his gender ambiguity externally whereas near does so internally. essentially, if we interpret them both as androgynous, mello's appearance is far more expressive of this, whereas near's behaviour is his more nonconformative trait. this can be a slightly tricky area to navigate as it's important not to dive headfirst into gender essentialism, but i think near's mannerisms can, and should, be explored here.

girl near would still be able to work as head of the spk, without the disadvantages girl mello would face to become head of the mafia. i really don't think there would be much in the way of significant plot deviance if near was female, other than maybe light freaking out over the fact he was caught by a woman, which would be very funny. in the one shot, near's internal androgyny has manifested itself as a more external expression, and i really like that decision.

to conclude, i do love the concept of the wammy's girls, and i think it invites some interesting discussions relating to how femininity is often dismissed in death note. there's a lot of creativity in genderbending characters. mello, matt and near each have complex and interesting traits that are very fun to explore when thinking about them from this perspective.

[niightniines]

it came to me in a dream

[qandnotu]

moshi moshi