#source: death note

[papermariosuggestion]

As you may have guessed, Mr. L is a world-renowned detective.

[ssj2hindudude]

Christmas Headcanon: Santa Claus Origin

*Nicholas chuckling at the list of names he found*

Krampus: You've taken quite a liking to it.

*Nick screams and falls over.*

Krampus: No reason to act surprised. I am the demon, Krampus. That used to be my list. Judging by your laughter, you've already figured out that what you have is no ordinary list.

Nick: A demon, huh? Well, I'm not surprised. In fact… Krampus, I've been waiting for you.

Krampus: Oh?

Nick: I've already figured out that this List that I've found is real. It didn't take me long. And now that I've witnessed the proof of its power, I only feel more confident in what I'm gonna do.

Krampus: That's interesting. I certainly wasn't expecting this. Several Lists have made their way into the human world in the past, but you're the first to have written this many names. Look at how many people you’ve labeled in only five days. Most are reluctant to write this much.

Nick: I've already prepared myself, Krampus. I used the List even though I knew it belonged to a Demon, and now that Demon has come. So what will happen to me? You're here to take my soul, right?

Krampus: Hmm, what do you mean? Is that some fantasy you humans came up with? I'm not gonna do anything to you. The List becomes part of the human realm from the very moment it touches the earth. In other words, the List is now yours.

Nick: This… is mine?

Krampus: If you don't want it, just give it to someone else. But if you give it away, I'd have no choice but to erase your memories of the List.

Nick: So, then, you're saying I can use the List all I want and I won't be punished?

Krampus: Let's just say this, you will feel the fear and pain known only to humans who have used the List. And when it's your time to be deemed Naughty or Nice, it will fall on me to write your name in my List. Be warned, any human who's used a List can neither go to heaven nor hell for eternity. That's all. *Laughs* Now you have something to look forward to after you die.

Nick: I just have one more question I wanna ask you. Why was I chosen for this? *Krampus devours two candy canes* Hey, are you even listening?

Krampus: Candy Canes in the human world are worth the trip. What's the best way to describe these? Minty?

Nick: Just answer my question!

Krampus, scoffs: I didn't choose you. Don't you see? This is all just an accident. You actually thought you were chosen because you're so smart or something? Don't be so vain. It just happened to fall around here, and you just happened to pick it up. And that's all there is to it. That's why I wrote the instructions in English, the most popular language in the human world.

Nick: Then why did you drop it in the first place? You even wrote down specific instructions, so don't try telling me this was an accident!

Krampus: You're asking me why? I did it 'cause I was bored.

Nick: You were bored?

Krampus: The truth is Demons haven't got much to do these days. Most of the time we're either taking naps or gambling or occasionally kidnapping bad children. If you take the time to write names in your List, the others just laugh at you for working so hard. Even if you wrote the name of another Demon, it'd be pointless because they don't celebrate Christmas. And since we live in the Demon Realm, it brings us no amusement to punish those in the human world either. So I figured I'd have more fun if I came down here myself. Anyway, I'm surprised at how many names you've written, but I wanna know why you only wrote that the kid who hit the other with a toy truck was naughty and not the reason why.

Nick: If you don't write down the reason, the kid just gets coal and nothing else happens to him, and that's probably the best thing about the List, Krampus. You see, I've already exhausted the list of the worst kids in my town, and eventually, I'm going to cure them all.

Krampus: What's the point of doing that?

Nick: It's only a matter of time before people figure out that these kids are getting coal from someone. I want the world to know of my existence. That there's someone passing righteous judgement on the wicked!

Krampus: Why even bother? What are you trying to achieve by passing judgement on them. I mean, why do you care?

Nick: Because… I've been bored too. I wasn't ready to believe it at first, but it's obvious now. There's something about the List itself that makes humans want to try it out at least once.

Nick: Besides, who am I to pass judgement on others? Uhh… no, no wait. Maybe I'm wrong. This is exactly what I've been thinking about lately. This world is getting naughty, and those who are making it so deserve no gifts. Someone has to do it, so why not me? Even if it means sacrificing my own mind and soul, it's worth it. Because the world can't go on like this.

Nick: I've wondered… what if someone else picked up this list. Is there anyone out there, other than me, who would be willing to fix the brats of the world? If I don't do it, then who will? That's just it; there's no one, but I can do it. In fact, I'm the only one who can. I'll do it, using the List, I'll change the world.

Nick: At first, I wrote the names of the worst kids I could think of. Like I was cleaning up the world, one name at a time, so that eventually no one will ever do anything naughty again. And while the truly guilty ones who deserve to be punished for their crimes get coal for Christmas, the people who are less guilty but who still make trouble for others will slowly be cured through gifts of itchy sweaters and socks. That's why I check the List twice. Then and only then the world will start moving in the right direction. It'll be a new world, free of injustice, and populated by children who I've judged to be honest, kind, and hardworking.

Krampus: But if you did that, it would make you the only naughty person left.

Nick: Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a hard working toy maker considered to be one of the North Pole's best and brightest. And I… I will become the Saint of this New World.

Krampus: It's just as I thought, humans are so interesting...

[incorrect-frozen-quotes]

Kristoff: You're not much help.

Olaf: No, I'm not.

[chodzacaparodia]

Sakusa: I can’t develop feelings. That’s how most idiots screw up.

*Atsumu appears* Sakusa: Shit.

[incorrectcampcampbellquotes]

Snake: Your hair smells different than it used to. Tabii: That's actually really... creepy. Snake: I'm... creepy?

[kiarcheo]

Anne: I’m not sure why I never noticed this until now, but you’re quite the positive thinker.

Jane: Yeah, of course I am. I have to be in this family of cynics and sociopaths.

Anna: She’s got you there.

[incorrectuksies]

katherine: i’m not sure why i never noticed this until now, but you’re quite the positive thinker.

davey: yeah, of course i am. i have to be in this group of cynics and sociopaths.

henry: he’s got you there.

[angels-and-demons]

Hades, giving Nico a life lesson: You don't kill a man just to buy a clue. This is not a plan Lawmen can pursue.

Nico, trying to butter up his father: Father, you know that I feel as you do for these lessons I learned at your knee, and I think maybe by working with you... Helping you will be helpful for me.

Hades: You don't kill someone-!

Nico: You don't kill someone-!

Hades: As a substitute.

Nico: As a substitute!

Hades: You don't load a gun;

Nico: You don't-!

Both: Close your eyes, and shoot!

Hades: You don't kill a man, just to read the signs.

Nico: That's no better than bad that good defines.

Hades: Never cross these lines...

Nico: Never cross these lines!

Both: Never cross these lines

[incorrectbartimaeusquotes]

Ascobol: Bartimaeus is acting stupid again. Nathaniel: Well, that is his specialty. Bartimaeus: I can hear you, you know.

[vamphorica]

Because I hate being happy for more than two hours at a time, I've been considering to what extent Matt knew that Takada's kidnapping was a suicide mission.

I've been looking at this screenshot while I've been using it as a reference for a drawing and given that the poor boy is only designated sixty-nine seconds of screentime in the anime, I think it is interesting that there's a substantial pause on this specific frame. Matt is surrounded by Takada's bodyguards, unable to get out of the predicament he has found himself in. At this point, he believes there are two possible outcomes: he will either be arrested, or shot dead. You could interpret his expression here as apathetic, as that is how he tends to be characterised, but he sits in his car and looks out towards the row of headlights for about seven seconds. He considers his situation, acknowledging the number of men pointing their guns at him, and then he leaves his car.

The question is, did it occur to him then, or had he known beforehand, that his death was inevitable? Remember – Matt is one of a few characters in Death Note to be killed 'traditionally'. Should we take the Shinigami Eyes into consideration here, we have to assume that Matt is fated to die at this exact moment in time, regardless of circumstance. There is nothing that would have saved him from his demise that day.

However, I do wonder if, at nineteen years old, he is truly apathetic about his own life. I genuinely believe Mello sees his own death as an inevitable sacrifice, but I am not so convinced that Matt actually cares enough about defeating Kira to lay his life down for the cause alone. The manga suggests he leaves his car almost immediately upon being caught, and his final words, sadly, suggest a lack of foresight about the gravity of danger he is in.

Kira's world is not one in which justice prevails as Light envisioned, but rather it is an autocratic reign of terror. There is absolutely no chance in which Matt would be detained in a society in which death is considered the appropriate solution to crime. He is a Wammy's boy, but even if he had not have been associated with the House, Matt would have still been aware that his risk of death is heightened exponentially through his association with Mello alone.

In the anime, when Matt looks out the window of his car, we hear his inner monologue. Nonchalant, there is no fear to be heard in Drew Nelson's performance of the lines, and Matt's awareness of his impending death is presented as being limited. Is it an act? Or is Matt portrayed as lacking self awareness to such an extreme extent? Perhaps to 'justify' Matt's position as the third successor to L, Ohba felt the need to present Matt as ignoring the inevitable, but at least to me, this feels like it greatly undermines his intelligence. He may not be competing against Mello and Near, but that does not negate the fact he was still raised in the same institution that they were. All the children are freakishly smart, that is the whole point.

Did Mello propose the plan to kidnap Takada to Matt with the acknowledgement that they were both likely to be killed? Mello's final thoughts in the manga and anime are asking Matt for forgiveness, his death apparently unanticipated by the former, which feels like a failure in writing the deaths of these two in a manner that reflected who they were.

Matt is, by all accounts, a fandom project rather than a fully developed character within the Death Note canonical universe, but we are aware that Matt was created for Mello. I hardly expect Death Note to explore the intricacies of such themes in the series (particularly given, as much as I hate to admit it, Mello and Matt are not the main characters within the franchise). However, even with the rather minimal source material provided to us by both manga and anime, we are made aware that the two have a very unique relationship. They know each other intimately, and Matt does not fear Mello as many of the other characters in the series do.

Mello does not want Matt to die. He values Matt and while one could attribute the gratitude for him to the popular fan narrative that Matt is the one to look after Mello after the explosion, or indeed the idea that the two are in a relationship, their interactions with one another already set up their alliance as one that appears to transcend the regular boundaries of friendship. Again, I'm pulling a lot from fanon here, I know. Take it up with Ohba.

Narratively, if Mello has to die, so too does Matt. Ohba could not foresee this character that is so dependent on another to live beyond him. Yet I simply refuse to believe that Mello would have placed someone so important to him in a compromising position where the likelihood that he will be killed is almost certain. As much as I believe that Mello's final thoughts being directly addressed to the deceased Matt demonstrates an important ode to their relationship, I cannot understand how Mello would have been shocked to hear of Matt's death, given the risk.

We know Mello was fully aware that he was going to die that night. If he did not die, Near would have, and I think to Mello that would have been the greatest loss he could have suffered in their ongoing conflict. Regardless of whether you believe Mello cared about Near to any extent or not, I genuinely cannot imagine Mello would have been happy to succeed as L had it been attained through Near's 'sacrifice'. I am actually exploring an AU of this very idea in a fanfiction I intend to publish early next year, in case you're interested, haha.

This returns to the question as to when Matt realises he is not surviving this mission. Presumably Mello asked for his cooperation, and in doing so, he would have had to explain the plan to Matt which, quite frankly, reveals Mello's intent to die as soon as it is advantageous to do so. Given that Mello did not want Matt to be killed, did Mello reassure Matt that he had created the plan to guarantee his safety? Did Matt believe him? Was Mello deliberately vague, only telling Matt that he needed to set off the smoke gun, then hit the gas and get away from Takada's security team?

As far as I can tell, there is no reason as to why Mello would have been dishonest with Matt, explaining what he was planning to do and why. Perhaps he even suggested to Matt that he could find someone else to take on his position, given the danger he anticipated they would be in. Matt is, as I think the series makes clear, very loyal to Mello, and so I doubt such a proposal was even considered, but I think it is safe to assume that if Mello knew how this plan would end, so too would Matt, whether Mello explicitly told him or not. He would have figured it out.

When Matt and Mello part ways for the final time, not shown to us in either the manga or the anime, they both know that they are saying their last goodbye to one another. I think Mello hopes that Matt will survive somehow, experience a Kira-free world and move on with his life, but I believe Matt knows, well before he got caught, that there is no escape from the inevitability of his death.

Maybe, when he steps out of the car, confronted by the 'big guns', he holds out a little faith that at least he might see Mello again soon.

[horreurscopes]

i like my body when it is with your body.

[echoes-lighthouse]

A very dark-shaded demiboy flag!! (from the standard transparent png of L)

Reblog with your f/o and I'll colourpick a pride flag from them!!! Feel free to specify one, otherwise I'll just go with the colours I see on them ^-^

Example: Jester and pansexual flag from her outfit! Which happens to be my headcanon for her sexuality so it's perfect <3 <3

[incorrect-frozen-quotes]

Elsa: I’m not sure why I never noticed this until now, but you’re quite the positive thinker.

Anna: Yeah, of course I am. I have to be in this family of cynics and sociopaths.

Olaf: She’s got you there.

[captainhysunstuff]

Light comes up with a brilliant plan to avoid their "bad ending" during the rain scene (inspired by/stolen from the Steven Universe episode "Fusion Cuisine": scene link). Light's final quote is also from "Giant Woman~".

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[incorrectcampcampbellquotes]

Snake: But Pikeman's friend said that - Petrol: Wait, there's no way that's true. Pikeman doesn't have any friends.

[night-lie]

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