Rem was in lesbians with Misa

a Matsuda face from a piece I'm scrapping ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

geddit it’s because ʰᵉ'ˢ ᴬᵐᵉʳᶦᶜᵃⁿ

a digital drawing of a comic about the SPK in 2020. the first panel is of near opening a kinder surprise egg, and thinking “oh, a toy! neat”. 

the second panel is of rester and lidner behind near, holding him at gunpoint telling him to drop the egg. in front of everyone else, gevanni is on the floor with tearstreaks saying, “oh god he’s gonna choke!”

in the middle of all this, near looks serene. and to illustrate this, he has flowers drawn around him and a pleased expression on his face.

Yess, I love kiddo!L and Watari bonding <3

Light’s God complex is a defense mechanism—he’s been raised to be “the perfect son” in a police family and to have a very black and white worldview.

He literally cannot cope with the idea that he’s become a murderer.

Especially since he sees no reason why SHINSEKAI NO KAMI should be a little ambitious as a life goal. The “I’m the best honors student in Japan so I am definitely qualified to be god *big shiny eyes!!!!!!*” thing is funny, but what’s behind that is the fact that he’s handsome and clever and athletic and he was more athletic before he realized his parents disapproved but admittedly that’s headcanon, and all the feedback he gets from the world says that he’s the best. We see that idea in action when he gives his practice test results to Sachiko. He ranked first nationwide but he seems to take that for granted by now.

He is literally incapable of being able to handle the very idea of making a big mistake. Yes, the mistake in this case is murder, and the intent/thought process behind it doesn’t erase the consequence, but it was still a mistake, and he’s completely unprepared as a young person to deal with that. He spends that whole week rationalizing the incidents because he has to, because he has to figure out a way to be okay with what happened without having to change his own view of himself (which, psychologically-speaking, would be like stabbing yourself in the gut). And, as we see, he does.

In other words, his response to retroactively brand it as part of a larger goal to kill all criminals, and therefore continue killing criminals endlessly in order to make it so, is all about psychological self-preservation. If he was planning to kill criminals and make the world a better place anyway, then his accidental deaths were not a mistake, but a pilot trial. He didn’t make mistakes like all teens do because he’s much, much better than that. Killing criminals isn’t a mistake – he doesn’t make mistakes, and in fact, he’s the only one good enough for the job of judgement on this scale. He’s above them, above all humans in fact. Why, he must be God!