Jun 16
The idea of a "Near but literally a baby" is something that feels baffling to me with how entirely absent that behavior is from Death Note.
Thing is, Near's never been childish despite having a special interest in toys — presenting Near as someone acting like a child thus is nothing but an ableist assumption. This inescapable infantilization brings along a particular softening of personality, mellowing down of all complex emotion into one incomprehensible "basically, sweet and cute" that I personally cannot stand.
Near is an asshole. A lying, cheating, difficult, often rude one at that. It's funny to me how frequently it's ignored.
