we dig our own graves

[ID: Death Note art of Misa, Light, and L as headshots. Misa grins and winks against a background of pink tree branches with heart-shaped fruits dangling around her. Light smiles against a background of spider lilies. L smiles and holds up a forkful of strawberry against a blackground of blue roses.]

[ID: Death Note art of Beyond Birthday in a black long-sleeved shirt, his eyes dark red. He wears a very slight smile as he says into a walkie-talkie, "This indicates that the traitor is very likely operating from within."]

[ID: Official Death Note manga art of Rem flying determinedly forward, carrying a smiling Misa in her arms.]

[ID: Official art of Mello in profile frowning with one finger pressed against his nose, juxtaposed against a tilted chart of various exponential decay functions showing that the one that fits his bob closest is in fact e to the power of negative five x.]

through an incredible stroke of luck i discovered an L noodle stopper in a secondhand store recently and got it and ive been carrying it and its annoyed(?) expression around from room to room every day and my dad was like you really like that thing huh and i was like yeah sure

really love a corruption arc where the character is trying way too hard to make it work but they're in over their head and it's uncomfortable and embarrassing and they're swallowing their own puke every time they do something awful and damp with sweat and trembling but insistent that they can do this, they want it, they're not a child, but it's like they're playing dressup in clothes that are too big for them and trying to convince their own reflection in the mirror that they fit and it's just no fun to watch at all

+ then they find inside them a capacity for cruelty far more upsettingly vicious than anyone could have imagined and decide that because they enjoy how unafraid it makes them feel for the first time in as long as they can remember it must have been their true nature all along instead of something that had to be starved in the dark until it grew desperate enough to claw its way out 🙂‍↕️