[ day 4 of @remisaweek: break all the rules | (very belatedly) also on ao3! ]
Misa, Rem is learning at extremely rapid velocities, cares not for the concept of speed limits.
"Aw, don't look so worried," she tosses over her shoulder, voice raised to conquer the wind rushing through the sunroof: "you can fly, you know, it's basically the same!"
"We could crash," Rem stresses for the fourth time, claws digging into the open sunroof's edge; and oh, it's terrifying, how Misa's careless laughter soars along the membrane of Rem's wings into the sky like a page torn from a spine — "Well you wouldn't!" — like that's supposed to make Rem feel better; like Misa doesn't already know it makes everything worse.
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"near had everything from L's research" NO NO HE DIDNT. WHY WOULD HE EVEN NEED AIZAWA AS A DOUBLE AGENT THEN
EVEN IF HE DID HAVE THE EVIDENCE HE ALSO SET MIKAMI UP. MIKAKI WASN'T EVEN INTRODUCED UNTIL AFTER L DIED.
SO, WITH NO INFORMATION, HE FOUND 2 KIRAS!
"HE HAD UNLIMITED MONEY!" AND L DIDNT? HE WAS ABLE TO BUY A WHOLE SKYSCRAPER FOR AN HQ!
"NEAR HAD A TEAM" L HAD THE TASKFORCE, WATARI, HE COULD'VE CONTACTED KIDS AT WAMMY'S TO WORK REMOTELY SO THEY AREN'T IN DANGER! HE LITERALLY BROUGHT AIBER AND WEDY OUT OF NOWHERE I'M SURE HE COULD HAVE HAD MORE PEOPLE! HE ALSO COULD'VE JUST CONTACTED NAOMI WHO IS A PAST COWORKER OF WHICH HE TRUSTS! HE CHOSE TO NOT HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE BECAUSE HE'S TOO CONFIDENT!
I’m lowkey curious who tf is supposed to succeed Near once he dies. Cuz I’m assuming Wammy’s house is still running smoothly by the time his heart stops beating
Problematic because: "Murder, aiding Light Yagami."
Propaganda: "Cute unassuming villain trope is wonderful for her, cool gothic aesthetic, super devoted to a fault. Cute enough for a god of death to yearn for her. Iconic."
vs. Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Problematic because: "Helping her father take over the world, many war crimes, tries really hard to kill a twelve year old and her brother"
Propaganda: 1. "She's 14 and her own mom hated her. Creative, strategic, lonely"
2. "She's only 14 and she's literally been groomed to be this way her whole life. It's not her fault she's a prodigy and her father is the template for evil jerk. That girl just needs a hug."
3. "She is 14 years old and she has had such a messed up life and she is making it everyone else’s problem. She is a firebending prodigy and she thinks the only way to be loved is to be the one with the most power over others. She is whip smart yet cannot see that making everyone fear her drives them away. Her father raised her to be a weapon and wields her without regard to how it affects her. She is a useful tool for him to use to conquer the world and it destroys her. She thinks her mother didn’t love her and she thinks her brother is weak because he is kind and she is left with no one and nothing and she is 14 years old"
Who should advance?
Misa Amane
Azula
Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours
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ages ago (i mean, at least a year) i saw someone on reddit saying they couldn’t buy that L was on the case only for the thrill because no one would risk their life for a thrill, and someone else replied that well people do do that, in real life in fact, and the first person replied to be (politely) like well i just don’t think a world class detective would be that shallow. <- i’m paraphrasing here so it might not even be the word they used but it keeps sticking to me, the concept of shallowness. i suppose thrill seeking does look shallow from the outside. your desperation to die is a a desperation for enough stimulation to want to live. you want to live. you’re sick of how many times you’ve felt like you were going to die (chapter 38) you play the game anyway. shallow. i don’t think wanting to live is shallow. i don’t think wanting to die is shallow either. of course you may be fueled by other things entirely this is just a hypothetical, right, you love hypotheticals. (you do not. you need destinations.) the above hypothetical depiction i guess isn’t shallow the way they meant it because there’s some attempt at interiority examination involved (haha) but isn’t that true for every motive. wouldn’t a more ‘righteous’ one be just as shallow if left unexamined. do you mean shallow or do you mean unpleasant. does it scare you to watch someone keep betting their life when you can’t see the pot. justice for thrill-seeking (haha x2)
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in a not-Conan scenario, to me, Ran would watch death note and see L die and think to herself, "what a loser. Shinichi would have solved this" and then rewatch the first part and call Shinichi every other minute to ask him what he would do in xyz situation, but without actually telling him that she's watching a show, and Shinichi would sort of freak out 'cause maybe she's speaking in code and she's in danger or something and so he would run over to her house or wherever she's watching this show at, just to find her on the couch, taking notes. then a sigh of relief on his part, her being flustered and Sonoko's waking up confused would follow. he then leaves while the camera pans over to her notes saying that "Shinichi would've died too" and for the following days or weeks, Ran would be so overprotective and paranoid, especially if he sees him crouching down, until he catches on and comforts her, saying that L died only because Shinigami are real. they are not in their reality, so there's nothing to fear ! he's the best detective and nothing can defeat him ! then they part ways as an ill-omened light illuminates him
[ID: Death Note fanart video that starts with Light curled on his side in bed, covering his ears, dead-eyed as colorful lights flash over him. We zoom out to see L is crouching beside him and watching a music video intently. The camera switches to over L’s shoulder to reveal he is watching the Caramelldansen music video of cartoon girls dancing. (His webcam is taped over.) The colorful lights keep flashing as L grins, putting a thumb to his mouth, while Light sits up next to him and the camera zooms in on his furious glare.]
you mentioned something about only having seen 3 anime which surprised me for whatever reason lmao. what kind of media are you typically drawn towards ? e.g. books, video games, musicals?? :]
LMAO YEAH the only anime franchises i'm particularly invested in are death note + spy x family + detective conan, and none of them even really count because for the first two i read the manga and for detco i watch the movies (sorry detco fans T_T one day i will get the manga I Swear.)
i'd have trouble picking what medium's my favorite but for 'drawn towads' it's definitely musical! i love musicals!!! i would die for musicals!!!!! i haven't actually experienced that many but i always get this overwhelming rush of emotion that is just not present in any other form of media. i like Music a lot more than i like Visuals or Text, i suppose. i got into both death note and aceatt (previous fixation) through their musicals hahaha
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Been reading your Near and Light fics and i love how you write them especially since they're from Near pov. It's rare that people write about them. Do you mind writing a meta about their relationship? Only if you want to and have the time for it ofc! No pressure!
hi thank you!! this is such a great question and it's something i think about constantly.
SO my personal feeling is that light and near are each other's foils & that this is the driving force behind the second arc.
near is often seen as L 2.0 and i do understand this, but imo he could more accurately be described as an ideal reflection of light. by the second arc, light is really a shadow of his former self -- he's bitter and barely interested in his own actions. i don't think he ever stopped believing in his mission, but he works towards it with a sense of jaded duty rather than the idealism he'd had as a teenager.
as a teenager, he describes kira as a pure and affluent child. i think we can see this as the way he views himself.
youth and a certain degree of protection from the more complicated aspects of the world is important to him -- he sees naiveté as a strength rather than a deficit.
near's age is never explicitly stated in the main series, but i think we can assume he is within the age range light describes here. he is affluent, and he has been isolated for the majority of his life -- i don't think the wammy house or his time hunting down kira was necessarily a pleasant existence, but it's certain that he was surrounded by people who cared for all his material needs, and that he was exposed to criminality and suffering only in the high-level way that light was. (light spend much of his childhood helping his father solve difficult crimes; in theory he would have been exposed to abstract but severe violence.)
he is of course opposing light, but the way he views the world is actually fairly similar. light thinks the world he grew up in is untenable and he advocates safety at all costs; near things the world he grew up in is untenable and he advocates freedom at all cost. totally different conclusions, but they come from the same place of an insistence on ideological impurity.
during light's speech in the warehouse, near never argues that kira isn't doing good for the world -- only that kira's methods are impure. whether or not kira benefits people is of no interest to him.
likewise, light never actually argues that it's right for him to kill people, and in fact often brings up the possibility that it isn't. he just doesn't care because he feels the outcome is righteous. it's 'the ends justify the means' vs 'the means justify the ends.' neither of them are willing to consider any nuance or the practical implications of their actions. both of them consider themselves capable of making moral decisions for the whole world.
which is all just to say: they are incredibly similar people who oppose each other specifically because their views differ but their mindset is essentially the same. i think part of the reason light resents near so vividly (whereas he sees mello only as a person who is in the way) is that near reminds him of a version of himself that was left behind. they have imo a fascinating tension between them -- there's a lot to be done with that relationship.
u always have great takes so when u tagged "not romantic or platonic were just the same person" with moon river i was soo intrigued, if u have the time id love to be enlightened by your vision
HELLO THANK YOU unfortunately my takes on moonriver are incredibly incredibly vibe-based i just feel this way… i really like this post about near and arc-2 light parallels though! they also get paralleled a lot by the panels and such, especially near the end.
someone described death note once as a series where "genius" is depicted with "all the geniuses in this series share a brain" which is extremely fair (and hilarious) but i do think light and near share one most because sometimes they literally don't even talk, they just sit there in silence telepathically communicating:
and of course there is the title of chapter 89 which is also the title for the entire eleventh volume of death note:
ohba says they named it this because near and light both feel they should go to japan to continue their battle, as in "they feel similarly in this specific moment" and not because near and light ARE kindred spirits, but still i think it's fun!
and in the personality sense, other than what that meta talks about, i personally think of both arc 2 light and near as… going through the motions of their life? neither of them consider each other a proper enemy and both of them have a disconnect with their goals. near is doing this for L (the abstract concept) and light is doing this for his mission that, with the death of his dad, he isn't even all that sure is the greatest idea anymore. but they do very passionately hate each other and want to stop each other for good so that's like, some spark of life in the middle of it all, i guess. it's something nice for both of them. it's addictive. it gets mello and kiyomi killed.
i'm just very fond of how entangled they get in this rivalry while not really caring about each other as people whatsoever lmao like for me it speaks to their views of themselves? they both see each other as a symbol more than a human because that's what they see themselves as, too.
