Luna

@amtrak-official

So, Light Is obviously an evil person, in colloquial sense, but saying that his awfulness is an “obvious” psychopath trait implies that a “normal” person has zero capabilities to do it to begin with and should not worry about themselves. Of course I’m not saying that “most people in his case will do the same” I actually think the minority will, but still his actions are basically a result of the same mentality: he believed that there are “bad” people and “good”, so he couldn’t believe himself to have done something bad and went out of way to make it worth it

so, what I’m trying to say, making statements “psychopath = does bad things” and “does bad things = psychopath” interchangeable badly affects the capability of properly analyzing yourself, because you can always say “well, i’m not a psychopath, so I will never be a bad person!”. And when “other person” is not yourself, claiming their behavior on a personality disorder is much more easier, which prevents as to understand others as well. Not to immediately forgive for awful things, but to actually understand the roots of them, instead of claiming that this is a “personality disorder thing” cuz “normal person would never”

You’re not reading too far into it at all, I don’t think. Well said. People are calling Light a psychopath not because they truly understand psychological disorders or what defines them, but because they want a fancy term to describe his actions that implicates something even more egregious, serious and terrible than “asshole” or “evil” and separate themselves from that. Even Light feels the need to separate himself from himself, hilariously and sadly enough:

But him simply being an asshole is far, far worse than him being a psychopath. Light KNOWS better. His actions go against his innate AND engrained sense of right and wrong, and his conscience pricks him hard to the point of nightmares, rapid weight loss, nervous laughter and cold sweats. But he STILL does what’s wrong anyway and STILL justifies it being right.

I don’t know why people feel like Light having a human and emotional response to his situation instead of just being a natural born serial killer waiting to be unleashed is less satisfactory.

Light is ‘normal’ (in the way he’s not a unfeeling psychopath like some people say) and that’s terrifying. We want to believe only ‘not people’ can do horrible things but in reality *all* of us can do terrible horrible things if given the right circumstances.

I think light definitely had a corruption arc in the most literal sense, I don’t think it was supernatural in any way, just what happens when you give someone, especially someone who handles doing something bad as well as he does, the power over life and death.

The light we see at the start of deathnote is not the same at all as the one we see at the end of it. He spiraled *badly*

Light(my analysis of him) is a very flawed character that has done horrible things, but he's also a very complex character with some strengths and fics are always better (for me) when they acknowledge ALL of his character, not just his negatives.

I would love to info dump/talk about his character (it's one of my special interests) in your ams if you don't mind 👉👈 - @lunar6death

Fellow Light Bashing Disliker 🤝

There are plenty of fics that I think characterize Light incorrectly, whether too far in the bashing direction or too far in the woobification direction—though I get where they're coming from in both cases. Some people dislike Light and thus want to write him with his flaws exaggerated, and some people love Light and thus want to write him with his flaws diminished or non-existent. (I am also guilty of this but usually for Shigaraki Tomura specifically 😶‍🌫️). We already have several tags for the latter (Sweet Yagami Light, Good Yagami Light, etc etc) but we don't currently have any for the former, and you're right, it does make it kind of a jumpscare lmao.

I might expand on what exactly should be under the Bashing tag later, I think. Because with Light I don't think a lot of people even realize they're doing it; or even if they do, they don't tag it because everyone already knows Light is Bad and Evil anyway so it's a moot point. Even though it's,,,,very much not :')

Light stans - either the politest person you've ever met or the most self-absorbed and cocky you've ever met. Usually easy to get along with because they care more about being liked than being correct. Good student vibes as well

L stans - more difficult to get along with than Light stans because they care more about being correct than being liked. Think a good conversation is about offering counter-arguments and finding points on which you differ rather than finding some common ground to stand on. Also skittish about things like having prolonged conversations one-on-one

Mello stans- the most fiesty and argumentative people in the fandom, which can sometimes bring the fun and also sometimes bring the fights. Some seem kinda distrusting of other fans who are too overly proper or polite?

Near stans - either very quiet and mostly staying in their own corners or very stubborn and opinionated. Hard for me to befriend because they aren't usually that social and also usually hate Light

Misa stans - outgoing, emotional, fun, I don't have any beef with them but I also never seem to strongly vibe with them