MARGOT TARRAKAN

Outcome 1: "The ideal and perfect ending"

Light continues to live the way he always did, wearing a mask. Luckily for him, it doesn't affect his mental health as much as it did in the manga. He finds a new purpose in police work and ends up meeting L the same way his dad did. He finally finds someone with whom he can let go of the mask.

Outcome 2: "The most realistic one in my opinion"

Light doesn't find the Death Note; therefore, he has no purpose and remains a shallow shell of a human, thinking that police work or "succeeding" (great paycheck, married to a beautiful and smart woman with kids who are also succeeding) in life will fulfill him. But then he is hit by the realization that nothing (and I mean it) will fill that void, so he ends up either filling it with an addiction something he used to think he would never let himself get that low (I would guess alcohol or self-harm ) and dies miserably. ( keep in mind that the self harming would also be adapted to his character don't think anything too obvious I'm talking about elaborated way to punish himself so that not another person would notice or help)

Outcome 3: "Pretty similar to number 2"

He continues the same pattern, but as the years go by, he realizes that he spent his whole life pretending to be something he isn't and will never truly be himself because deep down he doesn't even know if he is anything other than what everyone expects him to be. At first, he lives with it and believes he just needs to find a passion or something, but then again, after trying almost everything, boredom gets the best of him, and he kills himself. His suicide would have been a pure mystery to anyone close to him, shocking his family and everyone else. I don't believe he would leave a note because even then, I don't think he would find anything tangible to write down.

Okay, so now you might think that this was too much and pretty much OOC, and you might be right, but to me, Light without the Death Note, and most importantly, Light before the Death Note, was depressed. The only thing that stopped him from being as depressed as you may imagine someone with severe depression to "look like" is his ego and also (might be an unpopular opinion, I don't know) his will to please others. Light is somewhat of a people pleaser, not in the way you may think, but all he does and everything he does is a show, a performance to fit into the standards set for him and get that praise from others because he is hungry for admiration and love (not in a romantic way). But I also believe that eventually, after getting all the praise in the world, not a single one will be enough to quiet down the emptiness and sadness he has been hiding from everyone and mostly HIMSELF.

And you could argue that he would've continued his life as he was, faking being human, and you wouldn't be wrong. But I would also argue that Light, no matter how much he tries to gaslight others and himself, is a really emotional person. I find his character to be closer to Mello than Near, for instance. The only difference is him caring about others' opinions and not allowing outbursts. But when you see how easily he folds under pressure or even how quickly he gives in to the madness after having the Death Note, it shows you indirectly how he was actually on the verge of a breakdown before that Death Note came to him.