ཐི KIRA ཋྀ

Death note 🍎

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closest call light has had up to this point. extremely suspenseful episode/chapters

it was hinted at with light staring raye down in the subway but naomi's death drives in how much light loves telling people he's kira right before they die which is a critical character trait right up to the end

furthers the themes of suicide and suicidal ideation that death note so loves

first (only?) person to call light and L similar out loud to light's face

first person to have a direct connection to and grief for one of kira's victims. light and L's points of view are extremely narrowed in on the game and naomi forces the world to widen and show that the mass murder has actual impact on real people caught up in their wake

first person light has to use significant social manipulation on - i'm not counting yuri because she wasn't the component on which his spaceland plan rested. demonstrates for the first time the extent of light's ability to mask as boy-next-door

most sympathetic victim yet. was even less of a direct threat to light's life than raye was, plus she's acting out of grief for her fiance. demonstrates for the first time the extent of light's cruelty

"What a beautiful way to kill"

sorry i took so long to respond, but i still really wanna say thankyou so much for your kind words !! it really does mean a whole lot to me, and makes me so happy ^_^

i think this is my first time drawing a catboy

One of the more interesting ones is the tie between sweets and queerness. From what I have read, sweets are seen as the domain of women and young children while spice and alcohol are seen as the domain of men. This is the reason why it was (and still is) such a common trope for straight ML to dislike sweets. Likewise, this is also the reason why the imagery of sweets is so common in queer works as a whole. For there still seems to be this perception of feminity = queerness.

So the choice to depict both L and Mello with sweets, seems to carry this connotation of being feminine/unmasculine, which could then be seen as queerness. The obvious rebutal to this is that the sweets are actually there to symbolize their childishness. While I do think this is a valid point, there is also the need to consider that there are other characters in the series who are described/seen as childish, but are not as consistently depicted with sweets. Mainly Light and Near come to mind.

There is definetly more to be said on this topic, but I'll leave that for the big essay.