#dntm

"Where is the justice is not an accurate portrayal of light yagami" yes go off "which is why the musical is bad" noooooooooo

thinking again of musical!soichiro's explicit opposition to L especially when he says "but don't traffic in this grief / In the name of eye for eye" in "there are lines" mostly because the thing is. for L. there are no lines. that's the point. L lives by "an eye for an eye." so you get this fascinating moment where soichiro is explicitly L's narrative foil and light's positioning in the narrative can be triangulated, i think, by who he says he's aligning himself with vs who he's really closer to in ideology and methods, and you can really understand light yagami if you look at him through the dialectic of soichiro and L. it's obvious that soichiro's lens is warped but L's camera, too, suffers from perspective warp and understanding light yagami means conjugating their blindspots. light is soichiro's son; suspicious but beloved, incapable of crime yet perpetrating it, living regardless by soichiro's sense of justice yet defying it. light has L's ruthlessness, his ego, his amorality, but L and light have wildly different presuppositions of justice/righteousness/seigi. you can find light yagami where L and soichiro overlap and where they contradict.