Is it just me or Near was waaaaay more of a little shit when he was younger?
When the whole Light fiasco went down he was almost 17/18. So we have his own version of the teenager angst phase in fact he results meaner and less likeable than L.
When he was even younger he was told about his mentor death he said “If you can't beat the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser." Mello is visibly upset over this like many fans because it seems like a jab to L himself.
But after the Kira case it is stated that he started to work more like L, adopting his techniques and methods.
In the last one shot, there is a revelation:
He refuse to play the game. He didn’t try to catch this new “Kira”.
So given his earlier sentence, now he considers himself a loser. We see him more depressed, more “whatever” and when something happens he is “ ah, really? Cool man”.
My fellow fans, he is 29. He is a goddamn Millenial.
