#second kira

the og creator was @devoureroftoast but i cant find them

over the course of the past few years, i have seen alot of people going as far to say that they hate misa amane and it bothers me. don’t get me wrong, you’re allowed to dislike a character, but i’ve realised that alot of the people that dislike her don’t have any *valid* reasons for disliking her. for example, i’ve seen the people that don’t like her diluting her character down to her being “annoying” and shoving her character aside because they aren’t willing to look deeper and acknowledge how well-written she is. a lot of people see that she’s dependent on a man and immediately say that she’s a bad representation for women, which i don’t entirely disagree with. parts of her character are extremely lacking compared to the male characters in the manga, but that’s not the point of this thread. my point is that she does have good writing that i think alot of women can resonate with if they simply looked further than the surface.

from the very beginning, we can see that misa amane is extremely mentally ill. from the way that she behaves in general to the way that she reacts to the death happening around her. she’s mentally ill, and she has problems with empathy (as we can see when she kills innocent people to get what she desires). this is a large contributing factor to why people see her as annoying. alot of people complain about her “falling in love” with light too fast for all the wrong reasons. which is true, but i think alot of people dismiss the fact that this is caused by mental illness. when you’re mentally ill, you get too attached to the wrong people too fast. you depend on people that don’t care about you, because it makes you feel like you have something to live for and something you can lean on. this isn’t the case with all mentally ill people, but i do believe that it was the case with misa. she confused her admiration for kira with her “love” for light. these feelings can grow out of control when the person you’re “in love” with is not well suited to deal with these situations.

i know what it sounds like, i know that i seem like i’m blaming this on light. i’m not, i’m simply pointing out the effect he had on misa as a person/character. after he got the death note and by the time he met misa, he had one thing on his mind and i think we can all agree that it wasn’t romance. he didn’t love her, he never did. he saw her as a tool and treated her as such. because he wanted to use her, he encouraged her behaviour, allowing her to “love” him without doing much to stop it. in an enviroment like this, mental illness grows. it doesn’t stop, it spirals into worse habits and makes the ill more irrational than they every could’ve been. what’s even worse is the emotional abuse light put misa through. i’m not calling light an abuser, but he did 100% show abusive behaviours in his relationship with misa. misa craved closeness, she wanted a connection and wanted to be loved. she wanted nothing more than to have an actual relationship with light, and she was willing to do anything to achieve that. light knew that and he used it to his advantage. he gave her affection when she was of use to him, and neglected her when she wasn’t. this sort of relationship causes a reward system in your head: if you do what they want, you’ll get something in return. it convinces you that you have to *earn* being treated like a human, which is what mindset misa was in (”i’ll try my hardest to make you love me, i promise”). that was why she was so eager to do whatever light wanted her to do, causing her to be “annoying” or “obsessive”. if light had never entertained her and would’ve simply left it alone (which was probably impossible, i acknowlegde that), she wouldn’t have gotten as annoying. the infactuation she had with kira would’ve went away with time, and she would’ve been able to heal.

lastly, i’ve seen a lot of people ridicule her because “she seriously killed herself over a guy that didn’t care about him?”. which is a stupid complaint, i think anybody who hates misa can agree with that. she was “in love” with light for over twelve years. she had no one else, we don’t see her associating with anyone else the way she does with light. she spent over 12 years dedicating her entire life to light and being entirely dependent on him.

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"Baby, you have to pay in this way or another Whether you can cry or not Oh, how sad to face the judgement Unprepared to meet your god"

Ok hear me out.

Light being all original Kira and Sayu being the second Kira, but without the eyes. And we see both of them trying to idk outdo/ impress each other and on the other hand we see them being siblings. The amount of fun Ryuk would have !!

L: Gray.

Light: Gray.

Misa: Gray.

Aizawa: Now tell me, Matsuda, what color did you think my shirt was?