Okay, But How Does Light Yagami Get Around??? Im Rewatching Death Note And His Eyes Are Shut Like Half

Okay, but how does Light Yagami get around??? I’m rewatching Death Note and his eyes are shut like half the time??? How haven’t you tripped and died, son???

honestly i think the idea that light’s classmates liked him because he was cool is basically untrue. there is no possible universe where light yagami is cool. he is a weird dorky kid who studies english too much to play tennis and kind of wants a magic notebook to be real. i think they liked him because he was nice, and a little odd, and because he’d help you with your homework even if you didn’t know him all that well. pre-death note light isn’t enigmatic and aloof, he’s the kid you go to when literally no one else understood the class well enough to take notes and who’ll get genuinely excited for you when you suddenly understand a concept. he wants to go to spaceland and have someone tell him how cool it is that he mends his own clothes. he’s a sweet kid and that’s why it’s so heartbreaking when he lets that seed of coldness in him become his core and then his whole being. 

doodle got out of hand haha

au where light maintains this absolutely derranged attitude towards misa through their entire murderous relationship. i want them screaming at tvs together. i want them convinced they were godsent for each other. if anyone insinuates anything even slightly negative about misa i want light to bite them with his teeth.

Scheherezade

Here’s a short piece about Ryuk and Light and what it means to be a Greek chorus of one watching a tragedy in the making.

In truth, Ryuk isn’t sure if he could kill to save Light anymore, not without dying.

Ryuk loves him, in his own way — not as romance, and not as a parent loves a child, but as a precious thing to be witnessed and treasured. His moonlit pet, brilliant and hollow. He speaks with his eyes shut, thinking of distant things, and sleeps with his whole body beneath the blankets. When he pulls out his pen to kill, he twirls it twice, then falls silent as he scrolls through pages and pages of information, making his judgements.

He is seventeen years old. He is proud that he does his own laundry. Last week he spent thirty-seven minutes deciding whether or not to spare a triple-murderer for the sake of her pupal daughter, index finger pressed along the length of his lip, then wrote the name in a series of quick, deliberate strikes and turned the page with nothing more than a beat for the ink to dry.

Humans are filthy and depraved things, that’s what Ryuk has learned since he came down to their world, and Light is such a wonderful specimen of the species. He grows like a flower through shit.

Shinigami are not in the business of chronicling the lives of human beings, but Ryuk keeps a record of Light anyway. He stores it within the tunnels of his own mind. Perhaps one day he will repeat it to someone else and Light’s story will live on, but probably he’ll keep it just for himself.

Light doesn’t belong to the world. He’s made this very clear. He stands separate from it, declaring himself above and apart. He belongs, instead, to Ryuk. He doesn’t have friends anymore; he has only their talks at night, and the long walks to and from the school where Light learns about mathematics and emperors and kings.

Someday Ryuk will kill him. He’ll scrawl down his name and his heart will stop. He wasn’t there for the start, but he’ll be there to witness the end. This is how it should be. It is a promise and a mercy which Ryuk has designed: Light Yagami will not die alone.

I think that one of the reasons Lawlight would click so well as a couple is because Light would intuitively understand L and how to motivate him and disagree with him in a way that wouldn't automatically end their relationship (because L is so stubborn and opinionated that oftentimes that IS what would happen with L if you strongly disagreed with him or tried to tell him what to do). Something like flirting with and flattering L and enticing him into doing something for a fun or sexy or funny or interesting reason, or turning things around on him so that he felt like he was rebelling against you or proving you wrong instead of trying to please you, or simply just acting unimpressed and aloof and disinterested in what L decides one way or the other in a situation where he isn't behaving how Light wants him to... these tactics would probably work on L much better than begging or nagging or outright bossing him around