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an-austere-weeb · 8 hours
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The chain is almost forgotten here… Except for when Light embarrasses himself and has no choice but to sit there.
Aaaand yeah I have no excuse here. This scene is basically lawlight. I drew this mostly to “Love Like You” for Pete’s sake.
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an-austere-weeb · 14 hours
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14 more images below the cut (WARNING: Implied homophobia and talk of disownment):
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an-austere-weeb · 18 hours
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L keeps the chain from ensnaring Light all night to great success by being able to react faster~.  No complaints, no peril, no Soichiro wrath = a fantastic morning~.
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an-austere-weeb · 19 hours
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Yeah I read Death Note for the first time in 2022, what about it?
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(tier credit to sceneho on pinterest)
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an-austere-weeb · 21 hours
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"Did Light love his family?" Anon - Catch-All Answer
Since these are six asks that are all about in the same vein, I am gonna just put the responses into one post for organization's sake.
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Light begs his father to kill Mello because he wants his father's death to have been good for something. Nothing pains him more than the idea of having let this happen without it even accomplishing his goal.
Light is the physical manifestation of the lost cost fallacy: he needs to keep going because he sacrificed too much to stop and allow those sacrifices to be rendered meaningless.
And Light rationalizes. It's one of his most prominent character traits: instead of acknowledging his own emotions, he tries to filter his thoughts into nothing but emotionless pragmatism.
This is consistently portrayed through the 'hidden eyes' visual key - Light is excellent at lying to himself, in his own thoughts, which is why Obata gave us this clever way of seeing when this is happening even as Light's own internal monologue doesn't reflect it.
I have an incomplete list of these instances here, especially as pertaining to his family.
Ultimately, if we disagree that Light rationalizes his feelings rather than allowing himself to fully feel them, then none of my arguments are ever going to make sense to you and vice versa.
As a short addendum, here's Ohba's own words on this chapter (HTR13 p.80): "Even if there was acting involved in Light's tearful performance, I don't believe the tears are 100% an act." (も し月の涙に演技入っていたとしても、100%演技の涙では到底ないと思います。)
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Soichiro already made the eye deal, which is an absolutely horrifying sacrifice to have made. Light wanted it to be as useful as it could possibly be, in order to justify the magnitude of the price.
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I hate to say it, but you're really gonna have to take this one up with Ohba himself. On Page 65 of HTR13, he literally says that he picked Sayu as a kidnapping victim because Light loves his family and wouldn't kill her. (Unlike Misa, whom he would have just killed in this scenario rather than letting the plot progress.)
The panel you are thinking of is this one, where he is panicking, but you're not putting it into perspective.
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In a previous chapter (62) Ide was about to inform the whole police force that Sayu Yagami was kidnapped. Soichiro was about to agree to this.
If Light had let this happen, he could have killed Sayu without narrowing down the suspect pool at all. They already know that Kira has ties to the police. He would have removed the leverage the mafia had held against them and gotten off entirely scott-free.
He does decidedly NOT do that. It's LIGHT personally who stops Ide from giving him the perfect alibi. EVEN RYUK CALLS OUT HOW ODD THAT WAS AS A MOVE.
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And sure, Light says 'oh yeah, now nobody will suspect us!!' but nobody was really suspecting them to begin with.
This is what I mean - Light never allows himself to just feel things, he always rationalizes himself to justify his actions to himself.
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His father dying. Dude.
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.... literally why would he? Like, even if they don't accept Kira they also pose absolutely no threat to Kira.
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I've covered all of this above, but I am including the ask to say that yes, I've seen it. The core issue here is that we disagree on Light's relationship to himself - you take his internal monologue at face value, while I think there is ample evidence that Light manipulates himself most of all. (As made completely manifest in the Yotsuba-Arc where he literally mindwipes himself into an incredibly emotionally and physically painful experience just to use himself as a pawn.)
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an-austere-weeb · 21 hours
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Could you go into more detail as to how Light's relationship with his family changed from the manga compared to the anime? Thank you!
It… just kind of disappears. That’s the best way to put it. Here’s a wonderful and hopefully complete lists of significant moments that just… aren’t there and aren’t actually replaced with anything of equal value. I’m leaving out a few cute moments that establish Light and Sayu’s bond further, for brevity’s sake. I’m also leaving out the fact that Sayu and Sachiko have way more nuanced reactions to Misa in the manga since that is at least a negligible cut, haha.
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1. This emotional clue-in is missing. It follow Light stating that he would see to it that Kira gets the death penalty if anything happened to Soichiro. Light avoiding Ryuk’s comment about acting suggests he was not acting and in fact was promising to his father that he would never hurt him.
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2. Similar emotional clue-in on Light feeling unhappy with the way his family is affected. This follows Sayu stating that she hates Kira for keeping their dad away from home over the New Years holidays.
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3. L calling suspicion onto Sayu and Light just absolutely losing his shit about it. We hardly see Light have these levels of reaction. Light is enraged that L would a) accuse his sister and b) upset his father that way. Because he loves them.
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an-austere-weeb · 21 hours
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Light & Sayu
“You know… Light’s starting to act like a real teenager.”
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I just can't get over how cute the Yagami siblings are! <3
Like look:
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Light bragging in front of Sayu while she cheers him on? ADORABLE
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Light doing Sayu's homework helping Sayu with her homework? So endearing!!
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Light's FOND side-glance towards his sister? Absolutely Lovely!!! <333
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Just look at them gooo :D I especially like Light secretly smiling to himself :DD
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Oh and did I mention? Sayu's the only one perceptive enough to notice little changes in Light's personality (although she mistakes its cause of course). Like Sayu is close enough with her nerdy older brother to know the lil differences <3
Just! Light & Sayu y'all <33
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an-austere-weeb · 21 hours
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big bad kira’s soft spot for his sister oooooooohhh (⃔๑⃙⃘◡̈๑⃙⃘)⃕↝🤎🧸 (still haven’t watched death note so is this their actual dynamic?? if it isn’t, don’t bother replying)
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an-austere-weeb · 21 hours
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I had a sudden death note revival in my brain last night so here are my ramblings on what it would’ve been like if Sayu was Kira and not Light 😄
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an-austere-weeb · 21 hours
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I adore Sayu hence this lil sketch!! <3
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the results are in. tumblr's MOST HATED DEATH NOTE CHARACTER IS...
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WITH 22.5% OF THE VOTE, HIGUCHI WINS! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE! CONGRATULATIONS, HIGUCHI!
our unfortunate runner-ups are light yagami, in his own goddamn series, at #2 with 17.7% and hitoshi demegawa at #3 with 13.7%. i think it's very funny that light got more votes than demegawa, who is up there with higuchi in terms of "purposefully written to make you want his ass dead."
with almost 650 votes total, here's the end tally:
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congratulations to takada and misa for getting the least votes of the named characters. death note tumblr officially supports women.
the other characters voted for include:
raye penber (who i should have put in the initial poll but forgot about), with 6 votes or around .93%
mello, with 3 votes or around .46%
matsuda, with 2 votes or around .31%
L, with 2 votes
soichiro, with 2 votes
watari, with 1 vote or around .15%
rem, with 1 vote
roger, with 1 vote
sidoh, with 1 vote
matt, with 1 vote
beyond, with 1 vote
the kid from the relight OVA who kept dumping on linda's responses to L during the monster speech scene, with 1 vote (i only respect this person)
(note that some people who voted for "other," including myself, didn't say who their least favorite was, and a few people said more than one character, so the breakdown isn't 100% accurate. by the way, my least favorite character is aizawa's wife. not that anyone asked.)
and a special shout out to these based souls:
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thank you for taking part in this incredibly scientific survey. see you in 50 years when i decide to do this again but with raye penber in the official running
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But the world was a large place, so the monster split into two on his journey.
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an-austere-weeb · 8 days
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To win you must attack 🎾
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