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death note but its set in a stereotypical (?) american high school

this would change the trajectory of the story so much trust me. anyways here's a rundown of wildly unserious US highschool au headcanons for the Main Three...

light yagami

• oh absolutely he's getting bullied for his last name!! someone made an "imagay" joke in 5th grade and it stuck like gorilla glue

• not as popular as he was in japanese secondary school; popular in a different way, moreso in academic circles. outside of them people think he's weird af. he spends time studying and gets good grades? NERD. playing sports doesn't help him either; "bro is on the tennis team 💀", "bro likes hitting balls 💀", "who's a good little racket boy"(🤨)

• he'd probably do theatre honestly. within this crowd i think he'd actually be pretty popular, but there'd also be a large group of people that are pissed about how bossy he is/are jealous that he gets leads or smth. anyways. good at becoming popular within certain, nerdier groups he's dedicated to, but not In General. the school at large thinks he's a weird lil teachers pet & whenever he raises his hand in philosophy class the other students AUDIBLY groan

• tutors people and is (mostly unintentionally) SUPER annoying about it. explains EVERY little detail; holy shit we get it you're smart

• wakes up at like 3am to get ready for school. always wears elaborate business-casual outfits and maintains a hella neat appearance. always. jesus lord who has time for allat

• would probably be president of the student government. covertly holds that above people.

• in political/justice/law clubs. could see him in smth like model UN

• if his school has criminal law, forensics or anything related, he's in those classes fs

• everyone thinks he's gay ��� they're probably right. i could see him joining the GSA as a "straight ally" (everyone already knows bro. the closet is glass)

misa amane

• i feel like she'd get along with a lot of different groups/cliques and have several different pools of friends/acquaintances lol. pretty popular?? but because she's also alternative, it's not really in a stereotypical queen-bee way

• also wakes up early to get ready; doesn't need anywhere near (haha near) as much time as light because she doesn't obsess over details american-psycho style, and she probably picks her outfits out the night prior and Sticks With Them (light strikes me as an indecisive 'what should i wear 🥺' type. overthinks EVERY outfit)

• i could also see her doing theatre, and i do think she'd get a fair amount of leads (i mean, she starred in a movie in the actual show) but i feel like she'd also be super into costume crew - she'd probably have a leadership position there at some point idk. also offers to do people's makeup and/or hair :3

• cheerleader misa?? cheerleader misa!! her Main Extracurricular perhaps... has done it all 4 years

• gets good grades but takes herself Way less seriously than light so people think she's more chill (they're right); she also doesn't spend All Her Time studying, and in fact tends to neglect it but gets relatively high marks anyway. has probably tutored for service hours at the advice of someone else, but thought it was too boring to continue

• a product of being photogenic and having a lot of different friend groups is her getting into the yearbook and school newspaper somewhat often

• she'd get contracted as a model as a highschool upperclassman!!! the modeling experience would also make for a very good senior photoshoot. ppl would fs be jealous of her

• she's very friendly, but kinda superficial. although she has a lot of (lowkey surface-level) friends, little to none know anything about what happened to her parents. despite her never talking about it, it's given her a deep-seated passion for pursuing justice - wants to become a prosecutor/lawyer. she usually acts very ditzy, but becomes more intense and serious when discussing these topics in-depth. would def take classes like law and society & forensics. this ambition is mainly why she cares enough to get good grades

• her insta stories are often mirror selfie ootd posts with like. london after midnight songs playing. she has a public profile with a lot of followers, and outside of her stories her account is very professional-looking... also has a more personal spam account that is essentially the exact opposite vibe lol

• very into goth music; doesn't usually wear gothic clothing to school because she feels the rokku gyaru style is more appropriate/practical (this is an AMERICAN SCHOOL yall, they just b wearing whatever) but she wears Elaborate gothic lolita outfits outside of school :3

l lawliet

• social outcast. (are we surprised? no.)

• used to be homeschooled in england. when he moved to america and started public school, he was put in all the special ed classes, but was pretty quickly moved despite apparent behavioral issues bc bro is Smart

• scored higher than light on an exam once and now they have a weird academic rival relationship that nobody else notices or pays attention to

• also on the tennis team. he and light hate each other lowkey but have a lot of fun playing together; one weekend they show up at the courts around the same time and end up playing a few games. they match each others (tennis) freaks so well that they go out for refreshments after! its not a date. (its kind of a date).

• doesn't have a license. doesnt Need a license bc he gets chauffeured everywhere in an expensive ass limo

• despite being an outcast everything about him is just so Weird that everyone kind of knows about him. he stands out and there are tons of rumors about him, some that get babygate-level wild

• if he and light are in the same class. oh Brother. two "erm actually" guys competing with each other to get the highest "erm actually" tally

• outside of tennis, i feel like he'd be in like. puzzle club and robotics or smth. usually sits by himself and does his own (usually much more advanced) thing during club time, and doesn't make most of the meetings. starts bringing his own puzzles bc the ones at school are too easy

• would take a visual art class for his fine arts credit; for his language credit he literally rolls a die bc he speaks so many languages (would KILL to have this problem vro)

• despite being a fucking Nerd, hes not a stickler for the rules the way light is. can and will skip class. will have ungodly amounts of sweets doordashed to the school. will sleep through boring lectures, and probably snore. will put his bare feet on the desks.. :/

• fan of the grainy powdered donuts american schools serve for breakfast sometimes. the #1 school powdered donut consumer and most reliable customer. will buy the entire stock, so other donut enjoyers are lucky he is consistently (fashionably) late.

• can roll a pretty good blunt ngl. the stoners like him.. (but mostly in a "wow i love watching this strange specimen claw at the door to its enclosure" type of way)

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OH I JUST SAW, THE POST WAS FROM A WHILE BACKKK if you don't have requests open at the moment, pleaseee ignore my ask, it's okayy

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Could u pls draw Light dressed as Len Kagamine and Misa as Rin Kagamine :3?

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im not immune to fem lawlight propaganda

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Argh, I got the pose reference from two cosplayers I ran across on Pinterest, but I can’t find the original person who posted the photo. The Pinterest post says the credit is to Zeno x Nao, so if you find them please check them out!

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I had a vision

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some lawlight portraits or something, refs from here and here

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matt again

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light yagami my muse.

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Anyone else notice in the death note intro that Gelus, the one that killed Misa Amane’s stalker and Soichiro Yagami are both in the same spot facing the same way?? Both in the same order as well (3rd person in line), since they both die, Gelus died for Misa after saving her life by writing the stalker’s name in the death note, causing him to break the rules and die himself, then soichiro yagami died by half writing mello’s name in the death note and got shot multiple times… following light’s commands and doing what was best for him while getting revenge for Sayu in that situation, i find it very interesting how both of their deaths are kinda connecting to one aspect; love & vengeance.

I just thought this little detail was intriguing… or maybe I was just looking too deep into it?

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just thinking of death note as a piece of children’s serial fiction —

so death note was sold to an american audience via shounen jump advanced, an imprint targeted towards older teens and young adults, but it was originally published in weekly shounen jump, which at the time was primarily read by kids under the age of fourteen. this sort of thing is relatively common for manga because american audiences tend to be less willing to present certain themes to children. 

what this means is you get a series which handles fairly complex themes that generally read as adult to american audiences, but which does so with the emotional maturity and literacy level of a child in mind. 

there's a tendency to take this information and dismiss death note as just a children's comic but a) children's literature is serious in its own right and b) i think the fact that its for children is precisely what makes it interesting.

light’s apprehension of criminality appears pretty simple. the question of false convictions is never brought up. neither are any of the sociological reasons people end up committing crimes. death note takes it for granted that the people kira kills have done horrible things and we aren’t encouraged to think about it any further than that. 

keeping in mind that we’re talking about kids as young as eleven here, not just young teenagers: most children simply aren’t ready to handle complex moral questions. they don’t have the required neurological development, the breadth of life experience, or the literacy skills required. ‘is it wrong to kill people who have done bad things’ is a serious enough question on its own. i don’t think it would be fair to complicate it further. 

i also think light tends to come across very emotionally limited — he’s very focused on himself, rarely has any blended emotions, and never explicitly sees anyone as anything other than good/bad or useful/not useful. there are glimmers of much more complexity, but i don’t feel the story as a whole suffers if you aren’t interested in focusing on those. 

from a characterization perspective, i think this makes him very compelling. light is interesting because his way of thinking is so flawed, not in spite of it. his inability to acknowledge the complexity of his actions is exactly why his actions are so disturbing. 

adult media very frequently creates characters like him with adults in mind and therefore without any of the functional constraints of death note’s audiences, but there’s something particularly engaging about the purity and simplicity of light; unlike most adult media which deals with these same themes, the world of death note is not intended to disgust or disturb you. it’s not trying to ground itself in reality but rather to present a simpler world where its questions can be engaged with on their own terms. it’s not interesting in spite of being children’s media but rather because that’s what it is. 

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