Light deliberately ate poisoned candy to escape accountability.
(Candy--is somebody perhaps missing their detective?)
In the afterlife he meets his family (who all died in the dream universe) who all pretend that nothing happened.
Ryuk lied because this is clearly implied to be Hell.
Also Naomi Misora was still alive in this au, having faked her death and outlived L and is uncovering all of Light's secrets (both the murder notebooks and gay for L...) At least she was until the ending when Light, after poisoning them both, drove his car into a building.
After over a month of dithering about and every excuse you could think of, from being out of state to having Covid, we finally watched episode 25.
As for how I’m doing? Well, halfway through the episode I crawled over and sort of laid of him, which he was surprised by but did not object to and when Watari started to seize up I grabbed his arm and wrapped it around me and held onto him for the rest of the episode.
We could only watch that one episode (though the reason I picked this friend is I knew he would hold me accountable and make sure I finished the series and not just stop after ep25 like I’ve always done before) before he had to take me home cause he had a date to watch Attack on Titan after that one episode.
As for how I’m doing…
I immediately got how and made this video
Please send thoughts and prayers. Not easy to watch one of your top three all time favorite fictional characters die, no matter how far in advance you know it’s happening.
people call the second half of death note boring as if it doesn’t contain both the worlds most pretentious love triangle and the worlds most tedious hate triangle. L Lawliet 2: Electric Boogaloo. everyone except light gets a narrative foil. light experiences Teenagers for the first time as a young adult. matt is there. near wears an L mask for no reason other than the drama. light at his most pathetic. excessively convoluted notebook scheming. light constantly saying things like “who is the guy who killed L. i’d like to have a word with him.” death note’s worst and best haircuts, both on the same guy. what more do you guys want
…but Beyond has also been confirmed to have died by Light’s hand.
(This date is before Misa started killing people. The reason why I bring this up is because I’ve seen people say that Beyond died of a heart attack because he was a burn victim)