Light's end has always bothered me for multiple reasons (the biggest of which is it not actually being his fault that he lost therefore robbing me of a greater poetic justice but you can't win 'em all), but I think one nobody really talks about is that,,,Light wasn't afraid to die.
Well—he WAS, at the beginning, but part of the reason I'm so obsessed with his relationship with Ryuk is because Ryuk's existence was a constant threat to Light's life. And yet Light never once seemed afraid of him, or tried to cozy up to him, or even attempted manipulate Ryuk into doing things for him. Sure, he bribed him sometimes into going along with his plans, but he was friends with Ryuk. Or—as close to friends as I assume a Light Yagami and a Shinigami can get.
But before Light meets Ryuk, he 100% believes that he's going to die. His frenzy those first few days can be attributed not to any moral righteousness, but to a desperate sort of resignation. Light thinks that he's sold his soul after killing those first two men, so instead of destroying the Death Note, he immediately sets out to make as big of an impact as possible. He wants to go out with a bang! He wants to be remembered! Light is afraid of death in those first days—but he also comes to terms with it somewhere between killing Otoharada and Ryuk showing up. He was ready to go with Ryuk quietly if he was there to take his life or his soul.
But then—he learns that he's not going to die.
The face of a boy excited and relieved.
Light learns that there are no consequences to using the Death Note.
THIS is when he starts getting cocky, when he starts to actually convince himself of all that moral stuff he spouts.
But he's still not afraid of death.
Oh he's afraid of being caught, for sure, and after L humiliated him on live television, he might've even been afraid of execution. Because he'd seen firsthand just how quickly L could turn the tables on him, how he could make Kira look foolish. And Light definitely does not want to be remembered as foolish.
I don't think Light was afraid of actually DYING though, because when Ryuk says "You know I could just kill you", Light laughs. Literally laughing in the face of death. Light KNOWS that Ryuk will eventually kill him, but as long as he goes down the way he wants—on HIS terms—it's fine. Ryuk claiming that he'd be the one to finally end Light might've even been a relief, considering how Light's mind works. A god can only be killed by another god, etc. etc. 'Killed By A Real-life Shinigami' sounds metal as FUCK. Top-tier way to die if you're as much of a gloryhound as Light.
And one thing that irks me is that—the five year gap kind of,,,,takes that, from Light. Light spends so long on top of the world with no real challenge that by the time that Near and Mello show up, he's far more arrogant than he was when he was up against L. Light is, once more, afraid of death. He's lost that tolerance he built up in those pivotal first few days, and he goes out, not in a blaze of glory like he wanted, but clawing and pleading to live like a dog.
Light lost his recklessness, his impatience, his acceptance of the inevitable because he believed that he could now change the inevitable—all somewhere in that five year time skip.
This makes him less likely to get caught, yes, but it also takes away that—that teenage dauntlessness that he had at the beginning. Pre-skip Light feared L and L alone. Only the idea of being caught by someone who could truly tear him down frightened him. Not even death compared.
And I suppose that Light's spiralling at the end is a sort of poetic justice in this case?? But it's not the one I wanted.
I wanted Light's recklessness to blow up in his face. I wanted his carefully curated plans ruined by his own impatient hand. I wanted him to go down much as he probably first intended—in a blaze of glory. I wanted his fall to be explosive and terrifying to the audience. A moral of the story that shoots you right in the chest and really makes you think.
Instead he was reduced to just,,,,another criminal, begging for his life.
Which, yes, I suppose, is also a message in and of itself (all evil figures throughout history have only ever been human, have only ever been men that bleed red at the end of the day, and nothing they've ever done or said will change that), but I also find that....exceedingly boring.
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I’ve made this offer to a couple of people privately, but I think it’s worth saying in public as we approach finals season:
If any of my moots or followers are in college and ever need someone to read over a paper for spelling errors/format citations/control + F in your source document to find a page number/etc while you Get The Actual Thing Done, I am always happy to do it
College was a Bad Time for me in many ways, and I wouldn’t have gotten through it without people willing to be an extra pair of eyes when I was freaking out
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I'mma rant for a second.
Someone please validate me.
I think I'm beyond justified when I say that no one listens to me.
This show (Come From Away) is running for three days. I've had the five shifts (4 on the weekend, 1 Friday) for three weeks. Counting my conversation with my parents a few minutes ago, I have explained what this show is, where I am, what it's about, and the history behind it 23 times.
6 times to my mom
4 times to my twin
2 times my older sister
3 times to my dad
8 times to my grandparents
What the actual duck does a girl have to do to get someone to listen to her?
All I'm asking is that people make an actual effort to remember what I tell them, especially when I talk about something I love.
My coworkers (4 of them) have asked what I know about it, and they all remember the basics of what I told them. They even listened to the soundtrack like I recommended!!
My sister won't even take ten minutes to listen to two songs with me. My mom doesn't even remember what the first song is called (I've told her 5 times now). I know for a fact that none of my family will listen to the music on their own.
I just want to share what I'm passionate about. I want others I know to share in the joy I find in this show and others.
And, y'know? I keep finding that this is a reoccurring problem. I can't bring it up to anyone, though, because they all tell me that I'm overthinking it or looking too much into it or seeing things that aren't actually there.
Humans are designed to pick out patterns in everything. We pick them out and we create them.
I see a pattern, I point it out, and I get told there's nothing there.
Either I'm gaslighting myself or everyone else is gaslighting me.
Someone please validate me. Please tell me I'm not crazy. Please put a name to these feelings because I'm going to shatter if someone tells me one more goddamn fucking time that I'm seeing a pattern where there isn't one.
I would cry like I want to, but that would ruin my make up. I have another shift in about 2.5 hours, and I don't have my makeup back with me, so that's a no go.
I'm gonna go read. Thanks for listening
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Like, I'm sure the eggs will be fine. Fit will mention to Tubbo about Ramon and Tubbo is always online so will get the extra quests and cookies done for him (or Pac will, but less online time, or a later in the day streamer will do it), BBH will start stockpiling cookies Thursday, notice Pepito Friday or Saturday, and mass feed Pepito Sunday - with some help from others who were saving up for a rainy day - or at worst start next week and Pepito will be on hardcore mode but people will keep more eyes out. Tubbo and Bad and probably some others will make an egg cookie box down at spawn to be used for holidays and emergencies, and other people will notice and toss in cookies too. If it doesn't have enough by the Brazil trip, the admins will find themselves a loophole. Chayanne and Tallulah's situation will be clarified and get some actual rules established, and maybe Richas will keep cheating the system to cackle like his pais breaking the law to keep everyone else alive.
(This doesn't mean I think the system is fair, or healthy for the streamers on an out of rp manner, or that I think it was adequately thought through, or even that I like it, but chances are the eggs won't/die/ of it)
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So I think with the new Ancients, people aren’t having that same mentality of “CRK’s gonna end soon with this update” that people were yesterday, but if I’m being honest…why were we all thinking that??
Granted I’m not sure if this was so much of a problem on here, I think this may have been a CRK Twitter thing more, but screw it, I don’t have a character limit here and I feel like questioning this. So this may come off as an unnecessary rant (because it probably is, but I just have to get this off my chest)
Now I mean yes, this update has the group going to Beast Yeast, but reminder that as the Episode 18 epilogue tells us, this is not the full attack on Beast Yeast, this is a preliminary scouting mission to Beast Yeast before the attack, and the traveling party only consists of Gingerbrave’s group and Pure Vanilla, not anyone else. The final battle comes later
Another reason people were saying we’re near the end of CRK is because this is the release of the final Ancient in White Lily. I mean yes, the Ancients are central to the story, so having them all released would mean we’re probably moving into a turning point in the story, similar to when they started to be released, but I really don’t think all the Ancients being released would signify the end of it. If anything, I’d assume Dark Enchantress being released would be a better signifier of the end, since she’s the big bad of the main story and hasn’t yet been released, unlike the other villains. Also they were probably going to release her this year anyways, just because any other time would be far too long (I know Golden Cheese was a year and a half wait, but I’m willing to take that as being due to the writers having to rewrite her and her story)
And also, I’ve brought this up before, but there’s also the fact that there’s the Dragon rarity, which was just introduced and currently only has one member. If they were ending it soon, they wouldn’t introduce a whole new rarity, they’d just make Pitaya a Legendary like in Ovenbreak, it’d be pointless to have a new one just for one or two characters
I think I had other points, but I’ve forgotten what they are by this point. Bottom line, I don’t see why people thought we’d be ending the story soon with this next update
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