Can You Imagine How Funny It Would Be If Beyond Birthday Lived Like. Light Finally Successfully Kills

can you imagine how funny it would be if beyond birthday lived like. light finally successfully kills L and then seemingly comes back to the task force the next day just like 12% weirder. He’s like oh yeah I faked it dw it was for the case and everyone else is like ah yes, classic L. And light is just having an aneurysm trying to figure out what the fuck is happening and to convince everyone he’s not L. “Oh but he’s crawling around on all fours that’s L behavior” “no, if you paid attention you’d notice that all the weird stuff L did was to touch things as little as possible.” “I know his fake death might have upset you I understand, but I’m worried about you” “IT ISNT BEING MAD AT HIM OR GREIVING HIM THATS A FULLY DIFFERENT PERSON”

Like idk it’s just funny. Gaslight his ass

I’m obsessed with the effect L’s dumb little smile had on the task force.

“Justice will prevail 😊”

Everyone else: HELL YEAH BROTHER, DON’T I KNOW IT! AMEN, CHEERS TO THAT. I KNOW THAT’S RIGHT!! HALLELUJAH, CHRIST ALMIGHTY!!! LETS GOOOO!!!

Way to boost workplace morale Ryuzaki 👍👍👍

So proud of you.

I feel like literally everyone forgets that Beyond Birthday convinced three sets of grieving family members to hire him alone to solve the murders he committed. Including the mother of a 13-year-old girl.

Do you think she would hire a failboy freak like Rue Ryuzaki portrayed himself to Naomi Misora to solve the murder of her baby? Out of all the reputable, well-known private detectives in the world, she agreed to hire someone with no real credentials. This was arguably the most tragic event in this woman's life. There is no way she just took a chance on Rue despite himself. He must have assured her of his competence and legitimacy somehow.

Beyond refers to himself as an 'extreme freak' compared to L, which suggests he possesses the self-awareness to adjust his behavior according to his goals. It's pretty clear as far as I'm concerned that Rue Ryuzaki is meant to be a caricature of L - his defining traits are flanderized versions of L's. He serves a distinct purpose, allowing Beyond to get close to Misora (and therefore L) so that he can manipulate the outcome of the investigation. He serves his purpose best if he comes off relatively harmless and not as capable as Misora herself.

I think that when Misora tells L that her impression of Rue is that he should've killed himself already, (damn girl that's pretty fucked up tbh) Beyond didn't get his feelings hurt at all. I think that's exactly what he wanted, right down to her relaying this to L.

I think it does Beyond Birthday's character a disservice to assume he's a one trick pony and that Rue's cringe loser persona and B's unhinged ramblings about L as he's planning his own suicide when he's alone demonstrate the extent of his range.

Getting hired to solve the cases of his own murder victims demands impression management. This man is undoubtedly capable of a certain degree of charisma if he chooses to use it. I think he becomes much more interesting when you consider that pretending to be someone else is one of his defining character traits and it's actually not clear where the act begins or ends in the novel.

Rue Ryuzaki

every single yagamane tiktok ever

https://youtube.com/shorts/tHfAkhtK6NY?si=57fxMOE67Pnyw3Vv

L : what is wrong with you?

Light : when I was about twelve sayu was diagnosed with a bunch of allergies so whenever my mother cooked something she was allergic to I'd eat her portion and being able to eat things that would kill her made me feel very powerful and unkillable so that was probably the start of my god complex

L: ...

Light: oh was that a rhetorical question?

L: no