I Feel Like Literally Everyone Forgets That Beyond Birthday Convinced Three Sets Of Grieving Family Members

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.

death note au where everythings the same except Light calls the death note his 'burn book' and uses a larger variety of deaths like getting hit by a buss.

Misa asks "are you referencing mean girls?" and Light in all his closeted shame goes "the fuck is mean girls?" knowing damn well he used to twirl his hair and kick his feet, writing in his pink fluffy diary about his phd level analysis of Mean girls when he was 11.

Matsuda at his nephew's birthparty blowing balloons : you know life is hard sometimes you're at work and you trip over the lead detective and the prime suspect fucking on the floor but you just have to suck it up , apologize to them and keep going you know?

Kid: weirdly specific but oddly inspirational.

Bro L doesnt have big dick energy he has huge dick energy like he could just trip and fall cuz of the weight of his dick. It probably drags on the floor when he walks.

Soichiro Yagami: and you're telling us this at a family dinner for what reason?

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