Re: Light And Sayus Relationship

Re: Light and Sayu’s Relationship

It’s a popular fandom view that Light is a person who doesn’t care about his family and would have absolutely murdered Sayu in the second arc if it wasn’t self incriminating to do so. Personally, I think there’s a lot of evidence in the manga that goes against that view and this is an analysis I wrote on the relationship between the two Yagami siblings that I am re-posting here. 

In my opinion, the most interesting conflict in Death Note is the silent one that takes place between Light and his own family members. The source of this largely internal conflict is obvious; Light is Kira, but the other Yagamis are sensible and they don’t acknowledge Kira as a legitimate enforcer of justice. As I said at the beginning of this post, the prevailing fanon opinion on Light is that he views his family as tools and merely plays to what’s expected of him as a son and an older brother.

But here’s the thing. what we actually see is Light repeatedly bending over backwards to try and protect his family and it is often to his own disadvantage rather than to his benefit. Why? Because he loves them. Plain and simple. It’s quite literally one of Light’s only redeeming traits and it’s a key part of what makes him a hopelessly tragic kid. In this post I’m specifically focusing on Light’s relationship to Sayu.

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koushikibleu just sent me this:

what were the different characters reactions to l's "death"? like apart from light obvs. how did matsuda, mikami, mello etc, feel? sorry to be a bother I'm just v curious

Hi anon! You’re not a bother at all! Thank you for asking.

Ages ago the lovely Tae (@pseudosun) asked me for a Those timeline (aghh). I’m working on that but it involves rereading the whole fic so I don’t leave things out. I thought that before I do that, though, I should write out a backstory for some characters, especially Those!L. Pre-Those things crop up all the time with him and things are alluded to mixed up with lies so it’s all very confusing, so this is a Those!L backstory. 

I’ve tried to remember everything I can and find a few notes I made years ago, but if there’s something I’ve left out or if you have any questions then please remind me and I’ll edit this post. There are spoilers here so yeah. Goes without saying that I’ve thought about this sod way too much. Sorry for any typos and tense problems.

The gorgeous art up there is by @koushikibleu and included with permission. She read a draft of this backstory stuff and asked me a lot of questions about how L looked at different stages of life so she could draw it. L in his pale blue duffle coat which B has a photo of in his wallet is so nice to see on paper. I did actually cry when I saw these. The Those!L with the ciggy, though. What an ultrasexy frog. So thanks to Bleu, as always.

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Death Note characters, as described by my best friend who knows jackshit DN. It was too hilarious (and sometimes eerily accurate) to not share w/ the world

I know you get a lot of questions about Those, but I love the story so much and I'm very curious about it. But if you don't feel like answering, it won't bother me.

Anon, I don’t think you realise how amazing it is for me to be asked anything about that fic. I just try not to talk about it much unless someone mentions it or asks me something because it seems wrong to talk about it unprompted like some mad woman howling at the moon. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to howl at the moon with an excuse. I’m very happy that you like it. That makes me the happiest bunny! 

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