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@kronehaze

he/him| Graviry falls/Cookie run main blog Inconsistent posting, may contain a lot of reblogs depending on how long I’m on tumblr on any given day

all ive ever asked for is infinite power, the ability to control bugs with my mind, 5 trillion dollars, and the answer to every secret in the multiverse. i don’t think that’s unreasonable

tumblr and discord changing their ui just enough to be noticeable within a week of each other, 1 million billion neurodivergent people found dead

i go on discord. the icons are tiny now. i go on tumblr. the icons are massive. i kill myself

For those who are not familiar, the Death Note is a supernatural notebook from the titular manga and anime. The basic rules of the book are as follows:

  • If someone writes the name of another person in the book while visualizing their face, that person will die.
  • The time, cause, and circumstances of death can be specified within reason.
  • If details are not specified or are not possible, the victim will die of a heart attack.
  • If the owner gives up the book, they lose all their memories of owning it.

For the sake of the poll, if more than one motivation applies, select the most important one. The definition of the options and the specifics of the fantasy are not particularly important here, I am mostly interested in the moral stances and rationale of other people.

Death Note AU where hbomberguy makes a five hour long video about youtuber Light Yagami that's initially completely unrelated to the murders (Light would probably plagiarize or have really unhinged right-wing political takes if he was on youtube)

but halfway through he reveals that while researching he stumbled upon evidence that Light might be behind the Kira murders, and then spends like fourty minutes explaining the concept of a shinigami, an hour explaining how he thinks Light used one to commit murders, and then another hour explaining Light's ideology and why the concept of criminals being inherently evil is flawed

He finishes the video by addressing Light directly and telling him that he (Hbomberguy) had his name legally changed before uploading the video, to something that only he knows, making it impossible for Light to kill him

Now Light. I know you're still watching, and I'm sure you've tried writing my name in your book. Or you've at least considered it - after all, if I die, then it points pretty clearly to you as the killer. But then, maybe Kira is just going to try to kill me in order to frame you. We get it, you're very clever.

If watching this whole video hasn't changed your mind - made you *think* about the humanity of the people you are just callously sentencing to death - then I'm at a bit of a loss. But I do know one thing you don't:

My legal name.

That's right. Before I uploaded this video, I changed my legal name, and have encouraged those in my life to do so as well. Frankly, trying to decide what my new name would be probably pushed back this video's release like, a month.

(Aside: Actually it didn't but we can all just pretend it did, it's way more interesting than the minutiae of real issues that cropped up)

So. Is Light Yagami Kira? I can't say for sure. It turns out, accusing a public figure of serial murder comes with a lot of legal ramifications! You would think I'd have learned by now that talking about people has "potential consequences" like "being sued by extremely litigious individuals. "

I spent a long time thinking how to end this video. The only thing I came up with is that there's no way to judge a person by just a list of actions alone. And yes that includes Light, the wanker. Courts spend weeks and weeks trying to litigate criminal cases and they still get it wrong! So even though I think he may be the actual scum of the earth, I hope I'm wrong. I want to believe that, given the opportunity, he wouldn't take the ten seconds to write down my name and take my life with just a flick of his wrist.

*long beat*

But I still changed my name so don't even think about it you little sh-

*bouncy credits music*

[ID: tags from this post reading: #*hbomberguy voice* #so as we established before Kira is only apple to kill criminals who's wrongdoings the media has written about #there's just one proplem: MEDIA CAN BE WRONG #there's numerous cases of people being falsely convicted and sometimes it takes years before they are proven innocent #but surely Kira would do thurough research to avoid killing the innocent since rhat would kinda be against his entire ideology #surely he doesn't just read headlines and scripple down names without familiarizing himself with the case and checking the court documents #WRONG IT ALREADY HAPPENED #part 7 KIRA KILLS INNOCNET PEOPLE

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wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media

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