u/No_Example_1573

I know she says she weighs herself naked, which im guessing is to counteract the weight of her clothes? I swear I remember in Destiny-Beck era, she accounted for her clothes AND accessories in her final weight, and subtracted them.

One thing I’ve always wondered is why, being as ridiculous as she is, Amber has never (to my knowledge) treated her hair in this way, and deducted it’s speculated weight from her final number. She has a lot of it, after all. If she was bald, maybe she’d weigh a tiny bit less. A negligible amount, but one I’d expect her to account for and cling to lol

Hello :-)

I have another speculative question regarding the Death Note, specifically how one could go about using the notebook in ways we didn’t get to see in the series.

In the series (the main storyline and supplementary content), we see a few different approaches to how people use the Death Note, each of them with a differing goal in mind. I won’t list every character who possesses a notebook throughout the series bc I cba

Light has a very clear-cut methodology. Writing so-and-so’s name will cause them to die, so I will write the names of people I want dead.

Minoru doesn’t ‘use’ it at all, but attempts to auction it off and distribute the money amongst Japanese citizens.

C Kira exclusively kills elderly people who don’t have long left anyway, presumably to end their suffering.

Anyway—- I wondered what it would be like to witness the notebook fall into the hands of somebody else, who had an entirely different goal in mind. I think it would be really interesting, on either side of the moral spectrum, to see how the Death Note can be used. For example:

- Someone who wants to see the world burn, at the expense of themselves and everyone around them. Maybe they script some sort of disease outbreak, or trigger global warfare, a mass-extinction event that devastates the planet. I’d like to see just how far the abilities of the notebook could go. I don’t think you can cause deaths-by-proxy, the notebook doesn’t allow collateral damage. But perhaps it would permit an action that wouldn’t necessarily result in death immediately. Like “Jane Doe, a researcher at ______ facility, releases classified information pertaining to nuclear weaponry, then falls down the stairs and dies.” It wouldn’t directly kill anyone besides Jane Doe herself, but the fallout afterwards would likely lead to chaos. I’m not sure if the notebook would allow for something like that, but maybe someone else does!!

- Contrariwise, someone who tries to employ the notebook in an ‘ethical’ way, as contradictory as that is. The 23- Day Rule would prevent them from actualising things like “Jane Doe lives a happy and fulfilled life, and passes away peacefully at the age of 79.”, but they could work towards bettering the world overall. A greater good sort of thing. This one is a little trickier, because you cannot specify anything that the victim could not feasibly do/come up with themselves, and the window of 23 days doesn’t allow for much time at all for things to get done. Maybe they could write “President Jane Doe enacts a law that mandates the provision of free education and healthcare for all American Citizens, effective immediately. She dies in her sleep on -/-/-“. I’m not sure if they could bypass the entire process of drafting a law and then having a governmental body agree upon it. I don’t think you could say “Everyone votes in favour”, because you can exclusively control the victim. Unless they wrote the name of the majority of politicians, and stipulated how they voted before they die too. Maybe you’d have to write something a little less definitive. “President Jane Doe proposes (aforementioned law) to her constituents, expertly presenting a convincing argument.”. I have no idea honestly. Controlling experts in their field to make strides in their field, and then die. It would need to be something they could justifiably do, so maybe your wording would need to be vague. Instead of “Jane Doe finds a cure for all types of cancer.”, which is a pretty tall order for a singular person, and in just 23 days, maybe “Jane Doe works tirelessly in her research, making great progress before she dies in a car accident on -/-/-.”?

Writing this has left me with more questions tbh, but I hope anyone who bothered reading this far enjoyed the hypothetical(s) anyway. If you have any of your own ideas lmk im curious

Hi :-)

This may be a little long-winded, so bear with. I want to get every thought I have down in as concise a manner as possible. If this is a stupid question, I’m sure someone will let me know lol

Could a full name be written in the notebook, with the author knowing that person’s face, but the person would not die? For example:

If you were to write “Jane Doe dies in a car accident on her way to a Taylor Swift concert at 6:00 PM.”

The subject of that sentence, the target, is Jane Doe. She is the one you have the intent to kill. But you’ve also included the full name (presuming it’s not a stage name, Taylor Swift is just an example) of an individual who you also know the face of. So even in the inclusion of the singer’s name was just a descriptor of Jane Doe’s circumstances, would Taylor Swift also die? You’ve written her name, and envisaged her face while doing so.

How necessary is it to write in the notebook with intent? Does the subject of a sentence written within the Death Note matter, or is it just any name written and any face envisaged?

L using the alias of Hideki Ryuga (and it actually protecting him) implies that it is possible to accidentally kill someone whose face is likely to enter your mind. But, if Light were to write ‘Hideki Ryuga’ in the book, there is no debate as to who he is targeting there.

Also, we see that Raye Penber was manipulated into using a Death Note (albeit unwittingly) to kill off his fellow FBI agents. He had no intent to kill them, of course, and was just writing their names down, with their faces in mind. But they were still the sole ‘subject’, if that makes sense.

I hope I’ve explained myself well enough. I’m not looking for a concrete answer, really. Idk if there is one. But Death Note is my favourite manga/show and I like discussing it with people!! Lmk what you think

Hi :-)

Due to scheduling conflicts, I’m unable to go to the Cardiff concert later this month. (Still going to Manchester so can’t complain).

I hope the link works— I hope whoever gets them has a good time!!