A Death Note blog with intermittent activity. My name is Elizabeth, I've been in the fandom since 2007, and I'm mostly interested specifically in DN canon. L is my favorite character, but I also like Misa, Naomi, and the NPA task force members.
What you will see here: only DN content and the rare personal text post. What you won't see here: very much about Light, the Successors arc, or most of the fandom's popular ships, unless someone made something very beautiful or said something very smart. Otherwise, those subjects just aren't my thing, but there are plenty of good blogs out there that cover them.
With this account, I mostly follow blogs that post primarily DN content.
Just a lil’ contribution to Inkctober, I guess. I lack practice with traditional inking but… Oh well, I felt like making something anyway. Behold, my favorite Death Note pairing! I missed them. :D
aka why I am absolutely convinced the man on that picture is not B
Obviously, this is still a speculation though. I am not Takeshi Obata nor have I met Takeshi Obata nor have I even met someone who met Takeshi Obata. There is no way to be certain about his intentions.
For my part I can just say, it doesn’t make sense to me any other way than what I am about to detail.
Okay, this is the image, just so we’re all clear on what it looks like. What I love about this picture is that it’s a spoiler for the entire novel - and yet it’s right there at the start of the book.
It also is beautiful because it features all relevant characters of the book - L, Naomi, B and the victims. However, there are only two categories. Investigators and victims. Let’s like about the latter.
I’ve had much simpler reasons for thinking that this illustration was meant to represent L rather than B. The story implies that B only “looks like L” to someone who has never met L, because the book’s central twist relies on giving a description of B which is vague enough that it seems like it could plausibly refer to L, and because B is imitating what he’s been able to learn about L’s mannerisms. (When you go back and look at it again, his L impersonation isn’t very good: it’s intentionally over-the-top, sure, but that doesn’t preclude that it could also be inept.) Furthermore, you couldn’t draw what B actually looks like without giving away the entire plot, which hinges on the reader thinking that Rue Ryuzaki is probably L.
The breakdown of the symbolic meaning of the “eyeball tree” is a really astute catch. I’m impressed!
i’m always terrified to post fan art, because my drawing style is wonky and i watched too many max fleischer cartoons as a child, whatever, but here is a little doodle of kid!beyond birthday with his ghostly pal.
I can’t remember whether or not B is supposed to be taller than L… isn’t that fanon? Right along with “B has red eyes” (red is just a metaphorical representation of shinigami eye abilities, not any character’s actual eye color that other people can see) and “B always wears black shirts” (obvious “dark L” metaphor). Oh well, the art is still nice.
I’m mentioning the fanon–obviously, fanart is going to feature a lot of it!–because it would be a shame if people felt that their B was unrecognizable without red eyes and a black t-shirt. Don’t feel constrained by that.
