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Basic Info| Name: | Yagami Light [OU] |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1986-02-28 |
BioCharacter: Yagami Light [Kira]
Series/Fandom: Death Note [manga]
Original or Alternate: OU
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Sexuality: Supposedly heterosexual, really doesn’t care
Appearance
A subtly beautiful person – nothing really screams ‘look at me’ about him, but once you do give him a glance, you begin to realize he has extraordinarily pretty features. He’s not too tall but not too short – average height matched with an average wardrobe, perhaps a tad formal for being casual. The most striking thing about him initially is his hair – an odd reddish brown color, not common in Japan – but a couple double takes and what really keeps you looking are his eyes. Once slit-like and nearly black, with a thousand things running across them (you look for the emotion in Yagami Light, you find it there), they still retain their shape and their nature but have taken on a lighter color than before. Times have changed him.
Personality
Another department in which time took its toll, though not in the way that might be expected. You have Yagami Light, yes, covering up the concept of Kira, but behind Kira is the mastermind controlling it all. Light was, essentially, divided into three – the same person attempting to run an entire motion picture by taking on every role. The actor here is Light himself – a self-titled optimist, naive, bored: the perfect combination for a disaster. With the discovery of the Death Note, a second persona is created for him – the part he’s playing, a concept going by the name of Kira. There are differences between the two, the primary one being that Kira does not have Light’s relationships attached to him or Light’s emotions (Kira himself, however, does have his own emotions), though both beings are very similar on the surface. Light comes across as a laid-back, typical teenager – arrogant, slightly sarcastic, odd sense of humor completely intact – but there’s also something more sinister. He’s childish, detests losing, overanalyzes everything and is nearly paranoid to fault – even cruel in some cases. In private he’s bossy and unpleasant, a workaholic, leading quite the extravagant lifestyle in quite an unextravagant way, while in public he’s pretty much the epitome of perfection while still remaining more or less ordinary. He’ll do just about anything for himself as long as it doesn’t harm him, though he won’t think twice about using another person for the same thing, and refuses to back down from any challenge – rather, he responds with one of his own. Perhaps because of his ego he’s a little too impulsive and overconfident at times – an ego well-fed after years of being at the top of every ladder – and because of this he can’t stand losing or being in the wrong. Usually he keeps his emotions under wraps, but they do get the better of him every so often, and during these times it’s as if he does a complete 180 – he contradicts himself, makes little sense, becomes irrationally angry, and, in the worst cases, the shock of the circumstance is so great that it overpowers his sense of his self-control. Yet these people are only two thirds of the entire package – behind this exterior and seeming interior there’s yet another layer, the one directing the entire production, some third person that for a time only lives in Light’s thoughts: those moments when Light refers to himself and even to Kira in the third person, those instances when he sees his situation from an angle completely separated from himself – “Ryuzaki/Ryuga is Yagami Light’s friend, but L is Kira’s enemy.” Together, these three people are putting on the production of the century for Light’s world, the entire populace tuned to their every word and movement, but the film, well. It can only last so long.
A mere comparison was all it took to rip the entire script in half. Not the most useful of things, torn in two, but nice to keep in mind when writing a new one. And so you have Yagami Light again, no longer so absorbed in his leading role, that third person keeping the persona of Kira more or less under control. Light's optimism is, as always, very much present, working hand-in-hand with his usual naive outlook and slightly bruised ego (just slightly - the thing's about as big as his brain) under the guise of your standard, ordinary teenager. Except, you know, practically perfect - or so he'd like you to continue believing. It's a given that he refuses to become consumed with power, not to mention guilt, but why should he throw the pieces of something previously so useful away? His secret weapon's not the killer stationary anymore - it's the killer concept.
Abilities/Strengths
Light is both an actor and a director – he can feign any expression or none at all at a moment’s notice, manipulate those around him mentally, emotionally, and physically, and turn the tables on most situations in order to get what he wants. He, being a complex human being, has a pretty good grasp on the human character and frequently uses this to his advantage, incorporating it with an excellent sense of logic to create brilliant deductions in a relatively short period of time. He’s very intelligent in both an academic and realistic sense – not only was he first nationally in Japan for standardized testing, but he also had the world wrapped around his finger due to his resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and ability to see ahead under the persona of Kira. He can lie at a pin drop, charming those around him with good looks and charisma, and he’s willing to put himself on the line for what he truly wants as long as, as far as he can tell, such a thing won’t harm him. But his best strength, by far? His ridiculously intense psychological control. He’s rarely caught by surprise and can set his emotions aside completely in order to look at a situation through various viewpoints, all for the purpose of achieving his goals.
Weapons
The first and most obvious is the Death Note, a notebook that can kill people forty seconds after their name is written down in its pages through a variety of means, though if no cause of death is specified, the person will merely die of a heart attack. It’s got a ton of rules as well as limitations and a bit of a twist (the owner is perpetually followed by the shinigami who originally owned the notebook), but these won’t really matter in the world of Econtra, since Light won’t be able to use it and won’t even have the entire notebook with him to begin with.
When it comes to the domestic department, he's good with a sewing needle and a tennis racquet, having been the sport’s junior champion in both middle school and high school. He’s also particularly good with a pen – this guy can write, and a good portion of the time it’s deadly.
His best weapon at the moment, though? The concept and character of Kira, now more of a tool and a mask than an actual being.
Weaknesses
His most obvious weakness is his pride, not to mention strong emotions. Usually found completely within his thoughts, when they do surface they wreak havoc upon both himself and those around him – a variable in the middle of the equation that ruins all his previous calculations. Because they compromise his goals, he tends to ignore them and push them to the side, and only in moments of great surprise or stress do they scream for attention and demand to be heard.
Due to his complete dedication to his goals, he also pushes aside his relationships. Though he cares for his family above everyone else, previously there would have been little hesitation in his eyes as he wrote their names down and took their lives away as Kira, and his friends couldn’t really be called such – his only equal and his supposed closest friend is Kira’s arch-enemy, and his girlfriend is little more than a tool. Unless the relationship could prove beneficial to him, he doesn’t care about becoming more than an acquaintance. He’s a lonely person, but now that he’s no longer so busy, perhaps he can finally take the time to mind.
History
Born and bred in Tokyo by his father, a police chief – Yagami Soichirou – and his wife – Yagami Sachiko – along with a sister that came along three years after his birth – Yagami Sayu – Light led a relatively ordinary and, in his own words, boring life up until he was seventeen and saw a black notebook falling out of the sky. At first he thought the flimsy thing was a chain letter, since it went around calling itself a Death Note and claimed a person could kill another simply by thinking of the person’s face when writing their name down in it, but when he sat down to try the thing after his curiosity became too great, he discovered it was much more than that – he saw it as a tool, a weapon, to mold the world into the one he wanted it to become and to right the wrongs humanity had committed. He, in his eyes, had been chosen to do such a thing. In the words of who would later become his enemy – L – he was not going for a dictatorship based on fear, but in the later years of his campaign, this is what it became.
The Light that arrives in Econtra, however, comes before this dictatorship. He’s found the notebook, been challenged by L – the detective in charge of finding him and bringing him to justice – to murder him before he kills Kira, and has only just begun to build his empire. After Raye Penbar, the FBI agent that nearly compromised his entire situation and after his fiancée, Naomi Misora, deduced that Raye had been killed by Kira were both eliminated; after Amane Misa, an up-and-coming model and actress, received a Death Note herself and began going around calling herself the second Kira, showing up on Light’s doorstep and demanding to be his girlfriend in exchange for becoming his ‘eyes’ – a supernatural ability that enables one to see the names and lifespans of every person they come across, especially useful when it comes to killing people with the Death Note since further research into the person becomes unnecessary and looks really do start to kill; after Misa and Light are imprisoned when Misa is found guilty of being the second Kira and Light turns himself in on the premise that he thinks he might be Kira; this Light has only just set his grand plan leading to L’s demise into motion.
“This pride… I’ll have to… get rid of it.”
Famous last words, and it was indeed gotten rid of, though not in the way he expected.
Welcome to Econtra, Yagami Light.
After lying low for a couple days and making some sense of his situation, he announces his presence with the intention of seeing whose attention he'll catch. Unsurprisingly, this turns out to be the Amane Misa from his world, who he then meets up with. Shortly after gaining more information from her regarding their situation, he makes himself known fully, attracting the attention of Ayumi, the resident alternate L. She requests to meet and they do so, rather disastrously. In a state of panic, Light launches the first of several faulty plans, intending to seduce Ayumi and use her as a pawn in Kira's quest to execute his plan on earth here in Econtra - with the Death Note rendered useless and with no one left to kill, his thirst for power turns his murderous intentions to killing Yamaraja, his own universe's L. It doesn't take him long to figure out who's who, but he abandons his initial plan of getting to Yamaraja via Ayumi when he asks her opinion on N's letter and she's less than cooperative. (Charm, it seems, does not affect Ls of either gender.) This only heightens his ever-growing sense of fear and, sensing his destruction by Ayumi's manipulation, Kira attempts a second plan. Fortunately, it falls short, and he turns his attentions instead to appeasing Misa in order to keep her away from his double, Tsuki. Who he initially deems as harmless becomes rather dangerous through Yamaraja's manipulation, leaving Light more or less completely cornered.
Enter Ayumi again.
She requests to meet with him and it's here that his pride is, as he wished all the way back in his world, gotten rid of. Having regained full control of himself through a series of strategic comparisons to Tsuki and Yamaraja in which his disgust with them was rebounded back to himself, he comes to fully accept his new reality and clear his head, now no longer burdened by the needs and desires of Kira. Not wishing to become either of the two extremes of Tsuki or Yamaraja, the balance of powers in Yagami Light shifts - Kira is shattered to a mere few pieces of influence and Light becomes the dominant presence once more, as always under the guidance of that third person directing the entire package in the back of his head.
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Series/Fandom: Death Note [manga]
Original or Alternate: OU
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Sexuality: Supposedly heterosexual, really doesn’t care
Appearance
A subtly beautiful person – nothing really screams ‘look at me’ about him, but once you do give him a glance, you begin to realize he has extraordinarily pretty features. He’s not too tall but not too short – average height matched with an average wardrobe, perhaps a tad formal for being casual. The most striking thing about him initially is his hair – an odd reddish brown color, not common in Japan – but a couple double takes and what really keeps you looking are his eyes. Once slit-like and nearly black, with a thousand things running across them (you look for the emotion in Yagami Light, you find it there), they still retain their shape and their nature but have taken on a lighter color than before. Times have changed him.
Personality
Another department in which time took its toll, though not in the way that might be expected. You have Yagami Light, yes, covering up the concept of Kira, but behind Kira is the mastermind controlling it all. Light was, essentially, divided into three – the same person attempting to run an entire motion picture by taking on every role. The actor here is Light himself – a self-titled optimist, naive, bored: the perfect combination for a disaster. With the discovery of the Death Note, a second persona is created for him – the part he’s playing, a concept going by the name of Kira. There are differences between the two, the primary one being that Kira does not have Light’s relationships attached to him or Light’s emotions (Kira himself, however, does have his own emotions), though both beings are very similar on the surface. Light comes across as a laid-back, typical teenager – arrogant, slightly sarcastic, odd sense of humor completely intact – but there’s also something more sinister. He’s childish, detests losing, overanalyzes everything and is nearly paranoid to fault – even cruel in some cases. In private he’s bossy and unpleasant, a workaholic, leading quite the extravagant lifestyle in quite an unextravagant way, while in public he’s pretty much the epitome of perfection while still remaining more or less ordinary. He’ll do just about anything for himself as long as it doesn’t harm him, though he won’t think twice about using another person for the same thing, and refuses to back down from any challenge – rather, he responds with one of his own. Perhaps because of his ego he’s a little too impulsive and overconfident at times – an ego well-fed after years of being at the top of every ladder – and because of this he can’t stand losing or being in the wrong. Usually he keeps his emotions under wraps, but they do get the better of him every so often, and during these times it’s as if he does a complete 180 – he contradicts himself, makes little sense, becomes irrationally angry, and, in the worst cases, the shock of the circumstance is so great that it overpowers his sense of his self-control. Yet these people are only two thirds of the entire package – behind this exterior and seeming interior there’s yet another layer, the one directing the entire production, some third person that for a time only lives in Light’s thoughts: those moments when Light refers to himself and even to Kira in the third person, those instances when he sees his situation from an angle completely separated from himself – “Ryuzaki/Ryuga is Yagami Light’s friend, but L is Kira’s enemy.” Together, these three people are putting on the production of the century for Light’s world, the entire populace tuned to their every word and movement, but the film, well. It can only last so long.
A mere comparison was all it took to rip the entire script in half. Not the most useful of things, torn in two, but nice to keep in mind when writing a new one. And so you have Yagami Light again, no longer so absorbed in his leading role, that third person keeping the persona of Kira more or less under control. Light's optimism is, as always, very much present, working hand-in-hand with his usual naive outlook and slightly bruised ego (just slightly - the thing's about as big as his brain) under the guise of your standard, ordinary teenager. Except, you know, practically perfect - or so he'd like you to continue believing. It's a given that he refuses to become consumed with power, not to mention guilt, but why should he throw the pieces of something previously so useful away? His secret weapon's not the killer stationary anymore - it's the killer concept.
Abilities/Strengths
Light is both an actor and a director – he can feign any expression or none at all at a moment’s notice, manipulate those around him mentally, emotionally, and physically, and turn the tables on most situations in order to get what he wants. He, being a complex human being, has a pretty good grasp on the human character and frequently uses this to his advantage, incorporating it with an excellent sense of logic to create brilliant deductions in a relatively short period of time. He’s very intelligent in both an academic and realistic sense – not only was he first nationally in Japan for standardized testing, but he also had the world wrapped around his finger due to his resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and ability to see ahead under the persona of Kira. He can lie at a pin drop, charming those around him with good looks and charisma, and he’s willing to put himself on the line for what he truly wants as long as, as far as he can tell, such a thing won’t harm him. But his best strength, by far? His ridiculously intense psychological control. He’s rarely caught by surprise and can set his emotions aside completely in order to look at a situation through various viewpoints, all for the purpose of achieving his goals.
Weapons
The first and most obvious is the Death Note, a notebook that can kill people forty seconds after their name is written down in its pages through a variety of means, though if no cause of death is specified, the person will merely die of a heart attack. It’s got a ton of rules as well as limitations and a bit of a twist (the owner is perpetually followed by the shinigami who originally owned the notebook), but these won’t really matter in the world of Econtra, since Light won’t be able to use it and won’t even have the entire notebook with him to begin with.
When it comes to the domestic department, he's good with a sewing needle and a tennis racquet, having been the sport’s junior champion in both middle school and high school. He’s also particularly good with a pen – this guy can write, and a good portion of the time it’s deadly.
His best weapon at the moment, though? The concept and character of Kira, now more of a tool and a mask than an actual being.
Weaknesses
His most obvious weakness is his pride, not to mention strong emotions. Usually found completely within his thoughts, when they do surface they wreak havoc upon both himself and those around him – a variable in the middle of the equation that ruins all his previous calculations. Because they compromise his goals, he tends to ignore them and push them to the side, and only in moments of great surprise or stress do they scream for attention and demand to be heard.
Due to his complete dedication to his goals, he also pushes aside his relationships. Though he cares for his family above everyone else, previously there would have been little hesitation in his eyes as he wrote their names down and took their lives away as Kira, and his friends couldn’t really be called such – his only equal and his supposed closest friend is Kira’s arch-enemy, and his girlfriend is little more than a tool. Unless the relationship could prove beneficial to him, he doesn’t care about becoming more than an acquaintance. He’s a lonely person, but now that he’s no longer so busy, perhaps he can finally take the time to mind.
History
Born and bred in Tokyo by his father, a police chief – Yagami Soichirou – and his wife – Yagami Sachiko – along with a sister that came along three years after his birth – Yagami Sayu – Light led a relatively ordinary and, in his own words, boring life up until he was seventeen and saw a black notebook falling out of the sky. At first he thought the flimsy thing was a chain letter, since it went around calling itself a Death Note and claimed a person could kill another simply by thinking of the person’s face when writing their name down in it, but when he sat down to try the thing after his curiosity became too great, he discovered it was much more than that – he saw it as a tool, a weapon, to mold the world into the one he wanted it to become and to right the wrongs humanity had committed. He, in his eyes, had been chosen to do such a thing. In the words of who would later become his enemy – L – he was not going for a dictatorship based on fear, but in the later years of his campaign, this is what it became.
The Light that arrives in Econtra, however, comes before this dictatorship. He’s found the notebook, been challenged by L – the detective in charge of finding him and bringing him to justice – to murder him before he kills Kira, and has only just begun to build his empire. After Raye Penbar, the FBI agent that nearly compromised his entire situation and after his fiancée, Naomi Misora, deduced that Raye had been killed by Kira were both eliminated; after Amane Misa, an up-and-coming model and actress, received a Death Note herself and began going around calling herself the second Kira, showing up on Light’s doorstep and demanding to be his girlfriend in exchange for becoming his ‘eyes’ – a supernatural ability that enables one to see the names and lifespans of every person they come across, especially useful when it comes to killing people with the Death Note since further research into the person becomes unnecessary and looks really do start to kill; after Misa and Light are imprisoned when Misa is found guilty of being the second Kira and Light turns himself in on the premise that he thinks he might be Kira; this Light has only just set his grand plan leading to L’s demise into motion.
“This pride… I’ll have to… get rid of it.”
Famous last words, and it was indeed gotten rid of, though not in the way he expected.
Welcome to Econtra, Yagami Light.
After lying low for a couple days and making some sense of his situation, he announces his presence with the intention of seeing whose attention he'll catch. Unsurprisingly, this turns out to be the Amane Misa from his world, who he then meets up with. Shortly after gaining more information from her regarding their situation, he makes himself known fully, attracting the attention of Ayumi, the resident alternate L. She requests to meet and they do so, rather disastrously. In a state of panic, Light launches the first of several faulty plans, intending to seduce Ayumi and use her as a pawn in Kira's quest to execute his plan on earth here in Econtra - with the Death Note rendered useless and with no one left to kill, his thirst for power turns his murderous intentions to killing Yamaraja, his own universe's L. It doesn't take him long to figure out who's who, but he abandons his initial plan of getting to Yamaraja via Ayumi when he asks her opinion on N's letter and she's less than cooperative. (Charm, it seems, does not affect Ls of either gender.) This only heightens his ever-growing sense of fear and, sensing his destruction by Ayumi's manipulation, Kira attempts a second plan. Fortunately, it falls short, and he turns his attentions instead to appeasing Misa in order to keep her away from his double, Tsuki. Who he initially deems as harmless becomes rather dangerous through Yamaraja's manipulation, leaving Light more or less completely cornered.
Enter Ayumi again.
She requests to meet with him and it's here that his pride is, as he wished all the way back in his world, gotten rid of. Having regained full control of himself through a series of strategic comparisons to Tsuki and Yamaraja in which his disgust with them was rebounded back to himself, he comes to fully accept his new reality and clear his head, now no longer burdened by the needs and desires of Kira. Not wishing to become either of the two extremes of Tsuki or Yamaraja, the balance of powers in Yagami Light shifts - Kira is shattered to a mere few pieces of influence and Light becomes the dominant presence once more, as always under the guidance of that third person directing the entire package in the back of his head.
Barracks Assignment: Paj-Tessera
Training Division: Technology
Disclaimer: This is a role-playing journal for
econtra_rpg by roflolzomg.Death Note/Yagami Light © Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata/Shueisha.
All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.
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