29. 06. 2021.
I’m finally studying for my last exam tonight.
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Female Near, and personas used in Death Note
So I've been saying female Near comes off as Dreamy, Distracted and introverted. Can fake better social skills. Someone people don't take note of until she opens her mouth. Mello thinks of her as kind of a robot.
I've said she's quietly angry, furiously proving herself. She's smart, smart enough to play the game, to know the value of blending. People don't suspect her of being sharp, analytic, vicious, until she opens her mouth and starts talking.
And I realise I've been showing a lot of her through other people's perspectives. And through their perspectives, I've given her a persona.
Death note has a lot of characters using a persona, a mask, to hide their true self behind. Light has a mask of composure, a distance he wears to be likeable to everyone, perfect son, perfect student, perfect boyfriend. In actuality Light is dramatic, emotional, and kind of dorky. He keeps his real reactions away from the public eye, be it his family, friends, or himself. Most of his emotional moments are depicted with eyes not facing the viewer. The exceptions are not taken well.
Kira is a mask Light loses himself in. He craves public approval. The Yagamis have a theme of sacrifice, and Kira is as much a god Light Sacrifices to Misa in some ways. Their giving their time, trusts and human connections to the altar that is Kira, a justice, a Lie. Light's Persona is one of Lies, and Near defeats him by stripping him of it, and so Light reacts like a Liar, and tries to denounce everything. His self confidence is tied to his image built on lies. He has all the makeings of a Femme Fatale, and a complicated relationship with his father and his ideals.
Misa has a Persona that she has turned into a successful career as a model. Her emotions about her family's deaths, suicidal ideation, or anything that might detract from her persona are for the most part kept carefully behind her smile and bubbly charm. She lets Light matter more than her, she keeps her expressed concerns superficial, she doesn't let the other sides of her show.
L hides. He hides from the world, he hides behind a name, behind a screen, hides behind arrogance, he's above it, removed from it, to the point he doubts his humanity. He's no slouch at acting, quick to throw on a persona in a pinch. He misdirects away from the truth, and when he has you distracted, he tells it. He's often shown eating, in an otherwise empty life. He serves truth and lies, side by side in dialogue. A face and name, L could have given none of those. He could have kept his distance. Like Light, he is childish and hates losing, like Light he sacrificed a friend on the altar of justice. (They sacrificed each other, and paid for it). The irony is L could have won if he accepted a loss. If he hadn't been so fixated on catching Light as Kira, they could have solved the Kira case together and never let Light regain Kira. Kira would have stopped. They could have lived. L valued the truth, Light feared it.
Takada is kind of like Light, in that she cares a lot about image. She wants the status and respect of looking like she has her life together. So she's Kiras spokesperson, a hot guys girlfriend, admired by the fearful populace. A genius. On surface, the kind of woman everyone wants to be.
Mikami lives between his work and his devotion. Sorchio also lives between his work and Family.
We don't get to see a lot of Mello using personas, although I would Imagine Like L, he knows how to wear other masks, and is an actor.. His language use changed when in the Mafia, suggesting he used a different Persona there then amongst Near or other people. His rosary suggests a different personal than public, but as we don't see a lot of him, this is speculation. We do know he is competitive to a ridiculous degree, and despite the ferocity he reacts with, that in itself might be another mask to hide more human weaknesses.
L talks about monsters, and on some level believes himself to be one. Monsters who tell nothing but lies. Interesting words from a man who serves both in the same dish, and is not afraid to resort to dirty tricks. He also refers to monsters as abducting children, stealing dreams and blood. Which may be how he views the title of L.
He's trying to break the pedestal, and it contrasts Light, who instead raises it. L tries to stop hiding behind his mask, where Light tries to strengthen it.
Matsuda, uses little to no duplicidy in his presentation of self, beyond to save himself. He's not super smart or poupluar, what gives him strength, is friendship, tried and true. Its a contrast to a lot of other prominent characters in the series who are smart, lonley and fluid with their identity. Another character who stays steady throughout the series is Soichiro, who has one of the most consistant moral codes in the series. It contrasts his sons, who changes based on the people he surronds himself with. Light reflects like the moon, but based his morals on his fathers.
Near, as a male, wears a literal mask of L to save his life. It's not until after the series that he loses himself in the mask of L. He questioned L as a person, and reshaped the mask of L to fit his ideals instead of the old. But after that, once he restores it to glory, he steps behind it, and loses Near.
Female Near has started wearing her persona earlier, in contrast to Male Near. She lets people assume things about her, see her as dreamy and distracted and robot. Until she talks, until she's ready to speak, and when she does, they're not looking past her, but at her. A little shocked, more than a little offended, about an assumption they perpetrated about her. She would argue with L, she would argue with god, she would argue to anyone whose listening. Where Male Near is a script writer, Female Near gets up on the stage, and breaks from the script expected to follow when the audience least expects it.
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