#should I write stuff for Rem and Ryuk when I do “cast”?

[could-be-kira]

death note theatre kid au

okay this is a lil different from my incorrect quote posting but i had this au in my head based on a headcanon i have and i have a lot of feelings about it so we're gonna talk about it. so, what would happen if we threw all the death note characters in a drama class together ? the answer is pure chaos and hilarity.

character + role rundown :

light - actor, all or at least most of his roles are usually super unhinged, everyone agrees his performance is amazing but they're all slightly terrified of him when he gets up onstage. not nearly as unhinged in real life though, and quite a bit more chill than in canon.

L - writer and casting director, instead of doing preexisting plays / scenes, he writes all original stories for the group to perform. writes certain characters specifically for light and mello because they're his People. is actually also a pretty good actor but prefers just to do it during quick readthroughs and while helping the rest of the group run through lines rather than being up onstage.

misa - costume designer and set artist. this girl is the QUEEN of aesthetics and can very quickly come up with ideas for exactly how the set and costumes should look just based on the tone of the script that she's given. she's very good at editing and making revisions of her designs after both reading the script herself, as well as watching a couple runthroughs of it. very bubbly and creative.

ryuk & rem - lighting and sound, respectively. ryuk should not be allowed in the lighting booth because he basically does whatever he wants to do with it during every rehearsal just to spice it up and make it more interesting but no one trusts him enough to be in charge of anything else so ... lighting it is. rem on the other hand follows the rules of sound to a t. she's always on the ball and knows what she needs to play and when. also, it's important to note that despite the lack of death notes, these two are still shinigami in this au and no one questions it.

near - props master, in charge of making or buying everyone's props and making sure they have them when they need them. sometimes he spaces out and ends up playing with a prop or two himself, and either L or misa will have to give him a poke mid-scene to remind him to go put said props where they're supposed to be during rehearsal.

mello - actor, he holds quite a bit of passion and conviction out of character, and it most certainly carries over onstage. he's not the best with staying calm if he messes up a line, misses a cue, etc. because he's kind of a perfectionist, so even during first rehearsals after only just being given the script, there tends to be a lot of yelling going on and consolidation needed if he does something wrong.

soichiro - drama teacher, this group stresses him out SO much because of all the chaos they cause but he's trying his best </3

matsuda, aizawa, mogi, etc. - additional actors because we can't just have two.

random headcanons :

– light, L and misa are all best friends and make a great team working on stuff for the class together.

– light tried to convince L to get into acting for actual performances while they were going over scenes together in their spare time because of how much L put into how he performed during their runthrough.

– everyone acknowledges that there's something 💅💅 going on between light and L ... except for light and L. after every scene runthrough, at least one of them receives "are you sure you're not attracted to him–?" and despite the fact that they both deny it, they are in fact attracted to each other.

– misa has tried to set the two of them up on multiple occasions to no avail, but she'll get there eventually <3

– speaking of misa, she's a lesbian and dating rem. she used to have some comphet for light but she's over it and now they're besties.

– misa and L have a bet going on regarding how they think soichiro's gonna quit, because they both think he's going to. misa thinks it's gonna be because the group is just generally too chaotic for his sanity to hold on and L thinks it'll be because he keeps having light play some wackjob and he nails it every time

– L's writing coupled with light's acting is starting to make everyone think that if he doesn't make it big as a pro actor, he'll just end up being a serial killer ( they're right, it just happens in a different timeline than this one :D )

– soichiro has had to talk to L about maybe not casting light as the most unhinged character in the script every time he writes something new for the group to perform. L says he'll consider it, but really he's going to make the characters even worse on purpose because a) watching light act like a total nutcase is both incredibly entertaining and attractive, and b) he has a bet against misa to win

i think that's all i have about this au for now but PLEASE come ask / talk to me about it in my ask box because i would love to develop some new ideas and ramble about it more as a theatre person myself :))

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[margoteve]

Death Note on Netflix - I watched it so you don’t have to

Ok so I cooled off, washed the dishes and got my mind sorted out after that clusterfuck. I am not even going to lie. This movie was terrible. Now onto the review. (I apologize to mobile users this gonna be long)

Let’s start by presenting the plot of the original story (if you don’t know) created by Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ōba, of the same title. The plot: A teenage boy named Yagami Light finds a notebook that allows you to kill anyone whose name you write down in said notebook. If the cause of death is not specified the person dies out of heart attack. Driven by strong sense of superior intellect and justice Light decided to become the new god of Justice, in the world known as Kira. He is being supported by a young idol Misa Misa, who is in love with Light and is also an owner of her own Death Note. Both are being accompanied by Shinigami - the gods of Death. As any protagonists there is also the nemesis - genius detective known as L who is trying to capture Kira. 

Now, that is the general idea of the Death Note but the plot is way more elaborate and we will get to it later. The series stars Nat Wolf as Light Turner and not Yagami anymore, William Dafoe voices Ryuk and L is played by Lakeith Stanfield. Misa got a name changed into Mia Sutton played by Margaret Qualley. 

The best thing in this movie - I really liked William Dafoe voicing Ryuk and how creepy the god of Death was, as well as the fact that L is a POC which is great. These were amazing cast choices. 

Here goes the bad and eh stuff. Light, like Misa got a name makeover into Light Turner, which sounds more like a very bad pun and as much as I usually like puns this was not very funny. The first time we see Light he is doing homework for people in exchange for money. He finds the notebook and later gets in trouble by standing up to the school’s bully. In detention he meets Ryuk, who explains and tempts Light into using the notebook so the boy would see it was real. 

Now this greatly deviates from the original series where Light started using the notebook on his own. It took Ryuk a week to actually meet the new owner of the Death Note, where here we meet his immediately. It’s not that bad of a change and honestly I found the shrieking Light did rather hilarious. The deviation from the original that I don’t really like was that they got rid of the heart attack rule. I feel like this was done for the sake of needless blood spill everywhere, including the terribly gore-y deaths of first two victims - one being the high school bully and the second being the protagonist’s mother’s killer. 

Another big change was the fact that Light was an only child, and his mother was dead. I can understand that and get behind this to some degree. We got some personal motivation from him. Light’s father in the original was the Chief of NPA, that coordinates the entire Japanese police force as far as I can remember/understand. The Netflix switched him into an officer of Internal Affairs Department in Seattle Police Department. In the original manga Light was a supergenius and in this adaptation we maybe see the proof of this maybe twice, first in the initial homework scene and then in the very last one, where he worked out how to save his own life from being killed by Mia, though it was not that convincing. 

The script writers basically purged the entire story of the core reason this was so interesting in the first place - the battle of wits between Light and L. Light actually acts scared of Ryuk, first thing he does after being confident in his abilities is to go on and show off his new cool power to Mia. We don’t even get any clever ways of fooling L when he had him under observation. He just lays low instead of taking action. It is Mia who feels more like the mastermind behind everything Light does. Which basically is a huge alteration to Misa’s role. I am not saying this is a bad thing but if you wanted to make Kira female you should have went for it because Light feels not so bright (yes, pun intended) here anymore.

L is not free from this either when he PERSONALLY showed himself to a conference meeting. HE was supposed to be this mysterious person behind the scene. Yes in original we had a double posing in stead of L on public television. But it was a double. L never revealed his face like that. He never even had a personal on the crime scenes of cases he worked on! 

Also the moment where he went to use a gun after the whole “I don’t need it, it’s distracting” speech, felt very out of character for me.

Another thing is ignoring rules of the notebook itself. Watar was NOT the real name of L’s butler/caretaker. Are you trying to tell me that a partner to the most renowned detective would be that stupid to reveal his real name to ANYONE working on a case where the killer can get to you by just knowing your face and name?? Also what is that thing - Light DIDN’T EVEN KNEW HIS FIRST NAME. Which as far as I remember was also a requirement. 

There were a lot more rules of ownership of the notebook, also anyone who touched it could see the Shinigami also anyone who writes in the notebook becomes the owner. That was forgotten as well. 

The movie got rid of Rem, and the fact that Misa aka. Mia in here was also an owner of a Death Note, which is kind of a sad thing. Could have been included in a sequel if this thing was better written. Speaking of Mia, she is cunning, I dare say she probably was smarter of the two but we will never know as we didn’t get much of elaboration on her. She was the one to steal a page from Light’s Death Note and kill the 12 FBI agents behind his back then made him believe it was Ryuk who did it even though the Shinigami was not capable of such a thing.

The music in the final parts of the movie is just terrible. 80s romantic disco songs is not something you put on a slow motion of two killers falling to their death from a ferris wheel or the brilliant moment where L finds the page of Death Note battling himself to write Light’s name on it, at the same time when Light’s dad figured out his son was Kira after all. 

In conclusion: This would have been a much better thing if it was either a spin off or a sort of a sequel to manga happening years later and Mia as the evil protagonist. Light was not smart, L had sloppy mistakes. The blood spill was unnecessary. Entire thing was very shallow. I do not recommend. 

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