Current Events > Let's say you have a Death Note, and you fell for the Lind L. Taylor trick...

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I think most people would do better than Light.

It's literally impossible to get caught in real life with a magic murder notebook unless you try to get caught.

Don't ask how or why you fell for it. The fact of the matter is that L--the man calling himself the real L--has now narrowed down the metropolitan region in which you live and announce that fact on TV. However, you do not have any relatives working with the local police department.

Could the authorities still track you down and arrest you?

As for merely tracking me down, well, Misa found Light didn't she? Although there's basically 0.0000% chance the authorities can use her method to find me.

I happened to see a bit of an episode tonight. Light deliberately baits L and clues him into the fact that he can choose the time of death which also tells L that Kira has access to the police database. I'm pretty sure this isn't the only instance of Light giving him information he otherwise wouldn't known

I think most people would do better than Light.

It's literally impossible to get caught in real life with a magic murder notebook unless you try to get caught.

Lol wow. I'm sure, we have a bunch of geniuses on Gamefaqs that surpass Light. Some people certainly act like it. Light did that because he's arrogant which can lead even a smart person to making some bad decisions.

I don't have a crazy ego like Light does nor do I have a police chief for a father that I could access criminal databases from. I'm also in Los Angeles. Even if L had pinpointed that, lmao good luck pal. LA is freakin huge

What if he pinpointed like a 100m zone around your house

Keep in mond, Light also clued people he is a student by not changing his killing times.

Killing the FBI agent was also a mistake on his part.

Light was actually terrible at killing. He was great at hiding the book, but his timing and kill reasons were ass.

Light was written stupid. The eye deal would have made him possibly succeed. L would be dead immediately.

He'd also give up half of his life span. Light didn't want to do that which is why he had Misa constantly do it for him.

Whatever the remaining was was much longer than he lived. The deal doesnt really make sense anyways tbh. Would it predict his demise and half the time until the original end of the show?

Death is predestined in the DN universe, except when it comes to the death note itself. The shinigami can see the time of death.

Whatever the remaining was was much longer than he lived. The deal doesnt really make sense anyways tbh. Would it predict his demise and half the time until the original end of the show?

Thats hand waving. Thats writers discretion without any real logic.

He really only got caught in the end because his supporter did not listen to what he said and was going off on a whim.

Light had multiple outs past that event. You don't get caught in this scenario unless you want to be.

He was told not to make unnecessary movements, but had no way of knowing the movement he made was unnecessary.

"The Japanese police are completely incompetent and won't keep watch of former Kira suspect Light's movements" was not something one'd reasonably assume. Even Light mentioned they were stupid to let him stealth write names down.

They give you rules to try to work around but they have plenty you just cant because its what ever the writer says or its up for interpretation.

And then they show if you just outsmart the note they more or less kill you in the One Shot.

We can even see Misa was suppose to die way earlier on by the stalker but a shinigami saved her life which added his years to hers.

What are you even saying. It was established with pre-destined death the entire time throughout this series. If it was a plot hole I could see but it never was. You have multiple stuff with fiction like this such as Final Destination.

We can even see Misa was suppose to die way earlier on by the stalker but a shinigami saved her life which added his years to hers.

Half of your life is whatever the writer says is. Its not predetermined at all. No characters has a set life span. Its whatever they say it is.

Half of anyones life means anything because they can say its anything. You never really established theyre life span. You arbitrarily say whatever it is based on the situation.

Why are you harping on this point so much? This is such a weird nitpick.

The premise is would you get caught.

Thats an insanely flawed question because so much is arbitrary and writers discretion.

More so they went out of their way to say in One Shot "Hey fans, if you ever outsmarted the deathnote the shinigami would just kill you"

I'm not getting what you're saying. How can you outsmart the death note, explain?

Thats an insanely flawed question because so much is arbitrary and writers discretion.

Its fiction, of course its arbitrary. Its all made up by the authors. Its like discussing which comic book character wins in a fight, its just fun to discuss.

Read One Shot. Its a story of a kid outsmarting the deathnote. The shinigami over Ryuk gets pissed and literally tells him to add a rule to prevent this.

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