Jul. 1st, 2023

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full name Misa Amane
canon Death Note (manga only)
age 19 - 25+
d o b Dec. 25 1984
aka The Second Kira
profession Model, actress
hometown Kyoto, Japan
in a nutshell A bright, gutsy romantic with a promising career in the entertainment industry and a dark past. Secretly a serial killer.
弥 海砂
A girl loved by multiple gods of death, except for the one that really caught her eye... !

Misa is an up-and-coming model, actress, and general talent with a side gig as her serial killer reluctant boyfriend's partner-in-crime "divine justice." (Note the placement of "reluctant" back there.)

Her defining contribution to the Death Note narrative is her willingness to do anything (seriously, anything) to be with and/or help said reluctant boyfriend, Light Yagami. She's killed innocents; she's killed criminals; she's even prepared to kill whatever other girlfriends Light has the audacity to have, and takes no issue with her patron saint god of death threatening to murder him for failing to do what she wants.

Despite the tragedy and weirdness of her life -- her parents were murdered in a house robbery; she was almost killed by a stalker; and the entity that cares for her the most is a god of death named Rem -- Misa has many enviable qualities: An uncanny zeal for her profession(s) and the people she loves; the courage to go after what she wants with real bravado; and a capacity to play nice that can charm just about anybody.

Just don't get on her bad side. She will not hesitate.
personality
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quick-thinking, devoted, charming, hardworking
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impulsive, irreverent, relentless, carefree
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jealous, callous, immature, delusional
style
Combines gothic lolita and punk-inspired pieces, becoming more chic and clean-cut as she gets older. Never strays from the sexy/maximalist side of things. Extensive collection of lingerie. Ditches her signature half-up twintail look in her mid-twenties for a style that's more mature. Lots of accessories: Rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, the works.
height 152cm | 4'12"
build Petite, slim
eyes Brown
hair Blonde (dyed)
abilities
Death NoteA notebook that allows you to kill anyone so long as you know their name and face. It has a lot of rules. Misa doesn't know very many of them.
Shinigami EyesThese allow Misa to see the "true" name and lifespan of your character provided she gets a decent glimpse of their face. They're visually indistinguishable from normal eyes despite what the aesthetics of the anime/manga would have you believe. Don't expect Misa to be able to tell you how long your character has left to live, though: Lifespans are given in "shinigami time," and neither I, Misa, nor apparently the creators of Death Note can do shinigami math. The series has never given a concrete explanation of what a "true" name is, either, but based on how names are treated in the manga, I assume it's whatever is written on your character's legal documents.
tl;dr
Misa takes herself to be in a romantic relationship with Light Yagami, the protagonist of Death Note, and as such is canonically uninterested (at best) and disgusted (at worst) by others who show such interest in her (but see her permissions for caveats). When she's in love, Misa is recklessly self-sacrificing, very sweet, covetous of her partner's time and energy, and eager to please. For better or worse, she loves her partner unconditionally -- barring provocations of her jealousy (more on that in a minute). This degree of passion does not extend to her friends, whom she doesn't mind betraying in the pursuit of her own and/or her partner's goals. She sure is fun to hang out with, though! She gravitates towards "strange" people/entities and is pretty accepting of things others might be put off by or demand that their friends change.

Death Note is weird, and one of the weirdest things about it is the stuff it has to say (and what it doesn't say) about love. Since it's written by Ohba, its women are, for the most part, caricatures of some of the worst aspects of traditional femininity. In Misa's case, she is the goth gf of yore. Her boyfriend treats her like shit and she, too, treats him like shit, mostly because she doesn't seem to mind that he doesn't want to be in a romantic relationship with her and is very happy to force him to be in one anyway. This is, inexplicably, presented by the story as a paradigm case of "unconditional love:" An inherently self-effacing, all-consuming emotion that doesn't care about the personality or feelings of the person on the receiving end. (Rem, Gelus,* and to some extent even Light's mother Sachiko are all examples of this.)

While I think there's something to be said for a love that could endure everything and/or tolerate anything of the beloved, Misa's affections are a perversion of this. I imagine that the violent deaths of her parents and her own near-death experience made her feel as if she needed someone to love and to be loved by, and it's just her luck that Rem decides to give her Gelus' Death Note -- thereby making her the only person in the world who, at the time, knows how Kira (Light's serial killer alter ego) operates. Since Kira just so happened to murder the criminal responsible for the deaths of Misa's parents when the Japanese court system failed her, Kira -- or Light, as it happens -- becomes an obvious candidate for her devotion.

Misa's relationship with Light only "works" for them both because she is fundamentally uninterested in him as a person (even though her amnesiac arc makes it clear that it's him she's come to like, and not just his identity as Kira). I suspect his concurrent lack of interest in her, too, is part of the appeal for her: After all, if someone doesn't actually love you, they won't care to be truly vulnerable with you, to learn as much as they can about what and who you are, to help you face what hurts you. With Light, Misa is able to "love" and to be "loved" by somebody without actually having to participate in the relationship in the fullness of her self -- a self which I think almost everything about her life is devoted to avoiding. This is the interpretation of her character I'm interested in exploring.

* Remember she almost got killed by a stalker? This is the name of the god of death that saved her life at that time.
player A.
pronouns any
contact PM; ask for Discord
timezone CET/CEST
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character Misa Amane (Death Note)
for more information... ... See her open post.
backthreading? always
threadhopping? ask
fourthwalling? ask
off limits sex/smut, incest, physical/sexual abuse, hard gore
ask before mindreading, shipping, injuring, killing
warnings Misa is a serial killer! She's not very sane.
permissions + first impressions
RP style ➤ I'll match your preference.

Pace ➤ Variable. I try to tag back at least once per day, but there may be stretches when I'm unable to reply at all due to my work.

Opt-ins/outsMisa can kill people with a murder notebook! (Death Note is a masterpiece, isn't it?) Leave a comment or send me a PM if you a) don't want her to target your character or b) don't want her to interact with them entirely, on account of the whole serial killer thing or for any other reason. No need to tell me why!

Interested in ➤ It would be nice for her to interact with characters with whom she can establish some actual intimacy/friendship! I'm very down for slowburns in that direction and threads where characters are just hanging out, having some deep chats, getting into their feelings, whatever.

Not interested in ➤ I don't really care for crosscanon M/F or horror for Misa, but if you've got a good idea for a thread, I'm open to hearing it!

Information for mindreaders ➤ Misa is not a genuinely happy person. It should be clear to even minimally perceptive people that there's something "off" about her: She's too cheerful, too spunky, too unserious about certain things, and too in love with a person who is neither compatible with nor interested in her. It shouldn't take much effort for your character, psychic or otherwise, to pry in these directions.
for canonmates
I'd love for Misa to interact with any other Kira (except Higuchi, lmao), L, post-timeskip Sayu, Rem, Ryuk, and Matsuda. I'm happy to ship her with any of them (except Ryuk), but let's discuss the details in advance (especially for Light and L). AUs with Near, Mello, or Matt are fine, too!
visual Gorgeous
aural Aya Hirano
olfactory Couture La La by Juicy
demeanor Very approachable

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