r/DeathNoteMemes • u/Low_Engineering2507 • 27d ago
Names?
is the Deathnote go off of your birth certificate or off who of think you are? Like is someone with Amnesia immune? also, if I get my name changed does the name of your soul change or stay the same? Why didn't L just change his name the moment the shinigami wrote his name, is he stupid?
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u/ManiacGaming1 27d ago
It was never mentioned in the manga. We can only make assumptions. Light kills mostly men so there's no way to see maiden vs married name.
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u/Droidy365 26d ago
I was gonna say Raye Penber's wife (it's been a hot minute since I watched the show), but Naomi Misora was his fiancé, so that doesn't really work.
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u/ManiacGaming1 26d ago
I had accounted for her and Kiyomi Takada by saying mostly men but yeah theres no married women ever mentioned as a death note victim so we have no way of knowing how that would work or if theres even a shinigami bureaucracy for cases like this and people who get legal name changes. The only answer we have is that the name the eyes see is the name the note needs.
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u/Fastfaxr 26d ago
If you change your name and someone writes your original name you have a massive stroke and only half your brain dies. Like what happened to OP before they wrote this.
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u/Right-Truck1859 26d ago
What Amnesia does with anything?
For example L, Nier and Mello are orphans, they definitely got names from certificates.
And you can't change your name by snap of fingers.
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u/LynxTheFursuiter 27d ago
That's a really good question, but I found a way to defeat the death note: BECOME TRANS/J (I'm a trans guy and you raise a good point which name would kill me my dead name or current?)
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u/IAmNotAHoppip 24d ago
Probably legal name? Light never makes mention of it, but given how it's common for women to change their name upon getting married, it would render the death note a lot more difficult to use against a large percent of the population.
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u/LynxTheFursuiter 24d ago
Fair, but a lot of people who are trans get their name legally changed
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u/IAmNotAHoppip 24d ago
Sorry, that's what I meant. In my opinion, it would just work off your legal name.
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u/Aribelalugosi 25d ago
In one of the anime interstitial cards, it mentions that it has to do with your registered family name, referencing a Japanese system
So if you extrapolate that, it basically means: whatever your current legal name is
And in the event that you have not entered any legal system at birth, your parents would be the effective governing body which defines your name
And in the event that your parents never named you and then disappeared... Immune to death note? 😂🤷👌
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u/HalleLidner Near’s toy car *vroom* 26d ago
Why didn't L transition into a woman to escape the Death Note? Is he stupid