Theres no death note community to post this in so… here we go…
(Btw, how many names do you think you can fit on there?)
Honestly? I would start picking off officials. I would try and like… Persona 5 it. Send a warning to, say, Trump. “Do ___ by ____ or else” kind of thing. They don’t follow through, I take them out. And just keep going until they start listening. Universal health care. No? Alright, I’m going to start picking off those opposed. 100% tax on money over a billion (honestly, I feel like couple million would suffice) . No? You know the drill. Pretty much hold officials ransom until they start fixing shit. I would stay vigilante. Not to make sure everyone is following the same rules or government, but if someone tries to pass a law to ban abortion in there country? Let me grab a pen.
I would even be open to submission, like a “Hell Girl” situation. Of course, not “so and so is stealing my boyfriend” but more, “this company continues to dump in our wager supply.” I would use a very fine tipped pen if pencil wasn’t allowed. I would hopefully get to spears it out over years so, by the time it’s full, people can be used to being treated like people, hopefully. The idea of someone trying to lobby for a return to the health insurance modem would be a cause for mass strike, riots even. They wouldn’t dare, because I would be watching.
I love the idea of sending them a heads-up and demands.
if I were born before the internet, I would be a serial killer doing the exact same thing, driving the road taking out animal abusers, people who have cheated the system, started genocide, etc. and have zero issues doing it. now? you might get 1 before your face is plasted everywhere, as we just saw.
I’d leave reasons why they were deleted too, so everyone knows to stop with the bullshit or they could be next.
congratulations, you’re now Jack Reacher!
I think I’d just fold it up and keep it hidden somewhere until something crazy happens where the world would really actually strongly benefit. I don’t think right now is the time.
It is always the right time.
“Kolanaki, death by snu-snu.”
Hang out with a cool ghost.
Cool ghost aint gonna be happy if you don’t entertain them.
(btw, having posession of one sheet doesn’t give you the cool ghost, you’d need the actual book)
Do you have any evidence of individual pages having different rules than the book as a whole? It’s a plot point in at least one episode (I think multiple) that individual pages ripped out can still be used (it’s even the entire point of your hypothetical). Why do you believe you touching an individual page wouldn’t let you see the Shinigami?
Why do you believe you touching an individual page wouldn’t let you see the Shinigami?
You can. But the thing with death notes, is that shinigamis only follows the owner of a death note, not people carrying a page. As far as I know, no shinigami ever followed Takada.
Nothing
bold move.
say…could I get your autograph?
Who should I dedicate it to?
Your Mom
Lots of people here forget that you can control the actions of the person before they die. If you go by the richest persons, like someone suggested, you get them to liquidate and donate their entire state, or maybe a bunch at the same time to lobby for taxes to the mega rich, before dying. If you go by world leaders, like someone else suggested, you get them to undo their shits, e.g. Putin abandons Ukraine and destroys most of Russia’s armaments before joining NATO, Kim Jong Un calls for democratic elections and forms a democratic government after opening the borders, etc.
Unfortunately you need to keep in mind that transfers and donations can be reversed posthumously. If a gunman walks up to a billionaire, forces him to transfer millions to his bank account, and then shoots him dead, the killer doesn’t just get to keep the money after getting caught. Any transfer can be reversed after the fact. And you only have a few minutes of controlling the person before they die, so you can’t have them work for years to do good with their money.
If just one billionaire died this way, the transfers would likely stand. It can be written off as one man deciding to gain a conscience before taking his own life. But if hundreds of billionaires start doing this all at once? People are reasonably going to conclude that something or someone is controlling these billionaires. Maybe people actually accept the fantastical notion of a Death Note in play. Or maybe they conclude its something strange but more scientific, like some sort of infectious electronic meme that can instantly brainwash people into carrying out some action. Maybe there’s a hereto undiscovered arrangement of pixels on a screen that can hack the human mind and gain control of it temporarily. The sort of thing that, while implausible, is at least within the realm of scientific possibility.
Regardless of the exact cause, the heirs to these billionaires will go to court and argue that their deceased relatives were clearly not of sound mind at the time they transferred all their holdings. There’s already plenty of legal precedent for this, primarily for elderly people who lose their faculties and are taken advantage of by manipulative caretakers. Even if you can convince some 90 year old woman with Alzheimer’s to sign away her fortune to you, that transfer has a good chance of being reversed in court.
Really, the most effective way to provide extreme encouragement for the heirs to give away money is by having the billionaire write, in their own blood on the wall, “my heirs should give away my money. Any that don’t will share my fate.”
This way there are no transfers to fight in court. The legitimate heirs of the billionaire do inherit the money. But after they have it, there’s nothing preventing them from donating it themselves. And the money will be like a curse. They’ll be desperate to get rid of it.
Done on a large scale, this would encourage most billionaires to give up their wealth voluntarily. You could have each of them write, “I am being killed for the crime of being a billionaire. Any other billionaire will share my fate.” If a few dozen such killings happened, and the police proved utterly unable to prevent it, then the vast majority of billionaires would give up their wealth voluntarily out of pure fear.
You can control them for days, so it’s a lot more difficult to undo stuff that was given almost a month ago, you can use cryptocurrency so that it doesn’t matter what any court decides it’s irreversible. But in general I agree with you that scaring them into giving all of their money voluntarily is more useful, however I don’t see any reason why you can’t make them give all of their money and also a warning to others, that is a lot more scary because even if you fought in court to get that money back you would immediately donate it all and die, so eventually people would not try to pursue those cases. And the fact that they had to originally leaves a clear public paper trail to track the inheritance, which would otherwise be impossible, so rich people would just hide their wealth.
And you only have a few minutes of controlling the person before they die
23 days to be exact
That might be usable. But still, well within the range of reversible transactions and court litigation.
Lots of people here forget that you can control the actions of the person before they die.
I did almost forget, thanks for the reminder. I just looked it up again, specifically you can control 23 days.
Kim Jong Un calls for democratic elections and forms a democratic government after opening the borders
He’d get couped by the generals and they’ll instate someone else. You’d have to write the key generals too. You could run out of space to write real soon. And you’d have to hope their sucessors actually continue the trajectory after 23 days (since kim and the generals be dead)
I would continue Luigi’s legacy by trying to fit as many names of c-suite personnel of evil corporations on it, font size 1.
I suggest a microfiche printer.
Stop stripping Luigi Mangione of his right to presumption of innocence.
I just write, “FLORIDA”.
Florida is a actually a fairly common first name, you’ll need to write Florida America.
With a first name like Florida, they can go too, honestly.
Instructions unclear. Killed every single “FLORIDA” key chain instead.
i dont care to play god. but i will play new super luigi u.
You know that list of the richest people in the world?
You’d need to investigate their heirs first, because they’ll just make s bunch of new oligarchs when they die and those will catch the pattern pretty quickly.
I’d save it exclusively for people who drive like donkeys. I’ll solve bad driving once and for all.
This is the worst use of a Death Note I’ve ever seen that doesn’t include race theory.
It does include race theory, since some people apparently think, that public roads are for racing.
Start at the top of the Forbes billionaire list and fit as many names as I can
Bruh thats wayy too obvious. You’re gonna cause martial law being declared world-wide, the problem wouldn’t be solved.
What exactly is obvious? The cops are not going to jump to death note being real and there’s basically zero identifying information in the choice of billionaires.
I think you could just straight up get away with it if you stuck to publicly known individuals like that tbh
They would think some secret revolutionary group is somehow poisoning them without being detected, and thus justify martial law in order to stop the “rebellion”.
Ah, okay. Now I get you, lol.
Worth it.
Sounds like someone wants their name added to the list
Sounds like you get a bunch of generals who conceal their identities to rule their country by decree.
Like, if:
Identity known = Dead
Identity unknown = Still alive
They will deduce that this “rebel group” can only kill if their target’s identity is known.
So they’ll end up having secret junta meetings, and a spokesperson wearing a ski mask.
Every country would do this.
It’d be chaotic totalitarian world.
Light Yagami could get pretty elaborate with what he required people to act out in a Death Note, but I’m not sure exactly how to destabilize our globalist economy with only one page. It likely starts with using the leader of a capitalist country to kill a large swath of it’s billionaire class at once, then forcing said leader to support the nationalization of healthcare, food production, transportation, mineral extraction, etc before trying to influence other capitalist nations to take the same path for the rest of their life before heart attack inevitably gets them. The problem is that I really think you only get to write this for one leader, due to the space requirements. I guess as long as the assumption that all the world’s ills stem from America it’s fine, but isn’t Murdoch currently operating out of Australia? Missing even a few key billionaires with the initial murder leaves a lot of powerful opposition.
If you simply take the top 3-5 leaders in the top 20 countries by gdp, it would destabilize the world immensely. Even if they all just died of a heart attack and nothing else happened. That’s 100 names, you could fit that in one side probably.
Well first, spend a long time practicing tiny handwriting. Like, let’s make the absolute most use out of this sheet as possible; it’s possible to get the size of handwritten characters down to about 3mm, but let’s say 4 with the assumption that I can’t get it down that low. That means I have about 74 lines vertically to write in, each line able to accommodate somewhere between 70 and 52 characters, depending on the width. Let’s average it to 60 characters per line, so 74x60 = 4,440 characters, times two for two sides of the page. Average number of characters per name is 7, so 14, plus two for spaces, and let’s add another two for a middle initial and another space. That’s 18 characters per name. This means I should be able to fit just under 500 names on the page if I use both sides as efficiently as possible.
I’ll get the list of the 500 richest people in the world, and start going down it from richest on down. But not all at once. First the top name. One week later, the next name. One week after that, the next name down, and so on. After a few weeks the pattern would become obvious and we see what happens. Sadly I have no magical knowledge of who is the richest person at any given moment, so I have to just go off the list I already possess (or any new information I decide to be sufficiently trustworthy). One every week for five hundred names is 3,500 days, or 9.5 years. That is long enough to make it quite apparent this is inevitable and make it seem like it’s going to continue forever, and it’s long enough for legislation and other things to be done in response. Let’s see how they freak out and what they try to do in response.
I love the idea! It would be fascinating to see how the richest humans alive try to give away as much money as possible, as quickly as possible. I’d watch that show. Hell, I might want to live in that reality!
Doesn’t anyone here know that the Death Note (1) curses all those who use it with misfortune and (2) will trap your soul in limbo after use?
Nah, I’m good. Tweezers and a matchstick.
But does that really count tho? You dont own any death note, just have one sheet.
Why wouldn’t it? It’s literally a plot point of the show that individual pages still work the same.
If I’m willing to cold bloodedly kill people for the “greater good”, then I’ve definitely already accepted I’m shredding my soul.
