• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    186 months ago

    It’s a legit tactic in Death Note to use a celebrity’s name as a pseudonym in order to make them a sacrificial lamb for if someone tries to kill you, so this also kind of makes sense.

    • Sinistar [he/him]
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      156 months ago

      Only works if they look similar to you, since you have to be picturing the person’s face as you write the name.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        96 months ago

        Yup. Matsuda deliberately fumbled and exposed his face to not-Kira Death Note holders but didn’t die since he gave a fake name.

      • StellarTabi [she/her]
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        46 months ago

        I’m under the impression you might accidentally/subconsciously think about both faces and the Death Note will LGTM it. I don’t remember the canon drawing a hard line on the topic, but L was strategically leveraging the ambiguity of that rule.