What could have gone wrong...(dn)
May. 3rd, 2008 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
splinteredstarNow, everyone who is familiar with Death Note either knows or will soon about the Xantos Roulette of Light's that leads up to That Which Shall Not Be Spoiled. In the series itself, this plan worked out without a hitch. Almost suspiciously so. So, between me and saint_archie, we came up with a list of places that it could have gone wrong. (If nothing else, slowed it down quite a bit.)
Credit for these is split between Arch and I. Some of them have commentary, some don't. And all are, of course, spoilerific
saint_archie, we came up with a list of places that it could have gone wrong. (If nothing else, slowed it down quite a bit.) Credit for these is split between Arch and I. Some of them have commentary, some don't. And all are, of course, spoilerific
1. Losing the watch.
2. Having the note and his memories taken off him before he gets a chance to kill Higuchi.
3.Not being able to write the name in the watch without someone seeing it.
4. Someone finding the watch!note after Higuchi dies.
5. Rem picks someone even smarter than him to give the note to. Not likely, I'll admit, but still.
Hell, even someone smarter than Higuchi would muck things up
If Namikawa got it, it would have never worked
6. Misa doesn't pursue Higuchi herself and doesn't put the suspicion on him
7. Light investigates the watch before he gets his memory back and finds the piece of note within.
Since, once he touched it he would remember and put it back. Unless in the process of putting it back he woud lose his memory again, leading to an action-loop and much confusion
^Especially bad if someone catches him doing it.
8. Someone else investiages the watch and finds the piece of note.
9. L happens to look at him while he's writing Higuchi's name down
10. Misa is unable to find the other note he buried.
11. Rem doesn't show Higuchi to Misa
12. Matsuda doesn't do his stupid bit
13. L decides to not tell the rest of the team (or Rem) that he's testing the note.
...Thinking about it, I'm actually kinda surprised he didn't do that.
14. L may have had Light incarcerated perminently
15. L may not have allowed him to join the investigation.
16. Higuchi may have deemed Misa a risk and killed her (unlikely, but possible, imo)
17. L insists that Light remain behind when they go out to arrest Higuchi, preventing him from gaining access to the note until after L had had a chance to question him.
18. If someone less impulsive than Higuchi got the note - someone that wouldn't fall for the trap
19. If the rest of the Group didn't help out
20. If just one of the players involved had miscalculated their timing.
21. If the police hadn't helped out
22. and/or Higuchi had escaped somehow
23. If Watari had missed.
24. If Higuchi hadn't told them about the note
25. If Higuchi hadn't told the rest of Yotsuba about the note.
26. If the practice of talking about who they would kill never started
27.Or, conversely, the note had been given to someone who wasn't apart of a company group.
28. If the Group hadn't sought out Coil
29. If L hadn't employed Wedy and Aiber
30. If more of the team had decided to leave
2. Having the note and his memories taken off him before he gets a chance to kill Higuchi.
3.Not being able to write the name in the watch without someone seeing it.
4. Someone finding the watch!note after Higuchi dies.
5. Rem picks someone even smarter than him to give the note to. Not likely, I'll admit, but still.
Hell, even someone smarter than Higuchi would muck things up
If Namikawa got it, it would have never worked
6. Misa doesn't pursue Higuchi herself and doesn't put the suspicion on him
7. Light investigates the watch before he gets his memory back and finds the piece of note within.
Since, once he touched it he would remember and put it back. Unless in the process of putting it back he woud lose his memory again, leading to an action-loop and much confusion
^Especially bad if someone catches him doing it.
8. Someone else investiages the watch and finds the piece of note.
9. L happens to look at him while he's writing Higuchi's name down
10. Misa is unable to find the other note he buried.
11. Rem doesn't show Higuchi to Misa
12. Matsuda doesn't do his stupid bit
13. L decides to not tell the rest of the team (or Rem) that he's testing the note.
...Thinking about it, I'm actually kinda surprised he didn't do that.
14. L may have had Light incarcerated perminently
15. L may not have allowed him to join the investigation.
16. Higuchi may have deemed Misa a risk and killed her (unlikely, but possible, imo)
17. L insists that Light remain behind when they go out to arrest Higuchi, preventing him from gaining access to the note until after L had had a chance to question him.
18. If someone less impulsive than Higuchi got the note - someone that wouldn't fall for the trap
19. If the rest of the Group didn't help out
20. If just one of the players involved had miscalculated their timing.
21. If the police hadn't helped out
22. and/or Higuchi had escaped somehow
23. If Watari had missed.
24. If Higuchi hadn't told them about the note
25. If Higuchi hadn't told the rest of Yotsuba about the note.
26. If the practice of talking about who they would kill never started
27.Or, conversely, the note had been given to someone who wasn't apart of a company group.
28. If the Group hadn't sought out Coil
29. If L hadn't employed Wedy and Aiber
30. If more of the team had decided to leave
