Random DN annoyance

[splinteredstar]

 I'd never realized how annoying it is to work around the timing in DN before these past few days.

You see, in most series there is no sense of time. In FMA I could have Ed and Al try to ressurect their mother on Al's birthday, or the Ishvari rebellion start on New Year's, or something like that, because there is no timeline given. We don't know when anything happens so I can just make it up.

In DN I can't do that. Because in DN, events have DATES attached to them. I can't make Light's birthday or Christmas fall during the Yotsuba arc, because it doesn't and the canon dates say so. (Light and L meet in April, and the Youtsuba arc is over by the end of October) When you're trying to write a Holiday fic, this gets really, really annoying. 

So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back and keep rereading the second arc to see when in the story Light's 25th birthday falls. 


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Comments

[starsplinter.livejournal.com]

It's frustrating. I was looking at Light's 18th, so I was rereading when he section where he goes to the College testing in January. And then it skips to April. (Did you know Light and L only knew each other for seven months at the most?)

It's useful, and interesting. It's just a bitch to work around. *sigh*


...I thought he died just after his 25th birthday. Just a moment.

http://www.onemanga.com/Death_Note/60/11/

^He's 23 here.... And...

http://www.onemanga.com/Death_Note/110/07/

^From DN13. So he died just two months after his 24th birthday. I was close. And I still need to figure out when it took place for this story.

*sigh* Turning a lump of plant matter into a diamond in a week. This is...interesting.


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[serria.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait. *stares at the scan* I'm dead certain that Near and Light confronted each other in January.... why does it say April? (even though you can't tell, I'm BRBing to check my copy of HTR)

... Okay, yeah, my copy says his death date is 1/28/2010. His birthday is 2/28/1986. I've no idea why the Onemanga translated it that way... but I remember looking into this date when I wrote a fic about Sachiko at Light's funeral.

[starsplinter.livejournal.com]

...hmmm. Goodness this is odd. Mangafox says it's in April too, but from the rereading of the series I've been doing all day (Getting a feel for the timing and that) it seems to be in January.

Oddness. I haven't seen the official, but I'll check when I go book shopping tomorrow. However, it does look like he dies before his birthday.

...hmm. That'll take some tweaking.... Thanks for pointing that out, though! *is grateful*



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