
G-Rated Drug: Ryuk mentions that Apples to Shinigami are like cigarettes and alcohol to humans. Death's Hourglass: Shinigami eyes allow them to see their victims' lifespans, though it's displayed in a mathematical formula only Shinigami can compute. Ryuk is one of the few to be proactive, and they consider him strange for it. Death Is a Loser: While powerful and unable to be harmed by human means, most Shinigami are lazy and bored beings that only try to extend their lives and do nothing with the lifespans they've taken, some even dying because they forgot to do so. At the very least, Shinigami are honest and up front about the price of what they offer. If you encounter a Death God at all, your only chance of not dying young is to be so impossibly beautiful that the Shinigami falls in love with you. Hell, just finding a Death Note and giving it up without ever using it may well earn you an immediate death by the Shinigami just because you're boring for not playing his game.
Is he offering you Shinigami eyes so that you can use your death note without needing to find out your victims' names? Say goodbye to half your remaining lifespan. Is the death god offering you a Death Note to play with? You can be sure that the death god will write your name in his own notebook and steal your remaining years once he gets bored with you.
Deal with the Devil: Any deal made by a human with a Shinigami is going to end badly for the human every time. Deadly Upgrade: Any Shinigami on Earth can offer a human the Shinigami Eyes, at the price of half of the human's lifespan. Cute Monster Girl: Averted: all of the female Shinigami are just as grotesque in appearance as the males. By the Eyes of the Blind: A Shinigami on Earth can only be seen or heard by humans who have touched his/her particular Death Note. Ryuk and Rem are notable as being the only ones to willingly want to go, rather than simply being forced to in order to shadow whichever human picks up their Death Note. And while they have no restrictions that force them to stay in the Shinigami Realm, they rarely ever travel to Earth. They're so incredibly lazy that even doing their jobs as gods of death - killing humans - often warrants mockery from fellow Shinigami for working too hard. However, due to their long lifespans they are all extremely lethargic, either spending their days sleeping or gambling. Even Ryuk, said to be one of the dumbest members of his race, is still smarter than even L and Light. Brilliant, but Lazy: All Shinigami have high-intelligence by nature.
Bottomless Magazines: Their Death Notes can't run out of pages.Why should they care about the human world beyond it being their food source? In fact if a Shinigami does care about a human to the point that they'd kill to extend the human's life, this means they "failed as a Shinigami", and that kills them on the spot. Shinigami take human lifespans for themselves. Blue-and-Orange Morality: Of course Shinigami have no problems killing humans or with humans dying.Awesome Mc Coolname: They basically all have cool-sounding names, varying from the one-syllable "Rem" to the highly ornate "Armonia Justin Beyondormason.".Alternative Number System: The lifespan humans can see with Shinigami Eyes only appears in a number system recognizable to Shinigami and just looks like random numbers to a human.
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All There in the Manual: Any information on Shinigami that do not appear in the series or the movies comes from How To Read.Though at the end he reminds Light that Evil Is Not a Toy. Alliance with an Abomination: Though humanoid abominations, some Shinigami can co-operate and be friendly with the humans who own their Death Note like Light and Ryuk.