I cannot confirm nor deny that the new Hannibal show inspired the chapter title.
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It's going to be a lot of fun to play around with the Food Note in upcoming chapters. I haven't quite decided on the rules yet (beyond the ones written in the chapter), so it's entirely possible this chapter will end up presenting plot holes. In any case, if Light is creative about it he could end up being able to accomplish the things canon!Light did. It seems to me that the main benefit of the Note is its ability to control its victims rather than the fact that they die afterward. On a completely tangential note, I just realized that Lelouch vi Britannia would be Light's worst enemy—not only is he a scheming chessmaster of at least equal skill, but he also habitually wears a mask and can still do the whole mind control thing whether he's in character or not. None of this using-blood-for-ink stuff.
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For some reason, I'm really tempted to pursue this Illuminati thing. Besides supernatural powers, what else could possibly produce mind control technology?
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The funny part about the testing scene is that Light actually misspelled the hobo's name and that whole data point was, in fact, a coincidence.
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The last section ("The Facts") shamelessly ripped off The Book Thief. I maintain that it's a gesture of respect. And I like the effect.
On a side note, Statistics Hell is a real place and you will go there if you do not work out your salvation with fear and confidence intervals.
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Next update will be Saturday, April 5.
- Gonzalez
I don't even know what The Book Thief is, so I'm gonna go look it up afterwards.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a big fan of reading Author's Comments, but I was curious and I enjoyed this first chapter entirely too much, and reading Author's Notes is what I do when that happens, so here I am.
I can't promise I'll return to this place though, but maybe I'll make the effort since I enjoyed your words here too x3
(I'm the one known as FameliaLy in Fanfiction, by the way)