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AN: I find Misa Amane to really be one of the most interesting characters in Deathnote, and thought that I'd try to peek into her head in these quick writting exercises. I'm not very fond of these two, but am going ahead and posting them anyway; the next batch will be better. Please enjoy!
The Life of Misa Amane
By Allegra
I. Actress
Misa knew a lot of things about the world. From an early age, she learned that luck of the draw genetics were enough to determine who lived in a mansion and who lived on the street, watching the limo drive by. When the boys in her class began to realize that girls did not in fact have cooties, Misa learned a lesson that held true until a fateful meeting in the house of her future husband: boys liked pretty, stupid girls. Pretty enough to show off, dumb enough to go along with whatever they wanted. With long blond hair and a cute face, there was very little she wanted that she couldn't get. She got average grades, mostly B's with a few C's and fewer A's, but never felt the need to study. She found that she learned far more about the world at the kind of party you read about the next day in the paper after the police showed up than in her textbooks, and once her modeling career started it was a much better place to find exposure. She learned that you never go upstairs, no matter why they say they want you to, and you never drink the 'punch' a boy offers you. She learned what kind of a personality the market wanted, and she learned to pull it off beautifully. Misa knew what the world wanted from a cute girl, and Misa learned to be a phenomenal actress.
II. God
Misa knew that the world didn't care. She knew that if anything, it was against you. When her life was nearly perfect, a burglar killed her parents right in front of her eyes. She could never think of any reason for him to have not killed her as well, except that the world was against her. She got some press coverage, and once everyone had tossed away the old newspaper, they expected her to be over it as well. People sent flowers and cards, said how deeply sorry they were for her loss, but she was harping on it too long once the public had forgotten. After all, crimes happened everyday in that rotten world, mom and dad were just names in a paper to the desensitized public. She knew the face of the man who killed her parents, and she watched angrily as his trial date was pushed back farther and farther. Would there be no justice, to pain for the wicked? As she struggled to pull together a front she continued to fall apart from the constant nightmares of that day, memories of her own weakness and loss. Misa learned that the world was a rotten place, and that it just didn't care. So when Kira descended from the heavens to punish the man she wanted so desperately to kill herself, she knew that whoever it was, she would follow them to the ends of the putrid earth they inhabited; that was when Misa started to believe in God.