University T Application Form

Name: Light Yagami

DOB: 2/28/86

Religion (optional): Church of Kira

Race: Japanese

Education interruption (please describe any unusual circumstances regarding your attendance at secondary school or other university): Well, I missed about five months of college in my freshman year due to my involved work on the Kira case. All told, it's hardly worth mentioning; I still graduated with distinction in four years.

Favorite movie: The Notebook

Please choose five (5) words that describe yourself: God of the New World.

Imagine looking through a window at any environment that is particularly significant to you. Reflect on the scene, paying close attention to the relation between what you are seeing and why it is meaningful to you. (300 words)

Honestly, there's no other explanation for it. I was a bored, brilliant student with nothing to do in class. The world was just asking for what happened next.

The window looked on to a plain school courtyard, asphalt and tired green grass. Utterly uninspiring… and then a black notebook fell from the sky.

I thought many things in that moment, probably more than I'd ever had to think in that class. I considered the possibilities of: 1) hallucination, induced by extreme boredom; 2) extraterrestrial intrusion, though I am a subscriber to alien conspiracy theories; 3) a physics class's experiment on free fall; 4) an aircraft dumping waste from four thousand meters up.

I don't know what possessed me to amble over (no, I didn't amble; even if I didn't have a purpose, I still walked as if I did) to that corner of the courtyard and pick it up. But I did… and the rest, as they say, is history - admittedly, a rather vile stretch of history that textbooks will dub the Second Reign of Terror.

Thanks to the notebook, I've had my fair share of excitement and relief from boredom. You might say I even became something of an adrenaline junkie. There just isn't any more fulfilling way to live than on the edge. It can't be good for my blood pressure, but the constant mental stimulation that came from thinking of ways to deliver justice and destroy my obstacles is very edifying. The colloquialism is called "living the life," I believe.

Now, when I look out the window in my mind, where the notebook is falling, I see their faces: Ryuk, L, Misa, Rem, Higuchi, Mello, Near, Mikami, and Takada. While I simultaneously wish most of them were dead, I also see a mutualism between myself and each of them. Just like me, Ryuk, L and Near strove to defeat me to relieve their boredom, though the latter two masked their intent behind declarations of justice, the fools. Amusingly, the rest were lovesick bumblers: Misa and Takada sought romantic love from me, Mikami godly love (at least I hope it was so), Higuchi the love of power, and Mello the love of a man he could never equal. And at the center of this craven web of desire, I stood and stand still, above all, away from all, perfectly aloof in my godliness.

I am glad I looked out the window that day.

On a side note, a certain L, under the alias of "Justice," will also be applying to University T, and it is within my reason to believe that he may say some disparaging things about me in his application statement. Please disregard these; they are utterly untrue and most likely the result of excessive sugar intake resulting in delusions. Thank you very much.

A/N: Oops, Light has rather exceeded the word limit. Oh well. Next chapter is the last! How exciting!

Also, I have a poll on my profile page about reviewing habits, if you'd like to vote that would be nice :)