The Whole Interhuman Theoretical Story
In the beginning of time, the Izanagi (Gods of Life) were the ones responsible for the existence of human life. They were able to create by first writing down names and/or stories and notebooks called "Life Notes." As time passed by, humans began to think for themselves and make their own choices as the Izanagi continued their means of existence by filling out their Life Notes.
However, this all began to change and fall as humans started to create their own meanings of life and rejected the needs of gods. This eventually led humans to a disbelief about whether there is any god. Therefore, the Izanagi began to fade, as disbelief is a way to kill a god. This has also caused the humans to not be able to see the gods. Although when this happens, whatever has existed since the Izanagi would die with them. As these gods are dying with no redemption, they became mortal nearly as much as the human beings, and their only way to keep themselves alive is by killing off humans; thus, getting back the life that humans have taken for granted--stolen from them.
In this case, the gods became Shinigami (Gods of Death), and their notebooks became "Death Notes." With those notebooks, they can take away life just by writing the names down that have been written in life and those from henceforth. This is how death had begun in life. At that point, instead of meaning of life, there was only a meaning of death.
When death happened, humans began to find ways to live longer lives by setting some laws, boundaries, and social norms whether they think it is scientifically possible or believe that their has to be some sort of god or gods. The Shinigami allowed this to happen since they can only take so many lives, and they need as many humans as possible for them to live. Therefore, Shinigami and mortals would basically be even. Nonetheless, rules mean nothing to those gods. Whether a human is good or bad, they have nothing to be redeemed to or condemned from as "there is no heaven or hell." As a matter of fact, the Shinigami were eventually going to fade to nothing, which is the place called "MU," and so would the humans that were originally created by the gods. Even so, because all the human rules were only made to try and keep themselves from death, they were destined to die anyway because of taking the gods in vain; thereby, "death is equal" whether a human was good amongst their own kind or not.
On a contrary, there were some ways in order to see a Shinigami is to touch a Death Note or even a piece of it. The reason humans could see a Death Note but not the Shinigami is that the notebooks are what link between the gods and the mortals as they are the source of human's deaths and the Shinigami tool. When a human takes hold of the Death Note, they now hold possession of it and may serve as a host of the Shinigami that owned it until the human dies or rejects the ownership of the notebook. When this happens, they not only deny the Death Note, but also the god. This would have the human go back to the way humans were when they defied the existence of the life gods.
As far as ownership of the Death Note goes, seeing the truth of a god could be the end of the human's life. In this case, things can be a little more interesting for the Shinigami by making deals with him or her. The mortal can become a real host for the god and use a certain power called the "Shinigami Eyes," in which they can see people's names and lifespans at the cost of the host's remaining lifespan. The cause is since the Eyes are half in quality of the most important powers of the Shinigami, half of the host's life would now have to belong to the Shinigami until the host dies and leaves the rest of it for the Shinigami. The reason knowledge of the truth would be the end of human anyway is that they would practically be guilty of murder in which someone may find out sooner or later. Otherwise, as criminology studies, that killers often wish to be dead themselves at some time. Yet, because humans are guilty for death anyway, death is the only redemption for realization that there are gods.
Regarding the Shinigami Eyes, there may be more hosts to other Shinigami. What they can't see is lifespan of other hosts because what they are technically seeing is a Shinigami that has no lifespan as Shinigami can't see lifespans of each other. Still Shinigami can still see their lifespans because they are still not gods and still mere humans that would die at some point. Moreover, as far as the remaining lifespan rule, even if the hosts declines ownership of the Death Note and forgets everything about it, they have still used the benefits of the god that they should have never been seen or death would be among them. With that, the cost is not returnable.
Also, with the job of the Shinigami to kill off humans, they are not allowed to save a human's life. They can do that writing down someone's death that was not meant to be before another person's death that they were responsible for. That is like denying the death that was written or to be written in the notes. Because humans were to die for the sin of disbelieving in the gods, it would be wrong to try to redeem the human's life. Therefore, the only redemption of even the gods would be death, in which they would crumple up into nothing if they save a human's life. This is also how humans gain lifespan from the Shinigami.
After all of that, in the end, the Shinigami and all that has existed are bound to fade away but do not as long as humans still exist and the Shinigami take the responsibility of taking away the life the humans didn't deserve. This is how the Shinigami from Death Note existed.
However, this all began to change and fall as humans started to create their own meanings of life and rejected the needs of gods. This eventually led humans to a disbelief about whether there is any god. Therefore, the Izanagi began to fade, as disbelief is a way to kill a god. This has also caused the humans to not be able to see the gods. Although when this happens, whatever has existed since the Izanagi would die with them. As these gods are dying with no redemption, they became mortal nearly as much as the human beings, and their only way to keep themselves alive is by killing off humans; thus, getting back the life that humans have taken for granted--stolen from them.
In this case, the gods became Shinigami (Gods of Death), and their notebooks became "Death Notes." With those notebooks, they can take away life just by writing the names down that have been written in life and those from henceforth. This is how death had begun in life. At that point, instead of meaning of life, there was only a meaning of death.
When death happened, humans began to find ways to live longer lives by setting some laws, boundaries, and social norms whether they think it is scientifically possible or believe that their has to be some sort of god or gods. The Shinigami allowed this to happen since they can only take so many lives, and they need as many humans as possible for them to live. Therefore, Shinigami and mortals would basically be even. Nonetheless, rules mean nothing to those gods. Whether a human is good or bad, they have nothing to be redeemed to or condemned from as "there is no heaven or hell." As a matter of fact, the Shinigami were eventually going to fade to nothing, which is the place called "MU," and so would the humans that were originally created by the gods. Even so, because all the human rules were only made to try and keep themselves from death, they were destined to die anyway because of taking the gods in vain; thereby, "death is equal" whether a human was good amongst their own kind or not.
On a contrary, there were some ways in order to see a Shinigami is to touch a Death Note or even a piece of it. The reason humans could see a Death Note but not the Shinigami is that the notebooks are what link between the gods and the mortals as they are the source of human's deaths and the Shinigami tool. When a human takes hold of the Death Note, they now hold possession of it and may serve as a host of the Shinigami that owned it until the human dies or rejects the ownership of the notebook. When this happens, they not only deny the Death Note, but also the god. This would have the human go back to the way humans were when they defied the existence of the life gods.
As far as ownership of the Death Note goes, seeing the truth of a god could be the end of the human's life. In this case, things can be a little more interesting for the Shinigami by making deals with him or her. The mortal can become a real host for the god and use a certain power called the "Shinigami Eyes," in which they can see people's names and lifespans at the cost of the host's remaining lifespan. The cause is since the Eyes are half in quality of the most important powers of the Shinigami, half of the host's life would now have to belong to the Shinigami until the host dies and leaves the rest of it for the Shinigami. The reason knowledge of the truth would be the end of human anyway is that they would practically be guilty of murder in which someone may find out sooner or later. Otherwise, as criminology studies, that killers often wish to be dead themselves at some time. Yet, because humans are guilty for death anyway, death is the only redemption for realization that there are gods.
Regarding the Shinigami Eyes, there may be more hosts to other Shinigami. What they can't see is lifespan of other hosts because what they are technically seeing is a Shinigami that has no lifespan as Shinigami can't see lifespans of each other. Still Shinigami can still see their lifespans because they are still not gods and still mere humans that would die at some point. Moreover, as far as the remaining lifespan rule, even if the hosts declines ownership of the Death Note and forgets everything about it, they have still used the benefits of the god that they should have never been seen or death would be among them. With that, the cost is not returnable.
Also, with the job of the Shinigami to kill off humans, they are not allowed to save a human's life. They can do that writing down someone's death that was not meant to be before another person's death that they were responsible for. That is like denying the death that was written or to be written in the notes. Because humans were to die for the sin of disbelieving in the gods, it would be wrong to try to redeem the human's life. Therefore, the only redemption of even the gods would be death, in which they would crumple up into nothing if they save a human's life. This is also how humans gain lifespan from the Shinigami.
After all of that, in the end, the Shinigami and all that has existed are bound to fade away but do not as long as humans still exist and the Shinigami take the responsibility of taking away the life the humans didn't deserve. This is how the Shinigami from Death Note existed.
Message from the Author of this Report
The reason I wrote this because I wanted to make sense of the existence of the gods of death in the story of Death Note. My question was, "how could human life by exist itself while there are gods only for death?" Another one would be about where humans actually came from in that story. I also wanted to show that there was a meaning of life, or the only thing that tale has shown was the meaning of death. Otherwise, the whole story would be an oxymoron. This is coming from someone who believes that there is a God, and you can't kill Him literally or metaphorically by denying His existence. That is like saying that we are better than the God who created us. We are only hurting ourselves when we do that.
Max Panfil
Founder of the INTERHUMAN MEDIA ARTS
Max Panfil
Founder of the INTERHUMAN MEDIA ARTS
