Talk:Mayu Arita/@comment-2601:19B:4501:54F0:71DB:2CA3:676B:3001-20181102091053

Noone in this comment thread has mentioned the strongest evidence; Ginti's cat. The kitty openly LOVED Mayu legit on screen. Despite not seeing any indication one way or the other, there are 2 possibilities of why Mayu was sent to the void. On my first watch, i assumed that it was her choice based on loving Harada. However, on closer inspection, there is a good amount of evidence that she was tricked. Firstly, she literally says that Ginti tricked her on the way down. This could mean that she either chose to give her life for Haradas, or chose to push the button to kill Light Yagami. Both of those paths would lead to the void based on Ginti's sadistic judgements. The life for a life choice also forshadows the next episode beautifully. But the final proof is Ginti's cat. In the credits of the last episode, Ginti says that the cat doesnt come around anymore. The last time kitty was seen, was jumping out of his arms when he sent Mayu to the void. This is because Mayu made the correct choice, and did not push the button. Instead choosing to sacrifice herself, (which is in line with her character) and from any other arbiter, would have earned her reincarnation. Ginti however, saw this as selfishness due to her obsession with Harida. This dishonesty is what caused the cat to abandon Ginti, and actually supports the idea that arbiters do in fact gain rudimentary human emotions over time and many judgements. This is also why old man flower head sees Nona's experiment with Decim as pointless (because they kinda already have emotions or Nona wouldnt be able to rebel in the first place), but also a threat, because the arbiters could become TOO human even without rule #2 which would upset the balance of reality itself. Side note: The woman with the skull helmet is 100% the Shinigami King, and the arbiters/shinigami represent the abstract concept of life functioning as a tangible system, the death notes thinning the herd for prosperity, and the arbiters judging the victims of the death notes (and other strange/simultaneous circumstances) to rebirth the good ones, and permanently erase the bad ones. The checks and balances of the human life cycle. I can totally see the detective/brother pair coming to the conclusions they did about revenge and justice only because Kira was a legitimate public figure.