Misa Amane

Name: Misa Amane Age: 19

Appearance: Misa is a short, slender, attractive young woman with long, straight, golden-blonde hair, most often worn as pigtails wit red hair-bands. She has light brown eyes. She's barely five feet tall. Misa often dresses in a Gothic and Punk fashion, though noticeably less after the time skip. She also typically paints her nails bright red or dark purple and wears bright red lipstick. Misa also likes to wear jewelry with crosses as the motif.

Job: Idol / Model / Actress

Personality: Misa is very outgoing and is shown to be quite popular due to her career. She attracts a large crowd while visiting Light at his university campus. She is hyperactive, impulsive, and otherwise childlike, evidenced by her tendency to speak in the third person. Despite being considered idiotic by many, Misa is shown to have moments of intelligence when she puts her mind to it, even though she makes oversights while trying to help Light Yagami when she's acting as the second Kira. Misa's skills lay in social engineering and trying to talk to get what she wants out of men.

Backstory: After gaining a Death Note, she seeks out Kira in order to thank him for killing the man who murdered her family and to offer him her help. Having made the trade for the Shinigami Eyes, Misa learns that the identity of Kira is Light Yagami. After a meeting with Light, she decides to dedicate her life to helping Light however she can, she is deeply infatuated with Light and convinces Light to date her, even though she's aware that Light views their relationship as fake and simply for the sake of his goals, Misa wishes and perhaps even believes that Light will truly love her if she keeps at it enough.

Plans and Motivations : Despite her typically cheerful personality, Misa has been mentally afflicted by seeing her parents murdered right before her eyes during an attempted home robbery. It is unclear how much the trauma has affected Misa psychologically, but the shinigami - Rem who Misa is in contract with for the Death Note and her powers believes she went through a deep depression immediately after she discovered the murderer was acquitted of the crime. After the murderer is later killed by Kira, Misa is incredibly grateful, and her intense appreciation and hero-worship initially fuels her actions as the Second Kira. After she becomes emotionally attached to Light, her behavior is strongly motivated by love.

Misa is very reckless with life, both her own and others. She has few qualms about twice halving her lifespan in order to get the Shinigami Eyes which she uses to kill innocent people in order to get her way. These include news broadcasters who were critical of Kira and policemen who meddle with her plan to meet Kira.

Although she is generally nice to those she meets, she can also be quite cruel: she tells Light that she would kill any other girls he dates, despite said girls being part of his plan to appear as a normal young man to the investigators and deflect suspicion from himself and Misa. Light Yagami is an important figure in Misa's life, and she frequently comments on him being so, often declaring her love for him despite little reciprocation. Misa refuses to do anything in her acting that could be viewed as against her fidelity to Light, she refuses to do things like fake-kissing for movie scenes.