Death Note character : Beyond Birthday

A short story of Beyond Birthday/Rue Ryuzaki

BEYOND BIRTHDAY

Beyond Birthday(also known as Rue Ryuzaki/B, BB)was the 2nd child taken in at wammy house, in an attempt to create a successor of L and was the serrial killer behind the Los Angeles BB murder case.

Beyond Birthday has never appeared in the anime, manga, or film series to date, but BB case was briefly alluded to in both manga and anime. He was born with Shinigami Eyes, which allowed him to see and know exactly people around him would die, as well as knowing their full names. He uses this ability to pick his victim and kill them when they would have been destined to die. It is unknown how he could have possibly been born with the eyes, though Mello wonder if a Shinigami dropped its eyeballs to Earth (instead of a death note). Some have claimed that Beyond Birthday is a cannibal, but this is only a rumor. The NOVEL did not say anything about him eating his victims remain. Though this could be true, further information has yet to be revealed.

During the investigation of the Los Angeles BB Murder Case with Naomi Misora, B is describe to have jars filled with strawberry jam in the victims fridge. Some people also speculate that similar to L and Mello craving for sweets, Beyond Birthday craves strawberry jam. However, he was only said to have eaten an entire jar one time in Another Note : The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases and Naomi Misora never witnessed him doing same again, though she herself wondered about the same thing. It is possible that his love of sweet during the entire time with Naomi Misora was a charade as well. Although mentioned only once in the book, it is also implied Beyond Birthday practice laughing quite often. Also, it is interesting to note that his laughter is referred to by mello is "Shinigami's Laugh"


HISTORY

Little is known about B, though he and A (real name unknown) were the first two children in line to succeed L. The pressure of Wammy House proved to be too great for A, which caused A to commit suicide, while B wound up running away at the same point.

His whereabouts remain unknown from May 2002 to beginning of the story, L having tracked cases around the world to search him. Beyond Birthday came up with a plan to surpass L, as the "World Greatest Criminal" , giving L a case that B hoped he would unable to solved.

VICTIMS

BELIEVE BRIDESMAID
Beyond Birthday's first known victim was freelance writer Believes Bridesmaid. Whom he killed july 31st, 2002. After drugging him and choking him with a rope. Four Wangra Ningyo (straw doll) were left at the crime scene, and in post-mortem mutilation. Bridesmaid's chest was slashed several time, the killer also took the time to re-dress him. When looking at the autopsy photos, Naomi Misora found that wound were made to resemble letters (in actually, a Roman numeral code spelling out the name of the next victim)

QUARTER QUEEN
The second murder happened four days later, on august 4th. The victim, Quarter Queen (a 13-year old girl), was also drugged before her death, the cause of which was blunt force trauma of her skull. Her eyes were also crushed in further post-mortem mutilation. Three Wara Ninyo were left at the scene of crime.

BACKYARD BOTTOMSLASH
The third killing happened nine days after Quarter Queen's murdered. Backyard Bottomslash was a 28-year old bank worker who had also been drugged before her death, though her age fell in-between those of the previous two victims (44 and 13). This happened when Beyomd Birthday wanted to find out if a human can die of an internal hemorrhage without rupturing any organs. Beyond Birthday conducted this experiment by drugging and then beating Backyard Bottomslash's arm without breaking the skin. When this did not work, her dead caused by loss of blood, with her right leg and left arm cut off. The right leg was discovered in bathtub later. The left arm was taken by Beyond Birthday. Two Wara Ningyo were found nailed in to the walls in similar manner to other case.

FATE

On August 22nd, Naomi arrives at the location where the next BB murder will be committed, and comes to realize that Rue Ryuzaki, the mysterious private investigator she has been working with, is'nt what he seems. After figuring out several clues, she find that Ryuzaki is in fact Beyond Birthday, and that the final murder is actually attempted suicide. She manages to stop B from burning himself to death, and arrest him.

A year and a half later, on January 21st 2004, Beyond Birthday dies of a heart attack in prison, presumably one of the many criminals killed by KIRA. (If the events of this novel are canon to the anime well, he would have died in 2007)

LOOK A LIKES

Throughout the novel, the reader is initially unaware that Rue Ryuzaki, whom Misora thought of as just some suspicious young man, is Beyond Birthday. Readers are led to believes that he is L in person. This is because his mannerism and description (black hair, dark bags beneath the eyes, bad posture, love for sweets, and sitting position). It is in fact BB pretending to be L, using his acting skill to pass as a copy of the L he possibly knew or heard about. He had obviously never seen L totally in person, given the fact that he didn't know L's lifespan or real name. The undisguised Beyond Birthday is mentioned at points at the novel.

Due to his resemblance to L, it is unknown if the artwork featured in DN: Another Note is Beyond Birthday or L. Some fans believes it to be L, especially since he does not have red eyes, which the fans have begun to connect with Shinigami Eye's. However, it was mentioned in manga that it is impossible for human to see another human has " The Eyes " or not, making Shinigami Eyes appear normal.

Others have pointed that its unlikely that there would be two protagonist in the artwork, as opposed to the protagonist ass well as the antagonist. In addition to do that, there is distinguishable "B" in between the two characters, implying that the character may very well in fact be Beyond Birthday. However, there is no way of knowing until its either confirmed or denied Tsugumi Ohba or Takeshi Obata. His natural eye color is unknown, though the general assumption is that he wears grey contact to further disguise himself as L.

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