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We've seen Light completely manipulating the robber in the bus-accident case
(in which he figured out the identity of the FBI stalker). At the end, though
the robber died, but everything went according to the book or in other words
the robber was completely manipulated.

So my question is, is it possible for Light to gain absolute obedience over
the victim without killing him? If so, why doesn't he utilizes this power?

One possible way to gain absolute obedience is to write a task for the person
and make the person's death to occur after a long period (say fifty years)


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Is it possible to have absolute obedience using Death Note?


There are a few practical limits.

In the movie the death had to occur within 23 days.

In the anime, Light experimented with what he could make the victims do. If it
was physically impossible for them to do something, nothing would happen.

Also, remember one of the rules:

> After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in
> the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

That's not a whole lot of time to write down what someone should do.

Apart from that, the victim would be forced to do what was written, as Light
discovered when he did his experiments.

Also, it only seems to affect the target of the death. It was pointed out
somewhere early in the anime that others could not be coerced. When Light
tried to find Ray Penbar out, he had to create a pretty complicated scenario.
He could not just write "Any FBI agent will now reveal him- or herself".


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It is possible to make someone do everything that would be within his/her
normal behaviour but only within 23 days before the death. What happens in
this time also must not kill other persons.

The correct time you have to specify the actions and circumstances of the
death is 19 days if you first write the cuase and circumstances of death and
than the name (Rule VIII).

So if you want a clown/ acrobat to perform at you birthday party, showing this
and that trick and so on, it is no problem as long as you write it several
days early and make him die shortly after this - he will cancle other
arrangements and come to your party. Try the same with a monkh and he has a
heart attack beacause ha can't ride a unicycle over a high wire while playing
trumped.

Or you can write the name of some hundred workers make them revolt and get
shot by the police. That should be fine too as long as noone else woud die
because of it.


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