

From Shinigami's perspective, why would they take that deal? As we know they
can write a human's name in the notebook and they'll get the remaining
lifespan of that human added to theirs. So why would they bother giving away
the eyes?


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Why does the Shinigami eye deal exist?


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Theory # 1: The entertainment As It is known that The shinigami don’t normally
drop their deathnote in the human world but living forever is certainly
getting old for them. The one’s who do it have some motives and one of them
can be entertainment. To make it fair, the “half-Life” rule was made. Instead
of giving shinigami eyes away, they might might what a person to become more
insane after losing literally a huge portion of their life. OR, They want to
keep the fun going. Giving a person Shinigami eyes as a last option when their
host is against the walls. This wouldn’t be Fun at all without such High
stakes.

Theory #2: The Power Struggle As the name suggest, the shinigami eyes belong
to the Shinigami. This wasn’t stated in the series, but it is quite possible
that it takes a Toll on Shinigami to give shinigami eyes to their unfortunate
friend. After-all they are sharing their own power with someone else. OR, this
rule is to stop someone from killing all Humanity. One with the shinigami eyes
for so long might kill people at much faster rate than usual. It is easy to
lift a weight, but you can only keep it in the air for a limited time.
Shinigami might find it difficult to some exent to share their own eyes and it
is possible that they can maintain it for a limited number of years. If they
take the entire lifespan of a person, they’ll have again find someone else to
use the deathnote, which is an unnecessary hassle.

(whenever i do better theories, i’ll add them Here.)


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I think it's simply to add to their amusement, so they have something
interesting to experience. After all, the Shinigami realm is quite a dull, sad
place, and living a life without a bit of fun is depressing, especially for a
Shinigami since they're practically immortal. I mean, Ryuk did drop the Death
Note into the human world just because he was bored.


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