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Watari's Indoctrination of Wammy Kids in Death Note (Analysis by Lua Cruz)

4/5/2016

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There is little to no question about the unethical basis of the system behind Wammy’s House.


We are shown a place with barely any adult supervision in which the children are allowed to be aggressive or behave however they please, with a warden who seems to care very little for the children under his care to the point of simply letting one of them walk out and expecting another to do the same.

Not only that but the house itself seems to have almost no furniture.

In the story, it may not seem so odd since, by the time we are introduced to Wammy’s House, we are aware it isn’t just a common orphanage housing children. But that only makes the existence of such place even more disturbing.
Wammy's House Roger with Mello and Near
Here is at least one house for gifted children, assumed to be orphans, who are raised in an unfriendly and competitive environment for no other reason other than Quillsh Wammy thought this was an important thing to do. Those children are taught their skills should be directed to a very specific goal: becoming L. L is a detective so the point of collecting those children is to groom them into becoming detectives. More than that, they are trained to be confident in their own reasoning, their own methods of doing what they enjoy.

If the children are taught to find a hobby and to find their own way of achieving the goals of said hobby, can we talk about indoctrination in Wammy’s House? Considering John White’s definition that indoctrination takes place if the intention of the teacher is to make it so that “(t)he child should believe that ‘p’ is true, in a such way that nothing will shake this belief” (White 1972a, 119 and 1973, 179), it could be said the point behind Wammy’s is to make sure the children believe their goal is worth everything.

If they want to solve a case, anything they do to accomplish that (be it breaking the law or putting themselves at risk or indirectly getting people killed or cheating) is worth it. Their conclusion is absolute to the point their actions are justified as if they are justice.
L - Justice will prevail - Death Note
It’s important to point out that they are not acting for the sake of justice or in the name of justice. They act as if them themselves are the embodiment of justice.

In this sense, they can do no wrong because their actions are just, they are right because they are their actions.

For example, to sacrifice the Mafia in order to get a chance to capture Kira was a selfish action; Mello wasn’t acting in the name of justice. And it was because it was a selfish decision considering his own goals that he acts as if he is justice. Those lives are worth less than capturing this criminal.

This is an educational system Watari established for a reason canon doesn’t explore. Why would he want to indoctrinate children to believe their own conclusions and decisions, even when perceived as selfish ones, were right not only to themselves but to the world?

None of the Wammy’s kids wonder if Kira could possibly be right as we see Matsuda doing. They know he is a criminal; they know they have to stop him.

If we consider they are meant to solve crimes, it could be Watari actually had an altruistic goal in mind such as world peace. But there is no interference from him in the direction those children take, and, in fact, quite a few ex-Wammy’s kids are willing to become criminals in order to achieve a goal or prove a point.
Mello joins the Mafia, K joins a bio-terrorist group, B becomes a serial killer, L himself admits to being a criminal by current laws and is willing to use torture against Misa. Letting them do as they pleased, confident on their own skills and conclusions, seemed to be a pretty chaotic project.

As it is, Watari died before his experiment was complete and we only have bits and pieces of it to try and make sense of his project. But why was it important to Watari to create a group of people with that level of confidence in their own reasoning? Why was it important to let them loose in the world with no guidance or direction?

Article by Lua Cruz

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Watari Letters: Death Note Canon Alphabet of Wammy Kids: A-K

28/4/2016

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Quillsh Wammy, the genius inventor who founded Wammy's House... looking at L's incredible talents from
the perspective of an inventor - of course he wanted to make a copy, of course he wanted to create a backup.
Anyone would feel the same.

~ Mello, Another Note, p104
Little is known about Quillsh Wammy the man, nor what he truly intended for the children in his care. Though intriguing clues litter the canon sources with enough material to keep the fan-fiction writers going for an age.  Often, if you can't see the thing itself, then observing the ripple effect provides a proxy view enough to hazard a guess at what lies beyond.

What remains mysterious about the benefactor of that strange chain of orphanages established in Death Note manga, anime, novels, movies, TV drama and games, might just show in the Fate of orphans raised within their alpha home - The Wammy House for Gifted and Talented Orphans.
The Wammy's House Death Note
Wammy takes L to Wammy's House, Winchester
Death Note Wammy's House
Each child within the Wammy system assigned a single letter. A calling code.  Something by which they could identify each other, if no other code-name was available.

Genius minds afforded specialised training; then sent out into the world, apparently to change it.  Though what precisely that means never is quite explained, beyond a vague pandering to the word justice.

As defined by the Wammys, especially L.

More often leaving the House to engage in petty rivalry and combat with each other; and woe betide any who get in their way - for to destroy the world is just another way to change it.
... what if they could copy (L)? What if they could make a backup?
That was us.
L's children, gathered from all corners of the world.
Children gathered together, never told each other's names....
~ Another Note, p105

List of Wammy House Letters Discussed in General Terms

Wammy Letters Alphabet
We cannot reconstruct the whole canon alphabet of Death Note letters, even via our current ploy below of amalgamating disparate versions as if they were one cohesive and extant source.  However, it's not bad how few Wammy letters exist without a known correspondence or link in any canon Death Note universe.

There's just a handful assigned without furnishing the fandom with clues pertaining to the person here represented. Even then they may be discussed in general terms, applicable across the board.  Not least the assumption might be made that someone raised or based at Wammy's House in Winchester was, is or will be in possession of the code required to utilize all that this letter represents.

Not anonymity in public communication - no matter how much it's used for that, such usage is just a bonus - but access to The Wammy Foundation, its administration, resources and infrastructure.

Doors don't open because someone sat in GIMP messing around with Cloister fonts and single letters centred in Old English.  If they did then I'd be L by now.  Government offices allow access to restricted lines; military manoeuvres are initiated by request;  Interpol meetings are infiltrated; and intelligence agencies are directed or else willing to share classified information, because that Wammy letter alphabet gets used set within a certain context.

Further codewords or numbers may allow verification of its user's authenticity.
Death Note B TV Drama
Near with POTUS Death Note
B infiltrates Yotsuba corporation; N elicits the US President's help; F directs a child into calling Watari to get lifted from Thailand.
Death Note F authenticity code
A call from a Death Note Letter to Wammy Headquarters (i.e. the Winchester orphanage in which they were raised) could summon the word spoken into an ear, heavies, intel or finance to oil passage into a myriad of locations, ways, clubs or meetings, as necessary to solve the mystery at hand.

It could rescue that clever detective from dangerous places, or let him/her secure whatever was uncovered that now needs safeguarding.  Sensitivity in no questions asked, efficient fixing; unlimited funds able to be wired wherever a masked voice asks for such to be.  Plus so much more besides.

It's not each iconic initial that's key in those calls.  It's the apparently boundless support and open doors that such icons represent.

Wammy's Foundation has an incredible reach throughout the planet and into the hidden powerhouses unknown to most. Where global movers and shakers meet with their identities gleaned incrementally on a need to know basis.  Where influence is strong and disagreements could potentially cause or avert World War III.  Yet none more able to direct the flow of world affairs than Quillsh Wammy himself.
Death Note Watari representing L
Watari sniper Death Note
Death Note Watari

The many powerful faces of Wammy
Death Note TV Drama Watari and L
Death of Quillsh Wammy reported in Death Note
Then if all else fails, those clever and dangerous Wammy Letters - living so far beyond any laws to proscribe their actions - probably know where to find and press the requisite levers to get blockages removed.

No doubt such reminders prompt the machinery of co-operation into instant, unfettered movement by any given government and their agencies, accompanied by renewed guarantees that this status quo will remain so indefinitely.  Uttered upon expensive, elite lips belonging to those who know they can keep their promises.

Just as Mello did in the Death Note manga, compelling an American President into acting in accordance with that Mafioso Wammy's will.  Threatening to use a Death Note to gain US compliance anyway, with  its President's actions subject to unstoppable remote control, until his inevitable death a few days on. 

That wasn't the Mafia man talking, however close the sentiment might seem.  It was the Wammy speaking as Mello this time.  Another day it could have been L or Near, as also happened in canon, outlined as dialogue in the novel L: Change the World.  And THAT has to be how they were raised for President Hoope seemed to expect it.  Evidently he's dealt with Mr Wammy and his alumni many times before.
Lind L Taylor dies in Death Note
K in L Change the World
Death Note manga Near money over NYC
Death Note Mello and Mafia
Death Note L torturing Misa
Death Note US President David Hoope suicide manga chapter 70 Tremble
Wammy Letters seemingly above the law: (Clockwise l-r) Televised death of Lind L Taylor (L); NYC stampede for $10m (N); Misa Amane tortured (L); US President David Hoope driven to suicide (M); NPA President Takimura abducted and tortured (M); lethal pathogen unleashed onto colleague, then the world (K).
Which makes you wonder what else we can see in the stories of the rest; to illuminate the inner workings of Quillsh Wammy's mind and the processes underpinning the ways in which his Winchester institution is run.

A great man, as Matsuda once said, or the monstrous child-thief - as he's intimated to be by L, Mello, B and Near's testimonies?  Hinted in separate instances, dotted about various canon sources - Watari brainwashing proto-detectives, from kids raised in his care, to enter into deadly games of rivalry and puzzle-solving, all for fun.

More of those children's stories might provide some insight into the manner of this man, whom even Tsugumi Ohba his creator called 'terrible'.

Death Note Wammy Letters Alphabet

Death Note Mello and Near wait to see who will be L
The designation of a letter in Wammy's alphabet held a special significance for those who graduated Wammy's House. It signified that they were charged with changing the world. There were only twenty-six letters to exist every generation, and these young people were part of an illustrious list of past letters who had time and again been instrumental in saving the world from catastrophe. Above all, the designation signified Watari's trust.
~ L: Change the World (novel), p 176-177
Watari's Character?  He's a guy who cultivates detectives for fun.  That's kind of terrible, isn't it? (laughs)
~ Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note author, How to Read: Death Note 13 p 60

A - Wammy Kid Pseudonym and True Name Unknown

... even for a genius like Watari, creating a fake L was easier said than done... I hardly need to tell you what it was like when Wammy's House was first founded, when he was still experimenting.  The first child, A, was unable to handle the pressure of living up to L and took his own life...
~ Another Note, p105
Wammy Letter A - Death Note
When Quillsh Wammy determined that he needed to 'copy' or 'back up' L, he chose a live child to mould into aping his prototype model.

Imagine that for just a moment - someone, anyone, being taken into strange premises and told that all you are and were no longer matters.  You have no name, or purpose beyond becoming somebody else.  Not in the military we-will-make-you-action-man sense, nor in any manner of self-improvement, like going off to university, or training to run a marathon. This isn't even the refining of a Swiss finishing school.

This is taking a presumably orphan child and stripping him of all form of self-identity.  Not a name to call himself, just a letter.  No personality traits that can't also be found in L.  No lesser intelligence than what that incredibly once-in-a-lifetime type genius mind than attain.  Telling a boy that everything about  himself is so worthless that nothing will do but to reject it all and become the clone of another boy deemed more valuable.

And they wonder why he committed suicide.

B - Wammy Kid Beyond Birthday - True Name Unknown

... the second child, Beyond Birthday, was brilliant and deviant. B stood for Backup...
As long as there was L, B would never be L. As
long as the original existed, the copy was always a copy.
~ Another Note, p105
That B had been a candidate to succeed L, and that the pressure of that had driven him off track... Beyond Birthday's quest to surpass L. It mattered more to him than his own life. Perhaps he was less intent than desperate. Nobody could have stopped him.
~ Another Note, p171
Wammy Letter B - Death Note
After attempting to imprint L's whole being cookie cutter style upon poor A's flayed psyche, Quillsh Wammy then turned his attention onto a second child for experimentation.  He was seeking the same result.  He got it.

By which is meant that Watari's zest to 'copy' L drove another orphan in his care to conclude that the only way out was suicide.

Only Beyond Birthday didn't attempt his own end with the supposed quiet lack of drama that beset the tragedy of A.  (At least Mello didn't deem it worth gossiping about the fine detail later.)  B opted for self-slaughter in perhaps the most dramatic, loud and all encompassing manner he could stage manage. Downright theatrical in fact, in that he performed it in costume, caked in thick make-up, complete with props. Assuming a role in scenes orchestrated and arranged by himself.

The part that Wammy had always wanted him to play.  Indivisible from L; a carbon copy.  Albeit with a few heart-breaking, pointed and rather grisly differences in the reality that played out.  Not least that Beyond knew that L could count on the support of Wammy's House, and he could not.

... he had always disguised himself with heavy make-up while he was with Misora, and he had never left a picture behind.
~ Another Note, p162
He knew that the moment he took action Wammy's House and Watari would alert L, so he did not even bother trying to stop them.
~ Another Note, p159
Our mental image of B - repeated endlessly in fan-art and fiction - depicts him fixed in cosplaying L.  Cosmetics to recreate the sleep deprived pallor, hunched over in walking and folded, knees up in sitting.

There's no telling whether the crawling on all fours isn't just a parody of L's burden bent back, nor if the jam eaten with his fingers straight from the jar might not be a clown-like standing for L's endless array of sweet confectionery.  He even quotes L's habitual lines, about how hot beverages brimmed into slush with sugar boost his energy and awaken his brain, while sitting in that famous stance raises his mental faculties by 40%.

Beyond Birthday copies L, just as Mr Wammy demanded of him, but only to break him in a desperate challenge - choosing death in order to commit an unsolvable crime.  Viewing serial killing and his own horrifically agonizing mode of ending himself as reasonable prices to pay if he ultimately got to beat L.  It didn't matter that B wouldn't be there to see it happen.  The victory was all.

Well, in theory, give or take Naomi Misora being more intelligent than any Wammy credited those outside the institution as having any right to be.

Hence B ended up terribly mutilated, surviving in the knowledge that L's proxy - a civilian! - had bested him even when he threw in such extremes.  Serving a life sentence inside an LA prison for the murders of three people pretty much used as props to destroy L's mind, pride and reputation.  Until Kira killed Beyond randomly (so it's implied) during one of his Death Note purges of evil-doers inside.

Nor do we see any evidence that Watari intervened, though with his connections it's probable that Beyond could have been released into Wammy's House custody.  There's not even a hint that those who drove B into such desperation and madness so much as visited him behind bars.  Then he was dead before Mello moved into the same city.

Wammy's experimentation went on.
Beyond Birthday and L: L is After Beyond Birthday

C - Wammy Letter Not Assigned in Canon

Although nothing is known about this individual at the present time, it doesn't necessarily follow that we do not know them.   Some characters associated with Wammy's House never had their call code letters made public.   This covers Matt, Linda and Ryūzaki from the forthcoming movie too.

D - Wammy Kid Pseudonym and True Name Unknown

L's Wammy Group mail from L Change the World
D is known only from an entry within the Wammy Members' Group Mail, glimpsed upon L's computer screen in the live-action movie L: Change the World.

However, it might be surmised that D has been in possession of his or her letter for quite some time, as those listed aren't alphabetical and D is at the top.

That may be a false premise nevertheless, as L himself only appears halfway down the list and he was the first Wammy in possession of a letter.

L doesn't hesitate in sending the communication to D, nor indeed anyone else on the list, with the exception of K who gives him pause.  For all else, its implied that they are trusted, worthy recipients with no bad blood between themselves and the Watari Foundation, as represented here by L.

Beyond that, nothing else is known.  Nor is every letter displayed, as the scrollbar alongside the list of Wammy letters hints at more unseen before the camera drifts away to focus upon the e-mail's sender instead.

E - Wammy Kid Pseudonym and True Name Unknown

E is another Wammy letter assignation known only from L's mailing group in L: Change the World.  (See above)

F - Wammy Kid F1225 - True Name Unknown

Wammy letter F is known to us entirely from the movie L: Change the World.  He doesn't even turn up in the book of the same name.  In the movie, he is portrayed by actor Kakuzi Namioka.  Wammy F's character name in the credits is displayed as エフ Romanised as Efu.
F Wammy Kid L Change the World
We first see F peering through the slats into a rural home in Bangnum Village, Thailand.  He is observing a whole population stricken by some unknown pathogen, all dying horribly and in agony with sores, blisters and frothing mouths.  It appears to have been quite a sudden onset with a 100% mortality rate, and the scientists have just turned up to investigate. 

They are exempt in theory from contagion, clad from head to foot in bright yellow protective clothing.  They speak with American accents and seem unsympathetic to the suffering of victims all around them.  Moreover, brutal in their dehumanising pronouns - 'deal with that', one says, indicating a man nearby.  Another pushes a mother surrounded by four dead children roughly away from him. 

F flees.  There is no explanation as to why he was there. Nor why he's so certain of his immunity from contracting the unspecified pathogen, that he's willing to risk exposure to it.

The only clues come from a future scene, wherein we're told he was working undercover for the Watari Foundation near Bangnum Village, and that the biometers aren't responding. Though whether that fact pertains to F's presence isn't clear from the context.  He was certainly there 'in the line of duty'.

However, he's presumably on some kind of Wammy House directed rescue mission, as the child waiting at the location F flees to - in the ruins of ancient architecture just beyond the village - is Near.  Though evidently Thai, Near does not appear native to Bangum.  "This village is over for us."  F tells the child, interrupting him mid-mathematical flow, with formulae chalked all over the mossy stone walls.

They have perhaps gained sanctuary there with Near seemingly unperturbed by events.  Abandoning his calculus without fear nor apparent regard for the destruction down below, in order to join F in flight via the older Wammy's Land Rover.
F driving with Near
The instructions F gives to the boy focus upon how to contact Watari.  This transpires into a moment of sheer delight and wonder for Team Wammy Death Note fans everywhere - F gives us the Watari phone number:  0105928147218.  Whereupon we are directed to tell them F1225 told us to ring it.

So, has anyone done so yet?  To whom does it connect?  Are they very sick of random people calling from all over the world, demanding to speak with Watari?

"Watari will protect you," F informs his young charge, wearing an ethereal kind of smile as he says so.  The future Near, it has to be said, surveys him right back with the world's most dubious expression over a long, drawn out stare.  Already too clever for his own good, that one.

But a look which surely seems like presentiment when, in the next instant, an American military helicopter arises from the bushland track behind them and starts shooting holes from the road in front.

F steps on the accelerator of the Land Rover he has weaving all over this Thai dustroad-turned-Formula-1-racetrack.  Yet a close look at him reveals the sudden appearance of lesions on the side of this face.  Not so immune to disease after all, though Near is in the clear and remains so.  F knows that he's personally not going to survive this flight through the bushes, thus in a poignant moment takes the necklace bearing his Watari letter F from around his neck and places it around Near's instead.
F bequeaths his necklace to Near - L Change the World
L Change the World Wammy F wishing Near luck
Back behind the wheel, with an expression of sheer determination, F hurtles along the road in his Land Rover, leading the military away from the spot where he abandoned Near.  But he knows he can't out-drive them.  He has to have known he was due to die as soon as he couldn't shake them off before. 

This race away from Near is deliberate though. Himself less important than the child left behind, despite F's presumably high intelligence and top class education rendering him a supposed benefit to the whole world as a Wammy letter.  Surely more so in that horrible choice between himself and an untutored youngster with much potential.  Because whatever Near is, or may become, right now the boy is an unknown quantity.

Yet somebody somewhere within the Watari Foundation judged it worth risking F's life to send him into that dangerous situation in order to extract the kid.  By his actions, F certainly concurs.

The helicopter descends before the Land Rover, blocking all egress.  F stops the vehicle and surveys in horror what waits ahead.  There's momentary horror and fright for F. Not ready to die.  Then he is, eyes closing and a tiny smile touching the corner of his lips.  Like this is acceptable. 
L Change the World - Wammy Letter F
Death Note F smiles at death
We watch the Watari prodigy F die by proxy - a close up on the missile emerging from the helicopter's launcher, then a long shot of Near witnessing the blast from around the corner, expressionless and wearing F's letter necklace.   Another Wammy kid dead.  Another left knowing from the onset what the far future has in store for him, though also still lost in the immediate sense.
Near in L Change the World
What's interesting about F's reaction to all of this is that undying faith in Wammy and the Watari Foundation.  Adamant to the end that Watari protects his wards, a sentiment spoken even as the patently unprotected F remains trapped in an environment rife with pestilence and bombs.

He's not going to survive this, yet surely it was Watari - or a representative thereof - who sent him there.  Nevertheless, F will ensure another child follows in his footsteps and smiles as he dies. Some inner conviction sated in the certainty that his premature demise was worth it.

Perhaps the ethos wherein this genius Wammy House orphan was raised.  One we'll return to time and again in the biographies of Wammy kids.  Dulce et decorum est pro Watari mori...

G - Wammy Kid Pseudonym and True Name Unknown

The Wammy letter G is another whose canon existence consists solely of an entry on L's email list in the movie L: Change the World.  (See D.)

H - Wammy Headquarters Letters - Roger Ruvie (presumed)

Wammy Letter H may be seen representing Wammy Headquarters in a scene from the live-action movie L: Change the World.

That this is also The Wammy's House may be determined by comparing the avatar crest accompanying the moniker Wammy Headquarters with the same already displayed on Watari's desktop underneath the call alert.

As warden of Wammy's House, it must be assumed that Roger Ruvie is the individual in receipt of this letter.   The H reflecting that element of his job description that involves liaison between Watari and the rest of his wards - HQ rather than headmaster.

This would explain why Roger Ruvie sticks around as overseer of an orphanage, when his pet hate (according to How to Read: Death Note 13) is 'children'.

It also chimes nicely with the warden's role within the original manga and anime Death Note stories.  He was the recipient of L's alert pertaining to the detective's own death.

Moreover, Roger was the one to inform Near and Mello of the same, and would have been the one told if Watari/L had chosen which of them was to succeed their idol.  Roger also felt able to make a suggestion regarding the succession himself - the futile interjection that the pair should work together.

In short, Roger had long since been the nexus for internal Watari Foundation communication.  The manga has him eventually becoming Watari, when Near takes the Letter to continue as that detective code.
Watari letter H Wammy House HQ

Death Note's H calls W: Wammy HQ (Roger Ruvie) mails Watari
We see more of what Roger's position at The Wammy's House - Wammy Headquarters - constitutes in this same scene.  Following immediately on from the death of F, Roger calls Wammy to inform him of their ward's death.  Though cut off, his text communication is curt, emotionless and to the point.
Wammy F dead, Watari told by HQ
This isn't a telegram, yet it seems like Roger goes out of his way to conserve characters in his abrasive wording.  F's death is afforded equal precedence to HQ's report about  the biometers being out of commission.  His main concern seems to be who to send out there next.  No waxing lyrical in commiseration and regard for a young man killed, whom both must have known intimately, as a boy raised by themselves and for whom responsibility did not stop in adulthood, as he remained one of their lettered agents.

It's a similar pattern of feeling - or lack thereof - as seen in the manga, whereby Roger's first act upon hearing the news of L and Wammy's demise is to call in Mello and Near, thus to settle the succession.  No question that such a continuation must occur.

Nor apparently did he race after Mello, when the boy announced his attention to leave home and work alone in catching Kira.  This is a fourteen year old stepping out into a frigid December night, in a barely adequate jacket, yet his guardian did not shift in his recall.

Back to F and the news of his death.  It's never clarified who alerted Roger to that particular tragedy, though we do get to see Wammy and L react to the same.  Wammy's look of sadness and shock tips off L, who gently enquires if it is bad news?  His guardian answers in hushed tones that F was killed in Thailand.  There follows a pensive moment, wherein the old man sadly states, 'It was in the line of duty, so it couldn't be helped but...'
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But what?  The sentiment is never answered verbally, nor addressed by the creator of this system at all.  The contemplative silence draws out for both with the sentence never actually finished.  Left lingering in the air as simply that - something which couldn't be helped - while H's missive remains on the screen focused upon who to send in next.

The answer to F's death comes in reality from L's actions.  This is the final piece of information to push the detective into writing his own name into Misa's Death Note, thus effectively committing suicide.  Why?   'To take control over my own Fate is the only way to outwit Death.'
Mello attacking Roger in Death Note
Roger tells Mello and Near about L's death
A reaction echoed in part by Mello's own reaction to the compulsion to take L's place jointly with Near, as Roger's major consideration upon the loss of L.  No doubt feeling similar pressure to surrender all say in his future to those willing to sacrifice it, Mello - like L - had the knee-jerk reaction of yanking control of his own destiny back from Wammy HQ.

"I'll do it my own way!"  He bellowed in retort, a fourteen year old leaving the sanctuary of his childhood home in the dead of winter.
Mello leaves Wammy's House
The only facet not being questioned by anyone was why two boys (Near not even a teenager) suddenly had the burden of stopping a global killer.  Children asked to assume such responsibility as duty, in lieu of, say, any of the world's governments, military, secret services, not to mention their  associated law enforcement or intelligence agencies.

Neither did L feel able to just walk away.  At least in the minds of themselves, as nurtured in Wammy's home by Watari and Ruvie, this was their inevitable duty.  As unfortunate as any death might be in the line of such duty, it couldn't be helped.   An ethos surely carried by the warden, as Roger swapped his letter H (Wammy Headquarters) for a W (Watari in his turn).
Roger Ruvie with computer L
Roger as Watari in Death Note

I - Wammy Letter Not Assigned in Canon

Though again there are candidates, as Matt and Linda remain unassigned letters in canon too.  Ditto Ryūzaki, who will appear in Death Note: Light Up the New World in October 2016, and has already been named an alumni of Wammy's House.

J - Wammy Kid Pseudonym Unknown - True Name Jeffrey Miller

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The Wammy kid known as J is an elusive quantity.

In fact, we're not even 100% certain that he was Watari raised, trained and assigned a letter.  The only clue to that is his name - the letter J - as given in the only canon source in which he turns up.

J is a character in the Konami DS game L: The Prologue to Death Note: Spiralling Trap, which was released in Japan on February 8th 2007.  It's never been translated into any other languages nor made available anywhere else across the globe.

Game-play is text based problem solving, wherein you are a rookie FBI agent knocked unconscious to awaken in a locked room.  Your environment is booby-trapped with explosives, with antagonists presumably out there primed to set them off.
However help is at hand in the shape of a communication device and L at the other end.  The detective will advise on solving puzzles to open the doors, as long as he's adequately provided with sweets, cakes and other confectionery.   You will eventually traverse all of those dangerous rooms in order to encounter the baddies. 

Enter J.  Apparently another Wammy kid turned murderous in pursuit of L.  Now ready to engage you in a boss fight.
Antagonists in L: Prologue to Death Note
Death Note Wammy J from game
Screenshot from L The Prologue to Death Note featuring J
The image (left) is a screenshot from the trailer for L: The Prologue to Death Note (above), which features around the 1 minute 46 mark.
As the game was only issued in Japanese, with no English transcript to be found on-line, it's difficult to analyse the dialogue for further clues to J's identity, motivation or the influence upon him from his supposed Wammy House education.  Beyond what might be surmised by the fact that he's attempting to blow L up.

Though he is wearing a lab coat, hence probably falls within the science spectrum of Wammy alumni specialities.

All that can be said additionally (until our Japanese translators turn up and, of course, assuming any of them have actually played this game) is that our last glimpse of J seems to be aboard a stricken cruise ship, which L has just caused to explode extensively right across its middle section.  Presumably then J is now lost, presumed drowned or else caught in the ensuing inferno. 

About par for the course for a Wammy kid.

K - Wammy Kid Keep Your Way - Dr Kimiko Kujo

"Please understand, Watari. This is the only way I believe I can change the world," she said, as much to convince herself.
L: Change the World, p 121
L Change the World Dr Kujo crying blood
On the subject of serial killing Wammy kids, they don't get more potentially destructive than Watari's own destroyer of worlds - K.

Perhaps Kali might have been a better pseudonym for this lady, rather than the poignant sobriquet Keep Your Way afforded to her by Mr Wammy himself.

She certainly seemed convinced that the only way to change the world was to wipe the human race from the face of the planet.

In true mad scientist mode, when we first caught up with K - real name Dr Kimiko Kujo - she was busy cultivating a swift-acting, 100% fatal pathogen in readiness to unleash upon all hated humanity.
Her story forms the central backdrop of L: Change the World - movie and book both - with L spending his last twenty days on Earth in a bid to halt her crazy antics in a laboratory.

The premature release of her deadly virus upon test subjects in Thailand had already led directly to the demise of another Wammy letter - F.  She would have taken out Near too, before he even made it to Wammy's House, had the wonder-boy's natural immunity not kept him safe from contagion.
"Dr Kujo, is your time at Wammy's House perhaps a cause of your despair toward mankind?"
"You knew?"
"One can always tell a Wammy's student, even if they do change their face and hide their past," L said.
L and K, L: Change the World, p175-176
So what went so badly wrong with this one that global genocide seemed the only answer?

Surely even Roger couldn't have been so tactless that her natural response was to sequence a virus to push her own species into extinction.  Though granted, it would have constituted one method of stopping Kira, which was what most of her peers were concerning themselves with at the time.
Dr Kimiko Kujo L Change the World
It transpires that K's role within the Wammy Foundation had been to '(mobilize) the law enforcement agencies of the world'.  During an operation, she had successfully rescued a child held hostage by terrorists, only to discover that had been her adversary's plan all along.  The kid was a suicide bomber, who detonated the charges as soon as they were in the other camp.

After witnessing the 'many casualties', K ran from the scene never to return.  It wasn't the failure of the operation per se that was the problem, but the notion that she had betrayed Watari's trust in her capabilities as a Wammy letter.

Nothing to do with the power and influence that comes with that designation either.  It was the personal censure invested within Wammy the man that she most feared evoking.  He'd brought her out of herself and believed in her abilities following the death of her parents. He'd been kind and caring, with a warm smile and sage advice, making K feel like she counted, even amongst all the rest of the clever, little Wammys around her. 

She couldn't stand to see his face again, knowing that she'd let him down.  That he'd be disappointed in her.  It was that personal for the Wammy kids raised to become Letters within the Wammy Foundation.  Away from Wammy's House and the man at its helm, K's 'soul had grown darker than the world around it'.

A darkness that she couldn't hope to assuage without the total destruction of humankind, wiped from the Earth in order to save the planet.
Dr Kujo in L Change the World
Wammys K - Dr Kimiko Kujo
Kujo and posse L Change the World
Not that K had any cause to worry.  As L informed the dangerous Dr Kujo - once he'd located her at the centre of the pathogen outbreak - blowing up her team wasn't any deterrent for her beloved Mr Wammy.   He'd assigned his letter K to her anyway, coded with the last message he'd conveyed to Kimiko Kujo before her flight from the Wammy fold - Keep Your Way.

Astute words in retrospect, though perhaps Watari should have clarified a 'way' amongst the sane options open to her.

Moreover, L continued - breaking her heart in knowing this only now - "Even after you left Wammy's, Watari refused to give that designation to anyone else."  Awwww!  If only she'd grasped that Wammy still loved her, K wouldn't have had to turn Thailand into the vast killing fields of her unleashing viral mass murder.

As it was, L promised that she could resume her place at Wammy's House, letter intact, even now, after whole populations lay dead.  What was a little genocidal slaughter amongst Watari's kids?  When they stood to ensure justice would prevail and the world could be changed.  K vowed to do so, returning to Winchester just as soon as her life sentence was done in prison.

No doubt Watari - whomever that was likely to be forthwith - would soon intervene and get that time served down to, say, a week.  After all, foiled architect of humanity's extinction aside, Kimiko remains a Wammy kid, in receipt of the letter K.
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Death Note Profile:  Who is Quillsh Wammy?

8/4/2016

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Mr Wammy (Shunji Fujimura) -  Death Note live-action movies (Japan)

Mr Wammy as played by Shunji Fujimura
in live-action Death Note films
Watari - aka Quillsh Wammy - is L's 'handler' in Death Note.  He is also the founder of the Wammy chain of orphanages, including The Wammy House for Gifted and Talented Orphans.

Also known as Wammy's House, this was the institution which raised L, Near, Mello, Matt, Beyond Birthday, Linda et al.  It is located in Winchester, England.


We first meet Mr Wammy under his guise as Watari, an anonymous figure clad from head to toe in a black leather trench coat complete with Fedora hat.  He infiltrated a meeting of Interpol, wherein representatives of the world's law enforcement agencies had convened to discuss the Kira case. Watari was carrying a laptop from which emerged the electronic voice of L to address them all.

Later, as the Kira Task Force are invited to meet L and vetted by the same, Watari appears again, this time in the suited guise of his actual self - Quillsh Wammy, benefactor of the Wammy Group chain of orphanages and the man who trained L to become a detective.

He now facilitates his ward in his work solving crimes, acting as a handler, spokesperson or kind of butler.  Noted mostly for organizing logistics of manoeuvres ordered by L; transferring the funds to pay for the same; and bringing copious amounts of cakes, sweets and other sugary things for L to consume whilst puzzling over his cases.

Elsewhere, it transpires that Wammy is a crack marksmanship, as well as highly skilled in espionage.  He made his considerable wealth as an inventor.

Killed in the line of duty, during the fight against Kira, Quillsh Wammy is remembered as a 'great man' by members of the Task Force, lauded as the same by newspaper obituaries around the world.

Yet there is a darkness that hides beneath the surface of this seemingly amenable, altruistic man.  As author Tsugumi Ohba put it, 'He's a guy who cultivates detectives for fun. That's kind of terrible, isn't it?' (How to Read: Death Note 13, pg 27).  Well, in anybody's language, that's child trafficking and rendition, at the very least.

The Names of Quillsh Wammy

Death Note's Watari is alternatively known as:
キルシュ・ワイミー
Quillsh Wammy
Quillish Wammy
Kirushu Waimī
Kirsch-Waimi

Mr Wammy
ワタリ
Watari
W
渡
真名
Wye Me
Originally, Ohba meant to call this character Shadow, as in L's shadow - a moniker with more than one inferred meaning, which fan-fiction writers would have had great fun exploring.  However Death Note's editor pooh-poohed the name, telling Ohba, 'No, no! Anything but that!'  Hence the author coming up with Watari, which he explained meant 'handler' in Japanese.

Watari's Vital Statistics

Watari Death Note anime
Hair Colour:
Grey


Height:
5' 7" (170.18cm)
Eye Colour:
Blue


Weight:
8 stone (112lbs; 50.8kg)
Occupation:
Inventor; L spokesperson; benefactor of orphanages; collector of orphans; educator

Relationship Status:
Unknown, presumed single

Key Dates for Watari

May 1st 1933:
Quillsh Wammy born
Manga
May 1st 1936:
Quillsh Wammy born
Anime
November 5th 2004:
Quillsh Wammy killed
Manga
November 5th 2007:
Quillsh Wammy killed
Anime

The Auguries of Quillsh Wammy

Taurus
Born on May 1st, astrologically Quillsh Wammy is Taurus
Rooster
Wammy's birth date of May 1st 1933 (manga) also factors into Shēngxiào. He is a Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac
Rat
However, the time-slip of the anime would have him born in 1936 instead. That means that now in the Chinese Zodiac Watari is a Rat
Blood Type B
How to Read: Death Note 13 reveals that Quillsh Wammy's blood group is B

A Versatile Fixer - The Personality of Quillsh Wammy

Death Note 13: How to Read gives us an insight into the character of Quillsh Wammy, at least insofar as his author saw him.

The older man scores highly for versatility, talent, initiative/willingness to act, motivation and emotional strength.  Not far behind are his only slightly lesser scores for creativity, social skills and intelligence.  That he doesn't reach the topmost figure for creativity is a little surprising, given that Wammy made his fortune as an inventor.  The ultimate creator, one might think, this side of actual divinity.

We do get a hint of the kind of things that Wammy invented, when he turns up in the Death Note manga with belts containing panic buttons.  Not exactly Bond's Q, but in the ballpark.

As befits a man whose wealth and life has become devoted to raising children, his pet hate is 'dirty rooms'.  Presumably plenty of those at Wammy's House. I can't quite see the like of Beyond Birthday, Mello and Near running around with a duster.

This is an attribute taken to extreme levels in the Death Note TV drama, wherein guests are sprayed with disinfection at the door.  The interior of L's headquarters is kept pristine in its cleanliness, with Watari hurrying in to exchange L's shirt should a mere splash of food stain hit upon it.  In most tellings of the Death Note story, it's also inferred that Wammy is a fabulous cook.  At least there doesn't seem to be any travelling caterer providing all that confectionery for L that his handler regularly delivers.

Though it's nowhere stated that Wammy is an Englishman, it's implied in the location of his main orphanage for the training of gifted and talented orphans - Winchester, in England.  A further clue is given in his most favourite thing in the world - Earl Grey tea.

It's never truly explained how Watari managed to become such a crack marksman either.  His sharp-shooting is such that, in the Death Note manga and anime alike, he's able to fire a bullet which blasts a gun from the hand of Yotsuba's Kyosuke Higuchi, far below him on the ground. Wammy himself hovering over the scene in a helicopter at the time.

Nor do we learn where Quillsh Wammy acquired such skill in espionage, though he puts that to good use in Death Note, infiltrating various organizations to gain or deliver information.  Not least a gathering of Interpol.

Nevertheless he passed on all this knowledge, and the thinking/morality behind it, to the children in his care.   Maybe more clues to Watari's character reside in those he raised - how they turned out and what became of them.

Complete List of Wammy Kids in Death Note Canon

Genius children taken from wherever they lived around the world and installed in Wammy's House, Winchester.  Here their 'special talents' were cultivated with a top class education, whereupon they were sent back out into the world to put those skills into practice.  All of these individuals were nurtured by Wammy - or at least had their upbringing and training overseen remotely by him, as warden Roger Ruvie took orders from above.
Wammy A
A
- Name Unknown

Committed suicide at Wammy's House
(Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Case)
Wammy E
E
- Name Unknown

Shown on L's call/mailing list
(L: Change the World)
Wammy Kid J
J
- Name Unknown

Appears only as character in
a DS Death Note game.
(L: The Prologue to Death Note)
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M
- Mello (Mihael Keehl)

Joined the Mafia in a bid to catch Kira and succeed to the L title before Near did. When unsuccessful, he gave his life to help Near defeat Kira.
(Death Note manga/anime)
Wammy kid Matt (Mail Jeevas) Death Note
Letter Unknown
- Matt (Mail Jeevas)

Third ranked Wammy kid at the time of L's death. Matt ultimately stepped into the Kira case at the behest of Mello. He was gunned down and killed by Kira supporters.
(Death Note manga/anime)
Wammy R
R
- Name Unknown
Shown on L's call/mailing list. However the name is faded out to grey, implying that R is dead. (B's is the same hue.)
(L: Change the World)
Wammy kid V
V
- Name Unknown
Shown on L's call/mailing list. However the name is faded out to grey, implying that V is dead. (B's is the same hue.)
(L: Change the World)
Wammy Z
Z
- Name Unknown
Assisted L in the Detective Wars bio-terror case.
(Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases)
Beyond Birthday - Death Note
B
- Beyond Birthday

Tried to lure L out with a series of grisly murders in Los Angeles; impersonated L for Naomi Misora, before setting fire to himself in a failed suicide attempt; imprisoned in LA, where he suffered a heart-attack and died (presumably killed by Kira) on January 21st 2004.
(Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases)
Wammy kid F (Kazuki Namioka)
F
- Name unknown

Rescued Near from a remote village, where all were dying in a deliberate epidemic, and sent him to L. F was killed in Thailand when a US helicopter shoots down his trunk. However F was already infected with a deadly virus.
(L: Change the World)
Kimiko Kujo L Change the World
K
- Kimiko Kujo

Scientist - unleashed a deadly virus in her own bid to 'change the world' by wiping out its human population.
(L: Change the World)
Near Death Note
N
- Near (Nate River)

Mathematical genius, who de facto succeeded L at age twelve, when the latter was killed by Rem/Kira.  With clues provided by Mello's martyrdom to the cause, Near was able to finally defeat Kira in the name of himself, Mello and L, ergo Wammy's House.
(Death Note manga/anime)
Wammy P
P
- Name Unknown
Shown on L's call/mailing list
(L: Change the World)
Ryūzaki Wammy kid Death Note 2016
Letter Unknown
- Ryūzaki

Cloned from L's DNA and raised at Wammy's House as L's true successor.
(Death Note 2016)
Wammy X
X
- Name Unknown

Assisted L in the Detective Wars bio-terror case.
(Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases)
Death Note Relight: Wammy kids
Random Wammy kids
as seen in Death Note: Relight (above)
and Death Note manga (left)
Wammy D
D
- Name Unknown

Shown on L's call/mailing list
(L: Change the World)
Wammy Kid G
G
- Name Unknown

Shown on L's call/mailing list
(L: Change the World)
Wammy L Death Note
L
- L Lawliet

Apparently the prototype 'special talent' Wammy orphan, for whom all the rest were raised as back-ups or successors.

At eight years old, L could beat up the other orphans in Wammy's House. He also discovered the delight in solving true crime cases, and thwarted the Winchester Mad Bomber. Beyond that he made his name as not only the world's greatest detective but, under pseudonyms, the 2nd and 3rd ranked too. 

He was killed during the Kira case.
Linda Death Note
Letter Unknown
- Linda

Became a successful artist. During the Kira case, she drew images of Near and Mello for the Japanese Task Force.
(Death Note manga/anime)
Picture
Q
- Name Unknown
Shown on L's call/mailing list
(L: Change the World)
Wammy kid T
T
- Name Unknown
Shown on L's call/mailing list. However the name is faded out to grey, implying that T is dead. (B's is the same hue.)
(L: Change the World)
Wammy Y
Y
- Name Unknown
Assisted L in the Detective Wars bio-terror case.
(Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases)
Wammy children Death Note manga
Each skilled Wammy kid set loose on the world was assigned a letter by Watari.   In L: Change the World, it's stated that this only occurs with the greatest, most intelligent of the Wammy's House outcrop.  Kujo is according stunned to belatedly realise that she was afforded the letter K.

Dotted across various adaptations of canon, we've practically got the entire alphabet in Wammy Letters.  With Watari himself indicated by the Letter W, only H, I, O, S and U are missing.  However, some known Wammy alumni never divulge their letters.  We don't, for example, know which Matt was assigned, despite him being third in the Wammy House rankings.  Nor yet do we know which letter Ryūzaki will take in the forthcoming movie Death Note 2016, assuming that he takes one at all.

Meanwhile, by the end of the manga/anime Death Note stories, Near interchangeably uses both N and L.  The latter earned post-Kira.  Thus giving an insight into the fact that letters can be taken from their peers by successful rivals/successors from the same Institution.  This is a system that Wammy himself must have set up.

Along with a code of ethics that apparently accounts for serial killers, abductors, biomedical scientists bent on mass destruction and the propensity of Wammy graduates to think it proper to die - or be killed - for want of a puzzle's solution. 

The Faces of Watari

Watari Death Note manga

Quillsh Wammy Death Note manga
Watari Death Note anime

Quillsh Wammy Death Note anime
Wammy Death Note DS game

Quillsh Wammy Death Note Nintendo game
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Death Note Event Reminder: Death Note Ladies Appreciation Weeks on Tumblr

14/12/2015

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Female characters in Death Note

Can you name these Death Note female characters? (Answers at the end)
Just a reminder about a Death Note event on Tumblr, which began yesterday and continues over the Christmas period to finish on December 26th 2015.

Death Note Ladies Appreciation Weeks looks to redress the balance in focus given to Death Note's women and girl characters.  Let's face it, the fandom really does relish its male personae over the female cohort.  Yet there are some extremely kick-ass and/or fascinating ladies in this universe.  Explore their stories in canon pics; elaborate upon them in fan-fiction and fan-art; discover that they even exist, if you blinked and missed their cameo.

This is the second year running for the Tumblr event for Death Note fans.  Anyone can join in. You just tag your update with #dn ladies appreciation and post away, preferably on the day scheduled for your yuri pairing and/or each individual female Death Note character's bespoke date:
Week One
December 13th: Misa/Takada
                                Halle/Misa
December 14th: Naomi/Halle
                                Halle/Takada
December 15th: Misa/Sayu
                                Rem/Misa
December 16th: Wedy/Naomi
                               Wedy/Misa
December 17th: Sayu/Yuri
                                Yuri/Misa
December 18th: Sachiko Yagami/Eriko Aizawa
                                Sachiko Yagami/Mrs. Mikami
December 19th: WILD CARD (Any yuri Death Note pairing)
Week Two
December 20th: Halle
                                Wedy
December 21st: Naomi
                                Takada
December 22nd: Sachiko
                                 Sayu
December 23rd: Misa
                                Rem
December 24th: Yuri
                                Shoko Himura (from Death Note TV drama)
December 25th: Shiori Akino
                               Maki Nikaido
December 26th: WILD CARD (Any Death Note lady)
For more details, check out our original head's up about the event; where you'll also find a slightly easier collage of Death Note women to test your knowledge of characters in the Death Note universe.  For answers to the much more difficult one posted at the top here, see below:
Characters from Death Note who are female


Clockwise ( l-r from top):
Wammy's House aide and two female Wammy kids; Dr Kimiko Kujo; Sayu Yagami; Yumi Aizawa; Akiko Himura; Nori (Misa's friend); Unnamed Kira Worshipper; Yuri; Ami Hamazaki; and Shiori Akino

And if you're looking for inspiration and/or something to post on each day, then our sidebar has all of these ladies listed under Death Note News Categories - archives full of things about them!  Feel free to post links to what you will.
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