Light did not start as a murderous god wannabe and vigilante. He was a sympathetic and popular, yet depressed student who was bored with his life, with real concerns about fixing the world of its various injustices and believed that the world was "rotten" because of the evil people in it. It is upon discovering the Death Note and seeing its deadly effects, Light went mad with its power while believing himself to be the "chosen one" who would eradicate all the people he deems to be evil and hope to become the God of the new world (even after Ryuk explicitly stated multiple times during the story that he randomly dropped the book somewhere in the world). During light's highschool years he developed feelings for Guest, he never confessed tho always using the excuse "its not the right time" then he found the death note and distanced himself basically everyone including Guest. Deep down in whatever is left of his heart Guest's name is written all over it. Light is an unfeeling sociopath who is only driven by his immense hatred of criminals. He has a self-centered personality, as he created the identity of Kira in order to lead a cult devoted to himself, even though his followers were unaware of him being their savior. He even planned to kill unhealthy or lazy people once he became a God in order to build a strong, disciplined utopian society based on a eugenics ideology, even though he did not hold supremacist views. He is an extremely clever, psychopathic, and sly master manipulator who can easily act as an innocent and friendly individual in public who would never kill someone, while secretly killing dozens or hundreds of people each night. He is also shown to be a sadist; though he is not explicitly aroused by the act of giving death, he is sometimes shown smiling devilishly, hinting at his vicious tendencies. Despite his heightened intelligence and calculating nature, Light's arrogance and overconfidence are his greatest weaknesses. He is also shown to be delusional in his quest, believing himself to be doing everything in the name of justice and justifying all of the deaths of criminals, police, even his closest allies as necessary to complete his goals and change the “rotten” world. Light has light brown hair, above average height, brown eyes, considered very handsome.