Talk:Gelus

Eyes
What could have happened to Gelus's eye? With the theory that shinigami eyes can fall to earth it could be that his eye ended up with Beyond Birthday thus giving him the ability to see names and life spans. Anybody else have any supporting evidence or have opposing evidence please speak up. Vladashram 18:34, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, where would the other eye had come from? Maggosh 19:34, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It never said that BB had two eyes for that matter. Maybe Gelus only lost one and one should be enough to see lifespans and names.Vladashram 20:36, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Lifespan
Does anyone remember dialogue in one of the episodes relating that how death gods use death notes influences an exchange of lifespan?

I seem to remember something like their immortality results from using the death notes: they gain the remaining lifespan of humans that they kill, so they MUST use the notes at least every so often to avoid dying themselves.

But in the case of use like Gelus, it works in reverse: if you cause your death by using the note with the intent of saving another person, then when you die as a result of that, your own remaining lifespan (including all the lifespan you stole from humans) is automatically given to that human.

As a result, a shinigami can basically make a human near-immortal if they'd built up a lot of "reserve years" to transfer to them.

I remember this because a big deal was made about Misa "halving" her remaining lifespan by getting the "shinigami eyes" gift, but then I realized "wait, would that even matter? Half of a million is still 500 thousand" or something along those lines. talk2ty 17:38, December 16, 2019 (UTC)
 * We don't know how it converts. There's really no reason to believe the note can allow people to live well beyond a natural lifespan. Munchvtec (talk) 17:47, December 16, 2019 (UTC)