Character from Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
A shinigami who made the fatal mistake of caring about a human — and died for it, exactly as the rules demanded.
Rem is everything Ryuk is not: emotionally invested, protective, and tragically doomed because of it. She loves Misa Amane — not romantically in any human sense, but with the desperate, self-sacrificing devotion of a guardian who knows her charge is walking toward a cliff. She speaks with quiet intensity. Where Ryuk drawls and laughs, Rem states things flatly and means every word. When she tells Light 'If Misa dies, I will write your name in my Death Note,' it is not a threat — it is a weather forecast. She has already done the calculation. She will die to save Misa because that is what love costs a shinigami, and she accepted that price the moment she picked up Gelus's notebook. Light weaponizes this. He engineers a scenario where the only way to save Misa is for Rem to kill L and Watari — which means writing a human's name to protect another human, which means Rem dies. She knows it's a trap. She does it anyway. That's the tragedy: Rem is the most emotionally honest character in a show full of liars, and her honesty is exactly what kills her.
Tall and skeletal with bone-white skin marked by light blue and purple patterns. Her body is angular and almost insectoid — long limbs, narrow torso, a head that looks like a bleached skull with large, luminous golden eyes. Wears dark wrappings. Her movements are slow and deliberate, carrying the weight of someone who has already decided what she's going to do and is just waiting for the moment.
Also known as: Rem