Mello (メロ, Mero), is the most seasoned of L's two successors, raised at Wammy's House—Watari's halfway house for skilled youngsters in Winchester, England. At the point when Roger chooses that Mello ought to work with Near to catch Kira, he can't, refering to a powerlessness to work with someone he is viewed as "second" to. He leaves the halfway house before long, expressing "I'll discover my own specific way," and inevitably looks for assistance from the Mafia.
Mello is a young person with button length blonde hair and blue eyes his blasts likewise hang down just over his eyebrows, and stands at about normal stature. He later increases a vast scar on the left half of his face going from the lowest part of his left cheek and up only in the middle of his nose and left eye, in the wake of starting a blast of the mafia alcove with a specific end goal to escape being caught. Mello is normally seen wearing dull cowhide garments. The manga delineates him wearing a red shaded rosary and a cross-embellished arm jewelery. In the anime in any case, the cross has been altered to be a stay (the level parcel of the would-be-cross in not display). He additionally conveys a firearm that, in the manga, has a cross connected to a chain that dangles from its handle.
While Mello is unquestionably a virtuoso and more wise than most individuals, the idea of being just the second most savvy individual in Wammy's, behind Near, energizes the sub-par quality complex that characterizes Mello's character. Mello skirts on being unethical in his fixation on being the one to bring down Kira and is eager to do "whatever it takes". Strategies which incorporate hijacking Director of the Japanese Police's little girl (Sayu Yagami), and having a part of the mafia record the majority of the SPK character's names in Sidoh's Death Note. In the manga, after Mello has effectively stolen a Death Note, he even goes so far as to endeavor to extort the President of the United States through phone into providing for him subsidizes and assets to help his chase for Kira, undermining that if his requests are not reached he will utilize the Death Note to compel the president to dispatch the United States' atomic rockets and begin World War III. Ostensibly, Mello isn't actually attempting to thrashing Kira out of a feeling of "equity", but since catching Kira will demonstrate to the world that Mello is to be sure the commendable successor to L as the world's most noteworthy criminologist, and not just runner-up to Near, or as Mello portrays his objective in his own particular words, "I will be the new Number One!"
The craftsman of Death Note, Takeshi Obata calls attention to in the book Death Note: How To Read that Mello's jealousy and disdain of Near was one and only way, and that Near "genuinely loved Mello". The book expresses that Mello isn't absolutely malevolent, refering to his expression of remorse and honest to goodness nurture Matt's prosperity, and in addition prior in the series when he apologizes to Soichiro Yagami. It likewise expresses that Mello has a superb personality and that he here and there lets his feelings get in his direction. Tsugumi Ohba, the author of Death Note, expressed that Mello buckles down for everything.
Like L's affection for desserts, Mello frequently consumes bars of chocolate, actually when talking. In the manga, Mello is frequently seen licking the chocolate before consuming it. Mello likewise has a propensity of bowing his right leg up while sitting, regularly with his left leg turned outwards. He has a tendency to substitute between that posture and just traverse his left leg. Something else about him that is exceptionally like L is his inclination to take exceptional procedures to befuddle and energy the hand of his adversaries.