Aiber

Aiber is a professional con-man who "sometimes helps L do his dirty work."

Appearance[]

Aiber is a tall man with slicked back, shoulder-length blond hair and light blue eyes. He has chiseled facial features with high cheekbones and a prominent jaw. He dresses professionally, usually in a suit and black coat.

Character[]

Aiber is a professional con-man who possesses the special ability to blend in with various types of social groups. Aiber once mentions that the evidence L has on him could land him a lifelong sentence in prison and that L saved his life on a couple of occasions.

Death Note 13: How to Read states that he speaks "numerous languages and often assumes false identities" and that he gets the biggest thrills from swindling and living "life on the edge." Having these abilities and his "good looks," he is able to build trust with certain individuals and extract information from them.

Plot[]

After Aizawa quits the Kira investigation and the NPA withdraws official support, L brings Aiber and Wedy onto the task forces. L, asks Aiber to contact Masahiko Kida posing as Eraldo Coil in order to infiltrate Yotsuba. Aiber calls Kida from France and tells him he'll help them discover L's identity for 10 million with 2 million paid in advance. If they refuse the offer, he still expects the 2 million in exchange for his silence. They accept and ask Aiber to come to their office. Aiber tells them that Misa had been detained by L to get them to accept her application to work with them. After finishing his call with Yotsuba, L tells Aiber to be careful though he retorts that he likes living life on the edge.

Aiber appears the next day at the Yotsuba office. Ooi, Shimura, Higuchi and Kida bring Aiber, who poses as a marketing advisor named John Wallace, to interview Misa though their exchange had already been prepared previously. Aiber, still posing as Wallace, tells Misa that he knows she supports Kira from having interrogated her sister and has heard she was detained by L and she gives their pre-rehearsed response.

Aiber later participates in the task force's operation to arrest Higuchi by hiding in the office of Yoshida Productions alongside Mogi, waiting for Higuchi to reveal his killing method so they can grab him though he doesn't, forcing them to wait. When L orders Higuchi's immediate arrest, Mogi and Aiber tail him until he reaches Sakura TV where they try to arrest him but Higuchi escapes after shooting Soichiro Yagami, forcing them to continue pursuing. Aiber fires a reluctant shot at Higuchi with Soichiro's gun but misses.

Months later after the death of L, Light Yagami writes AIber's real name in his death note. In the manga, Aiber dies of liver cancer in a hospital in Paris, France, with his family in front of him at his bedside. In the anime, Aiber presumably dies of a heart attack or alcohol poisoning in front of his son and wife.

Conception[]

According to Obata, his editor told him that Aiber was a "sarcastic, comic relief" character. Obata said that he wishes that he could have drawn Aiber to be "more comedic." Obata believes that if he drew Aiber and Wedy to look "a little bit more original," Ohba could have included the characters in a larger role in Death Note.

Trivia[]

• The given name Thierry (ティエリ, Tieri) is a common French male given name.
• The surname Morrello is Italian, so he may be of Italian descent. It is also the name of an Italian mafia family in New York, a reference to Aiber's criminal profession.
• Tierry/Thierry (ティエリ, Tieri) is also similar to the romaji for 'cherry' (チェリー, cherii). His name is a pun on the morello cherry.
• It is suggested that he is French, or at least resides in France since his given name is a French name. He dies in France with his family, and he is shown staying near the famous landmark known as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during his call to the Yotsuba Group.
• It is implied that, along with Wedy, Aiber briefly worked under L during the Los Angeles BB Serial Murder Cases.

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