Behold Near's only reason for downloading the emoji: to be a shit.

Near please

You tried, Fear. But you suck.

it was pretty fail for someone that feeds off fear

Nobody is impressed. You almost feel bad for the guy.

yeah just a little bit

Also . . . Dean, don't mention puppet, you'll give Near ideas.

*puppets

but Near a creepy Mello puppet

a+ response near

His puppets are not designed to be scary! The just . . . wind up that way.

*They

and an ugly Ai puppet

and weird L puppet

He needs to be making fingerpuppets at one point. Not as part of an event, but just because he needs to make visual aids.

stop by the sewing shop to get materials

Maybe while he and Mello are explaining everything to L, Near will realize that he has an insufficient toy supply to properly demonstrate the concepts he tries to explain.

His motivation is entirely practical.

completely practical yes of course it is

Visual aids help people understand things.

People are dumb and need help with understanding.