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I'm seeing people in the hxh fandom changing their icons for pride month and was like "Oh yeah, I should do that too!" And then I remembered...I already have one that I haven't changed for years because I'm too lazy...
i always liked the little parallel of gon's fight with hanzo vs gon's fight with canary a few episodes after
during his fight with hanzo, gon confirms the extent of his determination for his goal : becoming a hunter in hopes of finding ging, even if this aspect of his personnality was already show throughout the hunter exam. for example we already understood how persevering he was while he trained to get hisoka's badge. however, this fight is more brutal, bc it shows how much he is willing to sacrifice. (also tells us he has very low self worth but that's another topic). he doesn't give up, even while facing possible death. he takes everything in, bc all he wants is to find ging.
what's interesting to me is that his "fight" against canary is quite similar : there is a clear level difference, canary has much more strenght and straight up anihilates gon to be honest. however he keeps getting hit, for actual hours. it pretty much goes the same. he shows the extent of his determination, until his opponent who's supposed to be stronger, ends up surrendering.
but the only difference between those two fights is the goal gon has in mind. in the first one it's ging, in the second it's killua. in both of these, gon seems almost insane, as if the amount of pain he's taking in to get what he wants is overexaggerated (is it really spelled like that?? what the hell idk). the opposition between ging and killua here is cool bc it kinda reminds me of what ging told him : that what's truly important is not the goal but the journey. now, i'm not saying that the only good thing that happened to gon during his quest was killua : he also made plenty of friends, learned new things etc. but to me killua is probably the best thing that has happened to him since he started looking out for ging. this makes what ging says to gon kinda killugon coded to some extent, like "you were so focused on the idea of finding me that you almost forgot that your b(s)f was always what was most important to you" and idk i just like it. the entire zoldyck family arc just shows gon's deep deep love for killua a million fucking times and i just love it so much \(≧▽≦)/
i'd also like to add that even if you might argue that "gon would've done this for any of his friends" (which would not make killua anything more than his friend) : i think so too. gon has a good heart and great determination, i believe that if something similar had happened to leorio or kurapika, he totally would've tried very hard to get his friend back anyway. but maybe not with this intensity of anger (that he showed during the whole zoldyck family arc. he was like fucking furious). however the thing is, this is not what happened : the narrative chose for gon to rescue killua, and enhance the deep friendship/feelings he feels for him : not for like kurapika or smth 🥀 this duo is important and it's not bc gon is very kind generally speaking that we should dismiss the way he feels abt killua since the beginning.
(i'm rewatching the show and i'm currently at heaven's arena arc so i just want to yap abt stuff :p i may be making some bs up tho idk)
If anyone else is interested in this I made a introductory! I mainly post on TWT or TikTok for content but I'll try posting here aswell!
Swap Killugon AU <3
i see so many people on tiktok saying "why are you blackwashing gon he isn't brown 🙄" to hxh fan artists and omfg gon is canonically tan chat. he grew up on an island, outside 24/7. what's not clicking???
this post has been rattling around in my head for a while, so! (disclaimer: i did not do any additional research for this, it is all from memory, my quotes are definitely paraphrased, etc.) why do so many people come out of the hxh experience feeling like killua cares more about gon than gon cares about killua? (this might not be you! but it was me tbh. on bad days it can still be me!)
first off, listen, i see you, i hear you, i agree with you that gon loves killua as much as killua loves gon. BUT my argument here is that the thing that makes so many people leave the manga/anime feeling otherwise is that the narrative choices literally push that reading.
(this got….so long)
• kinda controversial opinion time? please don't assassinate me
i've heard many people who criticize killugon say that the ship "waters down" killua's character to romance, while he is so much deeper than that. i've actually found myself to quite disagree with this take. the reason is that killugon shippers love both gon and killua : and understand why they're so perfect for each other, when it comes to their arcs, past, etc. i think that part of killua's character is inherently romantic : and there is nothing wrong with that. people obsessed with killugon (like myself) don't think that this is all that's interesting about him, at ALL, but acting as if killugon wasn't a thing makes people miss out on important aspects of who he is : not all of them, but some of them. killua is a deeply traumatized person who was abused and manipulated by his family his entire life, before he got the courage to simply leave. he soon met gon : who showed him what it was like being truly loved. gon saved killua from the life he never wanted : if it wasn't for gon, who knows how he would've ended up.
gon's presence in killua's life is incredible : it helped him understand many things about himself, and his love for gon helped him TAKE OUT THE NEEDLE. aka the metaphorical representation of all the manipulation he endured. gon's love just as well as the love he developped for gon, helped him grow as a human being. and was many times related to many other aspects of who he is. his relationship with gon can of course be separated from who he is and what his past was like in certain conversations : however when it IS brought up, it's for a reason. the author also made that clear through killua's birthday for example : the tanabata myth retracing he and gon's story. the point of their relationship is romantic. gon saved killua's life in a way, therefore it is completely understandable that gon is often brought up when we talk about killua. even if we mustn't forget the credit killua deserves for how far he's come : gon's existence is crucial in killua's journey to self-worth.
Millua is very good
Thank you, I thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, I think the worldplay only works with Killua. I have no creative names for mii Gon or mii Alluka or anybody else, so it's just Miillua :(
they on the ‘dachi life
saying gon doesn't gaf about killua is most stupid fucking thing ever bc 99% of the time he's like
i'm worried about killua... killua is so impressive omg... i'm going to risk my life climbing up the gate of the world's greatest assassins property and get beat up for hours by a guard just to find killua.. killua you're not allowed to die but i am... i'm worried about that card the guy used on killua when we got here... killua's the only one for me... that guy almost killed killua i'm boiling inside... killua is my bsf in the whole while world... i'm so glad i met killua... i'm worried about killua... why did killua go alone i wish i went with him i'm worried... where's killua he's not answering the phone... ik that i just woke up from a coma 5 minutes ago but where's killua i need to apologize asap... sorry killua we're about to seperate and i should go now or else i'll..........
no matter where we go we'll always be friends killua.. killua killua killu-
say what you mean
pov you're leorio and you said no more role-playing warriorcats in ur office
"littlefish...let me finish off this twoleg.."
"no lightningpaw....not yet..spare him. for now......"
the drama
i don’t think discussing “who’s the girl” wrt to killugon as if either of them could ever actually be a female character makes sense. they literally could not be genderswapped and exist in the same story. they’re so purposefully written as young boys struggling w/ masculinity + the power they’re told they’re supposed to wield by the grown men in their life trying to take advantage of their insecurities.
killua is not “like a girl” just because he’s more clearly sensitive; the entire point of killua’s arc is about deconstructing the idea that young boys need to repress their emotions, especially young gay boys coming to understand their sexualities. even the pressures of escaping his role as his family’s heir is clearly gendered. i Beg if you want to read about women just read about women. queer coding does not necessitate one of the guys involved taking a “woman’s” role.
togashi does so much work to include queer stories in his shounen at a time where it was heavily discouraged and yet fans continue exporting stereotypes onto this very delicately crafted narrative. sometimes boys like boys; togashi frames this as such a natural inclusion within the story (like alluka’s transness, morena kissing women, and other hxh characters’ gender nonconformity), as queerness itself is natural.
there’s a lot of things one needs to understand about gon freecss but principally it must be understood that gon freecss’ life was pretty much the exact opposite of easy and care free even when he was on whale island. gon’s mentally ill tendencies don’t just develop once he’s left whale island, and they don’t exist in isolation because of some predetermined “insanity”. toddler gon was caught in a custody dispute between his teenaged aunt and his father that built a death game for him because his plan for him was always for his son to take the same self-destructive, irresponsible path of a hunter ging himself had.
mito, who couldn’t have been older than fourteen at the time, got custody, but what we know about gon is that he was basically raised by the forest and hid at least some of his adventures and revelations about ging from mito. he didn’t have any friends his age and was more entrenched within the animal kingdom than humanity. and this makes sense, because he had a very young mother who under no circumstances should be expected to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, and no father. the animal kingdom is one in which violence frequently occurs, but we see through gon’s rescuing of kon that he believes even this can be rejected (i go into gon’s morality and rejection of a lack thereof here).
he was poor, lonely, getting taken around his island older women with a “mania” (as in the original japanese) for “young boys”, his best friends were literal animals, he thought his father’s occupation was more important than caring for him, and he was constantly exposed to the violence of nature and this naturalizes him to the violence of the hunter world especially early on in the story (before yorknew, before he really begins to start developing stronger questions about moral sensibilities). mito tried her best but there’s no getting rid of the fact that gon was dehumanized from a very young age—knowing he was sort of just an inconvenient thing to his father and taking more solace in nature than humans. it’s easy to see how gon, who sees himself as Thing (shown in how easily he disregards his body and well being and never considers his safety or well being) would get attached to and feel deep empathy for killua and develop a desire to save him.
however, all killua sees of gon’s life is the kindness of gon’s mother, gon’s adoration for her, and the extent of his loneliness is only briefly expressed. even in the scene where gon opens up about his difficulties on whale island he’s still proposing his friendship as the solution to killua’s woes and we see her the kernel of their codependency. gon knows killua has been tortured by his family; killua has been able to verbalize that it makes him miserable. but when gon describes the adults in his life that have failed him, like ging, it’s always with flowery and adoring language. so both killua and the audience are lured into the idea that gon is a perfectly happy, stable child that can act as killua’s savior.
gon is honestly a very dissociative character (i go into his romanticization of the troubling mentors in his life here) and speaks with a lot of blind optimism because getting realistic about his circumstances isn’t generally something a 12-13 year old can bear. “my dad isn’t in my life because being a hunter is more important than me” transforms into “being a hunter must be awesome enough to abandon your son”, “i’m responsible for kite’s arm getting sliced off in front of me” becomes “kite is alive”, “grown men keep beating the fuck out of me” becomes “i’m glad to get stronger”.
it’s confirmation of kite’s death that breaks not just one illusion but all of the illusions he relies on to carry on. his protective shell shatters and the entire philosophy with which he approaches life is invalidated. as how he lives becomes worthless, he becomes worthless, and then goes on to commit what can only be called a suicide attempt. as i’ve said before, traumatized little boys can’t save other traumatized little boys and shouldn’t be expected to. gon does not suddenly become a bad person because he didn’t fulfill a savior fantasy, because he wasn’t perfect, because he carried out the sort of violence practically everyone else in his life has.
even after being healed gon is doing better than he was at the climax of CAA, yes, but he’s clearly internalized some troubling ideas about himself (“you were weak. never make that mistake again.” “maybe i wasn’t cut out to be a son.”) and all i have to say to anyone who sincerely thinks gon had a good normal life and just went crazy for no reason is this:
this is basically part 2 of this post.
back on 2020 hxhtwt people would come for mito’s throat for allegedly being neglectful and i still see the idea perpetuated that mito was somehow smothering gon but to be honest i think it’s perfectly legitimate and defensible for a woman who has lost almost all of her family to not want a twelve year old to go chase after a job that could easily result in his death (and almost does), but even besides that if you do the math she started raising toddler gon on her own when she was thirteen years old so i never wanna hear any mito slander at ALL. she did not raise him perfectly but it’s unfair to say both that she didn’t protect him enough and that she protected him too much. whale island doesn’t even seem to have a school; all of gon’s development was completely up to her and her grandmother. she was just doing her best in extremely imperfect and not to mention impoverished circumstances. she was quite literally a baby with a baby.
Just in case you didn't know a new limited hxh figure coming out. Y'all can go home now
It's by a private Yi Studio based in China, but like... They were supposed to get permission from somebody to do this, right?..
Just in case you didn't know a new limited hxh figure coming out. Y'all can go home now
It's by a private Yi Studio based in China, but like... They were supposed to get permission from somebody to do this, right?..