Ryuuseigai

HxH bug blog 🕷

[yutaan]

Papercraft commission of Chrollo (and his indoor fish!), looking out over the city skyline as a heist unfolds below. This one had a lot of complicated layering, from the block-like buildings in the background to the scales of the long fish bodies, and I think the overall effect came out really neat!

[shwepsik]

[nynyhaha]

If Phinks picked the second option:

This year I couldn’t participate in the BigBang (started my first Uni semester) which is a real shame because this year there are SEVERAL Troupe fics!! Who could’ve known

I’ve only read this one so far by @the-menace-in-pink

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87932131/chapters/233070276

and I like it sm! The premise is great and I especially love that it has Phinks in it. So yeah you should go check it out

[dinitxi]

my luv

[halllsev]

GTA 6 trend but with paku (pakunoda with pina colada lol I’m so proud of myself)

[nendracula]

happy pride

[takimman]

golden kamuy sketches i made in class only to realise something in each of their faces is missing

[halllsev]

she was hungry

[baker-chan-senpai]

hello! you know that young pt artwork you made in like march? i would love to see the rest of the pt babies ♡ no rush!

hello! thanks <3 i'm not drawing them as much currently cos my brain can only handle so many things at once lol but i can share some of my wips and sketches!

[monosanimegenericzone]

oh my god theyre so adorable im going to explode

[nynyhaha]

WAAAAAH MY BAAAABIESSSSS

🥹🥹🥹🥹❤️‍🩹🕷

[sacredim]

first post! this didn’t do very well on x so i’m attempting my luck here instead haha. i have no clue how tumblr works, apologies!!

[hunnismokah]

he can bite my nipple :3 like actually please do it

[iamtheonewhodraws]

Atp I’m just scrolling through my camera roll and picking shit

[orpheusilver]

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

[orpheusilver]

dont do this

[babblingbranches]

[cryptcollector]

I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.

[cryptcollector]

it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.

[cryptcollector]

tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.

[cryptcollector]

do not do this.

[jenjensd]

Unanimous consensus: Do not do this

Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this

[jenjensd]

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

Rip to y'all, but I'm built different. Trying this tonight

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

Best I can do with what I have (I'm at work rn)

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

Oh that is a... fascinating smell

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

Don't do this

[ab-arts]

Alright now I’m curious

[ab-arts]

Didn't have strips so I made what I call battery acid cereal

[ab-arts]

Don't do this

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[wastelandmyth]

God damn do I love science!

[shent-shent]

I saw someone reblog this tweet and I absolutely had to do this

What a parental rivalry

[shark-nark]

gave up on art months ago but decided it would be fun to color in old sketches

(+ a random screenshot)

[sugarchrollo]

I believe that Chrollo's resentment and disdain towards Kurapika is severely underestimated. However, to be fair, they only had one real interaction and barely have a dynamic, so people usually interpret them on a very surface level. Being thematic parallels doesn't equal an actual dynamic and they don't even have a traditional shounen rivalry. Kurapika's true rival is the spider as a collective entity and not just Chrollo. They are gorgeous parallels of each other but that’s it. Still, a lot can be extracted from their brief interaction and I deeply disagree with most of the popular takes out there.

I've seen countless people say Chrollo isn't actively chasing Kurapika down because he secretly understands or even forgives him on some level and I couldn't disagree more. During the course of yorknew, Chrollo never even considered Kurapika as an actual person to begin with, let alone recognised him as a mirror. The reason is simple, he just didn't care. Their interaction shows that Chrollo only viewed him as an annoying external anomaly, someone who had managed to disrupt the PT and not as some fated rival. A mutual pointed out to me that in the original JP text, Chrollo exclusively refers to Kurapika as "kusari yarou" (chain user/bastard), which totally depersonalises him. This is why I think that Kurapika is entirely insignificant in Chrollo's eyes.

During that car scene, Chrollo realises Kurapika is emotionally volatile so he deliberately weaponises his own indifference to toy with him, effectively denying Kurapika any real sense of closure regarding the massacre. Chrollo might not give a fuck about Kurapika's trauma but he is great at understanding emotions and in a way, his behaviour could be read as psychologically getting back at him. Even if he didn't show it outwardly to Kurapika, Chrollo was furious about Uvogin (his tears and the requiem prove that). His attitude in the car can be considered pure pettiness to hurt the guy who killed his friend. Which yes, is truly hypocritical considering that he and his group of friends genocided Kurapika's clan but Chrollo isn't the type to lose sleep over his crimes. He has never regretted the life he chose, so why would that change now?

While I believe that Chrollo has zero interest in Kurapika as a person, I also think he holds a massive grudge towards Kurapika for the deaths of Uvogin and Pakunoda who were his closest companions but Chrollo is a pragmatist. His philosophy dictates that the survival of the spider comes before any personal vendettas. He doesn't hunt Kurapika now for the same reason he doesn't hunt Silva, pursuing them would cause the spider more harm than good and neither of them are currently active threats to the group.

When Kurapika was an active threat though, Chrollo was way more angry and emotional. This panel is so unique because it's incredibly rare to see Chrollo look this visibly frustrated. It highlights his habit of internalising blame but it also shows the deep yet quiet resentment he carries. If an opportunity arises where he can eliminate him, Chrollo will absolutely kill him or steal his ability without a second thought.

So yeah, what I mean to convey is that while Chrollo barely cares about Kurapika as a person and has no interest in understanding his motives but he still holds hatred for what he did to the troupe. I theorise that this will become way more apparent if they cross paths again. Especially considering how Chrollo is right now, seeing Kurapika would just reopen his old wounds.

[yes-no-maybe-soo]

One aspect of Chrollo's character that I think goes underappreciated a lot of the time is his sense of humor. His playful side. His enjoyment of the bizarre and chaotic.

Or at least, I haven’t seen fans talk about it much in discussions about him. Which is a bit of a shame imo, since it adds such nice nuance to his character and further disproves the "just an edgy aloof gothguy/he's so boring and emotionless" allegations. (Probably gonna tackle the "boring because he's emotionless" part further sometime. Because it's so blatantly untrue like what are you even on about with that?)

We see clear instances of Chrollo having a sense of mischief (albeit at times sadistic and cruel) throughout the manga.

His initial evident fondness for Hisoka is a good example of this, as well as the very first we get. Part of said fondness is probably due to Chrollo being fascinated with Hisoka's psyche, but he's also just plain amused by the clown's antics (until he isn't) and is content to let him run around and do his own thing (until he isn't)

Another instance of Chrollo's appreciation for eccentric shit is found in this panel

The man canonically reads (and evidently enjoys) Bo-Bobo. Which (from what the Internet tells me) is a surreal action comedy manga, known for its absurd and chaotic humor. It seems like a riot, tbh. Might have to check it out for myself hah

I love that Chrollo isn't some literature snob, but will happily read things like this in his downtime and not just books in the veins of, idk, King James Bible, Nietzsche's collected writings or Crime and Punishment. It adds to his appeal :) ♡ a sense of humor (in addition to not being a highbrow prick) is one of the most attractive traits a person can have, after all.

Speaking of sense of humor, Chrollo appreciates a good karmic joke, as seen here when he realizes that Hisoka's ass is now at the receiving end of it

He laughs even in the face of his own shitty situation. Which I think is quite telling of Chrollo's character. Chrollo is not the stonefaced 24/7 brooding edgelord he's sometimes accused of being.

I mean we've got a panel like this to show the exact opposite of a humorless (or emotionless for that matter) man

Crucially, Chrollo is completely alone here. He's not playing a part, or putting up a façade. He's authentically silly (and channeling his younger self a bit).

I headcanon that this is the type of guy Chrollo would have grown up to be had trauma and his giving his soul and self to the Spider not happened. He'd be openly expressive, not ashamed to be goofy or overall emotional. An endearing, friendly and approachable guy.

(We also have this scene of a playful Chrollo from the '99 anime. It's technically not canon but I'm including it anyway because it's cute... in a fucked up/manipulative way)

Anyway, back to canon timeline and a moment that can be interpreted as playful in a creepy way.

It's hard to tell though, but to me Chrollo's demeanor in his meeting with 'Assassin A' is indicative of him feeling some (dark) amusement and playfulness, or at least of being in the mood for some "fun".

In addition to being silly/weird on occassion, Chrollo can be a cocky/cheeky lil shit to his elders

(That fucking smirk. I love it)

Chrollo also seems to enjoy messing with and annoying his friends on occasion.

Like in this scene, where he provokes an already riled up Nobunaga

(Nobunaga also says in an earlier chapter that Chrollo has tricked him more than once. Likely it's often been for tactical reasons – such as when he secretly sends Paku and Phinks to tail Nobu and Machi – but since Chrollo does have a mischievous streak, it wouldn’t surprise me if he's done it for some shits and giggles as well on occasion, similar to in the above).

The topic of Chrollo liking to provoke others does inevitably lead ones thoughts to the infamous car scene with Kurapika, where Chrollo takes rage-baiting to some truly sick and messed up levels. It's impossible to say whether all of it was just pure cold calculated manipulation tactics by Chrollo, or if he actually got some additional cruel enjoyment out of taunting and riling the young man up. He does smirk and smile an awful lot throughout, but then he's a consummate actor, so idk if it was from genuine amusement/satisfaction or not. I'm personally leaning towards Chrollo getting some entertainment out of it like the sick fuck he can be. (Additionally Kurapika did just (no matter how justifiably) kill one of Chrollo's loved ones, so it's not far fetched that the latter would hold some resentment toward the Kurta and consequently feel at least a level of satisfaction at getting back at him this way.) Regardless, I'm including it as an instance of cruel and sadistic (if tactical) mischief.

I also personally believe the "I didn't think the chain dude would be a woman" moment was Chrollo being sarcastic rather than actually serious. As in, I think he called Kurapika's bluff.

Idk it just doesn’t fit Chrollo's known character to be surprised that the chain user would be a woman. Like why would he be? He's got women in his Troupe (one of whom can canonically beat his ass in arm wrestling), he knows they're capable and strong, and he also knows that women as well as men can be driven to kill for vengeance (Paku and Machi are right there). God knows the man's got massive moral failings, but he's just too smart for misogyny (and racism, or any prejudice really) to be among them. Or that's my feeling djdhd.

And lastly, to wrap up the post, I have to include this little scene of disrespect and 0 fucks so blatantly given by Chrollo. It's genuinely one of the funniest moments in the manga imo

He just does not care at alllll (T＿T) lmao

All the man wants is to infodump abilities and then get this over with so he can go rob some royals.

Anyway, Chrollo is a complex and layered guy, as opposed to the boring emotionless edgy gothman with no depth or character that he's at times accused of being. He has a sense of humor, a fondness for the weird and absurd, can be cocky and disrespectful toward his elders, and possesses a silly as well as mischievous side to his character. These traits are interesting as well as important to his characterization, and I just wanted to highlight them since I haven’t seen it done very often.

[monosanimegenericzone]

simply. he is the littlest guy.