sooo some more updates, the title is def a work in progress
i’ve mostly been reworking Fatima and her character, i’ve been basing her personality off the kind of person i think illumi would end up marrying
illumi’s strongest connection in the show outside of his family, is hisoka and i think that’s primarily due to all of their similarities
they’re both very odd, off-putting people who lack social cues (hisoka on purpose and because he doesn’t care, and illumi just can’t read a room) but most importantly they both see other people as dolls or toys that simply exist to be controlled and shaped by their wills
this is especially prevalent during the election arc and in the christmas mobage card where illumi has a sack full of different characters as dolls (sliva, milluki, kalluto, hisoka, and killua)
illumi cannot see anyone as an ally or “friend” if he can’t control them, that’s why he’s so fascinated by hisoka but also wants to kill him once it seemed like his usefulness had run out
illumi could control anyone and have a wife that way. but i feel like that person would be more of a concubine than someone that would take on the zoldyck name
he comes from a family of assassins, no one in his family is maniacal, sinister, or wickedly ambitious (in the words of tsubone) as him
but that doesn’t mean his family isn’t batshit, they all enjoy what they doing. they like killing people it fulfills them, yes, they would never do it for free
but you can’t deny they like their work, when killua stabbed kikyo she was so happy she cried what kind of mother is that? and this is normal for their weird ass family
so i feel like the woman illumi would decide to marry or “fall in love” with, would have to have some of these qualities to fit into his family.
i don’t think she would be a civilian off the streets esp seeing how illumi treated them so carelessly during the election arc
making them into his needlemen knowing that whoever he stuck with a needle would die from exhaustion in order to met his commands and he couldn’t care less
his wife couldn’t be a regular citizen with no knowledge of nen. she would have to be as strong as him if not stronger in order for him to have any interest at all
i also feel that she would have to be a little cold and uncaring of human life if she is going to become an assassin some people feel that illumi would never let his wife leave his sight
however i feel like illumi would at some point in time once he knew that he had broken her. once she would be obedient enough to not try anything
anyway this has gotten superrrr long stay tuned ★彡