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genderandanger · 1 year

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So killua represented snakes twice in CAA

Whenever I think about it, his fighting style always resembled the fuid movements of snakes, but it've been stated outright only twice

Symbolically snakes can mean a two faced person, evil, and most importantly here: reincarnation

They can also be linked to the Zaoldyck family (all zeno attacks have the Chinese dragon, which looks like a snake, there are also some of em on top of the testing gates, also in the same arc kalluto represented one too)

First time was in fight against mostiquo lady

It's the first time in a while where hes asked to kill

He *switched on* his bloodlust

Shows how well controlled it is in comparison to say the hunter exam arc

(Also haha electricity boy go)

His attack was called "*Snake* awakening" (more accurate translation provided by me: snake coming back to life/ resustication)

The word indicates that the snake remains desactivated within him/dormant, but he can chose to revive it when needed as easily as a switch

Although that means that he cant erase it

Neither that he counts it as part of himself

(two faced/the Zaoldyck part of himself)

(Manga doesnt show it being switch off after so that's not important)(but anime does thx madhouse ((: )

The second time it comes up is against the fight with Ramoth

He is a shrike hare(rabbit??) hybrid

First thing first shrike and hares can beat/ eat snakes in the wild which means they are equal in the food chain to em(?), hence why killua is scared of him

(Also snakes that eats insects (mostiquos) r very small)

Shrikes tho (the show made a point to SPECIFY their type) can ALSO be a reference to reincarnations

*Apparent when ramoth giving the rest of the ants nen, aka rereviving them as he gave em nen*

So killua fight the guy til he takes out the needle(his own reincarnation!!) Then he beats him

In a fight between two reincarnation with killua winning in such a brutal way It feels like the moral is that the ants may evolve but they can't beat human growth, in power, in evil

cus humans malise is worse than the ants's ect ect

The anime makes a point to make his hoody violet (Zaoldyck color) and to give him Zaoldyck ost(flute version instead of the og)

=Instead of his Zaoldyck side being forced on him by family n him trying to hide it/keep it controlled( more on this l8r), now he choses to go full on out=

This is apparent in the way he killed em both:

Mostiquo lady: he cracked her neck, then said that if she behaved he'll kill her faster

Almost merciful

The time he and gon fought ramoth the 1st time was also merciful, neither tried to kill him, just electrecute/ punch him afar

Now the 2nd fight with Ramoth: killua made a show to kill him exactly like he killed Johns in the Hunter Exam

with crushing his vital organ after showing it to him

The pages in the manga are very similar

Ramoth could feel/see his head flyingout of his body

While mostiquo lady died immediately

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If we compare Johns fight with ramoth's

killua gave a warning instead of faking innocence, He also wasnt smug after the kill, instead he was very dismissive of it

Its shows that he got a grasp of how the world works, like instead of it being a superiority match he was doing it out of protection n he understood that what he was doing was wrong

Cus he understands how the world works now

Cus he gets that murder is wrong

It shows that killua didnt change since day one, he just got more experience

It shows that Killua even after all this time still thinks he's fucked up and evil, cant change for good

Tho unlike the hunter exam, he is not flaunting it proudly, he think he has to do it, cus HE is the evil one (this one meta by @whipshaw explains it perfectly, he got nuked tho so idk if it's still here THANKS TUMBLR)

Maybe that's why he was STRONGLY against gon killing any ant other than pitou(?) Taking them all out on his own

*He spends heaven arena and Greed island trying his best not to harm

Saving zushi in secret in peace is one

In the fight against the bomb devils he is the one who turned up with the least hurt guy (thanks aspoonofsugar and their great Illumi/killua meta)

He was trying his best to keep himself away from killing cus, well that him :)) , but in this context he might of thought that it was the least he could do in order to be good

When he had NO CHOICE other than killing, he embraced the fact that he has to be a "villain"

The moment he took off the needle was powerful, but I dont think that it means emotional growth as much as it means killua being able to SEE clearly (his words), ...not enough tho :(

Love the fact that election arc is spent with the Zaoldycks complaining how dumb/ kind killua is tho

#hxh #hxh meta #killua #killua zaoldyck #killua Zoldyck #killua meta #i mean #i might be wromg in this lmao #but i needed to get it off my chest #if u thought u got better idea of what was going on please share #also please dont make this flop #its 4 am again rip #best time to be reminiscent about my boy #my own writing

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