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Alluka and Nanika’s relationship is despicably twisted.

In the world of HxH, duos have taken shapes in numerous forms and meanings depending on who they are as people.

Duos such as Netero and Zeno, Silva and Zeno, Gon and Killua, Pariston and Ging, Illumi and Hisoka, and many more have all given different significances and purposes for siding with the person they are currently with, no matter if they are shown in a bad, good or grey light.

But what if one of those duos wasn’t balanced or reciprocated?

What if it was instead a dependable one-sided partnership and not a consensual one but took the appearance of a balanced relationship right under our noses?

And what if that type of “duo” completely missed us due to how we conveniently perceive these two as being “adorable” or “pure” when they’re put together?

There’s a good chance we didn’t notice this toxic relationship at first glance since Alluka and Nanika are the duos described here.

Throughout the episodes and chapters alike, we have come to learn more about how Alluka and Nanika seem to be cooperating and functioning separately.

From the differences between their speech patterns to their personality, we have also come to notice how they easily get along with one another despite sharing one singular body.

So it wouldn’t be far-fetched to believe that their relationship isn’t critically unbalanced.

When you are completely certain two individuals are considered to be a team, you should at least know about both parties to better know what their personalities and especially intentions are all about.

Alluka should theoretically be the first that comes to mind when we think about which of them is easier to learn more about since the personality of the zoldyck is pretty transparent when in actuality, they are just as difficult to figure out as the other.

So to start, let’s begin with the one that we truly know the most about: Nanika.

Since this creature isn’t human, the only way to know what it does and what it is capable of is to learn its species’ roots.

This shouldn’t be a problem for anyone to find out more about Nanika’s abilities since we already witnessed what she could do already. But once we start to learn what it can do to its captor, we learn that it is not just her requests we need to fear.

And the captor in this situation would be Alluka.

We have already found an immediate red flag.

If you need a briefer, here is what we publicly know about Nanika:

Nanika is part of the Five Threats that were obtained from the Dark Continent during the five voyages that occurred in the past. Contrary to what Killua thinks of her, Nanika is part of a gaseous lifeform species called “Ai” and lives southwest of Lake Mobius. They do not have any sort of actual language system whatsoever. However, they do seem to make a sound close to the word “Ai” which is the Japanese word for “love”. They are lifeforms capable to give a maximum of four requests to an individual which usually leads that person to die by getting squashed or wrung to death if they do not accomplish any or only half of the beings’ requests.

So far, this is all we have of its capabilities on the surface but things seem to turn eerily familiar for the worst once we dig under the iceberg.

And this is where the captor comes into play.

This small detail is what immediately sorts Alluka and Nanika out from the usual duo dynamic because this dangerous ability of Nanika is the very reason why Alluka is the way that she is.

Throughout our time with Alluka, the possessed zoldyck has been shown countless times to not specifically care about Nanika’s victims which are the ones who usually die due to an individual’s wish.

The people that get squashed to death don’t seem to faze Alluka in any way.

We see this time and time again.

Whenever Alluka sees or hears about the news of innocent victims, no distinct reaction is present on the kid’s face.

Example 1: Mitsuba’s death which lead to her lover also dying in the process gave Alluka no reaction.

Example 2: The dead people related to the photographer who got through the zoldyck gates thanks to Milluki gave Alluka no reaction.

Example 3: The female servant named Kasuga who babysat Alluka died right in front of the said child’s eyes and still gave Alluka no reaction.

At first glance, Alluka’s odd behaviour could have been resolved with logical explanations such as the fact that the zoldyck is still very young, and doesn’t know any better, not to mention that the child is part of an assassin family so death is pretty much a norm here so it would be alright to think that the deaths happening left and right is appropriate.

But if we follow that logic, then it wouldn’t make any sense as to why Alluka is capable to know that hurting people’s feelings is a wrong thing to do when Killua stood up to Nanika and told her to disappear.

If Alluka knows that hurting people verbally is wrong, then the kid should be able to know that hurting people physically is just as bad as words except worse.

Something is wrong here.

Normal children would be able to comprehend that hurtful gestures and words can be harmful to anyone.

So why isn’t Alluka also standing up for the unnecessary physical violence that Nanika is causing?

It’s clear as day that Alluka doesn’t see anything wrong with Nanika. She fully supports the calamity and would do anything for it to the point where she would even scold Killua, her own brother, for trying to make Nanika leave.

This is hard solid evidence that Alluka is also a victim of Nanika.

Since the victim is forced to fully support and encourage the self-destructive behaviour of Ai, that makes Alluka a sort of pawn to manipulate for Nanika.

Whether Alluka realizes this or not, this could also explain her lack of personality. Alluka is always seen gaping like a fish whenever accidents and death happen all around her. Almost like she couldn’t have a personality of her own because of Nanika’s presence taking all the space, suppressing her and keeping her in a corner in her own body.

Yes, not only is Alluka always supposed to support Nanika no matter what, the zoldyck is not even capable of being present in her own body for long periods.

According to Killua, the number of times Alluka truly appeared without Nanika was deemed to be close to nothing.

So Alluka can't essentially come back when:

1. the person who couldn’t have completed all of Nanika’s requests dies, Alluka cannot come out until the requests have been completed by someone else who comes along right after.

2. the person who’s been completing requests suddenly moves away from Nanika and the wish is cancelled (ex: Tsubone and the fingernails).

3. Nanika isn’t very good at healing so whenever she finishes healing someone or something, she has to go to sleep for a long while.

Because we see the requests piling up when Alluka’s body is present, many have failed to realize which of the two was talking in some cases since some fans believe that Alluka was mostly present everywhere because Nanika hasn’t physically appeared.

When this is strictly false.

Nanika can appear without changing Alluka’s face.

Fortunately for Killua, you can pinpoint exactly when Alluka is present and when Nanika has taken over simply by analyzing the body’s speech pattern.

Whenever the body is calling people by their full names (ex: “Kurapika”, “Hisoka”), Nanika is present.

Whenever the body is calling people with an honorific (ex: “Gon-chan”, “Mitsuba-san”) or some kind of nickname (ex: “Oniichan”), Alluka is present.

This helpful detail reinforces the fact that Alluka is encouraging Nanika’s behaviour as well as being incapable of having free will over her own body.

Above all that, Nanika could be aware of everything that she’s doing to Alluka.

After all, if asking for requests and expecting some people to die to some of them is a natural habit/side-effect of Nanika’s, then she could very well believe that what she’s doing to Alluka is completely natural.

Even though Nanika doesn’t see anything wrong with the killings she committed, she has shown to be capable of loving her vessel and Killua.

So the possibility of her thinking that what she’s doing to them is normal but would still genuinely love them, wouldn’t be far-fetched to believe.

However, the love that she bears for them doesn’t mean she’ll willingly stop granting wishes if they don’t like it.

It’s in her nature to give out requests after all.

Nanika’s ability is all about manipulation, her main objective is to grant desires without stopping. This also means that she’ll do anything to keep granting even if she has to manipulate her close ones.

A good proof of this would have to be the time when Nanika suddenly became very vocal about her feelings towards Killua when he started telling her she couldn’t come out anymore.

Nanika completely understood at the time that not coming out anymore meant no more wishes to give.

She immediately becomes less commanding and instead tells him how she loves him for him to feel guilty for the fact that he’s about to make her stop doing what she loves entirely.

While codependency is a very common thing in our world, where someone deliberately supports their partner’s self-destructive behaviour, in this case, the Ai species seems to use that same tactic to their advantage by instead forcing their victims to feel those same feelings towards them instead of letting them make that choice on their own.

Although it is not confirmed if Nanika initially didn’t care for Alluka and Killua the first time she met them and slowly genuinely loved them later on, it does not change the fact that her species have a strong tendency to control their vessel so that they could get the chance to make more wishes by their vessel’s forced consent.

In other words, Nanika is completely codependent on Alluka.

She has an obsessive focus on her partner’s behaviour, tries to control her other half daily, literally doesn’t have any boundaries since they both share the same body and especially doesn’t want to be separated from her vessel since her true form is primarily made of gas.

If Killua thought that Alluka’s living condition was unhealthy and dangerous because of his family, then he should have also tried pushing Nanika away when he still had the chance back in the hospital.

Now that Alluka knows what he was about to do, she forced him to respect Nanika’s place in their private circle and he immediately agreed to do just that so that his younger sibling won’t get angry at him.

There is now nothing that Killua can do to erase Nanika anymore.

She has Alluka fully wrapped around her finger and she plans on keeping it that way for as long as she lives.

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