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Character name: Killua Zoldyck
Fandom: Hunter x Hunter
Timeline: Post Chapter 294
Age: 12
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
As the heir to the Zoldyck Clan, Killua has been taught how to kill from birth. He practices several assassination techniques such as being able to hide himself within shadows and create after images of himself to make it appear as if there are many of him moving slowly instead of one of him moving incredibly fast. He has a habit of moving with almost no sound, and it's pointed out to him on occasion upon which it's obvious he's not doing it on purpose. He also has super human strength, speed, and endurance. At the beginning of the series, his wrist strength is sixteen tons due to intense weight training, and he has been repeatedly exposed to torture techniques in order to not be hindered by pain. He still feels the pain, but he is able to endure it without passing out or losing his mind. He is immune to electric shocks and poisons because of similar exposure methods his family has put him through, and during the Chimera Ant Arc, he has come out of being boiled alive with enough fight left in him to yell at the guy for "farting" on him and then proceed to kill several more enemies upon his exit before passing out solely because of blood loss. For all intents and purposes, he is an inhuman juggernaut.
After taking the Hunters Exam, he and Gon begin to learn how to control their nen, or their aura. It's similar to most shounen energy sources, except that it follows very specific, complex rules. The basic nen techniques the boys learn are ten (to hold nen in the body), ren (to release nen with greater intensity than normal), gyou (to see nen that's been hidden by others), en (to spread one's own nen outward in order to sense any nen within that space), zetsu (to completely conceal one's nen), and hatsu (personal technique). The two of them practice these techniques often in order to stay in shape, and mix and match them in order to use sub-category techniques. Killua, personally, is very talented at ten, ren, and zetsu but is uncomfortable with en and can only extend his nen a very short distance from his body.
He has two natural fighting abilities that are unique to his person, and he uses one weapon. The first is the ability to morph his hand into a deadly claw. His nails become as sharp as any blade, which allows him to literally rip the heart out of a person’s chest or decapitate them with just one hand. This is something he has been honing for years, and he uses it to add more force and/or menace to his other unrelated attacks. The second ability is his choice of hatsu: his ability to turn his nen into electricity. This allows him to either attack with an electric shock or use the electricity to speed up his own movements. His attack form Kanmuru combines both options.
His specific electricity-based techniques are as follows:
Izutsushi (Lightning Palm): Letting the electricity course through his own body so that he can electrocute his opponents through touch or close proximity.
Narukami (Thunder God): Forcing the electricity to culminate outward from his fingers in a large lightning bolt.
Kanmuru (Godspeed): Creating an electrical field around his own person that constantly stimulates his nerves to increase his speed. This allows him to react faster than his own nervous system if need be, but in this case, it would be a direct reaction to his opponent's moves instead of something he actually decided upon with his brain because the nervous system is bypassed in favor of speed. The amount of time he can remain in this form is limited because it requires much more electricity in order to constantly maintain the electric field.
Aside from this, he also uses two yoyos. They're made from a hybrid metal and weigh 50 kgs each. Rather than being held by a string, they're attached to a thin metal chain, allowing them to conduct electricity.
How would they use their abilities?:
Killua is a very practical person, but he's also twelve. He will use his abilities in whatever way they'll best benefit him and his friends at any given time, but he's not afraid of the casual prank or two on the side. If they need to steal, he will do it without regret. If they need to beat someone up, he'll do it without regret. But if Gon so much as hints that he doesn't want Killua to, then he won't. He's also likely to use his abilities to show off, both for kicks and/or as a way to establish that he's got power and he's not afraid to use it if anyone threatens people he cares about. If someone does hurt his friends, he will never leave them alone again until the other party is A) dead or B) harmless and clinically insane.
Appearance:
Killua is decently tall for his age, four centimeters taller than Gon despite being about a month younger, and Caucasian, his paler skin perhaps an allusion to his not getting out much in the past. Despite everything reality tells us to the contrary, he is also a kid with a disturbingly well developed six pack. Because of his training his muscles are honed to unreasonable extremes, which can be a little awkward to see on an immature physique. Killua is the only one of the five Zoldyck siblings without dark hair, having inherited his father's white hair color instead. It's short and in a state of perpetual disarray despite some half-hearted attempts to fix it up every once in a while. His eyes are blue, ranging from a dark purple look in the early series to a bright teal in the Greed Island OVAs. Chalk it up to the lighting.
He has a bit of a fashion sense, unlike most of his friends, and probably changes outfits more often than any other character in the series. His clothing of choice seems to be loose fitting sports wear - tank tops, shorts, sweat pants, etc. Though when he's out to enjoy himself knowing he won't have to worry about getting into a fight, he's been known to dress up nicer and even accessorize.
Background/Personality:
Killua is the cool kid all the other kids want to be like until they realize his life actually sucks. Oops. On the surface he seems like your average, run-of-the-mill rich brat. He's not afraid to tell you about how he's always right and proceed to list all the reasons you are wrong. He's cheeky, arrogant, soaks up sugar like a sponge, lies to get what he wants, and wastes money like you wouldn't believe, but appearances aren't everything. Killua is the king of strategy, the prince of stealth, and a master of facades. Surprisingly this oh-so-privileged kid earns his own money by helping out with the family business.
You know, assassination.
Born the third of five sons to the infamous Zoldyck Clan, the deadliest assassins in the world, Killua was instructed in how to kill by his father Silva and brother Illumi from the moment he was born. He showed immense promise, and Silva named him the clan's heir at an early age. Never was he given a choice in the matter; in some ways, it's clear that he still has a hard time grasping how different his own upbringing was from everyone else's. He understands that normal kids didn't get electrocuted in their basements or fed poison for supper, and he uses this to psych people out on occasion, but he also feels self conscious about it when someone besides himself mentions it to him. When other kids were learning math and science, he was learning about serial killers' knives and how to effectively blackmail someone. Murder was the only thing he knew, and so he never minded doing it. He even enjoyed it. Being the thrill seeker he always was, it was fascinating to test his own limits, to see if he really could kill his target.
Murder was a game to him, and he excelled at it, just like he excels at everything else. No, it was never the fact that he was killing people that was the problem. The problem was that just like any other game, if it's the only one you play, it starts to get old.
At the age of eleven, he attacked his mother and second oldest brother and ran away from home. He said later that he did it because he didn't like being told what to do. When he informed his family he wanted to decide what he was going to do with his life for himself, they wouldn't hear of it. So he high-tailed it out of there with nothing but the clothes on his back and a skateboard, and like the responsible person he is, he decided to enter the Hunters Exam. After all, what do you do when you're bored of one game? You play a new one.
The Hunters Exam is a rigorous and often deadly exam that people take to qualify for a Hunters License that allows them luxuries the populace is denied (being able to kill without legal consequences, access to restricted areas, etc.) Killua wasn't interested in the prize though. He wanted to challenge himself and have some fun without having to worry about his family watching him. During the first phase of the exam he met Gon (a wild child out to find his father), Kurapika (an effeminate teenager with a vendetta), and Leorio (a to be med student in it for riches), but it was Gon who really caught his eye. Gon, another kid like him. Gon, who could tell when he was lying and when he wasn't. Gon, whose unbiased innocence soon began to feel contagious. Killua had been surrounded by judgment his whole life, and Gon's complete lack of the above was overwhelmingly refreshing.
Killua and Gon became very close during the course of the exam. He explained to Gon that the fact that people can't tell whether he's lying or not is part of his charm, and yet Gon was able to see right through him. It was sobering but somehow in a good way. Gon would have called it friendship; Killua would have snorted. Killua had never really gotten close to anyone else before. He had family, of course, but he wasn't all that fond of most of them because, well, they were family. Despite every painful lesson his brother had pounded into him throughout his short life, Killua wanted to forget it all when he was around Gon. Gon made everything fun. He was silly, nonjudgmental, and for some unfathomable reason, he enjoyed Killua's company. At one point, Killua professed to the actual tests being dull but said that the people were interesting, and it's amazing how this seems to apply to everything he does.
Unfortunately, during the final phase of the exam Killua's opponent revealed himself to be Illumi in disguise, having used pins to mutate his features until they were unrecognizable. Illumi threatened to kill Gon because Killua admitted to wanting to be friends with him. An assassin can't have friends, you see. They only get in the way. Besides, Killua shouldn't want friends, you see, because his only desire is to kill, and eventually he will take Gon's life. Silva and Illumi molded Killua that way, and so the idea that Killua would want anything at all is preposterous. He told Killua the only way to protect Gon was to win this fight. Killua gave up, too afraid to fight a battle he knew he would lose, and Illumi assured him the threat against Gon's life had just been a joke to teach Killua a lesson. You see, Killua just isn't qualified to make friends. Overwhelmed with the realization that he had willingly given Gon up to the slaughter, Killua was rendered unresponsive until, without warning, he killed one of the participants and was disqualified from the Hunters Exam, returning home defeated and distraught.
Gon wasn’t about to let Illumi take his friend away from him, and he left for the Zoldyck Estate with Kurapika and Leorio in order to get Killua back. While Gon was braving trial after trial, Silva called Killua to speak with him about the exam and about Gon, citing that he realized when Killua ran away that he should indeed have the right to decide his future for himself. Killua promised his father he'd never betray his friends, and Silva then gave him permission to leave. Once Killua was out of earshot, however, and Silva's wife ran in mid-rant, he laughed, telling her he let Killua go because he saw this as another potential training exercise for his son and was sure that Killua would return. Because that was how they molded him, you see.
After learning nen in the Heaven's Arena, the two boys left for Gon’s house on Whale Island, where they began to plan their next move. Gon’s ultimate goal was to find his father, but Killua didn't know what he wanted to do. He had so many things he didn't want to do, but for all his insistence that he wanted to do his own thing, he didn't know what that thing was. Gon proposed that Killua help him find his father, and then Gon could help Killua find out what to do from there. Killua, just glad to be able to hang out with his friend, was more than happy with the arrangement.
Yes, hanging out with his friend. His first and best friend. Gon started it all, and Killua continues to see friendship as a sacred concept. Gon and Killua are children of extremes, and Killua is willing to sacrifice most anything for friends - from his hands, to his own life, to the lives of everyone else in the entire world. Betray a friend, you are scum. Look at any of his friends the wrong way, you are scum. Ask him to be your friend, and if he likes you, you will be taken care of for the rest of your life.
From there, they moved on to Yorkshin for a large auction where they had promised to reunite with Leorio and Kurapika. Kurapika, who was participating in the auction in order to confront the Genei Ryodan (the unfortunate receiving end of his vendetta), got a bit overzealous, and when Gon, Killua, and Leorio began investigating the Ryodan for their hefty bounties, the two children wound up as hostages through association. Not once but twice.
The first time, they were able to escape on their own, after an argument over whether it was or wasn't okay for Killua to sacrifice his life for Gon's sake. Naturally Gon won because, dammit, you cannot argue with that guy. Killua felt that any time he was in mortal danger and that paralyzing fear that he'd felt when facing Illumi returned, he became useless to Gon. Because he couldn't do anything risky, he might one day just stand there and watch Gon die. Sacrificing his life was a way to prove himself wrong, but Gon recognized something was causing Killua to not think clearly. Killua was the one of the two who was always able to look at things from a down-to-earth, no-Gon-that-really-would-be-impossible angle, and that had saved the two boys' lives once or twice in the past. So Gon set Killua straight with some good, old fashioned "You're wrong, and I'm right. Deal with it," and they were able to find an alternative escape route because of it. The second time, Killua stepped in to protect Kurapika. Kurapika had been reckless and his location compromised, so Killua literally ran across town in order to step out in his place, allowing Gon and himself to be captured instead because he knew Kurapika was the one who stood the best chance against the Ryodan. Kurapika managed to free them from their predicament, and shortly afterward, they said their goodbyes.
From there Gon and Killua could move on to their own reason for participating in the auction, a virtual reality game called Greed Island, masterminded by Gon's father. While in the game, they were further trained in using their nen by a bossy girl named Biscuit (gorilla woman). Killua left the virtual reality for a short while to pass the yearly Hunters Exam, but he returned victorious, making sure he was the only one out of one thousand five hundred participants to do so. When you win, it has to be absolute; all or nothing. After a well-planned (because Killua planned it) battle with the notorious Bomber (a player killer), Gon was able to collect all 100 slot cards required win the game. The prize for winning was to be able to take three of the game items with them after leaving, and so they tricked the game into letting them take Accompany instead, a card that allowed groups to travel to a specified person's location.
The card brought them to a former student of Gon’s father, Kite, and they had an enjoyable meeting, telling stories and hunting for new animal species. It was during this time that the outbreak of chimera ants began. A chimera ant is an ant that eats other species and then gives birth to offspring that have traits of those consumed species. Unfortunately this particular chimera ant queen had eaten human. Mass killings resulted in which the colony sifted through entire populations for nen users to eat.
During their first confrontation with the ants, Killua and Gon were doing well until Nefelpitou (one of the strongest ants to date and the first Royal Guard for the King) discovered them. Kite attempted to hold him back so Gon and Killua could escape, but Gon refused to leave. Killua, deathly afraid and finally having reached breaking point, forced Gon into it, knocking him unconscious and dragging him away. Kite was captured, and though he knew if he hadn’t run things would have been even worse, Killua blamed himself for the outcome.
Killua Zoldyck had never been a trusting person. After all, he himself is pretty untrustworthy. But though he knew almost nothing about Kite, had only just met the man, what had happened had a huge effect on him. Because it had a huge effect on Gon. Gon idolized Kite, and so Killua instantly trusted him and was friendly with him. As time had gone by, without his realizing it, Killua's entire life had begun to revolve around Gon. Killua wanted what Gon wanted, Killua did what Gon did, Killua listened to Gon, Killua needed Gon. But Gon needed Kite. Very, very slowly, this realization began to seep into Killua's consciousness and proceeded to break him apart piece by piece.
The two boys were put through tests in order to decide whether they were strong enough to be part of Kite's rescue mission, but neither of them passed. Gon temporarily lost the use of his nen, and Killua promised himself to watch over him until he got it back, at which point he’d leave before he ended up getting Gon killed. Because, you see, he promised not to betray his friends, even though he's been told all his life that that is what he will do. And now it was really happening.
When a chimera ant arrived in the vicinity of their hide-out, Killua had a great deal of trouble fighting him, forced to confront that same fear yet again. Just as with Illumi, knowing he couldn't win made it, well, impossible for him to win. Finally, unable to take it anymore and absolutely refusing to betray Gon a second time, Killua thrust his hand into his own head and pulled out one of Illumi’s pins. Turns out when Kurapika questioned Killua's forfeit of the Hunters Exam, he'd been one hundred per cent correct in that if anyone could be hypnotized to kill, it would be Killua - the kid who'd been raised to see murder as just another part of the daily routine. No longer plagued by "Illumi's Spell," he decapitated the ant with ease and returned to Gon’s side with renewed determination knowing that the part of him that might have betrayed his friend was never a real part of him at all.
Both Gon and Killua had shown such tremendous improvement in such a short time that they were allowed to join the raid of the ants' stronghold despite their earlier failures. While causing strategic chaos to lessen the death toll, Killua ran into a chimera ant by the name of Ikarugo (a talking octopus who dreams of being a squid). The octopus chose death over selling out his comrades when Killua held him up over the blood-thirsty animals in the cavern pool below them. Killua, against all his blessed logic, related to Ikarugo's feelings and saved the ant's life, telling him they could have been friends under different circumstances. Later, when Killua had exhausted himself to the point of death, Ikarugo showed up and returned the favor, making Ikarugo the second person Killua himself took initiative to be friends with.
It wasn't difficult for him, despite his inexperience. Skeptical and cynical, Killua is the type of person who believes in guilty until proven innocent, not that being guilty is something he'd condemn a person for. With a past like his, he actually tends to be more comfortable around people of questionable moral standing than around people who follow the rules. So when it comes to choosing his own friends, people like Ikarugo are actually his top choices, much easier to get along with than those who wouldn't understand the darker aspects of this or any world. More than anything, this is why Killua and Gon make such a good match. They are both so morally ambiguous. They can give thanks to serial killers and heal mass murderers, just because a fight with them helped the two children grow stronger or because any of their victims knew what they were getting into. Then they can turn around and kill said serial killers and mass murderers the moment they break a promise or look at their friends the wrong way. Both boys are repeatedly referred to as monsters within the series, and that is no understatement.
The raid on the ant king's palace finally came to fruition, and Gon and Killua were assigned to deal with the same chimera ant who had captured and mutilated Kite, Nefelpitou. When they came upon Nefelpitou, however, he was unexpectedly using his abilities to heal a human who had been injured by their raid. Gon was overwhelmed with rage concerning Kite’s situation and forced himself into denial. When Killua attempted to stop him, explaining that if they killed Nefelpitou, they’d never get Kite back, Gon asked him if it was nice to be able to stay so calm because he was uninvolved. Hearing that from the one person he’d never expected to hear it from, Killua could only steel himself, push aside his own agonizing emotions, and continue to convince Gon not to do anything rash. The entire reason he was still with Gon was because he'd promised to support him, and that was what he would do, even if he was beginning to realize that he wasn't enough. Gon acquiesced and came to a compromise with the ant, but he said little more to Killua, the last page of Chapter 275 revealing that Killua had disappeared from the room.
In actuality, he had been affected by Melearon's nen ability, which allowed him and people he touched to become invisible. Melearon (a chimera ant who, like Ikarugo, sided with Gon and Killua) asked for his help in defeating one of the three Royal Guards, and Killua accepted. Gon had made up his mind about Nefelpitou; nothing Killua said now would matter, so there was no reason for him to stay with Gon. He managed to catch the ant completely off guard and might have succeeded in defeating him too, but he ran out of electricity and had to recharge.
Immediately after he'd done so, he noticed Palm (a scout who had been sent ahead to get information on the inner workings of the ants, also a temperamental woman with a thing for knifing Killua in the forehead). One of their mission objectives in the raid was to recover her, but she was acting strangely. After a short conversation, Killua correctly concluded that she had been manipulated by the chimera ants. The parts of her brain connecting memory and emotion had been severed, and she was transformed into an emotionless soldier. Refusing to let Gon know Palm had received a fate similar to Kite's, he fought her, determined to make sure she didn't find Gon. During the fight, what began as an attempt to stall for time drove him to release that pent up desperation he'd hidden from Gon - all of that self-doubt, questioning himself, the realization that Gon was leaving him behind. When he dropped to the ground begging for her to just let Gon hear her voice because she might be able to help him where he could not, it triggered a mental reaction that broke the boundary in her brain that the ants had erected. She assured Killua that he wasn't powerless and helped ease his overwhelming doubts. Because, despite everything, Killua would always be the person most important to Gon, and that was exactly what Killua needed to hear.
After that, the two of them set off to aid the others.
Have you read up on how the game works?:
FlamingFerret. Killua is not above choosing a nice cozy spot in the middle of a hallway and performing for some credits, nor selling someone else's stuff, nor even mooching off of all of Gon's and Leorio's credits forever. But you probably meant missions, freelance work, and other (mooching off of all of Gon's and Leorio's credits forever).
1st person sample:
So. Uh. Nice place you've got here, I guess.
[He shrugs noncommittally. This is Killua-speak for "This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Brb, ball pit." But before he can enjoy anything of the sort, he needs to figure some things out. Curse responsibility.]
Now, getting down to business. I'm gonna say this really slowly so everybody gets it the first time. I want a list of names of everybody in this place, preferably with photos. I want to know exactly what happened to my world. I was kind of in the middle of something there, y'know? I want a map that lists all of the entrances, exits, and windows to every building in this ship.
And some juice.
[He reviews all he's asked for in his head. Yeah, that seems about right. What, you think it's ridiculous? How about he just finds it all out himself then? Breaking and entering is child's play.
No, wait. One more thing.]
Oh. And if you see an idiot about yea high [He indicates about his own height.], dark spiky hair, says "Ossu!" a lot, likes fishing... Punch him for me. Then tell me where he is, so I can punch him again. 'Kay?
3rd person sample:
Boring, boring, boring, boring!
What a dump! What a lame place to wind up! How stupid, how idiotic, how-
It was really real, wasn't it?
Killua forced himself to take a deep breath before sliding down the wall to plant himself lopsidedly on the floor. If anyone walked by, he'd probably trip them. It might be a nice distraction, watching them glare at him as they stomped away in frustration, making faces at their backs. It would give him something else to think about anyway.
The ship, the aliens, the refuges, it was all real. He'd tried everything from gyou to shuu, and all of it led him to the conclusion that this ship was a solid object not created through nen. But that wasn't possible, right? They had just been fighting back down on solid ground; now he was up here, and he was supposed to believe that everything was gone. It wasn't easy to wrap his head around, and if Gon-
Ha ha ha. No. Not possible. Never in a million years. He couldn't be gone. If Gon was gone, then Killua would be too. No ifs, ands, or buts.
He'd use that Guide thing. Talk to whoever would listen, figure out as much as he could. And someone would tell him where Gon was. Because Gon was here. If Gon wasn't, no one else deserved to be.
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IC:
Character name: Killua Zoldyck
Fandom: Hunter x Hunter
Timeline: Post Chapter 294
Age: 12
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
As the heir to the Zoldyck Clan, Killua has been taught how to kill from birth. He practices several assassination techniques such as being able to hide himself within shadows and create after images of himself to make it appear as if there are many of him moving slowly instead of one of him moving incredibly fast. He has a habit of moving with almost no sound, and it's pointed out to him on occasion upon which it's obvious he's not doing it on purpose. He also has super human strength, speed, and endurance. At the beginning of the series, his wrist strength is sixteen tons due to intense weight training, and he has been repeatedly exposed to torture techniques in order to not be hindered by pain. He still feels the pain, but he is able to endure it without passing out or losing his mind. He is immune to electric shocks and poisons because of similar exposure methods his family has put him through, and during the Chimera Ant Arc, he has come out of being boiled alive with enough fight left in him to yell at the guy for "farting" on him and then proceed to kill several more enemies upon his exit before passing out solely because of blood loss. For all intents and purposes, he is an inhuman juggernaut.
After taking the Hunters Exam, he and Gon begin to learn how to control their nen, or their aura. It's similar to most shounen energy sources, except that it follows very specific, complex rules. The basic nen techniques the boys learn are ten (to hold nen in the body), ren (to release nen with greater intensity than normal), gyou (to see nen that's been hidden by others), en (to spread one's own nen outward in order to sense any nen within that space), zetsu (to completely conceal one's nen), and hatsu (personal technique). The two of them practice these techniques often in order to stay in shape, and mix and match them in order to use sub-category techniques. Killua, personally, is very talented at ten, ren, and zetsu but is uncomfortable with en and can only extend his nen a very short distance from his body.
He has two natural fighting abilities that are unique to his person, and he uses one weapon. The first is the ability to morph his hand into a deadly claw. His nails become as sharp as any blade, which allows him to literally rip the heart out of a person’s chest or decapitate them with just one hand. This is something he has been honing for years, and he uses it to add more force and/or menace to his other unrelated attacks. The second ability is his choice of hatsu: his ability to turn his nen into electricity. This allows him to either attack with an electric shock or use the electricity to speed up his own movements. His attack form Kanmuru combines both options.
His specific electricity-based techniques are as follows:
Izutsushi (Lightning Palm): Letting the electricity course through his own body so that he can electrocute his opponents through touch or close proximity.
Narukami (Thunder God): Forcing the electricity to culminate outward from his fingers in a large lightning bolt.
Kanmuru (Godspeed): Creating an electrical field around his own person that constantly stimulates his nerves to increase his speed. This allows him to react faster than his own nervous system if need be, but in this case, it would be a direct reaction to his opponent's moves instead of something he actually decided upon with his brain because the nervous system is bypassed in favor of speed. The amount of time he can remain in this form is limited because it requires much more electricity in order to constantly maintain the electric field.
Aside from this, he also uses two yoyos. They're made from a hybrid metal and weigh 50 kgs each. Rather than being held by a string, they're attached to a thin metal chain, allowing them to conduct electricity.
How would they use their abilities?:
Killua is a very practical person, but he's also twelve. He will use his abilities in whatever way they'll best benefit him and his friends at any given time, but he's not afraid of the casual prank or two on the side. If they need to steal, he will do it without regret. If they need to beat someone up, he'll do it without regret. But if Gon so much as hints that he doesn't want Killua to, then he won't. He's also likely to use his abilities to show off, both for kicks and/or as a way to establish that he's got power and he's not afraid to use it if anyone threatens people he cares about. If someone does hurt his friends, he will never leave them alone again until the other party is A) dead or B) harmless and clinically insane.
Appearance:
Killua is decently tall for his age, four centimeters taller than Gon despite being about a month younger, and Caucasian, his paler skin perhaps an allusion to his not getting out much in the past. Despite everything reality tells us to the contrary, he is also a kid with a disturbingly well developed six pack. Because of his training his muscles are honed to unreasonable extremes, which can be a little awkward to see on an immature physique. Killua is the only one of the five Zoldyck siblings without dark hair, having inherited his father's white hair color instead. It's short and in a state of perpetual disarray despite some half-hearted attempts to fix it up every once in a while. His eyes are blue, ranging from a dark purple look in the early series to a bright teal in the Greed Island OVAs. Chalk it up to the lighting.
He has a bit of a fashion sense, unlike most of his friends, and probably changes outfits more often than any other character in the series. His clothing of choice seems to be loose fitting sports wear - tank tops, shorts, sweat pants, etc. Though when he's out to enjoy himself knowing he won't have to worry about getting into a fight, he's been known to dress up nicer and even accessorize.
Background/Personality:
Killua is the cool kid all the other kids want to be like until they realize his life actually sucks. Oops. On the surface he seems like your average, run-of-the-mill rich brat. He's not afraid to tell you about how he's always right and proceed to list all the reasons you are wrong. He's cheeky, arrogant, soaks up sugar like a sponge, lies to get what he wants, and wastes money like you wouldn't believe, but appearances aren't everything. Killua is the king of strategy, the prince of stealth, and a master of facades. Surprisingly this oh-so-privileged kid earns his own money by helping out with the family business.
You know, assassination.
Born the third of five sons to the infamous Zoldyck Clan, the deadliest assassins in the world, Killua was instructed in how to kill by his father Silva and brother Illumi from the moment he was born. He showed immense promise, and Silva named him the clan's heir at an early age. Never was he given a choice in the matter; in some ways, it's clear that he still has a hard time grasping how different his own upbringing was from everyone else's. He understands that normal kids didn't get electrocuted in their basements or fed poison for supper, and he uses this to psych people out on occasion, but he also feels self conscious about it when someone besides himself mentions it to him. When other kids were learning math and science, he was learning about serial killers' knives and how to effectively blackmail someone. Murder was the only thing he knew, and so he never minded doing it. He even enjoyed it. Being the thrill seeker he always was, it was fascinating to test his own limits, to see if he really could kill his target.
Murder was a game to him, and he excelled at it, just like he excels at everything else. No, it was never the fact that he was killing people that was the problem. The problem was that just like any other game, if it's the only one you play, it starts to get old.
At the age of eleven, he attacked his mother and second oldest brother and ran away from home. He said later that he did it because he didn't like being told what to do. When he informed his family he wanted to decide what he was going to do with his life for himself, they wouldn't hear of it. So he high-tailed it out of there with nothing but the clothes on his back and a skateboard, and like the responsible person he is, he decided to enter the Hunters Exam. After all, what do you do when you're bored of one game? You play a new one.
The Hunters Exam is a rigorous and often deadly exam that people take to qualify for a Hunters License that allows them luxuries the populace is denied (being able to kill without legal consequences, access to restricted areas, etc.) Killua wasn't interested in the prize though. He wanted to challenge himself and have some fun without having to worry about his family watching him. During the first phase of the exam he met Gon (a wild child out to find his father), Kurapika (an effeminate teenager with a vendetta), and Leorio (a to be med student in it for riches), but it was Gon who really caught his eye. Gon, another kid like him. Gon, who could tell when he was lying and when he wasn't. Gon, whose unbiased innocence soon began to feel contagious. Killua had been surrounded by judgment his whole life, and Gon's complete lack of the above was overwhelmingly refreshing.
Killua and Gon became very close during the course of the exam. He explained to Gon that the fact that people can't tell whether he's lying or not is part of his charm, and yet Gon was able to see right through him. It was sobering but somehow in a good way. Gon would have called it friendship; Killua would have snorted. Killua had never really gotten close to anyone else before. He had family, of course, but he wasn't all that fond of most of them because, well, they were family. Despite every painful lesson his brother had pounded into him throughout his short life, Killua wanted to forget it all when he was around Gon. Gon made everything fun. He was silly, nonjudgmental, and for some unfathomable reason, he enjoyed Killua's company. At one point, Killua professed to the actual tests being dull but said that the people were interesting, and it's amazing how this seems to apply to everything he does.
Unfortunately, during the final phase of the exam Killua's opponent revealed himself to be Illumi in disguise, having used pins to mutate his features until they were unrecognizable. Illumi threatened to kill Gon because Killua admitted to wanting to be friends with him. An assassin can't have friends, you see. They only get in the way. Besides, Killua shouldn't want friends, you see, because his only desire is to kill, and eventually he will take Gon's life. Silva and Illumi molded Killua that way, and so the idea that Killua would want anything at all is preposterous. He told Killua the only way to protect Gon was to win this fight. Killua gave up, too afraid to fight a battle he knew he would lose, and Illumi assured him the threat against Gon's life had just been a joke to teach Killua a lesson. You see, Killua just isn't qualified to make friends. Overwhelmed with the realization that he had willingly given Gon up to the slaughter, Killua was rendered unresponsive until, without warning, he killed one of the participants and was disqualified from the Hunters Exam, returning home defeated and distraught.
Gon wasn’t about to let Illumi take his friend away from him, and he left for the Zoldyck Estate with Kurapika and Leorio in order to get Killua back. While Gon was braving trial after trial, Silva called Killua to speak with him about the exam and about Gon, citing that he realized when Killua ran away that he should indeed have the right to decide his future for himself. Killua promised his father he'd never betray his friends, and Silva then gave him permission to leave. Once Killua was out of earshot, however, and Silva's wife ran in mid-rant, he laughed, telling her he let Killua go because he saw this as another potential training exercise for his son and was sure that Killua would return. Because that was how they molded him, you see.
After learning nen in the Heaven's Arena, the two boys left for Gon’s house on Whale Island, where they began to plan their next move. Gon’s ultimate goal was to find his father, but Killua didn't know what he wanted to do. He had so many things he didn't want to do, but for all his insistence that he wanted to do his own thing, he didn't know what that thing was. Gon proposed that Killua help him find his father, and then Gon could help Killua find out what to do from there. Killua, just glad to be able to hang out with his friend, was more than happy with the arrangement.
Yes, hanging out with his friend. His first and best friend. Gon started it all, and Killua continues to see friendship as a sacred concept. Gon and Killua are children of extremes, and Killua is willing to sacrifice most anything for friends - from his hands, to his own life, to the lives of everyone else in the entire world. Betray a friend, you are scum. Look at any of his friends the wrong way, you are scum. Ask him to be your friend, and if he likes you, you will be taken care of for the rest of your life.
From there, they moved on to Yorkshin for a large auction where they had promised to reunite with Leorio and Kurapika. Kurapika, who was participating in the auction in order to confront the Genei Ryodan (the unfortunate receiving end of his vendetta), got a bit overzealous, and when Gon, Killua, and Leorio began investigating the Ryodan for their hefty bounties, the two children wound up as hostages through association. Not once but twice.
The first time, they were able to escape on their own, after an argument over whether it was or wasn't okay for Killua to sacrifice his life for Gon's sake. Naturally Gon won because, dammit, you cannot argue with that guy. Killua felt that any time he was in mortal danger and that paralyzing fear that he'd felt when facing Illumi returned, he became useless to Gon. Because he couldn't do anything risky, he might one day just stand there and watch Gon die. Sacrificing his life was a way to prove himself wrong, but Gon recognized something was causing Killua to not think clearly. Killua was the one of the two who was always able to look at things from a down-to-earth, no-Gon-that-really-would-be-impossible angle, and that had saved the two boys' lives once or twice in the past. So Gon set Killua straight with some good, old fashioned "You're wrong, and I'm right. Deal with it," and they were able to find an alternative escape route because of it. The second time, Killua stepped in to protect Kurapika. Kurapika had been reckless and his location compromised, so Killua literally ran across town in order to step out in his place, allowing Gon and himself to be captured instead because he knew Kurapika was the one who stood the best chance against the Ryodan. Kurapika managed to free them from their predicament, and shortly afterward, they said their goodbyes.
From there Gon and Killua could move on to their own reason for participating in the auction, a virtual reality game called Greed Island, masterminded by Gon's father. While in the game, they were further trained in using their nen by a bossy girl named Biscuit (gorilla woman). Killua left the virtual reality for a short while to pass the yearly Hunters Exam, but he returned victorious, making sure he was the only one out of one thousand five hundred participants to do so. When you win, it has to be absolute; all or nothing. After a well-planned (because Killua planned it) battle with the notorious Bomber (a player killer), Gon was able to collect all 100 slot cards required win the game. The prize for winning was to be able to take three of the game items with them after leaving, and so they tricked the game into letting them take Accompany instead, a card that allowed groups to travel to a specified person's location.
The card brought them to a former student of Gon’s father, Kite, and they had an enjoyable meeting, telling stories and hunting for new animal species. It was during this time that the outbreak of chimera ants began. A chimera ant is an ant that eats other species and then gives birth to offspring that have traits of those consumed species. Unfortunately this particular chimera ant queen had eaten human. Mass killings resulted in which the colony sifted through entire populations for nen users to eat.
During their first confrontation with the ants, Killua and Gon were doing well until Nefelpitou (one of the strongest ants to date and the first Royal Guard for the King) discovered them. Kite attempted to hold him back so Gon and Killua could escape, but Gon refused to leave. Killua, deathly afraid and finally having reached breaking point, forced Gon into it, knocking him unconscious and dragging him away. Kite was captured, and though he knew if he hadn’t run things would have been even worse, Killua blamed himself for the outcome.
Killua Zoldyck had never been a trusting person. After all, he himself is pretty untrustworthy. But though he knew almost nothing about Kite, had only just met the man, what had happened had a huge effect on him. Because it had a huge effect on Gon. Gon idolized Kite, and so Killua instantly trusted him and was friendly with him. As time had gone by, without his realizing it, Killua's entire life had begun to revolve around Gon. Killua wanted what Gon wanted, Killua did what Gon did, Killua listened to Gon, Killua needed Gon. But Gon needed Kite. Very, very slowly, this realization began to seep into Killua's consciousness and proceeded to break him apart piece by piece.
The two boys were put through tests in order to decide whether they were strong enough to be part of Kite's rescue mission, but neither of them passed. Gon temporarily lost the use of his nen, and Killua promised himself to watch over him until he got it back, at which point he’d leave before he ended up getting Gon killed. Because, you see, he promised not to betray his friends, even though he's been told all his life that that is what he will do. And now it was really happening.
When a chimera ant arrived in the vicinity of their hide-out, Killua had a great deal of trouble fighting him, forced to confront that same fear yet again. Just as with Illumi, knowing he couldn't win made it, well, impossible for him to win. Finally, unable to take it anymore and absolutely refusing to betray Gon a second time, Killua thrust his hand into his own head and pulled out one of Illumi’s pins. Turns out when Kurapika questioned Killua's forfeit of the Hunters Exam, he'd been one hundred per cent correct in that if anyone could be hypnotized to kill, it would be Killua - the kid who'd been raised to see murder as just another part of the daily routine. No longer plagued by "Illumi's Spell," he decapitated the ant with ease and returned to Gon’s side with renewed determination knowing that the part of him that might have betrayed his friend was never a real part of him at all.
Both Gon and Killua had shown such tremendous improvement in such a short time that they were allowed to join the raid of the ants' stronghold despite their earlier failures. While causing strategic chaos to lessen the death toll, Killua ran into a chimera ant by the name of Ikarugo (a talking octopus who dreams of being a squid). The octopus chose death over selling out his comrades when Killua held him up over the blood-thirsty animals in the cavern pool below them. Killua, against all his blessed logic, related to Ikarugo's feelings and saved the ant's life, telling him they could have been friends under different circumstances. Later, when Killua had exhausted himself to the point of death, Ikarugo showed up and returned the favor, making Ikarugo the second person Killua himself took initiative to be friends with.
It wasn't difficult for him, despite his inexperience. Skeptical and cynical, Killua is the type of person who believes in guilty until proven innocent, not that being guilty is something he'd condemn a person for. With a past like his, he actually tends to be more comfortable around people of questionable moral standing than around people who follow the rules. So when it comes to choosing his own friends, people like Ikarugo are actually his top choices, much easier to get along with than those who wouldn't understand the darker aspects of this or any world. More than anything, this is why Killua and Gon make such a good match. They are both so morally ambiguous. They can give thanks to serial killers and heal mass murderers, just because a fight with them helped the two children grow stronger or because any of their victims knew what they were getting into. Then they can turn around and kill said serial killers and mass murderers the moment they break a promise or look at their friends the wrong way. Both boys are repeatedly referred to as monsters within the series, and that is no understatement.
The raid on the ant king's palace finally came to fruition, and Gon and Killua were assigned to deal with the same chimera ant who had captured and mutilated Kite, Nefelpitou. When they came upon Nefelpitou, however, he was unexpectedly using his abilities to heal a human who had been injured by their raid. Gon was overwhelmed with rage concerning Kite’s situation and forced himself into denial. When Killua attempted to stop him, explaining that if they killed Nefelpitou, they’d never get Kite back, Gon asked him if it was nice to be able to stay so calm because he was uninvolved. Hearing that from the one person he’d never expected to hear it from, Killua could only steel himself, push aside his own agonizing emotions, and continue to convince Gon not to do anything rash. The entire reason he was still with Gon was because he'd promised to support him, and that was what he would do, even if he was beginning to realize that he wasn't enough. Gon acquiesced and came to a compromise with the ant, but he said little more to Killua, the last page of Chapter 275 revealing that Killua had disappeared from the room.
In actuality, he had been affected by Melearon's nen ability, which allowed him and people he touched to become invisible. Melearon (a chimera ant who, like Ikarugo, sided with Gon and Killua) asked for his help in defeating one of the three Royal Guards, and Killua accepted. Gon had made up his mind about Nefelpitou; nothing Killua said now would matter, so there was no reason for him to stay with Gon. He managed to catch the ant completely off guard and might have succeeded in defeating him too, but he ran out of electricity and had to recharge.
Immediately after he'd done so, he noticed Palm (a scout who had been sent ahead to get information on the inner workings of the ants, also a temperamental woman with a thing for knifing Killua in the forehead). One of their mission objectives in the raid was to recover her, but she was acting strangely. After a short conversation, Killua correctly concluded that she had been manipulated by the chimera ants. The parts of her brain connecting memory and emotion had been severed, and she was transformed into an emotionless soldier. Refusing to let Gon know Palm had received a fate similar to Kite's, he fought her, determined to make sure she didn't find Gon. During the fight, what began as an attempt to stall for time drove him to release that pent up desperation he'd hidden from Gon - all of that self-doubt, questioning himself, the realization that Gon was leaving him behind. When he dropped to the ground begging for her to just let Gon hear her voice because she might be able to help him where he could not, it triggered a mental reaction that broke the boundary in her brain that the ants had erected. She assured Killua that he wasn't powerless and helped ease his overwhelming doubts. Because, despite everything, Killua would always be the person most important to Gon, and that was exactly what Killua needed to hear.
After that, the two of them set off to aid the others.
Have you read up on how the game works?:
FlamingFerret. Killua is not above choosing a nice cozy spot in the middle of a hallway and performing for some credits, nor selling someone else's stuff, nor even mooching off of all of Gon's and Leorio's credits forever. But you probably meant missions, freelance work, and other (mooching off of all of Gon's and Leorio's credits forever).
1st person sample:
So. Uh. Nice place you've got here, I guess.
[He shrugs noncommittally. This is Killua-speak for "This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Brb, ball pit." But before he can enjoy anything of the sort, he needs to figure some things out. Curse responsibility.]
Now, getting down to business. I'm gonna say this really slowly so everybody gets it the first time. I want a list of names of everybody in this place, preferably with photos. I want to know exactly what happened to my world. I was kind of in the middle of something there, y'know? I want a map that lists all of the entrances, exits, and windows to every building in this ship.
And some juice.
[He reviews all he's asked for in his head. Yeah, that seems about right. What, you think it's ridiculous? How about he just finds it all out himself then? Breaking and entering is child's play.
No, wait. One more thing.]
Oh. And if you see an idiot about yea high [He indicates about his own height.], dark spiky hair, says "Ossu!" a lot, likes fishing... Punch him for me. Then tell me where he is, so I can punch him again. 'Kay?
3rd person sample:
Boring, boring, boring, boring!
What a dump! What a lame place to wind up! How stupid, how idiotic, how-
It was really real, wasn't it?
Killua forced himself to take a deep breath before sliding down the wall to plant himself lopsidedly on the floor. If anyone walked by, he'd probably trip them. It might be a nice distraction, watching them glare at him as they stomped away in frustration, making faces at their backs. It would give him something else to think about anyway.
The ship, the aliens, the refuges, it was all real. He'd tried everything from gyou to shuu, and all of it led him to the conclusion that this ship was a solid object not created through nen. But that wasn't possible, right? They had just been fighting back down on solid ground; now he was up here, and he was supposed to believe that everything was gone. It wasn't easy to wrap his head around, and if Gon-
Ha ha ha. No. Not possible. Never in a million years. He couldn't be gone. If Gon was gone, then Killua would be too. No ifs, ands, or buts.
He'd use that Guide thing. Talk to whoever would listen, figure out as much as he could. And someone would tell him where Gon was. Because Gon was here. If Gon wasn't, no one else deserved to be.
Questions?: None off the top of my head.
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Done.