![]() ![]() Generally, characters who get hurt in HxH show some display of pain-even if it’s just a wince. (Remember that, it’s going to be important later) I’m inclined to believe that he was alone, however, firstly because of how he reacts when Gon says that he doesn’t have parents:Īnd secondly because it sets up an important link between him and Killua:įor both Kite and Killua, meeting Ging/Gon meant that they received genuine affection for the first time and were able to escape from their respective terrible living situation. The 2011 anime supports this, but I’m not going to reference it very much because I regard its divergences from the manga as only dubiously canon, if extremely cute (a horse? really?). Again, Kite’s background is still largely unknown, but we do know that he was homeless as a child and probably didn’t have a family given the lack of a surname. Killua’s family supports him only as something that will carry forward the family name, going so far as to literally mind-control him into having an assassin’s instincts on top of being intensely abusive. While this one fits mostly in general terms, I think it’s notable that Kite and Killua both come from distinctly loveless backgrounds. On the flipside, Kite’s entire Nen ability is gambling on getting a weapon suitable for the situation (though he doesn’t like it very much). vsīoth of them are gamblers! Killua’s display on Greed Island shows how quickly he gets into the flow of the slot machines and Bisky literally has to drag him away to get him to stop. ![]() On the more theoretical side, I predict that what prompts Gon and Killua to truly air out their respective issues and begin working to improve their relationship will be the dramatic destruction of Kite and Ging’s, proving the consequences of allowing such issues to fester over time.įirstly, there are a number of things that I’d establish as similarities between Kite and Killua, both personality-wise and backstory-wise. ![]() Tl dr: In all likelihood Kite acts as a narrative foil to Killua through his relationship to Ging, which is similar to Killua and Gon’s except that the power imbalance is more exaggerated. It’s a good way to establish character motivation, in that case, but in this one would more of a catalyst for character development than protagonist-vs-antagonist plot events. It’s not unreasonable for Kite and Ging to be a ‘previous generation’ version of Killua and Gon given how that’s a common thing in shonen manga-One Piece, for example, is rife with characters inheriting the unfulfilled dreams of their mentors. This example would be the latter, definitely, and as a matching set Ging is certainly a foil to Gon (there’s a lot to say there, but this is already a 20 page Word doc so >.> I’ll just touch on it at times). A narrative foil is a literary device that contrasts two things (plots, settings, characters, etc) by either setting them up as ‘completely different’ or ‘extremely similar except for one key difference’. Specifically, that Kite is likely to be a narrative foil to Killua. In this I’m going to be talking about something that’s been percolating in my brain for a long time: the relationship that Kite and Killua have to each other as characters. A huge thank you to for helping me revise this monster! Goddamn I love writing meta so here’s some more meta.
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