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do you guys think with the Zoldycks being cats and all, they can’t tolerate spicy food (nekojita/cats tongue, but make it hella exaggerated)

like imagine even illumi’s face shriveling up as he’s in severe discomfort of what’s burning his tongue

bros gonna look like maha on a treadmill in a sauna

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illumi and kalluto

hi im like 5% awake BUT im awake enough to think about them so lets get into it

tldr, kalluto is the only viable option for Zoldyck heir and even then he’s ditching his family lol

My rankings of the Zoldyck siblings by favorites is Kalluto, Alluka, Milluki, Illumi, Killua. Kalluto being baby who can do no wrong and Killua the most obnoxiously annoying Mary Sue.

Illumi in the recent chapters got bumped up above Milluki but their ranking switches around depending on *when* in the story. (Milluki going outside is peak bruh)

But that’s only because of Kalluto dbsjshd

Kalluto is so fun to think about because in canon he’s so underutilized but through the power of context we can give him so much depth.

In my head, the Zoldyck hierarchy is like this: Killua is obviously the heir, but what if something happened to him? Then it would have to shift to Illumi but Silva doesn’t want him to lead, then it would shift to Milluki who does not give a shit whether he inherits anything or not, so then it skips over Alluka because 1. She’s a girl 2. They view her as dangerous 3. Obviously if Killua somehow dies she’s most likely dead too.

so it literally leaves just Kalluto to inherit the Zoldyck business. Like bro can already consider himself the true Zoldyck heir because none of his other siblings would do it (except illumi but he’s been a doormat his entire life I don’t think he can lead worth shit)

But will he though? Will he remain loyal enough to his family to follow their will? Or has the loyalty shifted to the Phantom Troupe.

Kalluto doesn’t open up very much but he’s spent about a year and a half(?) with them. He HAS to have confided in SOMEONE. Especially if the troupe has banded together for most of the time. (This specific scenario involves oc shit so I’m skipping over it)

But surely they think how the family operates is complete whack, and now on the Black Whale 1 they can see what Kalluto means about Illumi. The air is just… off with him.

I believe despite already learning how to think for himself and gaining somewhat of a sense of identity thanks to the troupe, Kalluto still follows Illumi because he’s always listened to him above others (minus mom). He’s still 12 years old, he’s scared to defy those who have “authority” over him. And who knows what Illumi would do if Kalluto chose not to listen.

If something happens to Illumi in which he gets clapped but Kalluto lives I think there’s a pretty solid chance he’ll fake his death too and stay with the troupe. Illumi is like the main chain that binds him to the family, the original familial bond chain has rusted, and the others are weak enough to break with enough force. Without it, nothing is obligating Kalluto to go back to the Zoldycks.

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This is where oc shit does come in (assuming she too survives the succession war), because she took Kalluto in as her own little sibling. She’s the one he opened up to the most, because she’s spent the most amount of time actively interacting with him. She knows a lot about the inner workings of the Zoldycks through him and was the one to put the idea in his head that he has way more options in life than he thinks.

He can already consider himself the heir because his other siblings will take themselves out of the running, but he can also stay with the spiders, and by extension her. Something he *really* wants because she’s been teaching him to get stronger and actually treats him like an actual human with autonomy. She’s fun, he wants her to stay in *his* family. And if it means ditching the Zoldycks and claiming the Phantom Troupe as his family so be it.

We are not far along enough into the succession war to see what the fuck is going on with Illumi and Kalluto, but I just know Koruso is stressed as all hell that he’s being left alone with Illumi and she can’t be there to make sure nothing happens to him.

IF illumi and kalluto manage to survive, it’ll turn ugly between illumi and koruso. Illumi is stuck in his unshakable and rigid views on family, and Koruso believes in the exact opposite. He believes in control and order, Koruso believes in choice and freedom. It will come down to what Kalluto ultimately decides but who’s to say Illumi and Koruso won’t literally duel to the death over it.

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I’m cooking so much shit up

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Illumi and Kalluto doodles while I cook something up

Kalluto is my favorite Zoldyck if you can’t tell.

Illumi is like fourth but he’s relevant now because of Kalluto soo…

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someone said Silva is one of the best fathers in fiction because of his scene with Killua and I gagged

then choked

then laughed

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he needs enrichment

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before I got into hunterxhunter I had only seen this clip and the clip of Killua ripping a dudes heart out, so for like two whole years I avoided this show because this is what I thought Illumi looked like 100% of the time and I didn’t want to look at him.

I thought this clip was like a huge face reveal where you see under all his hair is a freaky face

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this makes absolutely no fucking sense to people who know me outside of DeviantArt but I’m laughing so hard at how my hxh oc expansion story evolved (I’ll get to introducing them here okay I’m still unpacking my art into sideblogs)

like even one characters backstory alone went through such a wild change it went from “yeah idk I don’t really remember where I’m from but that’s okay because it has no affect on my future choices” to “apparently my mentor thought I was a stupid ass kid and adopted me when he really shouldn’t have because he was worried I’d drown in a half inch puddle”

it also went from “oh noooo I’m not strong enough to defend for myself really like I’m really fast but that’s just for escaping” to “I have hunted down and murdered approximately 1800 mafia men in the six years I’ve been homeless in Yorknew with my bare hands do NOT fuck with me” for the same character dhsjsjd

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the ai theory is exactly why I need something to change very desperately because it would explain illumi seemingly giving up on “making killua his puppet” because bro didn’t forget - he got a new idea

and I’d like bro to go back to not having ideas pls, Illumi with sentience is a horrifying creature

Hunter x Hunter: Zoldyck

you wanna know whats real tragic?

the zoldyck legacy ends in this arc.

i clown on the zoldycks a lot for being bitches (lookin at you silva) but this is actually like a generational tragedy.

what i'm talking about is the fact that illumi and kalluto are the only two kids that the most recent line of zoldycks has produced that actually care about appealing to the family.

like they don't have options.

milluki is the middle child (derogatory)

killua ran away

alluka ran away

it's not entirely clear but kalluto and illumi, the youngest and the oldest, are the only two that really have a chance at progressing the zoldyck bloodline.

illumi of course is devoted, body and soul, to serving the family. his need for control was probably stemmed from the demand to reel in his younger siblings and indoctrinate them to the family tradition. even his monologue about alluka was all about accumulating power in the zoldyck name.

kalluto is still growing and deciding what he wants or if he is even strong enough to have those wants (at least that's my read), but he is working towards the same goal. he wants his brothers back and he's doing everything he can to do so. HE WAS ALSO attached to kikyo and supposedly coddled for his entire life, so it is likely he's not even learned how to have autonomy.

but the tragedy is that they are probably both going to die on the black whale one.

the way the plot is going (and my own wishes), i think that boat is going to blow up and everyone is going to die. the only exceptions being *maybe* hisoka and *a little more likely maybe* leorio.

and also beyond but shhh

the point still stands.

unless killua is eventually going to return to the family, or unless kikyo has another child, there will be no one left to carry on the family name.

and im sorry milluki lovers but he reads so much to me like the child that the parents gave up on. he just does his own thing. maybe he's got some fighting game in this- if illumi dies then literally, he has no choice but to step up- but from what ive seen i really dont see it.

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the threat of the piss clown is genuinely scary and togashi istg

I know there isn’t a way out of this situation where every spider gets to live but it hurts my soul knowing which ones will most likely die

I feel Frankie is pretty safe big chillin downstairs, good because bro is a personal fave

Feitan, Phinks, and Nobunaga are also pretty safe given we know where the piss clown is

idk where Machi is but if she’s going to become more relevant in the story I’m scared for her

Shizuku still has that fortune looming over her head, and I while I like the idea of you can’t outrun fate, this is a fate I’d like to be outrun pls

Shits not looking great for Bono, I fear for him the most rn

Not worried about Illumi and Kalluto getting caught on Tier 3 by the clown, I’m more worried about martial law getting their asses unless they somehow got around it

Chrollo is Chrollo, whether bro dies or not he’ll go out making it at least easier by mortally wounding piss clown (copium), he’s just a gigachad like that

oc specific things below cut because I know not everyone gives a shit

Koruso, Elio, and Johnny are all currently on Tier 3 themselves which makes shit really hard, so while they’re safe from the clown they are NOT safe from every other hazard.

Koruso still has Marcelo trying to kill her, plus she’s finally enacting her final repayment to Chrollo and that’s marching to her potential death as a last ditch attempt to take out Kurapika

Elio has already been shot and killed by Marcelo’s hitmen after finding out bro was part of the diddy parties that led to Zhongsheng’s brutal decapition + the truth behind his fixation on killing Koruso

Johnny was accidentally caught in crossfire and also killed, leaving Koruso entirely by herself to deal with finding a way up to higher tiers.

But she’s also still conflicted because does she go up to a higher tier and try and find the chain user? Or does she stay behind to make sure Kalluto is safe because she sure doesn’t trust Illumi to look after him. Because 1. She doesn’t want to put him in harms way and 2. Illumi wouldn’t let her anyways he already doesn’t like that Kalluto views her like his big sister

Koruso still has that deeply ingrained fear of Hisoka in her system too, because while she’s a pretty fricking tough Enhancer (Uvogin Lite fr), she’s exactly that, an Enhancer. Unless piss clown decides to fight her head on with no nen, she’s cooked.

that and her mental state is very quickly deteriorating because she lost her last two remaining friends outside of the troupe + she just discovered her dad is in fact alive and well but he’s on the enemy team (the mafia)

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Hunter x Hunter: Zoldyck

you wanna know whats real tragic?

the zoldyck legacy ends in this arc.

i clown on the zoldycks a lot for being bitches (lookin at you silva) but this is actually like a generational tragedy.

what i'm talking about is the fact that illumi and kalluto are the only two kids that the most recent line of zoldycks has produced that actually care about appealing to the family.

like they don't have options.

milluki is the middle child (derogatory)

killua ran away

alluka ran away

it's not entirely clear but kalluto and illumi, the youngest and the oldest, are the only two that really have a chance at progressing the zoldyck bloodline.

illumi of course is devoted, body and soul, to serving the family. his need for control was probably stemmed from the demand to reel in his younger siblings and indoctrinate them to the family tradition. even his monologue about alluka was all about accumulating power in the zoldyck name.

kalluto is still growing and deciding what he wants or if he is even strong enough to have those wants (at least that's my read), but he is working towards the same goal. he wants his brothers back and he's doing everything he can to do so. HE WAS ALSO attached to kikyo and supposedly coddled for his entire life, so it is likely he's not even learned how to have autonomy.

but the tragedy is that they are probably both going to die on the black whale one.

the way the plot is going (and my own wishes), i think that boat is going to blow up and everyone is going to die. the only exceptions being *maybe* hisoka and *a little more likely maybe* leorio.

and also beyond but shhh

the point still stands.

unless killua is eventually going to return to the family, or unless kikyo has another child, there will be no one left to carry on the family name.

and im sorry milluki lovers but he reads so much to me like the child that the parents gave up on. he just does his own thing. maybe he's got some fighting game in this- if illumi dies then literally, he has no choice but to step up- but from what ive seen i really dont see it.

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in my head Kalluto is this really deep and supreme character that finally has a taste of what it’s like to forge his own destiny seeing as he’s the youngest Zoldyck and by the time the whole family hierarchy thing happens there would be nothing for him. So may as well do his own thing. He found out who he wants to be, where he wants to go, and though he still misses home because he’s 12, he has felt freedom for the first time in his life and could never go back to chains and captivity. Can also see how fricked up the Zoldyck family is and feels really fricking bad for Illumi, the biggest victim in all of it.

and then I look at him in the story and he says like three sentences