#bc otherwise i's kinda easy to not think abt... ik literally here hes been having nightmares but they rarely had faces. the manga only

[solitaried]

        hey  hehe …  i’m  here  to  bring  u  the  ultimate  disaster  known  as  rom.  he  is …  very  boy  next  door  except  he  also  has  a  lot  of  qualities  that  i  despise  and  u  probably  will  too.  info  about  him  will  be  under  the  cut,  there’s  no  wcs  here  but  i  promise  u  i’m  better  at  brainstorming  …  pls  give  me  a  chance  and  slide  in  my  dms

first off: no one calls him romeo

sometimes even he forgets that his government name is romeo

everyone from the beginning of time has called him rom and that’s what he introduces himself as so if u call him romeo ur getting side eyed. possibly blocked. just pls call him rom thanks 

so rom’s parents are both influential research scientists, specifically in the field of neurobiology and have been focused on gene therapy for the past ten or so years

they come from a long line of guess what? also research scientists, with a few practicing doctors, politicians, and lawyers sprinkled around here and there

grew up with strict parents who (cliche vc) weren’t around much, he was put into tons of music/sports/etc to fill his afternoons and was always expected to be god tier at everything

anyway, rom was always been ur typical studious kid— got an almost perfect sat score, 4.7 gpa with 100+ hours of community service , etc etc

but uhm v long story short ….. he hated ??? hated …. hated …… academia, it sucked the life out of him and he couldn’t see himself do anything in the “acceptable” fields his parents laid out for him, which is a #1 crime in his family bc education + reputation is everything to them

has always been a creative at heart — loves drawing and photography, painting specifically really calls to him

as graduation got closer, it became harder and harder to keep up his golden boy image—  literally considered dropping out and running away skdjfd he HATES SCHOOL

so basically during summer break, after receiving an offer for an internship at a research facility nearby, he suddenly decided u know what ?? f*ck this, went and changed his major from bio to fine arts, burned his textbooks, all the dramatics u can think of

this uhm …. did not go over well with his family at all, bc they literally think that rom’s going to end up being jobless and on the streets and that they wasted yrs of tutoring, private school fees, etc etc, and also an art student?? in their family??? is just as bad as someone who didn’t go to school so yeah.... everyone hates him, there’s also personal reasons as to why they’re so hard on him for this decision but he doesn’t know them so i don’t go into it SJDFJKSD ik it seems dramatic but they have their reasons

does he care? yes

is he gonna cry about it every night? yes

is he gonna get over it eventually? no

anyway, he is most definitely not on speaking terms with his parents as u can imagine but he loves them and still texts them all of the time as if they don’t hate his ass…. im sick

v lost boy trope .. he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing w his life and he threw away everything he had worked so hard for just bc he likes to paint n he kinda feels like shit for it SKSKSKJD 

love alarm

rom doesn’t rlly care abt love alarm i will be honest with u. more than anything it’s a slight inconvenience... for someone who literally sucks at relationships and handling his emotions it’s mostly a burden BUT

being in the badge club equals popularity, which equals exposure for his art so he deals with it for the sake of hopefully bettering his chances of employment AKSJDFJD that’s literally it, otherwise he would have deleted it a long time ago 

he personally isn’t the kind of person to fall for someone based off of looks (or fall for someone in general sdjkfj) so he doesn’t get the appeal of himself ngl or just. how people can like him immediately.... pretty boy struggles </3

personality

v amiable, easy to talk to, actually really likes people …. weird flex

will talk to u about the weather when ur both in line at the grocery store

a softie but also a fcking idiot. a fuckboy. will stare at u like he’s in love with u and be completely “???” when u think he has feelings for u (typical art hoe fuckboy ngl)

he looks at (and speaks to) everyone like they’re the absolute love of his life but it’s just him being him. he’s very easy to idealize and romanticize bc that’s the image he portrays 

takes nothing seriously. is sarcastic/joking in every single conversation u have with him ever but he does it playfully??? he has a very soft way of speaking to people n is very easy to open up to 

if ur his friend and someone looks at u wrong he 10/10 will beat their ass, has serious anger problems

acts fearless? does not know what being intimidated is, his tongue is a little too sharp sometimes

if ur a bi*tch expect him to make u feel like an idiot by dragging u with class or being completely unfazed by ur rudeness so u just look like a clown .

he has very teen movie love interest energy... basically ur average soft jock personality with TONS AND TONS of flaws added in except in a lil art nerd

[tfw-no-tennis]

hunty x hunty cont

soooo we watched more! woohoo

we finished the hunter exam arc???? i THNK? lmaoooo at the end of the ep (21 i thiiiiink) we were on, satotz was like BUT THE HUNTER EXAM ISNT EVEN OVER YET or w/e lol aigh??? whats up w/that

anyways a lot happened in the last few eps that we watched....man i shouldve written this earlier but i litrelly havent been online. anyways

so during the hunter exam stage 4...gon is literally perfect (as i always have to say), him reuniting w/leorio and kurapika was rlly sweet :’) 

of course he immediately offered to help....goodest boy 

and wow that kid has such a powerful nose bvhjksfbjsk he rlly be a gr8 sniffer 

ok literally the part where leorio was in the cave and was like GON KURAPIKA DONT COME IN HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they both full speed sprint into the cave with 0 hesitation.....we love a 0 brain cells family 

i love leorio so much he really just b running around w/a switchblade and a breifcase, both of which he barely used during the exam lmao

so bummed that leorio slicing up tht snake happened offscreen. how tf did that even work, he doesnt have a goddamn sword

gon just being able to hold his breath for almost 10 mins makes so much sense somehow...he rlly is one of those shounen protags who is just casually a ridiculous human being and doesnt even fully realize that its weird 

that shot of him carrying everyone out of the cave was so sweet

and of course gon vs snakes....hes so perfect....he trusts his friends so much :’) 

also random aside but im so glad tonpa is out and idk if i talked abt this in my prev post but i feel like in most shounen he wouldve been like, so inspired by gons shounen protag energy that he wouldve changed his tune and taken the exam genuinely and either passed or declared that hed definitely pass next year - but no, he was awful til the end, this aint that kind of story (yet...?) 

have i mentioned that i hate hisoka? cause i hate hisoka. nasty ass crusty clown bitch 

what else happened in the phase 4 stuff. oh yeah killua clowned on those triplet dudes (and hanzo lowkey), which was great

ok the opening not having changed this whole time is so funny. imagine if it never changed and its still basic and cheery when everything gets crazy and dark lmao 

ooh my god i forgot to mention this last time but i feel like gons backpack is full of hair gel and hair gel ONLY, he only brought hair gel and his fishing rod. this is canon ty 

oh gosh when killua and gon reunited at the end of the 4th stage....OOOUGH so precious...those two are so cute god. i want a compilation of their cute moments together i hope that exists 

GOD OH FUCK the scene on the airship where kurapika and gon talked bc gon was clearly bothered by something (what happened w/hisoka obvs. i hate that clown bitch) and OUGHHHH OH GOD gon crying LICHRALLY killed me oh man :( i was literally just chanting NO NO NO!!!! at the TV cause seeing tiny baby boy upset was so sad....and ik it gets soooo much worse oh god i cant handle it 

the whole convo was really good and really anti-shounen (once again...feel like thatll be a theme lmao) bc like, it was a healthy convo where gon talked honestly abt his feelings instead of using some shounen protag BS phrases like ‘it doesnt matter!!! ill be stronger next time!!!’ or w/e....and kurapika is a such a good parent oh man :( 

again, cant get over how genuine and uncomplicated the teamup of the main 4 characters has been....literally no ‘we’re competing and only teaming up for convenience/the hunter exam comes before our friendship’ nonsense 

did anything else happen on the airship. ider 

anyways. can i talk abt illumi now. CAN I TALK ABT ILLUMI NOW. H8 THAT BITCH. 

ok wait back up theres other stuff

the interviews w/the candidates was interesting! i love how the old dude was SO not picking up what Creepy Hisoka was putting down lmaooooo

that poor old guy lmao he seems like a decent dude, he was like oh i dont wanna fight gon and killua cause theyre kids,....RIP u red shirt legend 

the bracket setup was so interesting oh man....very funky and creative. and then it wasnt really fully utilized lol, i feel like thats indicative of a bigger patten - hxh so far has been really creative and interesting, and clearly uninterested in setting things up simply to check off boxes on a shounen tropes checklist....i can already see what makes it so great if this keeps up bc daym, so many shounen have their interesting themes drowned out by the overwhelming necessity for the plot to hit certain shounen story beats, smothering otherwise new/fresh ideas and rerouting them back into the same old over-trodden shounen trope territory 

on a meta level, i wonder if the author was like, allowed more leniency (’do whatever bro’) bc hed already been successful w/yu yu hakusho. i havent seen/ready yyh so idk how ‘typically shounen’ it is but thats st that im curious about 

aaanyways. the tournament starts w/hanzo beating up gon for THREE HOURS STRAIGHT. jesus dude. so yeah obviously leorio and kurapika are the best parents ever and them getting so righteously angry over seeing this happen to gon is so heartwarming and good and also a big big mood 

they love their son okay. also that was fucked up. ALSO i find it interesting that thats only the second time we’ve seen kurapikas eyes turn red 

i bet that hisoka saw that also and somethign something phantom troupe, see bottom of post in predictions section 

seeing gon get beat up like that made my heart hurt :( especially when hanzo broke his arm...oof. 

god also i cant believe hanzo is 18 hes literally bald hvbhjafbjs whats w/hxh and making everyone a teen or younger lmao god 

also omfg i love that leorio and kurapika are lichreally 19 and already have kids wow thats amazing especially considering their kids are 12. its so funny that theyre such Parents already considering that the age gap is kinda hilariously small, espec bc i thought that they (mostly leorio) were a lot older at first lmao 

the fact that gon gets to win that fight against hanzo was a legit shock to me....again, anti-shounen. we’d normally want to see what our protag can do in a fight - espec in a tournament-style arc where the consequences arent as high typically - so we’d want him to go further, which is easy here bc to move on he has to lose, which is easy bc gon is a baby w/no offensive capabilities (that we’ve seen)

god ive talked abt this already but its so fascinating how we havent really had any full-on fights???? espec w/the main 4 characters????? we still barely know what they can do....WE STILL HAVENT BEEN INTRODUCED TO NEN???? 

ive been spoiled (i guess?) to the existence of nen but thats abt it. what can it do? what is it? fuck if i know lmao. so i could totally see them pulling a ‘we were using nen the whole time’ w/like hisoka or st, OR a ‘YOU were using nen the whole time w/out realizing it’ w/gon

ok anyways. that hanzo fight was rough but also gon is literally the best. he was trying to bargain w/hanzo to figure out a way where they could come to a conclusion that would satisfy them both - despite hanzo clearly outmatching gon in skill, so the effort on hanzo’s part would be pointless and simply for gon’s benefit....basically the entire proposal sound ludicris and insulting to suggest (or st, idk how to phrase it), but since its gon of COURSE he only has the purest of intentions and means it so genuinely that you cant even be mad at him 

hanzo just knocking him out lmaoooo and then hes just out for the rest of the tournament???? thats so wild and...whatdya know....un-shounen! 

then he wakes up n his lil x-shaped forehead bandage....ough so cute

also the whole convo he and satotz had abt gon’s victory and hunter license and earning/deserving it was so good :’) 

also i feel like the show did a good job of humanizing characters like satotz. i legit thought he was a robot or st at first but it feels more like hes just A Guy now,....albeit a weird guy, but thats to be expected. its like, yeah this guy also took the hunter exam at one point, wow.

anways this is already long and i havent even gotten to the killua stuff yet lol so im gonna stop here for now. and introducing a new segment..........the prediction corner! where i dump my speculations/predictions, entirely for my future self’s benefit 

PREDICTIONS: 

first off as i alluded to above, i think that hisoka has some sort of connection to the phantom troupe (does he know them? maybe not, but he knows where to find them? idk) and when he saw kurapikas red eyes, was able to figure out that whole deal and said st to kurapika during that fight like ‘hey i can help you find the phantom troupe if you want :))))’ 

i kinda said this earlier but i predict that kurapika might get really wrapped up in revenge and go off the rails a bit. we’ll see, so far that hasnt really happened, but for some reason i kinda think that it will? we’ll see

i (incorrectly) predicted that killua would have known that illumi was there the whole time, considering that he was able to noticing the hunter exam dudes following him in phase 4, etc....but BOY was i wrong about that oof 

iiii think that the whole ‘the hunter exam isnt over yet!!!’ stuff will be an opportunity for killua to pass this year still, maybe? idk abt that tho 

i have more predictions but i forgot :( also some of them are more relevant to the next few eps ill make a post on