Stellarkillua - Killua Zoldyck || Stellarkillua

thinks about baby Killua and his giant dad……..

Everyone still interprets the “you are light” scene….WRONG.

it is not “you are light” and you are my sun and my stars and my moon – it is, “Gon, you are too optimistic and sometimes I can’t see what I should…” aka: logic

In that scene, Killua is admitting to knowing that Gon is an optimistic fool…but negates his own rational side and stays positive with Gon. WHICH EITHER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT – WOULD HAVE ENDED BADLY. If Killua said, “no gon, give up on kite and your optimism of him being alive” … that clearly wouldn’t have ended well. And the other side of it was…EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. Gon’s optimism burning and crashing at his feat. 

Gon had a lot of growing and learning to do…it’s unfortunate that it came at such a shitty cost, but it happened. And Killua, his best friend, was there every step of the way. Just as Gon had saved Killua in the beginning, Killua had saved Gon in the end. 

character….DEVELOPMENT. Friendship….DEVELOPMENT. 

キルゴン by; nannnnka l colored; me ( upload/colored permission given by the artist )

bonus;;

“Let’s go to your house next!”

an elaborate/ re-imagined “redraw” of a scene from the 1999 anime

Frog killua 🐸

Based on Ida Zhu’s lovelive comic http://ayedah.tumblr.com/post/148740714947/its-joke/amp

I can’t make the link shorter because I’m on mobile :(

In which way did the 2011 anime screwed Gon and Killua characteristics?? I didn't read the manga so this got me rly curious, i thought that the anime followed the manga pretty strictly ( aside from the Kite thing )

No worries, anon, I gotchu!

What I feel 2011 did was take scenes out of the manga but changed Gon & Killua’s personalities (while also leaving out v. important scenes in the beginning such as Gon meeting Kite, and Ging not actually abandoning Gon). Gon is portrayed more “innocent and kind” in the anime vs. being mouthy, sassy and a bit more introverted like he is in the manga. A great example of this is:

And! Gon was 1000% about Killua (2011, again, left out a bunch of scenes where Gon insistently worried over him):

(This is only a few that I had saved on my desktop.)

I also do not like how they changed Mito to fit the more “motherly” role when she lied, drank and tried manipulating Gon in the very first chapter. (more here) And how she took Gon away from Ging and lead Gon to believe he was abandoned when she’d actually fought Ging in court for custody.

Then there’s Killua–who is kind-hearted, sassy, talkative and more outgoing than 2011 portrayed him as. It’s almost like they manipulated the characters to fit the “kind kid befriends the sad, white-haired loner” stereotype when Togashi is literally the destroyer of all anime stereotypes. They also took out a lot of scenes/dialogue to Gon and Killua’s friendship whereas ‘99 kept them all but added hella filler (and even though Killua is a bit more “darker” in ‘99, i think they stayed v. much IC). 

If interested, you can read @lyraklaude‘s meta on Killua possibly being an extrovert vs. introvert here. (I v. much agree with this.) I also have a bunch of manga!killua caps floating around here somewhere–i’ll try to find them and then reblog with links!

tbh i feel like we’re beating a dead horse when it comes to tragedy and heartbreak and Killua. 

He is not some sad, broken, horrifically tragic character that you can [INSERT SELF HERE] and pull this angsty bullshit out of.

Yes, Killua was trained from birth to be an assassin. 

The Zoldycks are assassins. His family was the top most wanted and most wanted dead by all the descendants (family, mob members, etc.) of the people they’d been paid to assassinate over a countless number of years. Imagine if they hadn’t, at the very least, trained their children to withstand any misfortunate outcomes they would’ve encountered if they were to become abducted and used as hostages. Because that possibility was a sincere reality.

Let me say this again: the Zoldycks are assassins. They do not “beat” their children because they do not love them…they do not hurt their children because they are heartless monsters who take their rage and pain out on them.

And in their own sick, twisted way – in a way we cannot relate to – the Zoldycks actually love Killua. Yes, Silva was a manipulative asshole who essentially only wanted Killua to come back and be the heir – but still, he loves Killua. We think it’s wrong and we do not understand it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. The Zoldycks love each other in the only way they know how. 

They’re not a heartless, uncaring family. Yes, their ways of raising their children are different, unique and it’s fucked up, but those are their ways. This is what they believe in. The Zoldycks truly believe their methods are in their children’s best interest. 

They’re assassins!

And despite how fucked up it is, Killua took the best out of his abuse and turned it into something he could actually use to his advantage. Somebody trying to poison him? Nope, not fucking happening. Somebody trying to electrocute him? Nope, not fucking happening. A mother fucking serial killer trying to break his bones? Nope, not fucking happening. 

Oh look, he just ripped their heart out.

He got electrocuted as a kid? Aight, now lets watch him turn his aura into fucking electricity and kill these dickheads and take names.

Again, Killua makes the best out of his abuse. He is resilient. He owns it. And no, of course he’s not thankful for it. But he embraces it, he makes himself stronger because of it.

So why don’t we talk about that?

“Why do I like Killua so much? Because although he was abused, bro moved forward and came out on top.”

“Why is he my favorite character? Because he’s a god damn inspiration and the White Haired Kid Who Actually Lived.”