✨Dressed to impress✨
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There are definitely fujoshi who see everything with yaoi glasses. Like, a perfectly normal platonic friendship being ZOMG CANON.
But then there are dudebro fanboys who can’t see obvious and intentional homoerotic subtext. Hell, they’ll sometimes try to dismiss homosexual TEXT. I just saw a comment from one such fanboy on a HunterXHunter video. It read along the lines of: ‘Togashi’s never written anything but heterosexual relationships’. This was in response to people noting how much Killua’s feelings for Gon read as romantic.
So either this dude has never been exposed to Yu Yu Hakusho, or he seriously didn’t get that Sensui and Itsuki were lovers. And I’m inclined to think it’s the latter.
There are a lot of authors where the subtext isn’t intentional, to be sure, but Togashi isn’t one of them. I have no doubt whatsoever that Killua’s feelings for Gon are meant to be seen as ambiguously romantic at the very least. Certainly, Gon is not ‘just a friend’ to him, whether that translates into a physical attraction or not. If Killua were female, none of these fanboys would have an issue acknowledging that.
I just can’t imagine being so uncomfortable with the thought of one of your shounen heroes maybe not being 100% straight.
Gon kissed him again—though this time it was probably to shut Killua up more than anything. Killua could feel his laughter in the vibration of his lips, but Killua found he didn’t care. Instead he threw his arms around Gon’s shoulders, smiling into Gon’s lips, and kissed him back.
They’d saved each other, in many ways. And now that they were together, they would save each other countless times more.
I wrote this whole sprawling goodbye/end of the fic essay on ao3 so I’m not going to clog up this post by repeating all that lol. Please just know that this fic has pushed me to become a better writer in so many ways and I absolutely love it. This is my favorite fic I’ve ever written. Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me until the end <3
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The setting sun was beautiful against the backdrop of endless grass and rolling hills.
Killua watched as the sky turned from blue to purple to scarlet to gold, his palms pressing into the wood of Kite’s porch and his silver hair swaying in the breeze. Everything felt so much more peaceful here, he had noticed. There were no beeping cars or blaring sirens like in the city. Here, the only sounds were the quiet chirping of crickets and the distant voices of his sister and Kite.
He squinted out at the horizon. He could just barely see them, two silhouettes against the blinding sun. Kite was the tall, willowy figure, a cap on his head. Alluka was shorter, her bush of thick hair chopped short since they jumped into a stolen car at the airport and took off into the night. She looked nice with the shorter hair, Killua thought. It suited her.
reminder that ging and killua have never been in the same scene together ┐（￣ー￣）┌
Word count: 2,712
This was a fic written for @xcoruscaminex‘s bday a while back! It takes place during her Monster Slayer au, but all you need to know is that in this universe monsters are common, Gon and Killua are both vampires (Killua being recently turned by Gon) and that Illumi is after them both.
The title was taken from lyrics in Taylor Swift’s song ‘New Year’s Day’: Don’t read the last page / But I stay when you’re lost and I’m scared and you’re turning away / I want your midnights
Once the cabin was in sight, Killua started running.
“Gon!” he yelled. His voice echoed off the trees, crashing back down on his ears. Dead limbs and shadows passed him by as he sprinted through the rotting forest that had become so familiar to them the past three months.
Familiarity wasn’t a luxury Killua had grown up with. Nor was safety, nor love. These were all things he had learned with time, because someone had been patient enough to teach him. And it was because of that someone Killua was so scared.
Can’t help falling in love
Like a river flows surely to the sea Darling so it goes Some things are meant to be Take my hand, take my whole life too
He wanted all to be perfect, a perfect day, not for himself alone. He wanted to remember it as perfect in those winter days, when the ice draws blue flowers on the windows, with the person who was going to swear to stay by his side for the rest of their lives. He wanted to remember it that way, hand in hand, in front of the crackling fire of their living room, in spite of the time that will have carved its sign on their tired faces.
Something I wrote, inspired by this post of @ceruleanspicetalks :3
Chapter 2 is up! Dinner at Alluka’s proves to Killua that Gon’s company is much more enjoyable than he suspected.
Source: archiveofourown.org
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The issue with Palm
((this ended up being a lot longer than i thought it would be so please bear with me!! and tbh i could talk about this for another couple thousand words but at that point it would just be an essay..))
So as we know togashi doesn’t throw random characters into significant plot points without a purpose. an example of this is palm. Palm is talked about a lot in the sense that she’s pretty problematic and pedophilic, and I completely agree with that. The next question is why? Why did togashi make the conscious decision to make her feelings towards gon romantic? Unlike hisoka’s creepiness towards gon, palm’s doesnt serve as any sort of motivator or large plot point for him. So, then, the answer is that palm was put in the story as a catalyst for killua’s breakdown.
Now, togashi could have very easily made palm get a long really well with gon in a platonic way and still dislike killua. It’s really likely killua still would have gotten jealous of palm if her relationship to gon was not romantic. So, Togashi made the conscious decision to make killua jealous of someone with romantic feelings towards gon. He purposefully and obviously made this distinction.
One thing to note is this interaction with palm which occurs in the scene directly after the “you are light” scene we all know so well:
Palm is talking to gon and killua and says this, while she’s gushing about knov:
“I only admire him. It’s not love…
Or anything… but I’m not certain of that either…… but isn’t it important to be able to respect someone you love? Oh, of course I haven’t told him any of this, and I don’t plan to…”
Then she turns to killua, looks him right in the eyes (this panel just includes the two of them), and says “…though you never know, right? Love is something that just /happens/ don’t you think?”
Killua immediately changes the subject to something else and this isn’t addressed.
Alright, so galaxy brain togashi would not add this scene in for no reason, ESPECIALLY right after such an emotionally intense scene of killua admiring gon. If it has no significance it’s just empty dialogue and doesn’t help to progress the plot or any kind of character development, which is not something togashi does often.
It begins to set up killua’s intense devotion to gon during the chimera ant arc, and his subsequent break down, in fact, I would say that palm is the one thing that pushes him over the edge.
it’s interesting to note that the specific point in which killua completely loses it is when he encounters palm in the castle while fighting the ants, and says to palm about gon that: “nobody else… can reach him” and goes on to sob about how he can’t save him, that it has to be palm.
Palm is obviously shocked by this because to gon, his relationship to her is simply friendship or allies, regardless of how palm feels. What ultimately snaps her out of the chimera ant control is realizing just how much killua cares about gon. this so clearly goes beyond jealousy over a friendship, (and always did), it reaches so far into the territory of romantic jealousy that it’s almost even more than that. What I’m saying is that togashi set this all up from the very beginning of the arc, he created palm’s character and her romantic feelings towards gon to pinpoint EXACTLY how killua feels about him, and just how goddamn important gon is to him.
It’s not a subtle narrative technique, but togashi doesn’t come out and say it either. Imo this is just spot on characterization because killua is still just a kid and doesn’t really know what love or romance is on a personal level, not to mention these feelings are towards his male best friend.
Killua’s other break down in the chimera ant art, which comes before the one involving palm, is when he fights that rabbit chimera ant (who looks exactly like hisoka hmm) and removes illumi’s needle. What allows him to do this is his extreme and all consuming desire to protect gon. The whole scene is a mash of panels of killua and gon together since the beginning of the series. Killua repeats in this sequence, over and over again, how gon is his best friend, his closest friend, his dearest friend. He repeats it so much that it begins to feel like he’s saying it frantically to convince himself that that’s all it is, he’s my closest friend I’ve ever had that’s why I feel so intensely, it’s nothing more.
after he get’s illumi’s needle out of his head, he gets so much calmer in his resolve to protect gon with his life. He seems to have pushed all of these conflicting feelings and confusion to the back of his mind, at least until his breakdown in front of palm. And that’s exactly why togashi consciously decided to characterize palm the way he did.
Romeo and Snow White, Chapter 1: Romeo’s Roots
A Dramatic KilluGon Fanfic by Falling lnto Piece
Synopsis: A little after the Yorknew Arc, Kurapika has a serious chat with Killua. Though the younger boy has chosen to live a life of fun adventures with Gon, what of the assassin training? Killua says he doesn’t need it anymore, but he does wonder if dropping it has made him weaker. In the middle of the night, the ex-assassin plans to check if Kurapika was right to be worried or not. NSFW.
Chapter Synopsis: Killua is up in the middle of the night, preparing himself to do some secret night training. Is he weaker than he was before?
Characters: Killua and Gon, Leorio and Kurapika (in flashback)
Pairing: KilluaXGon, KilluGon, LeorioXKurapika, LeoPika
Genre/Mood: Dramatic, Dark, Within the Canon, NSFW
Rating: M, Lemon included
So, I started writing this more than a year ago. It wasn’t coming out exactly the way I wanted it to, so I put it on hold. While scanning through my unfinished fanfics (which is most of them), this resurfaced. After another sex scene rewrite, I finally got it to a state I am proud to publish. Due to being NSFW, am I not allowed to post it on Tumblr? I’ll link to the AO3. Please leave a comment telling me how you liked or disliked it. I was going for dramatic, so I hope it was, my dear readers!
Romeo and Snow White, Chapter 1: Romeo’s Roots
A Dramatic KilluGon Fanfic by Falling lnto Piece
Synopsis: A little after the Yorknew Arc, Kurapika has a serious chat with Killua. Though the younger boy has chosen to live a life of fun adventures with Gon, what of the assassin training? Killua says he doesn’t need it anymore, but he does wonder if dropping it has made him weaker. In the middle of the night, the ex-assassin plans to check if Kurapika was right to be worried or not. NSFW.
Chapter Synopsis: Killua is up in the middle of the night, preparing himself to do some secret night training. Is he weaker than he was before?
Characters: Killua and Gon, Leorio and Kurapika (in flashback)
Pairing: KilluaXGon, KilluGon, LeorioXKurapika, LeoPika
Genre/Mood: Dramatic, Dark, Within the Canon, NSFW
Rating: M, Lemon included
So, I started writing this more than a year ago. It wasn’t coming out exactly the way I wanted it to, so I put it on hold. While scanning through my unfinished fanfics (which is most of them), this resurfaced. After another sex scene rewrite, I finally got it to a state I am proud to publish. Due to being NSFW, am I not allowed to post it on Tumblr? I’ll link to the AO3. Please leave a comment telling me how you liked or disliked it. I was going for dramatic, so I hope it was, my dear readers!
