[Profile] Killua Zoldyck

HxH - Killua Zaoldyeck

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Name:	Killua Zoldyck
Kana:	キルア=ゾルディック
Romaji:	Kirua Zorudikku
First Appearance:	Manga: Volume 01, Chapter 006 Anime: Episode 6
Voiced By:	● Kanako Mitsuhashi (Japanese) ● Annika Odegard (English) ● Lena Dawa (Arabic) ● Carlos GutiÉrrez (Spanish/Latin America)
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Gender:	Male
Age:	12
Birthday:	July 7
Hair Color:	Silver
Eye Color:	Blue/Teal
Height:	158 cm
Weight:	45 kg
Blood Type:	Type A
Occupation:	Hunter
Relatives:	Family ● Maha Zoldyck (Great Great-Grandfather) ● Unnamed (Great-grandfather, presumed       deceased/status unknown) ● Zeno Zoldyck (Grandfather) ● Unnamed (Grandmother,Alive) ● Silva Zoldyck (Father) ● Kikyō Zoldyck (Mother) ● Illumi Zoldyck (Eldest Brother) ● Milluki Zoldyck (Second Older Brother) ● Alluka Zoldyck (Younger Brother, missing) ● Kalluto Zoldyck (Youngest Brother)
Nen
Type:	Transmutation
Nen Abilities:	● Lightning Palm (雷掌 Izutsushi) ● Thunderbolt (落雷 Narukami) ● Godspeed (神速 Kanmuru)

1. Background

Killua Zoldyck (キルア=ゾルディック, Kirua Zorudikku) is one of the four main characters from the series HunterxHunter. He was born as the middle child to a family of known assassins, the Zoldyck family. Showing great promise from birth, Killua has already mastered many killing techniques at a tender age, and is set to be one of the best assassins the family has ever produced. Bored and tired of killing, Killua unexpectedly rebelled against his family, injuring both his mother and brother, and ran away to join the Hunter exam just for fun. He met Gon during the first portion of the Hunter Exam and became great friends. He thinks being with Gon is exciting and adventurous.

Killua divulges that ever since his birth, he has been in constant training for the occupation of a professional assassin. Killua had spent years trying to perfect unique skills that assassins portray and possess. He is forced to battle in the Heavens Arena fighting tournament at the age of 6, which he took two years to get to the 190th floor.

HxH - Killua, G.I

2. Personality

From the outside, Killua seems just to be the rich boy; cheeky, cheerful and full of mischievous ideas. He is also one of the most quick-thinking characters in the series.

HxH - Killua with his skateboard

However, his ruthlessness and aptitude in killing shows the other side of him-- deadly, violent and bloodthirsty. Having been repeatedly tortured since birth, Killua has been conditioned to possess extreme tolerance for poison, electricity and pain. He possesses extraordinary agility and strength that makes Killua a one mean killing machine-- definitely not one to be trifled with, as many of his adversaries had witnessed and some are not a alive to tell about it.

However, until recently, his greatest flaw was to fear those who are more powerful than him, one of whom is his elder brother, Illumi. Killua had been trained as an assassin by his brother to be extremely cautious that he only engages in combat provided that victory is absolutely certain. This impeded him as a Hunter, as Biscuit stated more than once that victory is never certain, and that depending on the circumstances, a person has the potential to defeat a stronger opponent.

Killua struggled with these conflicting ideas during the latter half of the series, as he started to encounter stronger opponents. However, his brother's teachings remained firmly entrenched in his mind, to the point that Biscuit prophesied that he would one day abandon Gon because of this. Biscuit gave Killua an ultimatum: Defeat Shoot to claim the right to go with Gon and fight the Chimera Ants. Killua lost, and resolved to leave after Gon had recovered from his fight, protecting him in the meantime.

HxH - Killua, his dark side

Finally he had to face Biscuit's prophecy when he encountered a Chimera ant while Gon (who couldn't use nen at the time) wasn't far off and had no way to defend himself. Killua made an attempt to save Gon. While fighting with the Chimera Ant, Killua is also battling his inner-self. Preoccupied, Killua is losing to the chimera ant. At the last moment, Killua realized that Illumi had implanted a needle in his brain way back in the first Hunter Exam. This needle was responsible for forcing Killua to retreat and jailed himself on his comfort zone whenever any situation would potentially endanger his life. Upon extracting the needle, Killua was freed from this restraint and gained full control of his subconscious to make his own decision whether or not to flee whenever there is a need to fight stronger opponents.

3. Combat

1) Weapons and Assassination Arts:

In the first part of the series, Killua does not employ or use any weapons in combat (but he has a skate as a means of transportation, though). Instead, he relies on several assassination arts passed down to him through his family. These include adjusting his fingernails into claws and the Echo--a motion that creates an afterimage of the body through a varying cadence of steps. His eyes also change into a more sinister look.

2) The Technique of the Rotating Bodies:

It is a deadly technique used in critical situations to create a succession of images on the retina, creating an illusion. It is a high level attack also called "Technique of the Dark Step" because of the total absence of noise during the movement.

HxH - Killua and his yoyo

3) Aniki (雷掌):

During the Greed Island story arc, Killua begins using yo-yos made of a special metal alloy in combat. The yo-yos are extremely durable and heavy, weighing 50 kilograms each. They can be used in conjunction with Killua's Hatsu as well. Killua is reluctant to use the yo-yos in combat thus using only his raw physical abilities in order for his opponent to know as little about his combat abilities as possible.

4. Nen Abilities

As a Transmuter, Killua's most efficient in changing the form of his nen. As such, Killua developed several electricity based nen techniques. This feat was both inspired and made possible by the years of electric shocks he received as a child, both as training against torture and as punishment from his older brother Milluki.

HxH - Killua demonstrating his Hatsu

1) Izutsushi (雷掌 Lightning Palm): The first and most basic ability Killua developed. As the name suggests, Killua is able to shock an opponent by touching them.[ he was electricuited since he was born so it isn't paining to him.]

Killua attacking with Narukami

2) Narukami (落雷 Thunderbolt): A natural evolution of his Lightning Palm ability, Killua is also able to project a large bolt of lightning from his hands, striking an opponent with electricity from a distance. The name of the ability, Narukami, comes from the famous Kabuki play, Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura, in which the character Narukami transforms into a thunder god at the end of the fourth act.

HxH - Killua, Narukami

HxH - Killua, Kanmura

3) Kanmuru (神速 Godspeed): Developed by Killua during his fight against the Oroso Siblings. With his hair, hands and feet changed into electric type aura, Killua's Kanmaru ability allows him to react and move his body at speeds that would normally be impossible (even in the fictional Hunter × Hunter universe). This ability changes Killua's aura into a field capable of transmitting all electrical impulses from his brain in a straight line directly to the part of the body he wants to use, completely bypassing his nervous system. It is made up of two parts: Denkō Sekka, the ability to move his body according to his own will, and Shippū Jinrai, the ability to sense his opponents movements and have his body react automatically. He can also move from one place to another hastily, as he did when looking for Gon.

5. Trivia

• Killua is the 3rd Transmuter in the Zoldyck family, after Zeno and Silva. Coincidentally, all three have white or silver hair.
• Killua's name in Japanese is written as "Kirua" in katakana. It combines the Japanese transliterations of the English words "kill" (kiru) and "killer" (kira).
• Killua's eye color shifted: from dark blue it became green in the OVA series.
• He once stated that he doesn't know how to write letters, but he had written a "death notice, Zaoldyeck style" before. Another kind of letter is used for blackmailing people.
• He hates red peppers. He was invited to Gon's house and Mito [gon's aunt] forced him to eat the red pepper but he spit it out.
• Favourite Food: Kokorobokun.
• Killua occasionally is drawn with catlike features (paws, ears, mouth) in humorous situations, much like Botan of Yu Yu Hakusho (a previous work by the same manga-ka) did.

HxH - Killua

Credit : Hunterpedia

Main Character

Protagonists

HxH main character - Gon Freecss

Gon Freecss

Gon Freecss is the talented twelve-year-old main protagonist of the series. Gon was left in the care of his aunt Mito on Whale Island after she took custody of him in court. Holding great disdain for Ging's constant travels and putting Gon in danger, she forced Ging to give his son up so he could live normally. At the age of nine, Gon met his father's apprentice, Kite, who proceeded to tell Gon that his father was alive.

Their meeting steered Gon towards deciding to search for Ging and also influenced him to take the Hunter Exam. Gon is naturally talented in a variety of ways, including superhuman senses, uncanny learning potential, social skills, and immense strength. However, he is simultaneously prone to influence by things he finds intriguing regardless of their inherent ethics.

Throughout the series, Gon adventures alongside his best friend Killua Zoldyck as a Hunter. Gon has been received well by Japanese readers, placing third in the first character popularity poll. 

He is voiced by Junko Takeuchi in the Japanese version of the anime series and Elinor Holt in the English dub.

HxH main character - Killua Zaoldyeck

Killua Zoldyck

Killua Zoldyck is the secondary protagonist in Hunter x Hunter. Born as the middle child to a family of renowned assassins, the Zoldyck family, Killua mastered the trade at a young age and was designated to be the heir to the family business. But Killua rebelled against his family and ran away from home. Befriending Gon Freecss during the Hunter Exam, the pair decides to go on a quest to find Gon's father.

Killua is in constant battle with his identity as a twelve-year-old and his identity as a murderer, often relapsing back to his former ways. Manipulated and tortured by his father and elder brothers, Killua has been raised to tolerate pain and simultaneously enjoy the act of killing.  His tolerance to pain is also what gives him his strength, as he has the ability to harness the power of electricity if it enters his body.

He is voiced by the voice actress, Kanako Mitsuhashi in the Japanese version and Annika Odegard in the English version.

HxH main character - Kurapica

Kurapika

Kurapika is the sole survivor of the Kuruta clan, a minority race with treasured irises that glow scarlet in times of anger or emotional agitation. A blacklist Hunter, Kurapica participates in the Hunter Exam alongside Gon in order to gain the power to take revenge for his race.

A band of thieves known as the Phantom Troupe murdered Kurapika's entire race for their scarlet eyes, highly sought after on the black market, and he subsequently surrenders himself entirely to vengeance.

Having killed two Phantom Troupe members, Kurapika is now haunted by the lingering auras of those he has murdered. But he vows to gain back all the stolen eyes of his people and destroy the Phantom Troupe, even if he must sacrifice his life in the process.

He is voiced by Yuki Kaida in the Japanese version and Cheryl Mcmaster in the English dub.

HxH main character - Leorio

Leorio

Leorio is a Hunter that befriended Gon during the Hunter Exam. In order not to give away too much of himself, Leorio superficially claims that his reasons for becoming a Hunter are money alone. However, his true motive is to become a doctor. After losing a friend to a curable illness that he could not afford the treatment of, Leorio dedicates himself to becoming a Hunter so that he can pay for the costs of medical school and medicines to treat the poor for free. A loyal, trustworthy ally who greatly values the ties of friendship,

Leorio acts like the big brother of the group. Though he is often outshone by the genius combat abilities of Gon and Killua, it should be noted that compared to the average man, Leorio is indeed very powerful. He is physically stronger than Gon (when neither are using Nen), and Leorio mastered the Nen principles of Ten and Ren without a professor—a feat that none of his other friends can attest to.

HxH main character - Hisoka

Hisoka

Hisoka (ヒソカ Hisoka?) is one of Hunter × Hunter's main antagonists. Gon, Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio first encounter Hisoka during the Hunter Exam where he is known as the most dangerous person among all of the examinees. Hisoka registered for the Hunter Exam before, however, he was thrown out because he tried to kill one of the members of the examination committee.

After the exam, Gon and Killua go to the Heaven's Arena to hone their skills only to find that Hisoka had followed them. Hisoka prevents Gon and Killua's entry to the 200th floor of Heaven's Arena until they have learned Nen, so that they are not permanently harmed by other floor fighters eager to perform an "initiation" ritual.

Hisoka joins the Phantom Troupe in order to get a chance to battle the leader, Kuroro Lucifer, but the his abilities are neutralized by Kurapika's 'Judgement Chain'.

Hisoka travels to 'Greed Island' in order to find a man who can remove the chain's effects. There, he assists Gon and Killua in a deadly dodgeball game. Hisoka is one of the strongest characters of the series. He is voiced by Hiroki Takahashi.

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