the mustard goes in the fridge

hey i really liked your thoughts on hxh and how you focused on the detriment of gon's and killua's relationship is. now that i'm watching hxh2011, i'm starting to wonder is killua separating fr gon a bad thing? before i kept wanting them to be together but now i see that gon is not ok. what do you think? i should reread that but i don't think killua ever realizes that their relationship is actually unhealthy for him. rather he just found out he needs to also care for alluka?

(Sorry for the wait! I gotta say though, that at 1560 words, my reply is actually a lot shorter than I’d thought it would be. I’m a bit sick of looking at it, so it might not make a lot of sense, gomen. Give me a shout if you get confused.)

I wholeheartedly approve of their separation at the end of the Elections arc. In fact, I sort of wish it had happened several arcs earlier, because it would’ve spared them both a lot of agony.

It’s important to note that despite how cute they are together when everything goes well, Gon and Killua’s friendship is toxic for the both of them. I wouldn’t go as far as say that it’s abusive, but it wouldn’t take too much for it to change in that direction for either of them. It’s easy to see Killua as the only one suffering from their friendship, but that’s a simplistic view on their relationship, which harms Gon just as much, albeit in a different manner.

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