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  1. Public Bookmark 17

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    Childe character study. Some ways in which sex and relationships can go wrong if you are a fledgling abyssal horror.
    Prove me wrong: the boy is as deeply weird about sex as he is about everything else.

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    20 Oct 2025

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    "I think," she interrupted, pressing the blunt of the knife into his palm gently, "that some things run in the blood." Her fingers clamped over his, surprisingly strong. "Your father heard the trees. You hear the water. You both learned to listen for the quiet things."

    Gon turned the knife over. The metal caught the light, throwing jagged reflections across the walls. "Quiet things?"

    "The way the birds stop singing before the reaping, so you go fishing instead. How the fish tastes like ash on Reaping Day, so rather you buy bread with it." She leaned closer, her breath warm and smelling of bitter herbs. "You’ll hear the difference of your name in another’s mouth.”

    His grip tightened. "You think they'll call it?"

    She didn't blink, her sad eyes soft yet jaded.

    Gon was always too kind—never hesitated to sneak some grain to the orphans, or “accidentally” leave his basket of fish beside the clinic on bad days. It catches up to him.

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    28 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 36

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    Gon is seven years old when he loses his way in the forest behind Aunt Mito’s house. After wandering for hours he stumbles upon a young man in a clearing: a fortune teller named Killua, who is neither kind nor polite but still offers to guide Gon home. Gon, intrigued by his new friend, continues to replay their encounter even when the summer is over.

    The next summer, Gon returns to search for Killua’s company. He finds him. And he continues to seek him out the next year, and the next, and the next.

    Soon, all Gon can think about is going to see Killua again. Yet some things about their meetings are decidedly strange. For one, Killua never seems to remember him. He’s always wearing the same clothes. And, now that Gon is old enough to see it, he always looks a little sad…

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    The sickness had struck suddenly.

    According to Kikyo, Illumi had been acting completely normal up until the moment he’d collapsed at dinner. It proved fortunate that he was visiting home at the time, as they were able to give him excellent medical care right away.

    And yet, nothing the family doctors tried seemed to make any difference in his condition. Days passed, and Illumi still didn’t awaken. An oppressive Nen hovered over him, one that no exorcist could dispel or even make sense of.

    Slowly, day by day, Illumi began to change. It was almost unnoticeable at first—just a new tint of green in his fingernails, an unnatural growth to his hair. Soon enough, it became impossible to ignore. Illumi’s eyes were sunken in his skull, tiny vines sprouting out of them and climbing down his face. Thicker tendrils of vines sprouted from various places on his body and grew over him, imprisoning him in a thorny cage.

    Kalluto couldn’t stand to be in the same room as him for long.

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  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    “No questions,” Killua says. “I don’t want to know anything about you, you won’t find out anything about me. Got it?”

    “Okay,” the boy nods, "Can I ask one question though? Then I won’t ask anymore I promise.”

    Killua doesn’t respond, but the boy takes his silence as a yes.

    “What’s your name?”

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    Gon and Killua are two runaway teens who meet unexpectedly as they trek their way across the country. All they know about each other is they both need to get to York New, and Killua is determined to make sure that is all they ever find out about each other.

    Fate, it would seem, has other plans.

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    27 Jul 2025