sexta-feira, 6 de junho de 2014

Hunter X Hunter Theory - Nanika is a Dark Continent Calamity

I posted this theory about a week ago on a Youtube video, but since then I thought it'd be better to make a proper theory post here, with images and everything. So buckle your seatbelts because this will be a long one.

The new oncoming arc in the series: The Dark Continent.

It's barely started and it already seems incredibly interesting, and as far as HxH go, pretty complicated as well. However, we still have some lingering questions from the last, Election Arc; mainly pertaining to one character: Alluka Zoldyck.
This theory will be divided into 3 parts, so let's start now, shall we?


PART 1 - MAHA ZOLDYCK AND ISAAC NETERO


All right, with that being said, I'd like to start this theory with another character: Alluka's great-great-grandfather, Maha Zoldyck.

The theory I posted said that Maha Zoldyck once went to the Dark Continent. According to the latest chapter (342), there have been 149 attempts to go to the DC, and out of all of them, there were only 28 survivors. Out of these 28 survivors, only 3 were able to return to their everyday normal lives. My guess here is that these three people were: Isaac Netero, Beyond Netero and Maha Zoldyck.

Isaac stated that he went to the DC twice in his youth, so I don't believe it'd be too far-fetched to think Maha accompanied him in one of these trips.



Here's my reason

Zeno talking about Netero in the Chimera Ant Arc

The only person to have fought Maha and survived. I'm more surprised by the fact that Maha survived! But in that statement we can assume that Maha is a pretty damn strong person. And if he can fight against Isaac Netero, perhaps he also gained that strength in the DC.


Continuing the theory, as a result, after Maha returned, Alluka got infected by one of the Calamities; more specifically, the Gas Life-Forms called AI.
Now you may ask: Why did Alluka get infected and not Maha?

According to Killua, this is the Zoldyck Family intercorrelation diagram.


Basically Untouched... Hmm

See Maha in the bottom right corner there? For a life-form that seeks for co-dependence, what good would it do to stay attached to a person who doesn't seem to care about anything or anyone, even from his own family?
Also, and this is a speculation, if you consider the Gas Life-Forms as a sentient species, they could easily realise that Maha was their worst choice and that Alluka would be the best one. Considering she was a child girl who has been denied by her family, and the only person who trully loved her was Killua (whom at the time was being controlled by Illumi), her dependence towards Killua seems rather logical; therefore, so does the "transference" of the callamity from one body to the other.


PART 2 - ALLUKA'S "POWERS" AND NANIKA


Before I begin talking about her powers, I's like to say that I DON'T BELIEVE HER POWERS ARE NEN-BASED!
I'll get into the reason why soon, but first let's take a look at them.

Alluka... Or better yet, Nanika can grant a wish after 3 of her random requests are met. If a person denies her 4 times, they die. You can wish just about anything, however, the greater the wish, the greater the next requests will be. I won't give the full explanation of her abilities here because it'd take too long and this is pretty much all I need for this, but if you want to know more, just check the Wikia.

As for the reasons why I don't believe her powers are nen-based, here they are:

1. Killua was the first to know about them, and he did not know about Nen at that time.
2. Silva and Kikyo were surprised to find out about her powers, which means that nobody taught her about Nen.
3. This image



Remember when Kurapika was learning about Nen and he said that there are things that are impossible to make, due to it being beyond humans abilities?




Well, Alluka was able to control causality by making a zeppelin full of money change its course and drop all the money inside just to grant a wish. That seems to go way beyond human abilities. So as far as Nen goes, her powers are a direct contradiction to what was estabilished in the beggining of the series.




PART 3 - GAS LIFE-FORMS AI


The last part of the theory revolves around one of the Calamities. However, I will be going back and forth between AI and Alluka/Nanika here as well. In chapter 341 they were introduced, and this one caught my attention more than the others because it fit the theory better.


I'd like to say that AI is a sentient species because of two reasons:

1. They seem to simply follow Killua's orders and grant him wishes without any backlash. The reason being (and this is me speculating again) is that the desire of co-dependence is aimed towards him.
2. Alluka/Nanika has never wished anything from her parents. Why? To prevent them from possibly dying? Maybe Alluka's feelings interfeered with that, them being her family and all.


It also seems quite strange that Nanika gets really tired after healing someone. Well, if you consider this the work of a calamity, it makes sense. Calamities aren't good with healing things because, well, they're calamities.

Either way, while getting an explanation on the 5 calamities, we were also shown a few bodies here and there, which were affected by them. This is where it all started to connect for me:



These bodies look exactly like the bodies of people who fail Nanika's requests.

Illumi explaining Alluka's powers to Hisoka

It can't be a coincidence, so it has got to be a connection there. And to further my suspicions, they were all found in the regular human world.



And let us not forget about Silva's words.

Could this place be The Dark Continent?

And to end this theory, when Nanika grants a wish, she says the word "Aye", which is a homophone of "AI". Normally I wouldn't mention that, but considering that there were a lot of wordplays in the Election Arc, this seems to me like an important detail.



Thanks for reading!

15 comentários:

  1. This post is really old, but I feel the need to comment. Your theory is pretty solid, but there's a teensy little detail that is wrong. Well, I wouldn't say that it's wrong, but you must've skimmed over this detail and came to your own conclusion. There's probably more, but this is one that I specifically know is wrong because I watched Hunter x Hunter recently. The reason Alluka did not make any requests of her parents was because of one of Nanika's rules. While she is making demands of someone, she won't make demands of anyone else. Milluki, Killua's overweight brother, stated that he would have Alluka make a demand of a butler before taking him to the parents and that Killua probably did the same thing.

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    1. Hmm, yeah, it's been a while and I'd have to check the manga. Perhaps I did overlook it when I wrote this, but now that you mentioned it, I think I do remember him saying something like that.

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  2. I believe this theory to be true... But Alluka / Nanika did not get chosen by AI because she was isolated. She became isolated because she was chosen by AI and got her powers.

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    1. Not quite. Even before her powers were discovered (when that first buttler saw her face changing and tells her mother), Killua is shown to have known about it already. That's because Killua was the only one who would play and care for her even at that age. The Zoldyick are a family of assassins, they don't have brothers and sisters playing together at parks and such like a regular family; Killua is simply different from the rest, as we all know. She became isolated only when they started experimenting with her powers and people started dying. For all we know, she's probably had AI inside her ever since she was a baby.

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  3. Makes sense enough to me, nice theory.

    And also, just to note, those two serpents forming the infinite symbol during Irumi's explanation about Alluka's powers are very similar to the cover of the "Journey to the New World" book that Don Freecs was writing. Hint? Maybe.

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  4. You're right!! Extras from Volume 3 Confirm this!

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  5. Solid. Makes my heart thump to read.
    But your mistakes are your theory on it not being nen because she wasn't taught. Komugi and the nostrade girl were also not taught.
    Next you said maha, you might mean Zzigg Zoldyck because he went and survived. Also there was the woman who was in the running for chairman she was with Netero and survived. Good theory though.

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  6. It might help your theory to say zzigg instead because he's more unattached than anyone else. He's so unattached we never hear about him from the family members, but maha assasinated with illumi in the 1999.

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    1. Hey, sorry for the late reply. Well, at the time I wrote the theory, Zzigg hadn't even been mentioned in the story, but even now I believe that it could still be Maha. Netero has said to have travelled to the DC TWICE, and the time we saw him there (with Zzigg and Linne) was just one of these times. Maybe Maha was with him in the other one? Maybe Zzigg went missing, and Maha (who's possibly his father) went later to try to find him? Maybe he went with Beyond? The possibilities are many, but you're right, I could definitly be wrong there. As for the Nen part, yes, it's true that neither Komugi nor Neon learned from anyone, but they were both geniouses and even then, their nen followed the "laws" explained by Kurapika's master, which is something Nanika's powers don't. She can do things which would simply not be possible for a human being to accomplish. Finally, remember that the Zoldycks are a family of assassin's. If you pay another family member, I'm sure they'll help you with a particular assassination. It's not about love. We've seen Killua ask for Miluki's help before in the Auction arc, and we know they hate each others guts.
      Thanks for reading!

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  8. https://goo.gl/ISu8YU
    https://goo.gl/GJ6hjb

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  9. AI has its natural power. like chimera ant's power is to produce chimera ant that inherits something from what it eats. And AI's natural power could be squezing people, teleportation. it's known from the fact that is explained in the manga that people facing AI are squeezed to death and sent to known world.

    and i believe that nanika is AI that has learned nen.

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  10. i mean, Nanika slaughtered countless ramdom innocent people that had nothing to do with the request or even those who requested, and without even giving the victims or those who witnessed their demise the right to know why they died, the dead and the witnesses were all left in absolute darkness about why people suddenly were crushed into 2D... that accursed thing Nanika has to be dealt everlasting agony, we must take it from Alluka's body and torture it for life, it won't be enough to punish it, but it's the closest of the enough!

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