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the thing i find cute about her and killua in general is how killua is often showed to have some kind of resentment/annoyance towards older women, probably because of his relationship with his mother. that's something i've personnaly noticed, i understand if you disagree. killua overall dislikes being bossed around, but he didn't mind the idea of having wing as a mentor whatsoever and never argued with him etc ; i think his relationship with his mom really had this impact on him. it is also showed through tsubone and that one girl in greed island named asta : even if gon and bisky were pissed off as well by the way she mocked them, killua was the angriest one by far. this may be my personnal interpretation because i personnaly couldn't help but notice how differently killua acted with kikyo vs with silva.

but nonetheless, despite their initial bickering, bisky wasn't simply a mentor to gon and killua but an actual friend. she understood them and treated them with respect, care and like actual KIDS (despite the difficulty of the training), while a lot of adults in hxh tend to adultify or groom them. we can notice her affection for them growing throughout the whole arc, and a moment that really impacted me is when she realizes the amount of torture killua must've endured in order to use elictricity effortlessly and she thinks to herself "terrifying, but also tragic. his life must've been hell, it's a miracle that he can still smile at all.. they really make a perfect team".

what i love about this moment is that she doesn't only acknoledge killua's past like most characters, but she emphasizes the tragic aspect of it rather than simply saying "woah this kid is dangerous" like most characters. she actively feels very bad for him but also comments on his relationship with gon, and how she knows how positive and beautiful of an impact gon has made on killua's life, and how well that complement each other overall. this internal moment shows that she understands them very well imo, and it's so refreshing to see when we're used to see adults abuse and use them. her empathy for killua, while remaining internalised here, shows deep affection which completely goes against killua's past experiences with adults.

something else that emphasizes this feeling for me is bisky's introduction. when we first meet her, she clearly states how she wants to "ruin their friendship". while it may not have been the primary role of this scene, it clearly parallels kikyo preventing killua from seeing his friends during zoldyck family arc. during this short arc kikyo served as a huge obstacle between gon, kurapika, leorio and killua. when gon wanted nothing but to see his friend, kikyo tried her best to make him go away, to end his friendship with killua. while that is the first impression we get of bisky as well, she ends being the total opposite of this. she becomes their friend and mentor, supporting and helping them both.

another parallel with killua's family that i noticed when it comes to bisky is the shocking sentence she says to killua in early chimera ant arc. "one day you'll let gon down and leave him to die". a lot of people actually hate bisky for this line, but she did this to help killua, and the following events prove it was something he definitely needed to hear. even if it was probably very stressful and horrible for killua to get told this, it definitely was for the better and i really love bisky for having the guts to say it. the parallel i noticed here is with illumi's conversation with killua during the last phase of the hunter exam, more specifically when illumi says that killua will "one day want to kill gon"

both of these moments have this same type of shocking "one day you'll betray gon" statement. the thing is, these moments are pretty much opposites : illumi says something blalantly false about killua, completely misunderstands him, and most importantly does not say this for killua's own good at ALL. he says this to manipulate him. bisky on the other hand, says something that's actually possible which obviously puts killua in distress but she does not say this to manipulate him : on the contrary she says it to deconstruct and get rid of the manipulation he has endured (which consists of making him run away constantly). this ends up making him try his hardest not to run away, and actually take out the needle (get rid of said manipulation). it allows killua to be himself more, which is the total opposite of what illumi said.

no matter how harsh it might've seemed, bisky influence on killua is amazing compared to other adults in the hxhverse. even if she might somewhat contribute to their status of *children going to war* by training them, she did not directly start this at all. in fact, during greed island she is a supporting role that is here to help them rather than harm them : so i don't really like to see her presence in their lifes negatively at all.

bisky also mentions at the very end of greed island arc that she shouldn't stick with them any longer, or else she'll get too attached. despite the parallels i've drawn with killua's mother, i'm not going to say bisky is a maternal figure to gon and killua because i don't think these boys have any real parental figure except mito for gon (which isn't a very healthy parental figure btw but she still is one and she tries her best despite the circumstances). in order for a character to be an actual maternal figure, they would have to be a consistent role in a character's life and be present for an extended period of time. bisky only knew gon and killua for a few months, so this alone goes against the concept of her being a mother figure. however I still understand people with this perspective, it's true that she is the closest killua will ever get to having a mom.

(we can also note that bisky and killua act somewhat similar at times? it wouldn't surprise me if bisky sees her younger self in him. that's more of a personal headcanon tho)

rewatching greed island arc is givin me #thoughts