Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25877059-20150630152810

So, as we all know, there are 6 Nen types:

Enhancer

Emitter

Manipulator

Transmutter

Conjurer

Specialist

But what if, there are really only 3 "base" Nen types: Enhancer, Manipulator, and Conjurer?

What I mean is, the other categories can practically be explained with only those 3 categories.

An Emitter is essentially someone who "Manipulates" their own Nen, and Emitters are generally impulsive and hot-blooded, but calm down quickly. Almost like a simple person that is also agrumentative.

A Transmuter is like essentially who temporarily "Conjures" up properties of an object in their own Nen, and they're whimsical liers, like people that are determined and simple but also logical and guarded/cautious.

Specialisits are a bit trickier. but many of them that we've seen included some types of Conjuration and Manipulation. Neon "conjured" a beast, and in a way, "manipulated" peoples fortunes and futures. Chrollo "conjures" a book, and "manipulates" the abilities of other Nen users as his own. Leol does a similar thing to Chrollo. Neferpitou's is pretty much self-explainatory, conjure a beast and manipulates it/uses it to manipulate herself. Pakunoda "conjures" up a gun, and "mainpulates" memories, or (more loosely) "manipulates" people (by touching them) to "conjure" up their memories. Meleron is a bit harder to explain. He "manipulates" himself or people by touching them, and "conjures" up a lack of presence. Komugi "manipulates" herself and "conjures" up ideas for Gungi. Don't want to get into Omakagi (because I can't remember him, lol), because he isn't canon, but just looking at his abilities from the wiki, it looks like some types of conjuration+manipulation, lol. I could probably come up with an explanation for him, too.

Again, specialists sare tricker in the personality adscpect as well, and their's not much that can be drawn in similarity, except that specialist often refrain from being close friends, and Conjurers' guardedness. Plus, specialists often have way different personalituies and circumstances, so it's hard to tell! Meleron's, Chrollo and Pakunoda's personalities certainy seem to fit both Manipulator and Conjurers'  while also fitting Specialists, but not Neon or Neferopitou!

The Nen water test could also, to some point, be used to support this theory, although the evidence would be far looser and weaker.

For example, one could explain Transmuter;s making of the water sweeter as a mix of enhancing the water with impurities. Or Emitter's making of the water change color as moving something that has to do with the water's volume that results in a color change?

(IDK, the emitter water result is very weird and nonsensical compared with the rest of the water results in the first place. Seriously, why would water change color instead of just move or something? Changing the water's color seems more like a Conjurer thing, TBH. Maybe Togashi made it like that so that it wouldn't be confusing if somebody in story was an emiter and had to do that? But the readers would probably figure it out, and there are a lot of things in the HxH world that would be confusing to the characters but not to the readers, so maybe there's some deeper reason behind it? It would make for some good theory material. Or maybe that was the reason and he just wasn't thinking much about it, lol.)

Specialists' test vary, but based on Neferpitou's result, it was kinda of like "conjuring" up impurities in the leaf to dissolve it, I guess. But then again, Neferpitou's abilities largely have to do with Conjuartion and Manipulation in the first place, so again, it's hard to tell.

This would also mean that, from Bisky's words, that Gon, who is between Enhancer and Emitter, but mostly towards Enhancer also has a tiny bit of Mainpulatorness in him, mostly seen in his stubborness and arguing with people (e.g. Gon vs Illumi, right after the completion of Gon's year's Hunter Exam)

Well, maybe I'm just overthinking things, though, but I thought this was a cool theory, and wanted to share it.

tl;dr

The theory is that there are only 3 base Nen types: Enhancer, Manipulator, Conjurer.

Emitter = Enhancer+Manipulator

Transmuter = Enhancer+Conjurer

Specialist = Generally, Conjurer+Manipulator (a bit harder to support with evidence)

See above for reasoning, evidence.  