Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26939936-20151003194103

It takes two to tango!

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Hello everyone! I'd just like to start talking about Alluka's gender and the implications behind the Zoldyck's treatment of her as 'Nanika.'  While I personally believe Alluka is a girl, I'm fine with her wiki page as of now. If anyone has any information on this topic, feel free to post it! I'll start:

Viviburn wrote: Ok, you wanted Japanese text...here it is! お兄ちゃん..... あたしジャマ...？　いない方が家族仲良くできる？The page this is said can be found here: http://www.imagebam.com/image/545187162083006It roughly translates to "Brother....am I a hindrance? If I wasn't here, would the family get along?" Two things to note: first, we know it's Alluka since she says 'brother' instead of 'Killua'. Second, Alluka uses あたし to address herself, which is a personal pronoun used by girls and young women. Here are some links that will define it:

http://www.wordsense.eu/%E3%81%82%E3%81%9F%E3%81%97/ http://japanese.about.com/od/Grammar/a/Personal-Pronouns.htm

Note that while some personal pronouns are flexible with gender (most notably 私 and occasionally 僕, both also dependent on age), あたし is pretty strictly feminine!