Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-28018961-20160619233847

So I kinda left the forum for a while for no real reason, but I'm back and I'm caught up with the manga, and have found out what some of the terms you guys have been using. Before I say anything else I just want to say right now: The anime is not canon. I'm not saying that nothing in there is true, just that the anime was not made by Togashi. If the anime says something the manga doesn't, we can't take that as evidence, because maybe Togashi didn't mean for it to be that way, and the anime creators just interpreted it that way.

So yeah. I'm more caught up on terms, manga, and Japanese. First thing: I personally think that transgender is stupid. But as stupid is subjective, that is obviously MY PERSONAL OPINION. Just wanna emphasize that right there. That's just an example(and yes it is true), I'm just trying to say PLEASE don't get angry about my opinions. Over the time I've been away, I've had a LOT of people get angry about my opinions, and I don't like it.

So onto my actual thing. Nanika/Something is clearly not Alluka. Killua made Something sad without making Alluka sad. Killua asked Alluka to wake Something up so he could apologize. There are a lot of times we can clearly see that they are different.

Now I'll try to see what Nanika is. First of all, the two main things we can see that Nanika is(I just use Nanika and Something interchangeably, sorry if it's confusing), are a nen ability, similar to the fortune teller person, whatever her name is. She didn't know she was using nen. She just was able to do that. She didn't know what was going on. Similar to Alluka who has had no training, and does not know about nen. Also Something could be connected to the Dark Continent. That is very possible as in one of the recent chapters(last one or two), Kurapika turns his back on the princess(or queen? I can't remember) and other bodygaurds, and we see a dark aura-looking thing that doesn't look quite like aura, but it does look JUST LIKE what Nanika has surrounding him/her, coming from a box or something, with the bodyguards and queen/princess(still can't remember) next to it. Was that coming from the box thing? Or the people? If it was something related to the Dark Continent, and was coming from the box thing, then Alluka is most likely from the Dark Continent. Or maybe that is aura, and Something has the same kind.

Now we know that Something and Alluka are different, and so could very well be different genders. Now considering that Nanika is related to the Dark Continent, it is possible that he/she doesn't have a gender at all, and that could be where the name comes from.

So Killua does say that Alluka is a girl. Illumi and I think Silva and Milluki too call Alluka a boy. They could be reffering to Nanika as they don't care for Alluka, and all they see is a monster, or they could just not care enough to say Alluka's a girl. Or maybe they're right. Killua however, loves Alluka and Something, and Alluka and Something love Killua. And Killua reffers to Alluka as a girl. I'm not sure about how he reffers to Nanika. Now it could be that Alluka is transgender, and wants to be considered a girl, so Killua respects that. It could be also that Alluka is just a girl. But I don't see why Alluka would be considered a boy.

Nanika though, as I said, could be boy, girl, or neither. Most likely not neither if Nanika is nen. But if Nanika is Dark Continent related, then who knows... I think Something is from the Dark Continent as it is unlike any nen we've seen so far. So assuming that Nanika is in fact related to the Dark Continent, we have those 3 options. It could be more complicated, in fact Something could be trans him/herself. But still that would fall generally under boy or girl. But since we know almost nothing about the Dark Continent, I think we'll have to wait a bit for any clues on Nanika.

Those are my thoughts.