#and tbh i'm a bit mad since I think Shal is one of my fav member of the troupe?

[icharchivist]

I still can't believe Shalnark is dead?? It's just so wild to me, like I'm not really super attached to the troupe? They're very interesting but they still did a lot of bad stuff y'know but like. Shalnark I thought was def one of the strongest members! I figured at some point troupe members might be taken out but I def didn't think it'd be him it's so crazy to me. And we didn't really even get to see the fight like?

Oh boy nonny I feel you so much!!

I actually kinda like the troupe, they’re amazing antagonists and i’m really invested in them as characters. I don’t expect any of them to survive and, well, i’m a Kurapika’s stan before anything so ye gotta have a bias and want them to die, but so far, every Troupe’s deaths had left me... wow. 

Shalnark’s especially, and Korutopi’s, were really violent??? But in a way, narrativewise I find it interesting: Every members of the troupe has a role to play, and Hisoka took out Shalnark, the informator who usually gathers informations from the hunter website or manipulate people to get infos, and Korutopi, the copier, the one who allows the Troupe to be more subtle about their stealing. Every legs has its functions, but those two were really something important in general.

And especially, what I find the most shocking, is that Hisoka didn’t even leave them a chance? Hisoka is all there for the fight. He fights because he likes to, he doesn’t liketo fight something that’s not worth it. 

yet he killed Korutopi in the bathroom, Korutopi who has the least offensive Nen of the whole Troupe, arguably the youngest member of the Troupe aside from Kalluto. 

And he killed Shalnark while Shal didn’t even have his phone to fight? Chrollo still had it, Shalnark actually mentions he can keep it, which therefore means Shalnark had no means to fight. It’s mentioned multiple times in the anime but especially shown with Morel that if a manipulator loses the object he uses as a Nen receptor, he can be completely powerless, and that’s exactly the situation in which Shalnark was in.

And also, like, he didn’t give Shal a chance either, he threw Korutopi’s head at him and killed him right away, and left their corpses on displays. Because he was sending a message to Chrollo directly.

which wasn’t fair, at all. But it explains also the lack of fight since neither of them could fight. And Hisoka knew that. Hell, if Chrollo actually stole the Nen powers like he pretended during the fight, Hisoka knew even better.

 although i’m personally a huge fan of the “Chrollo cheated” theory (part 1/ part 2)- that therefore, Shalnark and Korutopi had their powers and were in the audiance helping Chrollo, misguiding Hisoka since Hisoka was calculating which techniques Chrollo was using. To me it’s especially important to notice that Chrollo uses Shal’s power completely wrong by talking into the phone while Shal’s pwoer is about playing a game on his phone.

(also which is why I think Hisoka is going on this Troupe killing spree right now. He won’t get a fair fight against Chrollo until he killed all of them, or at least provoke Chrollo enough for Chrollo to take him seriously in a real fight. If that’s why, he’s being strategic about it).

Which brings me to something else, while Shalnark’s death was shocking, and if we do consider that Chrollo did indeed call Shal in the Fight, and that he called them after the fight to talk about them reuniting, and that when we found his corpse, Shal’s phone was ringing and he couldn’t answer because he was dead:

Chapter 108.

The thing is that this fortune dates back from the York New Arc, but it also comes from a fortune Chrollo made and that Chrollo read with Neon’s power. However, while Neon doesn’t seem to understand she has a Nen power, she did say that she believes if she reads her fortunes, they would be less accurate, and it may have been a restriction she made. Which would mean that Chrollo’s fortunes may have been off eventually... at least for now.

(also that’s why i’m kinda worried for Shizuku right now since they’re going on the boat to steal the treasure of Kakin, which is in itself probably already ill gotten) (Notice that the “No Data Team” involved Phinks, Feitan and Korutopi, so we don’t know anything about what could have happened to them, including Korutopi is kinda sad there)

Honestly I personally totally forgot about that before, and I was honestly shocked by Shal’s death when I got to it. It’s extremely frustrating! And yes, Shalnark did seem powerful but at this point I feel eventually he showed off everything he could really do with his ability after the CA arc.

Honestly i’m all good with the Troupe dying, I’m just. Still kinda shocked by the turn of event and how violent it was. And especially regarding Hisoka’s and his probable reasons why, it’s even more unsettling to me. 

Soo..... ye feel you nonny. I’m so sorry for you though, going through that is quite something :’D

Have fun with the rest though!!