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CHARACTER NAME: Hisoka
AGE: 28
CANON Hunter x Hunter
CANON POINT Chapter 376; he's pretty direly injured at this canon point and all but holding himself together with chewing gum :)
HISTORY: Hisoka | Hunterpedia
PERSONALITY:

Hisoka is a study in contradictions. It makes it difficult to pick a place to start his personality knowing I'll also need to explain the inverse. The concept of 'the inverse' is appropriate to Hisoka: his main weapons are playing cards, which are analogous to the tarot. He calls himself the Magician, a major arcana card which suits him well-- both upright and inverse. He is a powerful magician, and yet dresses like a common clown. He thrives on being mysterious and inscrutable, yet is astonishingly honest and blunt in his darker desires.

With that in mind, I will first outline positive traits and then follow-up with their more negative inverses.

POSITIVE. The positive aspects of the Magician are his deep sense of self and his innate skills. Hisoka knows exactly who he is and what he wants. He has devoted his entire life to that pursuit-- all we know about his past is fighting. He is extremely driven, and with his own drive, drives other to pursue excellence. Although he is initially introduced as a villain within the story, his challenges towards Gon consistently drive the young hero to try his hardest and accomplish his goals. He has been known to personally help Gon achieve his goals, and has also impeded Gon's progress when the boy tries to get ahead of himself in a way that might cause him harm. While Hisoka is picky about who he invests his attention in, and his own end goal is the desire for a worthy battle, he nurtures and protects those he has faith in.

Whether they want his attention is entirely a different matter.

The Magician is deeply intelligent, sharply observant, and quick to make use of golden opportunities. So far, we have seen no one who surpasses him in abilities, and the only character he backs down from is been Illumi. Regardless, the fact that he spends time with the assassin clearly denotes his desire to fight him-- per Hisoka's goal-orientations.

Hisoka's skill comes from his innate knowledge of the mystical nen and his creative flexibility with it. His main skill is Transmutation, and the two abilities he's named -- Texture Surprise and Bungee Gum - - are focused explicitly on their multi-purpose use. He also shows several skills, especially in first meeting him, which can only be explained by the use of other abilities on the nen wheel. This makes sense for him as the Magician. The tarot card shows a mastery of all four elements. He also mocks an opponent, Kastro, for wasting his capacity by focusing too closely on mastering one difficult Enhancer skill, rather than spreading his attention out amongst a variety of more flexible attacks. Hisoka also brags to Machi that it is no problem if people figure out his skills, because he is clever enough to use them in more than one way. What I want to highlight with these example: Hisoka's ability to come at you from many different directions and change plans mid-thought is a credit to his personality.

Creative and incisive, he is just as capable of beating someone mentally as he is of beating someone physically. He rarely seems satisfied to simply best someone physically. He didn't finish off Kastro until he had disrupted his opponent's confidence and seen the fear in his eyes.

NEGATIVE. Hisoka is an amoral asshole with his own code of values that looks nothing like the values of polite society. He is a liar, a criminal, a thief, an exploiter, an imposter, an assassin, and a charlatan. He kills others for small slights because life is insignificant to him. Unless he somehow decides you're special which he does by way of a personal rating system for how entertaining you might be in a fight. Most people are just numbers to him. Even though he grows fond of Gon, it's only because the boy's power is so monstrous.

Hisoka never exposes himself as a person, the few small snippets we know about him are that he maybe grew up poor and ate a specific kind of candy as a child: but he's probably lying. He has no attachment to his past and only looks to the future. He uses this utter lack of context to confuse and manipulate others. He infiltrated the Ryodan by pretending to care about their goals, but all he cared about was fighting their leader. This isn't to say the Ryodan ever trusted him, but he did succeed in fooling even a group of hardened underground criminals into accepting him into their midst. It's impossible to tell when he is, and isn't, lying. The one thing we know to be absolutely true is his love and lust for battle. He does nothing to hide this, and there is something kind of admirable about his openness, even if it's ugly.

For all of Hisoka's control and intellect, he has also shown that he can act without thought and be impatient. When he doesn't get what he wants during the Hunter Exam (ie to shred Gon to ribbons) he becomes overcome with blood lust and goes off blindly to kill anyone else.

His hunt for powerful fighters can be shown in a positive light: as dedication and a hunt to challenge himself. More negatively: it is his only real driving force and all the rest of his behavior is superficial. It suggests that life is empty for him. He craves adrenaline and challenge, like a psychopath would. He isn't afraid for his own life, never expresses sincere sorrow or regret, and never doubts himself. He is entirely self-centered and cares about his amusement and pleasure above any one else's happiness or safety.

HUNTER. Hisoka strives to be the best he can be in all things. His nen is unmatched, his intelligence is fearsome, and his physical fitness is improbable. He is strong: mind, body, and spirit. This is what matters to him, because he is a hunter of power and strength.

Hisoka values strength of will and intellect in others. He likes those who have a clear and determined vision like he does. This makes him like a number of other hunters, including Gon, Ging, and Netero. He isn't unique in canon in this regard. This seems to be a side-effect of the kind of world that Hunter x Hunter takes place in. There are a number of characters who grew up in dire poverty, and whole countries run on slave labor and work houses. The remaining countries are run by the mafia, the common man doesn't seem to have much power in the world, and countries become geographically separated by politics and by magical beasts, that those without activated nen have no chance of defeating. Humanity lives in a tiny corner of the world, surrounded by a great wide world of monsters beyond their means. This inspires the Hunters, this is the meaning behind the Hunter Organization, to reach beyond those mundane options. Hisoka fits in, despite his other unsavory traits.

For good or ill, Hisoka sees people for who they really are. He has no interest in material things or superficial posturing. All he cares about is how strong you are, on the inside. He sometimes acts in ways that can be seen as villainous, but is not himself a villain. His alignment is chaotic neutral, he will act in his own interest above whether those acts are good or evil, right or wrong.

OUTWARD APPERANCE. Because Hisoka is so theatrical, it's worthwhile to describe how he presents himself in addition to his internal workings. Hisoka never fully disguises the fact that he is dangerous, but he does play at being the jester. He speaks with drama and flirtation, and he twists words and always seems to come across as if he knows more than you do and is dancing around the edges of giving away a secret. His silly style of dress is a distraction to stop people from taking him too seriously until it's too late. The vast majority of the time he is smiling. He can and will publicly emote in other ways, but his reaction to most things is to smile at it, this is frequently condescending.

It angers and unnerves when a smile is not the appropriate reaction. Hisoka knows he can throw people off balance by defying expectation, and so he twists expectations with illusion. He is a powerful magician, and he is also a powerful charlatan too.

CANON POWERS: Hisoka Abilities | Hunterpedia
OTHER: Knowing Hisoka is absolute suffering.


CRAU INFO:
MAGIC ABILITY: The ability to summon a toy. It is random every time. He can only summon one at a time, but can do that as many times as he wants. No toys will secretly be 'weapons'. If they happen to have weapons (toy soldier, etc) they will still be blunt/plastic/just toys.
ANY WEAPONS/MAGICAL ITEMS?: A pack of playing cards.
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