Alright! I wanna talk about my thought process behind this crazy detailed piece I made for the hxh adventures zine in 2018! Get ready for plenty of closeups and references.
So the @hxhadventures zine was the very first fandom zine I've ever been accepted in, which was huge for me back then, considering hxh is the first ever fandom I've been deeply involved in! So I was like 'damn...i gotta bust my balls to make a super good piece cause there's so many amazing artists working on this thing.' I will never make a piece this detailed again, probably LOL this took me...so many weeks.
I knew I wanted to make something regarding Yorknew City, and thought back to the marketplace that Leorio and Killua and Gon visited while waiting for Kurapika to get back to them. It reminded me a lot of Mongkok's markets when I visited Hong Kong a few years prior, so I worked with some references from there.
As for what goods would be sold in the stall...well. I was really figuring it out all as I went. After a while of thinking, I decided on drawing a bunch of little references from anything I could remember from hxh. References to characters, places, important props...nevermind that it didn't make sense that the characters were stepping into a shop that was basically meta, it just felt cool as hell to include anything I could remember from the nights when I binged the manga and anime.
Let's start from the top right:
These chinese animal lanterns are references to the 12 zodiacs! And I had to include the blimps that the main cast moved around in from the anime.
As we move lower:
Top row, left to right: Knuckle's nen, Shoot's nen, Knov's glasses, Palm's necklace of knives, Togashi and Naoko dog and rabbit bags (the first of 3 instances I would place them in this drawing)
Bottom row, left to right: Bisky's nen, Netero's nen, Morel's pipe, Kite's nen.
And on the rest of the rows on the wall:
From top to bottom, left to right:
Row 1: Pitou, Pouf, Youfi, Komugi, Meruem, various Gungi tiles
Row 2: Kurapika's nen (the rest of his finger chains from the manga), Leorio's nen (the fist that he used to punch Ging with), Gon's nen (since it's based off jankenpon), Killua's nen (just a lightning bolt lmao), Palm's crystal ball, Hisoka's cards
Row 3: Togashi dog, Naoko rabbit, a (very tiny) representation of the W and E books from dark continent expedition arc, the starting tower of Greed Island, the Hunter symbol.
Row 4: Black whale ship, Heaven's arena tower, I...forgot what this tree was meant to be LOL, the World tree that Gon climbs to see Ging, 1999 anime hunter license, 2011 anime hunter license.
Moving on lower! We have:
Top row: Togashi and Naoko again as plushies, the Greed Island book, a postcard of Whale Island, the Greed Island end prize card case.
Bottom row: Various characters as dolls, a reference to Hisoka viewing everyone as dolls.
And now on the bottom right:
Some of these are various plushies from Alluka's room (it was mostly filler)
And last, but not least:
On the left we have a hookah pipe, because Kurapika was smoking it in the 1999 anime:
And the ring that Gon is pointing at is the ring that they later used as a prize for Leorio's plan!
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Based on a weird dream I had
No because I never really thought about Uvogin that hard, so why tf did my brain give me one of the most vivid dreams of him just giving me a piggy back ride??
Big bro Uvo confirmed
(Background is just an Yorkshin screenshot I did not make it myself fhgkd)
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breaking bread, a one-shot fic written for the HXH Yorknew Auction reverse big bang event by nogoodalone
word count: 4,377
summary: “I should have anticipated the chance of you finding me here; I don’t know why I expected you of all people to sit still and wait rather than walk around the city.” Gon stalls at Kurapika’s comment, voice clearer than over the phone and deeper than he remembers.
“Man, I thought I was being pretty quiet walking over here.” Gon exhales a laugh, shoving his hands into his pockets and wondering how Kurapika knew he was there when he had yet to even turn his head towards Gon.
“I haven’t forgotten how your aura feels,” Kurapika says. “And sensing that’s a hell of a lot more obvious than if you had started screaming and stomping your way over here.” His commentary sounds aggressive, but Gon knows better. That, and he can see the small smile on Kurapika’s face as he’s talking.
Gon makes his way over and sits next to Kurapika who has yet to stop looking ahead over the river. He asks, “How long have you been here?”, and notices Kurapika’s fingers grip the seat of the bench. A beat of silence passes.
“In Yorknew, since about 5,” Kurapika answers, voice tense. “On this bench, since about 6.”
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i love whenever an adult outsider witnesses one of gon & killua’s fruity little overdramatic exchanges & just immediately becomes enamored with the two of them
this poor unsuspecting grown up ends up seeing these twelve year old kids staring into each others eyes saying shit like “i will walk hand in hand with you into the darkest depths of hell & fear nothing for i have you at my side” with complete sincerity & can’t help but go “you’re both bonkers & i love that for you”
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