Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
I thought Killua's situation was exaggerated too much. Perhaps it's partially believable in the sense that Biscuit apparently hammened his weakness in pretty forcefully and thus he can't get over it, but otherwise it feels like the plot is forgetting he's a fricking assassin who has slain god only knows how many people. And it's not like he was a total stranger to more demanding fights either. Yet now he's suddenly too scared to stop his knees from shaking and can't take a step forward. If he really was consistently like that, we would have seen this behavior before. But it seems like it appeared out of nowhere in this arc.
It does seem a little like that. I wonder if it has to do with the number of strong people that are coming up in this arc though. We've been introduced to Killua's way of assessing situations before. I think Pitou "shocked" him into running for his life, and the whole Gon thing is pushing him now.

Honestly his fighting before was pretty smart, and it prioritised being alive above all else. What it doesn't help with, is when you're trying to save the world, which protagonists tend to do. As a simple pay-to-kill assassin and fighter, Killua's doing just fine. A noble warrior, he is not.