u/PetscopMiju

Bear in mind that I have only watched the first 30-ish episodes of the show one year ago, so my grasp on everything might not be very accurate. I'm very curious about hearing other opinions on that lol

That being said, here's what I randomly sent a friend one fine Thursday evening, while we were discussing the red / blue button debacle:

>Type of logic Gon would pull out in Hunter×Hunter

>I can imagine this during the hunter exam arc

>Everyone is presented with the moral conundrum by, like, a female announcer? Instead of dying vs living, I guess the choice is doing a super duper hard trial where they will likely die vs just proceeding

>I can imagine the shots of shocked anime expressions from the cast while their thoughts explain why it's a moral conundrum. Killua (was he already in that arc? If not, pretend he's already there) is confident and dismissive, seeing everyone struggle over their answers but knowing that "there is really only one logical choice". Kurapika would struggle but try to keep his calm and ultimately choose red. Leorio would REALLY struggle, torn between saving his hide and trying to be "selfless", but ultimately deciding that "Ahh, screw it! I can't do it! I don't wanna die!" and picking red.

>After everyone has chosen, Killua remarks that there was really only one correct choice at the end of the day, and Gon goes "Yeah!" and, turning towards the group with one of his big smiles, he says,

>"You all picked blue too, right?"

>Everyone is shocked and they ask him his reasoning, and he goes, "Well, if red wins, some of us might die, but if blue wins, none of us will die. So blue is the best choice!"

>Killua is flabbergasted, telling him that he needed to pick red, picking red was the only way to guarantee saving himself. Gon goes "Eh, but what about everyone else?" and Killua retorts "Everyone else would have thought the same thing! The correct choice was for everyone to pick red!"

>And then Gon gets dragged into the Shadow Realm ig

This was 100% inspired by that moment with the candles btw