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So we know that most of the chimera ants left to be kings/queens. They find a mate. But would them repopulating be equal to how humans repopulate or even the number of babies? Cheetahs have 1 to 6 cubs. For chameleons its 8 to 30. Plus would they hatch from an egg? 😬

Oof, really it depends on the ant, their animal instinct, their personality, and who they mate with.

Let's take Flutter for an example.

Alright, he's a dragonfly chimera ant. Dragonflies can have up to 1,500 babies. If he found a mate who was capable of bearing that many young, (likely an egg layer) he probably would have that many kids or more. Given his serious nature towards the whole king and loyalty thing, blah blah blah, should he find said suitable mate, he would be likely to breed them often, because more offspring, means more soldiers, more power and more food.

Now let's take Meleoron.

Sure, chameleons can have up to 30 kids, and theoretically, given he found a mate that could carry that many kids, he could have that many or more.

His personality however, clashes completely with his animal instinct to breed. His personality is chill, awkward, and anxious. Nor does he seem the type to want kids at all. I honestly find it hard to picture him wanting children.

Plus, he doesn't want to become a king of his own either.

Next let's look at Zazan!

Zazan is female and theoretically would need to give live birth and have about 20 to 47 children at a time. But as seen onscreen, she can sting someone to mutate them and make them her sevant.

We also see from her personality and the way she "reproduces", that she would not be the type to want children, she prefers having servants. That's just how she is.

Next is Cheetu.

Cheetahs have about 1 to 6 cubs, on rare occasions, 8. Assuming he found a mate who could give live birth, he could have that many cubs or more. He acts heavily on his animal instincts and his ego.

His personality though, is confusing when it comes to reproducing. It's clearly a big deal in some way because of his instincts and he left because the queen couldn't reproduce anymore. But does he seem the type to want kids? Yes and no.

While breeding is a big deal, his personality conflicts that a little bit. But seeing how much his instincts influence him, he'd likely reproduce with his mate, though maybe only breed them once. One litter and he's good.

But still, that doesn't clarify exactly all the details for chimera ant reproduction. Some other ants could be able to mutate beings into mindless servants, or reproduce in ways that don't involve insemination or egg laying.

Some ants who's animal counterpart would give live birth, may give birth via egg laying. Not to mention some ants may want no young, whilst others would want as many as possible, and other ants stand in the middle ground.

Some ants reproduce asexually like Zazan and the chimera ant queen. There's also the possibility of being sterile, being asexual or gay.

It also comes down to their mate. They might be an egg layer, but their mate might be like Zazan. They might be an egg layer but their mate gives natural birth, that might work like a normal human birthing process though, since it's the female that has and lays eggs usually, so it's just be regular insemination.

If they mated with another ant, breeding may come easier because of the high chance of egg laying. But let's say they mated with humans. Ants that normally had offspring in the thousands within one birth, would be lucky to get 2 in one birth that takes nine months to get to.

Humans generally only produce 1 egg to be fertilized, sometimes two, any more than that is very rare. Plus some ants wouldn't be able to breed with humans because of incompatibility in breeding methods.

Plus, the child would either grow at the same speed and size as a human because of the human egg, or at the speed and size of an ant because of the chimera ant sperm. Obviously that wouldn't go well. Or a female ant carrying a humans child would be the same scenario, then it just comes down to the way they birth.

That doesn't even include what the kid would look like. Surely they would inherit features from their parents, but would what the mother eats affect her young like an ant mother would? I don't think it would, first of all the egg is human and the sperm only decides previously existing traits from the father. The mother also passes on her traits to the child. But the mother is not an ant. The only reason chimera ants pass on what they eat to their offspring is because they are chimera ants.

A human would only need worry about typical things during pregnancy, such as alchohol and smoking.

There are loads of factors and it's completely different for each chimera ant and their mate. So for some, they would maybe have 1 to 3 kids like most humans, but others would have a CLUSTER FUCK MORE! All depends on who births the young, and biology.

Could Cheetu still be alive?

Alright, I saw a post somewhere theorizing on how Cheetu could still be alive. I don’t know who made the post and I can’t find it, but it really got me thinking. 

So, how could he be alive? We saw his body, the blood, and we saw him stop moving. He got a giant aura punch to the head, by Silva non the less, so chances of him surviving such a serious head injury are slim, and chances of him ever being himself again, even lower.

Pretty sure you’d be more likely to get hit by a runaway train as it’s struck by lightning and be able to get up and walk away.

BUT! And I don’t know if the other person mentioned this because it’s been a while since I read it. What if he tricked Silva and Zeno? What if he wasn’t the one punched. 

Nen is as original as art, and the series emphasizes this with unique nen abilities for each character. No two are the same, even within the same nen category. But just like in art, there are nen thieves (Chrollo), people who take inspiriation from other abilities (Cheetu. Morel said his ability was influenced by knuckles hakoware) and those who happen to come up with something similar to another person. (Gon’s ability is basically a strong punch, just like Uvogin, yet they never met.)

Now, how could Cheetu have escaped when we saw him dead? How could he be alive aside from a 1 in 6 billion chance? How could he be somewhere else while we’re looking at him?

A double.

I think he may have come up with something similar to Kastro’s double.

Alright, Kastro’s double scenario flopped because he isn’t a conjurer or manipulator, he’s an enhancer. But he was still able to create a very convincing looking double of himself. 

Now, Cheetu’s new ability was once again bestowed to him by Pouf, who is capable of creating some seriously detailed and powerful abilities. Despite the Savannah thing flopping, that’s still a pretty big ability that takes a lot of nen to use. Cheetu used it with ease, and even made a new ability out of thin air by himself. And a key point to a double working, is being a conjurer.

Cheetu is a conjurer, so it wouldn’t have been hard for him to create a double. 

Conjurer’s can master up to 60% of manipulation.

(Not my chart)

I don’t really think he’d have mastered any manipulation yet, but you know what, I won’t completely toss out the idea.

Another factor to this working is speed. You couldn’t tell when Kastro was using his double ability because he was so fast, yet that likely put a strain on his body. With someone like Cheetu however, speed would be no problem, and he could probably make it seem like nothing ever happened, and you wouldn’t know it was a duplicate.

I know there’s someone thinking, “But Hisoka said you can’t replicate battle wounds in your duplicate!” For some people that may be the case, plus, Kastro wasn’t necessarily the perfect example either. He was an enhancer, he could never have gotten good enough to do that with conjuration in the first place.

When you also take into consideration the strength of the powers Pouf hands out, and Cheetu’s ability to just create a new hatsu out of nowhere, having a duplicate do that wouldn’t be a far stretch.

But he wouldn’t need to in that instance. All he would have to do is take the split second to conjure his double, and speed off. Silva probably wouldn’t have noticed anyways, He’s looking straight down from above with a giant nen energy ball obscuring his view. Plus, he isn’t going to expect someone to notice him in time, or have the reflexes. And his fist clearly collided with whom he thought to be Cheetu, and he saw “Cheetu” die. 

Zeno wouldn’t have seen either, his back was turned for that split second, and amidst the rubble and dust, you can’t even see the palace in the background.

There is an interesting thing I feel I should note. The person who posted, theorizing that Cheetu wasn’t dead, mentioned something about his ears moving back, I think they said (don’t quote me) “He noticed and was preparing his ability.” Something along those lines.

I agree, I think he realized there was an attack incoming and he readied his double. I also think he was getting ready to run.

When Cheetu is running, there are multiple times we see him with his ears back. 

(This is him running before getting tripped, Morel’s foot hasn’t touched him yet, there’s still a small gap. You can see he does indeed run with his ears back.)

I doubt his ears being back was unintentional. When real Cheetahs are running, they run with their ears back. Scientists think it has to do with wind pressure going at such high speeds, (makes sense) and it keeps their head level even as their body moves, so as to keep their eyes on their prey.

Here’s the short article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/cheetahs-ears-are-crucial-catching-dinner

I tried finding more articles because I like to have reliable sources, but shockingly there aren’t many articles on “Why do cheetahs run with their ears back”.

In short, I think he realized an attack was coming, he flipped his ears back, ready to run and prepared his double. The moment he seemingly get’s cut off by the punch, is when he makes his double, escaping in the blink of an eye. His double probably can’t move or talk yet, hence them being cut off. The double could probably mimic appearance only, that includes exterior and interior, hair, eyes, fur, blood, muscles, and organs. 

But I don’t think he managed to have them mimic a brain, or he left it out on purpose. He can’t manipulate yet, so a brain would have no purpose. That’s why we only see blood leaking out. With such a traumatic injury to the head, brains would be splattered everywhere.

Here is the dubbed scene for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jitIQ0BUtVk

It may seem far fetched that he could just disappear in the blink of an eye, but we’ve actually seen him do it before, when he waits till the last second to dodge a bullet.

See here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjEldw-ygrc

We don’t see which direction he goes in, nor him removing the officers fingers, we don’t even hear him until the camera pans back and we see him eating the fingers and talking. So really it isn’t that far fetched.

In conclusion, I think Cheetu is alive. By no means is this meant to be canon, I’m just speculating and coming up with any reason for him to be alive, he is my goddamn comfort character!

Why was Cheetu’ s crossbow so slow?

1. He rushed

As you can guess, one of the reasons was likely the fact that it was just thrown together at the last second. He didn’t take his time making something efficient, and was already using a likely strenuous ability (tag). He was in a hurry and freaked out whilst making the bow so he probably just wanted some kind of long range weapon and didn’t care what.

 2. Conjurer complications

As we know from Kurapika, being able to conjure something and do it well requires not only lots of time, but knowing everything about what you are conjuring. Kurapika had to learn the feel, smell and taste of chains. He drew hundreds of pictures of them. He knew them like the back of his hand. (Pun intended). 

However, because Cheetu hadn’t done that, he got something very flawed.

3. He doesn’t know anything about crossbows

Nen abilities are usually something very personal to the individual. Not just in looks. I’d say the only thing personal about his crossbow is the style and claws. He likely only saw them in his comic books and never a real one. The people of the NGL are peaceful, and the drug lords wouldn’t have something like that when they had guns.

We all know comic books can be very inaccurate when it comes to weapons, vehicles and other detailed items. He likely only ever saw a simplified version. So no matter how many times he studied that crossbow, it would be inefficient because of the way it had been depicted to him.

4. The way it’s made

This sort of ties into the last one. But honestly. compare his crossbow with a real one.

Crossbows are more like old revolvers or pistols, but with extra stuff on the front. You even shoot it like you would a gun with a trigger. His covers his arm and hand up to the elbow. It would be difficult to pull the trigger when it would have to be moved so far up. But judging by where the string is pulled back to, I’d say he actually pulled off not having to move the trigger. 

He likely had something attached to a finger that would pull the trigger at the back of the crossbow. That makes it overcomplicated however, and could effect it’s performance. 

But he at least knows that the bolts are usually meant to be the length of ones lower arm. Unfortunately because he is a chimera ant with different proportions, he didn’t think to shorten the bolt and instead ended up with a roughly 30.5 inch bolt. The best sized bolts are from 16-22 inches.

We also see that the bolts have triangular fletchlings, regular fletchlings are more rounded. Even angular ones round inward at the back. Normally triangular fletchlings are used for a bow, not a crossbow. That likely effected the aerodynamics and slowed down the bolts.

Another thing that probably slowed down the bolts a lot, was the skull they come out of. It only has a hole big enough for the tip of the bolt, there is no space for the fletchlings. The fact he even got a bolt out of that is a miracle. Under regular circumstances, it would have gotten stuck at the fletchlings and just hung down from the skull.

But the fact that it was able to get through the skull, tells me that crossbow had some serious force to it, and that the fletchlings were very flexible.

5. Nen power

The abilities given by Pouf are very strong. We know that’s how Cheetu got his “Tag” ability. It was a very strong ability that didn’t seem to be hard for him to use, even being able to have it in use for up to 8 hours. That’s nothing to sneeze at. But when we see his newly made crossbow, it’s pathetic to say the least.

I suspect the reason Pouf’s gifted abilities are so powerful, is because they force the user to increase their actual aura output power (AOP) to the same number as their potential aura output power (POP). Knuckle goes into more detail in episode 90.

That would also explain why the only strong abilities he has are the ones given to him by Pouf. It’s a method of control, to keep them relying on him, and by relying on him, it requires them to swear loyalty to the king. The whole thing is a sort of win-win.

When it comes to using their own abilities however, the AOP decreases to it’s actual amount. Which is reflective of how skilled they actually are. This keeps the ants from running off to do their own thing and think they can be just as powerful without Pouf. It keeps them on a leash. You may think you’re free to do anything and may even be able to take down the king. But that’s why all of the abilities have flaws. 

It ensures the king’s safety from rogue soldiers. Be it they don’t know how to properly use their ability, or they do know how to use it, but loop holes and gaps keep them from doing damage to Lord Meruem.

This is why Cheetu’ s crossbow is so weak. It reflects where his actual nen level lies. He lacks training, patience, and a desire to learn. We also see the tole it takes on him to make an ability out of thin air. It isn’t as simple as activating “Tag”.

Conclusion

His crossbow didn’t work because he sacrificed efficiency for aesthetic and didn’t know anything about crossbows. 

What would have made his ability work?

Had he been working on a melee ability sooner and his nen, he’d have had an easier time conjuring the crossbow and it could’ve packed an even harder punch. 

If he had been studying crossbows extensively he would have known how to make it usable and aesthetic. If the skull wasn’t there or it didn’t have such a small hole for the bolt it would’ve been probably as fast as him. In fact he could’ve just had a big “U” shape cut out from the top of the skull to where the bolt would be. It would keep the look but in a more practical sense.

Plus if he shortened the bolt and gave it regular fletchlings it would be even faster.

I also think having it arm mounted wasn’t the best idea. It’s seen in media fairly often, but in truth, it isn’t nearly as badass as it looks. Having a standard hand held one would be better. Also having his arm free could help in combat. Sometimes you run into situations like Shizuku was in when fighting Pike. Sometimes dropping the item can be faster than having it disappear. Not to mention the natural reflexes are faster.

Since it’s hand held, having entire claws on it isn’t necessary. It would just look weird. His own claws are sharp enough to get the job done, and now that his bolts are more accurate, he doesn’t need the claws.

Now the only problem would be reloading. Rather than grabbing the previous bolt and reloading it, another bolt could just be conjured in the other’s place. Depending on how good he gets at nen, the bow could mimic a rapid-fire gun. 

Aim wouldn’t really be a problem for him though. We saw him use it before and he aimed perfectly for Morel’s head. Had Morel not blocked (or it have been a smoke clone) he would have been killed.

He can pair the weapon with his speed as well. He wouldn’t be trackable and where he shot would be a surprise (a painful one) for his victim.

All together would be a scary, but functioning crossbow, with deadly accurate rapid-fire bolts, and a terrifying wielder.

Maybe this time it will load for y’all!

Could Cheetu still be alive?

Alright, I saw a post somewhere theorizing on how Cheetu could still be alive. I don’t know who made the post and I can’t find it, but it really got me thinking. 

So, how could he be alive? We saw his body, the blood, and we saw him stop moving. He got a giant aura punch to the head, by Silva non the less, so chances of him surviving such a serious head injury are slim, and chances of him ever being himself again, even lower.

Pretty sure you’d be more likely to get hit by a runaway train as it’s struck by lightning and be able to get up and walk away.

BUT! And I don’t know if the other person mentioned this because it’s been a while since I read it. What if he tricked Silva and Zeno? What if he wasn’t the one punched. 

Nen is as original as art, and the series emphasizes this with unique nen abilities for each character. No two are the same, even within the same nen category. But just like in art, there are nen thieves (Chrollo), people who take inspiriation from other abilities (Cheetu. Morel said his ability was influenced by knuckles hakoware) and those who happen to come up with something similar to another person. (Gon’s ability is basically a strong punch, just like Uvogin, yet they never met.)

Now, how could Cheetu have escaped when we saw him dead? How could he be alive aside from a 1 in 6 billion chance? How could he be somewhere else while we’re looking at him?

A double.

I think he may have come up with something similar to Kastro’s double.

Alright, Kastro’s double scenario flopped because he isn’t a conjurer or manipulator, he’s an enhancer. But he was still able to create a very convincing looking double of himself. 

Now, Cheetu’s new ability was once again bestowed to him by Pouf, who is capable of creating some seriously detailed and powerful abilities. Despite the Savannah thing flopping, that’s still a pretty big ability that takes a lot of nen to use. Cheetu used it with ease, and even made a new ability out of thin air by himself. And a key point to a double working, is being a conjurer.

Cheetu is a conjurer, so it wouldn’t have been hard for him to create a double. 

Conjurer’s can master up to 60% of manipulation.

(Not my chart)

I don’t really think he’d have mastered any manipulation yet, but you know what, I won’t completely toss out the idea.

Another factor to this working is speed. You couldn’t tell when Kastro was using his double ability because he was so fast, yet that likely put a strain on his body. With someone like Cheetu however, speed would be no problem, and he could probably make it seem like nothing ever happened, and you wouldn’t know it was a duplicate.

I know there’s someone thinking, “But Hisoka said you can’t replicate battle wounds in your duplicate!” For some people that may be the case, plus, Kastro wasn’t necessarily the perfect example either. He was an enhancer, he could never have gotten good enough to do that with conjuration in the first place.

When you also take into consideration the strength of the powers Pouf hands out, and Cheetu’s ability to just create a new hatsu out of nowhere, having a duplicate do that wouldn’t be a far stretch.

But he wouldn’t need to in that instance. All he would have to do is take the split second to conjure his double, and speed off. Silva probably wouldn’t have noticed anyways, He’s looking straight down from above with a giant nen energy ball obscuring his view. Plus, he isn’t going to expect someone to notice him in time, or have the reflexes. And his fist clearly collided with whom he thought to be Cheetu, and he saw “Cheetu” die. 

Zeno wouldn’t have seen either, his back was turned for that split second, and amidst the rubble and dust, you can’t even see the palace in the background.

There is an interesting thing I feel I should note. The person who posted, theorizing that Cheetu wasn’t dead, mentioned something about his ears moving back, I think they said (don’t quote me) “He noticed and was preparing his ability.” Something along those lines.

I agree, I think he realized there was an attack incoming and he readied his double. I also think he was getting ready to run.

When Cheetu is running, there are multiple times we see him with his ears back. 

(This is him running before getting tripped, Morel’s foot hasn’t touched him yet, there’s still a small gap. You can see he does indeed run with his ears back.)

I doubt his ears being back was unintentional. When real Cheetahs are running, they run with their ears back. Scientists think it has to do with wind pressure going at such high speeds, (makes sense) and it keeps their head level even as their body moves, so as to keep their eyes on their prey.

Here’s the short article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/cheetahs-ears-are-crucial-catching-dinner

I tried finding more articles because I like to have reliable sources, but shockingly there aren’t many articles on “Why do cheetahs run with their ears back”.

In short, I think he realized an attack was coming, he flipped his ears back, ready to run and prepared his double. The moment he seemingly get’s cut off by the punch, is when he makes his double, escaping in the blink of an eye. His double probably can’t move or talk yet, hence them being cut off. The double could probably mimic appearance only, that includes exterior and interior, hair, eyes, fur, blood, muscles, and organs. 

But I don’t think he managed to have them mimic a brain, or he left it out on purpose. He can’t manipulate yet, so a brain would have no purpose. That’s why we only see blood leaking out. With such a traumatic injury to the head, brains would be splattered everywhere.

Here is the dubbed scene for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jitIQ0BUtVk

It may seem far fetched that he could just disappear in the blink of an eye, but we’ve actually seen him do it before, when he waits till the last second to dodge a bullet.

See here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjEldw-ygrc

We don’t see which direction he goes in, nor him removing the officers fingers, we don’t even hear him until the camera pans back and we see him eating the fingers and talking. So really it isn’t that far fetched.

In conclusion, I think Cheetu is alive. By no means is this meant to be canon, I’m just speculating and coming up with any reason for him to be alive, he is my goddamn comfort character!

How tall do you think some chimera ants are (couldn't find any answers online so wanted to ask) like cheetu and meleoron. I think they might be at the very least 5'10 and at most 6'6. Idk.

I actually have a few of their heights figured out! I got these as accurate as I could by looking them up or comparing them with other characters' heights. HxH is inconsistent with heights though and didn’t give canon heights to every character and straight-up skipped any heights for the ants. So, keep in mind these may not be entirely correct!

Cheetu: 7′8 believe it or not! 

Leol: 7′9 only a little taller than Cheetu. He probably tries mocking Cheetu about being shorter and Cheetu laughs at him because it’s literally an inch difference.

Flutter: 6′4 and a half. I always thought he was like 5′5 but he’s tall!

Hina: Around 5′10.

Yunju: 8′4 and a half. Holy shit.

Meleoron: 6′0 on the dot!

Pitou: 5′10, same as Hina! I wonder if they would get along?

Pouf: His height was hard to find, but he’s about 7′3!

Youpi: 9′2. Oh hell no. That’s fuckin’ taller than Yunju! How?!?

Meruem: I looked this one up and he’s 5′5. Shorty squad!

Welfin: 6′3 and a half. Roughly average in comparison to the other ants.

Ikalgo: 2′4! President of the shorty club!

Rammot: 7′9, another tall boi!

Palm: She’s 7′1 or 7′2. I really don’t know. Getting a height comparison for her was hard. Gon is 5′1 and is at her lower ribcage next to her. If you put that in mrinitialman height comparison, she’s about 7′3, but we know she’s wearing heels and she’s shorter than Knov, who is shorter than Morel, who is the same height as Pouf. Either way, she’s tall and reminds me of Hachi Shaku Sama. 

Colt: 5′7 and a half. He always mentions the extra half, he’s short as it is compared to the others, he isn’t about to round it down half an inch.

I honestly love finding heights for characters. I get to compare them to my shorty self and laugh at the fact that they could end me with the flick of their wrist.