Character · Hunter x Hunter
Kurapika
The last of a clan whose eyes turn scarlet, hunting the thieves who took the eyes of everyone he knew.
In Otakana the clue reads: Last survivor with chains and scarlet eyes
- Type
- Character
- Series
- Hunter x Hunter
- Letters
- 8 · Normal
Kurapika is Kurta, a small forest people whose irises burn red under strong emotion and whose eyes are graded among the most beautiful objects in the world, which is why collectors pay for them. The Phantom Troupe killed the clan and harvested the corpses. Kurapika survived by being away at the time, and has organised every day since around recovering the stolen eyes and killing the people who took them.
The revenge has a price written into the power. His Nen chains work at full strength only against the Troupe, and one of them, Judgement Chain, will stop his heart if he breaks that condition. In Nen terms a restriction that severe buys enormous force, and Kurapika chose it deliberately. Scarlet eyes also push him into Specialist, a category he has no business reaching, and using it burns an hour of his lifespan for every second it is on.
The day job is the interesting contrast. He works as a bodyguard for a Mafia family so he can move in the world where stolen eyes are traded, and he is calm, courteous and organised right up until anyone mentions the spider. Togashi uses him to ask what a person spends to get even, and the answer keeps going up.
Spelling KURAPIKA
KURAPIKA is eight letters and, unusually for this list, contains no trap at all. Four clean syllables, ku-ra-pi-ka, spelled exactly as they sound, with the R staying an R instead of turning into an L the way Killua's does. Three A's and a strict consonant-vowel alternation mean one confirmed vowel usually hands you the rest.