Why is Adult Gon Freecss' hair so long? Why is Illumi's hair long?


Around the Chimera Ant arc in _Hunter x Hunter_ , I have seen and understood
how Gon would have to train for such a long time frame to have his hair be
that long. But, Illumi also has long flowing hair.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ODhvsl.jpg)

Does this mean that Illumi has done something similar? Or maybe has Illumi
just had a ton of bloodlust, and his hair went straight up?




It has been a while but I will try to answer with respect to the discussions
held during that period.

First I would like to point a golden rule: **Correlation doesn't imply
causation.** If Adult Gon and Illumi both have long hair it is _NOT necessary_
they have it for the same reason.

Example: [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1Ip4.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1Ip4.png)

Illumi has long hair because his **character design** was meant to be that
way. He was meant to be introduced as a very creepy, gender-fluid character
who could easily dominate the "imperturbable" Killua. The hair design gave
author to do a lot of things with Illumi. [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s88Md.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s88Md.jpg)

You've arrived at the reason for Gon's hair being long correctly, I believe.
During Gon's transformation into what Killua considers "How he would appear
after years, if not decades, of training", we also notice that his hair has
grown absurdly long. This implies how much of time he would need to spend
training to improve his Nen Ability.

To end with this is an old image with Illumi's character design (Hair). I'm
not sure what does the Japanese text says.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCACf.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCACf.jpg)

**Disclaimer:** Please Note, I know this answer is **very opinionated**
without author notes to back it up. It is drawn from discussions during the
original manga release which I have not tracked. In this case its the best
answer to the question I could think of.

Feel free to suggest ways to improve or any flaws in the train of thought, I
might have missed. I also haven't followed HxH in a long time so any new
information is very helpful. Cheers!




It has been a while but I will try to answer with respect to the discussions
held during that period.

First I would like to point a golden rule: **Correlation doesn't imply
causation.** If Adult Gon and Illumi both have long hair it is _NOT necessary_
they have it for the same reason.

Example: [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1Ip4.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1Ip4.png)

Illumi has long hair because his **character design** was meant to be that
way. He was meant to be introduced as a very creepy, gender-fluid character
who could easily dominate the "imperturbable" Killua. The hair design gave
author to do a lot of things with Illumi. [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s88Md.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s88Md.jpg)

You've arrived at the reason for Gon's hair being long correctly, I believe.
During Gon's transformation into what Killua considers "How he would appear
after years, if not decades, of training", we also notice that his hair has
grown absurdly long. This implies how much of time he would need to spend
training to improve his Nen Ability.

To end with this is an old image with Illumi's character design (Hair). I'm
not sure what does the Japanese text says.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCACf.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCACf.jpg)

**Disclaimer:** Please Note, I know this answer is **very opinionated**
without author notes to back it up. It is drawn from discussions during the
original manga release which I have not tracked. In this case its the best
answer to the question I could think of.

Feel free to suggest ways to improve or any flaws in the train of thought, I
might have missed. I also haven't followed HxH in a long time so any new
information is very helpful. Cheers!

