

Each spider has a spider tattoo with its member number tattooed somewhere on
its body. Shizuku's is on her hip, for example.

As they are thieves, anonymity is a valued good, so I can't imagine them going
to a tattoo parlor. At least not without disposing of the entire staff
afterward.

Does one of the members take to tattooing? But how does this happen then:

> All of the spiders are experienced Nen users. When tattooing Hisoka, surely
> the artist would've recognized that they were not tattooing real skin, but
> rather Texture Surprise. Since Texture Surprise was inspired by a chewing
> gum wrapper, I wonder if that would even work in the first place, since
> tattooing paper is probably not very fruitful.


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Who tattoos the Phantom Troupe?


My guess is that Chrollo stole someone's nen at some point that allows him to
personally place the tattoo on someone's body without actually tattooing them.
My understanding of Texture Surprise is that it resembles the texture and feel
of the actual substance, not that of a paper, and since his nen type is
transmutation, he also has a strong affinity with the 2 neighboring groups
which are conjuring and enhancing. Texture Surprise is actually a conjuring
ability, he probably conjures a layer of skin-like material over a cloth or
maybe just transmutes his aura into a skin-like material over the cloth and
combines it with bungee gum to stick it (it is highly likely to be the former
one).

He may have fooled the members because he's skilled enough to do it, Machi
once said that he's so fast that even her eyes couldn't believe it when he
applied Texture Surprise over the scars on his hand after she finished
stitching his hand. Chrollo may not have expected anyone to be foolish enough
to actually challenge them because of their reputation as a ruthless bandit
group, and since the entire group was probably there during his "acceptance"
into their group, he may have let his guard down and not noticed the fake
skin.

But other than that, it's anime logic since it's important for the plot
development to take place.


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