Respect Shaiapouf! (Hunter X Hunter) [Composite]
Shaiapouf, often just called Pouf or Shau, was a Chimera Ant, an insect who’s Queen passes on the genetic traits of species she eats to her offspring. Pouf’s Queen was a human sized mutant that ate thousands of people to give birth to him, as well as his siblings Neferpitou and Menthuthuyoupi, who would serve as the Royal Guard to her ultimate child, the Chimera Ant King Meruem. In addition to humans, Pouf got his genes from butterflies, in some ways making him both the most human and insect-like of the guards. As a result, Pouf would hold both himself and his King to an impossible standard. After Meruem’s birth, he and his guards took over the nation of East Gorteau, in order to turn its population into an army to conquer the world. However, Pouf grew concerned that the King was developing a sense of compassion from playing the board game gungi with its world champion, a blind girl named Komugi. Pouf’s fears would come to a head when the Hunter Association attacked the King’s royal palace. Temporarily separated from Meruem, Pouf found him amnesiac and near death, causing him to sacrifice most of his body to heal him, even as they were both unknowingly poisoned. Taking advantage of Meruem’s memory loss, Pouf tried to kill Komugi so the King would seek conquest above all else. Thanks to the hunters however, he failed, with his actions inadvertently getting Pitou killed. As Meruem finally remembered Komugi, Pouf was forced to admit his betrayal and waited to die from the poison coursing through him. Despite this, Meruem thanked Pouf for his service and wished he would see him and his other guards soon, as he spent his last hours with Komugi.
Note: This respect thread will be using feats from the 2011 anime. Feats from this source will be labeled.
##Physicals
###Strength
- Flies while carrying Meruem [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^213, ^Episode ^91
- Shatters blocks of stone with his punches and kicks [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^266, ^Episode ^112
- Stuns Morel with a kick and pulls his giant pipe out of his hand [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^284, ^Episode ^120
- Pouf and his fellow Royal Guards could easily kill Gon ^- ^Chapter ^286, ^300
###Durability and Endurance
- [Anime] Possibly unharmed by assault rifle fire ^- ^Episode ^93
- Only slightly bleeding after getting tail whipped by Meruem [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^249, ^Episode ^105
- Meruem was strong enough to stab his tail into rock and use it to fling himself to the top of a mountain [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^198, ^213, ^Episode ^91
- Unharmed from being on the rim of a molten crater created by a nuclear explosion ^- ^Chapter ^298-299
- Him and Menthuthuyoupi survive feeding 6/7th and 90% of their bodies respectively, to Meruem, so he can absorb their aura and Hatsu's, who uses them to regenerate his limbs ^- ^Chapter ^299, ^301, ^310
- His 1/7th clone was fine after getting punched with 233 units of aura by Knuckle [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^301-302, ^Episode ^128
- Gon's punches, which could snap a steel rod in two, had 150 units of aura [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^58, ^211, ^Episode ^34, ^90
- Regenerates part of the arm and head of the remaining 1/7th of his body after they were burned by Killua's electricity [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^303, ^309, ^Episode ^129, ^132
###Speed
- Flies hundreds of meters in around 3 seconds while dodging projectiles that moved 2 kilometers in less than 3 seconds [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^259, ^263-267, ^266, ^Episode ^109, ^111-112
- Has a nervous breakdown only to recompose himself, all in under 4 seconds [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^266, ^269-270, ^Episode ^113
- After splitting into dozens of clones and flying away from Morel, reforms his full body behind him before he can react [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^273, ^279, ^283-284, ^286, ^Episode ^120
- Flies dozens of kilometers in 15 minutes ^- ^Chapter ^259, ^265, ^267, ^290, ^298, ^301
- His 1/7th clone nearly hits Godspeed Killua while he was distracted, though he's outmatched in speed [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^302-303, ^Episode ^129
- Without Godspeed, Killua was fast enough to dodge sniper rifle rounds when they were 57 centimeters from hitting him [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^237, ^Episode ^100
###Intelligence
- Can play the violin ^- ^Chapter ^206, ^234
- After getting trapped in a smoke barrier with Morel, uses his emotion reading power and devises a risky but successful plan to slip his clones through the barrier and have Morel deactivate it to let his core rejoin them ^- ^Chapter ^273, ^277-279, ^281, ^283-284, ^286
- Uses Komugi's blindness to manipulate her with his words and cause her to struggle with Killua while he was trying to save her from Pouf ^- ^Chapter ^303
- While trying to hide information from Meruem after he gained the ability to tell if he was lying, uses the truth to manipulate him into nearly killing the one person who could tell him what he wanted to know ^- ^Chapter ^304-305, ^310, ^312-313
##Nen
Nen is a technique within Hunter X Hunter that grants users the ability to control their life energy, or aura, and use it to gain superhuman attributes. To harness Nen there are 4 general techniques which exist, as well as 6 categories of Nen user.
An explanation of each category, Pouf's type is Manipulation
###Ten
Ten allows a user to control the flow of their aura and lets a person protect themself with a defensive shield. It is the most basic of Nen techniques but also the most necessary, as it prevents one's aura from simply uncontrollably spilling out of their body.
###Zetsu
Zetsu is used to suppress one's aura, and by doing so can hide their presence and make it easier for them to detect the presence of others, as well as relieve fatigue, at the cost of being otherwise incapable of using aura
###Ren
Ren increases the flow of aura, amplifying the traits granted by Nen, improving users physical attributes and allowing them to expend more of their available aura
- Netero's Ren, which feels like being stabbed with needles to other Nen users, is much weaker than Pouf's ^- ^Chapter ^213, ^215
- Another Nen user was driven out of her mind and tried to commit suicide after being exposed to his Ren [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^294, ^Episode ^124
###Hatsu
Hatsu is a technique that varies from person to person, it is a personal expression of one's Nen, and for nearly every Nen user in the series, comes in the form of a signature ability
###Beelzebub
- Can split himself into clones, though his core or command center has to remain at least the size of a bee ^- ^Chapter ^286
- Can form an outwardly full sized clone with 1/7th of his body ^- ^Chapter ^288
- His full sized clones only have half of his combat potential ^- ^Chapter ^286
- His clones can't see if they're smaller than mosquitoes ^- ^Chapter ^302
- Morel's smoke troopers striking the clones just causes them to divide and reassemble, making him wonder if they're invincible [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^284, ^Episode ^120
- Splits into 100 trillion clones ^- ^Chapter ^279
- Uses his clones to find and evaluate every person in the royal palace without them noticing him ^- ^Chapter ^286
- Splits a 1/7th clone to create enough clones to search the whole royal palace ^- ^Chapter ^302
- Reconfigures his cells to perfectly copy someone's facial structure and vocal chords ^- ^Chapter ^304
- Makes half of his face look like that of an ant's ^- ^Chapter ^298
- Burning the clone's cells can kill them ^- ^Chapter ^303
###Spiritual Message
- Can disperse his butterfly scales to hypnotize those who breathe them in ^- ^Chapter ^259-260, ^273
- Can't disperse his scales and split into clones at the same time ^- ^Chapter ^310
- Can't spread his scales against the wind ^- ^Chapter ^287
- Can read the psychological state of those in contact with his scales by seeing a blend of 30 emotional patterns and analyzing them to infer their thoughts [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^273, ^Episode ^114
- Can tell exactly what Neferpitou is thinking ^- ^Chapter ^202
- Hypnotizes a crowd of tens of thousands of people so that they'll just stand and wait to be killed [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^259-260, ^Episode ^109
- Hypnotizes thousands of more people while weakened [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^308, ^310, ^Episode ^133
- 46,613 of the people he hypnotized died within 24 hours of waking up from it ^- ^Chapter ^318
###Cocoon
By wrapping people in cocoons, Pouf can give them their own Hatsu’s, as well as turn humans into Chimera Ant hybrids
- Gives Hina, Leol, and Flutter Hatsu's ^- ^Chapter ^234-235, ^245, ^261, ^248, ^273, ^237
- Gives Cheetu a Hatsu ^- ^Chapter ^244-245, ^248
- Gives Welfin and Bloster Hatsu's ^- ^Chapter ^246, ^276, ^296, ^282-283
- Places 5,000 humans in cocoons, and planned to do this to 20,000 more ^- ^Chapter ^246, ^331
- Wraps himself in a cocoon to hide his core while he's using Beelzebub ^- ^Chapter ^273, ^279, ^283, ^286
###En
En is an advanced application of Ten and Ren that extends a user’s aura to a radius of 2 meters around their body for at least 1 minute, allowing them to feel the shape and movement of anything that enters it
- Covers two floors of a building with his En ^- ^Chapter ^216, ^270, ^266 ^250-251
- Another Nen user just getting near his En caused his hair to turn white from the stress [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^250-252, ^259, ^Episode ^105-106, ^109
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