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^-^ I’m so glad you’re happy about my daemon au!!!!! I always thought no one cared about it but all of these asks are just making me so crazy happy, so THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Have some daemon au as thanks:

Killua is staring into the fire when Gon plops down beside him, a long, happy sigh escaping between his best friend’s lips.

“Done for the day?” Killua asks, side-eyeing the exhausted boy next to him.

“Mhm.” Sweat beads shine on Gon’s forehead and his arms shake slightly from the effort of leaning on his palms. 

Killua turns back to the fire, prods the logs with a long stick he found a few hours ago. “Didn’t manage to get the emitter technique under control yet, huh?”

“Nope,” Gon huffs, brow furrowing. “I will soon though! It’s only a matter of time before I figure it out!”

Killua fights down the urge to huff. Gon figuring out Bisky’s level 5 emitter training is about as soon to happen as Bayanai flying- which is to say, never. Gon’s powerful, sure, but Bisky’s also taking a risk rushing Gon and Jax’s training like this. Maybe Killua and Ariney could help if they hadn’t gotten so banged up during that fight with Razor and-

“Where’s Ariney?” Gon’s question jolts Killua out of his thoughts. 

“She’s-” Killua spaces out, feeling for that familiar warm glow always tucked into the corner of his mind, “-by that lake I showed you last night. She needed some time alone, I think.”

The lie leave a bad taste in his mouth. Ariney was hiding- hiding from Gon and Jax, from Bisky, and even from Killua. She could barely find a good form to transform into since Killua’s hands had been injured and she didn’t want to show any weakness.

“Too far for me to visit?” 

Killua looks sharply at Jax- a jackal today, with short fur that glows gold like Gon’s skin and eyes and smile- and the dæmon stares right back. It’s almost unnerving sometimes how direct Jax can be. It makes Killua feel weirdly vulnerable, like he’s been stripped bare.

“Yeah,” he says after a short pause. “Too far for you. Sorry.”

Jax wilts and Gon scratches the top of his head, right between his ears.

“It’s okay,” he coos reassuringly. “She’ll be back soon.”

“But I want to see her now,” Jax grumbles and Killua almost laughs at how Gon he sounds.

Someone’s missing you, Killua thinks. A few seconds pass, then-

Really? Ariney asks, a mix of hope and joy. He can feel her swirling emotions, the doubt and fear and self-disgust rolling inside her like a churning wave. She’s scared to come out. She doesn’t want anyone to see her pain; they’d been punished for that sort of thing back at home. 

Killua can relate. Even now he’s hiding twinges of sharp, prickling pain off his face every time he flicks a finger.

Jax lets out a short breath, then curls into himself on the ground between his and Gon’s feet. His tail swishes dangerously close to Killua’s right shoe but Killua doesn’t dare move away. 

He likes it- the strange, dangerous game he and Ariney are playing with Gon and Jax. Pushing the boundaries- the taboo– of what’s acceptable between

dæmons and humans and what’s not. It makes Killua wonder just what this warm, swelling feeling growing between them really is.

But he decides to let his dæmon come to her own conclusions, sending her the sad image of Jax at his feet.

There’s a few beats of silence.

I’m coming, Ariney says finally, finally, and Killua’s lips crack into a smile.

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DAEMON GUIDE ((Character- daemon name (M/F), unsettled/settled as))

Killua- Ariney (F), unsettled

Gon- Jaxton, aka Jax (M), unsettled

Bisky- Bayanai (M), settled as an East African oryx

((more of this au))….((Zoldyck dæmon au fic))