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summary: pen ’s been running for six weeks, hunted for four, and now that she finally thinks she’s free of the hunter pursuing her, she can take a moment and rest. she’s wrong, but at least there are waffles. (a gon character study)  

notes: @jyuanka​ left some super amazing tags on a gon headcanon post a while back about my headcanons of him as a lost hunter, and it spun into thoughts about what gon would look like from the pov of someone he’s hunting. long story short, green sunshine boy is a scary person. also ethics and morality for hunters is weird and complicated. gen (brief mention of assault), OC-pov, gon freecss. 2700 words. (sorry this is kind of super not what was originally intended)

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Pen thinks she’s finally lost him when a man built like a half-ton of well-used muscle and gravity-defying spikes of black hair drops into her booth with a pleasant smile on his face. It’s a really nice smile, surprisingly straight white teeth against freckled brown skin, especially for someone who’s been hunting her across the last four weeks. Nice enough that in other circumstances, Pen would believe him to genuinely be a pleasant person by his smile alone.

But she’s caught few enough glimpses of him over the last month that Pen knows, whoever this man is, he is the opposite of pleasant. Anyone with the sort of calm, cold, deliberate stalking, circling her in until she’s caged herself like a rabbit hunted by a wolfhound until it is stuck frozen and shivering and only able to wait—someone capable of that can’t be pleasant. That he did so while wearing a bright orange shirt under a forest green vest is more embarrassing to Pen than anything else. She should have seen that.

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