Animals

One of the most interesting aspects to Hibari's personality, perhaps, is his love for small, adorable animals. For a guy running around referring to weaker people as "herbivores," he seems to love actual herbivores. He adopted Hibird from an enemy in the Kokuyo Arc, and it loves him unconditionally. The bird's nickname was given to it based on how, from the moment the two of them met, it has never left Hibari's side. He even taught the bird to sing Namimori's song. He shows a gentleness and a way with animals that he has never shown with humans. This shows his simple-mindedness again, in that the aspects he loves in small animals are the ones he despises in people. It is people that complicate things.

As he stated to Adelheid in the Inheritance Ceremony Arc, he believes that small animals have to have some sort of strength, otherwise how could they have survived so long on the planet? Hibari is seen in several instances howing tenderness only to his small animal companions. In the same battle with Adelheid, he sends Hibird away to keep him out of the battle. Before that, he catches Roll midair as they're falling and tells him not to be afraid, in which Roll responds by instantly becoming confident. The affection his companions return to him is proof of what he shows them.


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