ahh ty you both seem super nice too ♥ it's been cool talking with her in DMs cuz we've started like deeply psychoanalyzing all the ouran characters, getting into like socioeconomic critique and queer/gender theory and all that kind of shit haha. it's really inspired me to go rewatch ouran with more adult ideas in mind. haruhi is a powerhouse of a person and i can't believe i thought she was boring as a teenager, i was a young fool.

We can handwave them being roommates! Honestly, I was planning on having Zuko go into an angst coma for a few days shortly after arriving anyways cuz "omfg my destiny" and even if not, he'll probably have kept to himself a lot anyway and slammed his bedroom door often and stuff lol... probably wandering around finding odd jobs at businesses in exchange for food because he's refusing to touch anybody and living like a pauper holed up in his bedroom alone without telling anyone... so i think this could be easily believably handwaved lol. he needs a mo. h-he probably would avoid hikaru for a while anyway cuz their first interaction is turning steeply south real quick right now ha.

yyh is. a lot. i haven't seen the whole show all the way through in years cuz it's so fucking long and each arc is really different, but it's got a RICH cast of side characters that are just so strange and charming. i'm mostly just obsessed with these two for years, idefky lol.