Harrucius

Harrucius is the het ship between Confucius and Harriet Tubman from the Clone High fandom.

Season 2
SPRING BROKEN

On the bus ride with the clones to the Spring Break journey to musical festival Arroyofest, Confucius starts a livestream to document the bus. Harriet takes Confucius's phone to tell the stream that she's been talking to someone named "definitelyahotguy69" on Instagram and she is excited to meet him at Arroyofest. She seems infatuated with him and Confucius mentions that "definitelyahotguy69" is lucky to have Harriet to talk to. Shortly after his livestream, the bus crashes after being hit with a boulder and falling down a canyon. Most clones are conscious after the incident, but Harriet still lays on the ground unconscious. Confucius lifts her arm as Topher offers to help her with CPR. When he gets close, however, she smells his shrimp breath and jolts awake. She is freaking out that the bus crashed, because she fears that she won't be able to meet "definitelyahotguy69" anymore because they won't make it to Arroyofest. She then also realizes that her ankle is completely twisted.

JFK goes through a mental transformation, as he has a condition where his brain is smaller than average at birth, and immense heat allows his brain to expand to it's full size. The heat of the desert triggers his brain to expand and he gets smarter and speaks with a British accent. Because of his new intelligence, he is able to create a device from the spare metal from the bus crash that can send a signal to Frida's smart watch, which they want because Frida, Cleo and Abe left on their own mission to find help. Frida is contacted but her smart watch is broken by desert zombies. When the attempt to connect is unsuccessful, Harriet asks if she can use JFK's device to check something. He allows her to use it, and she checks on the "definitelyahotguy69" profile, telling Joan and JFK that she wants to text him to let him know that she will be late to their meeting because of the crash. JFK and Joan notice that Harriet is definitely getting catfished based on the pictures, and they tell her. She is upset at the realization and limps off, crying. Confucius then asks to use the device, stating that he gets incredibly anxious and self-conscious if he is unable to check his social media profiles for too long. JFK is intrigued by the issue and stages a small therapy circle instead.

The sun begins to set on the desert, making JFK's brain shrink down again. He passes out and Joan stresses out, because she's more attracted to the smarter JFK. She tells the rest of the clones that she needs them to help her come up with a plan to keep JFK's head warm as it turns to night. They all walk until they find an arroyo, a small channel that is dangerous because of flash flooding. However, the sun is still beaming and hot in the arroyo, and Joan commands that the clones all meet in the arroyo to keep JFK warm. Genghis Khan has the idea to sit on JFK's face, and Joan takes up the idea that they all need to sit on JFK's face to keep his head warm. The rest of the clones successfully make it down the arroyo, but Harriet cannot slide down on her own because of her twisted ankle. Confucius sees her waiting at the top and calls for her to come down to help with Joan's butt plan, but she explains that she can't. She says dramatically that she doesn't want to live if she was stupid enough to be catfished so obviously. Confucius asks her what she's talking about, and she explains the situation with "definitelyahotguy69." She explains that there's nothing to live for, because she feels that her stupidity about the catfish is evidence that she is also stupid in all other aspects of her life, and she will never be able to get a decent job or have a good future. Confucius calms her down, telling her that there are plenty of things to live for. He cites a list of things she posts online that he shouldn't know and they bond over it. In the silence that follows the interaction, Harriet makes the connection through what Confucius knows about her that he is "definitelyahotguy69," but she is unable to confront him about it because Joan calls from off-screen that she still needs their butts for her plan for JFK. Confucius climbs back up and picks Harriet up bridal-style to carry her down to the others.

A flash flood occurs while they are in the arroyo that both successfully carries the clones to Arroyofest and also reunites the split groups at the festival grounds. At a mobile smartphone stand, Confucius and Harriet are able to get new phones. Confucius checks his "definitelyahotguy69" account to see that he has gotten no new interactions in the hours they have been stranded. Harriet sees his disappointment and pulls her phone out behind him, sending him a like. He beams at his phone and she smiles. Confucius still is not aware that Harriet knows that he is "definitelyahotguy69."

SEXY-ED

At their lockers, Confucius asks JFK how he should break the news that he is "definitelyahotguy69" to Harriet. JFK is busy crying over the fact that him and Joan have broken up. Confucius shares his concern that he believes that Harriet will be disappointed or upset that her online crush is really just Confucius. The scene switches to Harriet asking Joan how excited she is for Confucius to finally come out and say that he is "definitelyahotguy69" so that they can date. Back with Confucius and JFK, Confucius receives a text from Harriet asking to meet up in person. Confucius asks JFK what he should do. JFK is not much help, as he interprets the term "irl" to be someone named "Earl," and urges Confucius between sobs to get Harriet before "Earl" takes her from Confucius. He goes back to crying as Confucius comes up with the idea of an over-the-top reveal number.

The reveal number Confucius comes up with involves Harriet standing in the football field as he tries to sing with the band on top of the bleachers with a paper bag on his head. Because he can't see, he trips over his microphone cord when he starts to sing and falls all the way down the bleacher stairs in front of Harriet, now with one of the band members' tubas on his head. He cries from within the tuba and apologizes for ruining the reveal. He tells her to keep the tuba on him because he's too ashamed for her to know who he really is. She tells him that she knows it's him, and that he doesn't need to try so hard because she still likes him for him. He asks for confirmation that she's not let down by his failed reveal, and she takes the tuba off as she tells him that she's the opposite of let down, and that she wants everyone to know that they're a couple. They decide to announce their relationship in the form of a massive house party at Confucius's home, and they propose the idea at the exact same time. Confucius says that their synchronization owes him a kiss, and the two kiss and hold hands.

While Cleo is trying to flirt with Frida at a lunch table in the cafeteria, Harriet and Confucius come up and ask Frida if the two want to come to their couple announcement party. Frida runs off, still flustered from Cleo's flirting, and Confucius says that if the party fails, it will be like him and Harriet aren't really dating. Harriet offers to give Frida the party flier later, but Cleo frustratedly tells her that Frida isn't coming back, and she storms off. The party ends up being successful, and Harriet and Confucius walk down the stairs excited at how many people are there hooking up. Harriet pokes Confucius's nose and tells him that she's proud of them.

Fanon
Harrucius was not seen as a real ship until the episode "Spring Broken," mostly because the characters were never shown interacting in-depth with each other. However, since "Spring Broken" and "Sexy-Ed," shipping content for the pairing has grown exponentially. Most content for the pair is fan art posted to Tumblr and Twitter. Because of the recency of the ship, there are currently only two fan fictions for the pair on AO3. This makes the ship somewhat of a rarepair, despite the amount of fan art of the two. It is expected that more fan content will appear after the upcoming season finale. An alternate ship name for the pair is Tubfucius.

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Trivia

 * The ship name listed, Harrucius, was displayed on the show itself on the fliers for Harriet and Confucius's party in "Sexy-Ed." The entire episode has a focus and several mentions of shipping culture and ship names, creating Harrucius as the ship name for Harriet and Confucius, and acknowledging and using the preexisting ship name JoanFK for Joan and JFK. Harriet and Confucius also mention in the same episode that everyone at their party is "shipping" them.