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.

CLONE ALONE

It is the final day of Clone High, and Joan is looking for her friends to sign her yearbook at the yearbook signing assembly. Unfortunately, Harriet and Confucius are too busy making out to hear her asking for her yearbook to be signed, as is also the case with Frida and Cleo. Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron perform a musical number explaining the wonders of college life. The students are sold, and Candide ends the number by telling them that there will be an entrance exam at lunch for Clone College. At the entrance exam, Harriet asks Confucius if he's nervous about the test. He tells her that he isn't, because he doesn't see college as an end-all be-all for him after high school, explaining that his family is rich enough for him not to need to work or go to further schooling. Harriet doesn't accept the answer and asks if Confucius wants something more with his life, like running a company or country. He tells her that he can always hire other people to do that for him. She gets frustrated with him, standing on her desk to meet his height and telling him that she is forcing him to take the test so that they can continue to be together in college. He shrinks down in his seat in agreement and she smiles.

The test turns out to be a setup from Candide to send the clones up in individual shuttles to an undisclosed location to participate in a "Death Maze" that will act as their real test for who will get into Clone College. The maze is a timed event, including getting into the maze through a slowly and steadily closing door. While everyone else is running to the door to make it inside, Confucius is behind as he tries to tie his shoe. Harriet stays behind with him, yelling for him to hurry before the door closes on them both. Confucius doesn't seem too worried about the seemingly life-or-death stakes of the maze as he seems unconcerned with the way Harriet is freaking out. He continues failing to tie his shoe as Harriet looks at the timer counting down. To ensure that she makes it inside, she hurriedly tells Confucius that she's breaking up with him because he's not enough of a "go-getter" and she runs to make it to the gate in time with Frida, Cleo and Joan. Confucius is also able to make it in time because JFK sweeps him up and gets them both in just as the timer to enter hits zero.

Inside, Frida mentions to Harriet that she saw her leaving Confucius to make it inside. She commends her for her bravery, but says that she could never do something like that to Cleo. Harriet ensures the others that she's fine with the decision she made, although it is clear that it's taken a toll on her to break up with him and be separated from him. Meanwhile, Confucius and JFK combine with Topher and Abe to make their own group. Abe asks which way they should go in the maze as Confucius is moping along, clearly devastated from the breakup. JFK and Abe have a conversation about their gut feelings, (or butt and Adam's apple feelings in this case) and Confucius bangs his fist against a nearby tree telling them that he doesn't care what they're talking about because he's sad over Harriet breaking up with him. He sobs as the other three look on in pity. Abe says that they should get moving and him and Topher start leaving as JFK stays by Confucius's side, relating to his feelings after being dumped by Joan in the previous episodes. As this happens, the group hear voices that appear to be those of Harriet and Joan, calling out for Confucius and Abe respectfully to save them. The group follow the voices to find that they are mimics done by heebie jeebie babies, baby versions of a previously seen creature in the episode "Anxious Times at Clone High." The babies then attack Abe and Confucius, but JFK is able to save them both. Confucius's fanny pack is ripped from him and thrown elsewhere in the maze during the attack.

Joan separates herself from both groups and decides to become a real "lone wolf" after being rejected from both main groups. On their own, Cleo, Frida and Harriet traverse another obstacle. Cleo's ankle hurts from the journey and her and Frida stop. Harriet urges that they need to get to the end of the maze in time because she doesn't want her breakup with Confucius to be for nothing if she can't get into Clone College. Frida tells her to wait because Cleo needs more time. Harriet asks Frida what the point of the journey even is if they don't keep moving. Frida counters by asking her what the point of college is if you cannot share it with the person you love, hugging Cleo. Harriet realizes that she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with Confucius because she still loves him and she agrees that college isn't the same without someone you love. She turns to see Confucius's fanny pack in a pile of leaves, seemingly flung to the new section of the maze the group has made it to. She runs to it to grab it and falls into a pit, the leaves and fanny pack having been a trap set up by Joan to get back at the group and eliminate them so that she can win.

Joan successfully knocks out all of her competition, making it to the end of the maze by herself and winning. She is greeted by Candide, who tells her about Operation Spread Eagle and that Joan has been chosen to be the government's newest and greatest world leader. Joan worries that she killed all her friends in the maze competition, but Candide assures her that she hasn't, showing that all of the rest of the clones are in a separate room with a giant memory-eraser ray pointed at them as they are clamped to their desks. Part of Operation Spread Eagle involves erasing the other clones' minds of all memory of Joan to keep her a secret. In the memory-erasing room, Harriet sits behind Confucius. She tells him that she is sorry for breaking up with him, telling him that she understands that his lack of ambition for college doesn't mean that he didn't care about their relationship. She asks if he can forgive her. He says he's not sure, explaining that it would be a hard thing to just forget if they got back together. Frida reminds him that they are about to have their memories wiped, and he tells Harriet that he considers it forgotten. Harriet is relieved.

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. After the season finale cliffhanger, it's uncertain what the ship will look like in the third season. 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.