#ohshc x furuba

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Posting Schedule Update Nov. 2024

Taking October off was hugely helpful, and I feel I can reliably return to posting weekly for the foreseeable future! Here's my intended upload schedule:

Bloom Within Us: every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month

The One Who Stays: every 2nd Thursday (odd months)

Along a Pitch-Black Path: every 2nd Thursday (even months)

Of Lost Cats and Half-Shadows: every 4th Thursday (odd months)

ichigo ichie: every 4th Thursday (even months)

Oneshots (including for like the flowers and the bees and lovers alone wear sunlight, as well as any others I happen to write): posting as completed (no set schedule), also will post when a month has a 5th Thursday

I imagine the end of January might become a bit hectic, as well as March & May. If I take another posting break (or breaks), it'll most likely be at one of those times.

I also might pull back on everything except Bloom Within Us instead of taking a complete break. Once I finish that (only... ~30 more chapters to go!), I plan to focus more on my other WIPs & update those more frequently.

Also, I hereby promise not to start another WIP until I've finished at least 2, preferably 3 of my current WIPs. 😅 The good news is that The One Who Stays is nearly finished, so that reality is not as far off as it seems!

[ottermelonart]

💗💗 2 of 2 crossover mini-prints for march patreon! 💗💗 ohshc x furuba pt 2! april merch is already half-complete! 

[cinderella-ish]

Limiting myself to just anime/manga, because otherwise this list will get out of control! Alphabetically by English anime title:

Luca Esposito (Astra Lost in Space)

Power (Chainsaw Man)

Inosuke Hashibira (Demon Slayer)

Ukyo Saionji (Dr. Stone)

Yuki Sohma (Fruits Basket)

Megumi Fushiguro (JuJutsu Kaisen)

Yu Ishigami (Kaguya-Sama: Love is War)

Makoto Kurume (Skip and Loafer)

Kyoko Mogami (Skip Beat!)

Anya Forger (Spy x Family)

Honorable Mentions:

Aki Hayakawa (Chainsaw Man)

literally every Hashira (Demon Slayer)

Kohaku (Dr. Stone)

Saki Hanajima (Fruits Basket)

Momiji Sohma (Fruits Basket)

Izumi Miyamura (HoriMiya)

Joseph Joestar (JJBA)

Nobara Kugisaki (JuJutsu Kaisen)

Chika Fujiwara (Kaguya-Sama: Love is War)

Hagita (Orange)

Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club)

Mitsumi Iwakura (Skip & Loafer)

Damien Desmond (Spy x Family)

Oh lord, I seriously have a type. Or four. 😅 All my favorite characters are 1) shy, awkward introverts who struggle to express themselves, 2) absolute gremlins who sow chaos wherever they go, 3) femmes with enormous personalities and bigger egos (affectionate), or 4) sweet, oblivious nerds.

I tag @novelist-becca @lyricalvicki @queerplatonic-msr @coralpaperthoughts @riceballmari @yusukesmomjeans @ashisinbed @modistemaomaorin @rin-isuzu-sohma @beesonhoneytoast but no pressure!!! (And please also feel welcome to join in if I didn't tag you!

Thanks for the tag, @ofoceansandtombsanew ❤️

🌱⎯ 10 characters, 10 fandoms

RULES: List your ten favorite characters from ten separate fandoms, then tag ten people. tagged by @stellarmochas 💞

Ahiru (Princess Tutu)

Makino Tsukushi (Hana Yori Dango)

Kira Aso (Mars)

Tsukimi Kurashita (Princess Jellyfish)

Nanami Momozono (Kamisama Kiss)

Mamori Anezaki (Eyeshield 21)

Hinata Tachibana (Tokyo Revengers)

Hinata Hyuga (Naruto)

Lenalee Lee (D.Gray-Man)

Noelle Silva (Black Clover)

tagging: @penrose-quinn @royal-serpent @torababy & @strawberrystepmom 💞

[spamkimbap]

Bingo of some of my favorite F/M / het ships! I did a femslash one and am working on a M/M / slash one, but took a break to do this one. Please note that I headcanon most of these characters as some form of queer that makes their relationship not "het", but I'm just going off of what they canonically are considered. I had to exclude a few ships due to them being a bit too adjacent to genderqueer identities or for being polycules, RIP.

List of ships, left to right top to bottom

Fluttercord (MLP:FIM)

Arrietty and Sho (The Secret World of Arrietty)

Muge x Hinode (A Whisker Away)

Mareach (Super Mario Bros. Series)

Zelink (LOZ: BOTW/TOTK)

Layclaire (Professor Layton)

Panty x Brief (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt)

Sophie x Howl (Howl's Moving Castle) (this also includes the book and I prefer the book to the movie)

Zaspiva (Bug Fables)

Seiji x Shizuku (Whisper of the Heart)

Fuyupeko/Kuzupeko (Danganronpa)

Sheeta x Pazu (Castle in the Sky)

Glimbow (SPOP)

Dualrivalshipping (Pokemon)

Zelink (LOZ: Spirit Tracks)

Connverse (Steven Universe)

Hikaharu (OHSHC)

Westley x Buttercup (The Princess Bride)

Chihiro x Haku (Spirited Away)

Ashitaka x San (Princess Mononoke)

Tombo x Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service)

Naoto x Nagotoro (Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro)

Kyoru (Furuba)

Mr Darcy x Elizabeth (Pride & Prejudice)

Klavery (Pokemon)

[minimizy]

wow cant believe these two legends ended up dating at the end of the crossover movie

[kozukenkitten]

My Fandoms

Haikyuu

BNHA / MHA

Ouran High School Host Club

Food Wars / Shokugeki no Soma

Fruits Basket

Persona 3

Persona 5

Fullmetal Alchemist / Brotherhood

Run with the Wind

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

The Arcana: A Mystic Romance

Please note that this list will be updating over time.

I’m also open to hearing about anime/series you think I should add to my list as well, so definitely feel free to ask!

[lorylilybomber]

Okay so I have an anime crossover issue:

I am watching and LOVING the Fruits Basket reboot. And I am also a long-time lover of OHSHC. And it occurred to me that, while crossovers are often very cringey, the opportunities between these two shows, if handled correctly, work like a dream. And there ARE plenty of FBxOHSHC fanfics out there.

The problem?

Hardly any of them seem to take proper advantage of the opportunities presented. The largest percentage of fic I’ve seen can be placed into one of two camps: “look at my OC she’s the secret 14th zodiac member and she goes to Ouran” or “Haruhi is actually a sohma and the secret 14th Zodiac member”

First off: look—there is no wolf in the Chinese zodiac. There is no fox, or raven, or jaguar, or—just, stop.

Second of all, there’s plenty of new ways to play with this crossover concept that are lots of fun to read—because they don’t have to change the rules of either universe!

(also, why do the Sohmas always have to go to Ouran? Can’t it be the other way around? I’m just saying, as sweet as Tohru is, she is canonically nowhere close to winning any sort of scholarship to attend school at Ouran, even if the sohma boys do.)

Imagine, if you will, some of the following scenarios:

Tamaki, in one of his usual bids for host club bonding and commoner research, arrange for the host club to attend a commoner high school for a month. In order to convince Kyoya to come with, Tamaki specifically chooses a high school that is attended by members of the influential-yet-hermit-level-elusive Sohma family. Once they’re there, of course, Tamaki wastes no time establishing a place for the host club to continue their activities, because beauty must be shared with the world, of course!!! From there, imagine some of these scenarios:

1: Tamaki hears of the school’s Prince, and seeks out Yuki in order to induct (or, more accurately, abduct) him into the Host Club whether he likes it or not. (On that note, imagine how the Prince Yuki fan club might react to the Host Club’s presence).

2: Contrariwise, Tamaki knows of the Prince, but is more interested in the school’s aloof Tsudere Type, Kyo. Cue Kyo being incredibly angry and flustered as Tamaki and the twins keep kidnapping him to try and induct him. Possibly include Tamaki noticing kyo’s feelings for Tohru and deciding to coach him on how to be a true gentleman.

3: Imagine Shigure’s reaction to EITHER of those events.

4: in a different or perhaps related chain of events, imagine Tamaki meeting Ayame, essentially adopting him as his senpai, and the learning about his estranged relationship with Yuki. The Tamaki Suoh we know would immediately commence Operation Brotherly Reconciliation before you could blink.

5: imagine after establishing the Commoner High School Host Club, Momiji decides this looks fun and wants to hang out there. They don’t take him on as a host, since they already have Hunny, but he’s still happy to have made a bunch of new friends! And the best part is!!! They’re all guys!!!! And they’re (almost) all emotionally available!!! Which means he can hug them without restraint!!! He hugs Hunny! He hugs Tamaki!!! He thinks about hugging Kyoya but second guesses himself!!! He hugs Haruh—wait.

6: immediately after point number 5, Kyo and Yuki are rapidly switching between panicked and confused. While Yuki and Haruhi are basically Spider-Man-pointing at each other saying “Explain????” Kyo does one of two things:

7: he blurts out something relevant but woefully poorly contexted to Haruhi like “WAIT HOLD ON TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT.” Which elicits a violent reaction from the twins/Tamaki which is headed off by Kyoya/Mori.

8: he grabs Momiji and starts shaking and yelling at him for being stupid and Hunny’s affection for a) his new friend and b) cute bunnies translates into him twisting Kyo’s arm or otherwise kicking his butt to take Momiji away from him because remember, kids! “picking on [Hunny’s] friends is a no-no!”

9: Kyo is dumbstruck because wait this twerp knows martial arts? Cue a running joke/side arc throughout the story in which Kyo keeps trying to get Hunny to fight him because getting beaten up by a twerp is stupidly emasculating and Kyo needs to win back his pride. Meanwhile Hunny sees no reason to fight or indulge Kyo and keeps refusing him (you know..because he’s actually a mature 18 year old). The arc may end in Kyo learning to humble himself and asking Hunny if he could maybe teach him some moves? Followed by Hunny beaming at him and saying yes.

10: how would Kyoya react if he were to learn the Sohma secret? How would he negotiate with the Sohma family? Could he? What stops Hatori from wiping their memories, if anything?

11: How would HARUHI react? Miss “Believes in nothing paranormal?” How would Tamaki react? As the King of Sticking His Nose Into Your Business, he may attempt to make it his mission to break the curse. (Of course, he fails in the end, but they all become friends anyway.)

OR, perhaps they don’t even need to go to the same school at all. Imagine this:

1: Kyoya, in preparation for running some of his family’s hospitals, or perhaps as part of a special inspection, or a possible acquisition, or whatever else, visits a hospital owned by the Sohmas

(Listen, we know that the sohma’s HAVE to own at least one hospital. Preparations for any possible Zodiac birth would have to be EXTENSIVE. Imagine if they’re anticipating a new Dragon? All Sohma women are now compelled to have water births. Why? BECAUSE SCIENCE SAYS SO, SHUT UP, WE’RE DOCTORS. Once the new Dragon’s been born? NEVERMIND NO MORE WATERBIRTHS DONT ASK QUESTIONS. They have veterinarians on call who never really know for sure why they’re paid to just keep a special phone on them, but one day they’re called into a human hospital and forced to sign a huge stack of NDA’s before being brought to a delivery room. One day when he’s training his replacement the kid asks “hey why are you making me read about how to care for baby seahorses?” And the older doctor gets faraway flashback eyes, shakes his head and says “just keep reading, son.” I could honestly go on. I would read an entire fic just about the people working at one of these hospitals.)

Anyway, Kyoya is at the Sohma hospital when something curse related happens. You can honestly pick. Either way, Kyoya goes through an interesting spiral:

2: first, after getting himself the fuck out of there as soon as Hatori’s eyes are off of him, he has a barely-self contained nervous breakdown the minute he gets himself alone in his room because the idea of Kyoya instantly accepting anything remotely fantastical is ridiculous. His friends are worried about him but have no idea what happened because if Kyoya vocalizes it, that means it’s real!!!! And he!!! Just can’t!!! Also, he REALLY doesn’t need the twins teasing him and calling him insane or Haruhi asking if he has a fever.

3: then, after he collects himself, he begins doing his Kyoya thing and collecting information. Obviously a condition (he refuses to call it a curse) with such a easily exploitable trigger couldn’t have been kept a secret for so long. So the Sohma’s are keeping people quiet somehow. There isn’t any history of people disappearing around the sohma’s, so it’s either money, threats, or induced amnesia. So, of course, Kyoya prepares for all three. (Of course, even if they WANTED to kidnap or kill Kyoya, his connection to the Ootori family and its extensive police force would prevent that.)

4: and still, even if this curse idea is utterly ridiculous—and it is—this is the biggest piece of negotiation material Kyoya has ever acquired, and its on the SOHMAS. The one family that almost never deals with anyone. With the sohma’s being such a powerful yet reclusive family, he’s not about to let such a large chip go that easily.

5: cue a delightful mental cat-and-mouse game between Kyoya, Hatori, and eventually Akito. Akito getting involved means Shigure is definitely involved as well, if he isn’t already after Hatori.

6: Akito, being a very impatient person, wants Kyoya either hypnotized or under their thumb YESTERDAY. But he knows he can’t just bring him to the house without raising many important eyebrows. So what is he to do to get Kyoya to cooperate?

7: they could go for the heart, perhaps. Kyoya’s best friend Suoh seems stupid enough. Akito begins to charm Tamaki (who Kyoya has not informed of the curse) and establish a sort of power play in front of Kyoya—“see, he likes me, I can get him to go anywhere I want.”

8: Contrariwise, Akito decides they can’t target his best friend Suoh for the same reasons he can’t target Kyoya. Oh, but...look here. A commoner named Fujioka with no money or status, hardly any family....he’ll do fine.

7: if Tamaki gets in a room alone with Akito, the dynamic could get interesting. After Akito turns scary, Tamaki might take a bit of a beating, but then (as the bighearted and surprisingly wise person he is) he starts talking to Akito, and trying to genuinely connect with him. Whether this works or not would be up to the author.

8: If Haruhi was in a room alone with Akito, presumably brought against her will, she would probably be confused and annoyed, but eventually a little frightened and out of her depth (Akito tends to have that effect on people). But she would also piss Akito off VERY fast, with how observant yet practical and blunt she is. She would say some things that hit Akito hard, and she would probably be attacked fairly quickly. Shigure or Hatori would have to step in to protect her, and perhaps SHE learns about the curse in the process.

Honestly, it could go many different ways. But basically I wanted to demonstrate how Fruits Basket/OHSHC crossovers could be much more unique and interesting with fascinating character dynamics, whether the story is a comedy or a drama. Then, as a few honorable mentions:

Everyone compares Haruhi and Tohru’s Mom situation. But how would Haruhi react if she learned Momiji’s situation?

The twins harassing Kyo. Or, the twins harassing Haru and triggering Black Haru.

Tamaki charming Tohru and poor Tohru not knowing how to react (and Yuki and Kyo getting Very Frustrated.)

Shigure and Tamaki becoming friends because of course they would.

Shigure and RANKA becoming friends because OF COURSE THEY WOULD.

Ranka being a regular at Ayame’s store.

Etc etc etc. and that’s with just the more major characters. Hanajima and Uotani interacting with the host club would also be hilarious.

Anyway, point’s made—Fruits Basket and Host Club are fantastic crossover material, and deserve more unique content!!!

[minipotato83]

For some reason I like pairing character or OCs with someone with an opposite personality.

[tklpilled]

fandoms + tags

bungou stray dogs - #bsd

hunter x hunter - #hxh

fullmetal alchemist - #fma

fruits basket - #furuba

my hero academia - #bnha

sk8 the infinity - #sk8

the case study of vanitas - #vnc

trigun - #trigun

jujutsu kaisen - #jjk

chainsaw man - #csm

buddy daddies - #buddy daddies

attack on titan - #aot

demon slayer - #kny

ouran high school host club - #ohshc

heaven official's blessing - #tgcf

south park - #south park

spiderverse - #spiderverse

six of crows - #soc

the raven cycle - #trc

pokemon - #pkmn

breath of the wild - #botw

tears of the kingdom - #totk

genshin impact - #genshin

honkai star rail - #hsr

ace attorney - #ace attorney

dead plate - #dead plate

the magnus archives - #tma

notes: - the pokemon games i am most familiar with are black/white 1 + 2, but i also know sun/moon and ruby/sapphire

[yuuchis]

Tagged by @lulubara thanks! I’ll reply the questions you wrote at the end of your post ^^

List 5 things that make you happy:

ohshc, snk and furuba... the last two also gives me a lot of pain haha

my DOG, HE’S PRECIOUS AND I LOVE HIM.

my students but I can’t see them in person u-u (I love kids)

ANIME SOUNTRACKS uvu

When people writes nice things in my gifs, graphics or fanarts c:

Put your music on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up:

True love - Kim Sunggyu

Ah yeah - EXID

I - Kim Taeyeon ft Verbal jint

Paradise lost - Gain

Beautiful tomorrow - Park Hyo Shin

What is your favorite word?:

I don’t have one e_e but I like the world “eternal” xD and a few others I don’t remember now.

What is your Zodiac sign?:

Shigure - Aries uvu

What would you want to be written on your tombstone?:

Nothing special lol

To you, what is the meaning of life?:

I ask myself the same question everyday and yet, I don’t have an answer lol

What does your nickname mean?:

I wanted “yuchi” but it was taken xD so I added another U and a S at the end. Yuuchis.

How do you vent your anger?:

I’m not good at showing emotions and I have troubles showing anger. I turn it to sadness and I cry lol

How many drafts do you have?

Drafts on tumblr? In this sideblog only one xD

What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had?:

I don’t want to share it ahaha

Do you have any obsessions right now?:

fRUITS BASKET AND MACHI X YUKI, HELL YES.

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Title: ichigo ichie Pairing: Tohru Honda/Kyo Sohma Rating: Teen Word Count: 2144 Warnings: bullying, threats of violence, body swap-related angst & memory problems Summary: Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket) and Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club) swap bodies; your name. AU Created for @anyfandomaubingo​ / Square Filled: Body Swap AU

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💗💗 1 of 2 crossover mini-prints for this month's patreon! 💗💗 ohshc x furuba pt 1!

[jinuzuki]

not sure if you've seen all of these, but: the original furuba anime, hxh, and ohshc. (and if you haven't seen any of these, just slap up a fave purely to shill it to the public.)

og furuba never seen it | need to see it | hate it | ugh | it was okay | i liked it | LOVED IT | one of my faves i really loved it as a kid but even back then i preferred the manga because the story was so special to me. HOWEVER i will say i think the original anime did a better job of capturing the comedy of the manga (especially those first few chapters) than the reboot. but at the same time the way they ended the show was pretty unforgiveable .... i’ll just say it was enjoyable for what it was and move on!  hunter x hunter

never seen it | need to see it | hate it | ugh | it was okay | i liked it | LOVED IT | one of my faves

i really have nothing to say here i barely know anything about this show, sorry! 

ouran never seen it | need to see it | hate it | ugh | it was okay | i liked it | LOVED IT | one of my faves again i remember really enjoying it and finding it hilarious but i don’t think i ever finished it sadly, even though i have the whole series on dvd. if a reboot comes out i’d probably watch it. haruhi is cool i’m going to use this opportunity to shill chrono crusade, which i loved in high school, it’s a great quick anime if you need to cry for like 12 hours!! and another excellent opening song 

[bnhararepairbang]

Mod Introductions 💕

Hey everyone! Here are the long-awaited moderator introductions! Apologies for the minor delay, but it’s here! 

The BNHA Rarepair Bang 2019 moderator introductions!

❤️ Hey there! I’m Mod R, and my main here is @validityhours, previously @/just-thinking-quietly. I’m the head mod for this bang, so I’ll be monitoring all the forms, partners, and generally making sure that everything stays on track as it should! I haven’t done much in the BNHA fandom, but I’m currently a moderator for the Furuba Big Bang and a multiple VA projects for Haikyuu!! and OHSHC. I only have been into BNHA since late April, but I really like the entire set up for the series. Most of the systems are flawed, and I thinks it’s cool. My favorite rarepair would have to be SeroRoki, mostly because I just love both of them so much. Specifically for this bang, I created it to have lovers of rarepairs in the fandom to get together and actually celebrate them for an event! I hope everyone who signs up gains people they can rant to about KiriTodo, FuyRyu, and all others.

❤️ Hi! I’m Mod G, my main is @silhouettart and I’m the graphic design mod for this bang aka the person that is behind the whole design of this and I have no idea what am I even doing *incoherent screaming in the background*. Anyway, I’m mainly a zine mod, though I am modding Boku no AU Bang and BNHA femslash big bang. I really like bnha because it’s an anime about superheroes and tackles some themes that aren’t usually explored in this genre (I guess the western superhero genre has been getting better but bnha did it before it was cool). I really love Ochamina (pink space lesbians, what’s there to not love about them), Huwumi (hawks x fuyumi, I have no idea why I ship it but it’s cool), and Kirikacchako (Kirishima x Uraraka x Bakugo. I mean, look at the sunset trio. Or comet trio? Since you know, comets are rocks, fly very quickly and well, fly through space at zero gravity). I’m looking forward to talking with all my fellow rarepair shippers!

❤️ Sup! I’m Mod RG, you can find me over at @ultraraygayraygay​ and I’m one of the lucky Interns for this bang! I love the concept of quirks and how they work in society! Also I love so many of the minor characters I suffer for my faves. One of my favourite rare pairs is OjIzuku! Fluffy friends to lovers has me s o f t. And I’m looking forward to all the fresh and delicious rare pair content we’re getting from this bang! >:3c

❤️ Hello, I’m Mod P, my main is @peachylixir and I’m another Mod Intern for the rarpairbang! I’m looking forward to gaining more behind-the-scenes experience from my fellow mods, and I will be assisting however I’m needed. My fave thing about BNHA is how lovable the cast is and my favorite rarepair is MomoChako. I’m looking forward to seeing what unique pairings people like and the burst of new creative content!

❤️ Heyyo, it’s Mod L! I’m a sack of potatoes floating on the moon, but you can find me at my main @whitedarkangel. For this bang, I’m the one responsible for the server aka the Discord Mod. So, you’ll mostly find me lurking in our discord humble abode, making sure it runs smoothly and taking care of the baby bots. I’m currently the head mod of the Soukoku Big Bang (Bungo Stray Dogs) and the Sormik Big Bang (Tales of Zestiria) as well as running a few fandom servers. Other BNHA project I’m modding at the moment is the AU Bang! I love so many things about BNHA that I could make you several essays and probably flood this post. Just know that the plot, the characters, the everything really got me hooked up into this amazing anime. I’m also an OchaMina and OchaMomo enthusiast. I can’t wait to see all of the incredible entries that this event would bring! 

❤️ Hey! I'm Mod B, they/them, and I am your social media mod! I've worked on a few big projects before (around 10 zines and 3 other bangs), so i'm glad to join the team and help out with this one! I look forward for this event to be inclusive and friendly, and I hope we make something you all enjoy! If you wish to contact me, my social media is @peachfemmes on tumblr! My favorite thing about BNHA has got to be the A-1 class, and as for ships? I'm in love with the idea of Todoroki and Iida!

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These are great!!

You could maybe even have a story where, during a visit to the cemetery, Haruhi and Tohru meet (after Hanajima feels someone with similar waves) and tearfully yet peacefully bond over their dead moms?

OR

Due to some respective angst-based event, same scenario but various supporting characters from either universe go to find them out of concern, and:

1) Either respectively stumble upon the girls and therefore meet and somehow bond (author’s choice)

2) End up encountering each other beforehand and themselves bonding in their respective search (cos Hanajima got them waves on lock) while the girls bond in their grief

Okay so I have an anime crossover issue:

I am watching and LOVING the Fruits Basket reboot. And I am also a long-time lover of OHSHC. And it occurred to me that, while crossovers are often very cringey, the opportunities between these two shows, if handled correctly, work like a dream. And there ARE plenty of FBxOHSHC fanfics out there.

The problem?

Hardly any of them seem to take proper advantage of the opportunities presented. The largest percentage of fic I’ve seen can be placed into one of two camps: “look at my OC she’s the secret 14th zodiac member and she goes to Ouran” or “Haruhi is actually a sohma and the secret 14th Zodiac member”

First off: look—there is no wolf in the Chinese zodiac. There is no fox, or raven, or jaguar, or—just, stop.

Second of all, there’s plenty of new ways to play with this crossover concept that are lots of fun to read—because they don’t have to change the rules of either universe!

(also, why do the Sohmas always have to go to Ouran? Can’t it be the other way around? I’m just saying, as sweet as Tohru is, she is canonically nowhere close to winning any sort of scholarship to attend school at Ouran, even if the sohma boys do.)

Imagine, if you will, some of the following scenarios:

Tamaki, in one of his usual bids for host club bonding and commoner research, arrange for the host club to attend a commoner high school for a month. In order to convince Kyoya to come with, Tamaki specifically chooses a high school that is attended by members of the influential-yet-hermit-level-elusive Sohma family. Once they’re there, of course, Tamaki wastes no time establishing a place for the host club to continue their activities, because beauty must be shared with the world, of course!!! From there, imagine some of these scenarios:

1: Tamaki hears of the school’s Prince, and seeks out Yuki in order to induct (or, more accurately, abduct) him into the Host Club whether he likes it or not. (On that note, imagine how the Prince Yuki fan club might react to the Host Club’s presence).

2: Contrariwise, Tamaki knows of the Prince, but is more interested in the school’s aloof Tsudere Type, Kyo. Cue Kyo being incredibly angry and flustered as Tamaki and the twins keep kidnapping him to try and induct him. Possibly include Tamaki noticing kyo’s feelings for Tohru and deciding to coach him on how to be a true gentleman.

3: Imagine Shigure’s reaction to EITHER of those events.

4: in a different or perhaps related chain of events, imagine Tamaki meeting Ayame, essentially adopting him as his senpai, and the learning about his estranged relationship with Yuki. The Tamaki Suoh we know would immediately commence Operation Brotherly Reconciliation before you could blink.

5: imagine after establishing the Commoner High School Host Club, Momiji decides this looks fun and wants to hang out there. They don’t take him on as a host, since they already have Hunny, but he’s still happy to have made a bunch of new friends! And the best part is!!! They’re all guys!!!! And they’re (almost) all emotionally available!!! Which means he can hug them without restraint!!! He hugs Hunny! He hugs Tamaki!!! He thinks about hugging Kyoya but second guesses himself!!! He hugs Haruh—wait.

6: immediately after point number 5, Kyo and Yuki are rapidly switching between panicked and confused. While Yuki and Haruhi are basically Spider-Man-pointing at each other saying “Explain????” Kyo does one of two things:

7: he blurts out something relevant but woefully poorly contexted to Haruhi like “WAIT HOLD ON TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT.” Which elicits a violent reaction from the twins/Tamaki which is headed off by Kyoya/Mori.

8: he grabs Momiji and starts shaking and yelling at him for being stupid and Hunny’s affection for a) his new friend and b) cute bunnies translates into him twisting Kyo’s arm or otherwise kicking his butt to take Momiji away from him because remember, kids! “picking on [Hunny’s] friends is a no-no!”

9: Kyo is dumbstruck because wait this twerp knows martial arts? Cue a running joke/side arc throughout the story in which Kyo keeps trying to get Hunny to fight him because getting beaten up by a twerp is stupidly emasculating and Kyo needs to win back his pride. Meanwhile Hunny sees no reason to fight or indulge Kyo and keeps refusing him (you know..because he’s actually a mature 18 year old). The arc may end in Kyo learning to humble himself and asking Hunny if he could maybe teach him some moves? Followed by Hunny beaming at him and saying yes.

10: how would Kyoya react if he were to learn the Sohma secret? How would he negotiate with the Sohma family? Could he? What stops Hatori from wiping their memories, if anything?

11: How would HARUHI react? Miss “Believes in nothing paranormal?” How would Tamaki react? As the King of Sticking His Nose Into Your Business, he may attempt to make it his mission to break the curse. (Of course, he fails in the end, but they all become friends anyway.)

OR, perhaps they don’t even need to go to the same school at all. Imagine this:

1: Kyoya, in preparation for running some of his family’s hospitals, or perhaps as part of a special inspection, or a possible acquisition, or whatever else, visits a hospital owned by the Sohmas

(Listen, we know that the sohma’s HAVE to own at least one hospital. Preparations for any possible Zodiac birth would have to be EXTENSIVE. Imagine if they’re anticipating a new Dragon? All Sohma women are now compelled to have water births. Why? BECAUSE SCIENCE SAYS SO, SHUT UP, WE’RE DOCTORS. Once the new Dragon’s been born? NEVERMIND NO MORE WATERBIRTHS DONT ASK QUESTIONS. They have veterinarians on call who never really know for sure why they’re paid to just keep a special phone on them, but one day they’re called into a human hospital and forced to sign a huge stack of NDA’s before being brought to a delivery room. One day when he’s training his replacement the kid asks “hey why are you making me read about how to care for baby seahorses?” And the older doctor gets faraway flashback eyes, shakes his head and says “just keep reading, son.” I could honestly go on. I would read an entire fic just about the people working at one of these hospitals.)

Anyway, Kyoya is at the Sohma hospital when something curse related happens. You can honestly pick. Either way, Kyoya goes through an interesting spiral:

2: first, after getting himself the fuck out of there as soon as Hatori’s eyes are off of him, he has a barely-self contained nervous breakdown the minute he gets himself alone in his room because the idea of Kyoya instantly accepting anything remotely fantastical is ridiculous. His friends are worried about him but have no idea what happened because if Kyoya vocalizes it, that means it’s real!!!! And he!!! Just can’t!!! Also, he REALLY doesn’t need the twins teasing him and calling him insane or Haruhi asking if he has a fever.

3: then, after he collects himself, he begins doing his Kyoya thing and collecting information. Obviously a condition (he refuses to call it a curse) with such a easily exploitable trigger couldn’t have been kept a secret for so long. So the Sohma’s are keeping people quiet somehow. There isn’t any history of people disappearing around the sohma’s, so it’s either money, threats, or induced amnesia. So, of course, Kyoya prepares for all three. (Of course, even if they WANTED to kidnap or kill Kyoya, his connection to the Ootori family and its extensive police force would prevent that.)

4: and still, even if this curse idea is utterly ridiculous—and it is—this is the biggest piece of negotiation material Kyoya has ever acquired, and its on the SOHMAS. The one family that almost never deals with anyone. With the sohma’s being such a powerful yet reclusive family, he’s not about to let such a large chip go that easily.

5: cue a delightful mental cat-and-mouse game between Kyoya, Hatori, and eventually Akito. Akito getting involved means Shigure is definitely involved as well, if he isn’t already after Hatori.

6: Akito, being a very impatient person, wants Kyoya either hypnotized or under their thumb YESTERDAY. But he knows he can’t just bring him to the house without raising many important eyebrows. So what is he to do to get Kyoya to cooperate?

7: they could go for the heart, perhaps. Kyoya’s best friend Suoh seems stupid enough. Akito begins to charm Tamaki (who Kyoya has not informed of the curse) and establish a sort of power play in front of Kyoya—“see, he likes me, I can get him to go anywhere I want.”

8: Contrariwise, Akito decides they can’t target his best friend Suoh for the same reasons he can’t target Kyoya. Oh, but...look here. A commoner named Fujioka with no money or status, hardly any family....he’ll do fine.

7: if Tamaki gets in a room alone with Akito, the dynamic could get interesting. After Akito turns scary, Tamaki might take a bit of a beating, but then (as the bighearted and surprisingly wise person he is) he starts talking to Akito, and trying to genuinely connect with him. Whether this works or not would be up to the author.

8: If Haruhi was in a room alone with Akito, presumably brought against her will, she would probably be confused and annoyed, but eventually a little frightened and out of her depth (Akito tends to have that effect on people). But she would also piss Akito off VERY fast, with how observant yet practical and blunt she is. She would say some things that hit Akito hard, and she would probably be attacked fairly quickly. Shigure or Hatori would have to step in to protect her, and perhaps SHE learns about the curse in the process.

Honestly, it could go many different ways. But basically I wanted to demonstrate how Fruits Basket/OHSHC crossovers could be much more unique and interesting with fascinating character dynamics, whether the story is a comedy or a drama. Then, as a few honorable mentions:

Everyone compares Haruhi and Tohru’s Mom situation. But how would Haruhi react if she learned Momiji’s situation?

The twins harassing Kyo. Or, the twins harassing Haru and triggering Black Haru.

Tamaki charming Tohru and poor Tohru not knowing how to react (and Yuki and Kyo getting Very Frustrated.)

Shigure and Tamaki becoming friends because of course they would.

Shigure and RANKA becoming friends because OF COURSE THEY WOULD.

Ranka being a regular at Ayame’s store.

Etc etc etc. and that’s with just the more major characters. Hanajima and Uotani interacting with the host club would also be hilarious.

Anyway, point’s made—Fruits Basket and Host Club are fantastic crossover material, and deserve more unique content!!!

[cinderella-ish]

well, fuck

i just got an idea for a longfic for next week's fruits basket mondays prompt

furuba x ohshc, tohru and haruhi body swap fic, but with rules and an overarching plot similar to your name

so i guess i have to write this now... 😅