Japanese name: |
藤岡 ハルヒ |
Nickname: |
Haru-chan |
Haruhi is an intelligent first-year student from a poor family (having a cross-dressing father and a deceased mother) who attends the Ouran Academy, an exclusive private school, on a special scholarship that requires her to rank first in her class. One day, while looking for a quiet place to study, she stumbles upon the Dreamy Host Club and accidentally breaks an expensive vase belonging to them that was to be featured in a school auction. As a result, she must work off her debt to the club by disguising herself as a boy and working as a host for them. (It is not found out till the end of the first chapter that she is a girl, due to her clothing and mannerisms. The club members understand this one at a time, Tamaki being the last.) She finds this easy because she does not feel that gender dominates her personality. She soon realizes that acting as host and talking to the other girls comes quite naturally and she begins to enjoy it. However, she does not like taking time away from studying and finds the antics of the other hosts extremely irritating, but also increasingly endearing. In Chapter 8 it is told that Haruhi has Astraphobia (Fear of Lightning and Thunder)
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