Haku and Samantha

Haku and Samantha is a friendship seen in Mystery Spell.

## Overview

Haku and Samantha is a friendship between Haku Kobayashi and Samantha Gautier seen in Conrad Bartholy's story route and a semi-rivalry seen in Peter Bartholy's story route.

In Peter's route, the two don't really interact that much but when they do they don't really get along. They were too busy dealing with other people to truly interact, but when Samantha died in this route, Haku did seem sad for her and didn't think she deserved to die.

Their relationship in Conrad's route is much different. It's unknown how they met but it was more likely through Loan Huxley and if so, it's unknown if they became close before or after Loan's death. Loan was killed in Viktor Bartholy's story route which took place 1 year before Conrad's. Haku and Samantha bonded through the grieving of his death, Samantha was Loan's girlfriend and Haku was one of his closest friends, so they comforted each other and still do as they both still aren't over his death. Samantha even commented how she was upset that Haku couldn't attend his memorial, but did forgive him for it.

Haku and Samantha seem to adore each other in Conrad's route and get along very well, and Haku has Samantha over for dinner at one point and it's safe to assume Samantha has done the same for Haku, and Samantha also let Haku and his friends stay at her house when they needed a place to stay to lie low.

Samantha also seems to trust Haku's judgment, when she first met Elena Gabe at his house, she was immediately suspicious of her since she was a vampire and was afraid she would try to hurt them. But Haku assured her that Elena meant no harm and didn't even drink human blood, Samantha was still weary (but polite) to Elena but trusted his judgment and began to warm up to Elena, which is very big on her part since she often doesn't like supernatural creatures and doesn't trust them.

When Samantha revealed that she planned on moving out of Mystery Spell because it reminded her too much of Loan, Haku was upset and desperately wanted her to stay, and tried to convince her not to go. Samantha was touched by this and told him that he can visit her whenever he wants, especially since it was by the ocean, but that still wasn't enough for Haku since he would miss her too much, but did agree to her offer. Despite desperately wanting to move away from Mystery Spell, she did seem sad by it since it meant having to move away from Haku, which she didn't want to do and would miss him. When Haku asked what he was going to do without her, she said that he was going to stay and help his friends defeat Viktor, which shows how supportive she is of him even if he's in the face of danger.

The two love and care about each other very much and appear to be best friends, it's a bitter sweet friendship as they probably became such close friends because they both reminded each other of Loan. They do support each other as even though Samantha knew Haku, Elena, Nao Arasaka, Chad Williams and Conrad battling Viktor was dangerous, she supported them and wanted them all to be safe, especially Haku, and if anything were to happen to him, Samantha would probably be distraught and heart broken all over again, which is surly how Haku must feel with Samantha too. This is also a unique relationship as it was the very first friendship of Samantha's with her being portrayed as a protagonist rather than an antagonist.