"you know how you like and enjoy the company of this one teacher you have and find him engaging and his lessons interesting? that's like. bare minimum standard for most people's Ideal Good Teacher"
both of them just being quietly very intense about the other because really, Hilbert wouldn't be graduated if Nathaniel wasn't there, that kid is just as important to him
Arthur in the position of someone who is very grateful that Hilbert exists because otherwise trying to get through to this kid would be hitting your head against even more walls
i need people to know how weird it feels that the thread only took two OOC days to resolve, it's still like 80 comments long, and this is one of their shortest threads to date
nathaniel: so are you dating or what