Why do you find it so hard to believe that someone could be interested in you? I mean, regardless of where you live, Rikki. I like you. I mean... I really like you.
Zane Bennett & Rikki Chadwick in H2O: Just Add Water (2006-2010)
do you think there's ever a moment where zane asks rikki how they became mermaids and she has to be like "....remember when you set cleo adrift in your zodiac?"
"yeah, I remember the water police knocking on our door."
"remember where they said they found the zodiac?"
"yeah, the beach on mak--oh."
"yeah. that's when we found the moon pool."
"so, what you're saying is you have me to thank for your mermaid powers?"
"well, I guess, but you only did that to cleo because someone stole your spark plug, right?"
imagine your first kiss with someone is in the dead of night on a desert island surrounded by a ring of fire while both of you are in different stages of your respective mental breakdowns plus one of you straight up passes out afterwards rikki and zane h2o just add water you will always be famous
so me personally, I think it's insane how watching zane and rikki fall in love angrily and perfectly in H2O as a kid changed me for life. like, that is love to me. that is my standard for a fulfilling relationship (minus season 3).
Nothing I want more than a Zikki ending where Zane takes his boat down to Fiji or something and Rikki swims alongside it for most of the way and its just the two of them on the water, catching fish and sleeping under the stars
Possibly weird but genuine question: Do you guys think that Zane and Rikki were having sex at any point during the show? Obviously it’s rated PG (13?) and marketed at kids and preteens so they couldn’t actually bring it up on screen, but I do think it’s likely. I can’t imagine Cleo and Lewis having sex at any point during canon since they both seem like the type who would feel awkward bringing it up and would probably want to wait until they’d been together a couple of years, and Emma was never serious enough about Byron or Ash for that to come into question (and even if she was, based off her personality she would probably also want to wait). But Rikki and Zane? Fiery, intense, passionate, emotional Rikki and Zane? Rikki and Zane who went from being flirty enemies to basically Romeo and Juliet within the span of a few episodes? Rikki and Zane, who are both attractive and know it? Zane, the hotshot popular guy? Rikki, the confident, impulsive rebel? Rikki and Zane, who show us time and time again that they’re crazy, stupid in love with each other and willing to go to great lengths to prove it? Rikki and Zane, who were serious enough about each other to become business partners? Yeah they were definitely fucking.