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I feel like Nathan from heartstopper should be jewish, mainly because im jewish and my dad is friends with a maroco desent jewish woman which means we go to Mimonas almost every year after passover and i feel like Nathan would have a maroco desent jewish friend and would go to Mimonas and drag Youssef with him during their first year together, i feel like Youssef himself would come from a christian-islamic household but he himself is an athiest that celebrates islam and christian holidays but doesnt practice any religius activity, and he definitly was never quite exposed to other religions or holidays. Nathan practices less then most jews, he'd do shabat dinner and he'll definitly celebrate the holidays but for stuff like passover he celebrates with friends and never hosts.
Which brings me to the Mimona.
One random day Nathan tells Youssef its a holiday named passover and he's headed to passover dinner with his friends and asks Youssef if he wants to come. Youssef says no because he's tired and for the next 2 weeks Nathen just wont eat bread and wont explain why because he assums Youssef just knows when he doesnt, then after 2 weeks Nathen comes over to Youssef and he goes ''babe, go put on something nice, we're going to my friend Moshit for a Mimona'' and Youssef asks ''whats that?'' And he says ''maroco desent household tradition now get dressed'' 10 minutes later they're at a strangers house with arabic and hebrew music blasting on the speakers, a bunch of people speaking hebrew and a group of 6 women, a tall muscular dude and 4 teenage girls in the kitchen working over boiling pots of oil with dough and baking sheets making what looks to be deformed doughnuts (sphinge) and wierd dough pancakes stacked ontop of eachother (mophleta). Within 0.3 seconds Nathen is in the kitchen cheering and singing in hebrew and helping make sphinge with a middle aged woman, the tall muscular dude and a 16 yearold girl, who apon spoting her he picks her up, dough in hand, and spins her around before giving her a kiss on the cheek. After all the dough is too watery to work Nathan goes to the livingroom and starts to dance to the arabic and hebrew music playing on the tv speakers, someone, god knows who, hands him a baby, he holds her for aproximetly 5 minutes and just dances with her until her father comes back, they kiss eachother on the cheek and he leaves, Nathan is soon joined by the 16 yearold girl from earlyer, she calls him 'uncle Shmoopi' for some reason, apon asking Nathan tells Youssef that ''Shmoopi is everyone that isnt me'' which explains NOTHING before proceeding to feed him a sphinge, then for some reason Charlie Spring is there because his parents are ALSO friends with Moshit and he's friend with the 16 yearold girl, Sunny, and has been her friend for 12 years and they both speak hebrew, suddenly 'fireball' plays. 5 hours later at 1 AM Nathan is drunk off his feet and will probably enter a food coma the moment he comes home because of all the carbs he's eaten that night. Youssef drives home and he has NO CLUE what the FUCK just happend, right before they leave Charlie and Sunny ask if they can go with and have a sleepover, both their parents said yes, Nathan agrees, they proceed to spend the next two hours making a baked cheesecake with cranberry syrup on top while watching an Israeli show named 'checkout' on Netflix.
Youssef's most chaotic night ever
He loved it
They're doing it again next year