As it was explained to me, "If you put two male characters in the same scene together and there are no fujoshi drawing them in candid love, that series should get axed, because you managed to create absolutely zero chemistry within your own cast" and I was like DAMN.
alhaitham is just such a unique character tbh on the surface he seems like every other intellectual 5d chess player emotionally distant sigma male fantasy but he ends up subverting every trope that this character archetype usually has and i appreciate that sm