In the 'starting point' of their canon, Harpoon is unaware of her obsession, wholly. I would say he is distinct in that he completely avoids social media, is not motivated whatsoever to partake of it... He uses the internet in a very clinical way, to research upcoming events, make necessary purchases for weapon maintenance, etc. Hardly superfluous with it. He also is chronically unable to reflect, kind of a perpetual motion machine... I've described before that, once the match is Over, it stops being of any important to Harpoon. So he wouldn't go out of his way to search himself online and see what people are making of him... negative, positive, doesn't matter, he won't pursue it. I think a fellow X-rank team member could Hold a phone in front of Harpoon's face, say it's footage of him, and he would still check out. That match is over, why would he care... -_-

As for Ruki, it's not a hobby of hers she goes out of her way to disguise, but she also doesn't advertise it, in general... She just wants to live her life, buy her footage, make her videos for her own sake... When she starts to interact with Harpoon, she is (correctly) assuming that he has no idea what she does... because, otherwise, why would he speak to her... (own self-consciousness.) It already feels like an act of charity that Harpoon lets her interact with him, as such a lowly nobody. Over time, she'd also get a sense of his disdain for how inklings behave at large, the kind of individuals he can't stand... So, she especially doesn't want to come off as a desperate fangirl, vying for his attention She's ah, trying to engage with him Intellectually... Not draw attention to how she's starstruck to meet him, how she's uhh, pouring over clips of him obsessively and expressing herself through her cringe music...

In Ruki's defense, they really do have a chemistry that is authentic, so it would really sting to have that undermined by the existence of her edits... But um luckily that is not what happens ww. It varies, depending on the context of when Harpoon sees them, but we have explored it through a variety of ways. If it's earlier in their dynamic, he has more of a 'distant' reaction, like... 'Oh, huh, I didn't realize'... Usually I think of Harpoon being invasive enough as to, wordlessly pick up her phone as she sets it down before running to the bathroom or something. Scrolling through her stuff mindlessly... He might, encounter that he's her phone background lol, of see creepshots of him in her media. Running into her compilations on her account, seeing that there are several, notes this... Maybe, quickly notes her username, to look up later, setting her phone down. Then exploring her account...

As I mentioned, he's not the most reflective person, so it all comes to him slowly, a trickling curiosity, that Ruki does this... His hindbrain would process, she's obsessed with me... Which would corroborate from her behavior already. She does fawn after him... He's just been slow to really register what it all 'means'... I don't think Harpoon is uh, able to point blank think, 'she has a crush on me', but the compilations express a sort of interest in him that is appealing... Doesn't damage his view of her at all, instead, he'd just want to learn more about her. I think he can marvel at her ability to turn match footage into something actually worth rewatching... Transformative... Glimpses of the past that he's forgotten, recaptured, recontextualized...? (Space alien brain...)

It would make Ruki feel Peeled Alive to be confronted about it, but after the initial humiliation, I think they can have earnest discussions about what she does, her methods... and they can wind up uh gassing each other up, as Harpoon puts more flair to his performance in matches, buys her footage as a gift, prompts her to make compilations For Him...

[taps mouth] Ooh, there was an instance though, where Ruki's private compilations that she makes for herself, were erroneously publicly uploaded, and she's bullied about this to hell and back... These edits being ah, more obviously loaded in nature, alluding to her crush... but upon running into THESE, Harpoon would dumbly feel horny about it all. The framing of him as this menacing, dark figure, haunting and stalking... He likes that... of course he does... He would feel seen for his efforts on his self-image. His integrity... he is Not like others... and she's right to fixate on that, to want to narrow the experience to only that... (and what he cannot consciously understand is that he's rawly attracted to Ruki, so it's like learning a hot person thinks you're hot...)

Many splinter timelines of these events... In some, they collaborate on videos together, filming one another... Harpoon jerks off about it lol... In natural Harpooki fashion, it becomes as direct as Harpoon filming him brutalizing her directly, handing the camera to her in the middle of it. Scary scary footage of girl being assaulted... but it's ah, beyond a dream come true for Ruki... worth all the previous agony and humiliation... And, she gets to be the obsessed over subject of the video as well... >///<