[FFML] [SHnY][AU] At a Glance (2/2)

[Bert Miller]

Very nice story.  I plan a full C&C, but it may take some time.

On 5/18/2011 12:17 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 09:50 PM, Brian Randall wrote:
>
>> Author's notes: So there you have it. Been working on this one 
>> off-and-on for ... eh ... a few months. It's just a kind of an idle 
>> thought, and then grew into this, and ... here it is. Posted as a 
>> one-shot, because it kind of doesn't go further. ;3
>
> While on the one hand that's a shame, because I really liked it, I can
> see how it's appropriate.

But without Kyon finding out about Haruhi, there really ISN'T any more 
story; every single further happening assumes Kyon knows.  (Or at least 
no more alt story; there could, I suppose, be a completely different 
story, but not really a Haruhi story.)

>
>> Well, it does, but I don't need to tell that story. Originally, I was
>> just trying to see how long I could carry it before it was obvious
>> what the difference was,
>
> For myself, I noticed it over the "homework on a memory card" scene.

Yes, Kyon's being blind was obvious very early on, I thought.  I'll try 
to pinpoint in my full C&C.

>
>> but then I decided that the actual story of how Haruhi would handle
>> interacting with someone who was disabled was more interesting. Plus,
>> I wanted to see if I could write from such a PoV....
>>
>> Nagato's probably somewhat OOC, but if she weren't, she would be
>> practically inobservable to the narrator of the story. Well, it may
>> be reasonable to say the entity has instituted some social protocol
>> for such situations, though.
>
> So, the canonical Haruhi "overstory" (as opposed to backstory) is still
> present in this AU? I wasn't sure, based on the fic itself.
>

That part was actually quite interesting.  This story can be read either 
way.  Granted, Ryouko's disappearance would be highly unusual in a 
conventional world, but it's within the bounds of possibility.  (After 
all, in canon, everyone else in class accepts it with just a few murmurs.)

Since we readers can't completely understand this story without knowing 
SHnY canon, there is a meta-sense in which the canonical overstory is 
still "true", but no in-story evidence to verify it.