[FFML] [SHnY] The Score of Haruhi Suzumiya

[Henry Cobb]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Brian Randall <durandall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Henry Cobb <henry.cobb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would you rather see a story where Haruhi has a small window into her
>> true nature and fears it? She'd be constantly blaming and suppressing
>> herself and Kyon's role would be to first take an interest in her
>> himself and then slowly work her out of her shell. That would be a
>> complete inversion of the standard oblivious jerkass Haruhi.
>
> My suspicions are that characterization is not _terribly_ far from
> canon, actually....  Given her reaction to things it seems she'd
> rather not know (she just never thinks about the two timelines, she
> accepted and doesn't like thinking about Koizumi's explanation for the
> Snow Mountain Syndrome).
>
> It'd be interesting.  Not sure what it has to do with this, though.

I'm willing to switch to a more acceptable story.

How about Kyon gets the heck confused out of him by a Haruhi who
cycles between denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and a strange
calmness, until Itsuki points out what this means? The big clue would
be that Haruhi would be especially nice to little sister while at the
same time seeming to be very sad. And she would break out in nervous
laughter whenever The Truth was suggested to her.

Or is that too fnording obvious to use? To push the cliche up to 11,
have the ending start with a visit to her house, and her berserk
reaction when he touches the long unused doorknob to the forbidden
room.

But I'll try a rewrite of this story that puts Haruhi into troping
instead of bullying.

-HJC