sub_divided | The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (Reply)

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I am writing fic for this series I told Tari would be finished two days ago, but since when have I ever finished anything on time? (Fun fact:

tarigwaemir and

svz_insanity both guessed me as

issen4 first. XD If only. As you guys may have noticed, the biggest difference between me and Luce is that she can write original multichapter fics that are well-plotted and suspenseful all the way through, and she finishes what she starts.)

Series Impressions:

The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (now complete) is about a girl who wishes so hard for the world to be more interesting -- for aliens, time-travelers, ESPers, etc to exist -- that she actually creates them. But rather than reveal themselves to her, they all independently decide that she needs to be covertly monitored before she changes the world in less appealing ways. It's narrated this ordinary guy with a very dry inner monologue, Kyon (no real name XD).

About half the episodes center around Haruhi's disatisfaction and boredom with the normal world. The other half are crack parodies. XD baseball episode, space opera episode, murder-mystery episode -- in two parts! Like all good murder mysteries. To keep things interesting, epsisodes are shown in random order.

...actually, they're arranged by highs and lows, like a mix tape. I'm probably not getting at just how much fun this series is, but it's full of hilarious subversions. Tari says there are also novel translations, but I'm not sure how that would work, since the half the fun of the anime is the way it makes fun of other anime.

Also, Kyon/Haruhi OTP!!!! I'm sure there are people who support other pairings for Kyon, but I just feel sorry for them. (It's like this: Haruhi is the Asuka Langley Soryu character, except less traumatized. The quiet literary club member is Rei Ayanami, the mysterious transfer student is Kaworu Nagisa, and the ditzy upperclassman is...someone's blow-up doll? She's more a prop than a character anyway. Kyon is thankfully nothing like Shinji Ikari. What I mean is that Kyon and Haruhi are real people, while there's something really artificial about the others. I could see TransferStudent/Kyon though.)

What I am writing:
Fluffy first-person psuedo-episode Kyon-POV fic. This series just calls for it.

What I am not writing:
1. Meta. A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead deal, where the characters are trapped in a tragedy (though I was thinking, it should be a horror movie!). They comment on the conventions of genre and narrative (explicable American horror vs. illogical Asian horror?) as they try to escape, and there's word play, and talking in circles...the catch is that they aren't dealing with horror, but with Haruhi's very limited knowledge of horror, so it's a commentary on a commentary on a commentary on a commentary. *dead*

At one point, Kyon has the line: Wait, did I say that or did I think it? What's the difference?! And Koizumi (the transfer student) says: Quotation marks! But this kind of thing is too hard to do well.

2. Soul-destroying existential angst for Kyon ala