The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya [Spoilers Aplenty]

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

Can I tout this thread as superior then? Or shall I wait until the post count is more deserving of pride-laden manly tears?

Where you at Kaisos? And dkellis, if you could fulfill Kaisos's request to periodically bring up a compilation of rewrites so far, I could also modify the first post for easier access later.

Well, I needed sleep, so I haven't got much farther yet... I get most of my inspiration while overtired, though.

So I'm starting again now.

[Evangelion Xgouki]

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

I am unfamiliar with these terms.

And we're all serious business here. I believe that this one is a fan project that shall pierce the heavens.

Hmmm...let's see...

Backlog = A large number of posts between one's last post and the most recent one after not checking the thread for a period of time.

Bluechessium = Post that contain a large amount of content, especially replies to other posts from backlog.

Crack = Crazy and unusual comments/references that do not appear to have relevance to the current topic of post and sometimes results in a WTF?! reaction.

Dunno how accurate I am with this . Perhaps some of the other Outer Cadians can flesh this out?

[Keroko]

Almost, you got backlog right, but crack can be related to the topic in question Bluecheesium warants more explanation. For one, replies are generally not counted as Bluecheesium. Bluecheesium posts is a post filled with mountains of text on a single subject, to the point where many will think "Am I really supposed to read all of this?"

And no, DJ, you can't count this thread superior. Try reaching 20.000 posts first, then come back. Though we'll probably have hit the 30/40.000 posts by then.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Almost, you got backlog right, but crack can be related to the topic in question Bluecheesium warants more explanation. For one, replies are generally not counted as Bluecheesium. Bluecheesium posts is a post filled with mountains of text on a single subject, to the point where many will think "Am I really supposed to read all of this?"

Basically a tl;dr kind of thing eh?

Originally Posted by Keroko

And no, DJ, you can't count this thread superior. Try reaching 20.000 posts first, then come back. Though we'll probably have hit the 30/40.000 posts by then.

Please refer to me as RmX. And we shall see.

In the mean time, feast your eyes on Kyon-chan and Itsuki-chan.

....

[dreamoflife]

If everyone's gung-ho about Kyon-chan getting escorted home, I won't argue. It sort of works for her to ask Yuuki, I suppose-- maybe Yuuki says something along the lines that it's unnecessary, and Kyon-chan drily asks him to humor her. I imagine she'd probably be a little rattled by the weird stuff he's been saying, and so would maybe be not feeling quite as up to going home alone in the dark as normal, even if she wouldn't admit it.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Originally Posted by dreamoflife

If everyone's gung-ho about Kyon-chan getting escorted home, I won't argue. It sort of works for her to ask Yuuki, I suppose-- maybe Yuuki says something along the lines that it's unnecessary, and Kyon-chan drily asks him to humor her. I imagine she'd probably be a little rattled by the weird stuff he's been saying, and so would maybe be not feeling quite as up to going home alone in the dark as normal, even if she wouldn't admit it.

Now there's one of the tsundere explanations I've been waiting for.

[dreamoflife]

I think I'm going to try my hand at writing that bit, my favorite part about Kyon in the novels is that he's a fairly unreliable narrator when it comes to what he's actually feeling so I think it would be fun to figure out a way to insinuate things without being incredibly obvious... :3

(Maybe later, though. Damn you, calculus homework.)

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

Basically a tl;dr kind of thing eh?

tl;dr?

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

Please refer to me as RmX. And we shall see.

Will do, but you have much to learn, young padawan.

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

In the mean time, feast your eyes on Kyon-chan and Itsuki-chan.

....

Ahh, speaking of which, I am currently working on conversions of the Itsuki/Kyon 'holding hands' scene in episode 13. Coincidence?

Originally Posted by dreamoflife

If everyone's gung-ho about Kyon-chan getting escorted home, I won't argue. It sort of works for her to ask Yuuki, I suppose-- maybe Yuuki says something along the lines that it's unnecessary, and Kyon-chan drily asks him to humor her. I imagine she'd probably be a little rattled by the weird stuff he's been saying, and so would maybe be not feeling quite as up to going home alone in the dark as normal, even if she wouldn't admit it.

That sounds far more reasonable, and would fit with Kyonko's romance denial.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Originally Posted by Keroko

tl;dr?

Too long; don't read.

Originally Posted by Keroko

Ahh, speaking of which, I am currently working on conversions of the Itsuki/Kyon 'holding hands' scene in episode 13. Coincidence?

Excuse me while I wipe the blood from my nose.

Originally Posted by Keroko

That sounds far more reasonable, and would fit with Kyonko's romance denial.

Kyon-ko is gonna be more tsundere than the original Haruhi with the way things are shaping up. (Bad) Shoujo exposure as a young lass must have done quite a number on her.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

Too long; don't read.

To some, maybe to most. We've always said that you need to be slightly crazy if you want to enter the Nanoha OC thread.

Me? I read everything.

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

Excuse me while I wipe the blood from my nose.

The conversions will be simple, but I'm hoping they'll spart more profesional fanartists to draw the scenes, and maybe add a little more.

Originally Posted by DJ_RockmanX

Kyon-ko is gonna be more tsundere than the original Haruhi with the way things are shaping up. (Bad) Shoujo exposure as a young lass must have done quite a number on her.

More tsundere indeed. I believe we noticed that with her reaction to Haruki's groping. But she's going to be tsundere in her own snarky way.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Wawawa~ and the other one whom I can't be bothered to really remember:



A genderbent HareHare:



Even Mitsuru is picking up some of Haruki's GAR aura here:

[dreamoflife]

Calculus homework? What calculus homework?

Spoiler for Leaving Nagato's:

"The majority of the Integrated Data Entity speculates that if Suzumiya Haruki becomes aware of his own powers and existence, an unforeseen crisis might occur; hence, at this stage we have opted to continue observing."

"There's a chance I'd tell all of this to Haruki! I really don't get it, why tell me all this?"

"Even if you tell him, it is likely he would ignore it."

It is likely indeed.

"I'm not the only alien placed on Earth by the Integrated Data Sentient Entity. The Entity intends to take a proactive role and observe any changes in the flow of data. For Suzumiya Haruki, you are an important person. If there is any sign of a crisis looming, I will look to you first."

Sorry, count me out.

Please excuse me, thanks for the tea, it was nice.

Seeing me about to leave, Nagato-san didn't stop me.

I slipped my shoes on, leaning against the doorframe. Aliens, huh. Nagato-san must have been picking up weird ideas from those thick science fiction books he reads all the time.

I paused, one shoe on. If it was true, that would mean that the sort of strange being that Haruki is so obsessed with has been right under her nose all this time.

Yeah, right. What sort of idiot am I? It was just something about Nagato-san’s voice, the way he was so matter-of-fact about it. He made it sound so convincing, the way he deadpanned about... what was it? A data entity that was watching Haruki? That just made me think of some sort of cloud of hovering binary code hanging around.

Weird things like that just don’t happen. And what was that ‘not the only alien’ thing... like I’d ever seen anyone remotely like Nagato-san before. He’d made it sound like they were waiting in the bushes, ready to jump out at any hint of weirdness. Yeah, right.

It sure was dark out tonight.

“Hey,” I said. Nagato looked up, but before he did, I thought something about his slim body kneeling there had looked almost... lonely. “If you’re going to make me come out at all hours of the night, the least you can do is walk me home.”

If he had been anyone else, he probably would have looked surprised. As it was, he said, in that same monotone he used for everything, “That is unnecessary. The crime rate in this city is not such that--”

“Humor me,” I interrupted drily.




In a way that perfectly coincided with the way my life had been going lately, my little brother opened the door for me when I arrived home.

“Why were you--” and his eyes widened. “Ooh, you were out with a boy!”

No, it’s--

His face split into a grin. I’ve never been in favor of older siblings beating up on younger ones, but I think that’s about to change. “I’m te---lling!”

I grabbed the back of his shirt as he tried to run off. “Chocolate ice cream.”

He had been taking a deep breath, ready to scream for our mother, but that confused him. “What?”

By the way, through all this Nagato-san was just standing there like a statue. Thanks for the help. You’re acting like you’re watching paint dry or something.

“From that stand across from the bakery. You pass it every morning on the way to school, you’re always staring at it. I’ll buy you chocolate ice cream every day for a week.”

“Including the weekend?”

Fine, whatever.

He gave me what I’m sure he thought was an adorable grin. “Deal!”

[DJ_RockmanX]

Originally Posted by dreamoflife

Weird things like that just don’t happen. And what was that ‘not the only alien’ thing... like I’d ever seen anyone remotely like Nagato-san before. He’d made it sound like they were waiting in the bushes, ready to jump out at any hint of weirdness. Yeah, right.

It sure was dark out tonight.

“Hey,” I said. Nagato looked up, but before he did, I thought something about his slim body kneeling there had looked almost... lonely. “If you’re going to make me come out at all hours of the night, the least you can do is walk me home.”

If he had been anyone else, he probably would have looked surprised. As it was, he said, in that same monotone he used for everything, “That is unnecessary. The crime rate in this city is not such that--”

“Humor me,” I interrupted drily.

Lawl.

And Ryo's so gonna jump out of the bushes wielding the sword in the next round. Or at least have Kyon-chan say she thought she saw something that looked like a teenage guy's figure in the shadows of the trees.

[Puffendahl]

Hello. I have popped out of nowhere and interrupted the discussion merely to write a few words of praise for this project. While I hardly have any opinion of genderbending as an idea (it is relatively new for me), I have to say I find this particular example here purely awesome.

Yes, as you probably guessed, I'm one of the people who have lurked around this thread for all 40+ pages, and now decided to join merely to... Err... Be of no use, I'm afraid. As of now, at least... Sorry about that.

My original intention was to read this thread through, and then offer my help. However, all that I could do would be some illustrations and writing, but I have noted that you already have better people for that job. Which was, oddly enough, not enough to keep me from registering anyway. In other words, in case a situation where you conveniently need the opinion/other help from a random person like me, I'd be glad to help. As I mentioned before, I think this is awesome, so I'd be glad to be able to help it further somehow... Just because I want to see more, of course.

After that long explanation on who on earth I am, I'll shorten it up a little and add the point; as of now, I'm just a random useless person who likes this idea/project a lot (I've notived that I've quickly started to evolve into a Yuuki-fangirl... I happen to have something of a megane moe, it seems ). However, I'll probably voice my opinion a few times in the future, if I get the chance. Hopefully, I'll be of some help.


Oh, and as an apology for the long, rather pointless post, I'll force this on you.

It's a female Fujiwara I drew a while back. I'm aware that it's not a masterpiece, and the only way I can defend myself is by promising that it's not that new (and I'm still working on my character designing, practising pretty hard too). However, it was the only thing that has even remotely anything to do with this topic that I could add (even though it's a bit early for Alt-dan)... So please don't get too annoyed with me.

Thank you for your patience with my post.

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Puffendahl

Oh, and as an apology for the long, rather pointless post, I'll force this on you.

It's a female Fujiwara I drew a while back. I'm aware that it's not a masterpiece, and the only way I can defend myself is by promising that it's not that new (and I'm still working on my character designing, practising pretty hard too). However, it was the only thing that has even remotely anything to do with this topic that I could add (even though it's a bit early for Alt-dan)... So please don't get too annoyed with me.

Hey, no need to be so overly polite.

And that's a fairly awesome conception of Fujiwara. Exactly how I'd imagined him as a chick.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Originally Posted by Puffendahl

Oh, and as an apology for the long, rather pointless post, I'll force this on you.

It's a female Fujiwara I drew a while back. I'm aware that it's not a masterpiece, and the only way I can defend myself is by promising that it's not that new (and I'm still working on my character designing, practising pretty hard too). However, it was the only thing that has even remotely anything to do with this topic that I could add (even though it's a bit early for Alt-dan)... So please don't get too annoyed with me.

Thank you for your patience with my post.

Like Kaisos said, no need for that much formality.

It doesn't matter that some contributions are bigger or flashier than others, because every little bit helps.

And considering the badass picture like the one you just gave us, I'd already rate you as well up there on the contributions totem pole.

[Keroko]

Besides, every opinion is welcome. You don't have to be able to draw 'superior manga pieces' to be able to share you opinion.

I mean, I can't draw crap, what you drew is better then I could pump out in a month. I'm not even sure whether the photoshop conversions I'm working on will turn out decently, and I'm still here.

Originally Posted by dreamoflife

Calculus homework? What calculus homework?

Spoiler for Leaving Nagato's:

"The majority of the Integrated Data Entity speculates that if Suzumiya Haruki becomes aware of his own powers and existence, an unforeseen crisis might occur; hence, at this stage we have opted to continue observing."

"There's a chance I'd tell all of this to Haruki! I really don't get it, why tell me all this?"

"Even if you tell him, it is likely he would ignore it."

It is likely indeed.

"I'm not the only alien placed on Earth by the Integrated Data Sentient Entity. The Entity intends to take a proactive role and observe any changes in the flow of data. For Suzumiya Haruki, you are an important person. If there is any sign of a crisis looming, I will look to you first."

Sorry, count me out.

Please excuse me, thanks for the tea, it was nice.

Seeing me about to leave, Nagato-san didn't stop me.

I slipped my shoes on, leaning against the doorframe. Aliens, huh. Nagato-san must have been picking up weird ideas from those thick science fiction books he reads all the time.

I paused, one shoe on. If it was true, that would mean that the sort of strange being that Haruki is so obsessed with has been right under her nose all this time.

Yeah, right. What sort of idiot am I? It was just something about Nagato-san’s voice, the way he was so matter-of-fact about it. He made it sound so convincing, the way he deadpanned about... what was it? A data entity that was watching Haruki? That just made me think of some sort of cloud of hovering binary code hanging around.

Weird things like that just don’t happen. And what was that ‘not the only alien’ thing... like I’d ever seen anyone remotely like Nagato-san before. He’d made it sound like they were waiting in the bushes, ready to jump out at any hint of weirdness. Yeah, right.

It sure was dark out tonight.

“Hey,” I said. Nagato looked up, but before he did, I thought something about his slim body kneeling there had looked almost... lonely. “If you’re going to make me come out at all hours of the night, the least you can do is walk me home.”

If he had been anyone else, he probably would have looked surprised. As it was, he said, in that same monotone he used for everything, “That is unnecessary. The crime rate in this city is not such that--”

“Humor me,” I interrupted drily.




In a way that perfectly coincided with the way my life had been going lately, my little brother opened the door for me when I arrived home.

“Why were you--” and his eyes widened. “Ooh, you were out with a boy!”

No, it’s--

His face split into a grin. I’ve never been in favor of older siblings beating up on younger ones, but I think that’s about to change. “I’m te---lling!”

I grabbed the back of his shirt as he tried to run off. “Chocolate ice cream.”

He had been taking a deep breath, ready to scream for our mother, but that confused him. “What?”

By the way, through all this Nagato-san was just standing there like a statue. Thanks for the help. You’re acting like you’re watching paint dry or something.

“From that stand across from the bakery. You pass it every morning on the way to school, you’re always staring at it. I’ll buy you chocolate ice cream every day for a week.”

“Including the weekend?”

Fine, whatever.

He gave me what I’m sure he thought was an adorable grin. “Deal!”

The little brother sure knows how to bribe.

The way Kyonko tlked herself into the paranoia of people hiding in the bushes was a good way of making her scared. I fully second this to be in the official version.

[Tyabann]

Another part of Chapter One... this is really hard...

Spoiler for Chapter One, part four:

Even ignoring Taniguchi's disturbing comments, Asakura Ryou was quite a different kind of guy than Suzumiya Haruki was.

First of all, he was very handsome; plus he always let off a sort of smile-like caring impression. Second, his personality did seem to match Taniguchi's description. These days no one dared to talk to Suzumiya Haruki anymore, except for Asakura Ryou. No matter how rude Suzumiya Haruki was, Asakura Ryou still tried to talk to him from time to time. He was so fervent in the matter that he almost acted like a class monitor. Third, from the way he answered teachers' questions in class alone, you could see that he was very smart. He always answered the questions correctly — in the eyes of the teachers he was probably a model student. To top it off, he was extremely popular with the guys in the class. The term had only been going for a week, and he was already well on his way to being the idol of the male students in the class, who seemed to look at him like a feudal lord of old. I think the Greeks had a word for that kind of adoration…

Asakura Ryou was one of the few guys I’d ever seen who looked like the stereotypical handsome prince character from the cartoons I’d watched as a little girl. That charming smile, that calm appearance… Compared to him, Suzumiya Haruki was just a science fiction obsessed weirdo.

I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have magical powers. I don’t want to be carried off to be Suzumiya’s bride.

It was still April. At that time, Suzumiya still behaved himself. So, to me, this period of time was pretty relaxing. Unfortuantely, I didn’t know that there was only be a month to go before Haruki would start going off his rocker.
Even during that short time, though, I'd observed some of Haruki’s eccentric behaviors.

Now, why would I say something like that?

Evidence Article #1: Every day, his hairstyle changed. Added to this, from my observations, there was sort of a weird pattern to it all. On Monday, Haruki would come to school with his hair down. On Tuesday, there’d be a single spike gelled up on the back of his head. On the next day, there'd be two spikes, the day after, three; by Friday, there were four spikes, one on each cardinal direction of his head. Is that supposed to signify something?

So Monday equals zero, Tuesday equals one, Wednesday equals two...

As the day of the week increased, so would the number of hair spikes; by next Monday, the whole crazy process would start again. I couldn’t see any reason for it. Continuing with the pattern, he should have had six spikes on Sunday... I bet he looks like some sort of typical shonen character. I suddenly want to see how his head looks on Sunday.

Evidence Article #2: In this school, for Phys Ed, classes 1-5 and 1-6 would combine and have Phys ED together, with the boys and girls separated. When we changed clothes, the girls would go to the 1-6 classroom, and the boys would go to the 1-5 classroom; meaning at the end of the period, the girls from our class (1-5) would move to the other room to change.

Unfortunately for my poor sanity, Haruki completely ignored these conventions and started stripping before the girls had even left.

It wasn’t as if he was an exhibitionist or anything. I think that he simply didn’t care whether anybody saw his body or not. Wearing his usual scowl, he’d just throw his pants onto the desk and get into his gym gear.

At that moment, most of the girls in the class were completely frozen and confused, so it was up to me to get them out of there, trying to ignore Haruki’s mostly-naked body.

According to gossip, the other guys in the class, led by Asakura Ryou, attempted to talk Haruki out of doing that, but he refused. Something about “the male body being nothing to be ashamed of”… Every Phys Ed class, Haruki would totally ignore everyone else and take his pants off without so much as a glance. So, in order to keep our optical virginity, we girls decided to leave the classroom as soon as the bell rang.

Seriously, though, Haruki is pretty well built… argh, where am I going with this?

Evidence Article #3: At the end of every period, Haruki would go missing. When the school bell came rolling around, he’d grab his school bag and march out of the classroom. I’d have thought that he’d go straight home; never in a million years would I have guessed that he’d go and participate in all the clubs instead. One day, you’d see him shooting hoops in the Basketball Club, and the next you’d see him making an urn in the Pottery Club. By the following day, you would see him waving a stick at the opposing team in the Hockey Club. I think he also tried out for the Baseball Club. So, basically, he had participated in every sport club in our school. Now I can see why those sports jocks tried to talk to him. All the clubs tried to persuade him into joining them permanently, but he obviously turned them all down. His explanation was: "Doing the same club activity every day is boring! I need to find new experiences!" In the end, he didn't join any clubs.

What exactly is he trying to do?

Just because of this, gossip about the "bizarre first year guy" spread throughout the school almost instantly. Within a month, there was not a single person who didn't know who Suzumiya Haruki was. By May, although people may still not have known the name of our principal, Suzumiya Haruki had become a household name.

So, with all this stuff going on— and Haruki always behind it— May arrived.
If you ask me, I think destiny is even less believable than the Loch Ness monster. If destiny, at some unknown place, is actively influencing human lives, my metaphorical wheel of fate had probably begun to turn. Maybe in some far off land, there’s three magical crones busying rewriting my future?

…No, that’s just stupid.

After the end of the vacation for Golden Week, I walked to school, not sure what day of the week it was. The bright, sunny weather, unnatural for this time of year, blasted onto my skin and made me soaked with sweat— I just had a shower this morning and already I want another one. This stupid hill the size of Kilimanjaro just makes it worse. What on earth does the Earth want from me? Is it suffering from some obscure medical disorder or something?

"Hi, Kyon!"

Somebody hugged me from behind. It was Taniguchi.

Her uniform was untidy and looked like it hadn’t been ironed or washed in a while. And is her belt undone?

"Where did you go for Golden Week?"

"My parents took me and my little brother to see my grandpa in the countryside."

"That’s boring!"

"Fine, then what did you do?"

"I got a part-time job."

Probably at a brothel somewhere.

"Really? Working doesn’t seem to suit you at all."

"Kyon, you’re in senior high now— why do you gotta go with your little brother to see your grandpa and grandma? You should be hanging out with your girlfriends or something."

Kyon, by the way, is my nickname. My uncle was the first person to call me that. A few years back, my long-time-no-see-good-for-nothing uncle suddenly said to me "Wow, look at you, Kyon-chan! You’re all grown up!" Could he have thought of anything more embarrassing? My little brother thought it was funny and also started to call me Kyon. After that, the rest is history— my friends, upon hearing my brother calling me Kyon, decided to follow his lead. From that day on, my name, to everyone, became Kyon. Damn it, my brother used to call me "Onee-chan"!

"It’s a tradition of ours to have a family reunion during Golden Week," I answered as I climbed Mt. Aconcagua.

The sweating sensation made me feel polluted. I really need that shower…

Taniguchi, full of hot air as always, boasted about how there were so many cute guys at her workplace, and how she planned to use the money she made to buy a new miniskirt for the summer. Topics like what dreams people have, or how amazing or cute someone's pet is, or what clothes they want, are, to me, some of the most boring topics ever.

As I wondered if this was how Haruki felt when people talked to him about football games, we arrived at the school gate.

Critique, please?

[DJ_RockmanX]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

I think the Greeks had a word for that kind of adoration…

Nice insert.

But it's a Latin term, so it's the Romans.

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

According to gossip, the other guys in the class, led by Asakura Ryou, attempted to talk Haruki out of doing that, but he refused. Something about “the male body being nothing to be ashamed of”… Every Phys Ed class, Haruki would totally ignore everyone else and take his pants off without so much as a glance. So, in order to keep our optical virginity, we girls decided to leave the classroom as soon as the bell rang.

Seriously, though, Haruki is pretty well built… argh, where am I going with this?

ROFLMAO.

[Master Punk]

This topic is very interesting

Kyon-ko is beatiful ^^