The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya [Spoilers Aplenty]

[yggdrasil325]

Originally Posted by Kogetsu Shirogane

It didn't "just die," We stabbed it several times.

Then dropped a bomb on it.

Then blasted it with a tank.

Then shot it.

Then took a chainsaw to the remains.

... Are you trying to get us trapped in TVTrope-land forever?

[otai]

@Kaisos: Sorry about my lack of supportive comments earlier. Just not too good with the sappy stuff. Will be glad that you won't die young.

Anyway, I've thought of another piece of technobabble to insert. Probably when Mitsuuru and Kyonko are talking about the differences between the Endless Eight repetitions and actual alternate universes.

The repeats in August are not alternate universes. From the universe's point of view, those are simply loops in the timeline.

Each iteration of those 2 weeks may have played out differently, but they are all connected as the same continuous event. Iteration no. 1 is followed sequentially by iteration no. 2, and so on.

Picture a table as the universe; and a tablecloth on top of it that is creased and folded 15,498 times as the timeline.

If there is an alternate universe, picture another table; and the tablecloth on it has a different number of folds, perhaps 15,532... OH SHI-

[Tyabann]

Kyonko's whole point is "what if they aren't just loops, what if they became alternate universes"?

You did, however, guess at something important, i.e. the difference between the anime and novel canon.

[otai]

The fact that every loop became the next loop is still worth repeating. The likelihood of the loops becoming alternate universes is about the same as creating alternate universes by getting out of bed with a different foot every morning.

Kyoani has a history of making anime different from the sauce. We can only guess how significant this change is. They might even justify a different ending. (Most blatant sauce remix by Kyoani are the yuri twins in FMP:TSR. More fanboy friendly, but who really believed that "I love you, Kasshim" Gauron would adopt a pair of girls? )

[Tyabann]

Didn't Gatou approve of that change?

Also, more writeup for you all:

Spoiler for September the Fifth, Day 4, Interlude 4: Other Side- Sealed Realities:

Sealed Realities

With responses like that, Mitsuuru Asahina could only sigh.

The prolonged silence from the two adjacent to him gave him plenty of time to reflect on the irony of trying to lighten the mood of a room intentionally kept darkened.

He had arrived last, having been in what passed for emergency medical care in his future for the past 12 hours, due to his younger self’s removal from the timeline entirely. What passed for doctors had, so far, stabilized the slow, agonizing degeneration of his cells, but it wouldn’t last.

Mitsuuru Asahina’s number was up, and he knew it.

He also knew that both the other representatives were women, and so had complimented them both on their looks when he sat down. Despite, of course, being unable to see their faces.

Now that he thought about it, that was rather ironic too.

Neither of them had paid his words any heed. Of course, he hadn’t expected a response from a typically unresponsive humanoid interface, but he had at least expected some acknowledgement, or at least a deprecating comment, from the other woman.

The other woman simply stared at the fluorescent light emanating upwards from the centre of the round table they were all sitting around. Her glasses reflected the light, making it even harder to make out her face.

Mitsuuru Asahina, however, already knew who she was. Although she was now much too old, she could easily have been an idol in her youth. A pity she decided to be a physicist instead.

The silence was making Mitsuuru Asahina uncomfortable.

“Nice… nice weather today, huh?”

“The weather today is rain. Rain is not generally considered nice weather.”

The humanoid interface had corrected him. It appears any attempt to lighten the mood had no chance of working. Oh well.

“Sigh… I suppose we should actually get down to business, huh?”

“An excellent suggestion. One that would have not needed to be made had you been businesslike to begin with.”

The woman from the Agency had a sharp tongue, contrasting with the sound of her voice, which matched Mitsuuru Asahina’s memory of her beauty.

“Come now, Director. I was just trying to, um, break the ice--”

“Now isn’t the time for foolishness. I had this meeting called because the expansion of Closed Space is increasing at an exponential rate. Faster than ever before.”

It appears that Haruki Suzumiya has noticed. It probably was time to get serious, then.

“Our agent, my younger self, has vanished from the timeline… so I’d assume your agents have as well, correct?”

“Contact with the interface placed in close proximity to Haruki Suzumiya has been lost. Before contact was lost, a spatial anomaly was reported, one which had trapped him temporarily in another world.”

“My… my agent, also, is nowhere to be found. I have our people looking, but…”

Mitsuuru Asahina smirked, glad that the Director couldn’t see him. So that’s why she was in such a snappy mood today.

Kyon-chan must have gone too, huh…? I hope she got that weapon working.

“Don’t bother looking. They’re long gone now.”

“But gone where? Where has she… have they gone?”

“If our friend from the Data Overmind here is correct, then they are in some other universe. How they got there I cannot say, but that would account for them vanishing from the timeline.”

“There is no doubt. The spatial anomaly was recorded and analyzed. The so-called ‘SOS Brigade’ has left this universe for another.”

“Thank you… I don’t believe I know your name?”

“Names are meaningless to us.”

“…I see. So, I guess we’re supposed to figure out a way in which we can collaborate in order to get them back?”

“…Yes, since Suzumiya-kun won’t stop producing Closed Space otherwise, I’m told. And when more Closed Space exists than reality…”

“Suzumiya-san destroys and/or remakes the world, right.”

A long time ago, Mitsuuru Asahina would have protested that assertion. Now he knew better.

“Well, we don’t want that to happen. So, any ideas?”

“Well, hmm, ideas. It could simply be Suzumiya-kun’s doing, but then… why would his subconscious react like this to a decision it made?”

“Incorrect. No data exists to suggest Haruki Suzumiya was behind the spatial distortion.”

“I’m sorry, what makes you so sure of that?”

“Data was collected that proves the spatial distortion existed, but Haruki Suzumiya was not the center of it.”

“You say that like it was someone else at the center of the spatial distortion.”

“Yes. A girl who was, up until this event, considered the only normal human being in Haruki Suzumiya’s so-called ‘SOS Brigade’.”

“Wait… you’re not referring to…”

Mitsuuru Asahina began to laugh. So that was it.

“…I’ve said it before, but you’re not nearly as serious as you should be.”

“Well, that’d be because I’m already dead, so I’m already at the point where I find things that shouldn’t be funny to be that way.

“…Already dead?”

“Unless we get my younger self back in a matter of… 46 hours… my cells will have degenerated to the point where even his reinsertion in the timeline can’t save me.”

“And you don’t believe we can get them back within that given time frame, do you?”

“Nope. Think about it. Have any of our three organizations ever come up with something resembling slider technology?”

“No, but that is precisely why we’re having this meeting. With my scientists and the combined technological efforts of both your organization and that of the Overmind, it should be possible.”

“Really now. Are you perfectly sure you don’t just want access to highly advanced technology? Besides, I couldn’t give it to you anyway. It’s classified.”

“The Data Overmind also sees no reason as of yet to share its knowledge with humans.”

“…! I only wish to save our world from being destroyed! Isn’t that enough of a reason to drop time ‘classified’ status on your technology? Isn’t that enough reason to trust us?”

“Give me a break. You don’t want to save the world.”

Silence.

“You only want to save your daughter.”

The noise of someone standing up suddenly, and a chair falling backwards onto the floor

That’s also when Mitsuuru Asahina’s medical treatment wears off and he begins to have what passes for a seizure.

And that’s also when a door behind the Director burst open, letting in light and blinding the three inside of the room.

Mitsuuru Asahina fell off his chair.

“Wh—What are you doing, orderly? I said that we were not to be disturbed during this meeting.”

No one in the room could see the orderly’s facial expression, much as they had been unable to see each other’s. If they could see his face, however, they would know he was terrified.

“D-D-D-D-Director…”

“What? What is it? Is something wrong?”

“O-outside… an Avatar… I-it’s here…”

“…What?”

“Imminent attack detected. Initiating defensive programs.”

“…What!?”

The Director hits a button under the round table, and the black walls around them slide back… suffusing the room with a deep, crimson light.

“Oh god.”

Mitsuuru Asahina, laying on the floor, can see the giant’s arm coming down. He hacks out a chuckle.

INTERLUDE END

[swtrooper42]

Shit just hit the fan I think.

I'm guessing that's Itsuko's mother/Director of the Organization. Who's the interface?

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by swtrooper42

Who's the interface?

Just another interface, presumably senior in authority to Nagato and Kimidori.

And the Director isn't in charge of the Agency/Organization.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Good to see you back in action, Kaisos. I await the next Haruki-side interlude.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Didn't Gatou approve of that change?

Also, more writeup for you all:

Spoiler for September the Fifth, Day 4, Interlude 4: Other Side- Sealed Realities:

Sealed Realities

With responses like that, Mitsuuru Asahina could only sigh.

The prolonged silence from the two adjacent to him gave him plenty of time to reflect on the irony of trying to lighten the mood of a room intentionally kept darkened.

He had arrived last, having been in what passed for emergency medical care in his future for the past 12 hours, due to his younger self’s removal from the timeline entirely. What passed for doctors had, so far, stabilized the slow, agonizing degeneration of his cells, but it wouldn’t last.

Mitsuuru Asahina’s number was up, and he knew it.

He also knew that both the other representatives were women, and so had complimented them both on their looks when he sat down. Despite, of course, being unable to see their faces.

Now that he thought about it, that was rather ironic too.

Neither of them had paid his words any heed. Of course, he hadn’t expected a response from a typically unresponsive humanoid interface, but he had at least expected some acknowledgement, or at least a deprecating comment, from the other woman.

The other woman simply stared at the fluorescent light emanating upwards from the centre of the round table they were all sitting around. Her glasses reflected the light, making it even harder to make out her face.

Mitsuuru Asahina, however, already knew who she was. Although she was now much too old, she could easily have been an idol in her youth. A pity she decided to be a physicist instead.

The silence was making Mitsuuru Asahina uncomfortable.

“Nice… nice weather today, huh?”

“Today marks the worst thunderstorm on record.”

The humanoid interface had corrected him. It appears any attempt to lighten the mood had no chance of working. Oh well.

“Sigh… I suppose we should actually get down to business, huh?”

“An excellent suggestion. One that would have not needed to be made had you been businesslike to begin with.”

The woman from the Agency had a sharp tongue, contrasting with the sound of her voice, which matched Mitsuuru Asahina’s memory of her beauty.

“Come now, Director. I was just trying to, um, break the ice--”

“Now isn’t the time for foolishness. I had this meeting called because the expansion of Closed Space is increasing at an exponential rate. Faster than ever before.”

It appears that Haruki Suzumiya has noticed. It probably was time to get serious, then.

“Our agent, my younger self, has vanished from the timeline… so I’d assume your agents have as well, correct?”

“Contact with the interface placed in close proximity to Haruki Suzumiya has been lost. Before contact was lost, a spatial anomaly was reported, one which had trapped him temporarily in another world.”

“My… my agent, also, is nowhere to be found. I have our people looking, but…”

Mitsuuru Asahina smirked, glad that the Director couldn’t see him. So that’s why she was in such a snappy mood today.

Kyon-chan must have gone too, huh…? I hope she got that weapon working.

“Don’t bother looking. They’re long gone now.”

“But gone where? Where has she… have they gone?”

“If our friend from the Data Overmind here is correct, then they are in some other universe. How they got there I cannot say, but that would account for them vanishing from the timeline.”

“There is no doubt. The spatial anomaly was recorded and analyzed. The so-called ‘SOS Brigade’ has left this universe for another.”

“Thank you… I don’t believe I know your name?”

“Names are meaningless to us.”

“…I see. So, I guess we’re supposed to figure out a way in which we can collaborate in order to get them back?”

“…Yes, since Suzumiya-kun won’t stop producing Closed Space otherwise, I’m told. And when more Closed Space exists than reality…”

“Suzumiya-san destroys and/or remakes the world, right.”

A long time ago, Mitsuuru Asahina would have protested that assertion. Now he knew better.

“Well, we don’t want that to happen. So, any ideas?”

“Well, hmm, ideas. It could simply be Suzumiya-kun’s doing, but then… why would his subconscious react like this to a decision it made?”

“Incorrect. No data exists to suggest Haruki Suzumiya was behind the spatial distortion.”

“I’m sorry, what makes you so sure of that?”

“Data was collected that proves the spatial distortion existed, but Haruki Suzumiya was not the center of it.”

“You say that like it was someone else at the center of the spatial distortion.”

“Yes. A girl who was, up until this event, considered the only normal human being in Haruki Suzumiya’s so-called ‘SOS Brigade’.”

“Wait… you’re not referring to…”

Mitsuuru Asahina began to laugh. So that was it.

“…I’ve said it before, but you’re not nearly as serious as you should be.”

“Well, that’d be because I’m already dead, so I’m already at the point where I find things that shouldn’t be funny to be that way.

“…Already dead?”

“Unless we get my younger self back in a matter of… 46 hours… my cells will have degenerated to the point where even his reinsertion in the timeline can’t save me.”

“And you don’t believe we can get them back within that given time frame, do you?”

“Nope. Think about it. Have any of our three organizations ever come up with something resembling slider technology?”

“No, but that is precisely why we’re having this meeting. With my scientists and the combined technological efforts of both your organization and that of the Overmind, it should be possible.”

“Really now. Are you perfectly sure you don’t just want access to highly advanced technology? Besides, I couldn’t give it to you anyway. It’s classified.”

“The Data Overmind also sees no reason as of yet to share its knowledge with humans.”

“…! I only wish to save our world from being destroyed! Isn’t that enough of a reason to drop time ‘classified’ status on your technology? Isn’t that enough reason to trust us?”

“Give me a break. You don’t want to save the world.”

Silence.

“You only want to save your daughter.”

The noise of someone standing up suddenly, and a chair falling backwards onto the floor

That’s also when Mitsuuru Asahina’s medical treatment wears off and he begins to have what passes for a seizure.

And that’s also when a door behind the Director burst open, letting in light and blinding the three inside of the room.

Mitsuuru Asahina fell off his chair.

“Wh—What are you doing, orderly? I said that we were not to be disturbed during this meeting.”

No one in the room could see the orderly’s facial expression, much as they had been unable to see each other’s. If they could see his face, however, they would know he was terrified.

“D-D-D-D-Director…”

“What? What is it? Is something wrong?”

“O-outside… an Avatar… I-it’s here…”

“…What?”

“Imminent attack detected. Initiating defensive programs.”

“…What!?”

The Director hits a button under the round table, and the black walls around them slide back… suffusing the room with a deep, crimson light.

“Oh god.”

Mitsuuru Asahina, laying on the floor, can see the giant’s arm coming down. He hacks out a chuckle.

Interesting interlude. I am also curious about the interface, specially because it is a woman. It shouldn't be a guy? I mean, in the normal universe there is no male interface, so I guess there is no female interface in the seitenkan verse(but, of couse, neve was stated it can't be male interfaces, might be only a concidence).

The other curiosity is why the director herself would go to the meeting. Shouldn't be Mori, Arakawa or the Tamaru sisters? (well, is kinda understandable, tough)

Also, say Mitsuru(Big) disappear/die after that 46 hours. What would happen if Mitsuru back latter? Also, shouldn't he be worried about why he exists or why he can't remember anything about it? It is kinda against what he knows about time-travel right?

Also, I believe you made a small mistake:

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Kyon-chan must have gone too, huh…? I hope she got that weapon working.

Is the only line in the first person.

Also, I am glad you are good enough to write (I tought ou would back just after be sure you are alright). Specially because you said one of the symptom you have is lack of concentration. I really envy you, if you still able to write anything with less concentration then usual.

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Heatth

Interesting interlude. I am also curious about the interface, specially because it is a woman. It shouldn't be a guy? I mean, in the normal universe there is no male interface, so I guess there is no female interface in the seitenkan verse(but, of couse, neve was stated it can't be male interfaces, might be only a concidence).

Only female interfaces have appeared in canon because cute girls sell more merchandise.

Why would there NOT be other interfaces?

Originally Posted by Heatth

The other curiosity is why the director herself would go to the meeting. Shouldn't be Mori, Arakawa or the Tamaru sisters? (well, is kinda understandable, tough)

"Director" as in "Director of a particular division", not "Director of the entire Agency".

But it's not like that matters much.

Originally Posted by Heatth

Also, say Mitsuru(Big) disappear/die after that 46 hours. What would happen if Mitsuru back latter? Also, shouldn't he be worried about why he exists or why he can't remember anything about it? It is kinda against what he knows about time-travel right?

BM is degenerating because causality is catching up to him. He's well aware this is completely abnormal, but they're dealing with Haruki Suzumiya here (they assume). Abnormality is normal around him.

Originally Posted by Heatth

Is the only line in the first person.

All the interludes have some sort of viewpoint character. It's intentional.

[Triple_R]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Didn't Gatou approve of that change?

Also, more writeup for you all:

Spoiler for September the Fifth, Day 4, Interlude 4: Other Side- Sealed Realities:

Sealed Realities

With responses like that, Mitsuuru Asahina could only sigh.

The prolonged silence from the two adjacent to him gave him plenty of time to reflect on the irony of trying to lighten the mood of a room intentionally kept darkened.

He had arrived last, having been in what passed for emergency medical care in his future for the past 12 hours, due to his younger self’s removal from the timeline entirely. What passed for doctors had, so far, stabilized the slow, agonizing degeneration of his cells, but it wouldn’t last.

Mitsuuru Asahina’s number was up, and he knew it.

He also knew that both the other representatives were women, and so had complimented them both on their looks when he sat down. Despite, of course, being unable to see their faces.

Now that he thought about it, that was rather ironic too.

Neither of them had paid his words any heed. Of course, he hadn’t expected a response from a typically unresponsive humanoid interface, but he had at least expected some acknowledgement, or at least a deprecating comment, from the other woman.

The other woman simply stared at the fluorescent light emanating upwards from the centre of the round table they were all sitting around. Her glasses reflected the light, making it even harder to make out her face.

Mitsuuru Asahina, however, already knew who she was. Although she was now much too old, she could easily have been an idol in her youth. A pity she decided to be a physicist instead.

The silence was making Mitsuuru Asahina uncomfortable.

“Nice… nice weather today, huh?”

“Today marks the worst thunderstorm on record.”

The humanoid interface had corrected him. It appears any attempt to lighten the mood had no chance of working. Oh well.

“Sigh… I suppose we should actually get down to business, huh?”

“An excellent suggestion. One that would have not needed to be made had you been businesslike to begin with.”

The woman from the Agency had a sharp tongue, contrasting with the sound of her voice, which matched Mitsuuru Asahina’s memory of her beauty.

“Come now, Director. I was just trying to, um, break the ice--”

“Now isn’t the time for foolishness. I had this meeting called because the expansion of Closed Space is increasing at an exponential rate. Faster than ever before.”

It appears that Haruki Suzumiya has noticed. It probably was time to get serious, then.

“Our agent, my younger self, has vanished from the timeline… so I’d assume your agents have as well, correct?”

“Contact with the interface placed in close proximity to Haruki Suzumiya has been lost. Before contact was lost, a spatial anomaly was reported, one which had trapped him temporarily in another world.”

“My… my agent, also, is nowhere to be found. I have our people looking, but…”

Mitsuuru Asahina smirked, glad that the Director couldn’t see him. So that’s why she was in such a snappy mood today.

Kyon-chan must have gone too, huh…? I hope she got that weapon working.

“Don’t bother looking. They’re long gone now.”

“But gone where? Where has she… have they gone?”

“If our friend from the Data Overmind here is correct, then they are in some other universe. How they got there I cannot say, but that would account for them vanishing from the timeline.”

“There is no doubt. The spatial anomaly was recorded and analyzed. The so-called ‘SOS Brigade’ has left this universe for another.”

“Thank you… I don’t believe I know your name?”

“Names are meaningless to us.”

“…I see. So, I guess we’re supposed to figure out a way in which we can collaborate in order to get them back?”

“…Yes, since Suzumiya-kun won’t stop producing Closed Space otherwise, I’m told. And when more Closed Space exists than reality…”

“Suzumiya-san destroys and/or remakes the world, right.”

A long time ago, Mitsuuru Asahina would have protested that assertion. Now he knew better.

“Well, we don’t want that to happen. So, any ideas?”

“Well, hmm, ideas. It could simply be Suzumiya-kun’s doing, but then… why would his subconscious react like this to a decision it made?”

“Incorrect. No data exists to suggest Haruki Suzumiya was behind the spatial distortion.”

“I’m sorry, what makes you so sure of that?”

“Data was collected that proves the spatial distortion existed, but Haruki Suzumiya was not the center of it.”

“You say that like it was someone else at the center of the spatial distortion.”

“Yes. A girl who was, up until this event, considered the only normal human being in Haruki Suzumiya’s so-called ‘SOS Brigade’.”

“Wait… you’re not referring to…”

Mitsuuru Asahina began to laugh. So that was it.

“…I’ve said it before, but you’re not nearly as serious as you should be.”

“Well, that’d be because I’m already dead, so I’m already at the point where I find things that shouldn’t be funny to be that way.

“…Already dead?”

“Unless we get my younger self back in a matter of… 46 hours… my cells will have degenerated to the point where even his reinsertion in the timeline can’t save me.”

“And you don’t believe we can get them back within that given time frame, do you?”

“Nope. Think about it. Have any of our three organizations ever come up with something resembling slider technology?”

“No, but that is precisely why we’re having this meeting. With my scientists and the combined technological efforts of both your organization and that of the Overmind, it should be possible.”

“Really now. Are you perfectly sure you don’t just want access to highly advanced technology? Besides, I couldn’t give it to you anyway. It’s classified.”

“The Data Overmind also sees no reason as of yet to share its knowledge with humans.”

“…! I only wish to save our world from being destroyed! Isn’t that enough of a reason to drop time ‘classified’ status on your technology? Isn’t that enough reason to trust us?”

“Give me a break. You don’t want to save the world.”

Silence.

“You only want to save your daughter.”

The noise of someone standing up suddenly, and a chair falling backwards onto the floor

That’s also when Mitsuuru Asahina’s medical treatment wears off and he begins to have what passes for a seizure.

And that’s also when a door behind the Director burst open, letting in light and blinding the three inside of the room.

Mitsuuru Asahina fell off his chair.

“Wh—What are you doing, orderly? I said that we were not to be disturbed during this meeting.”

No one in the room could see the orderly’s facial expression, much as they had been unable to see each other’s. If they could see his face, however, they would know he was terrified.

“D-D-D-D-Director…”

“What? What is it? Is something wrong?”

“O-outside… an Avatar… I-it’s here…”

“…What?”

“Imminent attack detected. Initiating defensive programs.”

“…What!?”

The Director hits a button under the round table, and the black walls around them slide back… suffusing the room with a deep, crimson light.

“Oh god.”

Mitsuuru Asahina, laying on the floor, can see the giant’s arm coming down. He hacks out a chuckle.

INTERLUDE END

Solid write-up. Moves the plot along nicely.

Actually don't have much more to add as I'm not a big Asahina fan (either gender), and this is pretty much all Asahina.

[vivify93]

Good work, Kaisos!

I like these interludes.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Only female interfaces have appeared in canon because cute girls sell more merchandise.

Why would there NOT be other interfaces?

Don't know. That is the point.

Seeing how Kimidori sell well even having only one appearance in the anime you might be right. However, he was not created with that intention, I believe. Her first appearance in the novel was long before Suzumiya Haruhi being famous right? She, at last, was not intented to be selled by Tanigawa (unlike, maybe, Yui and Ryoko, who have both important roles in the story)

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

"Director" as in "Director of a particular division", not "Director of the entire Agency".

But it's not like that matters much.

I see, she is less important then I tought. Well, as you said, is not really that important.

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

BM is degenerating because causality is catching up to him. He's well aware this is completely abnormal, but they're dealing with Haruki Suzumiya here (they assume). Abnormality is normal around him.

I was more curious about why he is not wondering how wrong the situation is to him. As far as he nows, he shouldn't die like that because the past is immutable. And, if he being alive means Mitsuuru(small) back form whereever he is, why he don't remember? Shouldn't he being worried about it?

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

All the interludes have some sort of viewpoint character. It's intentional.

I know that. However, every interlude is telled in the third person. Even being by one character point of view. This interlude is the same, exept for that line. Shouldn't be something like "Kyon-chan must have gone too. Asahina Mitsuuru can only hope she got that weapon working."

[Sho-tan]

Originally Posted by Heatth

I know that. However, every interlude is telled in the third person. Even being by one character point of view. This interlude is the same, exept for that line. Shouldn't be something like "Kyon-chan must have gone too. Asahina Mitsuuru can only hope she got that weapon working."

that part of the interlude is Mitsuuru's thoughts, it's only natural that they're in first person.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by SOS Dan SlaveMonkey

that part of the interlude is Mitsuuru's thoughts, it's only natural that they're in first person.

The point is the rest of the interlude is in the third person, even if is his toughts.

Some exemples:

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

"Mitsuuru Asahina’s number was up, and he knew it."

"Mitsuuru Asahina smirked, glad that the Director couldn’t see him."

"Now he knew better."

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Heatth

I was more curious about why he is not wondering how wrong the situation is to him. As far as he nows, he shouldn't die like that because the past is immutable. And, if he being alive means Mitsuuru(small) back form whereever he is, why he don't remember? Shouldn't he being worried about it?

Like I said, Big Mitsuuru no longer believes that the past is immutable. He's trying to keep it in line with what he knows, but he also knows that when Haruki Suzumiya is involved, causality no longer works the way it should.

And he's already accepted his death, in any case, so there's little to worry about anymore.

Originally Posted by Heatth

I know that. However, every interlude is telled in the third person. Even being by one character point of view. This interlude is the same, exept for that line.

The last one did this too.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Like I said, Big Mitsuuru no longer believes that the past is immutable. He's trying to keep it in line with what he knows, but he also knows that when Haruki Suzumiya is involved, causality no longer works the way it should.

I see. Make sense

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

And he's already accepted his death, in any case, so there's little to worry about anymore.

It seen Haruki did a good job making he more manly

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

The last one did this too.

The last interlude or the last line? Neither have it, anyway. It is always in the third person.

Anyway, it is odd shifting from third person to the first and then to the third again. Or so I think(is not like I really now anything about what I am saying).

PP:
Just now I noticide the last line form the previous scene and the first of that on is the same

[Sho-tan]

Originally Posted by Heatth

The point is the rest of the interlude is in the third person, even if is his toughts.

Some exemples:

I think that's the narration, not Mitsuuru's thoughts.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by SOS Dan SlaveMonkey

I think that's the narration, not Mitsuuru's thoughts.

Yeah, that is the point. Notmal narration is Kyon(ko)'s toughts. Interlude narrations are a outside narrator, who also narrate the tought of the character it is the focus.

You don't need to show the toughts of the character whose is the point of view of the scene. Harry Potter books, for exemple, are mostly from Harry's perspective, yet, is still third person.

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Heatth

The last interlude or the last line? Neither have it, anyway. It is always in the third person.

How dare they just up and leave without taking the Supremely Manly Brigade Chief with them.

If they had just asked, I’d have been so happy to have come along.

From the last interlude.