The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya [Spoilers Aplenty]

[dkellis]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Oooh! Oooh! For those who have played the Persona games... what Arcana do you think the main characters of Haruhi/Seitenkan are?

The SEES Brigade: looking for aliens (and alien-like beings), ESPers (and Persona-users), time-travellers (and Dark Hour-traversers), and sliders (TV dimension!... wrong game), in order to recruit them. (And kill them every full moon.)

Haruhi - Fool. Freedom, searching, taking risks.
Haruki - Magician. Male passion and drive, power and creativity.

Kyon - Wheel of Fortune. Changes in circumstances, often without intending to.
Kyonko - Justice. Fairness, honesty, righteousness.

Itsuki - Devil. Illusion, deception, mystery.
Itsuko - High Priestess. Female passiveness, stillness, inner wisdom, knowing what cannot be explained.

Mikuru - Lovers. Love, sensuality, sexual desire.
Mitsuuru - Sun. Clarity, simplicity, happiness. (Also confidence, which I admit doesn't fit Mitsuuru well.) Alternately, Magician Reversed.

Yuki - Star. Hope, selflessness, inspiration, expression of feelings.
Yuuki - Temperance. Calmness, self-possession, containment.

[Aebliss]

Originally Posted by Binjovi

Spoiler for large image:

Headphones.

Blood on popcorn? o_o;

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Nice to see I've shuffled the discussion in the direction of something I'm unsuited for...

[Ithekro]

What? Haruki was looking at Yuki inappropriately?

[Aebliss]

Man, what did I unleash just by mentioning the Tarot ...? ^^;

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Aebliss

Blood on popcorn? o_o;

Remember the trail mix?

Slurp.

Originally Posted by dkellis

Kyonko - Justice. Fairness, honesty, righteousness.

I find this hilarious for some reason. I guess her Persona would be Angel, then.

[dkellis]

Originally Posted by Aebliss

Man, what did I unleash just by mentioning the Tarot ...? ^^;

To be honest, I'm mostly interested in Persona-talk because I've joined a MUSH based on the Persona games, and have had to get to know the Tarot really well in order to make my character.

I still get confused by the switching of Justice and Strength number-wise from what I'm used to.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by scify

Spoiler:

Tsuruya "Hey, boy."

I got an Evangeline vibe from this line, for some reason... I can just see Tsuruya calling Kyon "Boya" and making him run errands for her.

Lol. But Tsuruya is not that older then him to like that.

Originally Posted by scify

And the question about PoV that I posed, Kaisos?

Yeah, Kaisos do that sometimes.

Originally Posted by Binjovi

Spoiler for large image:

Headphones.

Cool. Very well draw. (and popcorns! And blood!)

However, I agree with Selofain and Kaisos, it needs more yellow. The way it is now, we will see more silver when in his head. And the solo purpose of him wearing something in he head is to look like Haruhi's ribbon. This was probably the original color, but haven't Kaisos said he painted it?

Speaking about how it look on his head, aren't the phones too big? Wouldn't it be strange on his head? (not sure, have to actually see them there)


Yeah, I totally ignored the tarot/Pesona discussion. I don't have any idea of what you guys are saying.

[Tyabann]

Spoiler for September the Fifth, Day 4, Interlude 08: Thunder Rumbling:

Thunder Rumbling


The scene is a military office, kept meticulously clean and ordered. A nameplate on the desk reads “ARAKAWA”, in English.

Arakawa stumbled into the office, pulled out a chair, and collapsed face-first onto her desk. The impact was such that the bun her long grey hair was wrapped in nearly came loose.

Satou Mori, his arms crossed over his chest and looking for all the world like nothing was wrong, entered after her, and cooly sat down in a chair in the corner, reserved for visitors.

Arakawa gave him a disgruntled look.

“Mori, exactly how do you do that?”

“Do what?”

Satou Mori didn’t seem to notice what was odd in this situation. He never did.

“I spent the past two hours yelling at troops and organizing plans of attack without a minute’s rest, which left me tired as a bear in late autumn. You spent the last two hours flying around as a ball of cold fire, destroying red giants inside an alternate reality, and you seem perfectly rested. My question was about how you do that.”

Satou Mori opened his mouth to answer.

“Don’t you dare say ‘love’.”

“Mental discipline. We may be called out at any time if Closed Space forms over the city again.”

Arakawa angled her head to look at the desk again.

“Please don’t remind me about that. In all my years working here, I’ve never seen the Agency in such a state of chaos.”

Satou Mori pulled a plastic tube, the kind one keeps camera film in, out of a pocket of his suit.

“Well, it is to be expected. Closed Space simply does not form at this rate. Three occurrences within two hours is unheard of.”

Opening the tube, he pulled a cigarette out of it and stuck it in his mouth, then began to fumble around in his pockets for a lighter.

“And it’s all because of love.”

A muffled sigh could be heard from the direction of the desk. Satou Mori allowed himself a smile as he pulled out a very old and very tarnished lighter.

“Although we must wonder about the involvement of love, given the state of the Avatars inside… before we lost contact with the children, they were simply sitting there, inert. After the lightning and thunder began, they started destroying things at a faster rate than ever before. It was most certainly not a reaction I would associate with… love.”

Thunder rumbled, as though to punctuate his point. Arakawa continued to say nothing.

“Also! Although there has never been weather in Closed Space up until now, it was raining the entire time I was in there earlier. This might have something to do with the destruction of Headquarters, as well. Everything we’ve ever known is beginning to fall apart…”

With a little difficulty, given its age, Satou Mori managed to light the lighter. There was still no response from Arakawa.

“By the way, you need not worry about the children in the other world. Although we were unable to give them detailed instructions before the connection was severed, as long as they have one another, they will be fine.”

…And was about to do the same to his cigarette, but…

“Mori.”

“Hmm? What is it?”

“Go outside, and look at the sign posted on my door.”

“The one that says ‘No Smoking’?”

Arakawa’s muffled sigh was interrupted by a knock on that very same door.

“Come in, please.”

A placative smile entered the room, followed by the form of Emori Kimidori. Arakawa immediately sat up straight in her chair, trying to affect an aura of dignity that her loosened hair did not support.

“Kimidori-kun? Didn’t you go home already?”

The young TFEI bowed.

“I’m sorry, but I decided to stay and offer what support I could. My data manipulation can be used to heal minor injuries and increase defensive abilities, although it doesn’t have the ability to blast your ‘Avatars’ with laser beams like some of your men seemed to be convinced it can.”

Arakawa seemed slightly taken aback, but she nodded.

“Well, we do need all the help we can get in this crisis… would you like to sit down? I need to ask you some questions before I can be sure that we can use you… How much do you know about—”

Emori Kimidori raised a hand.

“Wait, please. There was another reason I came here, to your office. I found it crawling on the road, and I thought it would be of interest to you.”

He stepped back to allow the reason behind him to enter the room.

A bloody mess stumbled through the door and fell to the floor of Arakawa’s office with a noise like overcooked spaghetti falling to the floor after being dropped by a housewife who had discovered one of her children had put a worm in it.

Mitsuuru Asahina was, miraculously, still alive.


The scene is a sick bay. The giant wad of bandages with brown hair sitting up in one bed, surrounded by three people, is Mitsuuru Asahina, who should, given the state of the HQ Building, should be crushed under a pile of rubble.

The nurse who examined him couldn’t understand it. Aside from suffering from cuts all over his body, Mitsuuru Asahina had no internal injuries whatsoever. No broken bones, squashed organs, or burst muscles at all. Aside from his lungs and heart being almost completely deteriorated, he was perfectly fine, internally, and there was no way falling debris could cause anything like that.

Arakawa smiled wryly.

“Congratulations. You’re truly a medical miracle.”

Kimidori’s affable smile was faltering slightly.

“I wasn’t aware you had developed self-repair technology…”

The wad of bandages coughed up a few words.

“We haven’t… this is just my luck striking again… keeping me alive, a person who should be dead….”

“You could certainly say that again.”

Satou Mori was reviewing Mitsuuru Asahina’s medical report.

“How are you still alive with this kind of heart condition? And what caused something as dire as this? I’m very curious now.”

“Entropy.”

Arakawa looked confused. (No mean feat.)

“Entropy? How could entropy destroy heart and lung tissue?”

A coughed-out response.

“My younger self no longer exists on this time plane. The waves of paradox cross time planes, eventually circling back here, and inevitably destroy me from the inside out. I’m resisting it with all my might.”

Kimidori’s smile continued to falter.

“That should be impossible. This is all a predetermined event, yes? How are you being destroyed with paradoxes when the future is set in stone?”

If the wad of bandages wasn’t in so much pain, it would have grinned. (And it tried anyway.)

“You… you remind me of someone… heh, heh haaaaackkkk… well, let me put it like this. I can no longer return home to my future. What does it mean for a world when it no longer has a future, I wonder?”

“You’re not suggesting…!”

“I’m afraid that he is. But he’s wrong. I synchronized a month ahead this morning. Everyone is going to be fine. The world is not going to end.”

Arakawa relaxed again. But she wasn’t able to do that for long.

“Hah… hah… hah… hack. So, the aliens are in denial, are they?”

“I’m most certainly not in denial.”

“The world is going to end, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“Wrong.”

Satou Mori put down the report, which he had been reading upside-down.

“If all three factions are here… there must be something we can do. We must pool our technology, our efforts, together. This will all end if Haruki Suzumiya has his love returned to him, and I believe with a combination of all our abilities, we may be able to do it.”

“Mori, where exactly did this…?”

“I’d certainly be up for that, yes. It would certainly square with my knowledge that everyone is going to be just fine in one month.”

“And what about you, man from the future? What do you say?”

Mitsuuru Asahina, the wad of bandages, began to laugh even harder. (He was probably going to have a heart attack at this rate, but perhaps that was his intention.)

“Haaaaaaaackkkkkk… No. I refuse to help.”

“……Why, exactly? Don’t forget that I can order them to just let you bleed to death.”

“Oh please, I’d welcome it. No, I refuse to help because, for the month of September of this year, I only remember going to school and being forced into weird costumes. Nothing like this ever happened.”

“Where is this go—”

“So even if you did bring them back, it doesn’t benefit me in any way. The unchangeable future will have been changed, and I will cease to exist. And if I’m going to die anyway… I feel like I might as well take everyone with me, riiiiiiight?”

The laugh of an insane man, pushed too far by circumstance and change, echoed throughout the sick bay, turning heads. The three people around him looked upon him with disgust.

Thunder rumbled, and lighting flashed outside.

Thunder rumbled and then the lightning flashed. That’s important.

The lights flickered, and the room went completely dark.

That's all for now, folks.

Originally Posted by scify

And the question about PoV that I posed, Kaisos?

Completely missed this... no, that instance wasn't actually intentional. It usually is though, yeah.

[Joe4evr]

Originally Posted by scify

Also,

Spoiler:

Tsuruya "Hey, boy."

I got an Evangeline vibe from this line, for some reason... I can just see Tsuruya calling Kyon "Boya" and making him run errands for her.

She's got the hair too.

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

It's pretty obvious, but did you guys notice what room that's in?

Not like we can tell from only so little visibility.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

The king is without his queen, and the court is in shambles. The fate that has fallen upon this house is most cruel, indeed...

Originally Posted by Joe4evr

Not like we can tell from only so little visibility.

That should be more than enough information...

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Joe4evr

]Not like we can tell from only so little visibility.

There's light somewhere in the room. What kind of light source gives off that particular quality of light?

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Completely missed this... no, that instance wasn't actually intentional. It usually is though, yeah.

...you know that still don't asnwer him right?

Anyway, nice scene. I liked caracterizations, specially Arakawa and Mitsuuru(Big). I liked specially Mitsuuru talk about the future. And how the whole situation is absurd to him. He is also a jerkass here. Oh, and Satou is being awesome here, as usuall. He remembered me a hero of a shonen show.

I am just curious about Kimidori. Usually he wouldn't hae any reason to help. After all, don't matter what happens to the world if Haruki is still there. Similary, no matter if the world is saved if Haruki goes elsewhere (and I guess most members of the Organization are going to shot him in the first oportunity).

PP:
Another thing, I am concerned about how much scenarios we are using. If they are all going to appear more then once it is OK, but is strange making our artists draw something it is only going to appear once (unless it is a very important scene, of course).

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Heatth

I am just curious about Kimidori. Usually he wouldn't hae any reason to help. After all, don't matter what happens to the world if Haruki is still there. Similary, no matter if the world is saved if Haruki goes elsewhere (and I guess most members of the Organization are going to shot him in the first oportunity).

I don't have to justify this. Kimidori is acting on his own here because there's a goddamn crisis, regardless of what he says.

Kimidori puts on this face of kindness and altruism... regardless of whether he can actually feel those emotions or not, that's how he behaves.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

I don't have to justify this. Kimidori is acting on his own here because there's a goddamn crisis, regardless of what he says.

Kimidori puts on this face of kindness and altruism... regardless of whether he can actually feel those emotions or not, that's how he behaves.

Well, I think it should be explained somehow (not here, but latter). Remember when Yuki refuses to help in Sighs? For the IDE, the destiny of the world don't matter in any way as long Haruki is still there to them colect data. IF Haruki goes berserk, the only bad thing is he might goes away, like he almost did in Melancholy.

Kimidori is being to nice to something that don' effect his bosses in any way. Unless he, like Yuuki, have growed enugh emotion to be afraid death or something.

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Heatth

Kimidori is being to nice to something that don' effect his bosses in any way. Unless he, like Yuuki, have growed enugh emotion to be afraid death or something.

The thing is about Kimidori is that you don't know. You just don't.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

The thing is about Kimidori is that you don't know. You just don't.

Yeah, that is true.

Anyway, I think I already said that elsewhere, but even if you don't explain something, you shouldn't just ignore it. We know that what he is doing don't make much sense, it (probably) don't benefit the IDE in any way. So, someone, somewhen, should just point it out, even if the definitive answer is not given. Otherwise, it will just seen like you didn't thinked on it, making it a plot hole.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

There's light somewhere in the room. What kind of light source gives off that particular quality of light?

Could it be... a television?

Also, Mirai Mitsuuru has definitely snapped. Makes me wonder if Mirai Mikuru would also have the same "screw you all" attitude in a similar situation.

[Heatth]

Originally Posted by GDB

Also, Mirai Mitsuuru has definitely snapped. Makes me wonder if Mirai Mikuru would also have the same "screw you all" attitude in a similar situation.

Hmmm, in the way Kaisos wirte him, Mitsuuru is the most different character from the original version, specially the way he react to the others. So, I guess not. She would be a little more sympathetic, I think. She seens to be a lot more egotistical then her young version, but not strike me as evil.

[scify]

I figured it's in the room that the Tsuruya's are watching "TV."