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[ Player Name ] : Pikari
[ Personal DW ] : moes
[ Age ] : Eighteen.
[ Timezone ] : PST (UST -8)
[ Other Characters ] : N/A

[ Character's Name ] : "Kyon"; which is his nickname. His actual name is currently unknown.
[ Character's Age ] : Seventeen.
[ Series ] : the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
[ Canon Point ] : After the "Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (Final Part)", more specifically at the end of "Reunited Line", where Kyon's life has finally returned to normal after the merging of two Kyons, the other Haruhi (Yasumi), and jumping through time and space to many dates in the future: which includes college, and the one-year anniversary of the SOS Brigade. However, the point where I'll be taking him from is when he's at school with Haruhi and co (the SOS Brigade, to be specific), and they start planning for their next activity, which is to do a show at the Tsuruya flower viewing party.

[ History ] :
❖ On the series in general.
❖ On Kyon as a character.
❖ On "Surprise", both part one and part two.


[ Personality ] :

The main protagonist can be described as a guy who sometimes makes snide, sarcastic remarks about his friends (and sometimes even his younger sister), but is honestly an amiable, young teenager who tends to get into the antics of the girl who sits right behind him in class.

For all of his life, Kyon has never once believed in Santa Claus; he did not have to see his mother kissing the jolly Saint Nick in order to figure out that people only disguised themselves as the old man. Even though he did not believe in Santa (unlike his sister, who has yet to see through his parents’ ruse), for a good majority of his life Kyon did believe in the supernatural—such as aliens, time travelers, espers, and things from the cartoons he watched on television. At least, this was until late in his middle school years, where he finally realized that, well, life is never going to be as exciting as the things he watches on television, and that, like everyone else living on Earth, he should live a normal life; a normal life meaning being an ordinary, average high school student who got average grades, and probably sometimes would go to a club at least once a week. After all, he does consider himself as a guy who was used to the “bitter and mediocre tasks of this world”.

And then he met Haruhi Suzumiya.

On the first day of high school alone, it is shown that Kyon is indeed a simple guy—he makes a fairly short and plain introduction, stating his name, what school he came from, the basics. However, when he hears Haruhi’s absurd introduction, where she almost literally commands anyone who’s an alien, time traveler, esper, or a slider to come to her, Kyon is quite skeptical. His skepticism comes from the basis that he knew that Santa Claus was just a ruse that not only his parents used, but a good majority of the public during Christmas as well as the fact that nothing special was ever going to happen to him- an idea that he got during middle school, when he spoke with his friend, Sasaki.

Even though he is skeptical at first, especially when Nagato tells him that she’s an alien, Mikuru tells him that she’s a time traveler, and Koizumi tells him that he’s an esper – but when they all show him proof, he realizes that not only are the things that he has always wanted to exist are real, his life has suddenly gone from boring to exciting. And that he’s been proven wrong.

Kyon is also known for ‘liking weird girls’, and that point is shown when he speaks to Haruhi easily, unlike the rest of his class. Even though Kyon usually doesn’t say what’s on his mind often, especially since most of what he wants to say are narrated in his mind—he will speak when something is entirely wrong, which has been shown on occasion, such as when Haruhi almost goes to abduct Mikuru at her house when she’s sick (The Sigh) or even when both Kyon and Haruhi are stuck alone in a closed space at the school (The Melancholy).

During the tenth novel in the series (The Astonishment [First Part]), Kyon states himself that he’s a generally a nice guy, but if anyone messes around with him or his friends, he will not be nice at all whatsoever, even if he is pretty much useless, being an ordinary human. He even tells most of the other alien lifeforms off (Asakura, Kuyou, etc) - calling them all monsters because they cannot negotiate without picking a fight or doing something to harm his friends. He actually states in his inner monologue that if the tables were flipped and Asakura had saved him from Nagato and not the other way around, he would pretty much hate himself. He believes that Nagato is the only alien that this world actually needs because she is more human than the rest of them; and that she has a reason to actually fight when she has to.

Usually, Kyon does make snide and rude remarks about Haruhi (and other people who are generally rude, like his friend, Taniguchi is at times), but that’s only because she’s being annoying (honestly, to Kyon, she’s a pain in the ass) or coming up with a ridiculous scheme to find the supernatural, not because he hates her. In fact, he does show that he cares – once when he convinces Haruhi that the original world was better, and he actually kisses her (The Melancholy), and again when he has a long, inner monologue with himself, telling himself once again that the original world with actual, existing, aliens, time travelers, and espers, was better (The Vanishment), and that every time he would be asked the question: which world is better- he would choose the one where the original Haruhi – the Haruhi that he met at the beginning of his first year of high school. The fact that Kyon actually cares for Haruhi even shows during "Remote Island Syndrome", where the two of them manage to get out of the storm together (The Boredom).

However, these feelings are not only meant for Haruhi. He honestly does care about every single member of the S.O.S. Brigade (yes, including Koizumi, even if he doesn't show it too often) - and on occasion, he attempts to help them out with their problems. Even at the end of "The Vanishment", Kyon tells Nagato that her superiors can go suck it, and that if anything happened to her (or to any of the brigade members, though this was actually directed at Nagato), he'd set Haruhi loose by convincing her that he is John Smith.

Even though Kyon is not at all popular, due to the fact that he honestly just doesn't speak to people (to be honest, the only person he's actually spoken to first is Haruhi - most other times, before becoming his friend, someone must speak with him), when it comes to his friends (and especially the S.O.S Brigade), he understands them on a personal level. Sure, he may not understand the explanations that his fellow brigade members give him, but at the very least, he will listen. Kyon is good at being the silent guy, who, at times can be helpful by not saying a thing aloud, but can also be truthful when he tells someone that they’re doing something stupid or just plain wrong.

But Kyon is still your average teenager. Sure, he may not be any good at it – but yes, he is somewhat of a flirt. Of course, he would never flirt aloud due to his good nature, but he does somewhat make comments about Mikuru’s beauty in his inner monologue. And did I forget to mention that he keeps a hidden folder in his computer with Mikuru pictures?

So, all in all, Kyon is just an average teenager with a not-so-normal life. Sure, that means that he gets to have more fun, but that doesn’t stop him from being the sarcastic narrator that he is.

[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :

Even though Kyon has no extraordinary strengths like the rest of the brigade (since he is, after all, an ordinary human, he does have a caring heart for those who he truly cares about. And because he is human, it means that he dies pretty easily. In fact, he's died several times throughout the series. Sometimes he can even be considered 'useless' because of this, even though he tries his best not to be.

He is also very antisocial, meaning that he doesn't have many friends. His only friends are Taniguchi, Kunikida, and the brigade.

Kyon also understands a lot of 'weird' things, especially since his group of friends are aliens, time travelers, and espers. Which means that he's pretty well informed (at least, more informed than Mikuru [small], anyway.). However, even though he does understand some of the weird things, it doesn't mean that he exactly understands everything. Kyon is an average student who ends up in horrible situations. He honestly gets pretty poor grades - especially when he's off saving the world and all that jazz - and even needs tutoring from Haruhi.

[ Other Important Facts ] : N/A

[ Sample ] : Anything from here should do, though I can write another sample if that doesn't suffice.

[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : N/A