I think I may have found this out from a screenshot from the Haruhi Movie, in which we see the Alt!Kyons phone- mixed with Tsuruya calling him Kyorosuke, a 'nyoro' version of the real name Kyonosuke- so his real name is Kyonosuke Sudo, it would make sense as his register place is infront of Haruhi Suzumiya!
And the entire weird/zany aspect of the series is a result of his hallucinations - Haruhi is a just a super Genki Girl, Nagato is just a introveted book-reader, Itsuki is just an Ambiguously Gay guy, etc.
Kyon is of Hispanic origin.Expanding on the kyon is a foreigner theory, to me he looks like someone who either came from Latin America or Souhthern Spain due to this hair and skin color. Also since his sisters is white, which indicates that they are probaly mixed race, and hispanic people tend to be mixed race. Also a Spanish name would sound more unusual to a Japanese person than an American name.
Kyon and his sister are not related by blood.Either one or both of them are adopted. They really don't look anything alike and he doesn't seem to have any stories or memories about her from when she was a very small baby. He's also mentioned having a crush on his cousin without any trace of him feeling awkward about it. This could be because he's not actually related to her.
- This could be because in Japan, it's legal and somewhat common to marry first cousins.
We won't meet any sliders, because John Smith hadn't.When John Smith told three years ago's Haruhi that he hadn't met any sliders (yet), this made her (subconsciously) think of them as less likely to exist than aliens, time travelers, and espers. This explains why she only created those three groups, which explains why Kyon never met any, making this another Stable Time Loop. Of course, book 9 suggests that this will be Jossed soon, but it's still possible.
- Not to mention the Sliders that appear (very briefly) near the end of season 2 of the anime.
ぞんせみす. Zonsemisu. Zon Semisu. John Smith. I'm pretty sure that's how they said it in the subbed TMOHS. (And yes, I know that usually it would be written in Katakana.) So I put these characters into Google Translate (Japanese to English), and guess what I got? Well, see for yourself on Google Translate if you want to. The result was these words:
Kyon is a physical manifestation of Haruhi's desire to have an ordinary life.If Yuki, Mikuru and Itsuki are there because Haruhi wants to meet supernatural beings, Kyon is there because part of Haruhi wants to have an ordinary life. Kyon represents Haruhi's wish to fall for an ordinary guy and life a normal life.
Fujiwara is Kyon in the futureThe obvious alias tipped me off. His ultimate goal is to prevent himself from becoming such a jerk in the first place.
- So, Kyon becomes Archer? Didn't see that one coming. Does that make Yuki Saber, or does it make Haruhi Rin?
- To get in before anyone else says it, I demand fan art of Haruhi cosplaying as Rin Tohsaka.
- Already disproved in Surprise by Fujiwara himself when he reveals that he is Mikuru's little brother from a different time line than the one that Mikuru(big) comes from. His entire reason for traveling back in time? So that his big sister, Mikuru, doesn't disappear from his timeline.
Essentially the opposite of Kyon = God theory. Kyon is so absolutely normal that he is immune to the larger reality warping. He is so normal that having a an "evil counterpart" in the Anti-SOS brigade would negate his normalness. So one one doesn't exist. His role is in being the embodiment of normal also means he is a reality anchor. He's the universe's own willing suspension of disbelief in flesh.
This doesn't mean he is God. The power is still in Haruhi/Sasaki/whoever. Closed spaces are just built up tension of said god powers trying to forcibly pull on the anchor. If the tension grows enough Kyon could/would/has been forcibly yanked along.
Hypothetical examples:
- The Anti-SOS Brigade need Kyon and Sasaki to agree on her becoming god again not because Kyon's the source of the powers, but her just spontaneously gaining godhood from Haruhi is just too strange with Sasaki. Any attempts would snap the powers back to Haruhi.
- In the school film things accelerate as Kyon gradually becomes used to things becoming out of control.
- If Haruhi can change things drastically as in the school film why the closed spaces? Because changes if done too rapidly hit a bottleneck. Closed spaces form when the current god's abilities begin to build up against Kyon's normalness.
- Itsuki is gradually adjusting Kyon to the strangeness as a form of defense. Imagine if Kyon got pulled into that closed space by himself with just Haruhi? Nervous break down and possible complete loss of disbelief. Letting Kyon in on the "gag" allows the anchor some slack in the tether.
- The Anti-Haruhi's closed spaces are happy because Kyon believes the world to not be that perfect. Haruhi's are heck with monsters because Kyon knows the world isn't that strange.
Kyon has skin cancer.That's a big-ass mole on that neck of his. Was it even there before the island trip? If so, was it that big? Changes in size and shape, or appearance of new moles, may indicate melanoma, a very dangerous form of skin cancer.
- I believe the mole serves to show that Kyon is strait up lying when he tells Koizumi that he knew from the get go that the island trip was staged.
- Actually, it is supposed to be a reference to the Snow Mountain Syndrome story, in which it is a tip-off for a certain character to know which Kyon is real.
Kyon is narrating because he's relating the story over his blog.The narration, the exaggeration, the fuzzy-edged-love-o-vision for Mikuru, and the fanservicey camera angles.
- And he's got hidden cameras everywhere club members are expected to be (small cameras all over the club room, looking out windows of their classrooms onto the quad and athletic fields, a remote-control camera facing the stairs and roof, a buttonhole camera sewn into Haruhi's hat during the baseball episode where she wouldn;t find it). This is why, in the episode where Kyon retrieves the heater, Yuki puts a book in her locker between the camera and Haruhi stripping down Mikuri and then pauses for nearly a minute (staring not at the book, but the camera). Itsuki may or may not be in on it, depending on whether the neckmole shot in the island episode was filmed on location or recreated. Mikuru almost definitely does not know.
- Alternatively...
Kyon is narrating because it's several years in to the future, Haruhi's power is discovered by the general population and Kyon is writing a book about how he came to know the girl with reality-warping powers.Well, it's not entirely impossible.
- Jossed by Endless Eight, since he narrates loops that he wouldn't remember years later in the future.
- Not in the original short story; we only see the very last iteration.
Kyon is or will be the "slider".This is the one Speculative Fiction trope Haruhi brings up in her opening speech that hasn't shown up yet. Several times in the novels, Kyon has wondered when one of these guys is going to show up to complete the list. It also explains why all this weird stuff suddenly starts happening to him when he gets to High School (he makes his first leap without realizing it and ends up in Dimension Haruhi), why he ends up in Haruhi's new universe when she starts creating it (survival instinct causes his powers to kick in), and finally why he remembers the Haruhiverse when Yuki creates her new universe in Disappearance. Yuki didn't actually change his history; he just Slid there. Again, a survival reflex action. Of course, Itsuki claims Kyon is perfectly normal, but can we really trust him? ....no.
- Alternatively, Haruhi has yet to make Kyon a Slider, but will. Aside from the main trio of supernatural characters Haruhi wanted to meet, interdimensional "sliders" are brought up. At one point in the novels, Kyon is impatient that a slider hasn't appeared yet. If Haruhi realizes (or already has realized) that Kyon is "John Smith", she may turn him into a slider. She has already been fed the identities of Itsuki, Yuki, and Mikuru, and the idea that Kyon is important in some way. "Slider" was the fourth type on her list, so she could conceivably decide that Kyon has a unique ability to jump between dimensions.
- And then there's that odd alpha/beta universe split in the latest novel, which has yet to be explained...
- Seriously, that practically proves the whole deal. There's past tense narration of two apparently parallel universes. It stands to reason that one Kyon will gain the memories of his other self. I think that it will manifest as an awareness of parallel selves and possibly the ability to switch with them.
- Turns out you were partially correct. The two time lines are just that, two time lines. They end up being joined together and both Kyons fuse together, and Kyon then has a two sets of memories from the past week. These weren't alternate Kyons however, they were both Kyon. It wasn't so much a slider incident, so much as time diverging and reuniting, and it's even implied that this can and does happen multiple times
- Methinks that the slider is already there, namely in the alpha-6 chapter, where Kyon strangely miscounts the number of first years, and then describes a perfect first year who seems to be pure and innocent, as well as her unique feature of her hair curling up at the ends like a smiley face. Given that a girl who calls him senpai appears in alpha-1 chapter via telephone, and he doesn't recognize her, it does seem that she will be important.
- Turns out this girl is NOT a slider. It's even specifically denied by Yuki before Kyon even has a chance to ask. She's actually a manifestation of Haruhi's subconscious created when Haruhi split the timeline in order to protect Kyon and Yuki from the danger of Fujiwara and Kuyo.
- Remember, friends! All good Five Man Bands eventually get a Sixth Ranger!
- In a sense Yasumi really was the sixth ranger because she's actually was made the sixth official SOS Brigade member by Haruhi. It doesn't last though.
- Tsuruya's already kind of the Sixth Ranger, though. She was even name an Honorary Member during the Snow Mountain Syndrome story. A second Sixth Ranger is hardly implausible, though...
- Tsuruya isn't the Sixth Ranger, she's the Ensemble Dark Horse.
- Alternatively, an Alternate Universe Kyon is the slider, and he will join the Anti-SOS Brigade as the only Evil Twin of the group
- Kyon's father is the slider. Kyon's altogether too willing to accept the weirdness, his father's never seen or even hinted at existing in anime or novels, and so obviously he's shoved off to another dimension and Kyon's mom just doesen't mention it to keep up appearances. The kids just take it in stride and say nothing.
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