HARUHI ON LOVE
Okay, like I mentioned in Mukuho’s poll, Haruhi’s thoughts on love are something a little bit complicated! So! Essay!
All right, like I mentioned in the meme, Haruhi actually has a very naïve and childish attitude toward love. We see this most illustrated not necessarily in how she outwardly says she views relationships, which her saying she doesn’t have time for them, but rather in how she depicts relationships in what she makes. Essentially, the whole Mikuru episode. |D
Here I think we get a great perspective of what Haruhi’s ideal romance would be. I say this because the whole rest of the film pretty much encapsulates Haruhi’s ideal world. There’s time-travelers, ESPers, Aliens, everything she could want. But overlapping it is this RIDICULOUSLY DORKY romantic story. In which girl must look after boy but secretly loves him. And boy doesn’t seem to notice girl but secretly loves her. And they are willing to brave EVIL ALIEN WITCHES to be together and share sappy domestic time together and walk by the sakura and kiss.
So, subconsciously, I really think that’s the kind of relationship that Haruhi wants to be in. In my opinion, a lot of stuff Haruhi feels and a lot of how she views the world is very naïve and childish. This is probably getting a little off-topic, BUT I AM ALLOWED. In my mind, Haruhi still very much sees the world as a child and still very much behaves like a child. See her response to the thought of Kyon liking Mikuru. :/ If you won’t be my boyfriend I’LL BLOW REALITY UP. Oh Haruhi. Another thing that kinda supports me on this is HOW she chooses to differentiate herself from others. Remember, Haruhi’s melancholy springs from when she was a 6th grader in grade school. She decides to change herself at the beginning of middle school. At this time, she’s only 12 years old. So everything Haruhi does to distinguish herself, writing messages to Hikoboshi and Orihime, searching for aliens, time travelers, and ESPers, is to a certain extent based on the reality of a 12 year old. I think this is why she thinks to create a unique experience and reality for herself based on such fictional things such as these, rather than the questionably more “mature” route of trying to distinguish herself through studies or change the world or something like that. I feel that Haruhi’s mind has always kind of lingered back in 6th grade. Though she may learn new things and be exposed to different stuff, she still, in a way, is relating it back to what her 12 year old self thought. After all, her whole worldview comes from that 12 year old self.
AND THAT IS WHY HARUHI’S IDEA OF AN IDEAL ROMANCE IS THE KIND OF SAPPY WAFFY CHEESY THING THAT A 12 YEAR OLD WOULD ENVISION.
And also the reason that she hasn’t really thought of sex. Like I said earlier, everything she comprehends filters through a lens of 12 year old logic and ideals! She understands sex appeal will get her pursuits attention but she probably doesn’t really see much appeal to it HERSELF. She just…knows that other people will like it and be attracted to it.
SIMILARLY, Haruhi’s SUBCONSCIOUS IDEALS of sex appeal are really very Japanese-society influenced. Namely, that she thinks the types of people a guy would be attracted to are busty squeaky senpai, shy quiet glasses-moe girls, and space bubble invading homosexuals. SOUND FAMILIAR? I personally think it’s no coincidence that alien, ESPer, and time traveler within the SOS Brigade are all people who are either attractive TO Kyon or ATTRACTED to Kyon. Or both!
Remember, 12 year old logic is what tells Haruhi that she’s not special and she needs to MAKE herself special. But 12 years old is also the point at time that Haruhi met Kyon. And, I kind of firmly believe that she fell a little bit in love with him the first time she met him. Though at that time he’s John Smith, not Kyon. But, in Haruhi’s mind, Kyon would NEVER fall for a girl like her. He’d chose one of the above, obviously. W-which is why Haruhi subconsciously makes it SO MUCH MORE DIFFICULT FOR HERSELF in creating three prime love rivals for the one guy that she really wants to be with.
And so just kind of…in summary. Haruhi kind of does want a waffy cutesy rabu-rabu relationship with Kyon (John Smith). But she wants it with ALIENS and TIME TRAVELERS and that stuff too. Since she can’t have said things in the reality of canon, she settles for the SOS Brigade, BUT IN THE REALITY OF CAMP, this is much more possible. o/ The problem is, Haruhi is retarded. She is an awkward teenager. Because she’s been so hell-bent on being different and bizarre in her own special way, she isn’t used to being in love with a guy, and she isn’t used to feeling jealous about said guy. (And she sure as HELL isn’t used to being FORCED TO KISS UNDER MISTLETOE and being TAUNTED ABOUT BEING IN DENIAL BY PERVERTED FALLEN ANGELS, Ilu Kira ♥) Plus over and above how much she may have sappy and waffy ideas of love and romance, she’s very willing to PUSH THEM ASIDE and focus on what really matters, which is SOS Brigade srs business. Koizumi-kun can deal with the reality-destroying blue giants that come from the subconscious confusion and frustration that this process causes. ♥
All right, like I mentioned in the meme, Haruhi actually has a very naïve and childish attitude toward love. We see this most illustrated not necessarily in how she outwardly says she views relationships, which her saying she doesn’t have time for them, but rather in how she depicts relationships in what she makes. Essentially, the whole Mikuru episode. |D
Here I think we get a great perspective of what Haruhi’s ideal romance would be. I say this because the whole rest of the film pretty much encapsulates Haruhi’s ideal world. There’s time-travelers, ESPers, Aliens, everything she could want. But overlapping it is this RIDICULOUSLY DORKY romantic story. In which girl must look after boy but secretly loves him. And boy doesn’t seem to notice girl but secretly loves her. And they are willing to brave EVIL ALIEN WITCHES to be together and share sappy domestic time together and walk by the sakura and kiss.
So, subconsciously, I really think that’s the kind of relationship that Haruhi wants to be in. In my opinion, a lot of stuff Haruhi feels and a lot of how she views the world is very naïve and childish. This is probably getting a little off-topic, BUT I AM ALLOWED. In my mind, Haruhi still very much sees the world as a child and still very much behaves like a child. See her response to the thought of Kyon liking Mikuru. :/ If you won’t be my boyfriend I’LL BLOW REALITY UP. Oh Haruhi. Another thing that kinda supports me on this is HOW she chooses to differentiate herself from others. Remember, Haruhi’s melancholy springs from when she was a 6th grader in grade school. She decides to change herself at the beginning of middle school. At this time, she’s only 12 years old. So everything Haruhi does to distinguish herself, writing messages to Hikoboshi and Orihime, searching for aliens, time travelers, and ESPers, is to a certain extent based on the reality of a 12 year old. I think this is why she thinks to create a unique experience and reality for herself based on such fictional things such as these, rather than the questionably more “mature” route of trying to distinguish herself through studies or change the world or something like that. I feel that Haruhi’s mind has always kind of lingered back in 6th grade. Though she may learn new things and be exposed to different stuff, she still, in a way, is relating it back to what her 12 year old self thought. After all, her whole worldview comes from that 12 year old self.
AND THAT IS WHY HARUHI’S IDEA OF AN IDEAL ROMANCE IS THE KIND OF SAPPY WAFFY CHEESY THING THAT A 12 YEAR OLD WOULD ENVISION.
And also the reason that she hasn’t really thought of sex. Like I said earlier, everything she comprehends filters through a lens of 12 year old logic and ideals! She understands sex appeal will get her pursuits attention but she probably doesn’t really see much appeal to it HERSELF. She just…knows that other people will like it and be attracted to it.
SIMILARLY, Haruhi’s SUBCONSCIOUS IDEALS of sex appeal are really very Japanese-society influenced. Namely, that she thinks the types of people a guy would be attracted to are busty squeaky senpai, shy quiet glasses-moe girls, and space bubble invading homosexuals. SOUND FAMILIAR? I personally think it’s no coincidence that alien, ESPer, and time traveler within the SOS Brigade are all people who are either attractive TO Kyon or ATTRACTED to Kyon. Or both!
Remember, 12 year old logic is what tells Haruhi that she’s not special and she needs to MAKE herself special. But 12 years old is also the point at time that Haruhi met Kyon. And, I kind of firmly believe that she fell a little bit in love with him the first time she met him. Though at that time he’s John Smith, not Kyon. But, in Haruhi’s mind, Kyon would NEVER fall for a girl like her. He’d chose one of the above, obviously. W-which is why Haruhi subconsciously makes it SO MUCH MORE DIFFICULT FOR HERSELF in creating three prime love rivals for the one guy that she really wants to be with.
And so just kind of…in summary. Haruhi kind of does want a waffy cutesy rabu-rabu relationship with Kyon (John Smith). But she wants it with ALIENS and TIME TRAVELERS and that stuff too. Since she can’t have said things in the reality of canon, she settles for the SOS Brigade, BUT IN THE REALITY OF CAMP, this is much more possible. o/ The problem is, Haruhi is retarded. She is an awkward teenager. Because she’s been so hell-bent on being different and bizarre in her own special way, she isn’t used to being in love with a guy, and she isn’t used to feeling jealous about said guy. (And she sure as HELL isn’t used to being FORCED TO KISS UNDER MISTLETOE and being TAUNTED ABOUT BEING IN DENIAL BY PERVERTED FALLEN ANGELS, Ilu Kira ♥) Plus over and above how much she may have sappy and waffy ideas of love and romance, she’s very willing to PUSH THEM ASIDE and focus on what really matters, which is SOS Brigade srs business. Koizumi-kun can deal with the reality-destroying blue giants that come from the subconscious confusion and frustration that this process causes. ♥