Quote:(It's broken-record time... )
For the record, I'm really sorry that I ever thought of bringing Haruhi Suzumiya into Fenspace. It was a spur of the moment thought back in the original plotbunny thread, I thought it was cute and decided to roll with it... and now it's become this huge monster that's devouring everything in its path.
The easiest retcon I see for this is the one I've been proposing all along. To expand on that position:
Somebody - Hanako Sonoda, Harriet Summers, maybe Howard Smith; it doesn't matter anymore what the person's name was - really, really liked Haruhi Suzumiya. This isn't unusual for Fenspace - look at A.C. (who looks just like Attim M-Zak from Seraphic Feather), the Jason (who's turned himself into a Dragon Ball saiyan), the Warsies' General Solo, the Trekkies' Harcort Mudd... even Noah Scott (with his Stellvia fixation) fits into this group. However, this particular fan's "love" for Haruhi was a bit stronger than anyone else's obsession.
Whoever this fan was, she got her hands on some handwavium and used it on herself and four of her friends during an all-night Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu marathon at the local anime club. (Never eat the guacamole-green Pocky sticks, folks - especially if the packages are already unwrapped. ) When they regained consciousness, they decided to forgive her for turning them into the SOS-dan. Not that she knows she did so, anymore - something happened during the biomod and Hanako/Harriet/Harold/whoever now really believes she's Haruhi, and has incorporated the story's background into her delusionary memories. She also got her template's persuasiveness, but that's all she got in the way of "superpowers".
The other SOS-dan may or may not still have their original memories, but the ones who do are very careful to stay in character when they're around Haruhi and the ones who don't. (The other two girls probably would have their old memories. Believing otherwise would slowly drive them mad as they repeatedly couldn't do what they'd know they should be able to do as an alien and a time-traveller.)
I like this; it's simple, it's elegant, and it doesn't contradict anything that's already been posted. But I'm only one writer. What do other folks think of this?
(And if it's accepted, does anybody want to write Haruhi's origin story based on it? I'd do it, but I've got too many stories on the go as it is.)
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
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