Pillow Case: Haruhi Suzumiya / The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

About Haruhi Suzumiya on The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

Central character in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya franchise. President of the SOS Brigade. Brash, restless, and completely unaware of her own massive powers.

Haruhi was a fairly normal child at first, with a normal family, until one day when she attended a baseball game. At the game, the vast crowd of people in attendance caused her to realize her own insignificance in the grand scheme of things, as well as theirs. She came to the conclusion that there must be SOMEone leading an amazing and interesting life out there, and it is her stated goal in life to find such a person, hence her search for aliens, espers, and time travelers.

She was infamous at her middle school for being weird and for doing strange things, like painting hieroglyphs around the school or rearranging desks. In spite of this, her natural talent at everything and her good looks led many guys to ask her out (and, she notes, always via phone). She dated each one for a short while before dumping him, some relationships lasting as long as a week and others as briefly as five minutes.

In high school she announced on her first day that she had no interest in ordinary humans, only in aliens, time travelers, and espers. Her classmates once again find her weird and mostly don't talk to her-- except for Kyon, who notices an unusual habit with her hair: on Monday she wears it down, Tuesday with one ponytail, Wednesday with twin pigtails, Thursday with three, Friday with four, Saturday with five. He comments on this to her, only to have her cut her hair shorter and stick with her now-singular style, hair down with a ribbon that has a bow on each side of her head. At this point, she and Kyon began having short conversations before or between classes, usually instigated by Kyon.

Due to Haruhi's various talents, she is scouted for every club at the school and tries each one for a day, rejecting them all for being too dull. At this point Kyon suggested that she start her own club, planting the seed that would eventually become the SOS Brigade ("Sekai o Oini Moriagerutame no Suzumiya Haruhi no Dan," which translates roughly to the "Spreading Excitement All over the World with the Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade." Haruhi naturally appointed Kyon to be a club member, and dragged in several other members: first-year Yuki Nagato, first-year transfer student Itsuki Koizumi, and second-year Mikuru.

Unbeknownst to Haruhi herself, sometime during middle school she changed from being a normal human into being a force that can alter reality as it sees fit. What exactly this force is called is up for debate; scientists of the future who host time traveler Mikuru in the present says she's a crack in the space-time continuum, while the alien Integrated Data Entity, represented by robot Yuki, has concluded that she's a technological singularity that was spontaneously created. Meanwhile, Itsuki's organization-- known only as "the Organization" --suggests that Haruhi is simply God.

The one thing all three groups agree on is that there was some kind of cataclysmic event three years prior to the series' "present," the center of which was Haruhi.

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