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== Charmed at First Sight LOVER ==

This chapter includes an important scene between Koizumi and Kyon which pivots on this line:

 「どっちがトムキャットだ」

 currently interpreted as, "Who's the tomcat?" This is Kyon's response to Koizumi saying:

"Besides, you could still mess around with Suzumiya-san to reduce stress. Unfortunately, I do not have such a luxury."


What does this mean? In the context, Kyon could be, in essense, calling Koizumi a pussy - "Then who's your boyfriend?"; this was my first take. But take it a little further and this interpretation feels cross-threaded. Kyon doesn't make this kind of insult - he's prickly, not intrusively stabbing with his sarcasm. Also Kyon doesn't take Koizumi lightly. Plus having a tomcat boyfriend wouldn't necessarily be an obstacle.

It's more plausible that Kyon means that Koizumi is both bolder and more promiscuous/detached, and therefore better qualified to "mess around" with Haruhi. Kyon knows himself to not be a tomcat, and of course he is wary of having his heart ripped out. He is a bit envious of Koizumi's defenses. The main point of the scene is that Koizumi reveals some vulnerability to Kyon even through his mask. It ties in with the chronologically later "confession" Koizumi makes in Snow Mountain Syndrome, a confession of loyalty to the SOS Dan ahead of the Organization.


:No interpretation, that's exactly what it says :p  It's quite clearly a stab at Koizumi's "ambiguous preferences"...  he's not calling him a pussy - he's implying Koizumi is gay. (ie: Tomcat = un-neutered male cat / "Who's the tomcat?" = "Who's the guy you're fooling around with?") [[User:Smidge204|Smidge204]] 10:54, 25 January 2007 (PST)

Ultimately I settled on a reading based on Harhuhi's threat earlier in the scene to exile Kyon with a salt fish in his mouth to fight for territory with other cats, i.e. it's an ambivalent bitter/sarcastic remark about who is more the outsider, primarily, with any implications about promiscuity/sexuality in the background.--[[User:Nutcase|Nutcase]] 06:31, 16 February 2007 (PST)