Rectifier wrote:Kaisos Erranon wrote:Or maybe he's just joking around to make Kyon, who's a homophobe, feel uncomfortable.
Thats an interesting angle, shallow, but it might hold more truth than meets the eye, are there any other instances of Koizumi secretly hating/being jealous of Kyon (he is his god's chosen one, jealousy is highly probable because followers want favor with their gods) to add evidence to this?
hmm.. though koizumi makes it seem to look like he's freudian-slipping how he likes haruhi as a girl around kyon (v1, endless eight, v4, and others i might have missed..) it's really hard to conclude whether he's just projecting his feelings for her at kyon, he's subtly trying to have kyon realize he needs to step up and actively pursue haruhi, or he's just trying to deny the fact that he's really brokeback for kyon..
so yeah, koizumi's fondness for psychoanalysis is a nice part of his characterization, but there are just times when it doesn't apply.. besides, since haruhi's starting to 'grow up', kyon's gradually getting the upper hand at reading Haruhi, hell, he can think like her if really wanted to.
and another thing.. koizumi
may not exactly be envious/jealous of kyon, he
may really just be envious of haruhi et al (i didn't include jealousy for reasons apparent) i mean, all the other four are developing, growing up, slowly but surely realizing their humanity and potential, while he's just there, with a mask of (probably fake) interest, seemingly immune to bursts of emotions, maybe trying to hide his real lack by acting cool in times of confusion and crisis..
though i'd love to see some koizumi development in v10, i don't want author-san
implying a kyon-koizumi.. that'd be so awkward (he did so with yuki and mikuru in v4 and v6, respectively)