Character History
While little is revealed about Haruhi's origins or her family, she cites a revelatory incident in her childhood when she had attended a baseball game with her family. Before the event, Haruhi tended to think of herself and her life as being special and interesting, but the sheer number of people packed into the stadium (and her later calculations that this only represented a small fraction of the population of Japan) caused her to come to the conclusion that the events of her life likely fit into the normal, everyday occurrences and habits of Japanese citizens and humans in general. Her belief that there had to be at least one person in the world who lived a truly interesting and unique life; and her desire to be said person, led her to begin a search for the extraordinary. Throughout middle school she gained a reputation as an eccentric, for incidents including painting hieroglyphs on the school grounds, moving all of the school's desks out into the hallways, and going out with and then dumping every boy who asked her out (her excuse for quick relationships being that they were boring, the longest lasted a week or so, with the shortest being about five minutes).
Her entrance into high school is marked by her meeting her fellow student and series protagonist; Kyon, whom proves to be the first person to seriously engage her in conversation related to her unique interests. He proves to be Haruhi's the inspiration to; in despair over the lack of interesting school clubs, create her own: the Save the World by Overloading It with Fun Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade (in the English anime, "Spreading Excitement All Over the World with Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade") (世界を大いに盛り上げるための涼宮ハルヒの団, Sekai o Ōi ni Moriageru Tame no Suzumiya Haruhi no Dan?) or the SOS Brigade.
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