Kyon - John Smith

John Smith

John Smith (ジョン・スミス, Jon Sumisu?) is a pseudonym used by Kyon during one of his travels through time into the past. Whilst assisting the Haruhi of three years ago, Kyon gave himself the alias "John Smith" in order to hide his identity. Although just a passing thought to name himself that in the chapter "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody", it becomes a critical factor in volume four, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Seemingly presented with a normal high school life in a world without Haruhi Suzumiya, the extent of his "normalness" and of his attachment to the SOS Brigade and Haruhi are made evident. After finding the alternate Haruhi from this world, he uses this identity in order to get her to help him. "John Smith" is referenced in the first novel and in the anime shortly after Haruhi and Kyon 'first' meet. Haruhi asks him if they had met before, to which he replies that they haven't (which is true, from his perspective). Kyon has said on occasion, at the end of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya and at other intervals, that revealing he is John Smith will be his last ace in the hole should something arise regarding Haruhi. However, Kyon feels it is a last resort measure in case something happens in which he has no support from anyone. To that end he was willing to defy even the Data Overmind, once he realized that; while Haruhi was the one with reality-altering powers from which (supposedly) no one was safe, he was the lone exception and the only thing keeping Haruhi from throwing everything out of whack. He realized then that he had become linked with Haruhi (in the intended sense and more), that even something like the Entity wouldn't exist without his keeping Haruhi's powers stable. His revealing himself to Haruhi as John Smith would radically alter everything.