My favorite thing about Kyon as a character is that he's able to continuously have relations with the women in his life in completely platonic manners. Ignoring my obvious YuKyoning— he holds a great deal of respect and dependency on her capabilities and apparent resilience, then able to refrain that resilience into something more nuanced, protective for someone who needs assistance where she cannot in a completely genuine manner. He's trying to be more aware, meet her half way and taking pride in noticing things others don't.
Same goes for Sakami in the LNs, its stated over and over that Kyon had never seen her anything more than his friend, not a female friend or a girl he knew... A friend, an acquaintance at the bluntest when he's working through his thoughts. In the LNs there's another story branch in which they're all tasks with writing stories in the genre guidelines Haruhi presents at seeming random (later revealed to be very intentionally chosen to make things more interesting.), for Kyon he gets "Romance"... Spending his time in a sincere confused haze about what to even do there? Choosing to write about a girl he took to the movies in a very bland fashion, then revealing it to only be a kind act for the friend of his kid sister.
Mikuru as well, while he clearly recognizes her as a more romantically or attractive individual, he still holds ways in respect for her personhood as to not make that HER issue, getting upset when that autonomy and natural meakness is abused, like a good friend. (While yes, you could argue a bit of it is from jealousy when it comes to the movie scene, he shows himself to be disgruntled even outside of that instance.)
Haruhi is the elephant, honestly I must admit that as an individual I find their relationship much more interesting as a dynamic and sci-fi tool when they're simply friends, or moreso an unrequited situation? But you cannot deny that Kyon does feel a good amount of respect for her, he has standards for her and feels the need to hold her to those when he can (without risk for the world exploding, gets criticized once, dies.) when you love someone you aren't afraid to point out their fuck ups, you get upset when they disappoint you and you want them to be better which is something he clearly wishes for her, even if she tends to really piss em off when she takes things too far. And that's no clearer than in the LNs, wherein she DOES improve with the company and in turn he's more willing to give her praise!
He's a good dude, I like em.
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