#or is he saying that Kyon should consider the decision between possible worlds carefully when it does come up?

[daisyachain]

Pardon the literal Worst Screenshot In The World but I’m still hung up on what to make of The Adventures of Asahina Mikuru.

Movie!Itsuki is Haruhi in that he’s unaware of his powers as battles are going around over himeach day. Koizumi the ‘actor’ thinks of himself as playing the role of Kyon when he’s playing Itsuki (at least in this translation, referring to the character Itsuki as ‘he’). Koizumi the actor refers to Itsuki the character (who he views as analogous to Kyon) making a choice between the true world (movie!Yuki) and the indulgent future (movie!Mikuru). This comment is first made by Nagato to Koizumi and then directed @ Kyon by Koizumi.

In other words, Nagato thinks it’s important to point out that someone has a choice to make and Koizumi thinks it’s Kyon’s choice Even Though movie!Itsuki is a lot closer to Haruhi. Kyon certainly fits the role of the key—he can provoke Haruhi or Nagato into action, but he has no actual power of his own. Nagato here is warning Koizumi—her closest ally at this point in the story and usually the guy who translates for her—that soon Kyon is going to face a world-altering decision. Koizumi answers that he understands her message, but he can’t really do much to influence Kyon one way or the other. Nagato answers him that she’ll take care of whatever happens. Possibly.

The easiest reading is reverse foreshadowing for Disappearance. Kyon has to choose between Haruhi (movie!Yuki, the true universe) and Nagato (movie!Mikuru, the fluffy future). Nagato is warning Koizumi she’s about to go off her rocker, Koizumi is trying to tell Kyon that he has the power to unleash Haruhi, Koizumi and Nagato agree that he doesn’t need to use it at present.

Except! There are constant hints that something has/could have gone wrong with Kyon and Mikuru’s relationship. Asahina Mikuru (Big) warns Kyon not to get too close, the Sigh near miss comes from Kyon’s defence of Mikuru, and the aborted Fujiwara worldline implies that something from Mikuru’s original past has gone horribly wrong. Is this foreshadowing Disappearance, or is it lost foreshadowing for some over plot? There’s a reference in Snow Mountain Syndrome to the SOS brigade travelling back in time that was clearly a dropped plot. Why not this? Or is it foreshadowing for what would become the Surprise arc, where Kyon must choose between Sasaki and Haruhi as gods/data generators/time anomalies?