Taking Yuki not as an abnormal element, but as a standard sample it. It's agenda is IJustWantToHaveFriends! However it couldn't talk to the MSQCE and all other beings died after only a short time. Asakura wanted to kill Kyon to make Haruhi revive him, thus giving the entity a clue on how to end and reverse Death. They really liked the Endless Eight, because it halted the degradation. After ''Disappearance'' in canon, Kyon told Yuki to tell her boss that if anything happened to her, he'd tell Haruhi he was John Smith, and the two of them would move Heaven and Earth to get Yuki back. Chronologically, that's the first thing that happened in the 'fic. Now, Haruhi is generating new data in a controlled manner, exactly as the Entity always wanted. Furthermore, [[spoiler: Achakura]] became fully convinced she'd been set up to be captured by the Brigade mere hours before Haruhi and Yuki helped her [[spoiler: successfully communicate with a Sky Canopy Domain interface]], something else the Entity hadn't managed yet but was interested in accomplishing. Now they are slowly building Haruhi's and Yuki's powers in order to eventually being able to just ASK them to turn everybody immortal.

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Taking Yuki not as an abnormal element, but as a standard sample it. It's agenda is IJustWantToHaveFriends! However it couldn't talk to the MSQCE and all other beings died after only a short time. Asakura wanted to kill Kyon to make Haruhi revive him, thus giving the entity a clue on how to end and reverse Death. They really liked the Endless Eight, because it halted the degradation. After ''Disappearance'' in canon, Kyon told Yuki to tell her boss that if anything happened to her, he'd tell Haruhi he was John Smith, and the two of them would move Heaven and Earth to get Yuki back. Chronologically, that's the first thing that happened in the 'fic. Now, Haruhi is generating new data in a controlled manner, exactly as the Entity always wanted. Furthermore, [[spoiler:Achakura]] became fully convinced she'd been set up to be captured by the Brigade mere hours before Haruhi and Yuki helped her [[spoiler:successfully communicate with a Sky Canopy Domain interface]], something else the Entity hadn't managed yet but was interested in accomplishing. Now they are slowly building Haruhi's and Yuki's powers in order to eventually being able to just ASK them to turn everybody immortal.

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[[WMG:Kyon's parents are actually Rika and Keiichi.]]
Here's the supporting[[hottip:*:admittedly circumstantial but at least it's ''here'']] evidence:
* Rika ''almost'' ruined everything. Given how close the Higurashi cast were beforehand, it wouldn't be anything ''small'', even romantic chaos seems a little... weak.
* Whatever happened must have happened before Rika was 16.
* ''Rika'' married Keiichi, despite almost ruining everything. Mion would be exactly as influential in the village, so there would probably be a reason behind it ''other'' than appeasement, since Rika realised [[{{Jerkass}} what she was being]] before the divide became too late to repair.
* Kyon's mother is ''massively'' estranged from Keiichi.
* Kyon's mother has nothing against his being in Hinamizawa in Golden Week but ''not'' when his birthday and Watanagashi coincide, ''despite'' not celebrating it.
* ''Melancholy'' was published in 2003. If it's assumed that's when it's set, then K:BDH is set in 2004.

Now, to explain: Rika, at 15 and as an orphan, would have been in no position to care for a child. If Kyon's mother's age is placed between hers and Keiichi's, that makes her 16-20[[hottip:*:probably an adult]] when Kyon was born[[hottip:*:June 1987]]. Given how she doesn't seem to mind controlling Kyon's romantic future and arranging a marriage at sixteen, it seems entirely possible that her marriage with Yuuto is both arranged ''and'' happy, a much better environment for raising a child in than the... mess the Hinamizawa cast were in. The agreement would have been that when he's old enough to understand, he'd be told the truth ''when his birthday and Watanagashi are the same day'', his 17th birthday[[hottip:*:maybe not ''just'' for symbolic reasons]]. Kyon's mother would have agreed at first but - unlike her husband - she ''noticed'' the strange arrangement ''and'' the {{Yakuza}} thing, which, combined with conceiving a child but handing it off and later the only ''correct'' marriage, led to her estrangement[[hottip:*:She didn't even know that he had any qualifications. That's a pretty big gap in contact, not to mention living on the other side of the country]].

Not wanting Kyon to potentially turn out like his birth parents[[hottip:*:Remember, Yuuto and his wife don't know Keiichi is a lawyer]] and having become a lot more attached than she would ever have expected, she would have chosen not to let him find out the truth, coming across as a {{Jerkass}} [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold despite her good intentions]]. There might not even be a legal compulsion to do so.
* Strikes against this (otherwise terrific) theory:
** The fic is more-or-less confirmed as taking place in 2011 (from the dates on the {{FictionalDocument}}s), and likewise the main Higurashi events are confirmed at June 1983). Rika's Big Damn Mistake appears to have been committed when she was about 12 (Haruhi's comment was "you weren't even as old as Matsuri-chan"), and can't have been later than 1985; Kyon, born in 1994, couldn't be Rika's while-a-teen child even if the pregnancy was later than the original messing-things-up seduction.
*** Possible explanation: Mikuru's reason for heading into the past was to investigate the cause of a time-quake. As well as blocking travel backwards, it might have shifted everything 7 years forwards[[hottip:*:Putting Higurashi in 1990]]. The eerie similarities in some films? Different universe, films needn't be created at the same time. And what Rika said could be interpreted to say that she started pursuing Keiichi at 12 but screwed up before 16.
** Mion had a daughter who was older than Kyon and who eloped when Kyon was in junior high. Hard to imagine her either having a child by someone other than Keiichi or not offering to take care of Keiichi and Rika's child if Rika could not.
*** Possible explanation: Mion wasn't cheating, ''Keiichi'' was and being forced not to tell by Rika. Hence the lack of support and possibly another reason to give Kyon to Keiichi's sister[[hottip:*:if you're going to ''try'' and forgive someone's mistakes, it probably helps if there's not a constant reminder]].
* This might explain why Kyon's mother is so very insistent that they recognize and celebrate Kyon's birthday at the beginning of the school year, NOT the day he was actually born- if there's some agreement that he only be told the actual circumstances of his date when his birthday coincides with Watanagashi, she can say, "You/we can't or won't tell Kyon this year, we don't consider this his birthday so it doesn't count as coinciding with Watanagashi." She doesn't want Kyon going to Hinamizawa because they don't care when they count his birthday from, only what his birthday actually is.
* might not be WMG. I noticed in Chapter 15 a small, but very interesting comment, that's easy to miss, and can be taken as proof:

->Beside him was his wife, Rika, her dark blue hair swaying behind her to the small of her back. Neatly trimmed bangs reminded him uncomfortably of Asakura Ryouko, their hairstyles and colors were so similar. Rika's eyes, though, were purple, and her smile felt more genuine than anything he had ever received from the interface that had tried to kill him with a knife on more than one terrifying occasion. He also wasn't in the habit of looking at his aunt in the same way as a girl his own age, but she was somewhat taller, with elegant fingers and a certain grace that he'd never really seen matched. She at least wore a light sweater over her sun dress in concession to the chill.

->Even though he knew he shouldn't dismiss his own parents so easily, he was instantly reassured by the warmth he felt from the pair. His sister, too, as she leaped directly at Keiichi, and the man caught her, spinning. "Haha!" he chuckled, before setting her down so she could glomp onto Rika's side. "A fireball, as always!"

Jossed as of chapter 59.

[[WMG:Kyon's father is Keiichi, but his mother is someone else in Keiichi's harem.]]
The same suggestion as above, but with possibly Rena or Satoko... (Mion can't be Kyon's mother by virtue of the fact that it would make the daughter who eloped while Kyon is in junior high ''Kyon's older sister...'')
Jossed in chapter 59

[[WMG:Yuuto and Kyon's mother's marriage was arranged.]]
They don't seem to have anything against doing so to their own child and considering how Keiichi turned out, his parents probably didn't want to take a similar chance with their other child.

Jossed, [[spoiler: it was a ShotgunWedding.]]

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Jossed, [[spoiler: it was a ShotgunWedding.]]

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[[WMG:Akane got pregnant with Kyon at a very young age, which led to her ShotgunWedding with Yuuto]]
Let's run some numbers first: The current year InUniverse is 2011 and Kyon is about to turn 17 (as of Chapter 57), which means he was born in June, 1994. Assuming an age at menarche of 14 for Kyon's mother (the current average, worldwide), it follows she was born, at the latest, in September, 1979. On the other hand, the Maebara family moved to Hinamizawa around April, 1983 and therefore Akane was 3 years and 7 months old or older at that point.\\
Now, in Chapter 50 Akane mentioned she was too small to remember about [[http://whentheycry.wikia.com/wiki/Minagoroshi-hen a major protest organized by Keiichi to help out one of his friends]], which could mean she wasn't ''that much'' older than 3¾ years old at that time and in turn not that much older than 14 when Kyon was born.

If this {{WMG}} is true, it would explain several odd things about Kyon's mother like her lack of qualms about the ArrangedMarriage (after all, it worked for her and Yuuto in the end), her fixation with the girls in Kyon's life and the thing about celebrating his birthday in the wrong month (probably a little ruse intended to prevent people other than close family from figuring it out in the past). It would also explain this commentary from Chapter 48:
->'''Yuuto:''' And that should have been a good thing, but the way that Kyon was barely given a say in the matter reminded him a bit too much of some of the circumstances of his own wedding....

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