I identified very strongly emotionally with Mao. I can't read minds, obviosuly, but I do suffer from a phobia of crowds (enochlophobia) and crown noises terrify me, so I could really understand how the geass was making him suffer. Lol, I use comforting sound to block out crown noise too (though in my case it's music. :) So I guess I am just hoping his story was more important than a mere three epsiodes designed to show what a callous bitch CC really is. I still think Lelouch should think a lot more about what happened to Mao and hope he matches up to CC's designs.
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