I think the Shirley fangirls really jumped at you for what little you said. I didn't even see your comment as that much of an insult. I'll admit this, I didn't like Shirley until her last episode. I just believed she was the most blandest (and stupidest) love interest for Lelouch to hook up with. Yet, when the show changed to her perspective in that episode, there was a lot of qualities I really liked about her. It was refreshing to see a non-vengeful emotionally driven character make her comments on the events. She really showed her difference in perspective when chatting with Lelouch and Suzaku, the more logical characters. Heck she made all their brooding seem long-winded and childish. And I suppose at the end it was her sincerity for Lelouch (and the similar sincerity he showed) that won me over to the idea 'aaah, so she was his true love.' So pretty much I thought of her like that afterwards, following her death I picked C.C. for the next closest thing for a love interest. She had been my top pick all along, but I guess my entire opinion changed after that one episode. So that's my reasoning for choosing her, but I would have been classified a Shirley hater until that point. If it's any consolation.
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I'll admit this, I didn't like Shirley until her last episode. I just believed she was the most blandest (and stupidest) love interest for Lelouch to hook up with. Yet, when the show changed to her perspective in that episode, there was a lot of qualities I really liked about her. It was refreshing to see a non-vengeful emotionally driven character make her comments on the events. She really showed her difference in perspective when chatting with Lelouch and Suzaku, the more logical characters. Heck she made all their brooding seem long-winded and childish. And I suppose at the end it was her sincerity for Lelouch (and the similar sincerity he showed) that won me over to the idea 'aaah, so she was his true love.'
So pretty much I thought of her like that afterwards, following her death I picked C.C. for the next closest thing for a love interest. She had been my top pick all along, but I guess my entire opinion changed after that one episode.
So that's my reasoning for choosing her, but I would have been classified a Shirley hater until that point. If it's any consolation.