Could Milly have been in love with Shirley?

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Just randomly thinking...  Shirley accuses Milly of being a perv, but most of her on panel scenes of yuri-ness seem focused on Shirley. Milly is also oblivious to Rivalz interest, nor does she take seriously her engagement to Lloyd. 

YES, she tries very hard to set up Shirley and Lulu, but that could be a case of ;I want my beloved to be happy.' She may realize she can't get Shirley, so she decides to do what she can to make Shirley happy.

Thoughts?

Comments

[aya-kari.livejournal.com]

According to official material, Milly too likes Lelouch so... And I'd say she would have felt much more broken after Shirley's death had she been in love with her, as strong as Milly might be.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

I'd say this is all purely fan speculation.

According to Wikipedia, Milly enjoyed teasing Shirley as a close friend, and I'm also sure she was brokenhearted after Shirley's death. She was in love with Lelouch, yes, and was only engaged to Lloyd who was a noble to restore her family's status.

If we're talking about actual official material, Nina, on the other hand...>__>;

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Wait, when was it made official? It was kind-of-sort-of implied in the show but I thought it was far too vague to draw a conclusion.
Then again, I found out after the show was over that Kallen/Lelouch was the official pairing of the show, and looking back at all the overt C.C./Lelouch I couldn't help but ask, "...Really?! Um, I guess, whatever you say, Geass Writers." So they kind of have a bad track record making their pairings clear IMO.

[snowdevil-crow.livejournal.com]

Whaaa, when did that happen?

I know they debunked CC/Kallen, but aside from that I thought they remained pretty mum about any other 'official pairings' for Lelouch.

[clichymiss.livejournal.com]

People need to stop confusing fanservice and actual plot. A promo scan doesn't make the script (unlike you are working under Mr Fukuda). Milly was canonically in love with Lelouch (myself, I never found out about that before the actual official releases)and as for the rest, it's a case of death of the author, I guess. If you don't care about what he says, good for you. Who cares ?

[corsette.livejournal.com]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the official guide (or so I've heard people call it) have a "love chart" in it? I'm pretty sure the one going towards Lelouch to Kallen is a question mark ("?"). Pretty much all of Lelouch's were question marks, actually-- except from the obvious ones. (Euphy and Nunnally, I think?) The one going from Kallen to Lelouch is a heart (showing love), though. Maybe they meant Kallen defintely loves Lelouch? I dunno. If someone involved in the writing of Geass said they were canon, there would have been a huge fandom explosion. The Geass fans are pretty on their pairings after all.

Sorry for adding to the flood, but without the wank, I don't believe it, man.

[anaakin.livejournal.com]

Well to each it's own. For me it was dead obvious Kallen/Lelouch was canon.
/A Kallen/Lelouch shipper ? Where ?!

[snowdevil-crow.livejournal.com]

I always thought she had a little crush on her, at the very least. But not as much as her crush on Lelouch, and not enough that she would get between them.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I was under the impression that Milly might be bisexual but she seems to be more having fun than be actually pursuing a love interest.

[sabonasi.livejournal.com]

I took Milly as bi, too. Well, maybe bi/questioning...and having a Hell of a good time trying to figure herself out. ;-)

[spleener.livejournal.com]

Yeah. She liked teasing/groping hot girls and would probably go so far as fucking one in the right conditions (ie being really fucking drunk,) but she's probably not the sort who would get into a serious relationship with one.

[sabonasi.livejournal.com]

I don't know...I could see Milly being more willing to get into a serious relationship after she graduates. I imagine, "Mom, Dad, I want you to meet my girlfriend." is a lot easier after, "Mom, Dad, I'm not going to marry Earl Asplund." Milly might just be the sort of person who doesn't do serious relationships, but I also think there's a lot of fear there. Britannia isn't exactly the most tolerant society, after all.

[brokensocks.livejournal.com]

I say not. Milly was in love with Lelouch and the "yuriness" was for fanservice anyway.

[nherizu.livejournal.com]

Milly was in love with lelouch, it could be seen in an episode when she asked every student to take lelouch's heart hat and give it to her. She chose to act like cupid for shirley, but in the end she still was sad when lelouch and shirley exchanged hats, and said that she was actually being serious to get lelouch's hat. (I forgot what she actually said but it was clearly stated like that).

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Was it clear? I thought she said something like, "I expected as much." I found the whole thing kind of vague and was asking myself afterward, "Wait, does Milly love Lelouch or something?" It seemed like she could've had any number of motives; I read those episodes about Milly's character development as her deciding to cast off her family's restrictive rules and go live the life she wants to live.

[nherizu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she said that she has expected it in front of the others, but if I'm not wrong after that she kinds of mumble to herself about what she felt. Though I think she was not being serious to her feeling towards lelouch since she seemed to have given up from the beginning. I need to re-watch the episode though to be sure, but that's what I remember from the episode.

[spleener.livejournal.com]

Seriously in love with her? No.

Would fuck her given the right conditions (ie LOTS OF BOOZE)? Absolutely.

[nayami.livejournal.com]

Your response is my favorite. :D

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Hell yes!

^__^

[sabonasi.livejournal.com]

I think Milly had feelings for Shirley, yes, but I think Milly, for much of the series, is afraid to be serious about her non-het feelings. Like she's accepted that she's going to be heterosexually married off to a noble for the benefit of her family, and that that's so much easier than bringing a girl home to meet her parents. (Or, for that matter, simply bringing home a boy she likes who's not an important nobleman.) So by the time that Milly willing to strike out on her own, Shirley's already head-over-heals in love with Lelouch, and Lelouch is thoroughly oblivious to any feelings Milly might have for them. So she decides to set them up so that they'll both be happy.

< / thoughts on yuri >

But my post-series theory is that Milly hooks up with Rivalz & Nina. Don't tell me I'm wrong! ;-P

[otakukeith.livejournal.com]

But my post-series theory is that Milly hooks up with Rivalz & Nina. Don't tell me I'm wrong! ;-P

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[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

*has written post series Nina/Milly*

^__^

[karimatincan.livejournal.com]

I think the beauty of Geass is that everything is ambiguous. This allows fans to like almost any pairing in the series. I think this is why the fanbase is so diverse, there's so many different sides of the series that could appeal to certain people.

So certainly, this pairing seems possible. It is really all up to the viewer to decide what they think could happen or not. Then Sunrise will lather it with fanservice and take our cash-moneys while they're at it. ;D

[kerina.livejournal.com]

I would say that Milly was very fond of Shirley, not that she was in love with her (what with her loving Lelouch...too.). But I could see something working between those two without the Lelouch factor. :p

Also, seconding the above comment about Code Geass being ambiguous enough that you can more or less ship anything ;)

[ladynogitsune.livejournal.com]

I agree, Code Geass is awesome like that.

Personally, I always thought much of Milly's "fondness" for Shirley stemmed from the fact that they both like Lelouch. Milly willingly leaves him to her (because of her parents' expectations? Because she wants her friends to be happy so much? Both, maybe?), but she can't help a bit of teasing.