romance in geass

[rosangela.livejournal.com]

Do you think that Lelouch loved someone romantically in the end?There have been hints with C.C., Shirley and Kallen.Personally i think that the staff was going with C.C. and Lelouch in the first season and in the second they took the route for Lelouch and Kallen.Shirley was in school and it was hard in the first place.
What is your opinion?

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[kiraya.livejournal.com]

Suzaku had that extreme reaction because Euphemia had been his best ticket to redemption for the sin of killing his father (as well as someone he was starting to fall for), and Zero took that away from him in the worst possible way -- by making it seem like he was going along with her ideals of peace and then brutally sabotaging them.

And yeah, Lelouch picked himself up and moved on afterwards -- because after something like the SAZ massacre it would've been suicide for the Black Knights for them to not take advantage of the situation (and you can make a similar case in the situation of Kallen's kidnapping) -- but the whole "I'm pretty much okay now" thing was almost certainly a facade. You could see how fond he was of Euphie in the way he admitted his defeat, in how she's the first person he actually explains his Geass to -- at that point he's never trusted anyone with that information, and for someone who holds his cards close to his chest as Lelouch does, that's huge. (That degree of trust is some of the biggest support for the Lelouch/C.C. 'ship, imo.)

We see over and over again how, despite the fact that he tries to act all dispassionate and logical (very Schneizel-like, quite honestly), Lelouch is a person of very intense emotions; he just buries them deeply as much as possible (quite understandable, considering his strong emotions were what got him kicked out of home in the first place). Of course, being so self-repressed, he seems to lack a clear-cut concept of love. One thing's for sure, though: he certainly isn't the type to joke about it.

I really feel that in many cases Lelouch doesn't realize the depth of his attachments to the people he cares for until they're in "oh shit" situations -- Shirley and Rolo in particular are perfect examples of this. And again, because strong emotions caused such difficulties for him in the past, because he's so used to relying on himself now, it's easier for him to push people away than to confide in them and grow dependent on them and thus allow himself to be hurt again (a large factor in why he deliberately acted unresponsive to Kallen's kiss, imo, and why he said those hurtful things to her when the Black Knights turned on him).

(Nunnally's something of a different story, since he seems to view her almost more as representative of the ideal he's working towards than an individual -- the rock he's built everything on, the reason he's fighting this fight. That's why, in contrast to Euphie (where he had to keep going or blow it all) or Shirley (finally losing it because he'd been trying not to get innocents involved and now this, for the SECOND time no less), he can't just pick himself up and keep going after she's FLEIA'd, because without Nunnally what is he doing this for? His inaction costs him dearly, but in the end -- once again, despite the obvious heartache he's suffering -- he picks up and keeps going, because he's got to fix the mess he made. He's got to -- as Suzaku says -- keep the lie going till the very end.)

I really, truly think Lelouch loved all of them -- C.C., Kallen, Shirley, Euphemia, Nunnally, Rolo, Suzaku. The exact expression of that love may have varied, but privileging one of those relationships over the others, saying that he loved one of them more than the others instead of simply differently, or that he didn't love one (or more) of them at all, has never made much sense to me. Even though I have my own preferences in my Lelouch 'ships, I'm fully willing to acknowledge his other relationships. Ship and let ship, you know? :)

sorry for the tl;dr there, ahaha.