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A Code Geass community! And a lively one, too. This is awesome to see indeed.

*ahem* Yes, this is a pesky introduction post. I just started watching the anime yesterday and was hooked left, right and center. Oh, it's not perfect by any means, but it's been so long since anything hits all the spots with just the correct punch. Though Death Note is currently considerably the smarter show, Code Geass is far more enjoyable. To me, that is. I've loved the director's previous Ryvius and I don't think Lelouch will disappoint. Hope there's a lot of mutual fanship to be found here. ♪~ (I tend to rant, sorry)

Though I don't have any creative output to offer to the altar at the moment (translating things always put my brain through a rut) I do have a few questions/guesswork around. Some of these are data gathering for fic, but some are just curiousity. If you don't mind?



- How exactly does Britannia's succession system work? My ears told me all Lelouch said in Episode 2 was "第十七後継承者", 17th successor, and the sub concurs. However, the sub and wikipedia (geass.co.jp has woefully little information) both says "second in line" (I didn't catch this line in the Japanese track, but I assume it's around his line about Empress Marianne, which I didn't completely understand). He's not 2nd prince, and even 3rd prince Clovis is his elder. So how does it work? Does the Emperor just assign whoever he wants on the line to the throne?
- Do you think it's a little too much coincidence that the only person Lelouch visibly softens to cannot be affected by his power? Nanaly's blind. I smell a plot coming about this.
- I'm sure most people also noticed this. In episode 1, when Lelouch's eye first went Geass, all the soldiers were freaking out over what was going on with it. But currently, when he uses the eye and it doesn't work, nobody seems to notice that his eye is red and has wings in the middle of them. Heck, Kallen was far closer to him in Ep. 3 than the soldiers in 1 ever were. What gives?
- Suzaku. A little early, but what do you think his ultimate role is? Best-friend-opposite-side ala Kira and Athrun, Love interest the White Knight, leader of a different philosophy and the True Unifier (by marrying Euphemia) or something else? While I figure the last one to be a given, I'm also betting on him becoming a foil. Lelouch's development doesn't seem to go into the Raito direction, the monster with no heart but a bunch a morals (and yes, I know about the 'reversed' Raito). Lelouch's problem seems to be the opposite : he has too much heart and too little morals to go along with it---and with the OP being optimistic rather than dark, I'm guessing Suzaku is someone to keep Lelouch from going *entirely* mad. They're now in the same class, after all. What's the point of that except throwing their character development curve together? (Of course, he's going to oppose Zero. But ultimately, he's not L, and I don't think he'd be there to kill Lelouch...)
- If Lamperouge is really Empress Marianne's maiden name, isn't it rather stupid for Lelouch and Nanaly to use it? I mean "Oh, this kid...same name as the dead prince, same surname as his mother. Wait a minute..." should occur to someone eventually. They should've came up with a more random surname. Unless that one is REALLY common, but since she's a noble...
- Lelouch will find it difficult not to be compared with Raito, so let's throw it in his face : Death Note or Eye of Geass, what's better? You can kill anyone with the Death Note, wherever, whenever and however. No one the wiser. Eye of Geass, you have to be standing there in front of that guy, can only be used once, but it covers just about everything and you can order a daily schedule.
- Does the manga translation want an assistant translator? >_>

Also the Lancelot is so totally impossibly overpowered. But I guess Lelouch can't have it too easy C-2 is utterly awesome. C-2/Lelouch FTW. ♥

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- Ah, so my ear was right. Can't blame them though. I understand that gg's got this huge backlog hanging around. Backlog is very bad for a translator's soul.
- I was under the impression that the soldiers knew full well that Lelouch was not a terrorist, but he saw too much. Therefore, why not 'make' him a terrorist and be done with it? And they didn't really freak out until he uncovered his eye and the wings popped out. But hmm...I guess it could just be because the hapless student just went and challenged them to shoot him and acted like an evil overlord. XD
- So Wikipedia is unreliable again! Bingo~!
- ....in that case, care to bet when A) Light would kill Lelouch because he's rather evil for Light's standards, I mean, he's a TERRORIST and B) Lelouch would Geass Light to give him the Death Note? XD
- Ah, I see. I haven't seen the scanlation before (I'm new and my internet sucks >_> ) but I'm happy to know it's in good hands. :D what does the 'shoo' mean, though?

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nope, the soldiers thought he was a terrorist throughout the whole episode ^^;;

the wikipedia article might be based off the sub, which is why the gg sub and the article are saying the same info~~

well technically, lelouch is USING the terrorists, and isn't a terrorist himself, but i guess b is a lot more likely. but i think lelouch using the geass power to ask for a guy's name, then light killing that guy would be the best:D

ohhh there isn't really a scanlation out^^;; i just post translations :P _{like the sound you make when you want people to move away from you? i might have used the wrong... sound? XD not good at this..}

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Though it's pretty given that Suzaku initially thinks 'the student' is a terrorist, all the soldiers saw was Lelouch coming out of the hole with C-2, just like all the 11's who took refuge there. There isn't anything to indicate he was a terrorist instead of a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I don't think they actually think all the 11s there are terrorists. The soldiers just don't particularly care---the whole anime has hints of the whole US-Iraq thing, and I think the general sentiment is "The US also doesn't bloody care", too. But then this is what they call 'personal interpretation'. XD

That makes sense. Rather stupid of it to rely on a sub which is oh my god so wrong, but then again, that's wiki for you. Bleh. I need to get to Kinokuniya so I can pick up something reliable. -_-;

Yes, he is. But in Light's eyes, he wouldn't be so different, imo. And yes, that has occurred to me. If Lelouch and Light teams up, L wouldn't stand a chance. (Funny their names also started with the same letter) It'd be like "Hey, Lelouch, how about you Geass that guy into writing his name into this piece of paper here?" Afterwards, though, they'd probably argue and end up fighting each other. Their methodology may be similar, but Lelouch's and Light's ideals seems quite different.

Lacks an editor? Oh, that sound. I'm sort of paranoid when getting acquainted with a comm. As you can probably tell, I'm not very social. ^^;;

...and, regarding the manga you spoke of below---are there any RAWs in Japanese at all? I know Japanese, but I'm afraid Chinese's greek to me. >_>; If not, I guess I'll have to wait for the tankoubon...

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no noXDDD lack of time, and i'm generally not used to throwing stuff to people to do XDDDD

nope, i'm sorry to say ^^;; the suzaku manga is in beans ace or something, and the lelouch manga is in asuka. and i'm not really that bothered to buy each issue of asuka since i have newtype + animedia + animage every month as well, so the only source of scans we have are chinese scanlations ^^;; of course if someone starts to buy asuka/beans ace every month then we'll have scans XDD

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I would very much love to buy Asuka/Whatever it is every month but I don't get to go to Kinokuniya every month. I want to be back in uni. Damn. -_-;

I guess that means the tankoubons. Whenever that is. Oh well. I guess I do have enough readinglist backlog to fill in the meantime.

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Actually, I really agree with your personal interpretation of the whole thing.:DD

L would never stand a chance against them. Nor will Near, or any other tensai that comes after them. (Interesting fact with their names, huh?XD;; ) Both of their power kind of covers up the limits of the other one, and then Team Kira(lol) would be unstopabble. If the whole partnership thingy gets bad, Lulu can always escape back to his own dimension after stealing Light's notbook. He's got Mokona!XD;;

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If I don't suck so badly at writing Light, I'd say this scene has potential. XD And even if Light can follow, Lulu will pwn him because he knows how to drive a Knightmare Frame. That little cheat. XD (Wherever did he learn how to do that, anyway? Don't tell me the Ashfords taught him? He seemed rather young to be learning how when he was back as a Prince...and if they did, what is it that they wanted with him anyway? Political pawn? Trump card against the throne?)

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- ....in that case, care to bet when A) Light would kill Lelouch because he's rather evil for Light's standards, I mean, he's a TERRORIST and B) Lelouch would Geass Light to give him the Death Note? XD

Actually, b would be a lot more likely since Lelouch probably won't be giving his real name to anyone.XD;; And then there's this spelling thingy...his fake last name is the hardest thing to spell. And you get excepted from death by Death Note(man that sounds so wrong) if the owner accidentally misspells your name 4 times?

Lulu/Light forever.

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True. XD There's a chance Light could figure it out eventually or pull off another creative use of shinigami, but if Lulu gets wind of it, there'll be one less Yagami in the world. XD (It's also actually possible that he'd Geass him once he figures out "Hey...that Note is a pretty nifty tool for revolution..."

You're kidding. Light is so seme. Even with Lulu.

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Hmm. I could never think of a scenario whre Light can do that...since Lulu's whole record(ID card, student record, whatever) would probably say his name is Lelouch Lanperouge. But we cannot forget that Light is Light.XD;; Though I couldn't see why Light would want to kill Lulu...he isn't THAT evil, and he is no hinderance to his ultimate plan of world domination(since they're living in two different dimensions XD;; )

O_O I just realized that. I typed Lulu's name first since it's the first that came to mind.XD;; *whacks self* Yeah, Light is totally seme.

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Light has some pretty rigid moral code. There's a possibility that Lelouch's ideology would conflict with his. If you ask me, Lulu's WAY more human than Light, but he wants to destroy a whole society and drown it in chaos, so a better one can be made. Light is all for making things more orderly and 'improving' the current society so people will be nice to each other. Though of course he's no hinderance...Light wants to dominate the world *philosophically* and Lelouch---doesn't even actually want to rule the world, afawk, he just wants to bring it downs to its knee *physically and socially*. That's quite a livable condition. Lelouch, on the other hand, might want changes to be drastic and break off from Light. At least that's how it could be marginally possible..? XD