(no subject)

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

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. ♥

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought 17th successor included the people who previously actually sat on the throne, and Lelouch would be the seventeeth if he gained it.

Suzaku I think will definitely break off from Britannia with Euphemia and join whatever group Lloyd is a part of, which I think the raven haired woman behind the blinds shown in the opening and episode four is a part of. I don't think Suzaku is the final antagonist, I think faction-wise this show will follow a Seed split. I do think that he will be preaching throughout the entire show to both Lelouche/Zero and to the military. He's also going to aim to defeat Zero while I feel Lelouche will set his plans to avoid battle with Suzaku/Lancelot/Monster Machines and hit the military directly. So far Lelouche's pawns seem too underpowered to achieve his goals, so it ill be interesting (especially if they avoid plot holes like that train full of mechs Lelouche knew about in ep. 2) to see his power base grow. Suzaku seems to be just a contrast to Lelouche so we can see two men disarm Britannia with their contrasting methods and try to achieve the same goal. Long live the Rebellion!/Counter Attack!

I have a question though. What do you think C.C.'s setence 'mitsketa! watashi no.....' finishes as in episode 1, now that you've seen her antics and personality (where she's amused most of the time at how Lelouche uses his powers). She reminds me so much of a certain mazoku.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

It doesn't make sense with 後継承者, though. It's more like 'succession candidate'. And I don't know, it just makes more sense plotwise if Lelouch runs very little chance of getting the throne himself. Otherwise, he can just get it and then destroy Britannia while he's king.

I figure the woman behind the blinds is an old authority figure in Japan, but I'm not sure. Final antagonist is probably the as-yet-nameless princely looking guy in the OP. A Seed split sounds the most possible, yes, though at the same time I hope not...we've been there and done that. The director likes to be break cliches and all. Lelouch being underpowered is the interesting part of the series, though. How do you write a mech series where the main character isn't the kickass pilot but the guy who lined up the asses for the pilots to kick?

Truth be told? Not the slightest clue. Who is Lelouch to her? The person who can grant her request? Unlikely, she just saw him once. She knew him from before? Could be possible with that Ragnarok thing, but oh so badplot. And about the last line---I think there's a reason she's called a witch. XD (Though I'd be amused too if I see him Geassing a girl to carve crosses everyday. HOW THEATRIC, Lelouch. But then we know he likes theatrics)