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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. ♥

Comments

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

1. i think lelouch is the 17th in line for the throne. it might be gg that made a mistake ^^;; i'm quite sure it's 17th...
3. i think it's coz of the terror of lelouch being a 'terrorist' and i mean, who wouldn't be freaked out when a nearly dead 'terrorist' starting acting evil and covers his eye o___o
5. i think it's more likely langerouge is a fake surname than being their mother's maiden name ^^;;
6. i've had this discussion with defade before. we concluded that it's best if they're used together. Light/Lelouch forever XDDDD
7. me? want assistant translator? SHOOO XDDDDD i think i'm fine without a helper ^__^;; carcarcarrot and defade help out a lot, so it should be fine :D

[(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.

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

Idk, I’m very confused myself. I hope the later episodes clear everything up…

Yup, I heard 17th alright, What was his brother? Euphoria is the 3rd I clearly heard. So the purple haired one is earlier… then what makes Nanaly?

Well since this anime group did created the gundam series… I guess Kira Athrun role is not that farfetched.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I am a bit of a snob about the Empire, rather like Clovis and Jeramiah...lol...so I don't consider Lulouch as highly born as the other Princes at all; he's behind the first two (proper) Princes and the two princesses as well, it seems, so maybe....possible Uncles and the children of Uncles we don't know about?

It's all speculation though; there are only 4 children above him (apparently,in age?) that we know about, and if the girls are included in the succession, that would strictly make him 5th...if they weren't, 3rd...17th does seem very far back.

But it confuses me that the oldest Prince (we know of) is referred to as the second Prince, and Clovis the Third (The Emperor is the First?)...

Confusing, isn't it!

And Euphemia, it strikes me, has to be older or a lot younger (younger than Nanaly) than Lelouch, or we have a conflict with the ages of the children and the mothers involved...unless the Emperor is a bigamist!

And what happened to Clovis and Cordelia's (and Euphemia's?) Mother?

Suzaku. A little early, but what do you think his ultimate role is?

Lloyd's guinea pig Lancelot pilot.

If Lamperouge is really Empress Marianne's maiden name, isn't it rather stupid for Lelouch and Nanaly to use it?

But it may not be her maiden name. It could be completely made up. It's not clear.

Neither the Death Note or the Geass are better - they are different and each has it's various merits and flaws.

[queen-marshed.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... that's some intresting questions you raise there...

The note or the Geass? Hmmmm... that's hard...with the note you could kill at such distances... but with the geass you control that person's mind completely...

The problem with both though is the potential to be misused...Perhaps wth the geass you could find the person with the note and make them give it to you...

Here's another intresting thing to think about... what if it was Light who got the geass and Lelouch picked up the note? how different would the outcomes be? (and how would Misa Misa feel about C.C. hanging on to her man?!? XD)