FIC: The Emperor’s Waltz

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

My small contribution to this very addictive fandom. :-)

Title: The Emperor’s Waltz
Summary: Empires may grow and crumble, but music plays forever.
Characters: Lelouch and Suzaku. A little C.C.
Rating: T maybe?
Spoilers: Oh, yes (probably 24-25)
Author’s Note: I love Lelouch, the incurable Sagittarius. I guess it shows.
Yes, I’m having fun at Shakespeare *and* Pet Shop Boy’s expense. Shoot me. :-)
And thanks to verity_isle I will always associate Code Geass with birds.
Disclaimer: Code Geass is not mine.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3721506/1/The_Emperors_Waltz

Comments

[lulu-quality.livejournal.com]

O_O The horrific images that fic's title gave me broke my brain D:

Apart from that, I absolutely loved it <3 Write more please <3

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I *know*. But it is also a Strauss II's waltz. A really horrid one. I just couldn't resist it.

And thanks for reviewing. :-)

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

*silly* As far as I am concerned, eventually there will be only cockroaches and Lelouch Geassing them to death... maybe. XD

Thanks for reviewing!

[lulu-quality.livejournal.com]

Imagines Lulu with giant cockroach army *brain explodes*

First it was the Emperor dancing in pirouettes and now a giant cockroach army?!!! Why must you keep planting these mental images in my brain?! DDDDD:

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

You know he would NEVER get near those cockroaches.
He would order Kallen to pilot them instead.

[lulu-quality.livejournal.com]

Yeah....-_-;;;;, knowing Lulu the girl, he would probably scream and run away while Suzaku or Kallen fight the mutant bugs with their haxx0r skillz XD

But how do you pilot a cockroach? Like a horse or something? KNIGHTROACH????!!!! o_O *spontaneously combusts*

[runesque.livejournal.com]

...I'm not sure how to say this. Although you do wonder what's going to happen to Lelouch after that and you could argue about the politics that follow the Britannian Emperor's killing by the PM of Japan (hero appellation and whatnot), yet it's one of those writings that I can enjoy whichever direction it takes without fussing over the background details.

If I can give my comment without elaborating, it would be "poetic imageries, understated grandeur, and white all over." And "Because I'm alive" made me tear up a bit ;_;. To put it simply, I liked it ^^.

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do love to wonder about the politcs that follow (the Black Knight's and Kyoto's reaction, whether Schneizel would try to use that for his advantage, whether the Japanese would get to find out what really happened, or would be lied to, just like they were about the previous PM's death, whether Lelouch would be used against the Chinese Federation and if he were -whether Suzaku would be able to keep him in check and so on and so forth).

I don't think Suzaku is thinking that far tho. Had he thought that far, he would have removed the eye surgically, but he is mixing goals with revenge and ten years of frustration because he is human, and he is "rationalizing" it all in terms of morals. I love the way Code Geass characters tend to commit acts of monumental proportions for very personal reasons.

And I really thank you for the nice words. What do you mean by "white all over"? I need to keep that for later. :)

[runesque.livejournal.com]

Hmm yes, Suzaku is such a self-rationalising bas- character isn't he... Any course of action he takes needs moral reasoning somewhere. Has he ever blamed himself for his own wrongdoings?

By white all over, I mean exactly that ^^ - Lelouch's cape, the Britannian masonry, Suzaku's attire, the tombs, the birds... If they're not meant to be white then that's certainly the image I got. It's like the calm after the storm but with raging currents and tension underneath it all. Having said that, maybe it's not white but off-white XDD.

[runesque.livejournal.com]

Wait, what was I saying? Stating the obvious x_x. I mean, it's not off-white - off-white is a nice delicate hue! It's a murky colour feigning to be stark, unnatural white. Yes, that's it XDDD. Nice symbolism there.

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

LOL. I didn't think you meant that literally! *chuckles* And yup, you got the right idea. White and red are all over the place. *G*

I think Suza DOES blame himself deep inside. He just refrains from informing anybody about it (especially Lulu). They totally should have kept Mao around for longer. I would love to have Mao commenting on every lie the characters tell each other and themselves. :-)

[sephyelysian.livejournal.com]

Okay...WOW.

Seriously, this is a gorgeous piece. The imagery in it is striking and it has a very fairy tale-like quality which I really adore. The imagery of C.C. dancing around, of Nunnally's death and Suzaku's betrayal, and the old man's death are all very striking. But the end...the end makes me smile because Lelouch is indomitable. He can't be stopped, not even when losing an eye and because there's so much truth in what you've done.

I really loved it. Thank you for sharing. ♥

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was really nice. Especially coming from a talented person like you. :-)

I'm kind of proud of the end as well, because that is how I see Lelouch. He is not strong, he his not a hero, he is not an anti-hero, he is not half as smart as HE thinks he is. BUT he is completely indomitable. No matter how much they try to supress him, he always crawls back and survives, he always manages to look beyond his defeats. I truly love him for this. :-)

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

Tha fact that you liked it is quite enough. Thanks! XD

[faroredono.livejournal.com]

OH TEH PLEASANT INSANITY.

You really should continue this if you are going to.
Maybe next time V.V. will be in there?*feels like only person who likes V.V.*

...And like everyone said,I imagined the Emperor dancing when I first saw the title,except it was more of a formal,do-it-by-myself lonesome waltz.

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

Fictional insanity is always pleasant. :-)
I'm bad at sequels and such. So whenever I have multi-chaptered fics I always post all the chapters at the same time. But I do enjoy writing fics in the same verse. Who knows? I might write something in the same verse as this. :-)
I don't know V.V. enough, but he is a very mysterious character. Maybe we will wait until season 2 to find out what he is up to?
*chuckles* The Emperor from the title is Lelouch, not Charles. Or maybe all the Britannian Emperors before and after them. Who knows? Maybe that will improve your mental pic. :-)