Warning: nerdiness ahead

[loqi.livejournal.com]

Hello all! This is my first post to this community, even though I've been lurking for several weeks.

Unfortunately, I bear no gifts. Instead I have a transcription of what I thought is interesting in ep.7 on Suzaku's textbook.

The dots represent missing text and brackets represent my own words.

"... of Henry IX, son of the great [Elizabeth I?]... flourished as never before.
While other European countries stagnated assailed by waves of people's revolutions and parliamentarization, England held fast to absolute monarchy, and saw continued development through the reigns of King Henry X and Edward VI thanks to the wealth produced by the New World." 

This tells us that Britannia came from an England that never gave way to constitutional monarchy. From the sounds of it in ep.3 and here, Queen Elizabeth I did marry and had a son named Henry IX, who doesn't actually exist in our world. So there would've been no Act of Union between Scotland and England and the English Civil War would not have happened. The kings after him are pretty powerful rulers too and that could be why the American revolution didn't happen or was won by the British.

Sorry for the extreme nerdiness there, but I've always liked British royal family history, even fictional ones. ^^;; I hope it's not too spam-ish.

By the way am I the only one who is grateful that they have someone who knows English to write these things?

Comments

[kimoi.livejournal.com]

By the way am I the only one who is grateful that they have someone who knows English to write these things?

Seconded! (Amused, at the very least.)

[klunatic.livejournal.com]

=[]=!!!! Awesome!!

[brennadouglasmw.livejournal.com]

You win for actually taking the time to do that. Do I get points for thinking about doing it?

That is some pretty awesome info. ^_^

By the way am I the only one who is grateful that they have someone who knows English to write these things?

I am too. I thought "WOAH! It's actually in English!" after I read what I could during the five seconds it was on the screen. :3

[konekodarkness.livejournal.com]

I'm British so let's clear something up.

Prince Harry's real name is Henry, he always hated it so everyone calls him Harry, therefore if something happens to William, he will take over and Edward, Charles' brother would be second in line to the throne.

So what is written is very possible if the world did go into chaos.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Haha, that was awesome. Theory confirmed! Take that, people who says Britannia = America when it's obvious that it's British! (And yes, I was like "WHOA. ENGLISH!" as well. It's a great step in preserving realistic setting detail, although language barriers is something Geass paraphased a lot in order to tell its story. Though not as bad as Black Lagoon)

I've always thought that was how Britain split itself from the EEU. It's also interesting, though, that Schneizel and Clovis are Germanic names (Clovis's Frank), Euphemia and Cornelia are Latin/Greek and while I can't vouch for Nanaly, Lelouch and Marianne are so French. So instead of being completely Britannia in origins, did the Emperor marry nobles/princesses from the EEU countries to preserve the balance of power? I have this image of Lelouch telling everyone he's French on his mother's side and Millay dressing him up as a French maid, Haruhi-Mikuru style

[queen-marshed.livejournal.com]

Ooooo..... so Code Geass is mre like AU to our world...

And there I was wondering how the FUCK did the US turn into a monarchy... now it makes sense....

(No Oliver Cromwell then? XD)

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

i knew it was linked to britain some way or another!! britannia is the old name given to britain by the romans after all :D

[chiapetzukamori.livejournal.com]

wow, that's fascinating! Kinda puts a whole new light on the situation....I had just assumed it was our (future-ish) world and Britain was more or less under a new rulership that decided empires were fun. This makes the whole show a whole ton more interesting!!! More of a "what-if" than a west-meets-east-DOOM situation ^_^ Thanks!

[mossygirl.livejournal.com]

This confirms what I thought about it being AU instead of futuristic ^_^ Thanks for taking the time to transcribe this out; it nicely fleshes out some of the background information ^___^ *sends internet cookies*

[von-questenberg.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I love English history too. :D And yes I'm very glad they have someone who knows English writing this stuff.

[yume-mi.livejournal.com]

wow! cool! ^^

[okami-rei.livejournal.com]

I was interested about seeing what Suzaku was reading too. _{*Has even done a little research on Lancelot after the second episode*}

And indeed! I'm grateful for them to have someone who knows English these as well.

[superpi3.livejournal.com]

By the way am I the only one who is grateful that they have someone who knows English to write these things?

just curious, loqi, what country are you from? me = american so

im very grateful too ^_^

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

How could I have missed this post way back when??? O_O Anyway, it would be hugely ironic if this was the case; James I (of England, 6th of Scotland) was the greatest proponant of political absolutism the English throne ever had!