what is a geass? (nothing but a miserable cult of keikaku o wait)

[ee970.livejournal.com]

Hey guys. Let's talk about cults.

So, I am kind of a dumbass and completely baffled by this Geass cult thing. What...exactly does it do? So far as I could tell it is more or less a place where they obtain kids and raise them with Geasses... But, where do they get the kids? And, where do they get the Geasses?

See, after the events of the last two episodes, I was under the impression that to get a Geass someone had to give it to you, and that person only had one to give. (ie: CC's nun could give her a Geass, but would have to wait until CC died to give out a second...) Am I completely wrong here? Because I am wondering, when they were killing up the Geass cult people, all we saw were scientists and children--no one who was giving out Geass.

So: do 'initials' actually have the power to give Geasses to as many people as they want (implying all those kids got their Geass from VV)? or were the kids engineered in some way so that they were born with Geass? or are letters D through U hanging around somewhere waiting for their kids to die or kill them (implying that Lelouch's plan was not half as successful as he thought)?

I realize I am probably going to be jossed on this tonight when the next ep comes out but for now, any clarification you can give me is appreciated by this (sadly unobservant!) viewer.

Comments

[youko-astarael.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's any limit. C.C. has given Geass to more than one person, with both being alive at the same time. Mao and Lelouch. Different abilities, but same origin of the pact. Presumably, C.C. has also contracted with others to varying degrees of success. She's been around long enough to do so.

The kids come from places where no one cares if a kid goes missing. Orphanages, the streets, it's probably easy enough to go 'hey, there's a kid. Yoink.' in CG verse, what with all the war. Presumably, these children got their power from the current master--being V.V. He's certainly familiar enough with Rolo and his powers/limitations to assume that, at the very least, that's where Rolo got his ability. And the Emperor also got his from V.V.

These kids, once raised and properly brainwashed, would make excellent spies and assassins (ex: Rolo.) Easy enough to do when you can rewrite memories, hm?

[uwaaaah.livejournal.com]

You might want to smack me for this because I haven't seen episode 16 (my Internet connection is probably being monitored, last thing they need to see is me downloading anime) yet, but people can give Geasses to more than one person at a time. C.C. had Mao and Lelouch running around at the same time, so I think it's possible that V.V. gave all the little kiddies their Geasses.

*goes back to lurking*

TIS A SPOILER IF YOU HAVENT SEEN 16!!

[fukuju.livejournal.com]

Also, to clear things up. Before, I used to think, an "Initial" could only die if killed by the person they gave a Geass to. Or, that a Geass user could only gain immortality through the person they got Geass from.

But by CC's nun explanation. It's really just by a Geass user's level. They just have to be at a certain level (what I assume, both eyes) before they can take anyones' Initial immortality(I think it has to be freely given though).

So, say, Lelouch could still gain immortality if he so wishes, if not by CC, then by another Initial. And CC, could die, as she wished, by Charles. (I believe she wished to spare Lelouch the agony of forever, that, and his Geass isn't mastered yet.) Charles had that power, because one— Oh wait, mm.. Charles was already immortal .. so .. I guess an Initial could take another Initial's life then. Well. That's not so complicated.

Though, this is CG we're talking about. I'm sure it's much more complicated than that.

[chickee1.livejournal.com]

In regards to those kids, i think they were researching ways to manufacture the geass powers without making a contract, like Orange-kun's anti-geass. And Rolo is a botched job, who will die if he uses his geass too much, due to being part of the experimental stages I guess.