Tokyo Settlement post-R2 18

[melengro.livejournal.com]

This was originally in poll form, but that failed. Oh so miserably.

Post-Turn 18, there is some obvious confusion about the inhabitants of Tokyo Settlement, most obviously Nunnally, Romeyer, Sayoko, Guilford, and Asahina (who are listed as 'missing' on the official site). Assuming FREYA acted as a bomb rather than a transporter of some kind (which actually seems more likely given the visual effects), the survival of pretty much everyone in the blast radius is entirely up in the air at this point. Weirdly, this includes characters like Milly and Rivalz who don't seem like they should be subject to these sorts of things but were nonetheless inside Tokyo when the power went out, and thus were probably still inside when Nukezaku blew everything up.

I do think that Nunnally and possibly possibly possibly Guilford survived, because Charles has various things that he could do with them and various failsafes to get them out if he so desired. And, although I really really want Sayoko to have survived, I don't think she did.

I seriously doubt we'll get closure on Milly and Rivalz. They're just not that important at this point.

ETA: Milly and Rivalz aren't important TO THE PLOT, I mean. They're obviously important to Lelouch and, in Milly's case, important for exposition purposes.

Comments

[spleener.livejournal.com]

While the LOL JUPITER TELEPORT theory is gloriously ridiculous enough to possibly be true since this is Sunrise, honestly I think that they only have all of those characters listed as MIA because if they just listed Nunnaly and Sayoko (Ms. Bitch was on a different transport) as MIA and everyone else as dead it might be too obvious. Then again it is very obvious that they're making Nunnaly's fate ambiguous.

If you saw the 30-second preview, Ashford was at the very edge of the blast radius. If Milly was in the blast radius we'd have seen her with everyone else who got caught in it.

I seriously doubt we'll get closure on Milly and Rivalz. They're just not that important at this point.

If anything I see them possibly becoming *more* important to the 'real story', but I could be wrong on that. Regardless, just because he's pulled out of Ashford academy doesn't mean the people there aren't important anymore. Don't forget, they're the reason why he decided to keep moving forward in R2 episode 7.

[melengro.livejournal.com]

Something tells me that Nunnally survived and Sayoko didn't. Call it a hunch. Miss Romeyer is a goner, though. Which is good because it's Miss Romeyer.

Compositionally, Milly has become tremendously important because she's graduated to Miss Exposition. Plot-wise, not so much. Rivalz, of course, has never been important in any way. In most shows, I would guess that Milly is alive and Rivalz is dead, but here (especially now that the extended preview shows an intact, if smoke-damaged, Ashford Academy) I would actually guess the opposite. Because, hey, it's Code Geass.

I wouldn't argue that Ashford is unimportant to Lelouch, just that those characters do not really have plot agency of their own.

The official site lists both of them as alive, though.

[darksage29.livejournal.com]

it would be highly illogical to think that sayoko is a goner while nunally lives because they were together when nukezaku decided to go WTF. If only one of them's going to die, it'd be nunally, because she's crippled, blind and sayoko has mad ninja skills.

[klingon-jedi.livejournal.com]

Well Miss Romeyer needs to get ready for her less bitchy role in Gundam 00 s2 anyway...