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

[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...