i fear for the end of the storm.

[tomoyohime8.livejournal.com]

thoughts on the ending of code geass. spoilers for r22 and the preview of r23. mostly opinion and speculation, and all in one big confusing pile.



i have this foreboding feeling that lelouch's master plan is to become the LAST emperor of Britannia. to etch into his people's minds the atrocities he can do with all the power he possesses - so that the monarchy will be abolished completely? all his actions - denying his closest friends, abandoning them, saying goodbye to kallen, i think it all leads to something big. he wants them to hate him, so that they don't feel any pain when he dies in the end??? or something like that.

he wants everyone to hate him? is he/+suzaku planning to carry the evils of the world on his/their shoulders? we're only a couple of weeks more, sunrise, it feels like you're rushing things.
he acts as if he wants to make sure that he does become enemy of the entire world - so he severs any ties with his comrades so that they will be resolved to destroy him utterly, with no further hesitation. so that after his plans have been fulfilled, and i think he doesn't plan on surviving that, they will move forward without looking back at what they were, what they used to be, and move on with no regrets.

he says he plans to overshadow the massacre princess - so does that mean that he plans to do something greater than kill thousands of japanese in 10 minutes?

gosh bismarck - marianne was more loved than we thought.

nunally... though i mourned thee, i wish you'd stay dead. the dogma is true, ne? Noone is confirmed dead until we see the body. Schneizel, what are you planning? Did you give Nunnally the whole truth or a half one? What do you want to accomplish? why is Nunnally holding freia with a picture of the gang - when she can't even see the picture in the first place? now, lulu, that you've learned that she's alive after all, what will you do now? i think you and suzaku have based all your plans on the fact that nunnally is dead. on the fact that you think that there's no point on living without your sister - so you at least want to make the world nunnally's wished for, a gentle world, before you try and join her - although you don't really plan on doing that, don't you lulu? with all you're planning on doing you think your soul will be so damned you'd never be able to go anywhere someone as good as nunnally went?

to send your soul to hell for your sister. ah, sibling love.

if she was geassed to blindness, can orenji give back her sight?

i do see her becoming the leader in the end though. that would be a good ending - but minus the schneizel. cornelia, not so sure. i don't think she's the type to manipulate eithers. i do think she'd be dedicated enough - to give nunnally all the love she could no longer give to euphemia.

what is schneizel's motive? does he REALLY want nunnally to become the emperess? or is he really evil and plans to set her up as a puppet?

i keep imagining what the last scene would be. it'd be all quiet, where eveyone is going out and looking into the sunlight, as if they were seeing it again for the first time after a long terrifying storm.

i don't know if i'd be happy, or extremely sad in the end. we've been trolled, and mindfucked - and yet i've enjoyed this series a lot. i plan on seeing this through to the end, because after then i think i can finally move on with the rest of my life. sunrise had better give us a good finale.

has geass been screwed into my memory? i wouldn't know if that was true or not until time has passed after the end. but it has given me a lot to think about, on politics, on psychology, on the reality of truth and lies. what is truth to one may be a lie to others. there is no such thing as absolute good and evil, black and white, only gray, some grayer than others, and others almost white.

 
btw, i really want to kill tamaki right now. get a clue please. also, i want an emperor lulu icon. XD i think he looks great in white. the hat looks kinda funny, but the white compliments his complexion more than black does.
 

Comments

[mikoto-chan13.livejournal.com]

These are some really good thoughts, "tomoyohime8". I believe that you really hit the nail, and even if it turns out that you didn't, personally I would prefer your version. It makes perfect sense to me, and it would explain why Lelouch suddenly turned so "evil" in last eps, cutting clearly all his bonds (that he obviously cares for). It would be very much in his character, because it wouldn't be too different from his approach to the Euphie accident or to his revelation as Zero. Lying to protect, taking the blame, willing to destroy himself... and it would indeed lead to his ultimate goal of destroying the old world and creating a new one. I would LOVE such an ending, even though I would mourn Lelouch like, forever. DDDD8 I swear I'll cry for a week if he dies like this, hated by everyone, but accomplishing what he set out to do, just as planned. (I'll cry for two weeks if he doesn't die in Nunnally's arms. Please, let at least her know the truth. Even if she learns it from Suzaku or C.C., and even too late. Just let her know that Lelouch wasn't so bad.)

However, even though I believe that Lelouch's days are counted, I'm not so sure about Suzaku's. Just a hunch, but I don't think his death is necessary for the story. (It would be also pretty ironic in a way - he doesn't mind dying at all, but in the end he lives, while Lelouch, the one who wishes for "the future", dies.) I think I would like it if Suzaku and Nunnally somewhat re-united in the end (they seemed to have a little thing for each other anyway) and mourn Lelouch together, the only ones who know the truth about him. (But perhaps I want too much. I'm pretty sentimental when it comes to this. 8D)

Finally, I still wonder if we get any more immortality games. What if Lelouch will get C.C.'s code in the end (and C.C. dies in a touching way), but then we'll finally get Geass!Nunnally XDD who Lelouch will pass his Code on and die? Immortal!Empress!Nunnally would be a pretty smooth ending if you ask me. 8D (But OK, I don't think I even believe that myself... XDD)

[tomoyohime8.livejournal.com]

thanks for the compliment, lol. i'm just one of those people who gets too much into stories - one of the reasons why i love cg so much.

at the moment i count suzaku as the wildcard. anything could happen - and i would never be surprised if he betrays lulu in the end too.

maybe they even planned between themselves to have suzaku do that in the end - all dumbleore and snape conspiracy-esque. that would fit lulu to a T too, his tendency to want to shoulder burdens alone.

though how suzaku will get people to trust him after that i don't know. suzu to me is the type who will probably either end up serving nunnally from the shadows or end up exiling himself in some desolate part of the world.

[mikoto-chan13.livejournal.com]

i'm just one of those people who gets too much into stories - one of the reasons why i love cg so much

lol, then I guess you're a girl after my own heart! :D It's exactly the same with me.

About Suzaku, yes, I think all the possibilities you mentioned are feasible. Suzaku can still change sides, or pretend to have changed them - if I'm not mistaken, there were even certain hints that something like that can happen.

By the way, I was thinking about Nunnally today and something came to my mind... They showed us repeatedly that she's got the ability to tell if someone is lying or not, apparently by holding hands with that person. How come that she can be manipulated by Schneizel then? (Perhaps because he wears gloves, lol? XDD THAT would be a plot twist...) Or does she know that Schneizel tells her half-truths, but the resolution to fight Lelouch and Suzaku is her own? After all, all their actions seem truly despicable, if you don't have any clue that there is some huge noble plan behind them, and I'm afraid she's not any clairvoyante.

[tomoyohime8.livejournal.com]

i think she's known from the start that lulu's been lying to her - that he's hiding something big from her.

i believe though, that as much as everyone tries to shelter her, she's no idiot - maybe she's trying to figure out the truth for herself too.