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[konart.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who sees LL vi Britania here?
//It's old russian edition of Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

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[eriol33.livejournal.com]

now know why lelouch grow fabulouchly!

[kaorutsukiko.livejournal.com]

...
...I do, too.
Can't unsee.

[styx-uchiha.livejournal.com]

Well beside wings (angel's = purity ; eagles' = power (roman empire) and the eye (god's eye ; the Providence eye ; the eye of the Master (La Fontaine) = the eye of the one who controls everything) ; which are both very commonly used symbols in both fashion (for wings, see Napoleon's, Cesar's clothes) and painting (for eye : Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen's painting) when it comes to power ; I don't see anything.

[konart.livejournal.com]

and if compare CG & Dune?
I mean they do really have much in common

[styx-uchiha.livejournal.com]

I didn't read Dune, sorry. But my guess is that Clamp use judeo-christian references ; I didn't said it first because almost everything in occidental culture comes from the Bible and Greek Mythology so it's nonesense in the end.
You can always see much common points between two stories or two caracters (or even two fashion senses in Lelouch's case XD) and I understood since long that Taniguchi was someone with huge knowledge ; I can see myself many references to the Age of Enlightenment in CG and most of all to "Candide" by Voltaire. For example, Lelouch, as Candide, has been confronted with many utopies, and rejected them all because they were tyrannical ; also, Lelouch (if he's proved to be alive and well working in a farm) ended up just the same way as Candide : in a farm, working to make his life bearable. I could find many other examples, but one thing is certain : Taniguchi read many Lumières books.
(Sorry my english is crap ^^;;;)

[eriol33.livejournal.com]

good points! and also, I think the eye of providence resembles hinoto's symbol in x (I guess, since they are made of clamp)

[styx-uchiha.livejournal.com]

Oh yes you're right *_* Now that I think of it Hiromu Arakawa also used the eye of Providence in FMA, when the Door of Truth opens up. In the end, it's almost overused XD

[ratsandwich.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I KNEW I was onto something when I imagined Paul as Lelouch. Haven't actually read the whole thing yet, so I have no idea what happens to my Orange! Gurney and Nunnally Alia. C.C. Chani kicks the bucket, I believe.

And Arthur can be a sandworm.

I make no sense today.

[konart.livejournal.com]

well, the ending of Leto the Second(son of Paul) is the 100% same as Leluoch. I don't have original of Dune, but it's like "The emperor died, following the example of Leto Second, the God-Emperor of the Universe, Tirant, called worm, which led men to the Golden Trope and saved humanity, printed in the history of worst tyrant teaching people the final lesson." (c) niemda

[lishan1988.livejournal.com]

you should really read the original... surpasses the levels of awe and ALL HAIL Lelouch

I mean... ALL HAIL MUADDIB!!!! compared to the other books.

O.o.. just realised The Voice is just a less pimped up version of Lulu's Geass...

[konart.livejournal.com]

no, I mean I don't have Dune in english, to quote it ;)
I've read all 6 books(well i guess i need to read last two once again)

[lishan1988.livejournal.com]

The last 2 as in the Frank Herbert one or the last 2 written by his son and Kevin Anderson?

Duncan Idaho as the final Kwizatz Haderach made me lulz, cry and say wtf.... just like geass

[konart.livejournal.com]

Heretics of Dune & Chapterhouse: Dune

"Duncan Idaho as the final Kwizatz Haderach" - >_>

[lishan1988.livejournal.com]

CANNOT UNSEE!!!!!

Suzaku is Duncan Idaho, Kallen is Irulan, Shirley is Chani..... GAHHHHH!!!!!!

ps Marianne/Jessica and Charles/Leto is just wrong

[ratsandwich.livejournal.com]

^ Haha, I imagined Marianne/Jessica and Charles/Leto, so I must be all kinds of wrong.

Hm, my Irulan was Cornelia. Jamis was Luciano, and Feyd-Rautha started out as Clovis but ended up as Gino.

[lishan1988.livejournal.com]

hmm? out of curiosity how is cornelia hime-sama like irulan?

Nunnaly/Alia is freaky but kinda appropriate

[konart.livejournal.com]

well....ye, Nunnuly can't see future, but her "visions" kinda similar

[lishan1988.livejournal.com]

and at least she's going psycho possessed by her grandfather..

on that note, who would be an appropriate Baron Harkkonen? Charles?

[konart.livejournal.com]

well...he's not her grandfather)

need prequel

Baron from the 1 Turn could be "it" XD

[lishan1988.livejournal.com]

it?

[konart.livejournal.com]

ну could be Baron Harkkonen.

[ratsandwich.livejournal.com]

I just matched them up really for a physical counterpart, I don't really go by personality for them. That's why some books are an insane jumble of characters when I read them.

I just imagined the Baron looking like either his movie counterpart, or the Spirit of the Harkkonen from Hellsing. ._.

[lishan1988.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Schneizel as Feyd... but I seriously don't think that he would even make the effort to fight Paul to become emperor

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

I saw Kallen as Chani, really. She's his loyal terrorist woman.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

I've been saying Lulu's a homolust version of Paul for forever.