Lelouch because I still cry over it even when I knew he would end up dead by a lifetime. He's killed by his best friend bearing everyone's hate on his shoulders, alone, without even CC around, i'm not even sure he heard Nunnally saying he loved him and, even if he's sure with his death he'll manage to accomplish something... well, it seems a price too big. He'll never see the better world he wanted to build and he knew it all along. Nunnally's desperate cries at the end while the people cheered for Zero and hitomi's music only made it more drammatic (BTW has anyone noticed the parallelism between his death and Euphemia?) Plus the fact that everyone seemed to have gotten over his death so easily...
I've hard time ordering the other three since they're all beautiful and emotionally involving. Anyway...
I adored Rolo and I was thinking he would die much later. His death caught me unprepared and I was mostly 'but why now? Couldn't they do it later?'. There's something wrong in killing him that early, I wanted him to stop being a tool for more than the time he needed to save Lelouch, I wanted him to understand the best solution isn't killing people, I wanted him to be loved.
Another character I was very fond of was Euphemia. When I started watching the series I knew she would die but still... With her didn't die just any hope for the series to have a good ending but also... well, in the end no one managed to pick up her legacy. Nunnally and Suzaku tried but failed. Suzaku was consumed by hate, Nunnally... well, maybe she was too young to manage to get through Lelouch. I still think if Euphemia had been in her place she would have persuaded him to turn the Zero Requiem into something better. After all 'she was Lelouch's worst enemy and the one who defeated him' (Lelouch's words). She managed to get through him while Nunnally couldn't. She managed to have him trust her plan enough he agreed to cooperate. ... at least that's what I think.
Shirley... Shirley is another death I wasn't prepared at and for whom I saw no point apart from turning Lelouch against Rolo and the order (causing Asahina's suspicions to grow). I also dislike how her words about forgiveness went lost on Suzaku (same on Lelouch who didn't understand she wouldn't like him to make a massacre to avenge her... but I'll give him the benefit of not having been thinking straight at the moment). I never thought or wished she would end with Lelouch but still... her parting words were great. They made me wish she could have a chance.
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON THAT NOTICED THAT --- the Euphie-Lelouch parallel, I mean. Because she died completely hated with everyone cheering Zero... And Lelouch did, too. The difference is that he knew it and did it on purpose, whereas she had no idea what was going on...
And, yeah, I basically agree with your entire comment.
Don't worry, you're not the only one who noticed it! Euphie took her final breaths while everyone hated her for something that was not really her fault, and as she died, the crowds were chanting Zero's name as their savior... Lelouch died the same way--the world hated him even though he didn't really deserve the world's hatred, and died while the crowd chanted the name of his murderer =(
Even though it's sad, I think it's fitting, and in a way, I believe it's what Lelouch wanted... The whole "Zero Requiem" was for the world to focus their hatred on him and forget all about the "Massacre Princess"
I think too it was Lelouch's purpose to die as her... even if maybe he didn't know she died while the people was cheering for Zero... but I guess he felt like he had to die hated like her in a weird sort of apology or atonement...
It was the first thing I noticed when I watched the scene! I loved such parallelism. And there's even Nunnally holding his hand and asking him to live like Suzaku did for Euphy! Even if they silenced Suzaku's screams while they let us hear Nunnally's...
Lelouch's death to me was heart-breaking more on a personal side than a character side. I do believe Lelouch heard his sister say she loved him. The reason he died where he did was so he'd be with her when he died, so she'd know the truth. He heard her. He had atoned for Euphie's death. He had given Suzaku what he wanted in his redemption. He had set up the world for real change by the people. He knew both his friend and his sister, his most important people in the world, loved him and that they would be safe. And that they would still have each other. He knew the people he cared about would know the truth and understand. He knew too that they would understand why he paralleled his death with Euphemia's. He never expected to see his better world; he was setting up Nunnally to stay with Suzaku from the start because of this. It was one of his greatest wishes, and he realized it, along with Nunnally getting her sight back and the world being a better place for her. Yes, the world will hate him but not those that matter to him. Lelouch never cared about what people thought of him unless they were his people.
In the end, he was happy and he was loved and had love. He wasn't alone.
For that reason, I give the most tragic death to Euphie.
I don't know, his reply doesn't seem directed to Nunnally... he's not even looking at her. However i think he wanted to be with her as he died
Well... actually Euphy didn't remember what she did, Suzaku told her she did good and was with her, so she kind of died in peace (even if I have the feeling she had suspicions). I wouldn't know who had the most tragic death, if Euphy who died in such a way you can't help but feeling sorry for her (mind controlled to do something horrible by incident, killed by the brother she loved without understanding why and after she'd been trying her best to help everyone) or Lelouch who lived and fought up to that point to create a world with the knowledge he would have to die and never see it.
My preference goes to Lelouch merely because I think the show just handled it in a more emotional way. Nunnally isn't just crying, she's screaming. There's something heartbreaking in this and there's not one of Zero's long speechs to distract you from the tragedy going on. Nunnally's desperation is... Lelouch smiles before being hit, wait for the blow patiently, and when he's hit and roll down like a broken puppet, think back at all his life then saw the sun, there's such a lovely weather that day!, then dies smiling, despite the fact he's dying and the pain it had been being stabbed.
Euphy's death is sad but they did it in such a way that Zero's speech covered it. Because plot wise the most important scene was how the people rise against Britannia, hate covering up Euphemia's attempt to help everyone (it's touching how she's worried about the people in Japan when they're yelling against her). Euphemia had to become just another death on the way of rebellion which is tragic in its own way. So I think the scene has less impact. But this might be just me.
Personally I hate Euphy died and, even if somehow I felt her presence at the end (each time they show the candles) I would have liked if the boys were to meet her in the World of C.
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He's killed by his best friend bearing everyone's hate on his shoulders, alone, without even CC around, i'm not even sure he heard Nunnally saying he loved him and, even if he's sure with his death he'll manage to accomplish something... well, it seems a price too big. He'll never see the better world he wanted to build and he knew it all along.
Nunnally's desperate cries at the end while the people cheered for Zero and hitomi's music only made it more drammatic (BTW has anyone noticed the parallelism between his death and Euphemia?) Plus the fact that everyone seemed to have gotten over his death so easily...
I've hard time ordering the other three since they're all beautiful and emotionally involving. Anyway...
I adored Rolo and I was thinking he would die much later. His death caught me unprepared and I was mostly 'but why now? Couldn't they do it later?'. There's something wrong in killing him that early, I wanted him to stop being a tool for more than the time he needed to save Lelouch, I wanted him to understand the best solution isn't killing people, I wanted him to be loved.
Another character I was very fond of was Euphemia. When I started watching the series I knew she would die but still... With her didn't die just any hope for the series to have a good ending but also... well, in the end no one managed to pick up her legacy.
Nunnally and Suzaku tried but failed.
Suzaku was consumed by hate, Nunnally... well, maybe she was too young to manage to get through Lelouch. I still think if Euphemia had been in her place she would have persuaded him to turn the Zero Requiem into something better. After all 'she was Lelouch's worst enemy and the one who defeated him' (Lelouch's words).
She managed to get through him while Nunnally couldn't. She managed to have him trust her plan enough he agreed to cooperate.
... at least that's what I think.
Shirley... Shirley is another death I wasn't prepared at and for whom I saw no point apart from turning Lelouch against Rolo and the order (causing Asahina's suspicions to grow).
I also dislike how her words about forgiveness went lost on Suzaku (same on Lelouch who didn't understand she wouldn't like him to make a massacre to avenge her... but I'll give him the benefit of not having been thinking straight at the moment).
I never thought or wished she would end with Lelouch but still... her parting words were great. They made me wish she could have a chance.
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And, yeah, I basically agree with your entire comment.
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Even though it's sad, I think it's fitting, and in a way, I believe it's what Lelouch wanted... The whole "Zero Requiem" was for the world to focus their hatred on him and forget all about the "Massacre Princess"
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I loved such parallelism. And there's even Nunnally holding his hand and asking him to live like Suzaku did for Euphy!
Even if they silenced Suzaku's screams while they let us hear Nunnally's...
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In the end, he was happy and he was loved and had love. He wasn't alone.
For that reason, I give the most tragic death to Euphie.
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However i think he wanted to be with her as he died
Well... actually Euphy didn't remember what she did, Suzaku told her she did good and was with her, so she kind of died in peace (even if I have the feeling she had suspicions).
I wouldn't know who had the most tragic death, if Euphy who died in such a way you can't help but feeling sorry for her (mind controlled to do something horrible by incident, killed by the brother she loved without understanding why and after she'd been trying her best to help everyone) or Lelouch who lived and fought up to that point to create a world with the knowledge he would have to die and never see it.
My preference goes to Lelouch merely because I think the show just handled it in a more emotional way. Nunnally isn't just crying, she's screaming. There's something heartbreaking in this and there's not one of Zero's long speechs to distract you from the tragedy going on. Nunnally's desperation is...
Lelouch smiles before being hit, wait for the blow patiently, and when he's hit and roll down like a broken puppet, think back at all his life then saw the sun, there's such a lovely weather that day!, then dies smiling, despite the fact he's dying and the pain it had been being stabbed.
Euphy's death is sad but they did it in such a way that Zero's speech covered it.
Because plot wise the most important scene was how the people rise against Britannia, hate covering up Euphemia's attempt to help everyone (it's touching how she's worried about the people in Japan when they're yelling against her). Euphemia had to become just another death on the way of rebellion which is tragic in its own way.
So I think the scene has less impact. But this might be just me.
Personally I hate Euphy died and, even if somehow I felt her presence at the end (each time they show the candles) I would have liked if the boys were to meet her in the World of C.