Attention Ougi/Villetta fans...

[soaker87.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if there's anyone left here who doesn't hate the pairing.

Anyway, I've decided to volunteer to write a ship_manifesto  for the pairing, because I still love it, and enjoy ranting on about my favorite ships. I was only able to find two Code Geass manifestos, both of which I believe cover only season one, which is rather disappointing. But getting to the point, I've already written most of the actual content (though the nitpicky editor in me plans to revise it quite a bit) but when it comes to the recs section, for such a rare pairing, I figured it'd be best to ask the community for anything they've found. I've already got a couple fics, some art, and even a lovely Japanese fanart site, but I'm hoping there's something out there I've missed. Maybe over on ff.net, because I'm too afraid to weed through all the badfic there.

Also, I'm failing completely at thinking of a title that doesn't suck. If anyone can suggest one, I'd love that.

Thanks for hearing my plea.

Comments

[levy.livejournal.com]

You most obviously don't like Ohgi at all and that's fine, I do not like some other characters as well and I'm more focused on their negative rather than positive traits, but I think you are being too harsh in your negative judgement of Villetta's current condition. You have no indication that she's reverted to anything, she's just enjoying the last months of her pregnancy and is happy to be with the man she loves.
I'd have really hated if the authors would have pull out something stupid like her changing her name to Chigusa, but we know for sure she did not, since the signature she puts on the message board in Tamaki's bar is - Villetta Ohgi.
She could be back in the UNF army in a year as a training instructor for what we know, while Ohgi is staying at home an doing the cooking in between a parliament session and another XD

The whole Code Geass series fishes a lot into cheesy cliché, but if you try to look at this from another angle, the life experience of Villetta is giving us a very positive message.

Villetta was first introduce as some very proud soldier and somehow social climber, since she' coming from a lower social class and hopes to gain rank through military career. She's also part of the purist faction - the most intransigent and harsh with the conquered nation - of one of the most aggressive nation in the world. We might even speculate that she came from an ethnic group that has been inglobate inside the Britannia Empire quite recently, since she's clearly not caucasian, but even keeping this speculation aside, she incarnates not a very nice example of human being (element from the opressed class that try to integrate in the most oppressing faction of the oppressors).
She might be cool and awesome as badass as she was back there, but she was not leading that much of a happy life.
Then came the incident of her loss of memory, and even if the plot is awfully soap-opera like in that regard, the effect on her is that with it she's been given an occasion to find back that part of herself she was forced to repress in order to be a soldier of an army as harsh and inhuman as Britannia Army is oftenly shown to be. She was presented with a chance of happiness she's lost any hope/purpose to find: self-realization that is not based on social climbing and discrimination, but on love and understanding. She gave up the rank she's gained (and that doesn't make her fully happy) to be with the man that, despite all the things that keep them apart, is the love of her life, and that loves her back with equal strenght (you can dislike Ohgi as much as you want, bu the fact he deeply loves her is undeniable) and is having a child with him, that is nearly the best thing a human being can find in his life.

The words Cornelia said to her about rank can be read also this way, and I think in the end Villetta has become maybe a better and surely a happier person than the somehow bitter and lonely career-woman she was in the beginning. Incidentally, she has also a very good marriage in terms of social status, but it really doesn't matter anymore, because when she choosed to be with him, that was the last thing they could expect, and that's all that matter.

[levy.livejournal.com]

I'm okay with fictional characters being assholes, but since she changed for the good in the story and in your earlier post you analyzed Villetta's change from a very negative and disminishing perspective as an example of real life fucked up behaviour (for a woman to get back "in the kitchen"), and I simply offered you my positive reading of her life experience (for an arid and social climbing human being to find back much more positive an true values - like love, family and such)

As for her giving up a lot of things for him, without him doing the same, it's more an effect of the events they've been caught in than an imposition of Ohgi's will over her. By the time they were reunited (the mutiny), there are no other plausible alternatives beside staying with the Black Knight if she wanted to be with him, and she makes her choice when she did not follow Cornelia in ep.20


yeah, Lelouch plan doesn't make a lot of sense at all, but we are talking of Code Geass, and a lot of things from the very start requires an high amount of credulity for us to enjoy.
This is far from being my favourite show, but I was happy with it in the end, and that's all. I enjoyed the fluff, too.