plural lelouch truther

code geass sideblog | follows from @jaystrifes | 25 | chronically obsessed with the political mecha war drama/high school yaoi anime

[lelouchplural]

I've decided I must break the seal on this blog so here's a pinned post:

main @jaystrifes, I just have so much to say about Code Geass that I had to make a whole sideblog. I first watched the series in 2013 and at this rate I will be obsessed with it forever.

I intend to make a very comprehensive organizational system for this blog to serve a dual purpose as an archive for fanworks, meta, official art, interviews, and other niche source material I encounter, in addition to my own fandom contributions. My first order of business is to cross-post what I've accumulated on my main blog over the past decade-ish.

For the purpose of interpreting the original series, I'm most interested in primary source material, and what the people who made it said about it (though "word of god" doesn't supersede what's actually on the page/screen, it's valuable context).

Beyond the original series, I'm really only familiar with the Akito OVA, the movies, miscellaneous bits of supplementary trivia, and synopses of some of the other spinoffs. I'm interested in exploring anything I can get my hands on, but I'm especially looking forward to reading the light novels and the Mutuality artbook. (I might make a separate post to track the niche/lost Code Geass media I'm still trying to source in hopes of gathering some links - if anyone else is doing that kind of archival fandom work, let me know!)

Below, a couple housekeeping notes re: major areas of interest, strongly held opinions, ships, etc. Feel free to ignore me if we don't vibe.

Code Geass is obviously a nuanced, imperfect, and problematic work of fiction; I don't stand by it in its entirety.

Suzalulu is real, though obviously repressed in the canon setting.

Lelouch's relationships with women are predominantly informed by compulsory heterosexuality and subconscious paternalism.

C.C. and Lelouch are partners.

Lelouch is gay, to me, but I'm also interested in the fluidity of both his sexuality and gender.

The writing around Lelouch's identity conflicts (for example, his difficulty in reconciling his civilian life with his life as Zero) is enriched when read through the lens of trauma-related dissociation. Hence the username. I'm working on a more detailed analysis dedicated to this topic, but I'm open to questions in the meantime if you're curious.

Zero Requiem makes a perfect finale for Code Geass as a story, but not for Lelouch as a character. It's important for Lelouch to live, for the same reasons as Suzaku. (Re;surrection is... not exactly how I wanted to see that idea explored.)

WIP tag system under the cut

series:

cg; anything directly from the original series, relevant episodes tagged with their season and number designation (eg: r1e1, r2e25)

picture drama; mini bonus episodes for the original series with slideshow illustrations and voice acting, like missing scenes

bnk; the Boukoku no Akito/Akito the Exiled miniseries

retcon trilogy; the three-film compilation/rewrite of the original series (titled Initiation, Transgression, and Glorification)

resurrection; the sequel set in the alternate timeline established by the retcon trilogy

other official series-related materials:

clamp art - character design and concept art by manga studio CLAMP

fandom work:

fanart - recurring artists may be tagged as artist: name (please let me know if you'd prefer not to be tagged like this)

edit -

video edit -

code gayass - memes

my fandom work:

chasing cats - silly/lighthearted posts

folding cranes - analysis

wearing masks - plural related

characters:

lelouch vi britannia; lelouch lamperouge; zero; julius kingsley

kururugi suzaku

c.c.

kouzuki kallen

quartet - lelouch, suzaku, c.c., kallen

nunnally vi britannia

euphemia li britannia

ensemble - other characters (especially in large groups when tagging individually would be too much)

relationships:

suzalulu; 99+0;

unholy trinity - lelouch, suzaku, and c.c.

lelouch & c.c.

sunflowers in rain - lelouch, suzaku, and nunnally

lelouch & nunnally

suzaeuphy

lelouch & euphemia

[alysiusart]

Euphemia

[alysiusart]

C.C comission for @/akazukas (twitter)

WHERE’S THE CODE GEASS GANG

[alysiusart]

Old Code Geass piece featuring the unholy trinity I did for a zine, but forgot to post.

[tainbocuailnge]

here have this image of lelouch at pride that i yoinked off someones blog header once because it nukes my sides from orbit every time i think about it

[acro-bike]

26/5/26-- kallen says hi

[turann0s]

it actually is kind of annoying to say that suzalulu are not canonically queer just because they didnt have an on screen kiss. maybe im just more enlightened than everyone else

[fidgetspinzaku]

Mermaid illustration of the student council for MerMay (:!

I spent aaaaaages looking into different marine animals to decide which ones were most fitting for each character (symbolically, trait-wise, and geographically), and I’m overall pretty happy with my picks. For those curious, I’ve included the inspo species for each tail plus justifications under the cut (:

Suzaku - Pacific Bluefin Tuna: Suzaku was actually the hardest to nail down by far, because there are a lot of strong, powerful swimmers found in Japanese waters that I really feel like could work. Suzaku was a flying fish for a while, but I ended up ultimately deciding that Suzaku didn’t really fit a prey fish. Pacific bluefins are some of the fastest fish on Earth, strong, and warm-blooded. They spawn in the Philippine Sea and Sea of Japan, but are migratory, and their range extends to the East coast of the USA, and also have a history of being overfished and exploited like most bluefin tuna. For a little bit of added angst all tuna are obligate ram ventilators, which means they suffocate if they stop moving, which I think fits both with the whole ‘exercise nut’ nature Suzaku has and would also pair very nicely with the live-command.

Lelouch - Ambiguous Cuttlefish (most inspiration taken from Common Cuttlefish): It’s almost easier to list the way Lelouch isn’t cuttlefish-coded than to list all the ways he is. Star of the show here is the visual signalling they can do with their skin, which is very theatre-kid, and fits Lelouch extremely well in all its nuances (like for example cuttlefish can dual-signal, showing two different signals to two different parties, often used for deception). I honestly think a lot of cephalopods and even some cetaceans could fit Lelouch well, but ultimately I liked the cuttlefishes well-documented deceptive capabilities, physical fragility, and solitary but still occasionally highly social nature the best for Lelouch.

Rivalz - California yellowtail: Rivalz was another hard one to do because his personality is DudeTM. Ultimately I ended up landing on the California yellowtail mainly because of geographic location, because Rivlaz has for some reason always been very Californian-coded to me. Californian yellowtails are very fast fish, but not super aggressive compared to other fish their size. They’re schooling fish throughout all stages of their life, which I think absolutely fits Rivalz, because that boy absolutely schools.

Shirley - Surge Wrasse: When I started looking into picks for Shirley, I knew I wanted a fish that was a strong swimmer, a fish that wasn’t an apex predator, and also an aesthetically pretty fish. Turns out, a lot of wrasses fit into that description beautifully, so ultimately I ended up picking the one that lives in more turbulent water! As the name implies, surge wrasse live in the surge zone of coral reefs, and are therefore incredibly strong swimmers, which I think is important considering Shirley is on the swim team and also poor girl absolutely gets herself into turbulent confirms. Another big deciding of why surge wrasse over some of their other counterparts was geographical distribution, as they’re spread throughout both the Western and Eastern Pacific, which I just think is neat.

Kallen - Red Lionfish: I toyed with making Kallen something much less immediately intimidating, but ultimately a red lionfish just fit her too well for me to really want to do anything else. The nail in the coffin after all the immediate connections—the reddish colour palette, the defensive venom, the contrast between it’s slow ambushing mode to their incredibly fast strike—was the fact that, while they can be found in waters around both Japan and the USA, their actually invasive in the USA and native to the Indio-Pacific. I loved that so much for Kallen that I couldn’t make her anything else.

Milly - Bottlenose Dolphin: All these paragraphs have been pretty long so far, but I don’t feel like I need to explain this one lol. Why bottlenose over other dolphins? Iconic, that’s why.

Nina - Common Octopus: I feel like this is another pretty self-explanatory one. Nina is an intelligent, STEM-smart, and very shy woman; octopuses are smart, very adept at tool-usage and solving logical problems, and also very reserved and shy. I already knew I wanted Nina to be some sort of cephalopod when I began drawing, so I didn’t do as much research for her, and the reason I took most inspiration from the common octopus is mainly because it’s the cephalopod that seems to be most studied for intelligence as far as I can tell from a cursory glance.

[sirnyancelot]

THEY HAD A HAPPY ENDING

[kallencc]

[aurum003]

C.C from Code Geass (๑•᎑•๑)

[tikihoneybee]

[yaandante]

my take on the goat c.c 💚

[lumamintz]

anger & betrayal

[citacompromiso]

Twilight Sky - Suzaku

A mysterious priest hidden behind a veil, he is humble, kind and has great hidden power.

Together with Starry Sky - Lelouch, he is concerned about the future of this country and guides it.

I love to read this alternative universe fics sooooo much

[poolgazer]

you're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be

[calupos]

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