Oct 2, 2023
kallen and lelouch is also yaoi btw but the people weren't ready for that back in 2008
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kallen and lelouch is also yaoi btw but the people weren't ready for that back in 2008
Can you talk about your thoughts about Euphemia ? You've talked before about the impact of her death on the story and Lelouch, how she tried to give Lelouch an alternative since he wasn't fully committed to what he'll do, and how her death was the point of non-return since Lelouch wanted to do right by her, but I was curious about your thoughts on Euphemia other than about her death
euphemia.... i'm legally obliged to add a disclaimer here that it's been a hot while since I watched code ass so i don't remember everything clearly. i think it fucking rocks that she's one of very few people (maybe even the only one? i don't remember) to ever completely outsmart lelouch, and i think she's the only one who manages to get him to accept defeat. she bested him so thoroughly that it took some of the most contrived and controversial circumstances in the series to even get the story to continue past that point. euphemia was generally dismissed as naive and overly idealistic but she was clever and hardworking and knew exactly what she could do, and she came closer than anyone else in the show to flawlessly achieving her goals.
admittedly the majority of my thoughts on her do circle back around to her death because ultimately her role in the story was to tragically die but she beats lelouch, not even at his own game but by changing the game they were playing entirely, and even after he basically cheats to still come out on top he continues to play the game she decided he's playing now through her memory pushing him to actually commit to the cause that she fought for her whole life. it kicks ass. all the other schemers and manipulators and megalomaniacs in the world couldn't deter lelouch, it's his sister's honest ideals that completely trounce him.
on a related topic code geass isn’t exactly a shining example on treatment of female characters but I love love love how everything lelouch does is for nunnally who is this frail blind helpless girl carted around as hostage every other arc and in the end she’s his final obstacle, because she has her own will and her own convictions and she doesn’t care that he did it all for her because she never asked him to do any of it and he never asked her if she wanted him to either.
i think the funniest part about the britannian empire in code geass is that they give all their shit arthurian names and talk big smack about the great homeland of britannia and all that talking as if they’ve got a glorious tradition of millennia but britain isn’t even part of the empire. they’re americans. their “homeland” is the north america that they colonised and then fled to when napoleon kicked them out of britain and even after conquering two thirds of the world they never got britain back. clown country
australia in code geass is specifically noted to be a neutral area that people pass by on the global stage of conquest and colonisation with no further explanation so I choose to believe that it’s being left alone because everyone looking for some new country to oppress takes one look at australia and sees mad max happening there and is like “oh fuck I’m not messing with THAT”
lelouch lamperouge on the eric andre show being asked if he thinks princess euphemia had girl power in ordering the indiscriminate massacre of the japanese people
code geass on the brain c-c-code geass on da brain thinking bout that one month between lulu killing his parents and declaring himself emperor. it’s somewhere in the am hours he’s lying on the floor of the apartment he suzaku and cc are staying in while they’re prepping zero requiem and he’s staring at the ceiling and he asks suzaku, “in another world, do you think we might have stayed friends?” and suzaku does not look up from whatever he’s reading and says “maybe. I’d still hate you though.” smash cut to the two of them leaning on the railing of the grandcypher at night. suzaku asks “if we hadn’t come here, would we have stayed enemies?” lelouch “jokes” that suzaku and kallen probably would’ve found out he’s zero at the worst possible time. “I’d still love you though” says suzaku.