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[yuki-shiroi]

Why did Suzaku join Lelouch in the last (emperor) arc?

❝ What happens to those who have no choice but to work within the system?!

Where's your justice for them?

—It's not that simple.

What seems like a righteous act to one person can do evil to another.

And that's exactly why all the people of the world must be brought to the same table.

Dissent begets hatred. And that starts a cycle. A cycle of hatred.

A potent, complicated knot of ugly feelings.

People are capable of understanding each other.

They could create a gentler world.

And yet—

People—

The world!

They can't be allowed to just keep doing whatever they please!

Kallen: "So you're going to force them to do as you please?! That's despicable!!"

Yeah. I know.

And that's exactly why the Zero Requiem is necessary.

And it's for that reason—

—that I'm here!! ❞

ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ - Suzaku Kururugi, Knight of Zero

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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Re; Manga Chapter 13, part 1

[yuki-shiroi]

[turann0s]

[brbarou]

britannian royals seeing suzaku like Ah yes, this is the one

[yuki-shiroi]

welcome to Code Geass company!

(Arthur the cat is our CEO)

[missfiirefly]

Thought I’d post the playing cards from nunnally in wonderland here for easier access for anyone that wants to use these considering they are very hard to find 😭

Unfortunately this is the highest quality i could find—I’ll be posting these on my Pinterest account under the same name as well

[nirvanaida]

code geass needs to stop making stuff in the re;surrection timeline and instead make five hundred spinoffs filling us in on the sapphic and yuriful adventures of kallen and c.c. during the gap between r1 and r2

[yuki-shiroi]

you said this last year and BOOM:

please make one more wish for suzalulu

[yuki-shiroi]

[yuki-shiroi]

this post is sponsored by Lelouch

[tanzakukun]

still no other character like suzaku tbh

[princeofdogs-deactivated2014032]

Suzaku!

[furiikuri-deactivated20140905]

On thing that does bug me about the characterization in the first few episodes is how upset Lelouch gets over Suzaku’s apparently “death”…but then seems fine the next few episodes until he becomes determined to keep Suzaku alive for the rest of the show (outside of his mental breakdown episodes 17-19). And Lelouch’s love for Suzaku (platonic or otherwise) is extremely important for the entire show. Then I realized that Lelouch shoots his own brother in the head right after this. Lelouch could’ve geassed Clovis into telling him about Marianne’s death and then Geassed away the memory (since Lelouch doesn’t know at the time that he can only Geass one person once). 

It’s definitely in character for Lelouch to lash out in anger as a reaction to grief. He geasses Mao into silence when Mao hurts Suzaku, but can’t bring himself to comfort Suzaku. He kills a bunch of innocent children to “avenge Shirley’s death….” as if kind hearted Shirley would’ve wanted that.

It’s one of the many ways Lelouch expresses his deep love for his friends by demonstrating what he defines as love, instead of what the other person would want. I still would’ve edited those episodes differently….somehow…

[drakyndra]

I always found Lelouch as a character to be very egocentric, in the psychological sense of that word - he tends to assume that other people see the world in the same way he does, and fails to consider that people he cares for may not share his views or perspectives - see the way he takes it so personally when a loved one is opposed to/critical of Zero, in spite of intentionally hiding the fact he is Zero from everyone. He doesn’t want Lelouch to suffer the consequences of what Zero does, and yet still expects his loved ones to see Lelouch’s sympathetic motives in Zero.

The reason this struck me as interesting is that - if I am recalling me developmental psych classes correctly - egocentrism is a psychological stage most mentally healthy children start to outgrow at about 10ish years. But about 9-10 was when Lelouch witnessed Marianne’s “murder”.

Lelouch as a character has always struck me as being rather juvenile, in that adolescent “thinks he is more mature than he actually is/mistakes cynicism for realism” way. And so I’ve always felt a really plausible explanation is that the trauma of witnessing what happened to his mother more or less stunted his emotional development (not to mention around 7 years of repressing like hell and refusing to deal with it). So you have a Lelouch who is much older, but not really much more mature. Knowledge, but not wisdom. Which I think explains a lot about his actions throughout the series - at least until the latter parts of R2, when he starts to show some genuine maturity.

Besides, dressing up in a cape and mask to fight off an evil empire? Totally a 10 year old’s idea of revenge.

[knightarcana]

The above commentary is extraordinarily accurate, and I’d go so far as to say more or less canon if you take into account certain things that appear in the light novels. While in Japan, Lelouch begins to notice Nunnally closing in on herself, and closing herself off to the world around her while becoming increasingly clingy to Lelouch. (It actually results in some very violent behavior from her, such as completely destroying and messing up their house whenever Lelouch leaves to run errands.) Lelouch notes that it’s impossible for a human to grow and mature if they continue to keep themselves isolated, and is increasingly worried about Nunnally’s mental health as a result. With Suzaku’s introduction to their lives, Nunnally’s violent behavior lessens, and she seems to be more willing to open herself up, and of course we see her getting along beautifully with others in the series.

Lelouch himself, however, despite this seeming awareness of how unhealthy it is to close oneself off to others, is plagued with distrust and keeps his world fairly small. Despite getting along with others and forging friendships, those connections are fairly shallow, and the bonds that he values most are the ones that he forged in his childhood. His constant care and attention towards Nunnally in making sure that she grows up well and as normally as possible results in his neglecting his own development, to an extent, and I don’t even think he’s really aware of it.

In that sense, Nunnally is actually much better off and more mature in ways that Lelouch is not, and for all his intelligence Lelouch is incredibly juvenile in how he responds to things, and is overall quite emotionally underdeveloped.

There’s a lot about Lelouch that’s very contrary, and as a character who prides himself on his logic and competency, I find that incredibly fascinating. It’s one of my favorite aspects of his character.

[yuki-shiroi]

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[yuki-shiroi]

he's talking about Lelouch

[saaatela-blog]

Suzaku is under hated

I hate this man so much. Like on a spiritual level.

Like I used to love Suzululu so much but now I hate everything about it. There has never been a ship that sabotaged enemies to lovers more for me than this one.

Colonial Police ahh motherfucker

Kissing the imperial boot ahh motherfucker

He is giving so much Abu Shabab energy, its crazy. Including the fact that he is being plainly used as a imperial propaganda tool.

He literally gets shot in the first episode by his own commanding officer and is thrown away like trash.

And he still talking about wanting to fix the system. Man sybau.

And the fact that the internal narrative of the show portrayed the conflict between him and Lelouch as somehow a deep philosophical debate. like excuse me??? That shit wasn't deep at all. this motherfucker was literally a stormtrooper. tf.

Britannia is literally so evil, it could not have been more obvious who was in the right.

None of the other villains of the show (and yes Suzaku is a fucking villain) are even close to the level of self delusion and hypocrisy that Suzaku exabits.

[lelouch]

Suzaku was raised as a child soldier, and is a child soldier the second we meet him. He has the belief that he can change the system because at his core, he is naive and has lived as a soldier for all of his teenage years. He is a hypocrite, sure, but so is Lelouch. They're hypocrites in a show filled with hypocrites, and at the core of their relationship is that they both have an incomplete view of the world, blinded by their lack of lived experience.

Lelouch's beliefs aren't perfect either, and that's why they work so perfectly as foils. Suzaku has faith in a system that Lelouch has not, and even when Lelouch's belief of Britannia being an evil empire rotten from the inside is the most logical and close to reality, he still has a ton of blind spots that other characters (C.C. and Kallen for example) call him out on, on getting so confident on his plans that when they backfire he is ready to give up and sulk, disregarding all the people that have already died for his cause.

Suzaku isn't uniquely evil, or a villain. He is a boy so far down in the cogs of imperialism that he believes what he is doing will liberate everyone in the long run, even when staring at the damage he has caused. He is a hypocrite, but that is hardly news in the world of Code Geass.

[saaatela-blog]

I tagged that I was gonna fight people, and I will.

First of all- Raised to be child soldier???

You mean, volunteered? Joining the ranks and becoming an honorary Britannian? Wanting to prove that elevens can be useful to the system and rise to the top from within. And yes, I am saying elevens here, because Suzaku supports the very system that has completely de humanized and enslaved his own people.

Son of the Prime minister, I am 100% sure that Suzaku could have lived a relatively good life. Considering his cousin Kaguya lived well compared to most Japanese people living in the Ghettos.

There has never been any indication that Suzaku was in anyway coerced or in anyway forced to join Britannia's military. Or that Britannia was conscripting people from their colonies. So the only thing left for me to think is that he volunteered to join. Because we know that Honorary Britannia's aren't even given weapons. And why would you be conscripting people if you not gonna arm them.

And, so why would he volunteer? Oh he tells us this himself. When it turns out that it was never about ideals or ethics for Suzaku. No. He is doing this because he thinks its atoning for killing his father and leading to his country becoming a vassal state and surrendering with barely a fight.

And now his new goal, after through sheer luck (because Britannia's racist system would not even give this man a gun, much less a gundam), he got to become a knighmare pilot. He wants to be the Knight of One so he could request to become the colonial governor of area 11.

Give me a fucking break.

I have never met a character I sympathized with less. When this man was in a gundam watching as Britannia destroyed ghettos full of his people, all the while he blamed Zero for all the violence. He blamed the "terrorists" for fighting back.

You can say he was traumatized however much you want, in my eyes he is completely unredeemable.

[yuki-shiroi]

It's clear from your recent writings that you don't know what trauma actually means, and I hope you never need to learn. Nobody expects you to forgive Suzaku, but calling him "under-hated" is incredibly ignorant. No, he's over-hated, and you seem to think hating *fictional characters* is a right thing... are we being serious rn? Thanks to Suzaku, I've gained a great deal of insight. And I'm very grateful to the author who designed Suzaku this way, leading me to learn these things at my early age by watching them in a fictional story, without having to experience them myself in real life. Remind you that Suzaku is problematic not evil -not my words- and he has to be this way for valid reasons such as relatable storytelling.

I love code geass. I love him sm.

and sorry for my english.

[yuki-shiroi]

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[iwasorderedto]

I offer you all some Spinzaku in these trying times

[liquidstar]

i cant believe so many ppl just know suzaku and lelouch from "im at soup." like. there are people who know them only for being funny at the soup store and have no idea about the all the horrific war crimes they did for 50 episodes straight which end in an assisted suicide in front of the entire world. But they were also at soup