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suzaeuphysolos · 4 months

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At some point in the future I’m going to make a huge Nina analysis post explaining the terrible mischaracterization and other nuances. I may turn it into a video essay if I’m feeling silly enough. I’m just so tired.

#someday #code Geass #nina einstein

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suzaeuphysolos · 4 months

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It's summer, it's swimsuits, it's Big Brother!

By Wakka.

Note: Rivalz shouts 'Kaichou!' (President).

#rolo lamperouge #lelouch lamperouge #shirley fenette #kallen kozuki #milly ashford #nina einstein #ohgi kaname #tamaki shinichirou #fan art

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suzaeuphysolos · 4 months

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#HELLOOOOOO #millynina #milly ashford #nina einstein

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suzaeuphysolos · 4 months

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Nina and Shirley are two sides of the same coin and I'm going to show you

To begin with, both girls have in common that they are Britannians, friends of Lelouch and, above all, they are innocent citizens who find themselves in the crossfire of a rebellion against their mother country. In a certain way, they play the role of the civilians involved in a conflict of this type and, in unison, the two give totally opposite answers to the same problem.

Both lose an important being in their lives because of Zero. Shirley loses her father and Nina loses the girl she loves (that’s emotional dependency, really; just this isn’t the post to delve into that). As a result, Shirley and Nina go through a mental breakdown and it leads them to make morally questionable decisions with destructive consequences for themselves and their environment. I mean, they both choose to get revenge by killing Zero.

Shirley is about to do so when the golden opportunity falls at her feet, but she hesitates as soon as she discovers the identity of her father’s killer. Villetta arrives, Shirley shoots her after seeing that she intended to arrest Lelouch and her guilt upsets her. Are you seriously doubting Shirley’s mental state because of the trauma? She was in an obvious catatonic state by the time Lelouch located her next to Mao and already in R2 she threatened to kill herself because she couldn’t handle the stress and shock.

From Nina I have to prove her terrible mental health. She threatens to blow up Ashford Academy to avenge her late love and later joined Schneizel’s research team in order to fulfill her revenge, which is to develop a weapon of mass destruction.

The difference between the two is that Shirley reconsiders and abandons her revenge because she is incapable of hurting someone she loves. In the end, love prevails over the rancor that lives in her heart, allowing her to forgive Lelouch for his crime. Nina, on the other hand, allows herself to be consumed by the hatred that has poisoned her heart and the poison has clouded her mind, preventing her from seeing the long-term effect of her actions.

I think this is the case because Nina had problems from before that Shirley didn’t (insecurities, low self-esteem, maybe some past traumatic experience that she never got over). Hence, Shirley was able to pull herself together while Nina plunged deeper and deeper into darkness until she reached what I like to call, in my own narrative theory, “The Pinnacle of Destruction” (yes, that moment when Suzaku massacres the Tokyo Settlement with the F.L.E.I.J.A.).

That is precisely the point of divergence between the two. Nina has a revenge arc and revenge is usually treated in fiction as a process of self-destruction, which is the obvious case with Nina: she doesn’t just degenerate as a scientist in the sense that she invests her great intelligence for selfish and warlike ends. , but also degenerates as a friend (behaving disgustingly with people who held her in high esteem) and, by extension, as a human. But she’s not really like that. Lelouch says that she is a good person in R2 episode 24 (watch it if you don’t believe me). Shirley doesn’t lick her wounds like Nina. Her process is regenerative. That is, to let go of the pain and heal the internal wounds caused by the rebellion.

We could say that Nina represents hate and revenge, while Shirley symbolizes love and forgiveness.

To mention one case where this is evident: think of Suzaku’s arrival at Ashford Academy. Nina has embraced the hatred that Britannia instills in its citizens towards the colonists and, therefore, she avoids Suzaku at all costs (as if he were a virus), but Shirley rejects that hatred. In fact, if it weren’t for Rivalz, she would have been the first student at Ashford Academy to welcome Suzaku (she corrected herself by being the first to thank him for helping Lelouch).

In the long run, love and forgiveness are the two values that win out because even after Shirley dies, Nina is willing to forgive Lelouch (which she doesn’t quite do, but at least she doesn’t shut down completely) and she resents the friends she treated badly in the past and that she loves deep down. This is the only way that Nina decides to face her xenophobia and heal (as the secondary material shows us).

Anyway, I would like you to appreciate both answers equally. Don’t take Shirley for a fool or naive or Nina for a lunatic or hateful. Individually these arcs are well written. Simultaneously they complement each other perfectly since it allows us to evaluate the opposite scenarios without the need for us to let our imagination run wild. It’s one of those things where you’re like, “Wow! What a great narrative!” But maybe I’m asking too much of you.

Have you noticed this parallel before? Did I convince you that they are two sides of the same coin?

PS: I just realized that Shirley is an ESFJ and Nina is an INTP. They are opposite MBTI Types, that is, same cognitive functions ordered in reverse (like Lelouch and Kallen, who are INTJ and ESFP, and Suzaku and Lloyd, who are ISFJ and ENTP). Coincidence?

#GREAT POST OP #REALLLL #shirley fenette #nina einstein

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suzaeuphysolos · 4 months

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NINA SPOTTED

#ohhhh my god #she’s so beautiful #fan art #nina einstein

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suzaeuphysolos · 4 months

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the Nina part…delusion

Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?

I don't think it's possible.

Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...

...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.

The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows.

The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.

"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:

Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.

Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.

The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.

The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."

A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.

Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.

A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.

An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.

Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.

A character called "the Earl of Pudding."

A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."

The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.

An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.

A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.

Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.

A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."

Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.

Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.

#you are all so illiterate that it’s actually crazy

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suzaeuphysolos · 11 months

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Code Geass Femslash Week Day 1: Firsts

Based on this fic of mine.

#code geass femslash week #code geass lelouch of the rebellion #code geass #nina einstein #code geass nina #nina code geass #milly ashford #millynina #milly x nina #nina x milly

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suzaeuphysolos · 11 months

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"why are you crying" because this is how suzaku and kallen look at nina while she's collapsed on the floor crying they just see a human being they see the her underneath the flaws and the wrongs and the trauma

#fans think they'd hate her because of some of the things she's said #but they don't #they have hearts of gold #code geass #code geass lelouch of the rebellion #nina einstein #code geass nina #nina code geass #kallen kozuki #suzaku kururugi

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suzaeuphysolos · 1 year

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My fic for Day 6: Reunited! I really enjoyed writing this one!

#suzaeuphy week 2023 #code geass #suzaeuphy #suzaeuphie #suzaku x euphemia #suzaku kururugi #code geass lelouch of the rebellion #euphemia x suzaku #euphemia li britannia #euphy #euphie x suzaku #euphy x suzaku #suzaku x euphie #suzaku x euphy #euphemia li britannia fan art #suzaku #euphie #fan fic

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suzaeuphysolos · 1 year

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My fic for Suzaeuphy Week 2023 Day 1: Cats !

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#code geass #code geass lelouch of the rebellion #suzaku kururugi #euphemia li britannia #suzaeuphie #suzaeuphy #suzaku x euphemia #euphemia x suzaku #euphy #euphie #Suzaeuphy Week 2023

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suzaeuphysolos · 1 year

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Shirley x Lelouch Official side material post R2 (Canon) + Bonus Newtype November 2008 Short Story (Novel // Not Canon)

Shirley really didn't get much after R2, given how fast she died, she didn't even get a second character song, so I included her season 1 Character song as an hommage, it's really a beautiful song and I hope you can enjoy it just like I did. (Translation included within the video)

Shirley's Character poem

O2 – Opening 1 of R2

Morning and night, I have always thought of you. It's mysterious. Even though that memory should have been taken by you. There was a stirring in my chest that keeps reverberating. Without knowing, I would come back to the same place.

When my memories returned, I was dreadfully frightened.

You making lies all the time, I have thought that I detested it. But, I realized. You were protecting me.

A gentle lie. A gentle geass.

I know. You have stripped yourself of kindness. Given it to others. And then, you continued to fight on your own. That's why, I alone thought of wanting to protect you, Lulu.

Somehow, it's like trying to climb glass. Until the end, you only ended up slipping through my hands. (1)

No matter how many times I am reborn, I will definitely fall in love with you, Lulu. (2) Even if the world may rot away, that much will not change.

(1) The exact words used are 'surechigau' - something like, so 'near yet so far'; missing each other on the way; one turns left, the other turns right (2) suki ni naru

Somehow, it's like trying to climb glass. Until the end, you only ended up slipping through my hands.

**My own analysis :

Her poem is beautiful, all about her feelings for Lelouch and still quite sad, since she seems convinced that she'll never be able to reach him despite trying over and over. It's always the thematic of fate and falling in love all over again with him.

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In a Q/A in Newtype, when asked what his type of girls was, Lelouch answered « fuwa fuwa na josei » with a smirk à la « you know what i mean » while it can sounds pretty ecchi actually if you google fuwa fuwa na josei (and it certainly was lol), it's first meaning is still soft girls, so ironically Shirley, who fits Nunally and Euphie, might have perfectly fit Lelouch's primal taste in women. It doesn't mean much but I thought it was cute to include this, more information are better than none aren't they ?

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As a a Bonus I wanted to add this short story which was published in the Newtype of November 2008; It's by one of the author who wrote the Bokura no Hibis and some of the Sound dramas (R2 especially), once again novels are not canon to the show, but they can be some cute headcanon for whoever like those.

In this one, C.C. looked over a sleeping lelouch as he dreams about a perfect world...

The story began with Lelouch waking up to a sunny morning. After washing up he found his little siblings, Nunnally and Rolo, in the living room, already setting up breakfast. (Awww…he counts both of them as his little siblings ;_;, and Nunnally and Rolo were portrayed to be siblings that squabble a lot here)

After breakfast they discussed about Nunnally's doctor appointment in the afternoon. She mentioned that she'd be able to walk after a few surgeries. (at this point she was still in wheelchair, but it seems she was able to see)

Lelouch stroke her hair when Rolo interrupted saying he'd escort Nunnally. Lelouch ruffled Rolo's hair in appreciation. Then Nunnally and Rolo got into a fight;

Nunnally said he'd probably get them lost again since he was bad at directions, while Rolo fought back saying she never watched where she was going and crossed streets at red lights. Lelouch just smiled at his cute siblings.

As he watched them head off to the junior section in school, Lelouch went into the student council room and found Nina already there looking at the computer.

After gathering the necessary documents, Lelouch asked Nina for help in developing a computer program. Nina agreed to help and asked is Lelouch going into Science and Math in university. Lelouch said he was interested but he probably couldn't beat Nina if she would go there too. Nina was slightly embarrassed. Lelouch observed her action and noted that she had a nice face, if only she'd smile more.

Lelouch exited the room and headed into the school garden, where he found Kallen munching on a curry bread.

She went on quite a drastic change from her Miss Goody-goody look before, as she now had her tie and collar loose, and hair flying out, in Lelouch's words, like a crab.

Lelouch was asking why did she change it as the hair do before looked nice too, Kallen then say she noticed he liked her previous look and that she changed it because of exactly what he said, followed with a kick in the shin.

Lelouch said her fan base had changed because of this and begins doing a run down (with percentage) of how many people preferred her old and new looks. When she asked how did he know he said it was because he was the school idol Kallen's agent.

He also commented that Milly has set her up for "Monster Kallen on Stage" since her monster look received good feed-backs last time.

Before she could skin him Lelouch made a break for it, and ran into Gino and Anya.

Gino "borrowed" Rivalz's bike and was heading out for a ride. He commented that riding bike was great, you could feel the wind. Anya, who was in the side seat, said the wind was too cold for her. Gino asked whether or not was it because she showed her belly. She countered saying that was sexual harassment.

Before they could go one Rivialz and Milly came to them riding a bicycle and they made a break for it.

Lelouch asked what were they doing here, Rivialz said it was obvious that he was chasing the bike thief, while Milly said she left a memo pad in the side seat. It contained top secret event lists and ideas. Lelouch asked was it the legendary "Devil's Diary" while Milly told him to please call it the "Angel's Conceptual Note".

As Rivialz suggested that they should give up Milly said her hunter's blood was boiling and they should give chase, even if Rivialz was the one paddling. And so off they went.

Lelouch proceeded into the school building while Suzaku came greet him cheerfully. Lelouch said Suzaku was always cheerful in the morning, not knowing the pain and suffering of ones who suffered bad mornings due to lack of sleep and low blood pressure. Suzaku commented that Lelouch looked fine this morning and Lelouch agreed that he woke up nicely, though he'd had his share of sleepless nights.

Suzaku said it must be because he was thinking up evil plots again, he continued to say that he'd know since he had always been on the receiving end.

They laughed, then Suzaku made a sudden exit, leaving Lelouch confused, until Shirley ran up to greet him from behind.

Shirley asked him what was wrong, Lelouch noticed that his heart felt funny whenever he saw her warm smile, as if he knew some truth about her that not even she herself knew about, it was a complicated feeling.

They walked towards class together while making small talks. Every little stuff they talked about gave Lelouch a sense of fulfillment. He showed her the concert tickets he obtained and asked her to go with him.

Shirley was skeptical and asked why didn't he go with Nunnally or Rolo, Lelouch replied he only had two tickets. He then asked her was she not interested in classical music, she replied strongly saying she was, she really really was.

They arrived at the classroom right on the dot. Lelouch thought it probably would be another boring class as he met Shirley's gaze, who gave him a smiling nod.

The classroom door opened. Light poured in and swallowed him whole.

In the end C.C. commented saying "so this was what you wanted, Lelouch." It was a small and beautiful dream. Now that his journey was over he could forever rest within her heart. The dream would go on forever.

Translation curtesy of piggyhoho

That's about it. Shirley really didn't get much despite being an important character in Lelouch's life, but while I can't force this side story to be canon, I think had we never gotten in the Rebellion and war and losses, she would have been quite the perfect girl for Lelouch.

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suzaeuphysolos · 1 year

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