#but that's because suzaku and lelouch speedran through so many situations together that you can drop them in any au and it makes sense

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the way I can trace every character dynamic that I like back to code geass... it really was. the blueprint. the imprint it has on my brain is still manifesting in other ways more than a decade later

#mine musings #no truly. watching cg in your formative years really does rewire your brain #but that's because suzaku and lelouch speedran through so many situations together that you can drop them in any au and it makes sense #arranged marriage au? yeah that's the son of the prime minister and a prince and they were childhood friends too #knight and emperor? yup they conquered thw world too. you can make lelouch a hero or a villain #childhood friends to lovers to enemies to lovers to being asked to kill one another? #diametrically opposed ideals? unreal power duo that can do anything (literally anything) when they team up? #how about: being the guardian to your brainwashed best friend who is struggling to remember his identity and you don't know #if you want him to remember #additional layer: YOU SOLD THAT BEST FRIEND YOURSELF TO THE ENEMY #how about: cursing your best friend to never die ever. how about: making him live his penance for the rest of his days #it's also not even suzalulu because like. there's also the whole other thing with lelouch and cc #being confidants? having each other's backs through thick and thin? #fooling the world and hiding together as probably an immortal duo? #having fun with secret identities and taking turns posing as the mysterious masked character? #cg invented relationship tropes i fear #liveblogging cg #code geass