#rewatching code geass

[lunatic-harness]

[yandere-romanticaa]

Let me ramble about Lelouch a little, because he just deserves it.

Lelouch, who holds you in the palm of his hand but you also always manage to escape his grasp. Just when he thinks he has you, just when he thinks he can finally rest, you catch him off guard. Your mere existence foils his plans as it does not allow him to do what needs to be done. He sits in his chair, wearing the mask of Zero as he looks far away in the distance. To the untrained eye he looks as though he is scheming, coming up with future plans for the Black Knights to follow. But the way in which he gets startled gives him away, his quiet "Huh?" always making people like Tamaki chuckle and laugh in pure amusement.

"Well well, even a guy like Zero has a soft side!"

They have no idea just how utterly soft their brave leader really is.

Lelouch, who becomes absolute putty in your hands whenever you touch him, even if it was just accidental. He is used to the brutality of battle and blood, something so soft is... Ethereal. Unimaginable. It sets his heart ablaze, forcing him to speed up his plan just a little bit. He just wants you to be safe.

Lelouch, who can't read you at all and that drives him like crazy. He can't play you like the other pieces on his board, you're too precious for that. He is the King and you are the Queen on that board. He started to accidentally protect the Queen in actual chess matches instead of his King, much to the bewilderment of his opponents. In his mind, the King is worthless without the Queen. And in that same way, Lelouch would be nothing without you.

[oifaaa]

I cant believe it's day one of 2024 and I've just had someone recommend code geass to me

[svzalulu]

suzaku kururugi, R1 EP6

[zaruba-needslove]

Call me delulu or whatever... but look at Lelouch just LETTING Kallen hug him and not immediately push her away, and then when Kallen realised that he's back BACK and she just casually acted like nothing happened and turned around and walked away and his face was like... wait?? No more hugs???

[rosylix143]

the parasites in me are screaming😀

[merry-kuroo]

Watching Code Geass in 2011 as a middle schooler vs watching in 2025 as a adult is giving me whiplash.

It feels like a completely different show now.

[nirvanaida]

code geass is genuinely so funny for introducing this ethereal, undying woman shrouded in mystery and then, like, 4 episodes later, she lazily strides back into the main plot, steals the main character’s room, and eats an ungodly amount of pizza, all while absolutely roasting the protagonist. AND she’s mentally ill. incredible.

[kit-kat-24601]

Suffering from Epic the Musical but it's Lelouch Lamperouge who just ran into a geass user who makes you see your lost loved ones, so he's seeing Shirley.

[queenyuritheiii]

it's quite rude how many things I want to do when I'm busy and don't have time and then when I do have it, I procrastinate doing them

[lunatic-harness]

and that's code geass everyone. i only now noticed the parallel between euphy and lelouch's deaths (imperial bleeding out, closest person to them crying, everyone cheering zero on)

[tariah23]

What the fuck!???

[xoxcg]

the code geass boys don't just have me in a chokehold. bitch they have my ENTIRE PUSSY

[greywitch]

ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS

C.C. idled beneath the tower as Kallen excused herself to use the bathroom. Her words lingered long after her footsteps and silhouette faded into the desert shadows. You sure you haven't made a habit of putting things off after living so long?

As she mulled over the response she never gave, the clanging of a metallic ladder--growing louder--interrupted her thoughts. She glanced over just in time to see Suzaku jump off the last two rungs onto the packed dirt, looking surprised.

"I have to say, C.C., I never thought I'd see you again."

C.C. smiled wryly. "Well, did you get everything off your chest?"

Suzaku had calmed considerably since they'd left the prison. If she had any concerns that he'd continue where he left off, they'd all but disappeared when she saw the softness with which he'd gazed upon Zero's unmasked face. The boy had already forgiven him--but that didn't necessarily extend to herself.

"I think so. Most of it anyway."

Suzaku still wasn't in the best shape, and it showed in the slow sauntering walk as he closed the distance between them. C.C. cast her gaze upward and caught the faint glow of Lelouch's PC as he paced and schemed. Even if she did want to speak to him, it would have to wait.

"What about you?"

C.C. blinked. Suzaku was a few steps away from her now, gazing at her curiously. "You must want to talk to him, after all the trouble you went through."

Assaulted by one and now the other. C.C. suppressed her chagrin as she offered Suzaku the same answer she'd given Kallen--silence. She turned toward the light, the festivities and familiar faces, in a clear gesture of disinterest.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Suzaku continued.

"About what?" C.C. was being difficult on purpose. Her hand came up to twirl her fingers in the ends of her hair as she watched Suzaku shake his head in her periphery.

"Come on. We're past that, aren't we? Shirley knew; so did Anya and Jeremiah, I heard." A pause. Suzaku lifted his head as if to check that Lelouch was still there, hadn't disappeared into the ether as he'd implied he could. "You could have told me."

Should have, seemed to be the unspoken sentiment. Yes, perhaps she should have, but she didn't because C.C. was a selfish creature who wasn't beholden to anyone.

"Could I?" she asked. She swung her head back toward him and held his inquisitive stare. Unlike the anger with which he'd initially greeted Lelouch, all she could see now was confusion and--perhaps--disappointment or something similar. "You thought you killed your best friend. And you did."

Suzaku had come to accept his actions long ago. He had grown; C.C. could see it though she could also see his jaw tighten and his body stiffen. "Lelouch was dead. There was nothing to tell. You could say it was a fool's errand."

Hopeless. C.C. was used to hopelessness and Sisyphean tasks. She had played many roles over the years, chameleon in nature, so it was not the physical demands of being Lelouch's caretaker that had worn on her. It was the fear. Fear only existed where there was hope. C.C. had no guarantees, not even Lelouch's blessing. Lelouch had never asked to live; C.C. had forced it upon him just as she had once bestowed him Geass in the hopes of ending her own meaningless existence. She had to endure this alone; it was her penance.

"You're just like him sometimes, you know. Don't know when to ask for help."

That made C.C. laugh. The light but somber breeze of her chuckle sat on the otherwise still air between them like a question followed by another: "Would you have helped me?"

Suzaku tilted his head to the side, thoughtful. His gaze shifted to the ground, the hint of a frown pulling at his brow. In the state that he was in immediately after the Zero Requiem, C.C. doubted he would have been capable of anything. Had he come to understand himself better in the intervening year?

"I don't know," he finally answered. "But I'm glad he's alive. So--thank you for that."

C.C. could count on one hand how many times she'd been thanked in the past century. Perhaps Suzaku was mocking her, but one look at his face and she could tell he was being genuine. "I didn't do it for you."

"I know. But still." Another beat of silence passed. Suzaku shifted his weight and pointed toward the party. As C.C. followed the direction of his finger, she caught Kallen having returned from her bathroom break now mingling with a crowd of Ohgi and other Black Knight members. "I'm going to get a drink. Want one? Looks like he's going to be up there for a while. And maybe you can tell me more about how he got here in the meantime."

C.C. was quiet as she considered his offer, feeling in his words a familiar strain of loneliness. It was a strange thing to be alone in a crowd. For a while, C.C. had sought solace in the Geass Order, and then Marianne. But everything was ephemeral, nothing lasted. Suzaku had forgiven her, it seemed, but had Lelouch?

Did Lelouch hate her? That question she'd often asked herself in the last moments of Zero Requiem now floated up in her mind again like ocean waste washing ashore. Well, it didn't matter. She had done this for herself, after all, her clinging to a promise he had made to her out of a moment of desperation. No one wanted to be alone, and C.C. was no exception. But Lelouch, at least, wasn't alone. He had returned to where he belonged, his friends and family, and it was time that C.C. did as well. Seeing him alive and happy was enough for her.

She leaned off the steel beam supporting her and walked toward her other once co-conspirator.

"What do you want to know?" she asked, content to pretend for the moment that she belonged in this scene of celebration and reunion.

[thisearthycat]

lulu ‼️

[kampazoid12]

more people should think and talk abt rivalz code geass I think.