#emperor suzaku

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthday for today, September 7th:

Suzaku, Emperor of Japan, 923

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533

Maria Anna of Austria, Queen of Portugal, 1683

Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, 1811

Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Queen of Denmark, 1817

Rudolf Ferdinand of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg, 1975

[shutupandmakemepizzaroll]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ZERO REQUIEM 💚💜💚💜💚💜💚💜

[nolvini]

that love is like a star (blood vers)

[chazum]

i’ll never be the same

[sakkarose]

Welcome back to another episode of art/shitposts I forgot to post like 2 years ago(including art I’ve already posted but thought would fit here):

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illustration by Kimura Takahiro

[rolorules]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LELOUCH.

Also by Ajipaba.

[soinzzz]

Look at them gooo

Suzaku: His enemies and weaknesses shall be eliminated.

Lelouch: World! Follow me!

(Not sure if the translation is 100% correct but should be accurate enough)

[pipskippy]

in hxh when gon said "killua, you have it easy...since it means nothing to you" and when antigone said to her sister ismene "you will not die, not with me you won't. you had nothing to do with this" amnd in code ge ass when suzaku said to lelouch "nothing that happens now is any of your concern! your very existence is a mistake! you need to be erased from this earth!" collecting many such phrases

[protect-namine]

okay but in light of the akito movies, 00 in the month they were planning zero requiem hits different now because this isn't actually the first time suzaku serves lelouch in his power trip madness to conquer nations, except this time lelouch isn't brainwashed into being a bratty military strategist for the empire

idk I'm sure suzaku was very conflicted with the julius kingsley thing but he's also probably comparing julius and emperor!lelouch sometimes and that would be interesting to explore

[thatrandombystander]

Goodsmile Company putting up these Code Geass plushies for sale.... GSC you better not have gotten a deal to make Code Geass Nendoroids..... cause I will be obligated to add them to my collection..... Code Geass was one of my original hyperfixations...

[shutupandmakemepizzaroll]

GOOD EVENING!!!!!!

[the-best-bagel]

lelouch and suzaku code geass are just these wojaks

[homoeroticbetrayal]

Iconic Homoerotic Betrayal: Round 2

Round 2 Directory

Context:

Lelouche/Suzaku

Summary by Anonymous Contributor

szll is already iconic but I'm just going to list all their betrayals (and perceived betrayals) as a refresher:

(first, for context, one thing you gotta understand is lelouch, leader of the rebellion who believes ends justify the means, is also the discarded prince of the empire he's fighting against. suzaku, rising knight of the empire who believes means have to justify the ends, is the son and killer of the prime minister of the country being oppressed. this is PEAK narrative foils and enemies-to-lovers recipe right there.)

- lelouch and nunnally were sent to japan as political hostages. britannia takes over japan quickly after and lelouch, knowing how much japan means to suzaku, promises to destroy britannia. suzaku should be angry at britannia! lelouch will free them!! except years later he learns that suzaku is now WORKING for the empire? he's becoming a KNIGHT for the empire, betraying his own country and their shared hatred for britannia. what the fuck, what happened to principles, suzaku? this is lelouch's first (perceived) betrayal.

- lelouch (accidentally) kills euphemia, the only princess who's trying to make peace with the japanese, the princess that suzaku is knight of, the princess suzaku LOVES and lelouch adores. now yes, this was an accident, but lelouch ROLLS WITH IT and lets suzaku and the rest of the world believe that it was intentional, thus fully driving that knife deep. he never tells suzaku this was an accident. this is suzaku's most painful betrayal.

- suzaku finds out lelouch is zero, leader of the rebellion, and turns him in to his evil dad, emperor of the empire, in exchange for becoming a knight of round (the highest military status). now if you count akito the exiled as canon, this also means sending lelouch to be BRAINWASHED into serving the empire as a master tactician before R2 happens. suzaku monitors him all throughout, watching lelouch destroy nations and praise the empire against his own principles.

this is just season one of code geass. this doesn't even touch how suzaku is also forced to betray his own loyalties/principles sometimes whenever the "live" geass that lelouch condemns him with acts up. how suzaku would monitor lelouch and keep deceiving him that rolo is his beloved sibling, not nunnally. etc etc.

AND YET despite all of this, code geass culminates with them SWEARING LOYALTY to each other, with lelouch becoming the demon emperor and suzaku becoming his right-hand man, the knight of zero. lelouch becomes a tyrant that suzaku is destined to kill. lelouch brings peace to the world but will never be able to live in it. he will always be remembered as the dictator, the scourge of the world. suzaku atones for all his sins by being reduced to a heroic symbol, by being punished to kill his best friend and never becoming suzaku the person ever again. with the "live" geass, he is cursed to never die, never to escape, always bearing both of their sins -- the eternal punishment he has been seeking. and by killing lelouch, he is able to avenge euphemia in the end, and bring the peace all three of them desired.

code geass is a hot mess but there is poetry in their betrayals. they are thematically bound to live this tragedy, and that is why they are iconic. the ending of code geass is well-known and highly regarded as one of the most iconic endings ever, and it can only ever be so because it stands on the love and loss and betrayals of suzaku and lelouch.

Charles/Erik

Summary by @sing-the-beginning-of-moana

it was love at first sight. they got together and were happy for a while until erik caused charles to feel the excruciating pain of dying (without actually dying), tried to kill hundreds of people, accidentally paralyzed charles, and then abandoned him altogether. and that's just the first movie. repeat with the same sort of behavior and constant breaking up and getting back together for the next several decades.

See other descriptions of Suzululu or Cherik

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Team UK (Tsupo & Clood) as Lelouch vi Britannia and Kururugi Suzaku at the World Cosplay Summit 2023 Red Carpet (Aug 4) and Grand Finale (Aug 6)

They won First Place in the World Cosplay Championship for their Magi stage performance, as well as the Brother award for Costume Making! Congratulations!

[marlin-blue]

suzaku in the kingsley arc makes me bark because he's like. he has to protect the person he hates most in the world; he also has to watch the person he loves most in the world be turned into a puppet for the emperor. he wishes he'd killed lelouch; he's glad he didn't kill lelouch, because this way he gets to watch him burn. he's protecting him just to make him suffer. he's doing this to the person he loves because he has such an unbearable urge to hurt, but he has to hurt on suzaku's conditions. he would stab lelouch and envy the knife. akito suzaku was a special flavor of deranged and it was catered to me specifically.