Knight and emperor

it’s all I could think of after chapter 206

-네가 있어 다행이야-

를르슈 부활을 축하하며

언제나 사랑하고 있어

행복해야해 를르슈.

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please don’t go back to being my friend……

Code Geass went and said “most of these character hail from Future Sort-of-Britain, including our main character, who will be named Lelouch just like every single British person isn’t.” Then they decided to distract you from this by naming his love interest Shirley, cornering the market of 80+ year old grandmothers clutching their 3 bowls of strawberry sucker candy in delight. Code Geass didn’t even call it a day here they had one more trick up their sleeve and it was to name the third character in the group Rivalz, a name and a character which appeal to exactly no one.

Tiger and Bunny said “What should our western young-20′s heartthrob successful pretty-boy deuteragonist be named? What screams ‘young’ and ‘trendy’ and ‘brilliant’ and ‘sexy’? Barnaby. Barnaby Brooks. This is our Sex Symbol Barnaby.” I bet a bunch of ghosts from the 17th century were stoked about that one. I bet Barnaby walks into gift shops asking if they have any of the travel keychains in his name and he gets laughed out of the store. I bet Barnaby’s parents didn’t die, they just faked their deaths to get away from him seeing as they hated him enough to name him Barnaby.

BACCANO HAS A CHARACTER NAMED JACUZZI SPLOT

Code Geass fans saying “that’s fair”

HxH/Death Note/Fate/JoJo fans informing me of terrible horrible names that perfectly prove my point and also deal psychic damage with every new addition

WH–

Thanks for your question! Interestingly, I don’t think I ever did, at least not on this blog? I did write a long private post last year for someone who asked me for reasons to ship Suzaku and Lelouch, though. Let’s see if I can copy-paste / pick out the main points from there.

Keep in mind though that this is a personal response, being that it’s a personal-opinion question, and even as the mod of the suzalulu blog I can only speak for myself and don’t necessarily represent the opinions of the entire fandom. BUT hopefully this might be a mini manifesto or a nice nostalgic trip back into feels for some of you!

The short version of it is that:

they shared a certain care and tenderness between them that clearly lasted till their final scene together in R2 DESPITE everything that happened between them

they’re the only ones who can understand each other in a certain way

they’re the winning combination in any video game

they have a very balanced/equal dynamic as a pairing, which I like

and also (or perhaps very importantly) it’s a beautiful bittersweet tragic mess

You’re talking to someone who boarded the ship only at the final moment, when Lelouch caressed Suzaku’s face through the mask and Suzaku was shedding some serious tears. For me, this was the moment that proved to me that there was at least something more between them - but even prior to boarding the ship, I could always see that they had a very beautiful, tragic friendship - and it was unfortunate that it was wrought with so much misunderstanding, but one cannot deny that in this relationship, each always felt intense emotions toward the other, whatever those emotions might have been (or may be, given the news from last week ;D). The real hatred/cruelty is indifference, but to each other, Suzaku and Lelouch were anything but.

The rest of my elaboration needs to go under a cut, lmao.