talk to me about magical boy Lelouch **chinhands**
my dudeskis if the b.ritannian empire thinks lulu with a normal g.eass contract is a pain in the ass as zero, wait until they have to deal with a lelouch whose made a contract with kyubey lmAO. he’s a highly emotional person and he’s Stressed™ about protecting many things, but his own LIFE is NOT one of them, whether or not he knew the truth behind how the magical girls/boys work in m.adoka would be so irrelevant that it would in fact turn around & make him even more determined to get 👏 shit 👏 done 👏 in such a timely manner, he’d become outright terrifying for his enemies to deal with. he’s nothing if not efficient, he knows what the hell he’s doing, imagine lighting THAT big of a fire under him. also there’s the fact that the magical boy abilities would make him WAY more efficient than he already was in canon so like uhhh @ the empire , YIKES !
he’d be that one person who seemingly “wastes” his wish in the eyes of others. instead of getting his g.eass through c.c., like in canon, he’d get his abilities through kyubey by SPECIFICALLY wishing for the ability to control people via commands and since he definitely wouldn’t put any limitations on that power, it’d be up to kyubey to interpret it & whether there would even BE any restrictions or if the restrictions would be slightly different from his canon g.eass, exactly the same, whatever. considering his goals, if people ever learned them, they’d prob be like “lmao why didn’t you just wish for the b.ritannian empire to fall / for world peace” and the answer to that would be that it wouldn’t have been good enough unless he was the one to bring down the royal family and unless the people fighting EARNED the freedom they’d been fighting for themselves… so hence, no easy way out taken. he’s either going to do it himself with the black knights or die trying, point blank.
zero would prob be his transformation??/ that cape is The most extra thing, who designs these outfits??? does kyubey??? can kyubey turn on their location so we can talk??? he’d prob have a firearm-centered weapon similar to mami’s aesthetic bc Yeah
he’d have to put in some Really Hard Hours doing magical boy shit and keeping his soul gem purified because i can guarantee if he didn’t, there’d be no soul gem in history that would taint as fast as his LMAO. half because he’d definitely be utilizing his magical abilities outside of just fighting witches or what-have-you seen you know… he’s got a coup d’état to run, but he doesn’t over-use his “g.eass” to the point it’d be a CONSTANT threat even in the canon anyways, he’d have to be more careful about planning around it and making sure he knows what he’s doing. he doesn’t have time for petty magical girl/boy drama, he’s liberating a world, just let him do his grief seed thing and gtfo. he’d prob be super underhanded about stealing them from other magical peeps if he has to bc he’s got shit to do sorry KJNHMKJHNM
i think what’d be most interesting about him in this realm of magical girls/boys though is that he’d be like. wildly cooperative with kyubey if he learned the truth (which he prob would bc i feel like lelouch is the type who WOULD ask abt the endgame between magicals and witches and stuff, explanations for the soul gems, etc.)
the fact of the matter is at some point, lulu realizes his endgame is going to involve his death so how hard the road is leading up to that point literally doesn’t matter to him. if kyubey wants to siphon off his emotions (and there are a Lot of emotions, they’d have a fucking field day with lulu and his coup d’état lmao) it’s whatever. what happens to him doesn’t destroy the plans he’s made as long as he manages to accomplish them, so i could see him being the kind of person who’s like “hey kyubey if you agree not to interfere with what i’m doing, i’ll force the enemies i defeat to make contracts with you lmao” bc i mean. he doesn’t even have regard for people like cornelia, (most) of the people he actually loves/respects die anyways so whatever 😂😂 whether or not kyubey goes for that is also inconsequential, cuz like canon, he’d force the problematic ones (schneizel, etc) to be in zero’s service anyways so the state they’re left in doesn’t matter
all in all, magical boy lulu is still lulu. never forget that altho he is kind of an angel, he is also kind of a dick and the ends always justify the means, good morning KJNHMKJHNM