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Character NAME: Lelouch vi Britannia
Canon & MEDIUM: Code Geass (anime)
Canon PULL-POINT: Island of the Gods (episode 19), from when Lelouch and Euphie meet up with Kallen and Suzaku, before falling into the ruins.
Character AGE: 17
Character ABILITIES: Lelouch's main ability is the Geass he receives from C.C. Geass is a supernatural ability that can be granted by certain people through a contract. Each Geass manifests differently and increases in power with each use, which can lead to a person losing control of when they use their Geass if they lack the proper willpower to control it - meaning it would become permanently active. Each Geass has different limitations and restrictions, such as the length of time a Geass will remain or if the Geass can be used multiple times on people if it is one that directly affects a person. Lelouch's Geass is the power of absolute obedience, triggered by looking a person directly in the eye with his Geass activated (which is signified by the Geass sigil appearing in his left eye). With this power he can plant commands into a person's mind, such as "give me your Knightmare" or "release this prisoner". His Geass can only affect a person once, and once the command is completed the person under its influence has no memories of what happened from right before and during the influence. It also has a range restriction of roughly 270 meters, according to Lelouch.

He's capable of piloting a Knightmare, which is a giant mecha, like many other characters in the show. He's also seen being able to handle a gun. But in the way of any physical prowess, Lelouch is seriously lacking. Most people can run laps around him.

Character HISTORY: Lelouch's wiki, Code Geass synopsis

Lelouch is the protagonist of Code Geass. He is an exiled prince of Britannia who starts a rebellion against the Holy Britannian Empire to avenge his mother's death and create and world where his sister Nunnally can live in peace. As a child he swore that he would destroy Britannia after it invaded Japan. To those ends after he contracts with C.C. to receive Geass, he becomes the masked Zero and creates the Order of the Black Knights.

Lelouch continues under his alias Lelouch Lamperouge throughout the series, keeping up appearances at school. As Zero he keeps his identity a secret from his organization. He is the mastermind behind the Black Knights' battle strategies. Early in the season before he assumes the identity of Zero, he isn't seen doing much of the fighting on his own, usually presenting himself as just a voice giving commands through a communicator to Ohgi's resistance group whenever they stand up to the Britannian army. He uses this as a way to get close to the Britannian royalty so that he can find his mother's killer. He kills his brother Clovis once he questions him, but his murder is blamed on Lelouch's friend Suzaku, an honorary Britannian. It's after Clovis' murder that he assumes the identity of Zero and seeks Ohgi resistance group out for an alliance. He proves himself to them by freeing Suzaku publicly and proceeds to use Ohgi's resistance cell as the beginning of his army.

It's when another group of terrorists take a group of innocent people as hostages that Zero intervenes and makes his intentions known to protect the powerless by announcing the creation of the Order of the Black Knights to the world. The Black Knights, headed by Zero, continue to gain backing from the Japanese people, known as "Elevens" and grow in strength and number to retaliate against Britannia, while going head to head with Britannia on multiple occasions. With the appearance of Lancelot - a new generation Knightmare Frame piloted by Suzaku - and later his sister Cornelia, many of his battle strategies end up compromised until he receives backing from the Kyoto House that provides them with their own customized Knightmare (Guren), piloted by Kallen along with other Knightmares for the Black Knights to use. Once receiving this backing, the playing field is evened out and his victories increase, or at the very least more battles end tipped in his favor.

Character PERSONALITY: Lelouch acts very different depending on who he's dealing with. First you have the companionable and casual personality that he presents to his peers at school. He's Vice President of the Student Council and gets along with his classmates well enough. There seem to be few people that dislike him any capacity aside from his teachers when he slacks off and skips too many classes. Though fiercely bright, Lelouch is incredibly lazy and indifferent in regards to school, again earning him this disdain of his teachers. However, peers are attracted to this personality, as is seen with his fellow student council member Shirley. Shirley is also shown his compassion on occasion, such as after her father is killed in a battle between the Black Knights and Britannia (ultimately a death that was his fault).

This is likewise how he presents himself to his sister, Nunnally, who is also privy to his gentleness and compassion. He mentions to her several times how he would never lie to her, and it is for her that he wants to make a peaceful world. Lelouch would do anything, absolutely anything, to ensure Nunnally's safety. He uses his Geass on himself in order to save her from Mao who hangs a pendulum bomb above his head, so that he can't remember what he planned with Suzaku, keeping Mao from also being able to read his mind and discover the plan. He also abandons the Black Knights in their final battle against Britannia because his sister is kidnapped. Nunnally, as mentioned before, it's one of the two important factors of why he is gunning for Britannia (the other being the murder of his mother).

And then there's the way he acts with Suzaku. It is similar to how he treats Nunnally, though with less of the gentleness. They're close friends, despite knowing that Suzaku is an enemy to his cause. He saves him on more than one occasion, the first being when he is accused of the murder of Prince Clovis. He also uses his Geass on Suzaku when he tries to sacrifice his life on an order. Despite knowing he's the enemy and finding out he's the pilot of the Knightmare that keeps besting the Black Knights, it's still obvious that he cares about Suzaku, to a point that he falters on his commands when he discovers this fact.

All of that, however, is not all there is to Lelouch's personality. There's a side his schoolmates don't see. Behind closed doors and behind Zero's mask he is cold, calculating, crude, and arrogant. He's ruthless on the battlefield, sacrificing soldiers and civilians alike, despite claiming that his army wouldn't hurt the defenseless. Multiple times he uses strategies that sacrifice civilians to get rid of large forces of the Britannian military, such as when he creates a landslide that kills military and civilians. Collateral damage, if you will. Lelouch is very, very much a hypocrite between the ideals he preaches and the way he goes about them. As the series progresses he becomes increasingly more callous and heartless with his bloodshed, as opposed to the beginning of the season when he gets physically nauseous over remembering a murder.

Lelouch is highly intelligent, and it shows in his strategies, where time and again he is able to outsmart his opponents. He is the type of person that considers every possible outcome, method, or move to ensure that his plans work. Though he's outsmarted a few times - like by Cornelia who is similar to him in that she considers everything so that the enemy won't surprise her, and by Mao who was able to read his thoughts and thus know every outcome he considers - overall his strategies are tactical and calculated. It makes him a nearly unbeatable opponent at chess, even against adults, which he uses to his advantage to gamble early on in the series.

However, over time as the series and battles progress, Lelouch's strategies start becoming more dangerous as he becomes more manic and arrogant with his power and control, and sometimes when he lets his emotions get the better of him. He starts giving orders that have a bigger chance of ending with his own people getting hurt, or even abandons his troops with no commands to go save Nunnally, leaving his second-in-command in charge and his army helpless. This leads to the almost complete obliteration and capture of the Order of the Black Knights. In the privacy of his own Knightmare you can see more and more as his mental stability begins to wane as the power goes to his head. The more victories he secures and the more he proves his power, the more he considers himself the one who is meant to destroy and create something better. He thinks it his job to make the world into a better place, not only for his sister but for everyone in the world. He's no less intelligent about how he goes about things, even if his strategies become more dangerous, time and again he continues to outsmart his enemies with things they don't see coming, even outsmarting Cornelia eventually to corner her and question her about his mother's murder.

Through speeches and actions, Lelouch is able to gather other resistance groups into his rebellion. His charisma and quick-wit lends him the ability to take any situation and use it to further his agenda and garner more support. Even if it's something as horrific as the murder of thousands of Japanese civilians by he own, albeit accidental, Geass-command. He uses the massacre his Geass unwittingly caused to establish the United States of Japan with his new support and lead his final attack on the Tokyo Settlement.

The personality he presents as Zero reflects more closely his thoughts and ideals than the personality he shows to his school friends, though this doesn't make his school personification any less real as he is also very much a true part of himself with Nunnally and his other sister Euphie and even with his friends on the Student Council, shown when he sheds tears over giving the order to kill her to stop the killing of Japanese and how he would abandon his troops to save Nunnally and when he doesn't want the Black Knights to hurt the Britannian students of Ashford High after they make it their base. His compassion for them is very real and genuine, as he had several opportunities to kill Euphie and time and again did not take those opportunities. First in the hotel hi-jacking and then again when they wake up on an island together. The differences in his personalities however, lead him to appear very two-faced, which is not at all helped by the fact that he is deceitful in his actions - such as warping Euphie's massacre into something to benefit his end goal.

» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: He'll be choosing a weapon on entrance. He'll be using his voice as a weapon. It will act as sort of a back-up Geass, that isn't failproof. People are able to resist his commands, but his voice will put them more at ease and open them up more to suggestion. As he uses it more and trains its abilities, it will increase in effectiveness and the amount of people he can use it on at once. It will also be easier for him to control as he uses it more, but at first it will be harder to use and will mainly only appear when he panicks and only be able to affect a few people at once, unless in serious danger. Sort of acting as a secondary panick button to his Geass.
Character INVENTORY: Zero's outfit, as this is what he's arriving in, the gun he was carrying at the time, and his cellphone.

» SAMPLES
First PERSON: [voice]

I don't think there's much that I'll be able to contribute, after hearing what we're meant to do. I can think of a few people more qualified to be here. I guess it can't be helped now that I'm already here. But I can't help but wonder how many others here feel too inexperienced...

[private to nunnally]

Nunnally, are you here? Are you safe?

Third PERSON: It had been weeks since he'd arrived, and Lelouch was becoming increasingly agitated and on edge. There was too much to be done back in Japan to be wasting his time here against his will. At such a crucial time when Zero was needed, he'd inevitably disappeared? What would become of his rebellion and his forces if they thought him dead? Without him to lead them surely they'd fall into chaos and ruin, and all that he had worked for would have been nothing but a waste. He had no doubt that he would be able to recoup once he was able to get back, but the trust and faith in him would have to be rebuilt. Who would trust a leader that went missing when needed most? What would Kallen report back to the Black Knights? He gripped his helmet tighter, glaring down at it as he considered the many ways his army could crash and burn without him there.

Still, his hands were tied. Nunnally was here and he couldn't leave her. He needed to figure out how to get the both of them home without putting her in any sort of danger. Nunnally's safety came first, no matter how much he hated to sit and twiddle his thumbs and do nothing for his army. If he could just use his Geass, or that new power against these people, maybe it would work out for him. But there was too big of a risk that there would be too many to control, and it wasn't a risk he was ready to take yet, not when that new power of his was so unpredictable and too hard to use.

Lelouch moved to place the helmet back into the brief case he'd acquired to hide it and slid it into the closet, in the compartment he'd made for it. Safely hidden in the wall where no one would discover it. It was too risky to be Lelouch Lamperouge and Zero here. He needed to pick who he would be, and he'd already chosen Lelouch to be closer to his sister. If he was going to change and become Zero, he'd have to cut those ties with her, and that wasn't a decision he could make without difficulty. There was no way of knowing if Nunnally would choose to follow Zero if he moved down that route instead. There were too many unknown variables in the equation for him to be comfortable with making a move. He slid the closet door shut with a flourish. Zero would have to stay dead for now, until he could secure those variables.

He touched his hand to his throat briefly before clenching his fist and turning to walk toward the door. If he couldn't be Zero, he would need to train this new power he'd gotten, until it was as useful as his Geass. No, more useful than his Geass. His Geass had its limitations, but if he could perfect that power, there would be nothing he couldn't do. No one-time-use restriction, his voice would be an infallible weapon. And it was so perfectly subtle that no one would even realize what he was doing, as long as he was careful not to train it in front of others too much. There would be no hurdle that he couldn't overcome, no achievement out of his reach. He need only perfect himself again. It wouldn't be hard, he was sure of it. No one would be able to stand against his suggestion, not even the fools that brought him here, to this impoverished ghetto that reminded him too much of Japan after Britannia sank its filthy claws into it. It disgusted him, but this wasn't his fight to care about. Britannia was his enemy, and he couldn't obliterate them if he was trapped.

» ADDITIONAL NOTES
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additional first person;

[voice]

[Shit, this is annoying. Not only are all of his plans being put on hold, but half of his problems are here along with him. On the one hand, at least they aren't causing trouble for the Black Knights while they're here, but on the other he needs to be doubly careful about how he proceeds.

For now, he just needs to collect information on this place and formulate a plan. With that in mind, he starts a voice feed, voice pleasant.]


I'd heard there was a library here. I was thinking there might be some useful information to be found there, or at least something worth reading. I'm sure someone else has already checked it out, so I was hoping for some recommendations on literature or which sections to look in.

Thank you, in advance.

[filtered to Euphie]

Euphie. How are you? I trust Suzaku is taking good care of you here.

[/filtered to Euphie]

[filtered to Kallen]


Ah, Kallen, can we meet up? I had some questions I wanted to ask you.

[/filtered to Kallen]

[Should he contact Suzaku? He taps his fingers against his tablet, staring at the cursor blinking back. Probably not the best idea at this point. Armed with the knowledge that Suzaku pilots the Lancelot, and the irritating nagging guilt of using Geass on him, it'd be better to keep his distance. Of course, avoiding him might look suspicious, so he can't keep his distance for too long. Though, for now, it should be fine.]
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