Marianne vi Britannia Quotes
2 quotes from Code Geass, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Offers a world without masks or loneliness, from inside another woman's body, and aims it at the one wound the series has spent two seasons opening.
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“It will be so good to rejoin all the people from whom we've been separated. You can be reunited with those who have died, even Euphemia.”
The offer is aimed with precision at the one wound the series has spent two seasons opening, and that is what disqualifies it. A mother who has watched her son from inside another woman's body knows exactly which name to say last. What the plan actually proposes is the abolition of the future in exchange for the return of the dead, and the sentence sells it as a family reunion.
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Steelmanned, the Ragnarok proposal is not villainy but grief with a mechanism attached: a world where nobody can lie and nobody is alone, offered by a woman who was murdered in front of her children. The objection the series raises is not that it would fail. It is that it would work, and that a world of people who are exactly what they are supposed to be has stopped being a world with anyone in it.