“My mom told me that human contact is the best cure for teary eyes.”
Nunnally vi Britannia Quotes
2 quotes from Code Geass, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
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“Lelouch, you have no right to seize control of the world. You of all people, who took the name Zero then bent the will of so many in order to serve your own.”
Every plan in the series was for her. Charles wanted a gentler world because it was what she and Euphemia wished for; Lelouch wanted a world she could be happy in; the Special Zone was pitched in her name. She is the pretext of the entire cast, and the one time she speaks for herself, holding the Damocles key, she says no to all of it and adds that she would have been satisfied just living with him. What happens next is the bleakest beat in the finale: he uses the Geass on her, the one person he had promised himself he never would, and takes the key. So she argues, and loses to the eye, and is still right. The series lets its most protected character be the only one who correctly identifies what her brother has become, and then lets him prove it on her.
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The series spent sixteen episodes making her blind so that this could be literal. She cannot see that Suzaku is crying; she finds out by touching his face, and the consolation she offers is the one she has to give, because touch is how she reads people. Two other facts are stacked underneath the sentence. The mother she is quoting is Marianne, a knight and a killer by trade, whose death is the wound the whole rebellion is fought over. And the boy she is comforting has, earlier in the same episode, had the fact that he murdered his own father read out of his head and broadcast by Mao. A dead soldier's advice about crying, passed by a blind girl to a patricide, in the hour his secret became public: the line is soft, and everything holding it up is not.