Villetta Nu Quotes

What makes the scene work is that she has the facts and draws the wrong conclusion from them, and the show gives the audience enough to see the gap. Geass is real and it does erase memories, so an explanation is available and she reaches for it. What it cannot account for is the stretch she lived as Chigusa, when nobody was operating on her at all and she made her own arrangements day by day. This sentence converts that into an aftereffect. That is the function Geass performs for nearly everyone who learns it exists. Suzaku will use it to explain Euphemia. The Black Knights will use it to explain two seasons of following a man who never showed them his face. Villetta uses it to explain an attachment she cannot keep and remain a Britannian officer. The power that rewrites other people's minds turns out to be most useful as a story people tell about their own.

Set her against Suzaku, who is standing on the other side of the same transaction. Both hold a Britannian rank that had to be earned rather than inherited, and both organise their entire personality around not losing it. Suzaku is an Honorary Britannian, a category invented so the empire can use the people it conquered. Villetta was raised to a barony for service, a category invented so the empire can reward people whose blood is otherwise unremarkable. Neither position is secure, which is the point of granting titles rather than recognising them. What separates the two is the response. Suzaku's is to be so useful that the question stops being asked. Villetta's is to remove the evidence. Her sentence has the structure of a procedure rather than a feeling: erase the disgrace, then live. Britannia has taught her that a person is a record, and she has believed it thoroughly enough to schedule a killing around it.