Chess can also be used to represent yaoi
[aers|laptop] Well personally I think the symbolism in Schneizel moving his king is that he wants to be buddy-buddy with Zero.
[aers|laptop] And that Zero moving behind the pawn is because he is afraid of Schneizel’s advances.
I can’t believe my yaoi fangirl antics didn’t pick up on this!
Lets extend it further and say that the black pawn represents Nina, which also describes what happened in the episode (how she got between their game), and goes along with her black hair, and also goes along with the fact that Nina will probably flip sides before this all over so we can have an Elizabethan world view in which things “reset” thus Nina will go back to the Ashford gang who will have sided with Zero/Lelouch. I’m sure.
…hurrr.
Edit:
FURTHERMORE, by breaking the rules of chess to move his King closer to Zero, he shows his disregard for the rules when it comes to love, supporting the idea of blind love and love making you do crazy shit.
Oh shit I think this is the correct analysis.
Edit 2:
Also, you must consider that Canon told Milly that Schneizel likes weird people. PERHAPS HE CONSIDERS ZERO A WEIRD PERSON WORTHY OF HIS FABULOUS DESIRES.
Tags: Chess, Lelouch, R2 09, Schneizel, Symbolism, Yaoi
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June 9, 2008 6:42 am
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gil (June 9, 2008 @ 1:08 pm)
You are a friggin genius. :O
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Moo (June 10, 2008 @ 9:03 pm)
Holy shit.
Suddenly it all makes sense.
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panzer_magier (June 13, 2008 @ 10:26 pm)
I have been enlightened. =O
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yellow + red (June 20, 2008 @ 11:41 pm)
as much as this makes sense, you just said made an argument for a schneizel x lulu end instead of a schneizel x canon end… :<
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