Schneizel, why do you look happy?
Is it because you’re happy for Nina?
Or is it because you’re actually batshit insane?
The way in which his bangs fall over his eyes say he is probably not a good person!
A while back I posted a poll about why Schneizel hires the freakshow to work for him. I think that poll was missing an option like, “He’s crazier than all of them, so they’re all normal to him”. I’m anxiously awaiting Crazy Schneizel as I believe he would/will be mad sexy. 
(inb4 he turns out to have Lavos Conflict God form)
During the whole, “Nina has succeeded in creating a WMD that can destroy humanity on an atomic level” scene, Canon’s “guyswtf” reaction is probably how I would actually react to this, but this is anime and I don’t take things in anime to be how things should work IRL so my attention went off of the fact that Schneizel was funding mass destruction and onto how fucking fabulous he looks. Watching the scene while thinking about the capability of Nina’s weapon in the real world etc, between Nina’s triumphant “FUCK YEAH BITCHES MANKIND’S GUNNA CHANGE” and Schneizel’s delicious dangling bangs of evil-ness, Canon’s reaction is comforting.
But hey, moral faggotry about magic weapon h4x in the Geass World vs the Real World? No thanks. Lets talk about Schneizel instead!
So Schneizel is making something called Damocles and apparently this requires atomic jesus christ weaponry. Unfamiliar with ancient Greek bullshit and R2 15 was the first time you heard Damocles? Damocles was an ass-kisser in the court of Dionysius II. Dionysius II, after hearing some of Damocles’s ass-kissing one day, offers to switch places with Damocles so that Damocles can taste the good life of being a man in power. So he does and he’s having a good time being tyrant for a day, then he looks up and notices this fucking sword hovering over him and he gets scared as shit. The “moral” here is that men of great power don’t live so free and awesomely as guys like Damocles thought they do! They basically live in paranoia and fear and caution because if you don’t watch yourself, then that sword could be hovering over your head ready to strike.
If you think about it for like 5sec, this basically describes Schneizel as he is now. He is constantly acting with a sword hanging over his head. It’s brought up twice in DVD Magazine 02 that Schneizel likes to play it safe. Once in his alt preview for ep 19, in which he mentions that Bartley has interesting information, but he considers it too dangerous for him to act with it. Then during the Geass knowledge and explanation part, the narrator explains that Schneizel didn’t give a shit when Zero took off with Gawain. His scientists had loaded the occult data from the Kamine Island Geass ruins data onto it and Schneizel was actually hoping that Zero would analyze the data on his own and then Schneizel would be waltz in and steal it back later. He had this train of thought because investigating the ruins could have been considered treason towards the Emperor.
But why name your big ultimate magic h4x plan after something that could be looked at as your own flaw? Maybe it’s not specifically named, and they’re just using Damocles randomly? (Note: While I believe this is completely likely on the side of the creators and am fully aware we have no fucking clue what Damocles does/is at all, ending the post here would be pretty fucking gay.) Or is it reference to someone else? Perhaps Schneizel fancies himself as the sword, or rather the weapon, itself?
If you think about it for like uh another 5sec, Schneizel could also be compared to the aspect of the sword. The sword itself is essentially a snake in the grass. It’s waiting for the person it hovers over to fuck up so it can act. I say snake in the grass because I have seen this term being used to describe Schneizel before in English-speaking communities. The Japanese call him a panda because he has both “white” and “black” spots showing (though this later evolved into him being a harmless panda since he did all of nothing in S1). Maybe he’s just tip-toeing around waiting for someone else to screw up so he can come in and take victory from their failure?
Personally, I don’t get the “sword itself” vibes from him. He lacks… keikaku doori-ness. Like during the nuke scene, it wasn’t “KEIKAKU DOORI”, it was “^___^!” This loops me back to what I think I was going to talk about when I started writing this: Does Schneizel have any long term goals here with his new power, or is he just an asshole and wants to blow a lot of shit up? Also, semi-related! How exactly does the Geass Code work? Could a weapon that destroys you at an atomic level possibly get rid of the Emperor for good? Way too many possibilities here.
Thanks for all of your money and everything Your Highness! We’re leaving you now~
Oh, and say to hi Anya’s back
How about Canon and Nina? If we take the op as SRSBSNS, then the “good guy supporting characters” are littered in the 2nd sekai no owari de~ verse. This includes Canon and Nina, and also Lloyd and Cecile. Take into account Canon’s “GUYSWTF” face, Milly and Nina’s “FACE THE WORLD AND BE TRUE TO YOURSELF” crap, and the two’s assumed friendship (FRIENDSHIP, NOT LOVE, FFS), then the situation is going to become like… Canon is going to bail from Camp Schneizel and convince Nina to tag along with him. Or maybe seeing the destructive power of what she’s made will make Nina re-think her actions? Or maybe Cornelia will just punch her in the face for saying “this is for Euphy’s sake!!11″ C’mon SunRise, make it happen.
I can imagine people telling Schneizel to fuck off if he turns out to be a crazy fag on the inside. Kinda BAD END for Schneizel if everyone ditches him. Bad because he loses allies, but even worse because he’s pretty much the reason why people like Suzaku and Nina were even given a chance in the first place. And if you take the novels seriously, then the same goes for Canon. How convenient that they get to develop awesome weapons and shit, get opportunities they never would’ve had under anyone else, then ditch him. If Schneizel goes batshit and this causes people to leave him, then this will be a plot device to get people onto Lelouch’s side rather than an actual character trait of Schneizel’s. Saaaad. But from an audience PoV, it should be fairly easy to understand why they would be happy to be under him when he’s acting normal, then be freaked out by him if he suddenly radically changes. Also atomic weapons are usually a big no-no so that isn’t going to help his case much and probably won’t win him points with anyone.
Or they could try to make this look like actual non-retarded story-telling somehow. A popular fan view is that Lelouch must treat his subordinates well and look at them with high regard since he fights alongside with them on the battlefield, and that Schneizel will turn out to be a cold, calculating fag who likes to move people like pieces. This will make Lelouch look like some warm, kind leader who is nice. Probably also has cookies. Maybe they could work with that to make any “we’re betraying you hurf” plot be a little less contrived than “we’re making you an ass so that we can move sheep over to Lelouch”.
But on that subject, to be frank, I don’t fully agree about Lelouch, though I can see where that argument for Lelouch’s personality comes from. There’s a pretty fair argument for Schneizel’s consideration or lack therefore of towards his underlings. He’s put Suzaku’s life in danger three times now: Ordered him to stay put while they fired missiles at him and Zero, ordered him on a suicide mission, and fucked around putting his King in checkmate during a chess game to which he would’ve had to give up Suzkau if he had lost. Take into example how he keeps Nina in check by mentioning Euphy at the reception. That scene made me lol, and I don’t think it really looks positive for him either. But then again, in the same scene he has taken her - a young commoner girl - along as his date and his face remains completely unchanged while the nobles around him shit talk his choice. He’s always a damn mixed bag.
Actually, I take that back. “Schneizel treats his people poorly” would a pretty quickly brought up and quickly used plot point. I don’t think it would be able to be used long enough to make it stick like its actually part of the flowing plot and not just a bullet point on Taniguchi’s “this is how this episode of Geass needs to go” PowerPoint. I don’t know how to make this non-retarded story-telling. I mean, the whole blowing shit up part is going to happen around 18-19, so they’ve got like 7-8 episodes to establish that he’s actually a complete ass to his people (despite the fact they’re all a circus freakshow who he’s been piggybacking through the ranks) and then they get pissed and leave him and run off to Lelouch. Actually it’s more like 6-7 episodes when you consider this should all (probably) occur before the final episode.
Moving away from the realm of bullshit and assumption, the summaries for 16-20 from the TV guides give 2 pieces of concrete info: Schneizel knows or is going to become aware that Lelouch is Zero, and he’s going to nuke the fuck out of Tokyo.
This picture is just cute and I feel like putting it here
Nuking the fuck out of Tokyo seems inevitable. How about this Lelouch = Zero thing? I’m really, really 50/50 on him knowing as of ep 16. Some people believe he already knows, etc. He hasn’t really shown any signs of knowing or not knowing. The only evidence/support for him knowing is that people think he’s a super awesome genius who can figure this shit out from a lulzy and not SRS chess game that took place while he was possibly tipsy from wine. I would like to think of Schneizel as awesome and SMRT, but look at it this way: Schneizel and Lelouch both 1up’ed each other in China. Assume they’re on an equal level of SMRT-ness. Well, Lelouch is like 10 years younger than Schneizel. Who do you think is going to look SMRT’er in comparison to the other?
The Korean blog stuff leads towards him using Lelouch’s identity to stir some distrust in the Black Knights. Lets say this occurs. First off, the Black Knights are kind of fail-ish without Lelouch. Seriously. I don’t want to argue or go into a rant of tl;dr about this because there can’t possibly be another way to fucking look at this. If they do betray him just because he’s a prince, then okay whatever, it must be that time of the month for the entirety of the Black Knights. They’ve known he’s a fucking Britannian since S1. Surely they must have figured out that he’s one hell of a pissed off Britannian who hates Britannia and is also willing to bust his balls for the Black Knights?
I think the Black Knights would be able to get over this and re-join Lelouch. Assuming that Schneizel leaks his identity and this fuels the Black Knights betrayal, this would just make the concept of Schneizel’s minions ditching him for Lelouch (and not returning back to him, of course) even more insulting. This also means its probably going to happen since Lelouch is the main character and Schneizel is supposed to be his main enemy! Maybe the Geass definition of main enemy is something like, “the person who you can humiliate the most”? Who knows~
Going by the Korean blog again, Schneizel has been researching Geass and will revolt against daddy. So he wants the throne, eh? What would Schneizel be like as the Emperor of Britannia? Point nukes threateningly at other countries, while smiling softly at their leaders and asking them about peace treaties? I said this as a joke before in IRC, but if they don’t go the path of full psycho stark-raving mad Schneizel, then maybe we’ll get this instead? Level headed yet still psycho fag Schneizel would be sure fine too. I guess people would consider that scarier since he’d show no break in composure or something?
If he’s been researching Geass, then where the fuck has been getting this information from? It seems he picked up where Clovis left off, but how did Clovis of all people get involved with this? The 0.884 Sound Episode give off the impression that he was a peaceful guy who preferred being an artist and wouldn’t like being involved in this immortality and magic bullshit. Although there was a drastic change in personality between 0.884 and the beginning of S1. There was around a 3yr gap inbetween the Sound Ep and the beginning of S1… Is that really enough time for a complete personality change? Or rather, a completely believable one?
Arguably, if the Geass Cult is just out and about, then perhaps researching it isn’t completely far fetched? I don’t really know how widespread or rare information about the Cult is. I’ve been running under the assumption it’s heavily uncommon knowledge, but I guess I’m wrong since Schneizel is pulling research about it and possibly the Sword of Akasha (imo this is implied in S1 24) out of his ass. Also, how about Cornelia researching it? She disappears from the face of the Earth for a year and gets information about it without being caught or found despite being a recognizable famous army leader who didn’t change her appearance at all. Was she just in some random abandoned building and happened to find stuff about it, or did she go to some magical place where no one recognized her to research it, or does wiping off her lipstick really make her look that drastically different?
Semi-related! Part of the reason why I felt confident about the Schneizel and V.V. secret buddies thing is because it would have cleared some things up. The thing at Kamine Island still bugs the shit out of me. “Hey guys Kururugi-kun must be here on Kamine Island.” NO ONE QUESTIONS THIS. Fucking NO ONE. How convenient that Schneizel has magically completely accurately guessed where the fuck V.V. teleported them to! Huurrr. I can’t wait to hear for the explanation about this one, though I doubt it will ever come. 
Oh, and then there’s that conflict god bullshit. What’s up with that? Bah, too little known to even bother speculating!
I’m a really depressing fangirl. I pretty much expect everyone to ditch him, for him to be dead, lost whatever final battle, and accomplished nothing except maybe blowing the fuck out of Tokyo and pissing off Lelouch. But hey, if he’s pretty until the end, then it’s all good. But really now, Schneizel, why do you look happy? I don’t think the future is very bright for you!
…on the other hand, maybe I am completely wrong. Maybe the op indicators, the chuckle the director made after describing him as a “nice guy”, the phrase “Lelouch’s main enemy” being used to describe him, and other assorted arrows that point to him being the real ultimate evil here are all just red herrings? Maybe his Geass research will cause him to oppose the Emperor and team up with Lelouch then become the new Emperor at the end of the series!
…hahaha, yeah fucking right. No.
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July 25, 2008 11:09 am
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Kaze (July 25, 2008 @ 1:11 pm)
Interesting theories. I personally think that you’re right, and people will end up ditching him. But this doesn’t really make sense to me. He’s not exactly the one who made the nuke in the first place (he’s just going to use it to kill a few million people) and he’s not the one who’s batshit racist against irebuns. I don’t want Schneizel to die either, I think Nina should. I hate that bitch. Ffffffffffff
As for the Black Knights thing, the series has had betrayl wrote all over it since about episode 8 of s1. It’s had BAD END for Lelouch wrote over it since episode 3 of s1. Combine these two things and the obvious build up for traitors in the past episodes and Lelouch is going to have to team up with the fags from Britannia before he gets totally buttraped by the Black Knights. It makes no sense that they would betray him, because like you said, without him they’d all be dead by now, and Clovis would be fagging up the world with his awesome green-haired girl. But it’s anime, and like you said, “don’t take things in anime to be how things should work IRL”.
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Hellsau (July 25, 2008 @ 2:29 pm)
Maybe Schneizel will team up with Zero, kill the Emperor, and then kill Zero? Then Canon can become the new Queen and they can kill Nina to make the audience happy and the show will end with a zoom-out of Lelouch’s grave/corpse.
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Jessica (July 25, 2008 @ 2:45 pm)
I believe in Schneizel el Brtiannia!
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Garr (July 25, 2008 @ 3:57 pm)
he doesn’t look THAT happy to me…
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8233/schneismirkju8.jpg
now we are talking… inb4 10000 hours with mspaint
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Dakkar (July 25, 2008 @ 4:04 pm)
Actually, I’m not 100% sure there was no connection between V.V. and Schneizel. The latter seems to possess quite a bit of knowledge about the Emperor which is supposed to be pretty much top secret. On top of that, it’s clear that V.V. and Charles weren’t playing exactly the same game even though their final goals could have been the same.
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wintergreen (July 25, 2008 @ 8:50 pm)
Most well-thought-out fangirling ever. Bravo!
I have to say you put all my pessimism regarding Schneizel into words with this post. Batshit insanity is always the cheapest way to undermine an antagonist, and it always happens when I think it shouldn’t. But then again, if anyone is to desert him, Lloyd will be first. Not enough pudding. And remember when everyone thought he was Schneizel’s bitch in season 1, when Canon didn’t exist? Yeah.
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Pizza Hut (July 26, 2008 @ 12:20 am)
Oh man, you’re down right hilarious! Personally I think Schneizel is a wolf in sheep’s clothing but so far we haven’t got conclusive evidence of any wolf-hide.
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miasmacloud (July 26, 2008 @ 12:45 am)
I think there’s a lot of wolf-ness.
I mean, he entered the series formally by firing his pew pew lasers at a location where he knew his subordinate was and not giving a shit about his younger sister being down there. Then in the next episode did a complete 360 and rejoiced in the fact the 2 of them turned out to be alive, when he was the one who put them in danger in the first place.
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Pizza Hut (July 26, 2008 @ 2:30 am)
Did he know that Euphie was there? I thought she was the responsibility of Cornelia’s henchmen. (Suzaku doesn’t count as collateral damage btw :P)
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miasmacloud (July 26, 2008 @ 2:35 am)
Lloyd says that Schneizel wouldn’t've given a fuck even if he had known.
theflow (July 26, 2008 @ 12:47 am)
that was quite a post. On the reference to Damocles; i think it’s cuz Schneizel will use it as a deterrent. It is literally hanging above the people’s heads. Assuming that big ol space station in the intro is The Sword of Damocles; if someone does something against New Emperor Schneizel’s wishes, he can fire off a freya, ie cut the string and let the sword fall.
Those new spoilers annoy to no end. What reason do Suzaku, Gino and Anya (well Anya might have one if we ever find out anything about her) have to join Lelouch’s side (after OoBk abandom him) and not Schneizel’s.
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miasmacloud (July 26, 2008 @ 12:50 am)
2600~ish words, and I don’t feel it’s complete either.
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miasmacloud (July 26, 2008 @ 12:53 am)
O, and I was wondering about the Space Station thing, but I think it’s releasing normal missiles and it seems to use Slash Harkens. I think that thing is a large space KMF rather than magical Nuke Launcher?
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Kaze (July 26, 2008 @ 2:08 am)
Space Station? Chareizel?
inb4 Space Station drop on the EU.
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theflow (July 26, 2008 @ 1:03 am)
naw i understand; there’s plenty more to say, but it will begin to go off topic if you start introducing other elements, that are partially connected to, but perhaps not relevant. I’m doing the same now XD
I’m still with ya on the VV-Schneizel connection. As i’ve stated before; Siegfried seems waaaaay too advanced compared to their other developments. Why haven’t they experimented more with neural interfaces/technology? They must have gotten some help. It also seems like VV is not averse to doing things behind Chalulu’s back.
Actually the biggest reason I support Schneizel already knowing Lelouch = zero (besides his mad genius skillz) is the fact that Nunnally has suddenly appeared alive. Unless Curly did a mind rewrite on the royal family, even a lesser mind would be able to figure out that miss blind-and-incapable-of-walking (who was presumed dead no less) did NOT take care of herself for the last 8 years. Schneizel would just be quicker than others to see the connections between the supposed death, euphie being kind to Zero, Zero’s disappearance, Nunnally’s appearance, and the absence of Lelouch. That of course only applies to the S1 Zero.
Ah you’re probably right, actually looking at the Space station scene, looks like slash harkens. Jeremiah’s postulated supermech?
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miasmacloud (July 26, 2008 @ 1:26 am)
Siegfried, imo, seems like a “Schneizel is just a technologically hip guy” thing, since V.V. had to teleport his scientists to China to fix up Jeremiah’s implants and Siegfried. (Speaking of which, this reminds me again about why I think the 2 are connected: Why didn’t Schneizel seem to notice his scientists are missing lol.) I thought they’d be connected, but… Ep 16 gives off the impression that V.V. was going behind Chuck’s back as an “older brother knows best” thing. I assume he was trying to eliminate Lelouch for the sake of Charles, but this makes his actions in S1 (teleporting him away from harm) make no sense.
I thought about Nunnally being alive as an indicator that Lelouch is also alive, but then I’m also an asshole and I don’t think that people in Code Geass actually use logic.
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theflow (July 26, 2008 @ 1:36 am)
I pretty much have to agree that most of the characters have given up on logic a long time ago. Which is why i want at least Schneizel and Lelouch, the brainy ones to show it every now and then. Although Lelouch’s perception wasn’t at its best last episode either. =/
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Dakkar (July 26, 2008 @ 8:45 am)
But the funny thing is that the lack of logic makes this series more interesting at the same time. If not for that, we would be able to pretty much predict the flow of the entire season, as well as outline a huge chunk of “mystery” stuff. Yet, as the things stand, you can only wait and wonder what kind kind of crazy idea the scriptwriters are going to have next :D
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toast (July 26, 2008 @ 10:26 am)
Koda, you know I love you right. You turned me into a schneizelfag, I lol everytime you have the right speculations, and you make me do something I would never do by myself: think about logic in geass. I mean, wouldn’t you think people who were around Lelouch before the whole Zero shit started happening recognize his voice? That has always bugged the hell outta me. I mean, you would think atleast Nunally would notice in S1. Her brother goes out alot, SHE CAN ONLY REALLY HEAR TO FIGURE OUT WHO SHES WITH SO WHY THE FUCK COULDN’T SHE NOTICE ZERO=ONIISAMA, and mysterious pizza girl starts living with them right when the shit goes down.
I think this is when I stopped thinking, or maybe I’m just horrible with speculations.
tl;dr
kodaisawesome<3
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miasmacloud (July 26, 2008 @ 1:39 pm)
:o 1 person converted to Schneizelfaggotry, a hundred billion to go!
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toast (July 27, 2008 @ 10:27 am)
I’ve convinced 6 people to watch Geass on pictures of Schneizel alone. KEIKAKU DOORI…
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SchneizelFan (July 28, 2008 @ 10:31 am)
Part of this post contains possible spoilers, you have been warned.
I think it goes without saying that you’re right, Schneizel is more or less the snake in the grass waiting to strike. Whatever his true motives are, they involve getting rid of Zero. I say this because of Season One when he came in with Avalon and tried to waste everyone there.
He probably suspects Lelouch is Zero due to numerous factors, chief among them being the chess match. Judging from what he said this episode, he wants on some level to rid the world of lies.
We know another Schneizel goal is to overthrow his father. The nuke is probably a part of making that happen. The nuke will go off, rallying world support to Britannia. Whatever Damocles is, it’s probably related to the nuke.
I’m guessing one of his chief goals is to destroy Geass from the world. Perhaps he is disgusted with his father mind raping people? Schneizel doesn’t strike me as an idealist, so it is possible he is just wanting to become Emperor for the sake of having power. I expect that when Lelouch confronts Schneizel about his mother (which will happen) he will explain what really happened.
I’m guessing Schneizel didn’t really have anything to do with it, but helped conceal some truth about it. Lelouch will then most likely (sadly) kill Schneizel.
And suddenly, the possible spoilers:
4chan had spoilers stating that Schneizel will record the conversation between Suzaku and Lelouch and then attempt to ‘arrest’ Lelouch for being Zero. Unaware of their presence, Suzaku tries to intervene but is stopped.
Kallen escapes with unexpected help. Anya and Gino are killed. Xing Ke dies in the battle, as does the Knight of 10. The mecha battles include Kallen, Xing Ke, Orange, Todoh vs. Knight of One, Knight of Ten, other KoR, and of course the Guren.
Lelouch then allegedly gets away because Rolo sacrifices himself (uses his geass until his heart stops beating) to freeze everyone and let him get away. The OBK supposedly turns on him once they figure out he is Zero (which Schneizel is supposed to reveal).
Schneizel remotely fires the nuke weapon aboard Lancelot, destroying most of the Tokyo settlement. Lelouch thinks Suzaku did it. Nunnally is killed. Suzaku looks on in horror from the ejected seat in Lancelot as the Avalon is totally engulfed after being hit head on by both Hadron cannons. Spoilers state Schneizel survives, but Canon, Cecile, Lloyd, and Nina are all killed.
Lelouch says something hurtful to Kallen to try and push her away but she supposedly sees through it and is the only member of OBK that stays loyal to him. They said other stuff, but I didn’t save it all.
Of course… most of it is probably total garbage.
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Schneizelfan (July 28, 2008 @ 1:44 pm)
Schneizel allegedly becomes the leader of the Union of Nations faction after he bribes the OBK into selling out Lelouch, also. He uses them to make his stand against Charles.
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