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C.C.’s pink crane

In S1 05, Lelouch returns home and finds Nunnally and C.C. making paper crane origami. C.C. has finished a blue one, which she then sets aside and takes up a pink sheet of paper. The pink sheet gets folded once, then Lelouch breaks her tea cup as an excuse to drag her away. By R2 25, C.C. is seen with a pink crane finished. It’s my opinion that the completed pink crane is symbolic to her relationship with Lelouch being “completed” as well, as he once interrupted her from making it. I also interpret this as a sign that Lelouch is dead~ How else could she complete the crane otherwise? Fuckin’ meddling kid.

Tags: C.C., R2 25, S1 05, Symbolism

Characters | miasmacloud | September 28, 2008 9:27 am

63 Comments

anon (September 28, 2008 @ 9:30 am)

No, Lelouch is the pink crane.

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miasmacloud (September 28, 2008 @ 9:34 am)
Oh, that would be rather fabulous, yes.

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danainae (September 28, 2008 @ 10:20 am)
So it’s pink to up the gayness?

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Nilie (September 29, 2008 @ 4:51 am)
He’s obviously re-incarnated as Cheese-kun.

cowboy (October 10, 2008 @ 8:02 pm)
And then Lelouch was a paper crane.

(fuck, spam word = schneizel *downs a shot*)

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P3s (September 28, 2008 @ 9:35 am)

lelouch isnt dead, he just geass’d everyone to think he got killed.

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acro (September 28, 2008 @ 10:10 am)

Fuck it, Lelouch ISN’T dead, hes the guy with the hat driving the horses!

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Lightbringer (September 28, 2008 @ 1:00 pm)
idd

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lilu (September 28, 2008 @ 10:11 am)

interesting sign

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Max (September 28, 2008 @ 10:44 am)

still few mistery
*what is C.C. Real name ?
*who the hell is any ? orange’s sister ?

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Lightbringer (September 28, 2008 @ 1:03 pm)
C.C.’s Real Name(tm) is “The unfortunate slave girl whose name got axed by Sunrise staff due to timeslot shuffling and/or time budget constraints”.

No, Anya is obviously Orange’s Waifu. I didn’t see this one coming at all, tbh. Anya must’ve fallen in love with Jeremiah because he beat her, or because he freed her memories from Marianne’s curse, or because of both.

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Jobrill (September 28, 2008 @ 3:27 pm)
We didn’t see Sayoko anywhere in the ending scenes that I saw, so I still maintain that there was a Sayoko/Orange ending. Anya was just helping out her Onii-san and/or adopted Outo-san with the harvest >:|

I am also predicting that CC’s name was Morgan Le Fay. Just to keep up with the Arthurian theme.

I guess she could have been Guinevere too, but the whole witch thing screams Morgan Le Fay.

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Cat Megex (September 28, 2008 @ 10:21 pm)
No, Guinevere has already been used. (That one member of the royal family who was probably caught in the F.L.E.I.J.A. bombing of Pendragon with Odysseus and the other loli member of the royal family.)

I, personally, like Lorelai for C.C.’s name.

Nilie (September 29, 2008 @ 4:56 am)
Someone smart said on Wiki that it’s actually probably reference to Cúchulainn of Irish mythology.
It fits you know. :( I still has a sad about C.C been completely neglected though. At least Gino gets a chance to get into Kallen’s pants.
Phorcys (September 28, 2008 @ 10:46 am)

Isn’t it possible that Lelouch “lives” via World of C?

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風の谷の名無しさん (September 28, 2008 @ 2:56 pm)
It’s not only possible, it’s blindingly obvious.

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Nazarielle (September 28, 2008 @ 10:48 am)

Sunrise is trolling everyone so hard. I bet they’re all getting a good laugh out of us deciding whether Lelouch is alive or not.

“He’s the cart driver!”
“No he’s talking to her through the World of C!”
“No she’s just talking to herself, he’s really just dead!”

Well played Sunrise, well played~

P.S. I think he’s the cart driver >_>

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Warb (September 28, 2008 @ 11:20 am)
ZOMG antispamword: shunakanOTP

thats the conclusion of sunrise: YHBT ._.
srsly leaving it open just means: “dear audience, plz imagine the ending as you wish, as everyone can have his / her personal fav ending here kkthxbye (or should i say ggkthx?)

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Pentacle (September 28, 2008 @ 11:12 am)

Lelouch isn’t dead because he lives on in all of us, possibly through the use of Geass/Jupiter hax.

He’s secretly controlling Suzaku as Zero (through Mind-Geass) to vicariously fulfill his long-awaited dreams of incest with Nunnally and/or Cornelia.

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danainae (September 28, 2008 @ 11:13 am)
What about Guilford?

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Nazarielle (September 28, 2008 @ 11:42 am)

‘It’s my opinion that the completed pink crane is symbolic to her relationship with Lelouch being “completed” as well, as he once interrupted her from making it. I also interpret this as a sign that Lelouch is dead~’

I agree with you, it does symbolize that their relationship is in some way “complete,” but you could also interpret that as a sign that she’s passed on her code to him, which is another way to view a completed relationship for them.

Anyway, there won’t be a right answer unless they release some extra episodes or something~

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AnimeOtaku88 (September 28, 2008 @ 11:50 am)

Lelouch is still alive, yay……….also, whats this about live action haruhi porn???

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That Random Guy~ (September 28, 2008 @ 1:39 pm)

Hmm, I have a(almost baseless) theroy. What if Lelouch got a code from [I don't know, some guy/bitch with a code]. He does have a full 2-eyed geass, and by gaining the code he becomes, well, R.R. pronounced like the title, R2.

Hmm make that 2. Hell, if Sayoko can live though FLEIA and become Lelouch, Orange can be brought back to life, and they have the technology to make FLEIA and Democules, then they should have a way to save Lelouch.

Because that’s my ideal ending: C.C. & R.R.(Lelouch) peacefully strolling the countryside together for eternity. While Suzaku epicly & miserably fails and screws the whole damn world up worse than before.

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rawr (September 29, 2008 @ 10:19 am)
I think you mean Zerozaku

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zeroid (September 28, 2008 @ 1:42 pm)

Seen it all over again, I came to think how useless Damocles is a building. The long corridors and stairs with nobody, the castle-thing on top…Aside from the resemblance of flying fortresses as last stages of electronic RPGs, it seemed nothing but a really high architect’s dream.

Then Tenkuu no Shiru Laputa came to my mind, and the whole flying-castle-weapon-of-mass-destruction made some sense. The concept has lingered on the imaginary of people long enough to make a “more real” counterpart of it something really dreadful…I guess.

As always with CG, symbolism is the answer to everything.

(anti-spam word = kagezaki…?)

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Lightbringer (September 28, 2008 @ 2:03 pm)
I’ll admit that Laputa was the first thing I thought about when Damocles first appeared a month ago. But then, anyone who has seen Laputa probably made that connection, superficial as it is.

Captcha - Urabe. Let’s remember one of the few (named) OotBK’s who laid down his life for Zero’s dream and implored him to carry on instead of being a backstabbing bitch.

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j (September 28, 2008 @ 1:46 pm)

lelouch . is . alive .
he has to be immortal cause he has the Code !
if he didn’t have the code , how else would he be able to show Nunnally his memories ?

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grok (September 28, 2008 @ 1:46 pm)

http://www.tsukuru.info/r2/
i believe this clears things up

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Shitsu (September 29, 2008 @ 12:31 pm)
ROFL! XD

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Ad (September 28, 2008 @ 2:04 pm)

i really don’t get it, what C.C said is not really rhetorical at all, so it means she is speaking to lulu, but then i thought, maybe through the world of C, but didn’t Marrianne talk to C.C only when she took over Anya, hence mad memory skips? so, wouldn’t that require lulu to be alive, anyway? this is why open endings hurt, I’m just gunna keep ignorantly thinking lulu is the driver of the cart, just because that seems like the best scenario for a good ending for C.C

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Sie (September 28, 2008 @ 2:35 pm)

No, that just tells us where the pink crane Nunnally threw in the Op landed.

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風の谷の名無しさん (September 28, 2008 @ 3:01 pm)
You win this one.

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Nilie (September 29, 2008 @ 4:59 am)
So it flew through the world of C? XD

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P3s (September 28, 2008 @ 2:36 pm)

Does that make orange a pedophile?

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Kira_Leingod (September 30, 2008 @ 1:25 pm)
No, it makes him a Pedololi. lol

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mizuha (September 28, 2008 @ 2:58 pm)

How many times did you have to rewatch Code Geass to be able to remember minor scenes like these, koda?

And without all your walls of tl;dr, Code Geass would have been just another Sunrise trainwreck to me, so I have you to thank for making it enjoyable and coherent. Thanks~

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JUPITER (September 28, 2008 @ 3:59 pm)

koda
we love you.
your blog is the sunshine on my cloudy days.

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DeathXIII (September 28, 2008 @ 4:07 pm)

I don’t care if Lelouch is dead or not. What I want to know is who was the genius who gave the blind guy a gun?

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/xXSlashXx/Blindmanwithagun.png

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danainae (September 28, 2008 @ 4:18 pm)
I thought we made it clear that Guilford isn’t blind, just in the Matrix.

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Rogersick (September 28, 2008 @ 5:12 pm)
well.. mortal kombat has a blind guy with a sword.

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biff (September 29, 2008 @ 10:21 am)
i beleave illidan is blind too… and hes the hardest boss in bc.

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Deleted1 (September 28, 2008 @ 6:16 pm)

I don’t think lelouch is alive because his death is necessary to develope one of the themes of the show. His death summarized his life struggle for happiness and the dedication he has to achieve it. Everyone is only trying to pursue their own happiness and the chance to live your life chasing after it was what lelouch wanted for everyone (Not at first cus he only wanted happiness for nunnally but then realized everyone should have it as well, the events of his companions such as shirly, rolo, suzaku, even Mao [He only wanted to be with C.C] caused him to realize this). But to do that he would have to create world peace, so he lived and gave his life bringing peace to the world.

He gave his life to give the world a chance for the future and his death should provide closure to the viewers of what his life was all about, living his life trying to achieve happiness for his loved ones.

Also if you think about it in literary tools, the writer has end the character’s life because the character would not be complete without the death. The death sums up his life. Having him live would make those events only a part of his life instead of the sum of his life struggles.

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baka~ (September 28, 2008 @ 8:28 pm)

i really hope there’s a 3rdd season of geass. CC’s final conversation may be directed to lelouch which is now residing in the world of C. it’s like obi wan kenobi talking to luke skywalker through the force.

well i really think sayoko should be there to accompany nunnally and wtf happened to nina? also, that girl that replaced shirley? i only saw her on the school episode and on the end photo. wtf is that?

reasons for a 3rd season:

1) CC reveals her name.

2) the damocles isnt destroyed yet it was just sent to the sun
*remember the same thing that happened on Gundam Wing where they retrieved them before being sent to the sun?*

3) after the whole peace of the world and depression and starvation is fixed what happens next? everyone would hold hands and walk through a grassy field? it’s a cycle… there’s war, people get exhausted through war, people help each other after war, then some dumbass starts everything again

4) the very plot of season 1 which was the power of geass and the secret of killing gods was totally wtfd when charles and marianne died. for almost 2 seasons they were with geass yet they suddenly decided to end things with no explanation especially of its origins?

5) the geass ruins are there. even if lelouch destroyed the entrance to the kamenijima geass ruins, there are still other geass entrances. what if some ass stumbled upon one and was given “the power of kings”?

6) i dont think CC’s code is taken from her. she’s the only sexy immortal bitch living and there’s still much to understand about her geass especially on instances of season 1 where she reacts with suzaku numerous times. if you’d compare her reaction with anya, anya’s reason is more plausible since she’s marianne in disguise but suzaku, before being exposed in lelouch’s geass, already had a reaction with CC (the episode where lelouch finds out her name and trolled it before everyone)

7) and finally, there’s still many MIA’s such as kanon, nina, sayoko

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Rogersick (September 28, 2008 @ 9:15 pm)
nina, sayoko are not MIA. I saw nina in the wedding photo. Someone said he saw sayoko in the prison cell with rakshata. Though they dont say where she went after lelouch died. Not too sure myself… picture was too fuzzy.

But yeah, lots of MIA like you said. Kanon & Xingke are two I can think of.

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rawr (September 29, 2008 @ 10:23 am)
Xingke = Dead
He ran out of borrowed time ^_^

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kilere (September 28, 2008 @ 8:34 pm)

so, what is this blog going to troll about now? ;__;

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J (September 28, 2008 @ 9:03 pm)

Lelouch’s death was a sham and just another illusion planned by him. He wouldn’t leave CC behind.

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Turambar (September 28, 2008 @ 9:26 pm)

Nah, Lelouch really did die. It was Sunrise’s response to all the shippers out there.

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tycoex (September 28, 2008 @ 10:14 pm)

It needed to happen. I can’t think of a better ending. Sure there’s still some questions that I would love to have answered (cc’s name being the main one) but they still did a wonderful job resolving the series with a good amount of irony befitting the name Code Geass.

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drastikhate (September 29, 2008 @ 1:03 am)

If there was a R3, it would be an OVA to tell C.C.’s origins

Her past as a Geass user who longs for love

Her name

Mao

Relationship with V.V., Charles & Marianne

Finally, meeting Lelouch.

Possible since i think its impossible for another 25 episodes

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Trollerskates (September 29, 2008 @ 6:18 am)

This blog was amazing. One of the few things that kept me watching geass. Miasma, you’re fucking hilarious.

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Nazarielle (September 29, 2008 @ 10:05 am)

Well, I just had another thought while I was looking over some stills from the show. The crane at the end, which people have commented is probably a symbol of Lelouch (and I agree), is upright. If you remember during the Black Rebellion when Ogi got shot, his was knocked over, symbolizing his injury/imminent death (even though he’s apparently unkillable, lulz). Anyway.. it sounded better in my head when I suddenly thought of it than when I wrote it down but whatever~

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Anonymouse (September 29, 2008 @ 11:54 am)

Lelouch vi Britannia is dead. Lelouch Lamperouge is dead. The man driving the cart is the new V.V, who used to be those people.

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Shitsu (September 29, 2008 @ 12:55 pm)

anyways,
it makes sense to believe that lelouch is alive because C.C is happy, and in r2-24 she believes she may love him and i doubt that her potential love for him would suddenly vanish and she would be happy. he more than likely got the code from his father in the geass ruins before he disappeared, so i believe it’s pretty apparent that he’s immortal. and i agree with the whole “R.R” theory. so he is more than likely heading off for a blissful eternity with C.C now that he has sacrificed everything else he has ever known and loved, for now a woman that he loves (once again pretty evident in r2-24)

now, i also can see into the fact he may not be alive.
he showed nunnally what he had truly been planning the whole time, linking him to somewhat of a part of immortality seeing as C.C did the same thing on a few occaisions, unwillingly. so it is possible that lelouch also did this unwillingly, mainly because his geass was very powerful from the many times of use, and if he did so unwillingly, then she would have seen all of what was planned and he would have known whether or not he was dying, which nunnally sees him doing clearly.

however, it would seem that he would do this willingly so that he could live peacefully knowing that his sister did still love him and realized all that he did was for peace, no matter how much he had to sacrifice and the immense proportions of remorse and guilt he would have to bear for all eternity with C.C who also had quite a past that she was suppressing.

SO,
all in all i really do believe lelouch is alive.
and is probably the wagon driver.

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That Random Guy~ (September 29, 2008 @ 2:29 pm)
THANK YOU

However,

I don’t think Lelouch got the code from Chareles, atleast not when he destroyed the thought evevator. Because when you get a code, you lose your Geass, and Lelouch has been using his Geass on Schnizeil, Nunally, and many others.

BUT,

Perhaps since Chareles was “absorbed by the World of C” his code was in the World of C, where Lelouch could’ve gone to the ruins and gotten it(it look like they were in ruins when he gave Suzaku the mask).
And if not like I said earlier, he could’ve gotten it from some unknown guy/bitch.

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Shitsu (September 30, 2008 @ 6:52 pm)
true, but i’ve come up with a new theory for that.

C.C. was praying in the church and crying, now if i’m not mistaken, the former contractor for geass did the same thing, minus crying, but regardless it was at the altar of the church.

so what i’m saying is C.C. gave up her curse to Lelouch, which was probably her contract with him, but she was remorseful seeing as she knew what kind of burden the curse was and was upset that she had to give it up to save his life.

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That Random Guy~ (October 1, 2008 @ 3:24 pm)

Acually C.C. has been tring get rid of it, also their contract is her greatest wish, which is to be loved. This is supported by her Geass, making everyone like her. The Geass you get is connected to your greatest wish: C.C. wanted love(hence the “everybody love me!” Geass), Lelouch wanted power(Which he got by clever usage of absolute orders), Rolo was an experiment who just wanted to be useful(His geass helps his job as an assassin), & Chareles wanted truth(So his Geass was the opposite, being able to hide the truth & past from people). So yeah.

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bob (October 4, 2008 @ 10:51 pm)

Whoa.. this is the best theory on the crane I have heard.. thank you for witting something so insightful

its better than “Nunnally made it for them!”

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iamy (January 14, 2009 @ 3:53 am)

lelu is alive but he wasnt the raider, he was the horse

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iamy (January 14, 2009 @ 4:17 am)

ok the truth is he obtained code from charless when he tried to kill him so when he obtained a code from another person then donnor of his geass he achieved both geass and code. Thats the reason that nunally finnally understood the requiem zero

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miasmacloud (January 19, 2009 @ 6:44 pm)
No, that’s a bunch of bullshit.

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Your Highness…

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