Revisiting the chess board

Lets take another look at this chess board from R2 16, and switch Lelouch and Schneizel’s positions as the kings. Lelouch, garbed in white as Britannia’s Emperor, and Schneizel, with the Black Knights as his new bitches. Read more »

R2 16 makes R2 09’s chess game make sense

Fuck I just realized something.

THIS SCENE IS ILLEGAL MOVE

Remember a long ass time ago when I said that in R2 09, Lelouch moving his king a square back was symbolic to him being a coward? I think I was right, but Schneizel is not the white king, Charles is. Schneizel was more than happy to offer up his King to Zero because he wants to get rid of daddy too. However, Lelouch is actually scared shitless of daddy so he, literally and on the chess board, takes a step back.

EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS A LIE. SCHNEIZEL IS ACTUALLY THE MAGICAL OFF-SCREEN GRAY PIECE. FUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Symbolic Chess Fuck Yeah

[twilightBlanc] you should post about the 18 white chess pieces and the 16 black pieces…

I admit I didn’t actually bother to blow this up and count, so lets just trust twilight’s counting ability and talk about something else related to this dumb chess board. Read more »

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.

Yellow Lelouch

If Lelouch had moved it anywhere besides behind the pawn, I wouldn’t think of this as symbolic to being a coward. :v!

CHESS IS SRS BUSINESS

During the chess game in R2 09, Schneizel uses an illegal move to “checkmate” Zero. Kings aren’t allowed to put next to each other because that’s a stalemate. Schneizel doesn’t take the game seriously, at all, and moves his King right in front of Zero’s, and also 1 square away from a black pawn that could have taken it (this is done after Lelouch’s signature “MOVE THE KING” shit). In response, Zero continues playing the game, but instead of taking the white King or moving his pawn to take it, he backs out behind the pawn.

tl;dr:
Schneizel is an asshole who looks down on people and fucks with their heads.
Lelouch is a coward who hides behind people and gets fucked in the head. (And probably the ass too, by Suzaku.)

<3 Schneizel. He passes off assholeness as kindness and playfulness so eloquently. He seemed a bit "do it for the lulz".

No 1000 word essays required for this. I'm lookin @ you, AnimeSuki.

Edit: Ohey, symbolism.
Schneizel is like, “Your mask comes off if I win” @ the start. After Lelouch moves his king behind his pawn, Schneizel is like, “So that’s what kind of person you are”. He won, because Lelouch un-masked something about himself to Schneizel through the chess board. (Schneizel won anyway?! Oh my.)