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.

Defining Schneizel’s Mask

The meaning of Schneizel’s mask is tricky. He has a mask, and yet he doesn’t. His mask can be identified by his lies. That’s not a very special mask, it’s the same mask shared by everyone that Charles speaks of and wishes to destroy. But at the same time, it’s not much of a mask because he doesn’t really go to great efforts to hide his lies. In the end, Schneizel does something like wear a mask that looks exactly like his own face.

Schneizel has been a character who’s kept us guessing for a while, when in reality we had no real reason to. We always thought he had something up his sleeve like a good magician, but naw. He’s left himself out in the open. We were just looking for something that wasn’t there because we didn’t know any better. And it wasn’t just us, it was Lelouch too. Read more »

Lazy Schneizel is lazy

[kodaturret] do you think its supposed to be symbolic that schneizel used to win @ chess in the past and now he’s like “hurr lazy” :v
[schnwtfhisname] hmm, that makes sense. Seeing as how he already seemed to be giving up or at least not giving a fuck during the chess game in china
[schnwtfhisname] It was an indicator that his character was beign developed that way

And I’m too lazy to formulate this into a proper post even though I was attempting to for a bit.

I think I’ll blog at Schneizel Effort power levels from now on.

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 »

Your ideal R2 ending?

TWO EPISODES LEFT. Call your ideal ending. Not “theory”, but “how would you have it go”. I don’t really want to ask any of you that, I just felt like posting a symbolic ideal ending I thought of, but figured I would be polite and make it look like I’m being interactive by asking you to share your own. Aren’t I so kind?

This is my ideal ending for R2: The destruction of the present, with no place to go to but the future. It kind of builds off of other things I’ve rambled about before. I have come to believe that time in Geass as a theme is embodied by the concepts of the past, present, and future. These time periods are symbolized through characters, being Charles, Schneizel and Lelouch respectively. Charles is gone, and not just gone, but he was absorbed into the World of C. Keep in mind that I think the World of C is basically the embodiment of human history, what has happened, and thus, the past.

The present needs to be destroyed. Damocles’s orbital “fuck everyone” mission should succeed, which would effectively kill the current world/the present. Schneizel should also preferably kill himself, since he’s the representation of the present, so the present will die in two ways. (This heavily assumes that the “BECOME GOD” thing is bullshit.) This pretty much leaves Lelouch to the future. He’ll have a hurt world, probably now turned into more of a blank slate, to shape into a new world. But everything will be bright, no? I believe I would find an ending like that good, though it’d depend on the execution~ But critically, it would be a cop out of sorts. It’d resolve the issues of the present (sort of - more like blow up the issues of the present, but uh), then leave the future symbolicallllllly open, as it has to be written.

symbolismSYMBOLISMsymbolismSYMBOLISMsymbolismSYMBOLISM~

Edit: Oh, and for extra idealism, the opening should be skipped on episode 25, and the full version of WORLD END should be played near the end. When it starts playing, Lelouch should be looking at the ruined world, his hair blowing in the wind, and the sun rising! :D (Koshimizu said that WORLD END was originally titled DAYBREAK!) Then there’ll be an image montage of enemies uniting in the depressed world trying to make the best of the shitty situation. Everything is crying until it becomes bright. ^O^

Schneizel and CARDS again

Hay I found this in S1 21 when I was checking Nina stuff earlier:

Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.68,0:29:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,Schneizel,I will make use of that card in my negotiations with the Chinese Federation.

Maybe all of my bullshit about Schneizel being the DEMONIC CARD GAME PLAYER with the DEMONIC HAND isn’t random after all. Maybe he does cheap card tricks too, which further explains the fact he is a fucking magician. Lelouch, you’re trying to play chess with a card trick magician… D:

Schneizel in the middle

Chess is a really shitty game to use as symbolism in Geass. It paints the world as a black board with stains of red blood, upon which black and white pieces move.

…that was way too srsbsns sounding. Anon from the Wind Valley is pretty much correct; I’m going off the deep end here. Oh well.

What I was going to get to eventually above is that there’s this thing called GRAY AREA and Geass has a lot of it, but Geass constantly uses chess, a game which has 2 distinct sides/colors to it. I propose there is a 3rd side/color/faction. Lelouch is the black w/the Black Knights, Charles is the white w/Britannia, and Schneizel is our middleman. I guess we’ll call him the gray, aligned with… uh, atom bombs. Fuck yeah. Oh hey, wouldn’t the smoke from the bomb usage be gray anyway? Symbolism yay.

Forget any imagery about Schneizel being the white king, it’s all a dirty lie. To his father and his brother’s white and black, he is effectively gray, sometimes because he’s in the middle, lodged between them, or because he shows a mixture of the 2 of them. Even though he’s with Britannia, like daddy, he’s also kind of “mehhhh dad wtf”, like Lelouch. Though he is regarded as being both GAR and fabulous, he’s not quite as GAR or as fabulous as the other 2, providing a mixed state of being Fabulously GAR. Fuck, he’s even in the middle in things like age, height, and hair color! Actually he’s like all of 1 inch shorter than his dad, BUT IT’S STILL 1 INCH SHORTER AND PUTS HIM IN THE MIDDLE OKAY.

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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.

Ragnarok

Fuck everything. The Emperor’s shit actually kind of makes sense. Fuck.

Look at the world of Geass, take into account the Emperor’s Ragnarok-spewing bullshit from S1 01 (YEAH S1 01!), then take into account what Ragnarok means, the “Gods who pit man against man” crap, then add some metaphorical comparisons, and this actually does, metaphorically, make sense. Now I’m aware that saying that something about Geass makes sense is, in itself, un-sensemaking, but hey.

Ragnarok is this epic part of Norse mythology where the Jotuns fight the Aesir (THESE ARE GODS) and the world fucking blows up except for a few of the Gods, and is reborn a new with a couple random humans. The Aesir and Jotuns (GODS, OKAY???) in Geass = the UFN and Britannia. They are in conflict.

Now, the Emperor desires to kill Gods of conflict. Oshi- FUCKING AWESOME ANALYSIS SKILL HERE.

So basically, the “Lets slay the Gods” bullshit is an elaborate metaphor for “LETS KILL LARGE NATIONS WHO HAVE FIREPOWER”.

Based on the Korean blog shit, all of which is pretty much true anyway?!, the Emperor is going to use the Geass ruins to somehow cause the part of Ragnarok where the world gets destroyed and reborn. Meanwhile, Schneizel has been researching Geass and decided he fucking hates his dad. And Lelouch is being emo. The optimal solution would be that Lelouch, Schneizel + whoever in Britannia doesn’t follow his dad, the UFN, and the Black Knights have a cute kiss ‘n make up ‘n alliance, beat the fuck out of Charles somehow then get picky about the fact they’re working with these Britannian faggot princes afterwards. But lol, pride.

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.)