Code Geass Recommended Fanfiction

Inaba

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Lelouch starts in a bad position and while he's been presented with the means to correct his position, he's too hesitant to use that means (his Geass) to correct his problems. He has a poor talent pool, little help in turning a minor resistance group into a functioning national-scale organization, and has the dilemma of either keeping his Zero persona and thus risking an unveiling or conducting an unveiling and then losing their support. Lelouch's control is fragile and dependent on his persona and the miraculous reputation that he has built around that persona; once he has started, it's hard to turn back - lose his reputation and he losses control.

If he had discarded his morals and Geassed people into obedience, that wouldn't have been a problem. In a sense, Lelouch really is a product of his class - he has pride and he's never willing to throw it all away in order to win at all costs.
 

marthf1

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That pride is also what defeats the Black Knights multiple times. Many are only bound by the belief that all Britannians are evil. They throw away victory to make a backwards statement. Many countries have done it, but I don't recall them having such results.

Mind you, I am not absolving Lelouch of not using all the tools at his disposal. I'm just emphasizing his poor talent pool & lack of assistants.
 
my only beef with lelouch usage of geass is his lack of 'you are utterly devoted to me' kind of orders instead of one shots and 'you will serve me' slaves.
 

Inaba

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Well, Lelouch was working with both substandard personnel and an immature mindset. It makes me wonder what he could've done in an AU if he had decided to head on later in life to either China or the Euro Universe and start building a following there. It would need a lot of OCs, but it's not as though the Black Knights were particularly interesting or even detailed much outside of about as many characters as I have fingers on my hand.
 

shiki

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shioran toushin said:
my only beef with lelouch usage of geass is his lack of 'you are utterly devoted to me' kind of orders instead of one shots and 'you will serve me' slaves.
Taking away someone's free will is the mark of a monster. I have no [major] issues with his orders through the series. It is less of an "immature" mindset and more of a conscious decision.

Unless he has a way to cancel it, like he did in the end of the series, going that way hits the moral event horizon. Additionally, it takes away all of the conflict of of it... making for boring reading.Unless of course you are into that sort of thing.

Also, I pretty much agree with people about the romance angle. It is stupid how many fics focus on that while ruining what makes Geass as good a series as it is.

The situation to the Black Knights scenario? If he had to go through all that again [I am of the opinion that he shouldn't in the event of temporal displacement] It would be best to cut his losses on that by scaling back on his personal involvement at linchpin moments. Freedom fighters are well and good, but as history shows... they aren't the best at maintaining peace when shifted toward a governmental role.

I also hate that bullshit with "precious people"[That is, if the piece isn't a character driven one with the series entirely focused on the relationships of people; which CG really isn't]. That crap doesn't work in the more realistic series. It may fly with the magic ninja or happy go lucky magic girl crowd, but for the more militaristic stuff... no. Everybody has their precious people but not everyone will be on the side that history records as "right" - look at Gundam where the power of friendship is NOT the only factor. Not to demean relationship ties, because that stuff does affect decisions, but it is no where near as important as some make it out to be.
 
mmm... what i meant to say, is that my problem with lelouch orders is that they were one-shots or, at the end of the series, geassed 'mindless' slaves, instead of more 'permanent' or triggered orders of feeling devotion for him, or you know, to have a good number of sleeper agents in case. in the devotion it would be more a compulsion to please than an order to be followed, and in the second one, honestly call me monster, because having sleeper agents that are completely obedient to me IS a good thing if the world is really gunning for me.

but if you are going with the free will angle, then most characters of code geass were monsters in one form or another, starting with the inmortals, the one who gave CC her code, VV, the Directorate, the Chinese, Charles, Mao, Marianne, Suzaku, Lelouch, Schniezel, Clovis, the Rounds.
 

Inaba

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Lelouch was willing to kill thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people in order to achieve his goals. He's long past the point of being called monster and to be frank, he's probably still better morally than most successful guerrilla leaders. Besides, I see using the Geass to control people as being about equal to or less than killing depending on the orders given - we've seen Suzaku being able to function mostly normally with his 'live' imperative and I think an order of similar magnitude and restrictiveness would leave targets with mostly the same capability to live their lives as before.
 

evilplushie

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I always found the black knights to be really really horrible people. Despite the fact that all their successes were because of Lelouch, they were often too eager to betray him. Like Kallen at the end of s1 and what they did during s2. If Lelouch was really a monster, he should have killed every BK member. Except tamaki cause surprisingly Tamaki ended up being the one who was his staunchest supporter
 

Inaba

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I'd call them more hot-headed and impulsive than horrible, but it's a difference of opinion, so meh. Ohgi on the other hand, can go fall in a ditch.
 
does the Geass on Schniezel count?
but yeah, the BK were paranoid idiots and were played masterfully by the Prime Minister (not that the success came because it was Schniezel, but because the BK were idiots and Oughi was in Twu Wuv with Viletta)
 

Inaba

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Not sure, I don't recall there being enough evidence to tell whether Schniezel was still Schniezel after he was Geassed or if he ended up like Guinevere. That said, bad Romeo and Juliet rehashes are another warning sign when it pops up in stories. It's a cool idea and potentially very interesting when executed well, but too many writers seem to forget that there are very good reasons why these unions are frowned upon.

Hell, I'd have been a lot happier if Viletta turned out not to be interested in Ohgi, played the part of a 'honey pot', and then blackmailed the crap of him. Seriously, Ohgi can go fall into a ditch.
 
or the infamous but very popular among the fandom (sadly) 'comical romance' in wich Viletta falls in love _with_ another guy, be him Orange, Xin Ke, Lelouch, etc. and poor (not) Oghi getting his heart broken.

but Viper Viletta would be awesome (or her being a sleeper agend of Lelouch).

and sadly as you can see i am a Lelouch Fanboy :headbanger:
 

Inaba

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Personally, I like her playing the role of sepoy, preferably with some competence and as something more than fan-service character number God-knows-what.

Edit:

Just realized that what I wrote was pretty unclear. I don't mean sepoy in the sense of the historical sepoy; I'm not familiar enough with Indian history to comment on that. I meant it in a very general sense as denoting a member of the oppressed who is fighting for the oppressors, someone who has a degree of privilege up from the rest of the oppressed and is even harsher to them because he or she cannot afford to be seen as being 'one of them'.
 

marthf1

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I'm sad to say, that after another jaunt through the fanfiction back to mid-January, divided into in-progress over 20000 words & complete over 1000 words, most is yaoi or sucks.

The only new decent stories were <a href='http://m.fanfiction.net/u/2159944/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>elarielf</a>. However, I do warn that this person loves their yaoi. That being said, the only ones I bothered reading were <a href='http://m.fanfiction.net/s/7803525/1/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Turning Points: Loyalty</a> & <a href='http://m.fanfiction.net/s/7369266/1/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Turning Points: Chess Match</a>, at which the divergence is at the Black Knight's betrayal & the Schneizel chess match. The former I finished & the latter I had to stop halfway & skip to the end. There is apparently going to be a third that will be the longest yet.

This person writes well, the problem is their yaoi tendencies are immediately noticeable because the main sources of tension are from Nunnally &, you guessed it, Suzaku. Everyone else has their time, but is basically swept to the side. It's a very heavy bromance that doesn't cross the line into romance only because the tension never leaves & the most explicit action is a very detailed hug or joining the hermit brigade with C.C. Everything always comes back to Suzaku & Lelouch goes out of his way to ensure that, especially with cruelty.

I guess the best way to put it is that only Suzaku, other than Lelouch of course, gets the blessing of character development. Sure, everyone goes through the equivalent canon events that affect them, but only Suzaku gets the full concentration of the author notable writing skills.
 

chronodekar

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marthf1 said:
I'm sad to say, that after another jaunt through the fanfiction back to mid-January, divided into in-progress over 20000 words & complete over 1000 words, most is yaoi or sucks.
Which, is a REAL pity. What ever happened to all the nice ladies who wrote good stuff?

These days, it just seems that young female authors write yaoi and young male authors write lesbian things.

Ugh.

My world is already beginning to end... :(

-chronodekar
 
chronodekar said:
These days, it just seems that young female authors write yaoi and young male authors write lesbian things.
If that's the case then we just need to rely on those ever-trusty hermaphrodites to crank out the hetero. Worry not, Chronodekar! Those friendly dong-girls and vag-boys will save the day ( ??`)
 

ksho

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<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4994784/18/Code_Geass_Megiddo' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Code Geass Megiddo</a> just updated with a new chapter.

Summary: After the Black Rebellion, the world became a different place from what people knew it for. But despite that, there was still one who wished to change it for the better. This is the story of his renewed revolution...
 

The Eromancer

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zeebee1 said:
Considering his flaws Suzaku needs the most development.
his "flaws"? Who gives a shit about that, what about what he's "done"!

Suzaku doesn't need character development, he needs a swift boot to the ass
 
The Eromancer said:
Suzaku doesn't need character development, he needs a swift boot to the ass
If the majority of Code Geass fanfiction has taught me anything, and it has not, it's that Suzaku is already taking a swift cock to the ass. Repeatedly, I might add ;)
 

Mordart

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Yes well, Megiddo is by far the best Fan-fiction in the Geass Fandom. I mean heads and tails above everything else. If you haven't read it get a meal and sit down awhile. It's everything the Second Season should have been, or rather had the Potential to be.
 

Leonite

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I tried to read it. The way Suzaku was developed... made me X it. It wasn't bashing, I just didn't like it. I'm one of the few people out there who likes Suzaku...well, mostly, I can see the logic behind his actions for R2, but right until the point he helps Lelouch out in C's World I detested him... which I think was the point. The whole C's World and Zero Requim parts made up for it though.
 

marthf1

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Yeah, I can't quite agree with the writing. I know I read a few chapters a long time ago & it wasn't to my tastes. The author is talented, as I was reminded in the AU Gundam UC story, though the author's notes & a few other issues for the Gundam story gave me even more things to disagree with. I might skim it again to see if time & a different mood make me more receptive.

Though given the synopsis & a few reactions on tvtropes, I can definitely see a few things that already put me off about that story. Hmm, how did Schneizel justify Operation Nero? Wouldn't that be like purging 70% (via wiki) of the world's oil resources? Although he does worse near the end of R2, what's the reason to show his amorality this early? The mentions of a five year time skip don't impress me either.
 

kelenas

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I found it interesting early on, but in time lost interest. The set-up for Gino Weinberg to switch sides is almost painfully obvious, as is the fact that the one OC from Kallen's squadron would inevitably betray her and Lelouch out of jealousy.
Throw in the fact that the author apparently couldn't think of anything more original than setting up the EU as German-led, warmongering bloodknights, and the MEF as islamic fundamentalist zealots, and it quickly lost its appeal for me.

- Kelenas
 
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