This video includes lyrics on the screen
For more infomation >> Rosa para a mulher mais linda (música piada) [no ritmo Shape of You] - Duration: 0:53. 
For more infomation >> 5 Tips to BOOST Domain Authority - Duration: 13:11. 
For more infomation >> Avakin Life Hack 2018 - AvaCoins and Diamonds (For Android and iOS ) - Duration: 4:05. 
When it comes to modern fiction, there's a reason that overly idealistic sentiments
such as "I want everyone to love each other," or "I want world peace," tend to come
out of the mouths of the naive, or, more importantly, the young.
When corruption is rife and things are going badly in the world, the ones that resolve
to change it tend to be the youth, uttering words that mean well but demonstrate a lack
of true life experience.
The older generations may have had similar ambitions when they were young, but as soon
as a person matures and gains a broad awareness of how the world works, realism sets in and
those initial goals tend to fade away.
Because they have long since decided that such dreams are virtually pointless, and have
no place in the world if you intend to live a happy life because of the huge boundary
that blocks global revolution.
It's not that changing the world is impossible; it's that changing the world is only possible
through great sacrifice, pain and suffering.
Tangible societal change cannot happen without destruction.
By and large, a new world cannot be molded from the current one if it's core is rotten.
Any given system of power, corrupt or otherwise, did not get there overnight.
There are many layers to bodies of power, and there is structure in place that must
be overthrown.
Society must be pulled up from the roots by those who don't just talk the talk, but
truly intend to do something.
Yet, because of the nature of revolution, the personal and grand repercussions on the
path to influencing the world can be so consuming that losing oneself is a true possibility.
And with this new framework, seemingly commonplace questions are given new stakes and meaning.
What is true conviction?
When someone becomes engulfed in darkness, is there really such thing as true redemption?
What is the value of morality in smaller situations relative to the end results of the big picture?
How far can utilitarianism go, and at what point do biases blind our self-awareness to
the point where we completely lose our way?
Despite the bombastic mecha fights and school hijinks, Code Geass is an anime that hones
in on its themes, ideologies and characters, rather than set pieces or gimmicks.
While there are some very valid criticisms that can be directed to the narrative, the
show does tackle some very interesting concepts in an effective way.
Just a quick disclaimer - I'm not the biggest fan of Code Geass.
Unlike most of the stories that I cover in my videos, this isn't a series that I consider
to be great or a favourite.
While I did enjoy it and my impression of it is comfortably positive, there were quite
a few aspects of the show that dragged the experience down for me.
I know that some people consider the sole fact that I make analysis videos on certain
shows to indicate that I automatically recommend or adore the show, but that is not the case
here.
As a result, I felt the need to mention this for the sake of honesty and transparency.
However, while I don't think the show is amazing overall, it does have some great aspects.
And one of these is the dynamic between Lelouch vi Britannia and Suzaku Kururugi.
The narrative's most prominent relationship is quite an accomplishment in terms of theming
and development.
The dynamic between the two main characters and the characterization of each is what I
consider to be the show's biggest strength, consistently driving the plot forward, providing
some of the story's most emotionally impactful moments and tying everything together nicely
by the end.
The intertwining character journeys of Lelouch and Suzaku are terrific, displaying a couple
of men with identical intentions whose life experience and contrasts in personality made
them go about those intentions in opposing ways.
It's a story of two flawed individuals whose ambition constantly threatens to get the better
of them, and how their actions changed their world on a grand scale.
However, the intrigue in their dynamic comes not from the fact that they changed the world,
but from the way they themselves changed on the path to a goal that could not have been
achieved without sacrifice and suffering.
Lelouch can be summed up with one word: conviction.
His resolve is admirable, and his overcoming of nearly insurmountable odds due to sheer
dedication is inspiring.
Along the way, he wavers, he screws up, and he does terrible things.. but this is a big
part of what makes him shine.
He's not a wish fulfillment protagonist because of how treacherous his path is, but
his arc is one that is resonant because of how flawed he is.
He's not a power fantasy, but his ability to stick it out until the end and achieve
his goal is truly empowering.
And in my opinion, flawed as he is, he is undoubtedly the hero of the story, despite
being a villain to his world at large.
Originally Britannian royalty and heir to the throne, Lelouch's childhood was very
difficult.
His mother was killed in a conflict with the warring nation of Japan and his sister, Nunnally,
was blinded.
Traumatized and infuriated by his father's preoccupation with selfish goals and his inability
to protect his mother, Lelouch cut himself off from the man by renouncing his claim to
the throne.
Due to this, the Emperor exiled him and Nunnally to Japan, where they were kept as political
hostages and first acquainted with Suzaku, whose family took them in.
After feeling betrayed and witnessing the dismissive, cold nature of the vast majority
of those involved in politics, Lelouch begins festering a burning hatred for Britannia.
Many seem to mistake this lust for revenge for childish one-dimensionality, but that
is not all that there is to Lelouch's motivations.
For him, it's not just a personal quest to overthrow Britannia for revenge.
After coming to understand how brutal and broken society is, he genuinely hopes for
a better world for Nunnally (and eventually, the rest of the world), and due to this, he
starkly disagrees with Britannia's rule and philosophy.
Prior to obtaining his Geass, Lelouch lived his life in meandering monotony.
His intellect and tactical mind made him a great candidate to lead a rebellion, but the
constraints of society made this very difficult.
The story establishes that Lelouch wanted the world to change, but had accepted that
it was unlikely to happen despite his claims that it was always part of the plan.
His intelligence and apathetic outlook made school a chore, and though he cared for his
friends, his interactions with them were characterized by a sense of resigned loneliness.
He interacted with them and enjoyed his time, but it was almost as if he lived in a different
emotional universe altogether.
As he says himself, his life prior to meeting C2 was a slow death.
It was defined by this distinct emptiness as a result of his inability to carry out
his ambitions when he wanted, and this is partly why he has so much dedication to his
goal.
When he gets his Geass, his potential is unlocked.
He's been given a gift and he has no intention of wasting it, no matter how far he has to
go.
As pointed out in Sam Lasky's analysis, Ironically, through a power that allows him
to oppress others and dictate their actions, he desires to oppose an Empire that he hates
partly because it oppresses and dictates the actions of others itself.
Lelouch is completely aware of this hypocrisy as well, and it doesn't sit well with him..
but it's what needs to be done.
Lelouch's path to eliminating Britannia left a lot of bodies in its wake, and this
causes plenty of internal conflict.
The deeper he went and the bigger the collateral damage got, the more torn he became.
The further he goes and the closer he gets to eliminating Britannia, the more obvious
it is that his initial goal and it's value seem to be getting burdened by bloodshed and
corpses from his choices.
Is it really worth doing all this?
In comparison to his starting point, his dark choices and actions give off the impression
that Lelouch has become corrupted by power a la Light Yagami - but a huge distinction
between these two characters is that Lelouch is all too aware that he is doing terrible
things, and this pains him.
And coinciding with this is a significant shift in Lelouch's motivations.
While he initially just wanted to make the world a better place for Nunnally, all of
the brutality that he witnessed made him realize that this world was in worse shape than he
could have imagined, and this slowly causes an alteration in motive for Lelouch; he starts
wanting peace not just for his sister, but for the entire world.
Lelouch is a self-proclaimed utilitarian, believing in the classic philosophy that the
ends justify the means.
But there is important nuance to his brand of utilitarianism.
Firstly, Lelouch is hypocritical in his mindset - he is grudgingly willing to cause death
and sacrifice to reach the finish line, but the minute that the repercussions of his actions
affect someone close to him, he gets extremely upset and loses composure.
In fact, issues of personal significance in general put Lelouch on edge.
Prior to his shift in motivation, a substantial portion of the story had Lelouch focused on
his rage towards his father rather than what he proclaimed to be his end goal.
It's not like he didn't want a peaceful world, but his hubris and anger took over
at times and pushed his more honorable goals to the back of his mind.
Not that this is wrong or even abnormal; quite the contrary.
Little personal flaws like this make Lelouch all the more believable.
But a more important aspect of his methods relates once again to his self-awareness - by
the end, he knows that he is doing terrible things.
He does not try to ask for forgiveness or make excuses, and he is willing to bear the
full burden of his actions on his own.
This distinction ends up being one of Lelouch's most significant character traits.
Yet Lelouch isn't primarily characterized by this ruthless pragmatism personality-wise.
In fact, the essence of his true self is difficult to place.
Throughout his journey, he has had to learn to adapt to situations as best as he could
to progress, so his interactions are rarely genuine.
His story is one of masks.
He isn't entirely the cold, charismatic, and cruel Zero, and he isn't entirely the
kind, soft mask he puts on at school for his friends.
He is somewhere in between, and he shifts masks accordingly.
In almost every waking moment of his life, he must be exaggerating or fabricating his
persona to maintain his progress, so he can hardly ever relax.
His true self is likely the one he shows to C2 and the way he acts when he's alone with
her, because he cannot hide anything from her.
As such, when Lelouch is with C2, he has no need to deceive and he acts more real than
when he is with anyone else; even Nunnally.
What's significant here is the nature of his masks.
It's often postulated that Lelouch's school persona and his Zero persona are completely
different entities, and that his true self is one of the two with the other one being
a completely false persona, but I believe the answer to be a bit more nuanced than that.
These two personas are exaggerated extensions of different parts of his personality.
At his core, Lelouch has elements of both masks as essential parts of his psyche.
His compassion, love, need for human connection and desire for peace make up the root of his
school persona, and his pragmatism, coldness, logic, and ammoral lack of inhibition make
up his Zero persona.
Of course there is more to his personality than just these two sides, and things are
more dynamic and fluid in his mentality than this dichotomy, but for the sake of discussion,
this frame of reference is important.
He is not as good as his school side displays and not as cold as his Zero side displays,
but these are exaggerated to serve a function.
This much is clear both in his interactions with C2 and when he loses his memory where
he displays a personality thats akin to a hybrid of both sides.
Lelouch is not a purely good person nor an evil man - he's somewhere in between.
Whether one side is truer to Lelouch's core self is up for debate, but for the sake of
his goal he knows that he must allow his Zero persona to dictate his actions, gaining more
and more influence as he progresses forward.
Zero is exactly what was needed; the ideal type of person to lead the revolution.
However, compartmentalizing and shutting away an element of your personality is far from
easy.
Lelouch needs to be Zero, but the root of his school self shines through and is both
consciously and subconsciously a factor in his actions and behaviours.
He pains, he hesitates, and his care for his loved ones tends to hinder his tactics.
As much as he would like to make decisions with his head the entire time, the heart was
always a big factor in his plans.
Yet despite all of this, Lelouch eventually matured, steeled himself and came to realize
that destruction must come before creation, even if this destruction affected his loved
ones.
The ruthless and efficient Zero became the face of an uprising, and to the public, Zero
was what Lelouch needed him to be.
Zero works as a symbol to fuel the Japanese and as a disguise to hide his true identity,
but it is also just a darker, twisted and overemphasized version of Lelouch.
And the minute he puts the mask on, he forces himself to be overtaken by this.
As postulated by reddit user 7TeenWriters, Lelouch desires a change in the world, and
Zero represents the unchained parts of Lelouch that can carry out this change.
Becoming Zero is deliberate - it is the most conscious of choices.
And slowly doing harsher and harsher things on the path to that change was always part
of the plan.
Of course, this didn't make it any easier when the difficult decisions came, but this
demonstrates an important distinction: Lelouch does NOT lose his humanity in a power trip
similar to someone like Walter White or Light Yagami.
Instead, he sacrifices it and gives it away because it is what needs to be done for the
greater good.
He has shut himself off and resolved to be a person that he may not like, but who is
still a part of him.
The part that he needs to be to succeed, even if he doesn't fully want to cultivate that
aspect of himself.
This sacrifice is once again a show of his resolve and lends great insight towards what
his final plan, the Zero Requiem, truly meant for him.
We'll discuss the requiem later, but it is the ultimate demonstration of his intent.
Lelouch sacrifices everything to have the world's malice focused on him, and for his
global legacy to be one of an evil tyrant.. only to be killed by his best friend.
All for the sake of a better world.
Some tend to interpret his willingness to die for the sake of the world as him scrambling
for some redemption after being ashamed of his actions.
But while his actions do bring him shame, he does not seek redemption through the Zero
Requiem, as we'll see in a bit.
What tends to be overlooked is that a death like this was something that Lelouch was prepared
for since the beginning.
Right in the very first episode, Lelouch says something significant.
Many interpret this as him addressing the men who were trying to kill him, but hindsight
makes it clear that he was also referring to himself.
This line encapsulates his entire philosophy, and him saying it before his first killing,
his first step on the path to his goal, is very telling.
It's clear that from the start, he was willing to kill, and more importantly in this context,
he was prepared to die if need be.
His plan had improvisation in the small situations, but the broad strokes of it were all deliberately
laid out.
It was not a desperate, disorganized struggle to the end - it was a methodical, arduous
journey, one for which Lelouch was prepared to do evil to combat evil, and one where he
was totally willing to die and spurn his legacy if it came to that.
Lelouch was not a good person; he was a person that the world needed.
He knew that pain would come to him, but by the end, he considers his well-being to be
unimportant.
He acts; he takes agency.
He struggles and falls, but he had the foresight to know that his humanity would slowly deteriorate,
and this was all part of the plan to benefit the world.
Now, this intent may not have been this clear the entire way through, and selfishness definitely
did rear up.
Throughout the story, Lelouch does some incredibly dark things.
He sacrifices innocents and jeopardizes his mission because of his own needs.
But heroes aren't always faultless.
As I said, Lelouch is not a good man and he is extremely flawed as a person, so naturally
these flaws will be accentuated when he is in a position of such power.
However, despite this , by the end he carries out an admirable plan.
This is what prevents him from being a completely villainous and makes him heroic, even if the
extent of his heroism depends on interpretation.
He is rightly viewed as a villain in-universe, but his final impact on the world tells a
different story.
Some will say that his terrible deeds were justified and par for the course, while others
will say that killing is wrong in any context.
The key point, though, is that Lelouch had noble intentions, and carried out those intentions
for the benefit of the majority.
He's not a knight in shining armor or a romantic savior; he's a dark hero - the
man who forced himself to become capable of doing the difficult, reprehensible things
required to achieve change.
Suzaku's story is one of darkness - about harbouring admirable intentions, but losing
oneself along the way to achieving one's goals.
It's a character arc that contrasts with Lelouch's in almost every conceivable way
- but there are two huge similarities between the pair from which these differences are
made apparent.
The first is that despite the initial disagreement when it came to method, both men originally
seeked to liberate the world from Britannia's tyrannical rule.
And the second is that both slowly lose their light humanity as the story goes on, feeling
the strain of their terrible deeds as they pile up.
But while Lelouch is someone who, despite his difficulties, nobly and consciously sacrificed
his humanity, Suzaku is the complete opposite - someone who unintentionally loses himself
in his ideals due to hypocrisies and self-loathing.
He had honorable enough original intentions, but unlike Lelouch, he never really committed
to carrying them out and lead himself astray due to selfish desire and sentiments that
were meaningless in the context of war.
He lacks a basic awareness because he never had the laser sharp focus on his goals that
Lelouch did, nor the realism that was required to realize how arduous a task like changing
a corrupt body of power from within is.
Intentions can easily become clouded by hubris and pride.
Hindsight helps, but nothing can prepare you for the little things that can ever so slightly
alter your path.
Since these little things are subtle, only when you are far down the path do you realize
how far you have strayed because of how small these alterations seem in the moment.
Lelouch sticks to his plan and values right until the end, while Suzaku loses focus of
his goals and ends up being the type of person and concept that he so hated in the first
place.
It's a terrifying concept.
Suzaku's philosophy itself is a naive one in the context of this story.
He believes that the means are more important than the end result.
However, it's all too clear from the start that this is an ideology that was doomed to
fail.
Suzaku is sympathetic character, at least in structure, because he's a misguided soul;
not an evil one.
At heart, he really does want to change the world for the better.
But this noble want is clouded so much by hypocrisy, a compensatory death wish, feelings
of entitlement, survivor's guilt and a sort of messiah complex that it never really properly
manifests until the story's end and ensures that Suzaku is far from the hero of this tale.
Originally Japanese and son to Japan's last Prime Minister, Genbu Kururugi, Suzaku became
an honorary Britannian soldier after forming his desire to "change it from within."
When he was a young boy, Britannia invaded, and in witnessing his father resisting until
the bitter end for the sake of pride while his people died, Suzaku killed him to spare
countless Japanese lives through assimilating with Britannia.
After the death of his father, Suzaku grew to believe that rebellion and resistance were
foolhardy and only resulted in pointless death, and although he didn't approve of Britannia,
he believed that he could change it from the inside into a much more just body of power.
He wanted to take responsibility for the death of his father and atone.
Although he thinks did the right thing, he feels guilty about the incident and constantly
places himself in dangerous positions because he subconsciously (and sometimes consciously)
wishes to atone for his sins with death.
Not only this, but he longs for an honorable death due to wanting to escape from his guilt.
However, when Lelouch uses his Geass to command his old friend to live on, Suzaku finds himself
wanting to die, but unable to.
Suzaku and Lelouch are of one mind in believing that Britannia is corrupt and must be stopped.
However, Suzaku's desire to change it from within stems from wanting to show that his
father died for a reason.
It all comes back to his philosophy in the early parts of the show that states that achieving
results with wrong methods means nothing.
But his minor, peripheral endeavors grow in influence and he eventually gets possessed
by them.
Rather than firming his resolve when it came to making Britannia a better kingdom, he became
transfixed on his hubris and selfish goals.
Suzaku is someone who is fixated on posturing - always trying to make it look like he is
taking the moral high ground.
As said earlier, his ideals were admirable, but they became warped due to his obsession
of trying to be a better person than Zero.
If we were boil Suzaku's flaws down to one thing, it would be a lack of self-awareness.
He genuinely tries to be good, but cannot bring himself to realize that the more he
is concerned with looking good, the farther he gets from his goals he gets and the closer
he gets to becoming a reflection of a man that he hates.
It's an inevitable, symmetrical little arc that is darkly poetic.
To his credit, Suzaku is not an evil person.
Even in the midst of his dark descent, he refuses to order the deaths of a million Black
Knights due to both his respect for Nunally's wishes, and the fact that it's not in his
nature.
Similar to Lelouch, Suzaku bears a thankless burden for this as well.
However, unlike Lelouch, this is not a defining trait for Suzaku.
While he does avoid full out war and massacre, Suzaku becomes increasingly cruel, willing
to kill virtually anyone opposing him.
Suzaku becomes remorseless.
It's very telling that while those on Britannia's side view him as the White Knight, the Japanese
nickname him the White Reaper - and it's not hard to see why.
By the latter parts of the story, he kills without reservation and spares no thought
for morals, despite his constant outward justifications for his actions.
When Zero announces his plans to make the United States of Japan, Suzaku begins planning
to become Britannia's knight of one, to be a better focal point and symbol for the
people than Zero.
It's likely here that Suzaku is not purely doing this because he thinks it would benefit
the people and the world, but because he wants to win against Zero.
After he cannot ignore the mass bloodshed he has spread, He sheds all notion of his
honor.
He stops trying to fool anyone, and resolves to reach his goals using any means - notably,
he becomes the very ideological concept that he hated Zero for in the first place.
Throughout the story, Suzaku holds two philosophies.
The first adheres to the idea that a positive end result does not matter if the path to
that result is immoral, but eventually he shifts his views so that he and Lelouch both
believe that the ends justify the means.
However, his journey towards shifting ideals has quite a bit more substance to it than
people give it credit for.
Suzaku's massive guilt and constant deathwish show that he is a self-loathing person.
He hates himself, and a primary reason for this is because of the way he murdered his
father.
This aspect of him is the foundation point for how his philosophy develops through the
show.
In the immediate aftermath of his patricide, Suzaku realized that this was the right thing
to do because of how many lives the act spared.
As such, a seed was planted in his mind that advocated for utilitarianism.
But because of how horrified he was at his actions, any emotion or thought attached to
the murder that even remotely held it in positive regard (other than the surface level idea
that he saved a lot of people) was suppressed.
Suzaku knew what he did was wrong, so did not feel right in accepting that any part
of his act was okay.
Because he was so obsessed with being morally righteous, he overburdened himself with a
deathwish, massive guilt, and most significantly, false ideals.
Deep down, maybe even subconsciously, Suzaku felt that killing his father was right in
the grand scheme of things.
But because he knew that it was wrong morally, he rejected his feelings.
And so, he built up a new philosophy, one that completely opposed his true thoughts,
to form some sense of internal balance.
What is at work here is a psychological defense mechanism called reaction formation, in which
a person represses their true feelings which they find to be unacceptable, and instead
express those feelings in a contrasting form.
It's a form of hiding from the truth about oneself.
So perhaps Suzaku despises Zero so much not just because of the terrible things he did,
but because he is a walking reflection of the part of himself that he hates.
Suzaku was terrified so much by his true feelings that he built a false, opposing philosophy
around them, with the truth repressed and buried deep within his mind.
When he finally honed up to who he had become, he confronted the fact that he didn't care
what he had to do to reach his goals as long as he met them.
This is when the philosophy that was established all those years ago finally properly showed
itself.
Now that he had tossed away the lies that he had been telling himself, the seed had
sprouted.
And he was fully exposed to his flaws for the first time in his life, which eventually
lead to his attempts to properly atone.
So while Suzaku did become the very thing that he hated, from a certain point of view,
you could say that that is who he was all along, and that it was just buried underneath
insecurities, fear and avoidance.
Perhaps he was more similar to Zero than he originally thought, and his fixation on trying
to be morally superior to him was his way of compensating for the shame that this caused
him.
By the end, however, this all fades away and Suzaku is left to deal with who he is and
what he's done.
His story is one that deceptively focuses on self-acceptance.
Suzaku was someone who truly wanted what was best for the world, but good intentions remain
intentions if they aren't carried out properly.
He postured with fancy ideals, trying to be self-righteous and feel superior, and this
pushed him off the edge.
But Suzaku comes to the realization that he had gone too far and lost sight of his goal
in his darkness.
He realizes that the constant war would have to be broken by something to bring prosperity
to the land, and he turns his attention back to a peaceful future.
By the end it's clear that he realized his mistake and he does virtually the only thing
that he could have done to make strides to atone - he loses his identity and becomes
Zero, a symbol of peace.
A symbol that will endure thanks to Lelouch's command to Live.
In my eyes, Lelouch was the hero of the story, but Suzaku represented something just as important.
There's a reason that Suzaku is so hated - he is what happens when you lose sight of
yourself, a deep-rooted fear in modern society, a concept that is naturally repulsive.
If Lelouch showed what could happen when man sticks to their convictions, Suzaku shows
even more humanity by displaying what we fear our intentions will never lead to.
And there is profound value in that message.
As said earlier, Lelouch and Suzaku share the common trait of being individuals that
wanted to change the world and ones that, through their means of doing so, commit terrible
deeds.
But the two branch off from each other from that foundation point and oppose one another
in almost every conceivable way.
There is much more of a reflection and asymmetry to the two than the obvious contrast in philosophy
early on.
At a base level, Suzaku spent the majority of the story doing things that stemmed from
selfish motives that he tried to hide behind a front of morals.
Meanwhile, Lelouch did the total opposite - selfless motives with the goal of making
himself seem amoral.
Lelouch was never concerned about trying to have the moral high ground as much as he was
about doing what he believed was right by the end.
But Suzaku drove himself further and further down the path of amorality by trying to make
himself seem better - to both himself and others.
Lelouch stays consistent with his values throughout the show and Suzaku loses himself.
Lelouch does what needs to be done with no thoughts of trying to be righteous.
Suzaku does his best to look good and follow meaningless abstract notions that he calls
ideals, which hold no weight because he doesn't adhere to them and practice what he preaches.
There's an almost lyrical mirror image in approach at work here - a detached, cold,
logical selflessness on Lelouch's part and an emotional, heartfelt selfishness on Suzaku's.
However, the most important among these when considering the conclusion of the show is
that Lelouch consciously sacrificed his sense of self while Suzaku unintentionally lost
track of his.
And there is a note of irony behind the interesting dynamics of the two best friends.
Lelouch's kind move to command Suzaku to live is unintentionally cruel given Suzaku's
deathwish, though he shifts the intent of it to give Suzaku the freedom and atonement
that he had been seeking his whole life.
This element dovetails with how the two men lose their light humanity to make the Zero
Requiem the most appropriate ending possible for these two characters.
The Zero Requiem is the final narrative beat of the show, occurring after Lelouch and Suzaku
realized that their goal could only be achieved through cooperation.
In an act that was essentially Lelouch's suicide, Suzaku fakes his death in an earlier
battle with Kallen, while Lelouch rises to power and proves himself to be a true tyrant
to the world.
In recaptured Japan, Lelouch is paraded through the streets as the nation's leader, until
Suzaku appears under the mask of Zero and assassinates his old friend, much to the joy
of the populace.
It is revealed that Lelouch told Suzaku that in doing this, he must sacrifice himself,
renounce his old identity and take up the mantle of Zero, a faceless man with the sole
focus of securing the world's peaceful future.
People band and unite under symbols, so naturally they can band and unite against symbols.
And in killing Lelouch, the man the world is now unified in hatred against, the nation
will unite after blaming all of the evil deeds of the past on him.
The Zero Requiem lead to more focus on benefitting the world rather than war, and in turn, Lelouch's
dream for world peace was achieved.
I won't be going into the specifics of the plan or whether or not the aftermath was believable
because that isn't pertinent to the discussion at hand.
Instead, with much help and thanks once again from 7TeenWriters, I'll focus on what this
event meant for Lelouch and Suzaku, and how it was extremely effective in concluding their
respective arcs through displaying who they truly were at the deepest level.
The Zero Requiem, it's implications and Suzaku's role in it are the ultimate display
of kindness and love from Lelouch towards his best friend.
It is both exactly what the world needed and what Suzaku needed, and the only benefit or
selfish element it had for Lelouch is that it was the final step of his grand plan, an
affirmation of his original goal.
The Zero Requiem is not and has never been Lelouch's redemption: It was Suzaku's.
Lelouch seeks no redemption.
He is what he needed to be; a symbol of hate to unite the world.
He never wanted redemption, and from the very beginning he knew that his role in this revolution
for peace would be a thankless one that would likely lead to his death.
His best friend, however, through this act, is ironically given the ultimate means for
redemption; some would say, the ideal gift.
While Suzaku originally thought that death was the ultimate punishment and the suitable
consequence for his actions, Lelouch's final words change his whole perspective.
Suzaku seeks to be punished?
This is his punishment.
He seeks to atone for everything he has done?
That may not be possible, but this is the closest he can ever get to righting his wrongs.
He still maintains his original wish of making the world a better, more peaceful place?
This is the way to do it.
Through the Zero Requiem, Suzaku dismisses redundancies and achieves what he wanted so
deeply.
This is his salvation.
And at the same time, Lelouch carries out what he had been intending to do - creating
the world anew.
It doesn't matter that he's universally hated because as always, the results are what
matter, not the path to getting there.
Though he understandably wavered on this throughout the story, he has always stuck to this philosophy.
This is why the Requiem is not a redemption for Lelouch, but an affirmation of his plan
succeeding.
The redemption is for Suzaku.
One man dies as a pincushion for all of the malice in the world for the sake of his desired
better future, and one forsakes his identity and ideals to live out the remainder of his
days atoning for his sins, yet is fulfilled by this.
Both achieve their original goal, and through this, some twisted sense of balance and harmony
is struck with these two characters, and the narrative as a whole.
Đăng ký:
Đăng Nhận xét (Atom)
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét