History CodeGeassThePreparedRebellion / TropesAToI

** Shirley feels this way towards her father after discovering [[spoiler:he's performing human experimentation as part of Code-R's research team. [[ThickerThanWater She still seeks help from Lelouch to try and get her father out of that mess, however]]. The pedestal becomes even more broken when she lesrns just how high in the organization Joseph really is.]]

*** To expand upon it, like most Britainnian laws, the Worthy Reward Law is filled with prejudices and the cutoff point between mistress and wife is the wife's family having a certain degree of wealth. Milly, as the heiress to the disenfranchised but still wealthy Ashford Foundation (which is slowly making a comback), Kallen as the heiress to the Stadtfelt Earldom and Kaguya as heiress to the Chrysanthemum Throne, whose royal lineage is still recognized despite Japan's conquest, would qualify as wives. Meanwhile, Sayoko, C.C. and Shirley; a Honorary Britannian servant, Frenchwoman with no known background and an upper-middle class Britannian commoner, would all be mistresses.

** Milly occasionally [[MundaneUtility uses the Ganymede for school events]], but the old generator is a ''lot'' les capable than modern ones, so firing it up is highly costly. The only reason she can keep justifying it is that it draws enough people to the events to cover the price.

** Clovis was a real nasty customer who ordered a massacre to cover up his own actions, but even ''he'' apparently found the Black King's continued criminal operations intolerable, as he was the ''only'' criminal he seriously tried to track down and have executed, but to no avail.

** For a specific example, [[spoiler:C.C. is planning on taking full advantage of the "Worthy Reward" law to someday make official the ever growing {{Polyamory}} centered on Lelouch. For now C.C.'s plan consists in making Milly the TopWife and Kallen the second one – while taking care of keeping her Japanese ancestry under wraps with a few well placed bribes – and getting Sayoko and herself formally recognized as his mistresses because neither of them are Britannian. While Kaguya as the heir to the Japanese throne is consdiered worthy enough to be a wife under this, Shirley's middle class status would render her but a mistress, though C.C doubts she'd mind. Her ''mother'' on the other hand...]]

** For a specific example, [[spoiler:C.C. is planning on taking full advantage of the "Worthy Reward" law to someday make official the ever growing {{Polyamory}} centered on Lelouch. For now C.C.'s plan consists in making Milly the TopWife and Kallen the second one – while taking care of keeping her Japanese ancestry under wraps with a few well placed bribes – and getting Sayoko and herself formally recognized as his mistresses because neither of them are Britannian. Shirley and Kaguya's exact positions in her plan are currently unknown.]]

** Shirley feels this way towards her father after discovering [[spoiler:he's performing human experimentation as part of Code-R's research team. [[ThickerThanWater She still seeks help from Lelouch to try and get her father out of that mess, however]].]]

** Sayoko kept her feelings for Lelouch hidden for three years. Plenty {{Justified}} in her case because she realized she loved a guy seven years younger that way when he was barely fourteen year old. She intended to keep her DarkSecret to herself until [[TheJailBaitWait he was of age]] at the very least, but [[ShipperOnDeck C.C. had other plans]].

* IDoNotWantToKnow: Kallen's reaction after arriving to the StudentCouncil office and find a passed out Rivalz, Suzaku with a {{Nosebleed}}, Shirley and Nina [[LuminescentBlush blushing bright red]], [[TheTease Milly and "Celesta"]] trying to out-flirt each other, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Lelouch looking the same as always]]... except for the fact that they were [[InstantCosplaySurprise all dressed as cats]].

** Milly was at the most AmbiguouslyBi due to her canonical crush on Lelouch as well as some teasing comments towards Shirley. The story makes her a very promiscious, though {{ethical|slut}}, [[AnythingThatMoves pansexual]].

* AnythingThatMoves: Milly pretty much flirts with anyone, though she does have the standard of being monogamous if she is in a relationship her partner considers exclusive. If her thoughts are to be believed she actually has to struggle to not seduce Euphemia while meeting with her. Her grandfather even directly calls her pansexual, prompting Lelouch to quip that he thought she was "just bisexual and greedy".

** {{Defied|Trope}}. Lelouch bemoans the fact that, despite all his intellect, he's still very much a 17-year-old guy. For example, he's capable of explaining away the objective reasons for his attraction to Kallen, even identifying the OedipusComplex implicit in it, but that ''doesn't'' make him any less attracted to her. Being conscious of it, however, allows him to make sure Zero and Lelouch Lamperouge are behaving with the due propriety he thinks [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle they]] should as her commander and her schoolmate, respectively.

* {{Bishonen}}: Milly all but states that she was initially drawn to Lelouch's androgynous looks when they first met as kids. In her own words, he "looked both as pretty as a female, and yet, as handsome as any man. Just looking at him had made her blush."

** In canon, apart from the inference that she's attracted to men (e.g. her implied feelings for Lelouch by the series' end), there wasn't anything indicating C.C.'s sexual orientation beyond that. In this story, she has ImmortalityBisexuality in full effect.
** Kallen had a SingleTargetSexuality towards Lelouch with no implication that she was attracted to either men or women before or afterward. Here she is a closeted bisexual, [[TransparentCloset though not a good one according to C.C.]].

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Downplayed. In canon, the source Nina's xenophobia is implied to be [[TraumaButton due to a traumatic experience while "visiting" the ghettos]], here it is the actual mental disorder that a phobia is.

** Milly's mother Melisande, besides being emotionally neglectful and trying to force her daughter into a political marriage, has apparently slapped her for talking back to her at least once. To put it into perspective, during a conversation in chapter 53, Lelouch tells Kallen that Mlisande would make Kallen's stepmother, no paragon of virtue herself, a saint of maternal kindness and wifely fidelity in comparison.