History FanFic / CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance

* {{Squick}}: Frustrated by the lack of space on his airplane, Mao’s desperation causes him to come up with the idea to use a chainsaw to make CC ''more compact'' for the trip. [[SoYeah Yeah...]]

* WifeHusbandry: GenderFlipped. Because Mao and C.C. lived together in the wild for several years while he grows up, sleeping and bathing together without impunity, Mao becomes [[PrecociousCrush so attached to her]] that, as [[ShesAllGrownUp his love matures]], he comes to treat her as his lover. [[spoiler: Strongly implied that she had sex with him as a consequence, only adding to his obsessive attachment to her]]. [[spoiler: [[LoveConfession she later admitted she loved]]]]

* WifeHusbandry: GenderFlipped. Because Mao and C.C. lived together in the wild for several years while he grows up, sleeping and bathing together without impunity, Mao becomes [[PrecociousCrush so attached to her]] that, as [[ShesAllGrownUp his love matures]], he comes to treat her as his lover. [[spoiler: Strongly implied that she had sex with him as a consequence, only adding to his obsessive attachment to her]].

** He also systematically and willfully uses confusion in order to manipulate people (up to and including their own ruination) toward his own ends. However, he isn't lying ''per se'' so much as repeating what they ''really'' think back to them.

* WifeHusbandry: GenderFlipped. Because Mao and C.C. lived together in the wild for several years while he grows up, sleeping and bathing together without impunity, Mao becomes so attached to her that, as his love matures, he comes to treat her as his lover. [[spoiler: Strongly implied that she had sex with him as a consequence, only adding to his obsessive attachment to her]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: C.C.'s name is sometimes spelled "CC" but otherwise "C.C." A ShoutOut to the dub version "C2" occurs with Mao's luxury hotel suite: "Floor C, Suite 002".

** Several alternate chapter titles are allusions to songs by ''Megadeath'', ''Rage Against the Machine'', and ''Nine Inch Nails''

* RonTheDeathEater: As the story is told from Mao's perspective, Zero and then Lelouch comes across this way

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Played straight when Mao goes on one after watching several recorded experiments carried out by [[GovernmentConspiracy Code-R]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel on]] [[AndIMustScream C.C.]], accomplished by making [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill obliterating]] several roomfuls of scientists and culminating in the [[UnstoppableRage mutilation]] of a corpse with the handle of a pistol (he already used up all the bullets!)

* PsychoticSmirk: He adopts one of these quite a bit when dealing with opponents he's trying to unnerve. He wears it ''[[EvilIsSexy very,]]'' well.

* NighInvulnerability: C.C. has this. Demonstrated poignantly in [[AndIMustScream Code-R's experiments]], which included immolation up to ''disintegration'', as well as Mao's plan to ''make her more compact'' for a cramped plane ride, certain she would survive.

* NecessarilyEvil: When Mao ponders his [[MoralEventHorizon morallly questionable]] actions, such as [[BreakTheCutie Breaking The Cutie]] Shirley or [[ChainSawGood deciding to chainsaw]] C.C. to fit her on his plane and escape to Australia, he concludes that their necessary for the [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality greater good]]--protecting C.C. from her own [[DeathSeeker Death Wish]] and [[RonTheDeathEater Lelouch]] so they can continue their [[MayflyDecemberRomance romance]].

* NecessarilyEvil: When Mao ponders his [[MoralEventHorizon morallly questionable]] actions, such as BreakingTheCutie Shirley or [[ChainSawGood attempting to chainsaw]] C.C. to fit her on his plane and escape to Australia, he concludes that their necessary for the greater good--protecting C.C. from her [[DeathSeeker Death Wish]] and [[RonTheDeathEater Lelouch]] so they can continue their [[MayflyDecemberRomance romance]].

* KarmicDeath: Mao tells Shirley that her and Lelouch's death would be this, though he himself muses over the fact he doesn't ''really'' care what she did and is just using her to take down Lelouch so C.C. will be spared.

* JerkassFacade: Mao puts on one of these to intimidate his enemies, even though he's really a TroubledButCute [[TheWoobie Woobie]] on the inside...''mostly''

* InstantExpert: At poker. A mostly JustifiedTrope, in that he defeats his opponents simply by reading their minds.

* GadgeteerGenius: Mao has a natural aptitude for making complex machines out of odd or scarce materials, as well as repairing broken ones. He used this to make devices to ease their chores when he and C.C. lived together in the wild.

* ButtMonkey: Misfortunate events like getting kicked around by police officers, locked in an insane asylum for being at the wrong place ''at the wrong time'', and especially C.C.'s preliminary abandonment do make him TheWoobie though. PlayedForLaughs when he tries to fly to Area 11...and narrowly misses crashing into a building, gets caught in a ''frickin hurricane'', and almost wrecks in the landing.

* DoomMagnet: Let's just say Mao is [[{{Understatement}} prone to misfortune]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Mao kicking everyone's ass at his first game of poker while the ''Rolling Stone's'' [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic "Sympathy For The Devil"]] plays in the background. Hell yeah!

* EitherOrTitle: Several of the [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming idiosyncratic chapter names]] have alternate titles included as well, most commonly [[PunBasedTitle puns]] or [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic symbolic allusions]].

* [=~Chekhov's Armoury~=]: Almost every stray thought is used to reveal something significant to the story.
** Except [[RedHerring when it isn't]].

* CowTools: Several details that appear to be [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]--the ones that aren't revealed to be deliberate [[RedHerring red herrings]]--turn out to be this.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6040679/1/Code_Geass_Mao_of_the_Deliverance Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance]]'' is a CodeGeass fanfic written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1955982/kleptographer_of_alternates kleptographer of alternates]] on Fanfiction.net, which [[PerspectiveFlip details the history of]] [[EnsembleDarkHorse M]][[OneSceneWonder a]][[BaseBreaker o]] , beginning with his abandonment by [[DracoInLeatherPants C.C.]]. It primarily focuses on his desperate search for her as he first [[WalkingTheEarth wanders around]][[strike: China]] Beijing, supporting his operation through gambling and blackmail, though [[ExactEavesdropping clues]] [[{{Telepathy}} uncovered]] during his travels eventually bring him to Japan where his relation to early events in the series is revealed, shedding new insight on his subsequent actions.

* EmpathicEnvironment: The storm in the first chapter is the MostTriumphantExample, but it appears fairly consistently afterwords as well if you watch out for it.
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Crazy Has Standards]]: On one of Code-R’s recorded video sessions, a scientist condescendingly berates a fellow for asserting that C.C. could be an alien, despite the fact that moments before he suggested that she had ''psychic powers''

* [=~Chekhov's Armoury~=]: Almost stray thought is used to reveal something significant to the story.

* CowTools: Several details that appear to be [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]--the ones that don't appear to be deliberate red herrings--turn out to be this.

* CheckhovsArmoury: Almost stray thought is used to reveal something significant to the story.

* CheckhovsBoomerang: The ring Mao forged for C.C. in the first chapter turns out to come in handy on multiple occasions later.

* EitherOrTitle: Several of the [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming idiosyncratic chapter names]] have alternate titles included as well, most commonly [[PunBasedTitle puns]] or [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic symbolic allusions.