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4	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6040679/1/Code_Geass_Mao_of_the_Deliverance Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance]]'' is a ''Anime/CodeGeass'' fanfic by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1955982/kleptographer_of_alternates Kleptographer of Alternates]], which [[PerspectiveFlip details the history of]] Mao , beginning with his abandonment by C.C. It primarily focuses on his desperate search for her as he first [[WalkingTheEarth wanders around]] Beijing, supporting his operation through gambling and blackmail, though [[CoincidentalBroadcast clues]] [[{{Telepathy}} uncovered]] during his travels eventually bring him to Japan where his relation to early events in the series is revealed in an attempt to shed new insight on his subsequent actions.
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6	Its portrayal suggests Mao to be a [[TeenGenius brilliant]] AntiHero whose [[LoveMakesYouCrazy love drives him to sacrifice everything (and anyone) in order to save his beloved]] C.C. [[spoiler: from her [[DeathSeeker Death Wish]]]] so they can be together again. Forever. Given events seen in the show, however, the outcome is a bit of a ForegoneConclusion with a few original twists.
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9	!!''Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance'' provides examples of:
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11	* ActionGirl: After Kallen unknowingly captures C.C., Mao ruminates over the fact that when he finds her, he won't be able to attack her, as she's a skilled fighter and his Geass won't help him predict reflexive muscle movements.
12	** He gives the same reason for avoiding Sayoko, who is also a martial artist.
13	* AdaptationExpansion: Much of the entire first half of the story, along with detailed explanations set in between {{canon}} episodes. The ability of the author to take the core source material (consisting of about three episodes, a couple of cameos and a brief series of flashbacks), and create an engaging storyline that is both plausible and woven into established {{canon}} very well, however, is rather impressive.
14	* AllJustADream: Apparently, Chapter [[spoiler: 20]].
15	* AllLovingHeroine: Nunnally is kind to everyone, even the person holding her hostage. At gunpoint. In the sewer.
16	* AllThereInTheManual: The separate one-shots [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5852197/1/Mistakes_of_the_Past "Mistakes of the Past"]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7468486/1/Memories "Memories"]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6129393/1/Kisses_and_Wishes "Kisses and Wishes"]] provide additional details about Mao and C.C.'s past, such as a retelling of their parting from C.C.'s perspective.
17	* AloneInACrowd: While Mao ''is'' alone for much of the time, it's slightly averted by the fact that he hears the thoughts of those around him, giving him a measure of (unwanted) conversation.
18	* TheAtoner: By the [[spoiler: last chapter]], Mao seems to have come to consider himself this, even Having SympathyForTheDevil over Lelouch and feeling genuine regret for his own actions, although because of his BlueAndOrangeMorality, it's not very clear whether or not he still thinks that because [[NecessarilyEvil it was all for C.C.]], it was worth it.
19	* AndThisIsFor: Mao whispers C.C.'s name when he shoots someone dead for the first time. He later shouts her name repeatedly as he massacres [[SquishyWizard a roomful of scientists]] with an [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill machine gun]].
20	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Mao gives one to C.C. in Chapter 23.
21	* AssholeVictim: Doctor Huai.
22	* [[AntiVillain Anti]] VillainProtagonist: Mao is either this or the AntiHero.
23	* ArbitrarySkepticism: On one of Code-R's recorded video sessions, a scientist condescendingly berates a colleague for wondering aloud if C.C. could be an extraterrestrial, despite the fact that moments before he discussed her having ''psychic powers'' without batting an eye.
24	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Several thoughts Mao overhears suffer from this.
25	* BadassLongcoat: Mao.
26	* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]
27	* BatmanGambit: Because his {{Telepathy}} enables him to acquire intimate knowledge of anyone he wants, Mao often comes up with schemes that are dependent on people acting the way he predicts they will. He is ''very'' good at this. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt against [[EvilCounterpart Lelouch]] ends up failing, though just barely. Then later, Lelouch uses an even better one against him [[spoiler: though it actually fails as well]].
28	** After Mao gives her an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, C.C. [[spoiler: reveals that [[ManipulativeBastard she's been running a rather cruel one for some time, pitting Mao and Lelouch against each other in an attempt to pressure one of them enough to fulfill her contract]]]]. Despite this, Mao ''still'' forgives her [[LoveMartyr and loves her anyway]].
29	*** Mao and C.C. also come to realize that a WhatTheHellHero speech Lelouch gave to C.C. earlier [[spoiler: was really an [[MoreThanMindControl attempt to manipulate her]] into killing Mao for him. Its FatalFlaw is exposed when C.C. makes him think she's deserting him, leading him to resort to another BatmanGambit, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown using her to keep Mao distracted]], in order to [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat make sure he's dead]]. It ultimately [[BackFromTheDead fails]] as well, however.]]
30	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Nunally reveals that Mao's Geass ultimately stems from his desire to understand people.
31	* BerserkButton: Mao's apparently include Code-R experimenting on C.C. Prostitutes propositioning him. Zero.
32	* BigBlackout: Mao engineers one of these in his escape from [[spoiler: the Geass Directorate]].
33	* BigBrotherInstinct: Lelouch became a terrorist and started a war for his handicapped sister Nunnally.
34	* [[spoiler: TheBigDamnKiss: Mao and C.C., in C's World near the end.]]
35	* BilingualBonus: In one chapter Mao starts shouting obscenities in romanized Chinese. See also ForeignLanguageTirade and [[ForeignCussWord Foreign Cuss Words]].
36	** Later when Mao witnesses Suzaku outrun and disable his sentry gun he remarks in disbelief, "Cào nǐ zǔzōng shíbā dài!". Translation: "Fuck your ancestors to the eighteenth generation!", a ''particularly'' insulting Chinese curse.
37	* BleedEmAndWeep: Shirley has this reaction [[spoiler: after shooting a Britannian spy about to expose Lelouch's identity as Zero. [[TheseHandsHaveKilled Because of this]] she becomes [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal]] later and Mao uses her guilt to manipulate her into attacking Lelouch as part of his cruel "punishment".]]
38	* BlessedWithSuck: His Geass gives him the ability to know other's thoughts. [[PowerIncontinence No matter what. All the time]]. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Without fail]].
39	* BloodierAndGorier: Starting with Chapter 12.
40	* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Mao's shotgun tends to have this effect on its victims. Oh, that and backside {{gorn}}.
41	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Mao's moral compass begins and ends with C.C. He starts his journey perfectly willing to do ''anything'' to get back to her and his actions often seem inexplicably insane in the sheer [[PsychopathicManChild innocence of their brutality]], all the while [[UnreliableNarrator seeing himself]] as a paragon example of a KnightInShiningArmor engaged in a struggle of BlackAndWhiteMorality. It becomes muddled near the middle, however, as Mao seems to acknowledge that his recent actions ''are'' evil (at least [[ManChild as far as he can grasp the concept]]) ''but'' [[NecessarilyEvil necessary]]. Regardless, his status as a CloudCuckooLander often causes him to do things normal people would balk at, such as his [[RefugeInAudacity outlandish attempt]] to [[ALoveToDismember chainsaw]] his [[HealingFactor immortal]] beloved in order to make her ''more compact'' for a cramped flight.
42	* BoomHeadshot: Mao delivers a few of these--notably to a {{mook}} who [[TooDumbToLive forgot his helmet]] earlier.
43	* BreakTheCutie: Revealed in several [[{{flashback}} flashbacks]] that Mao was just a TroubledButCute little boy until his Geass slowly drove him insane.
44	** He also deliberately does this to [[NaiveEveryGirl Shirley]] and tries to do it to Nunally but she's portrayed as too pure.
45	* BreakTheHaughty: Mao terrifies Lelouch after a single chess match and later brings him to his knees in [[spoiler: apparent]] defeat. Also inflicts this on [[TheDragon Suzaku]], prompting Lelouch to realize that the key to removing Mao's power over others is to permanently remove his ability to speak.
46	* BreakingSpeech: Mao gives out several of these. One played straight to the doctor of a psychiatric ward, one to a Britannian soldier with a guilty conscience, and one to [[ManipulativeBastard Shirley]] and [[DeathSeeker Suzaku]], respectively. Subverted, when he actually gives a positive one to Doragoniki to gain sympathy and convince him to sell him weapons, by comparing his quest to save C.C. with the seller's frustration over the loss of his wife. [[spoiler: Inverted twice. Once when he unsuccessfully attempts this on Rolo but is prevented because of the fact that he had already come to terms with what Mao said is true, causing it to have no effect on him. And again it fails with Nunnally (possibly due to her cognitive dissonance), however, and she instead ''gives him'' a rather jarring one.]]
47	* BrokenBird: Mao realizes C.C. is this, determining that she must need him just as much as he does her therefore.
48	* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: When Mao first uses his Geass on Lelouch, he learns, among other things, that he ''really'' loves his sister. When he kidnaps Nunnally later, he discovers that the feeling is ''intensely'' mutual. No actual sex seems to have been involved]].
49	* BulletproofVest: Mao has to work around these while fighting an army of {{mooks}}. He also survives because of one after getting shot in the back.
50	* BulletSparks: Mao's shotgun has this effect when he turns it on [[ActionGirl Kallen's]] [[HumongousMecha Knightmare Frame]].
51	* ButtMonkey: Let's just say Mao is prone to misfortune, including getting kicked around by police officers, locked in an insane asylum to be experimented on, and especially C.C.'s initial abandonment. All three of Mao's major schemes [[spoiler: end up failing]], the last of which has [[FateWorseThanDeath horrible consequences]]. Possibly PlayedForLaughs when he tries to fly to Area 11...and narrowly misses crashing into a building, gets caught in a ''hurricane'', and almost wrecks in the landing.
52	* CannotSpitItOut: Despite the fact that she professed to love Mao many times while he was growing up, as shown in several [[{{flashback}} flashbacks]] and the (intended) posthumous recordings she made for him, C.C. refuses to give him the satisfaction of saying it to him when he finds her again, instead claiming she was only using him from the start all the way [[spoiler: till a tender moment near the end, where she finally admits it, though it's still debatable whether she is supposed to be speaking from her heart or just trying to LetThemDieHappy]].
53	* ChainsawGood: Mao's chainsaw isn't just any ordinary chainsaw, but one powered by [[AppliedPhlebotinum liquid Sakuradite]]!
54	* ChekhovsArmoury: Mao accumulates one of these as the story progresses.
55	* ChekhovsBoomerang: The ring Mao forged for C.C. in the first chapter turns out to come in handy in surprising ways on multiple occasions later.
56	* ChekhovsSkill: The training Mao received during his time with the Geass Directorate, such as learning how to alternate the focus of his telepathy between different groups of people instead of all at once, which he later uses to spy on Prince Clovis and General Bartley from outside the Viceroy's Palace to learn where they're holding C.C.
57	* TheChessmaster: Mao becomes this. Though Lelouch turns out to be even better, except when it comes to, you know, actually playing chess, which he loses both times they play thanks to Mao's mindreading.
58	* CoincidentalBroadcast: In Chapter 14, Mao turns on the television just in time to catch the broadcast of Zero's first public appearance with a mysterious capsule in his possession. [[spoiler: As it's same one he lost to Kallen's terrorists at Code-R with C.C. inside]], Mao suspects that C.C. is being held by Zero and begins investigating him, jumpstarting the third StoryArc.
59	** Also C.C.'s (intended) posthumous recording, which almost never seems to run out of new things to say and fragments that play often relate somehow to Mao's present circumstances.
60	* CombatPragmatist: In the shootout from Chapter 12. Kind of required due to the fact that Mao goes up against trained fighters with only his telepathy to give him an edge. [[{{Mook}} Mooks]] with [[BulletProofVest bullet proof armor]]? No problem. Just shoot them in the neck.
61	** Averted to his own detriment at other times, however, such as when he waits to simply kill Lelouch and Shirley with a shotgun after his ploy to get Shirley to kill Lelouch and then herself falls apart. Or how he devises this overly-complicated plan to fool Lelouch into thinking that he got Nunally killed only to try and unceremoniously shoot him with a pistol after the plan is foiled by Suzaku.
62	* CoolShades: Mao wears these or, at least, ''he'' thinks they're cool. Though later he has to keep wearing when dealing with Lelouch, since he will be vulnerable to his Geass if he doesn't.
63	* CowTools: The writer seems to enjoy elaborating on details that appear to be nothing more than this, seemingly added for atmosphere or flavor. Especially prominent any time Mao's telepathy is written out.
64	* CradlingYourKill: C.C. does this ''in a way'' to Mao at the end of Chapter 26.
65	* CreepyChild: V.V. comes off this way.
66	* DeathGlare: Subverted in Mao's treatment of Rolo, however, as he [[spoiler: takes him down wearing a friendly smile.]]
67	* DeathSeeker: C.C. reveals that [[spoiler: the contract she made with Mao is dependent upon him killing her so he can [WhoWantsToLiveForever relieve her of her immortality].]] Mao refuses to kill her, arguing that he's in love with her and needs her, which is why she abandons him. Mao later seeks to kill Lelouch, the person C.C. makes a contract with after Mao, in order to prevent him from eventually completing the contract by killing her.
68	** [[spoiler: Mao also casually reveals that Suzaku is secretly one of these, due to guilt over murdering his own father as a child.]]
69	** [[spoiler: Finally, Mao becomes one of these himself when he approaches C.C. for the second to last time and asks her to [[ThanatosGambit kill him as he can't go on like this anymore]].]]
70	* DeathTrap: Mao engineers a few of these against Lelouch using his TeenGenius skills. The freaking Sentry Gun he manages to install in the school without anyone noticing is pretty much hand-waved.
71	* DealWithTheDevil: Mao's acceptance of Geass as revealed in Chapter 24, given what it ultimately turns him into...
72	* DemotedToExtra: Mao is the ONLY character actively present for all chapters ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]]). C.C. is mentioned at least once in every chapter but only present for 7 of them. Lelouch himself, though treated as the main antagonist, is only present for 9 of them, though techhnically also in 2 earlier chapters as "Zero" on broadcasts. Shirley and Nunnally are present for 3 chapters, respectively. V.V. and Rolo are present for 3 chapters. Suzaku is in 2 chapters. Kallen is only in 1 chapter, giving her the same amount as Diethard of all people, who also gets 1 chapter. Prince Clovis, General Bartley, Jeremiah and Viletta also appear in 1 chapter (although Viletta gets a later {{flashback}} cameo). Numerous other characters from the show are mentioned or hinted at but not present as well.
73	* DespairEventHorizon: ''Finally'' crossed by Mao in Chapter 22 after a long TraumaCongaLine.
74	* TheDeterminator: Mao gambles, blackmails, steals, does drugs, flies through ''a frickin hurricane'', takes on soldiers and terrorists and gets shot repeatedly all in his quest to save C.C. and be with her forever. What's incredible is that, for many of them, it's ''his first time attempting to do so!''
75	* DisappearedDad: Shirley's father is killed as a consequence of Lelouch's terrorist activities. Also Mao was orphaned at an early age, [[spoiler: though it's hinted a few times that he was of noble, [[WildMassGuessing possibly even royal]], birth]].
76	* DoNotGoGentle: Towards the end, even though Mao feels like he can't go on like this anymore and wants to die, he is determined to get revenge on Lelouch and make him suffer before he goes.
77	* DontYouDarePityMe: Mao to Nunnally.
78	* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: [[spoiler: C.C. takes Mao to [[SpiritWorld C's World]] while he is unconscious and leaves him there with the mental version of herself so he can be happy and safe within her memories. Mao's reaction, however, is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] as, while grateful for her gesture and the company, he isn't satisfied and ultimately misses the real thing too much to be truly happy.]]
79	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Depending on your interpreation of the final chapter, the ending is either this or a BittersweetEnding since Mao is now trapped in C.C.'s memories forever with only a simulacrum of herself who doesn't even know who he is at first to keep him company. At least he got the satisfaction of hearing C.C. telling him she loved him again and giving him [[TheBigDamnKiss one last kiss]] first.]]
80	* TheDragon: Rolo to V.V. Mao also thinks of [[ActionGirl Kallen]] as this for Zero.
81	** Suzaku later kind of becomes this in the story too in order help Lelouch save Nunnally.
82	* DrivenToSuicide: Mao strongly contemplates this option, before deciding he'd rather have revenge first. Also an example of SpurnedIntoSuicide, as he is beginning to fear that C.C. might not really love him. [[spoiler: He later meets with C.C. and ends up asking her to kill him instead to put an end to his suffering, but this turns out to be [[ThanatosGambit a ploy on his part]] to find out whether or not she truly loves him after all.]]
83	* DrJerk: ''Any'' of the doctors Mao meets in the hospital qualify, but ''especially'' Dr. Huai.
84	* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Both Mao AND Lelouch suffer moments like this the further along their rivalry goes.
85	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Despite everything bad that happened to Mao, he is finally reunited with C.C. in [[SpiritWorld C's World]] at the end.]]
86	* EitherOrTitle: Several of the [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming idiosyncratic chapter names]] have alternate titles included as well, most commonly [[PunBasedTitle puns]] or [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolic allusions]].
87	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Just like in the show, the Geass Directorate is a city hidden underground beneath a desert in the Chinese Federation.
88	* EmpathicEnvironment: The storm in the first chapter is the best example, but it appears fairly consistently afterwords as well if you watch for it.
89	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Side characters, both male and female, frequently ruminate on how sexy he is (or how awesome his clothes are). Like, for example, a hotel employee who teaches him how to use the computer and Prince Clovis' own security guards! Probably a case of AuthorAppeal more than anything.
90	* EvilCounterpart: Mao comes to view Lelouch this way.
91	** Both are [[TeenGenius geniuses]], both consider the [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy well being of a single individual]] their entire purpose in life, both [[DealWithTheDevil are given a Geass]] by C.C. and both are extremely proficient in manipulating people to their own ends. [[spoiler: And both make their exit with a ThanatosGambit.]]
92	*** Their differences are portrayed as complementary as well, however--Mao is portrayed as physically superior while Lelouch always ultimately comes out on top in their mindgames. Mao's mechanical skills are also contrasted with Lelouch's prowess with strategy and tactics.
93	* ExactEavesdropping: Justified because Mao not only hears every thought within 500 meters of him but can focus in on those that interest him. Much of what he hears though is completely random. Humorously averted when gaps sometimes appear in his awareness, which Mao attributes to people speaking without thinking about what they're saying.
94	* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: When faced with Lelouch's {{brainwashed}} police execution squad, Mao attempts to [[TheReveal shout]] that Lelouch is the terrorist Zero. Unfortunately, his attempt is [[IncrediblyLamePun shot down]] before he can get it out.
95	* [[spoiler: FakeTrap: In an convoluted solution to the instance in the show where Suzaku [[ArtisticLicensePhysics deactivates a motion sensitive bomb by simply jumping and cutting the correct wire in midair]], the author gives the explanation that it was really a [[ForWantOfANail malfunctioning]] smoke bomb designed to deceive Lelouch by tricking him into thinking he had gone outside his Geass' radius, when he actually hadn't, and draw him into Mao's ''real'' trap. It was supposed to go off so that Mao could show the video to Lelouch to make him think he had caused the death of his sister Nunally by losing their game to Mao. Being a homemade explosive that Mao cooked up in the kitchen, it turns out to be a dud, much to his chagrin.]]
96	* FantasticDrug: Refrain.
97	* FlawExploitation: Mao uses this against others, including Lelouch, and ends up [[LaserGuidedKarma receiving it]] from Lelouch as well.
98	* ForeignMoneyIsProofOfGuilt: While not actually guilty of a crime, Mao is treated with suspicion when he tenders Chinese yuan inside Britannian Area 11, and one dealer even refuses to sell to him (until that is, Mao makes AnOfferYouCantRefuse). At one point, Mao tries to skirt the issue by playing to a clerk's racism and drawing attention to the fact that he won it ''gambling against'' a Chinese man.
99	* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: Mao is going to fail in his quest to be with C.C. and die.]]
100	** [[spoiler: Played with: Mao actually [[ChainsawGood kills]] Lelouch and escapes to Australia with C.C., but it turns out to be AllJustADream. Then again at the end, Mao loses to Lelouch and C.C. appears to kill him, but in reality she [[BackFromTheDead takes Mao to C's World]] to hide him away inside her memories.]]
101	* FreakOut: Mao does this several times. Notably when his player first runs out of batteries; and then again when he loses C.C. to Kallen's terrorists.
102	* FreudianExcuse: Apparently Dr. Huai was [[RapeAsBackstory sexually abused by his mother since he was little]]. And essentially, this whole story is Mao's FreudianExcuse, laid out in detail!
103	* GadgeteerGenius: Mao displays a natural aptitude for making complex machines out of odd or scarce materials, as well as repairing broken ones. He apparently learned this while making devices to ease their chores when he and C.C. lived together in the wild.
104	* GambitPileup: In Chapter 23, Mao and Lelouch's [[spoiler: AND C.C.’s]] schemes come to light, and are shown to have become so intertwined at one point as to have actually [[spoiler: canceled each other out]]. Which makes Lelouch's [[spoiler: on the fly victory]] in Chapter 21 all the more remarkable. WorthyOpponent indeed!
105	* TheGhost: After her disappearance in Chapter 1, C.C. becomes this for a while, constantly referred to by Mao and mentioned during [[{{flashback}} flashbacks]], but not actually encountered until much later, except for a brief cameo.
106	%%* {{Gorn}}: Chapter 12 has a lot of this. And Chapter 20 takes it [[ExaggeratedTrope UpToEleven]].
107	* GovernmentConspiracy: Mao uncovers several clues pointing to one of these, eventually uncovering that [[spoiler: Prince Clovis and General Bartley abducted C.C. to synthesize her immortality with the hope of presenting her to the Emperor to curry his favor.]]
108	** [[spoiler: Also, the Britannian Rosenberg Institute paid for illegal experiments on asylum inmates to produce the drug Refrain and addict colonial populations with armed resistance movements, turning right around and making it illegal so as to reap the profits.]]
109	* GreyAndGrayMorality: A lot of the conflict underlying the story comes across this way, although since everything is told from Mao's perspective, it often reads like BlueAndOrangeMorality while Mao [[UnreliableNarrator continually affirms]] that its actually a BlackAndWhiteMorality tale of a knight trying to rescue his maiden.
110	* GunpointBanter: Mao starts to have one of these with Rupert Deneuvre during their MexicanStandoff. Also gives a BreakingSpeech to a guard he has pinned with a gun to the head.
111	* GunsAkimbo: During his assault on Code-R, he opts for dual pistols as his weapon of choice when he can get away with it. Probably also a case of RuleOfCool for the author.
112	* HamToHamCombat: The battle between Lelouch and Mao in Chapter 20, culminating in an absurd chainsaw vs. katana duel.
113	* HarmfulToMinors: Directly stated that Mao's Geass forced him to learn about things that were far too mature for a child to handle and distorted his view of everyone but C.C. as inherently evil.
114	* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Thinking that Mao would fulfill her contract, C.C. made him a recording to ease his loneliness filled with words of gratitude and encouragement. When she abandons him after he doesn't though, Mao uses it to drown out his constant telepathy that would otherwise debilitate him.
115	* HealingFactor: C.C. can revive from ''any'' injury, no matter how severe. Demonstrated poignantly in [[AndIMustScream Code-R's experiments]], which included everything from [[ManOnFire immolation]] up to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill disintegration]], as well as Mao's plan to ''[[RefugeInAudacity make her more compact]]'' for a cramped flight by keeping her body parts separate until they get there.
116	* HeelRealization: Kind of manages to have one at the ''very'' end.
117	* HellbentForLeather: The lengths Mao goes to in order to acquire his white leather BadassLongcoat.
118	* HeroicSacrifice: Although his [[ManChild Man Childish]] BlueAndOrangeMorality makes his judgements questionable to begin with, Mao comes to consider his JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope as this, pledging to do [[NecessarilyEvil whatever it takes]] to [[LoveMakesYouEvil save C.C.]]
119	* HopeSpot: Chapter 20. Too bad it [[spoiler: turns out to be AllJustADream]].
120	** A dark example during Mao's final confrontation with Lelouch, in which Mao is just [[spoiler: playing along to MaintainTheLie with Lelouch's MemoryGambit and is, in fact, running a complex {{plan}} of his own.]]
121	*** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted in that, through a ForWantOfANail flaw in Mao's plan and Suzaku's timely intervention, Lelouch [[ForegoneConclusion still overcomes Mao anyway]].]]
122	* HumansAreBastards: Mao's basic outlook on everyone except for C.C. due to the fact that he knows what everyone around him is really thinking and most of it is selfish or depraved.
123	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Mao's name appears in all the chapter titles, preceded by a present tense verb, apparently based on Turn 15 of the show, translated "Cheering Mao".
124	* IHaveAFamily: Invoked by a guard named Alex when Mao [[DissonantSerenity calmly explains]] that he needs to kill him in order to steal his I.D. Rebuffed by Mao when he reminds him of all the [[DarkAndTroubledPast families he killed]] (including children) as a soldier during the invasion of Japan.
125	* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: See BadassLongcoat and CoolShades above.
126	** He does shed those when [[spoiler: they get shot full of holes, after which he becomes something of a RummageSaleReject thanks to the charity of a kind nurse.]]
127	* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Mao reserves a ''single-bed'' cottage in deep Australia so he can take C.C. there.
128	* IndulgentFantasySegue: Turns out that [[spoiler: Chapter 20]] is this. And it's kind of [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] [[HilarityEnsues HILARIOUS!]]
129	* IndyPloy: Mao travels to Shinjuku in order to liberate C.C. from the Britannian military. About the only thing he plans for, however, is a shoot out and when he gets there he just happens to find a guard on break whose uniform and ID he can take in order to get into the lab.
130	* InstantExpert: At poker. A somewhat JustifiedTrope, in that he defeats his opponents simply by reading their minds to know what they have in their hand and how much risk they're willing to take. Later demonstrates the same ability when he easily defeats {{Chessmaster}} Lelouch at chess.
131	* IWillFightSomeMoreForever: Even when Mao is confronted by Kallen's [[HumongousMecha Knightmare]], he fires his shotgun at the damn thing, almost getting him killed when she retaliates with her rocket grapple.
132	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mao tries to act like a jerk to intimidate his enemies, even though he's really a TroubledButCute ManChild on the inside...''mostly''.
133	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: For awhile, Mao only seems to use his Geass to attack those who threaten him. Later, however, he shoots up soldiers and unarmed researchers and extorts innocents without a care. He even goes so far as to come up with two separate twisted schemes just to humiliate and break Lelouch for nothing more than his own personal resentment towards him.
134	* 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 as punishment for making a contract with C.C.
135	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: With [[NaiveEverygirl Shirley]]. He also receives this from Lelouch.
136	* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Mao follows a kind of mental hit list of people who know about C.C.'s true nature to eliminate them in order to keep her immortality a secret so the Britannian government [[ProperlyParanoid won't come after her again]].
137	* KnightInShiningArmor: Mao fancies himself as one for C.C., though later begins to act like a KnightInSourArmor when things become more difficult for him.
138	* TheLastDance: Chapters 24, 25, and 26 are this for Mao.
139	* LetThemDieHappy: Inverted. Mao's favored method seems to be to MindRape them, give them a BreakingSpeech about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason They Suck]] and then either just kill them himself or [[MoreThanMindControl get them to do it for him]].
140	** Played straight with [[spoiler: C.C. to Mao, depending on how you interpret her complicated feelings for him.]]
141	* LiteralGenie: Lelouch's Geass. [[spoiler: Mao survives Lelouch's firing squad because of his poorly phrased command to the {{brainwashed}} police officers to "shoot" rather than "kill"]]. It requires quite a suspension of disbelief but, admittedly, the show doesn't explain it much better.
142	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: C.C. for Mao and a pretty dark example at that, considering [[StalkerWithACrush the lengths]] he is willing to [[ALoveToDismember go to]] in order to get her back. Just her voice apparently soothes him like nothing else.
143	* LivingLieDetector: Mao's Geass enables him to do this. [[spoiler: Nunnally is also revealed to be able to tell when someone is lying and view their memories just by holding their hand. She does this to Mao, but he has a FreakOut instead from the ensuing MindRape.]]
144	* LoveAtFirstSight: Averted as a {{flashback}} reveals that Mao shouted that he hated the world and everyone in it, including C.C. (whom he had never met till then).
145	* LoveMartyr: Mao admits to himself that C.C. lied to him by breaking her promise to be with him forever, but decides he doesn't care and still loves her anyway.
146	** [[spoiler: [[PowerOfLove Pays off in the end]] when she reaffirms her promise to him in C's World though]].
147	* ALoveToDismember: Mao attempts to make C.C. ''more compact'' for a cramped flight to Australia. In the preceding chapter, we get to see Mao actually do this to a ''willing'' C.C. And then C.C.'s severed head talks to him and ''blows him kisses'' afterward! Thankfully, it was [[spoiler: AllJustADream]] though.
148	* ManChild: Mao is still very childlike, despite physically being an adult.
149	** When he excitedly rides a carousel for the first time.
150	* ManipulativeBastard: Do we even have to tell you who?
151	** Also Lelouch attempts to be one in a desperate bid to win the already [[BrainwashedAndCrazy confused AND murderous]] Shirley over to his side in the midst of Mao's BatmanGambit. It doesn't work too well.
152	* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Since realizing that Mao is still chasing her, C.C. has been running a BatmanGambit in a bid to coerce either Lelouch or Mao to [[spoiler: [[WhoWantsToLiveForever take her immortality]]]] by pitting them against each other.
153	** Mao also accuses Shirley of being this, although he's really just reading her mind and playing it back to her.
154	* MindRape: In a bizarre twist, [[spoiler: Nunally does this to Mao!]].
155	* MindScrew: Chapter 20! Signs inexplicably change, a dismembered head carries on conversation, carousel horses ride ''off'' their carousel, people talk ''after their already ''[[NooneCouldSurviveThat beyond dead]]''...and Mao becomes an InvincibleHero with CharlesAtlasSuperpower. All without any warning right before the climactic showdown.
156	* MoralMyopia: Mao often berates others for doing (or thinking, or remembering doing or thinking) things that he sees as evil. While it's affirmed that he begins the story thinking his actions are an irreproachable demonstration of BlackAndWhiteMorality, he later acknowledges his slip into GreyAndGrayMorality, remarking that he really doesn't care what the world does to itself, so long as he can find a quiet place to be with C.C. away from it all. To the reader, however, it is a stark case of BlueAndOrangeMorality. Yeah...it's complicated.
157	* MoreThanMindControl: Mao excels at this.
158	* MyHeroZero: Inverted in that the daring terrorist Zero is really Lelouch, a [[SmugSnake calculating bastard]] who becomes Mao's EvilCounterpart.
159	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Doctor Huai. "Huai" means evil in Chinese.
160	* NecessarilyEvil: When Mao ponders his morally questionable actions, such as [[BreakTheCutie manipulating Shirley to kill Lelouch and herself]] [ChainSawGood deciding to chainsaw]] C.C. to fit her on a plane to escape to Australia, he concludes that their necessary for the [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality greater good]]--protecting C.C. from her own [[DeathSeeker Death Wish]] so they can continue their [[MayflyDecemberRomance romance]].
161	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By C.C. giving Mao a player filled with recordings of her voice, she also inadvertently enabled him to cope with his telepathy in order to follow her trail in the first place.
162	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When the terrorists escape the containment facility with C.C., Mao delivers a particularly bloody one of these to the head conspirator Rupert Deneuvre ''after'' already shooting him.
163	* NonActionGuy: Lelouch is portrayed as physically inferior to Mao, whose rugged life in the wild has apparently made him fit by comparison.
164	* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler: Just like in the show, he comes back after being ''riddled with bullets'' in the previous chapter. [[LiteralGenie The writer attempts to explain]] it though.]]
165	* NoPlaceForMeThere: Notably, C.C. says this to Mao at one point ''of him''. He, predictably, disagrees.
166	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Several times Mao notes the similarities between other characters and himself, including the arms dealer Doragoniki who is haunted by the loss of his wife, Shirley Fenette for not hesitating to kill someone to protect Lelouch (even though he still [[MoreThanMindControl More Than Mind Controls]] her without a care so he can use her against Lelouch), Nunnally for considering Lelouch the only thing that matters and [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality excusing his actions]] therefore, and finally, [[spoiler: even Lelouch himself, for being willing to commit any atrocity in order to ensure Nunnally's happiness.]]
167	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Rather than just exposing Lelouch's identity as Zero to the military and letting them take care of him, Mao is determined to personally be the one to bring him down. [[spoiler: Twice!]]
168	** Mao pursues this course out of fear that exposing Lelouch to the authorities [[ProperlyParanoid will place C.C. in danger of being recaptured]], since she's with him.
169	*** When he realizes he's probably about to die, though, he does try to shout it out to the police to no avail. [[spoiler: Except he doesn't die]]
170	* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: The Geass Directorate and its associated research projects and secret institutes.
171	* OutOfCharacter: The story interprets certain characters somewhat liberally. Some of this is justified in that it's [[UnreliableNarrator seen through the eyes of]] Mao. Others, though, such as how Lelouch is assumed, by both Mao and C.C. to [[spoiler: have been using a FreakOut to convince her to kill Mao, rather than being merely obsessive and viewing C.C. as a sort of Freudian fill-in for his mother, which is arguably a more canon interpretation]] are more original.
172	** Given how far gone Mao is by that point, Mao's unusual mercy towards [[spoiler: Nunnally, by not actually putting her under a real bomb,]] can come off like this too. Though the story makes it out to be a trick to [[spoiler: deceive Lelouch into thinking he is outside of his Geass' range, when, in fact, he was not.]]
173	*** Although there are small moments scattered throughout where Mao takes the time to at least attempt to do something unusually kind, such as scaring away an overbearing Britannian jerk from a random Japanese girl or scrawling the words 'thank you' in soap on his hospital mirror, serving as a reminder that deep beneath the insanity and [[LoveMakesYouEvil self-adopted evil]], he can be a sweet kid.
174	** Lelouch and C.C.'s final talk in the story is pretty standard at the start: [[spoiler: Lelouch is worried that C.C. might have spared Mao, and that he may come after Nunnally again.]] But then, [[spoiler: Lelouch takes the opportunity to threaten C.C. out of some head trip, even after Suzaku's break down has knocked him out of it.]]
175	* ParentalAbandonment: Mao was orphaned as a young child, no older than six. [[FromBadToWorse Then]] C.C.--the one who effectively raised him--abandoned him years later.
176	* PayEvilUntoEvil: When he infiltrates Code-R, Mao's original plan is to eliminate the guards and escape with C.C. After he sees videos of the experiments performed upon her, however, he decides that "these people are monsters" and proceeds to mercilessly kill every unarmed scientist he comes across.
177	* PersonaNonGrata: After winning particularly large sums of money all night, Mao is kicked out from a luxury casino by the venue's armed guards for 'winning too much'.
178	* ThePlan: Mao's TheLastDance [[spoiler: involves four different goals, some of which directly conflict with each other, in an odd case of self-made GambitPileup]].
179	* PrecisionFStrike: When Lelouch boasts how easy it was to deceive Mao with the monitor trick while [[BatmanGambit he was distracted by C.C.]], Mao retorts in disbelief, "Don't fuck with me brat!", the only (English) use of the word so far. Justified as it's a direct quote from the show's subtitle script.
180	* ProperlyParanoid: Mao {{lampshades}} plenty of schemes that he could perform to secure his goal along the way, but fears that many of them will expose C.C. to danger, especially when he finds her in the company of the highly-sought after terrorists, [[BadassArmy the Black Knights]]. Given the Code-R affair, he's got a point.
181	* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Despite the increasingly violent and twisted acts Mao engages in as his quest becomes more desperate, he continues to excuse them by considering saving C.C. to be the only thing that ''really'' matters.
182	** Lelouch is revealed to operate with the same basic outlook in regards to Nunnally. He's a little more compassionate towards others, as pointed out by Nunnally - he puts himself at great risk to rescue Suzaku and the Student Council, though it also furthers his plans.
183	** C.C. also seems to have this for...um...[[TheUnfettered herself]].
184	* {{Protectorate}}: Mao views protecting C.C. as his sole responsibility and is [[TheDeterminator determined]] to do so, [[DeathSeeker even from herself]].
185	* PurpleProse: Some descriptions of C.C. Justified since the work is from Mao's perspective, who has SingleTargetSexuality for her and sees her like a DracoInLeatherPants.
186	* RaisedByWolves: Mao spent his early childhood as an orphan, scavenging to get by. Later, however, C.C. became ''something'' [[WifeHusbandry resembling a parent for him]]. And you wonder why he's so screwed up.
187	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: C.C. of course.
188	* RefugeInAudacity: The airplane Mao swindled is a bit too small to fit both him and his beloved C.C. Just like in the show, after seriously pondering the issue, Mao comes up with the [[SarcasmMode ingenious]] plan to use a chainsaw to make said [[HealingFactor immortal]] love interest ''more compact''. The story makes it worse as we get to read Mao fumbling through explaining to the seller what he needs to do with it.
189	* TheReveal: Not surprising, given the nature of Mao's power and his personality. Most especially, he reveals that [[spoiler: Lelouch and Nunnally are [[BrotherSisterIncest in love]] and Suzaku is a DeathSeeker who murdered his own father]].
190	* [[RightfortheWrongReasons Right for the Wrong Reasons]]: Mao avoids fighting against Kallen and Sayoko because his Geass is not able to predict reflexive muscle movements. His analysis is based on a mistaken understanding of human neurology, but he is correct that he would be at a disadvantage in physical combat.
191	** A reflex is an involuntary response that bypasses the brain. A reaction is a voluntary response which can be automatically executed using muscle memory but is initiated by the brain.
192	** Mao either lacks the muscle memory required to execute an effective response to an attack or can only predict deliberate decisions made in the frontal lobe as compared to the [[https://www.npr.org/2016/09/03/492516937/how-a-baseball-batters-brain-reacts-to-a-fast-pitch motor cortex]].
193	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Played straight when Mao goes on one after watching several recorded experiments carried out by [[GovernmentConspiracy Code-R]] on [[AndIMustScream C.C.]], accomplished by [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge 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!)
194	* SadisticChoice: Mao presents several. Sometimes his victims manage to TakeAThirdOption.
195	* SanitySlippage: Mao's experiences in the insane asylum, locked in a straitjacket and almost constantly being injected with experimental drugs.
196	* SarcasticClapping: Subverted in that he tends to clap when he gets really happy or excited, but played straight when he wants to deliberately unnerve someone or prevent them from concentrating.
197	* ScaryShinyGlasses: Well, Shirley seems to think this of Mao's visor, and Lelouch spends time [[PowerNullifier wishing it wasn't there]].
198	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: To a degree, Mao and Lelouch.
199	* SentryGun: Mao hooks up one of these to guard the hallway leading to the underground level where he has Nunnally trapped. Apparently, he forced the military to give it to him off screen. Rendered useless when [[TheDragon Suzaku]] [[ArtisticLicensePhysics defies gravity]] and [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower outruns it]], delivering a HurricaneKick to disable it. Cue [[ForeignCussWord Chinese Swearing]] by Mao while watching this on camera.
200	* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: Lelouch uses his Geass to make Mao mute when he's distracted by Suzaku in a vivid case of AFateWorseThanDeath. After he awakens in C's World with C.C., however, she [[DeusExMachina uses her powers to break Lelouch's Geass on him]], just as she did in the show for Lelouch at the start of R2.]]
201	** C.C. also gives a playful one to Mao [[spoiler: in C's World]] when she tells him he "talks too much" before shutting him up [[spoiler: with a kiss]].
202	* SingleTargetSexuality: Mao for C.C. but he has no other options outside of her. Illustrated when an enterprising prostitute attempts to seduce Mao...and gets struck across the face for it.
203	* SmugSnake: Mao's opinion of Lelouch.
204	* SongFic: Several chapters have scenes in which a related song is playing in the background, usually on the radio, including the ''Rolling Stones'', ''Karen O'', ''Hoobastank'', and ''The Police''.
205	** A couple chapters also contain the lyrics to songs that C.C. apparently sang to Mao when he was young to soothe the effects of his Geass when they still lived in the city, such as one from Manga/FruitsBasket and Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED.
206	** Finally, the author has the audacity to recommend that certain instrumental pieces be played while reading, from sources such as ''Anime/CodeGeass'', the ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', ''Manga/DeathNote'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', ''Anime/MyHime'', ''Manga/XxxHolic'', and ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
207	* TheSoulless: Rolo is portrayed this way, interrupted by flashes of StepfordSmiler.
208	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: C.C.'s name is rendered "C.C." throughout but a ShoutOut to the dub version "C2" occurs with Mao's luxury hotel suite: "Floor C, Suite 002".
209	* StalkingIsLove: Mao travels hundreds of miles following C.C.'s trail in order to find her again while listening to her voice constantly on his headphones. Although he ''is'' really just trying to save her life (albeit against her wishes).
210	* StepfordSmiler: Mao is a combination of Type A and C. When he confronts his enemies, he acts extremely cool, confident, and self-satisfied, even though he's really [[TroubledButCute severely messed up]] and miserable without C.C. See also HiddenDepths.
211	** Rolo appears to be a [[TheSoulless Type B]].
212	* SympatheticPOV: Mao's, obviously, although it does explore his moral decay.
213	* TeenGenius: Mao not only has aptitude for [[GadgeteerGenius engineering]], from repairing broken machinery to devising elaborate [[DeathTrap Death Traps]], but demonstrates excellent deductive reasoning skills as he traces C.C.'s movements and investigates Zero's identity. His Geass helps.
214	* {{Telepathy}}: His Geass power. In this interpretation, it penetrates the minds of everyone within 500 meters and, if he concentrates on someone, he can penetrate all the way down to the subconscious to read through their mind to find whatever information he's looking for.
215	* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Mao secretly approaches C.C. asking her to kill him. After she reluctantly agrees, he attacks Lelouch while she's away by abducting Nunnally and holding her hostage with a FakeTrap. Unexpectedly, however, Lelouch gets a chance to use his Geass on him and, as Mao flees, C.C. appears, ''seemingly'' to fulfill her earlier promise. Afterwards, he wakes up in C's World, however, and she reveals that she merely injected him with a chemical to deceive Lelouch into thinking he was dead because she [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther really does love him too]] and wants him to be safe and happy. Mao then reveals the entire thing was his own [[ThePlan plan]] to prove to C.C. that she really did love him, take his revenge on Lelouch, ''and'' finally be free of his Geass.]]
216	* ThinkingOutLoud: Mao often does this to differentiate his own thoughts from all the others he has to hear. Played for laughs when several side characters question his sanity or he accidentally reveals information he didn't intend to.
217	* TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket: Mao has to call hotel reception to show him how to use a computer.
218	* TookALevelInBadass: After his [[spoiler: training at the Geass Directorate for an unspecified period of time]], he manages to take on a guardhouse of Britannian [[{{mook}} soldiers]] with an arsenal of automatic weapons.
219	** Justified somewhat because Mao's Geass allows him to know exactly what obstacles his enemies are hiding behind, when they have to reload, where they're aiming, and what their tactical strategies are.
220	* TraumaCongaLine: The story. And it progressively gets worse for Mao.
221	* JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: InUniverse. In a display of their savvy familiarity with the site, the author gives a humorous warning about specific tropes to be encountered in the work as part of the introduction.
222	* TheUnfettered: Mao, C.C. and Lelouch ''all'' consider themselves this way. Problem is...they're not.
223	* UnhappyMedium: Mao. Very, ''very'' unhappy. And became one when he was only about six years old.
224	* UnreliableNarrator: The story is told from a third person rendering of Mao's perspective. Thus, Mao's personal bias ends up, depending on your point of view, coloring descriptions of other characters, i.e. He = KnightInShiningArmor, C.C. = NotSoStoic PuritySue [[DracoInLeatherPants In Leather Pants]] and Lelouch = RonTheDeathEater.
225	** Although his opinion of others is based off of whatever he learns about them by reading their minds, his ''interpretation'' of the information he learns this way is often skewed.
226	%%* UnwittingPawn: Lelouch to C.C. [[spoiler: Mao]] as well [[BatmanGambit up to a point]].
227	%%* VillainousBSOD: Mao inflicts one upon Lelouch and Suzaku in their last encounter.
228	* WasItAllALie: Mao begins contemplating this possibility after his failed reunion with C.C. in Chapter 21.
229	* WhatTheHellHero: Mao tries to give one to C.C. in Chapter 23, confronting her on slowly doing to Lelouch the very same thing she did to him. Somewhat a case of VillainHasAPoint.
230	* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Subverted. While Mao uses his Geass for a lot of ExactEavesdropping, MoreThanMindcontrol and [[BatmanGambit Batman Gambits]], he also relies on his [[TeenGenius Teen]] GadgeteerGenius and [[TookALevelInBadass training]] by the [[spoiler: Geass Directorate]].
231	** His BriefcaseFullOfMoney (he carries around eight ''hundred thousand'' in cash at one point on his person!), WallOfWeapons (alright it's a closet but still), GunAccessories and CoolPlane, which is actually a light craft that he modified for transpacific travel.
232	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The main motivation behind most of C.C.'s actions comes from weariness of her own immortality.
233	* WideEyedIdealist: Nunnally, who fervently declares that "everyone can be redeemed", despite the fact that Mao has imprisoned her in the Ashford sewer and threatened her if she doesn't comply with his scheme.
234	* WifeHusbandry: GenderInverted. Because Mao and C.C. lived together in the wild for several years while he grew up, sleeping and bathing together without impunity, Mao becomes [[PrecociousCrush so attached to her]] that, as he matures, he comes to treat her as his lover. [[spoiler: The story seems to take the stance that she had sex with him at some point ''too early'', only fueling his obsessive attachment to her]].
235	* WillNotTellALie: Seems to have a childish hang-up about telling lies, despite the occasional hindrance it poses. His reliance on {{Telepathy}} also tends to render deception pointless anyway. Slightly subverted when he muses that pretend isn't the same as lying if the situation calls for it. He also willfully sows confusion in order to manipulate people (up to and including their own ruination) toward his own ends. Mostly by repeating what they ''really'' think back to them and [[AccentuateTheNegative emphasizing the negative]]. It's even explicitly stated that he doesn't always believe his own {{Breaking Speech}}es.
236	%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Technically, yes; though not in the usual way.
237	%%* WorldOfHam: Chapter 20.
238	%%* WorthyOpponent: When Mao first identifies Lelouch and reads his mind, he remarks on this.
239	%%* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Nalani provides a good example of this.

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