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1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Subverted in that its portrayal isn't ''so'' different from the show, but merely elaborated upon. Seems to take the position that Mao is a [[TragicHero Tragic]] [[TheWoobie Woobie]] AntiHero with a {{Jerkass}} facade.
2	* {{Anvilicious}}: When Mao is forced into a Refrain addiction, he spends two days going through severe withdrawals before he gets better, culminating in a line that reads like a drug rehab success story advertisement.
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Mao kicking everyone's ass at his first game of poker while the Rolling Stones' [[RuleOfSymbolism "Sympathy For The Devil"]] plays in the background. Hell yeah!
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Chapter 20.
5	* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: At one point when he's imprisoned in a psychiatric ward, Mao sweats blood, with the doctor in charge even comparing his ordeal to Christ.
6	* {{Fanon}}: While the work borrowed some novel ideas concerning its titulary character from older fics about Mao, it applies them in original ways and introduces even more new material, which has appeared in other fanfiction since.
7	** The author also indulges fan theories such as dropping hints about Mao's noble or royal origins (related to a theory that he's an illegitimate son of the Chinese Emperor and related to Empress Tianzi who his character design superficially resembles), revealing that Lelouch and his sister Nunally are literally in love with each other and explicitly going with the interpretation that Nunally has a supernatural ability see into a person's memories by touching them.
8	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
9	** Mao trying to steer an airplane for the first time, screaming at the top of his lungs as he attempts to fly through a ''frickin hurricane!''
10	** Also, the awkward dialogue Mao employs when he tries to explain [[{{squick}} what he needs to]] buy the chainsaw [[ALoveToDismember for]].
11	** Special mention goes to the bit in [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Chapter 20]] when the Black Knights show up and [[ShoutOut start singing a variation on]] the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Team Rocket]] theme song for [[LargeHam no apparent reason]]!
12	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
13	** A Refrain induced flashback where Mao and C.C. happily cover each other in newborn butterflies.
14	** [[spoiler: Also in C's World when they share TheBigDamnKiss]].
15	* MoralEventHorizon: A few things could qualify. His brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatDown of Rupert Deneuvre. His coercion of Brantley Hall by threatening to kill [[InnocentBystander his son Willy]]. His MoreThanMindControl of [[NaiveEveryGirl Shirley]]. Mao himself, however, justifies it as the surest way to kill Lelouch at the time and thus save C.C.'s life. Also his later abduction of Nunnally in order to get revenge on Lelouch.
16	** Although, his treatment of Shirley is undone when [[spoiler: Lelouch makes Shirley forget all of it afterwords.]] As cruel as it was, the damage wasn't permanent.
17	** And with Nunnally, it [[spoiler: only ''seems'' that way at first, until it's revealed it was all part of a larger {{plan}} and the bomb ''was a fake!'']]
18	** C.C. herself arguably suffers one ''in the first chapter'' due to [[TearJerker the callous way]] she abandons Mao, so much so that much of Mao's subsequent pining after her can make him seem like the LoveMartyr.
19	* NightmareFuel: Mental patients being experimented on with highly addictive drugs, Rolo's uncanny ability to effortlessly switch personalities when he's dealing with children, and some of the gruesome experiments Code-R performed on C.C., and [[TooDumbToLive recorded for Mao to view later]].
20	* {{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 C.C. ''more compact'' for the trip.
21	* TearJerker:
22	** Chapter 1, when C.C. abandons Mao whilst he calls out to her, culminating in his collapse at the side of the road because it's just [[HearingVoices too damn loud.]]
23	** Also several flashbacks of him as a little boy, playing with C.C., as contrasted with his present unpleasant circumstances.
24	** [[spoiler: Then there's the time he gets shot by a firing squad while C.C. screams his name]]
25	** And the time in the airport when he and C.C. embrace after [[spoiler: he's asked her to kill him]].

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