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The Irregulars
In General
- Amazon Brigade: The Irregulars are comprised of five women as in canon.
- Artifact Alias: Invoked. The "Irregulars" was how Colonel Madd wanted to call his squad of artificial Persona User soldiers. The girls named their rebel group just like that to spite him.
- Big Damn Heroes: Nemo and Alice's arrival turns the tide of the battle in Lelouch's favor when Mao actually manages to win his rematch fight against him.
- Canon Immigrant: The Irregulars are based on their namesake from Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally. In that AU Spin-Off, they were a group of mech-riding war orphan girls trained as Britannian Agents and given artificial AU Geass powers. They were officially known as the "Britannian Special Honorary Foreign Legion", and were under the command of Colonel Madd. Here they were subjected to horrible experiments in order to artificially give them Persona powers in Code-R, but managed to escape thanks to Mao's breakout and they changed Madd's heart because he was intent on recapturing them.
- Code Name: The Irregulars go by their epithets in Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally: Alice is "Speed", Sancia is "Order", Lucretia is "Land", Dalque is "Power", and their leader Nunnally Lamperouge is "Nemo".
- Comically Small Demand: In Chapter 46, Lelouch wants the Irregulars to change a few hearts for him as a diversionary strategy, but isn't sure what it will cost him. To his surprise, they only ask him to arrange for Alice to join Nunnally in the summer trip, something he has no problem doing because his sister enjoys her company.
- Cuteness Proximity: The entire team feels this about Arthur.
- Damsel out of Distress: They escaped on their own after they were briefly recaptured by Colonel Madd.
- A Day in the Limelight: They get the main focus in Chapter 53.
- Enemy Mine: Subverted. Despite Medjed and the Irregulars having a common enemy in Code-R trying to recapture them, and thus more than good reasons to collaborate, they went their separate ways very soon after escaping because Medjed was simply too Ax-Crazy to work with. He even tried to kill them with his Persona when he realized they wouldn't follow him in his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Escaped from the Lab: Other than their leader, the Irregulars were four experimental subjects who managed to escape from Code-R thanks to Mao's breakout. They're being hunted by the surviving elements of Code-R, but they managed to gain some breathing room when Nemo led them to trigger a change of heart in Colonel Madd, who was the man in charge of their capture.
- Heroic Neutral: Unlike the Black Knights, the Irregulars are mainly driven by self-preservation and they mostly target people privy to Code-R research who try to recapture them, but they aren't opposed to change the hearts of random criminals if it doesn't get in the way of that.
- Hero of Another Story: The Irregulars show up in Chapter 41 and Nunnally is among their ranks, but for the most part they do their own thing off-screen.
- Institutional Apparel: They were wearing the series' iconic full-body straitjackets like the one C.C. had in canon when they Escaped from the Lab.
- Justified Criminal: They had to resort to MetaNav-assisted burglary in order to get by after escaping from Code-R, as they couldn't go to the police because they knew the whole project was part of a Government Conspiracy.
- Karmic Jackpot: Their luck changed dramatically for the better after Alice jumped in to save a wheelchair-bound girl that somehow stumbled into Madd's Palace, with the rest of the Irregulars deciding to follow her.
- Magic Enhancement: All Persona Users, even the ones with partially awakened Personas, have their physical capabilities considerably enhanced in the Metaverse. The Irregular took advantage of this during both of their escapes, lethally so the first time around.
- Multinational Team: Alice and Lucretia come from Area 2 (Canada) but can easily pass off a fully Britannian, Sancia has Britannian/Hispanic ancestry and was born in Area 3 (Mexico), Dalque is an Ambiguously Brown Area 6 (South America) national, likely Brazilian based on her name, and Nemo is fully Britannian with a possible French ancestry too from her mother's side based on her and her brother's names. This was a problem for the first four when they Escaped from the Lab because they couldn't blend in among the Japanese population and remaining in the Tokyo Settlement was a risk because they were hunted by a secret division of the Britannian military.
- Neutral No Longer: The Irregulars team up with the Black Knights in Chapter 54 after discovering that the Human Traffickers responsible for selling people to Code-R for human experimentation are still active and now supplying an apparently similar project in the Chinese Federation. They find out from the Shadow of one of the ringleaders' that the traffickers are paying off the Chinese ambassador in Area 11 to make law enforcement look the other way. Given that Gao Hai was already the Black Knights' current target, the Irregulars decided to join forces with them.
- Odd Friendship: Alice remarks on the unlikely partnership between a group of lab escapees and a Noble Fugitive and allegedly dead Britannian princess.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Other than their leader and Alice, their real names are not mentioned until their A Day in the Limelight in Chapter 53.
- Out-Gambitted: The Irregulars did consider that going to the hospital could lead to their recapture, so they took some time to look for one unlikely to have ties with Code-R. They didn't expect Madd to be subtle and clever enough to prepare fake profiles of the four of them making them look like dangerous psychiatric patients that should be subtly sedated and then captured.
- Secret Project Refugee Family: Unlike Mao, they decided to stick together after breaking out of Code-R lab in Narita.
- Summon Bigger Fish: Their response to facing a hopeless fight against Black Mask? Take advantage of Land's Sensor Character powers to lure him into a fight with the Reaper.
- Sympathetic Murderer: When they Escaped from the Lab into the Metaverse, several soldiers were dragged into it as well. The Irregulars had to kill them in order to break free.
- Unluckily Lucky: Their luck is fickle as the weather. They were unfortunate enough to end up as specimens in Code-R for years, but they were lucky enough to be in the right time and place to break out from the lab together when Medjed's awakened to his Persona. Then unlucky because Medjed turned out to be Ax-Crazy and even tried to kill them soon afterwards, but lucky in that he provided them with a MetaNav-enabled phone before that, which they used to avoid capture and steal what they needed to survive in the short term. Then unlucky again because their unawakened Personas got them sick without the drugs Code-R kept giving them, forcing them to look for medical attention, something that got them recaptured by Madd, but that turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it made them cross paths with Nunnally Lamperouge, who soon became their Rookie Red Ranger and led them to change Madd's heart, thus effectively saving them from being actively hunted by what's left of Code-R.
Nemo
Nunnally Lamperouge/Nunnally vi Britannia/Nemo
The exiled, presumed dead 87th Princess of the Holy Britannian Empire, left blind and crippled in the same attack that killed her mother. Stumbling across the Metaverse and Irregulars by chance, she joins them in trying to escape Code-R's remnants.- Adaptational Badass: Let's count the ways: She becomes a Persona user and a Wild Card wielder on top of that. She's elected The Leader of the Irregulars despite being their newest member. Oh, and the particularities of the Metaverse allow her to see and walk while in there.
- Alternate History: Her initial Persona is based on an In-Universe historical character without a real-world equivalent.
- The Berserker: Can let her violent Superpowered Evil Side take over to give herself an additional edge in battle.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Nunnally's thirst for vengeance would give even canon Lelouch's a run for its money. She keeps it tightly suppressed because she knows herself to be her brother's Morality Chain and his well-being is more important to her than settling the score with their father and whoever killed their mother. Her Superpowered Evil Side is a different story.
- Big Brother Worship: One of the first two things the Irregulars learns about Nunnally's personality is that her brother means the world to her. The other being to not piss her off.
- Blood Knight: Her Superpowered Evil Side takes obvious pleasure from destroying her enemies. Lelouch, not a strange to the rush from battle himself, finds it a bit too much and asks her about it when they get the chance.
- The Call Knows Where You Live: Her entire supernatural double life begins because the Irregulars decided to seek medical attention in the same hospital and at the same time she was simply getting one of her regular checkups.
- The Chains of Commanding: She keeps together when the Irregulars run into the Black Mask in Chapter 53, even when she gives the order to retreat toward the Reaper for a Crazy Enough to Work Let's You and Him Fight/Summon Bigger Fish gambit. It's only when she gets back home to her brother the next chapter that she allows herself to have a delayed panic attack.
- Contrived Coincidence: How she ended up in the Metaverse for the first time. She was at the hospital for a regularly scheduled appointment when her above-average sense of hearing picked up an argument between Madd and some of his subordinates. The conversation happened to include Madd's name and the word "factory", which was the keyword required to enter his Palace, something the voice-recognition function of the MetaNav in her phone picked up too. Likely Subverted because it's not a coincidence for the app to be installed in her phone in the first place, strongly implying that Igor was pulling some strings to have her discover her Wild Card powers and a reason to keep using them by having her meet the Irregulars.
- Deal with the Devil: Her Persona Awakening in a nutshell.Shadow Nunnally: [to Nunnally] Maybe you'll even tell yourself that you want the power to protect others. I don't really care. That power is yours... if you give me what I want.
- Disability-Negating Superpower: Nunnally can see and walk in the Metaverse. Lelouch thinks the conviction necessary to awaken to one's Persona allows her to bypass her psychosomatic blindness, and that the effect could someday carry over to the real world which indeed ends up happening. Recovering the movement and feeling of her legs seems to operate on the same Magic Enhancement principle that allows Ryuji Sakamoto to ignore his Career-Ending Injury in the Metaverse. Unsurprisingly, Nunnally refuses to stop visiting the Metaverse despite the dangers involved, which is at odds with Lelouch's drive to keep her safe.
- Famous Ancestor: Played With. Elizabeth III was an Alternate History Queen from before Britannia changed its name to the current one, but Nunnally isn't technically her direct descendant according to supplementary materials. It turns out Elizabeth died without issue a few years after she and her subjects had to move to the American colonies and it was her fiancé who took the throne, starting a new dynasty in the New World.
- Foil: To her brother. Both are the leaders of their own Persona Users groups, much more intelligent and dangerous that they pretend to be in public, and bearing a deep-seated desire of retribution against the family that abandoned them. The critical difference is that Lelouch learned to carry that grudge every day without letting it control him, but Nunnally dealt with hers by tightly suppressing it and avoiding thinking about it. This led the latter to develop a Shadow Self too powerful to fully control unlike the former, but she makes do by letting her Superpowered Evil Side unleash that anger during battle.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Her Persona is based on the Last Queen of the British Islands, who was forced to abdicate by a revolution sparked by Napoleon's invasion and then had to flee to the American colonies. Everything about her, from her Curse-type spells, Poison-inducing skill, and a surprising array of physical attacks indicates that Nunnally and/or the collective unconscious firmly believe that Elizabeth III only wanted to exact bloody vengeance on everybody who wronged her.
- Hidden Depths: The Irregulars' Day in the Limelight shows there's a lot more to Nunnally than what's apparent from Lelouch's point of view. In fact, this could count as a Defied Trope given how she actively brings the best parts of her personality to the fore when he's around. When he's not, she resembles a lot how their mother was actually like.
- The Idealist: Fittingly as the Star arcana for Lelouch, she strongly believes in the power of hope, and it being essential for people to create a better world, even in the face of Igor's condescending cynicism. Or at least her conscious side does.
- Incest Subtext: None of the Irregulars missed that she admires her brother "in more than just a typical sibling way", but only Dalque dares to lampshade it by asking her whether "Onii-sama" (lit. esteemed older brother) is the Japanese word for one's boyfriend from the way she says it. Cue flustered denials and a rather upset Alice.
- In Love with Your Carnage: The way her Superpowered Evil Side talks about Lelouch seems to imply that deep down Nunnally knows exactly the kind of
Magnificent Bastard her brother is and the kind mayhem his mind could bring into the world... and she likes him more for it. - Know When to Fold 'Em: She immediately orders retreat when the Irregulars run into the Black Mask in the Metaverse.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Manages to have her team escape from the Black Mask by luring him to the Reaper.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: When not around Lelouch, Nunnally starts to show how much she takes after her mother. Given that Marianne was secretly one half of an Unholy Matrimony of world-ending proportion, this is not a very good thing.
- Meaningful Name: Her Code Name comes from a conversation with her Shadow where Nunnally asked her how to call her. The Shadow smirked and told her she's of course "Nunnally vi Britannia", but that if she wanted to call her something else for convenience's sake, she could use "Nemo" which simply means "no one" in Latin. Lelouch comments that the fact Nunnally adopted the Shadow's moniker as her own codename "showed the extent to which she had accepted her Shadow".
- Morality Chain: It turns out that she and Lelouch are this to each other, with Nunnally keeping the more aggressive parts of her personality in check for his sake.
- My God, What Have I Done?: It's worried that her Let's You and Him Fight stunt could have gotten the Black Mask killed. Alice and then Lelouch argue that's unlikely, but even if they did, he tried to kill them first.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: Shadow Nunnally gets her to agree to her Deal with the Devil by pointing out that if he doesn't accept her terms to give her power, they will be killed by Shadows. Not only that, but her inexplicable disappearance will make Lelouch waste his life trying to find her, setting him onto a self-destructive Roaring Rampage of Revenge that could have massive consequences. Given how his canon self was like, that's putting it mildly.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: The same mechanics that change Persona Users' clothes in the Metaverse makes Nunnally's hair goes blonde, giving her the exact look her Superpowered Evil Side has in Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally.
- Pragmatic Hero: While she wanted to help the Irregulars, Nunnally had some personal reasons to take down Madd. Given that the Colonel was seeking to establish a new Code-R site in the hospital she regularly visited, it was only a matter of time before she would get outed as a Persona User and possibly even her and her brother's real identities as Noble Fugitive could be discovered.
- Precision F-Strike: Chapter 53 reveals that upon awakening to her Persona, the first thing she said was an order to "punish this bastard".
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eye color changes to gold in the Metaverse when her Superpowered Evil Side is in control, or when she's particularly angry,
- Rookie Red Ranger: Nemo is appointed as the Irregulars' leader due to her versatility as a wielder of Wild Card.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Nunnally gets Milly to use her position as both the Student Council President and the granddaughter of the principal to get Alice enrolled into Ashford Academy. This still cost the latter a good chunk of her share from the Irregulars' Money Grinding to pay for her tuition and a few bribes to keep the school personnel from looking too hard into her background.
- Strange Minds Think Alike:
- Just like Lelouch picks "Zero" as in nothing for his Code Name, Nunnally independently goes for "Nemo" as in "no one"/"nobody" in Latin.
- Alice decries her insane stunt of luring the Reaper to fight Black Mask as something her brother would pull.
- Superpowered Evil Side:
- Chapter 53 reveals she doesn't have complete control over her Persona like other Users. Instead, she has an agreement of sorts with her Shadow Self and occasionally allows her to possess her in battle, making her more violent, foul-mouthed, and powerful.
- Lelouch asks Nunnally about it in the next chapter after seeing her fight. It turns out she has a surprisingly civil relationship with her Shadow Self where the former lets the latter vents out years upon years of repressed resentment against the people who wronged the vi Britannia siblings, and the latter doesn't get in the way of her normal life in the real world. It's still unstated why Nunnally can acknowledge her Shadow Self without it sublimating into a normal Persona, but it could be there's just too much about her repressed self for Nunnally to readily accept, or she could suffer from a dissociative disorder of some kind.
- That Was Not a Dream: She initially thought that her first trip into the Metaverse and her Persona awakening was a dream. Also, a bit of Genius Bonus because blind people can actually get visuals when they're dreaming, further justifying her misunderstanding.
Speed
Alice/Speed
Arcana: VI. Lovers
Persona: Bradamante
The Ace of the Irregulars, a blonde girl around Nunnally's age and a Code-R survivor.Persona: Bradamante
- Alice Allusion: Invoked. She picked "Alice Liddell" as her fake identity, a reference to Lewis Carroll's alleged real-life inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland's eponymous character.
- Amnesia Missed a Spot: Code-R experiments made a mess of her memories, to the point she can't even remember what her surname was, but the memory of her sister dying in the fire that almost killed her as well won't ever leave her.
- Blow You Away: Bradamante specializes in Garu-type magic.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Nunnally's obvious attachment (and Incest Subtext) with Lelouch makes her uncomfortable, which would explain why she seems so curt from his point of view. She also threatens Sokkia to not make any smutty fanfics involving Nemo.
- Damsel out of Distress: Manages to rescue her fellow escapees and herself when Madd briefly recaptures them by managing to activate the MetaNav despite being Strapped to an Operating Table.
- Deadly Dodging: She's so fast in the Metaverse that she can dodge automated machine gunfire.
- Double Tap: She sure doesn't take chances by shooting Mao/Medjed in the heart while unconscious and then shooting him again in the head just to be sure.
- The Dulcinea Effect: Decides to jump in to save a wheelchair-bound girl from a Shadow despite having little chance of defeating it. This act would pay back with interests when the girl in question turns out to be a Wild Card and able to come up with a plan to stop Colonel Madd from trying to capture them for good.
- Fragile Speedster: Her Code Name is "Speed" for a reason. Code-R researchers tweaked with her brains specifically to make it faster, resulting in her and her Persona's agility in the Metaverse.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: She provides a nice moment of this in Chapter 41 when she checks an unconscious Mao/Medjed's pulse, swiftly kicks the latter in the head, and then innocently states "Out cold".
- Ignored Enamored Underling: Has an obvious crush on Nunnally, but it's very hard to tell how the latter feels about her.
- Lady and Knight: Discussed. She believes her Persona took the form of a female knight from her desire to protect Nunnally, a literal princess.
- Legally Dead: Alice and probably all her fellow lab escapees. Lelouch discovered this when he got her background checked after she started to hang out with Nunnally.
- Love at First Sight: Implied to have fallen for Nunnally pretty much right after meeting her.
- Mundane Utility: Code-R tweaked with her brain in hopes of increasing her chances of awakening to her Persona by improving her ability to process new information faster. She uses this to keep up with lessons at school as a New Transfer Student at Ashford Academy.
- New Transfer Student: Her cover to remain close to Nunnally in the real world, given how defenseless the latter is when outside the Metaverse.
- Uncatty Resemblance: She and her Persona are blonde Action Girls wearing Twintails.
- You Remind Me of X: Like in canon, Nunnally reminds Alice of her dead little sister.
Order
Sancia/Order
The former leader of the team, a black-haired woman with a calm disposition.- An Ice Person: Her Persona knows Bufu-type skills.
- The Leader: Served this role before Nunnally - a Wild Card - found and joined the group. She still takes the role on missions where Nunnally's unavailable.
- Number Two: Her role in the team. Even her Persona references this, as Cynane was a Warrior Princess that served as general to her badass half-brother, Alexander the Great.
- The Reliable One: Extraordinarily level-headed in a pinch.
- Team Mom: Oldest girl in the team and The Reliable One.
Land
Lucretia/Land
Arcana: II. The Priestess
Persona: Saint Lucia of Syracuse
A pale blonde woman who takes a non-combative approach to Metaverse work.Persona: Saint Lucia of Syracuse
- Call-Back: Her Persona seems to have the same design as its namesake from Persona 3.
- The Load: Played With. On the one hand, her sickness forced the Irregulars to seek professional medical attention, directly leading to their recapture, and her condition made it harder for them to get away. On the other hand, all the escapees were bound to fall sick just like her sooner or later — Lucretia simply drew the short straw and showed the more serious symptoms first.
- The Medic: Lucia has no offensive skills, but possesses healing spells and is geared as a Sensor Character.
- Non-Action Guy: Of the Irregulars. Notably, her Persona is the only one not based on an Action Girl of some sort.
- Sensor Character: Her Persona is a sensor type with some healing skills to top it off.
Power
Dalque/Power
Arcana: VII. The Chariot
Persona: Anne Bonny
A dark-skinned blonde with an active personality.Persona: Anne Bonny
- Big Eater: Tries to be when enough food is available during the joint operation with the Glinda Knights. It's partially due to being impoverished fugitives on the run, making large meals a rarity, combined with some misguided competition with Tink.
- The Big Guy: Very much a hit-first-think-later kinda person with a Persona to match.
- Innocently Insensitive: She bluntly asks Nunnally if "Onii-sama"note is the Japanese word for "boyfriend" because that's how it sounds the way she says it, making Nunnally very flustered and Alice jealous.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Discussed. Complains that they should have killed the Black Mask when they got the chance. Sancia argues back that wasn't even an option because he was just toying with them, and after Alice managed to wound him a little, he was bound to fight them for real.
- Pirate Girl: Her Persona is based on Anne Bonny.
- Playing with Fire: She's the fire user of the team.
