History Fanfic / MyMirrorSwordAndShield

''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/223932/chapters/338670 My Mirror, Sword and Shield]]'' is a ''Anime/CodeGeass'' FusionFic combined with elements of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* InnocentCohabitation: Cecile and Lloyd live together and raise a child together but have a purely platonic relationship.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Nunnally is universally adored as the Empress of Britannia, even the Japanese love her despite their fraught history with Britannia as she established world peace and freed the colonies after her brother's death.

* PaperThinDisguise: Lelouch's only real disguise is wearing blue contact lenses, to be fair the world thinks that he's been dead for 17 years and he's a teenager due to TimeTravel.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Inverted. When Suzaku and Lelouch have sex it's very passionate, affectionate and have it as frequently as possible. But they are both {{Villain Protagonist}}s with Lelouch as the EvilOverlord and Suzaku as TheDragon.

* RealityEnsues: Two examples.
** Suzaku rightly fears getting sexually assaulted at the hands of the Britannian soldiers he’s supposed to work with as he heard stories growing up about the sexual abuse of Honorary Britannians in the Britannian army. He makes a point to never sleep in the army barracks.
** Despite Lelouch’s secret plans helping Nunnally during the early years of her rule, it still took six years to enact most of the reforms and stabilize the world governments.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Invoked by Lelouch who’s trying to make sure that he’s hated by everyone to ensure world peace. He actually smiles when his popularity dropped so low that even the apathetic nobility hates him.

* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: A lot of people in Japanese side are extremely disappointed by Suzaku, who is the first Japanese person to become a Knight of Round and is part of the Emperor’s inner circle. A lot of people were hoping that Suzaku would be an InternalReformist and advocate for Japanese rights or be a ReverseMole for the Japanese resistance. To their disappointment, Suzaku is genuinely is loyal to the Emperor and doesn’t do anything because as a time traveler, he knows that they will work it out on their own.

* BadDreams: Lelouch would get frequent nightmares of seeing his mother and best friend Daiki die.

!!My Mirror, Sword and Tropes''

!Tropes belonging to ''My Mirror, Sword and Shield''

* TheDogBitesBack
* DontCallMeSir: After Suzaku protects Lelouch despite overwhelming odds and the offer of escape if he gives Lelouch up, Lelouch decides that Suzaku can drop the formalities with him and call him by name.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Suzaku knows that by working for Lelouch that he’s supporting a cruel regime that oppressed his people and is genuinely remorseful for his actions but does it anyways to ensure the future.

* ItsPersonal: Lelouch had already held a grudge against the Knights of Round due to their Sir Raleigh killing Euphemia. Then the Knights of Round try to overthrow him and maim his favorite knight, Suzaku. For that, he had them executed.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Suzaku’s first doctor is racist and was a Resistance plant hoping to get the Emperor’s best knight dismissed, he was right about the severity of Suzaku’s injuries would put him out of commission, leave Suzaku in pain for the rest of his life and it would have been better for Suzaku to be retired. A year after Suzaku’s injuries heal, he’s still dealing with pain.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Nunnally tells Lelouch that he should explain to Cornelia and Clovis his plans to bring them to his side. This is after Lelouch had just killed their brother Clovis.

* PyrrhicVictory: Lelouch manages to put down the JLF, [[spoiler: but Euphemia is dead.]]
** Suzaku manages to put down the Round rebellion and manages to spare a few of the Knights of Round, but gets horrible injuries that put him out of commission for months and give chronic pain for the rest of his life.

* TheQuisling: Suzaku is rather infamous for this.

* ReignOfTerror: Emperor Lelouch is having one.

* TheTalk: Nunnally notes that she really needs her brother to give her the talk as her knowledge is limited to what she sees in romantic novels and what Euphemia shows her with her relationship. But Lelouch refuses thinking that she's too young to know.

* {{Unishment}}: The Knights of Round are stripped of their noble title regardless whether they participated in the Round Rebellion. Gino’s happy because he hated being a noble. Anya’s ok with it because her family was poor and not being nobility helps them.

* JerkassFacade: Discussed as Lelouch acknowledges that his mask of being a vicious dictator is bit closer to his actual personality than he would like to be.

* SympathyForTheDevil: While Suzaku admits that Lelouch was a horrible person who oppressed his people and deserved to face the consequences but thought his death was needlessly horrific and thought in end that Lelouch was a teenager that had no one in the world.

* ReluctantFanserviceGuy: Suzaku is embarrassed that he's forced to wear unnecessarily form-fitting clothes as his Royal Guard uniform but he can't do anything about it since Lelouch hired him as eye candy and Lelouch is the Emperor. Lelouch gets better about this as he learns to respect Suzaku.

* NotWithThemForTheMoney: Despite the power and prestige being Emperor Lelouch’s favorite gives Suzaku, he never shows an interest in using it and is very uncomfortable with the grandness of royal life. Which is lost on everyone else as they think Suzaku is a power hungry {{Quisling}} who SleepingTheirWayToTheTop.

* LoweredRecruitingStandards: The reason Suzaku was able to become Emperor Lelouch’s bodyguard despite having no records, not being part of the military and from the country Lelouch is invading. Lelouch admits that soldiers are thin on the ground and competent ones are nonexistent. He overlooks Suzaku’s sketchiness because he is far more competent than the rest of the Royal Guards.

* RelationshipUpgrade: Despite his reservations Schneizel makes a move on Kanon which the latter accepts resulting them in becoming lovers. Which it more painful when Kanon dies.

* SureLetsGoWIthThat: