History Fanfic / MyMirrorSwordAndShield

* TheTalk: Nunnally notes that she really needs her brother to give her the talk as the only thing she knows about outside what she sees in romantic novels and in Euphemia is that she’s too young to have it.

* AristocratsAreEvil: With the exceptions of Euphemia, Nunnally, Gino and Anya, there's nothing nice to say about the Britannian aristocracy. In the case of Lelouch's first Royal Guard, made of aristocratic decor sons, they are actively incompetent. In the case of the Knights of Round and the conspirators who had Marianne assassinated, are actively malicious. Despite Emperor Lelouch's selfish reasons for it, everyone agrees that dissolving the aristocracy helped in the long run.

* UnequalPairing: Suzaku and Lelouch grow to love each other but not only is Suzaku is not only supposed to protect Lelouch, but Lelouch is his boss and the Emperor of Britannia. Suzaku gained Lelouch’s favor because completely dependent on Lelouch providing him shelter and protection while Suzaku’s time machine. This is lampshaded by Lloyd who points out that Lelouch could Suzaku executed for refusing him.

* AristocratsAreEvil:

* TheMaidenNameDebate
* OrphansOrdeal

* EndOfAEra: Lelouch ends the aristocracy, having taken away everything save hereditary lands and properties for those nobles given their titles before his grandfather's time and the titles themselves, and even the lands had been reduced. All of the monopolies granted by the emperor have been taken away. He disbands the Houses entirely, what once was the aristocracy now no longer has a say in the empire. The aristocracy and the Knights of Round are horrified, since a lot of them are new nobility.

* {{Knighting}}

* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Suzaku from the year 2036, accidentally time-travels to a decade into the past when the racist Britannian Empire was active and is constantly discriminated, distrusted and degraded until he earns the trust of the young Emperor Lelouch elevating his status.

* PyrrhicVictory

* 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. I
* RescueRomance
* RevengeByProxy
* RevengeMyopia

* SurvivorsGuilt
* SympathyForTheDevil

* TakeThat

* TokenEnemyMinority

* UndyingLoyalty

* YouAreACreditToYourRace

* HeartwarmingOrphan

* DoomedByCanon

* RelationshipUpgrade

* FictionalDocument: Several of them are shown after Nunally's ascension to Empress. One is about Suzaku's stellar service record with the Lancelot, one is on the scandal of Lelouch and Suzaku's SecretRelationship, one of the popular theory that Suzaku is [[MythologyGag actually Lelouch's childhood friend Daiki Sumeragi]], the assassins involved in the fateful assassination and happened to everyone else after Suzaku left.

* FormFittingWardrobe

* FromNobodyToNightmare

* ItHasBeenAnHonor

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown

* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste

* MoralMyopia
* MustMakeAmends

* NiceJobBreakingItHero

* ReluctantFanserviceGuy

* BadSamaritan: Schniezel takes in Clara Einstein and her young daughter to shield them from Lelouch, but he

* BreatherEpisode

* CloseEnoughTimeline

* FictionalDocument: Several

* {{Knighting))

* LetNoCrisisGoToWaster

* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Suzaku from the year 2036, accidentally time-travels to

!Tropes belonging to ''Closing Walls and Ticking Clocks''

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* FictionalDocument

* 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.

See also ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/221740 Back to the Start]]'' which shows how Cecile met Suzaku and the circumstances of his adoption.

* AggressiveNegotiations: The initially peaceful conference for the opening of the SAZ with the JLF falls apart when Sir Raleigh orders the troops to attack behind Euphemia and

* BadSamaritan

* BigBrotherInstinct
* BirthdayEpisode

* ForegoneConclusion
* FixFic

* AggressiveNegotiations

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

* 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.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Euphemia suggests that Lelouch find a good looking guard that he can relieve the stress of being a tyrant on since it worked for her.

* SimplePlan: Suzaku’s plan was to use the time machine to escape getting killed, find the past Lloyd and Cecile to refuel the machine and go back to the present to prevent Lloyd from getting killed and Cecile from getting jumped. It falls apart immediately.

** Nunnally makes Suzaku to protect Lelouch when he knows that he has to let Lelouch die to ensure the timeline. [[spoiler:

* DudeWheresMyRespect: History states that Suzaku is second only to Emperor Lelouch in power during the War of Ascension and was the best knight in Britannian history. During his tenure, Suzaku had little to no power due to everyone’s distrust of him and his own unwillingness to abuse his power and everyone hated him.

* HappilyAdopted: Suzaku was adopted at age ten by Cecile and Lloyd. Despite his undortdox upbringing, he loves them and is very grateful to Cecile. Suzaku decides not to find his biological parents while in the past, preferring to stay with his adoptive parents.

* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Knight of Five, Albert Raleigh believes that his girlfriend, Euphemia is being seduced away from him by Suzaku. Euphemia and Suzaku barely know each other and Suzaku is more interested in Lelouch than her. This brings dire consequences as this inflames Raleigh’s racist hatred of Suzaku and ends in Euphemia’s murder.

** Suzaku feels horrible after Lelouch tells him that he trust him and Nunnally asks him to protect Lelouch considering he has to let Lelouch die to secure the future.

* UpperClassTwits: To Lelouch’s misfortune, the Royal Guard mostly consists of incompetent, glory-seeking noble second sons.

* 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 nobility hates him.

* AssholeVictim: Sir Raleigh is a racist, bigoted classist jerk that deserved his death in punishment for Euphemia’s murder.

** Lelouch wears the mask of being cruel, not caring what people think of him and ruthless. Lelouch becomes very concerned that it’s not as much as a mask as he think it is.

* ChekhovsGunman: Nina is mentioned to have a mother that had committed suicide when she was young as part of her back story. Her mother, Clara Einstein worked with Schneizel for Nina’s protection and created the atomic bomb.

** Lelouch is a harmless variant of this. Lelouch would get irrationally jealous when Suzaku was required as a Royal Guard to spend time with Euphemia and fear that she would steal Suzaku from him. He would tell himself that he is being irrational. Euphemia exploits this by threatening to poach Suzaku from him if he doesn’t promote Suzaku to Knight of Round for her plans.

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Due to the circumstances of his rise to power, everyone believes that Suzaku killed Euphemia even though he was not responsible for it. He even goes down in history as Euphemia’s killer, with her actual murderer going down as a martyr.
* DamselInDistress: Cornelia and Schneizel believe that Lelouch is holding their sisters Euphemia and Nunnally hostage. They're not hostages.

* DeathByIrony: Invoked, believing that Suzaku was Euphemia’s killer, Schneizel intended to have Suzaku ripped limb by limb and crushed like how Euphemia died.

** Suzaku fakes Lelouch’s assassination to keep the timeline in tact while sparing Lelouch’s life.
** Nunnally fakes Suzaku’s suicide when he requests that she cover up his exile so no one looks for him.

* DentedIron: Suzaku is the Strongest knight and pilot in the series but ends up having chronic pain for the rest of his life and has horrible scars on his chest.

** Despite Cornelia and Schneizel’s fretting over Euphemia and Nunnally, Lelouch is the only one who treats them like adults and respects their decisions.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Both Lelouch and Suzaku are homosexual.

* AltarDiplomacy: Cornelia worries that Lelouch would sell Euphemia’s or Nunnally’s hand in marriage to the highest bidder for political or economic alliances.

* BatmanGambit: Suzaku tries uses his knowledge of the future to predict their enemies, but it doesn’t always work since he isn’t that much of a tactician and he only knows what was shown to him in the history books.

** Suzaku puts on the facade of being a loyal obedient knight to Lelouch in order to keep track of him and make sure that Lelouch dies at the right time. Suzaku realizes that he has become genuinely loyal to Lelouch and willingly fights for him when he refuses to give up Lelouch to the JLF despite being unarmed and surrounded in the Battle of Narita.
* BestServedCold: Lelouch spent years planning revenge on his father for letting his mother die and abandoning him and Nunnally. Years later, he kills his father and becomes Emperor to crush his father’s empire. He also gets revenge on the aristocracy who ordered his mother’s assassination by dissolving the aristocracy and taking away their money and titles.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sir Raleigh is described as a sweet and honorable man who’s a stickler for protocol. All of this flies out the window as his bigoted and jealous side comes out when he meets Suzaku.

** Invoked by Euphemia who recommends to Lelouch that he finds a good-looking guard for himself. Euphemia herself has a romantic relationship with her personal guard, Knight of Five Albert Raleigh.
** Suzaku and Lelouch are a same-sex example. Suzaku’s pity-based fascination and Lelouch’s physical attraction evolves into love the more they came to rely and respect each other as bodyguard and charge.

* DeathByIrony: Invoked, believing that Suzaku was Euphemia’s killer, Schneizel intended to have Suzaku ripped limb by limb and crushed like how Euphemia died.

* DecompositeCharacter: Suzaku’s role in Code Geass is split between two characters: Suzaku retains his role as TheQuisling knight to Britannian royalty, but is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent born 17 years after Lelouch’s reign. Daiki Sumeragi is given Suzaku’s role as Lelouch’s childhood friend who helps Lelouch and Nunnally survive the war

* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Suzaku becomes the Lancelot’s pilot while trying to escape the Battle of Shinjuku due to the death of the original test pilot. While he was given a choice to leave, he decides to fight for Lelouch by returning to the Britannian army. Along with his natural talent, Suzaku had two things on his side: [[IknowMortalKombat years of playing Knightmare simulators]] and being the adoptive son of the Lancelot’s creator.

* HiredForTheirLooks: Lelouch’s mostly hired Suzaku as eye candy and out of desire to have sex with him. The fact that Suzaku was genuinely skilled as a Knightmare pilot and as a bodyguard was a bonus.

* HypocriticalHumor: Suzaku mentally calls Lloyd oblivious only for Suzaku to find out that he himself was oblivious to the rumors surrounding him and Lelouch.

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

** Euphemia is this to Lelouch, Cornelia and Schneizel after she is literally torn apart by her lover, Sir Albert Raleigh. After her death, Lelouch is so shaken that he loses his trust in the Knights of Round. As Lelouch is blamed for Euphemia’s death, Cornelia and Schneizel believe Lelouch to be beyond redemption and deserving of death.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: After accidentally helping Lelouch by piloting the Lancelot, Suzaku decides to stay with him to ensure that Lelouch dies at the right time to ensure Suzaku’s present/future.

Suzaku feels horrible after Lelouch tells him that he trust him and Nunnally asks him to protect Lelouch considering he has to let Lelouch die to secure the future.

* ParentalNeglect: Suzaku’s biological mother was a Refrain addict who spent all her money getting her next fix instead of feeding or clothing her son. Suzaku noted that after he was five that he had to run the house and take care of her until she died.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Lloyd and Cecile share a home and raise a child but their relationship is platonic. Cecile thinks Lloyd as her annoying friend while Lloyd sees her as his assistant.
* PlotCoupon: Suzaku needs 1.21 gigawatts of power from a Yggdrasil drive and a ground speed of 88 miles per hour.

* RedHerring: Euphemia is being groomed by Lelouch to be his heir in secret and her body was never found in the original timeline, hinting to her survival. Does she become Empress or go into hiding? Nope. Euphemia is killed rather horrifically.
* RulesOfOrphanEconomics: When Suzaku’s mother died, he loses his home and ended up homeless on the streets.
* SelfMadeOrphan: After years of getting himself in his father’s good graces, Lelouch murders him and several of his half-siblings to take the throne.

* SleepingTheirWayUpToTheTop: People assume that Suzaku slept with Lelouch in order to get into the Royal Guards and later become a Knight of Round. He didn’t, but they refuse to believe that.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Suzaku lived with a neglectful mother with a serious drug addiction and ended up homeless when she died for a year. The only time Social Services got involved was when he was being adopted.

** Suzaku is asked by Jeremiah if he joined the Britannian army to prove to his fellow Japanese what can be accomplished by working with the Britannians. Suzaku goes along with it because he doesn’t want to explain that he’s a time-traveler.

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Despite being from the future and having no desire to pilot a Knightmare, Suzaku falls into the cockpit and pilots the Lancelot with ease. He had two things on his side: his habit of playing Knightmare simulators and the Lancelot’s creator will be his adoptive father.

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: When Suzaku realizes his feelings for Lelouch, he comments that he finally knows why he was so uncomfortable talking about girls with Rivalz.

* WrittenByTheWinners: The history that gets written down is very different from what happened. Cornelia, Schneizel and the Black Knights were the heroic resistance fighters who put aside their differences to fight a tyrant. Euphemia and her murderer go down as martyrs. Emperor Lelouch is remembered as a horrible tyrant and Suzaku is remembered as his insanely devoted and skilled Dragon.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Euphemia suggests that Lelouch find a good looking guard that he can relieve the stress of being a tyrant on since it worked for her.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Both Lelouch and Suzaku are homosexual.

* AltarDiplomacy: Cornelia worries that Lelouch would sell Euphemia’s or Nunnally’s hand in marriage to the highest bidder for political or economic alliances.

* BatmanGambit: Suzaku tries uses his knowledge of the future to predict their enemies, but it doesn’t always work since he isn’t that much of a tactician and he only knows what was shown to him in the history books.

** Suzaku puts on the facade of being a loyal obedient knight to Lelouch in order to keep track of him and make sure that Lelouch dies at the right time. Suzaku realizes that he has become genuinely loyal to Lelouch and willingly fights for him when he refuses to give up Lelouch to the JLF despite being unarmed and surrounded in the Battle of Narita.
* BestServedCold: Lelouch spent years planning revenge on his father for letting his mother die and abandoning him and Nunnally. Years later, he kills his father and becomes Emperor to crush his father’s empire. He also gets revenge on the aristocracy who ordered his mother’s assassination by dissolving the aristocracy and taking away their money and titles.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sir Raleigh is described as a sweet and honorable man who’s a stickler for protocol. All of this flies out the window as his bigoted and jealous side comes out when he meets Suzaku.

** Invoked by Euphemia who recommends to Lelouch that he finds a good-looking guard for himself. Euphemia herself has a romantic relationship with her personal guard, Knight of Five Albert Raleigh.
** Suzaku and Lelouch are a same-sex example. Suzaku’s pity-based fascination and Lelouch’s physical attraction evolves into love the more they came to rely and respect each other as bodyguard and charge.

* DeathByIrony: Invoked, believing that Suzaku was Euphemia’s killer, Schneizel intended to have Suzaku ripped limb by limb and crushed like how Euphemia died.

* DecompositeCharacter: Suzaku’s role in Code Geass is split between two characters: Suzaku retains his role as TheQuisling knight to Britannian royalty, but is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent born 17 years after Lelouch’s reign. Daiki Sumeragi is given Suzaku’s role as Lelouch’s childhood friend who helps Lelouch and Nunnally survive the war

* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Suzaku becomes the Lancelot’s pilot while trying to escape the Battle of Shinjuku due to the death of the original test pilot. While he was given a choice to leave, he decides to fight for Lelouch by returning to the Britannian army. Along with his natural talent, Suzaku had two things on his side: [[IknowMortalKombat years of playing Knightmare simulators]] and being the adoptive son of the Lancelot’s creator.

* HeadInSandManagement: The Britannian nobles hope by continuing on as normal, Emperor Lelouch will calm down and continue the status quo. They continue to act this way even after Lelouch abolishes the aristocracy.
* HiredThemForTheirLooks: Lelouch’s mostly hired Suzaku as eye candy and out of desire to have sex with him. The fact that Suzaku was genuinely skilled as a Knightmare pilot and as a bodyguard was a bonus.

* HypocriticalHumor: Suzaku mentally calls Lloyd oblivious only for Suzaku to find out that he himself was oblivious to the rumors surrounding him and Lelouch.

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

** Euphemia is this to Lelouch, Cornelia and Schneizel after she is literally torn apart by her lover, Sir Albert Raleigh. After her death, Lelouch is so shaken that he loses his trust in the Knights of Round. As Lelouch is blamed for Euphemia’s death, Cornelia and Schneizel believe Lelouch to be beyond redemption and deserving of death.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: After accidentally helping Lelouch by piloting the Lancelot, Suzaku decides to stay with him to ensure that Lelouch dies at the right time to ensure Suzaku’s present/future.

* ParentalNeglect: Suzaku’s biological mother was a Refrain addict who spent all her money getting her next fix instead of feeding or clothing her son. Suzaku noted that after he was five that he had to run the house and take care of her until she died.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Lloyd and Cecile share a home and raise a child but their relationship is platonic. Cecile thinks Lloyd as her annoying friend while Lloyd sees her as his assistant.
* PlotCoupon: Suzaku needs 1.21 gigawatts of power from a Yggdrasil drive and a ground speed of 88 miles per hour.

* RedHerring: Euphemia is being groomed by Lelouch to be his heir in secret and her body was never found in the original timeline, hinting to her survival. Does she become Empress or go into hiding? Nope. Euphemia is killed rather horrifically.
* RulesOfOrphanEconomics: When Suzaku’s mother died, he loses his home and ended up homeless on the streets.
* SelfMadeOrphan: After years of getting himself in his father’s good graces, Lelouch murders him and several of his half-siblings to take the throne.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Suzaku lived with a neglectful mother with a serious drug addiction and ended up homeless when she died for a year. The only time Social Services got involved was when he was being adopted.

** Suzaku is asked by Jeremiah if he joined the Britannian army to prove to his fellow Japanese what can be accomplished by working with the Britannians. Suzaku goes along with it because he doesn’t want to explain that he’s a time-traveler.

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Despite being from the future and having no desire to pilot a Knightmare, Suzaku falls into the cockpit and pilots the Lancelot with ease. He had two things on his side: his habit of playing Knightmare simulators and the Lancelot’s creator will be his adoptive father.

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: When Suzaku realizes his feelings for Lelouch, he comments that he finally knows why he was so uncomfortable talking about girls with Rivalz.

* WrittenByTheWinners: The history that gets written down is very different from what happened. Cornelia, Schneizel and the Black Knights were the heroic resistance fighters who put aside their differences to fight a tyrant. Euphemia and her murderer go down as martyrs. Emperor Lelouch is remembered as a horrible tyrant and Suzaku is remembered as his insanely devoted and skilled Dragon.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Euphemia suggests that Lelouch find a good looking guard that he can relieve the stress of being a tyrant on since it worked for her.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Both Lelouch and Suzaku are homosexual.

* AltarDiplomacy: Cornelia worries that Lelouch would sell Euphemia’s or Nunnally’s hand in marriage to the highest bidder for political or economic alliances.

* BatmanGambit: Suzaku tries uses his knowledge of the future to predict their enemies, but it doesn’t always work since he isn’t that much of a tactician and he only knows what was shown to him in the history books.

** Suzaku puts on the facade of being a loyal obedient knight to Lelouch in order to keep track of him and make sure that Lelouch dies at the right time. Suzaku realizes that he has become genuinely loyal to Lelouch and willingly fights for him when he refuses to give up Lelouch to the JLF despite being unarmed and surrounded in the Battle of Narita.
* BestServedCold: Lelouch spent years planning revenge on his father for letting his mother die and abandoning him and Nunnally. Years later, he kills his father and becomes Emperor to crush his father’s empire. He also gets revenge on the aristocracy who ordered his mother’s assassination by dissolving the aristocracy and taking away their money and titles.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sir Raleigh is described as a sweet and honorable man who’s a stickler for protocol. All of this flies out the window as his bigoted and jealous side comes out when he meets Suzaku.

** Invoked by Euphemia who recommends to Lelouch that he finds a good-looking guard for himself. Euphemia herself has a romantic relationship with her personal guard, Knight of Five Albert Raleigh.
** Suzaku and Lelouch are a same-sex example. Suzaku’s pity-based fascination and Lelouch’s physical attraction evolves into love the more they came to rely and respect each other as bodyguard and charge.

* DeathByIrony: Invoked, believing that Suzaku was Euphemia’s killer, Schneizel intended to have Suzaku ripped limb by limb and crushed like how Euphemia died.

* DecompositeCharacter: Suzaku’s role in Code Geass is split between two characters: Suzaku retains his role as TheQuisling knight to Britannian royalty, but is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent born 17 years after Lelouch’s reign. Daiki Sumeragi is given Suzaku’s role as Lelouch’s childhood friend who helps Lelouch and Nunnally survive the war

* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Suzaku becomes the Lancelot’s pilot while trying to escape the Battle of Shinjuku due to the death of the original test pilot. While he was given a choice to leave, he decides to fight for Lelouch by returning to the Britannian army. Along with his natural talent, Suzaku had two things on his side: [[IknowMortalKombat years of playing Knightmare simulators]] and being the adoptive son of the Lancelot’s creator.

* HiredThemForTheirLooks: Lelouch’s mostly hired Suzaku as eye candy and out of desire to have sex with him. The fact that Suzaku was genuinely skilled as a Knightmare pilot and as a bodyguard was a bonus.

* HypocriticalHumor: Suzaku mentally calls Lloyd oblivious only for Suzaku to find out that he himself was oblivious to the rumors surrounding him and Lelouch.

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

** Euphemia is this to Lelouch, Cornelia and Schneizel after she is literally torn apart by her lover, Sir Albert Raleigh. After her death, Lelouch is so shaken that he loses his trust in the Knights of Round. As Lelouch is blamed for Euphemia’s death, Cornelia and Schneizel believe Lelouch to be beyond redemption and deserving of death.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: After accidentally helping Lelouch by piloting the Lancelot, Suzaku decides to stay with him to ensure that Lelouch dies at the right time to ensure Suzaku’s present/future.

When Nunnally finds Lelouch’s secret plans and Suzaku’s apology letter in Lelouch’s desk, she’s horrified with herself that she did nothing while they gambled everything to give her a better life.

* 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 SleptTheirWayToTheTop.

* ParentalNeglect: Suzaku’s biological mother was a Refrain addict who spent all her money getting her next fix instead of feeding or clothing her son. Suzaku noted that after he was five that he had to run the house and take care of her until she died.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Lloyd and Cecile share a home and raise a child but their relationship is platonic. Cecile thinks Lloyd as her annoying friend while Lloyd sees her as his assistant.
* PlotCoupon: Suzaku needs 1.21 gigawatts of power from a Yggdrasil drive and a ground speed of 88 miles per hour.

* RedHerring: Euphemia is being groomed by Lelouch to be his heir in secret and her body was never found in the original timeline, hinting to her survival. Does she become Empress or go into hiding? Nope. Euphemia is killed rather horrifically.
* RulesOfOrphanEconomics: When Suzaku’s mother died, he loses his home and ended up homeless on the streets.
* SelfMadeOrphan: After years of getting himself in his father’s good graces, Lelouch murders him and several of his half-siblings to take the throne.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Suzaku lived with a neglectful mother with a serious drug addiction and ended up homeless when she died for a year. The only time Social Services got involved was when he was being adopted.

** Suzaku is asked by Jeremiah if he joined the Britannian army to prove to his fellow Japanese what can be accomplished by working with the Britannians. Suzaku goes along with it because he doesn’t want to explain that he’s a time-traveler.

* TalkingInTheirSleep: After the Battle of Narita Lelouch would talk in his sleep due to nightmares.

* TakingTheThirdOption: Suzaku has the choice of letting Lelouch, who he grows to love, die a horrible death or allow him to live which could completely alter history. In the end, Suzaku saves Lelouch by faking his assassination and taking him back to the future with him.
* TeethCletchedTeamwork: Cornelia and the JLF are working to overthrow Lelouch. But they despise each other as their end goals conflict with each other: the JLF wants Japan’s freedom while Cornelia wants to restore Britannia’s status quo and retake the Areas.

* TheresOnlyOneBed: Lelouch has Suzaku share his room so he could protect Lelouch from assassins. Lelouch has only one bed. Suzaku takes the couch despite how horrible it is. [[spoiler: After they have sex for the first time, Lelouch shares his bed with him.]]
* ThereWasMuchRejoicing: Lelouch's death is celebrated as a national holiday.
* TheStationsOfTHeCanon: Despite being from the future and having no desire to pilot a Knightmare, Suzaku falls into the cockpit and pilots the Lancelot with ease. He had two things on his side: his habit of playing Knightmare simulators and the Lancelot’s creator will be his adoptive father.

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: When Suzaku realizes his feelings for Lelouch, he comments that he finally knows why he was so uncomfortable talking about girls with Rivalz.

* WrittenByTheWinners: The history that gets written down is very different from what happened. Cornelia, Schneizel and the Black Knights were the heroic resistance fighters who put aside their differences to fight a tyrant. Euphemia and her murderer go down as martyrs. Emperor Lelouch is remembered as a horrible tyrant and Suzaku is remembered as his insanely devoted and skilled Dragon.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Euphemia suggests that Lelouch find a good looking guard that he can relieve the stress of being a tyrant on since it worked for her.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Both Lelouch and Suzaku are homosexual.

* AltarDiplomacy: Cornelia worries that Lelouch would sell Euphemia’s or Nunnally’s hand in marriage to the highest bidder for political or economic alliances.

* BatmanGambit: Suzaku tries uses his knowledge of the future to predict their enemies, but it doesn’t always work since he isn’t that much of a tactician and he only knows what was shown to him in the history books.

** Suzaku puts on the facade of being a loyal obedient knight to Lelouch in order to keep track of him and make sure that Lelouch dies at the right time. Suzaku realizes that he has become genuinely loyal to Lelouch and willingly fights for him when he refuses to give up Lelouch to the JLF despite being unarmed and surrounded in the Battle of Narita.
* BestServedCold: Lelouch spent years planning revenge on his father for letting his mother die and abandoning him and Nunnally. Years later, he kills his father and becomes Emperor to crush his father’s empire. He also gets revenge on the aristocracy who ordered his mother’s assassination by dissolving the aristocracy and taking away their money and titles.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sir Raleigh is described as a sweet and honorable man who’s a stickler for protocol. All of this flies out the window as his bigoted and jealous side comes out when he meets Suzaku.

** Invoked by Euphemia who recommends to Lelouch that he finds a good-looking guard for himself. Euphemia herself has a romantic relationship with her personal guard, Knight of Five Albert Raleigh.
** Suzaku and Lelouch are a same-sex example. Suzaku’s pity-based fascination and Lelouch’s physical attraction evolves into love the more they came to rely and respect each other as bodyguard and charge.

* DeathByIrony: Invoked, believing that Suzaku was Euphemia’s killer, Schneizel intended to have Suzaku ripped limb by limb and crushed like how Euphemia died.

* DecompsiteCharacter: Suzaku’s role in Code Geass is split between two characters: Suzaku retains his role as TheQuisling knight to Britannian royalty, but is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent born 17 years after Lelouch’s reign. Daiki Sumeragi is given Suzaku’s role as Lelouch’s childhood friend who helps Lelouch and Nunnally survive the war

* DrJerk: Suzaku’s first doctor is racist, bluntly tells Lelouch that he should retire Suzaku and send him on his pension. Suzaku admits to hearing him saying racist comments when he thinks Suzaku is too drugged to listen, but admits to his skill. SInce he’s back talking the Emperor, he gets dismissed.

* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Suzaku becomes the Lancelot’s pilot while trying to escape the Battle of Shinjuku due to the death of the original test pilot. While he was given a choice to leave, he decides to fight for Lelouch by returning to the Britannian army. Along with his natural talent, Suzaku had two things on his side: [[IknowMortalKombat years of playing Knightmare simulators]] and being the adoptive son of the Lancelot’s creator.

* Foreshadowing:

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

* HiringThemForTheirLooks: Lelouch’s mostly hired Suzaku as eye candy and out of desire to have sex with him. The fact that Suzaku was genuinely skilled as a Knightmare pilot and as a bodyguard was a bonus.

* HypocriticalHumor: Suzaku mentally calls Lloyd oblivious only for Suzaku to find out that he himself was oblivious to the rumors surrounding him and Lelouch.

Lelouch feels that he has to be a cruel tyrant in order to make the world so afraid of him that the world works together to prevent someone like him from rising into power.

* InLoveWithAShadow: Sir Raleigh’s love for Euphemia is not as deep as Euphemia believed it to be. Sir Raleigh loves Euphemia as an extension for his patriotism and not for herself.

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

The Knights of Round tolerated Lelouch’s rule, hoping that he would grow out of his Caligula tendencies once the rebellions were put down. Then Lelouch commits the dire insult of letting a Japanese man join their ranks. They seethe quietly until Lelouch disbanded the aristocracy which prove to be their breaking point, causing them to rebel.

** Euphemia is this to Lelouch, Cornelia and Schneizel after she is literally torn apart by her lover, Sir Albert Raleigh. After her death, Lelouch is so shaken that he loses his trust in the Knights of Round. As Lelouch is blamed for Euphemia’s death, Cornelia and Schneizel believe Lelouch to be beyond redemption and deserving of death.

* MakeWrongWhatWentRight: After accidentally helping Lelouch by piloting the Lancelot, Suzaku decides to stay with him to ensure that Lelouch dies at the right time to ensure Suzaku’s present/future.

Suzaku fakes one in front of Nunnally to make her believe that Lelouch died, although her reaction did make him feel genuine remorse.

* ParentalNeglect: Suzaku’s biological mother was a Refrain addict who spent all her money getting her next fix instead of feeding or clothing her son. Suzaku noted that after he was five that he had to run the house and take care of her until she died.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Lloyd and Cecile share a home and raise a child but their relationship is platonic. Cecile thinks Lloyd as her annoying friend while Lloyd sees her as his assistant.
* PlotCoupon: Suzaku needs 1.21 gigawatts of power from a Yggdrasil drive and a ground speed of 88 miles per hour.

* RedHerring: Euphemia is being groomed by Lelouch to be his heir in secret and her body was never found in the original timeline, hinting to her survival. Does she become Empress or go into hiding? Nope. Euphemia is killed rather horrifically.
* RulesOfOrphanEconomics: When Suzaku’s mother died, he loses his home and ended up homeless on the streets.
* SelfMadeOrphan: After years of getting himself in his father’s good graces, Lelouch murders him and several of his half-siblings to take the throne.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Suzaku lived with a neglectful mother with a serious drug addiction and ended up homeless when she died for a year. The only time Social Services got involved was when he was being adopted.

** Suzaku is asked by Jeremiah if he joined the Britannian army to prove to his fellow Japanese what can be accomplished by working with the Britannians. Suzaku goes along with it because he doesn’t want to explain that he’s a time-traveler.

* TheStationsOfTHeCanon: Despite being from the future and having no desire to pilot a Knightmare, Suzaku falls into the cockpit and pilots the Lancelot with ease. He had two things on his side: his habit of playing Knightmare simulators and the Lancelot’s creator will be his adoptive father.

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: When Suzaku realizes his feelings for Lelouch, he comments that he finally knows why he was so uncomfortable talking about girls with Rivalz.

* WrittenByTheWinners: The history that gets written down is very different from what happened. Cornelia, Schneizel and the Black Knights were the heroic resistance fighters who put aside their differences to fight a tyrant. Euphemia and her murderer go down as martyrs. Emperor Lelouch is remembered as a horrible tyrant and Suzaku is remembered as his insanely devoted and skilled Dragon.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Euphemia suggests that Lelouch find a good looking guard that he can relieve the stress of being a tyrant on since it worked for her.

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

When Suzaku's parents are attacked on the anniversary of Emperor Lelouch's assassination due to anti-Britannian sentiment, Suzaku uses the time machine in hopes of saving his parents. Unfortunately he ends up traveling farther than planned and ends up in the middle of the Battle of Shinjuku.