History Fanfic / MyMirrorSwordAndShield

* 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 second 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.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: As Emperor Lelouch’s personal Royal Guard and knight, Suzaku is second to the Emperor in authority. In practice Suzaku has no power whatsoever as everyone that’s not Lelouch, his sisters, Jeremiah and his future parents hate him for being Japanese and don’t listen to him. Suzaku’s not even sure that he gets paid.

* ForegoneConclusion: Lelouch is going to die. [[spoiler: Only for it to be defied.]]

* InformedFlaw: Suzaku has an irrational fear of Knightmares. Outside his first time piloting the Lancelot, this never shows up again.

* TokenEnemyMinority: Suzaku is the only Japanese person in the Britannian high command while Cornelia is the only Britannian in the mostly Japanese Black Knights.

* {{Yandere}}: While Suzaku isn't one, the historians believe him to be one since they don't know about him being a Time traveler. History remembers Sir Suzaku Kururugi as a man psychotically devoted to Lelouch, willing to do anything and kill anyone to prove his loyalty and love.

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

* 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, a popular theory that Suzaku's origin [[MythologyGag being Lelouch's childhood friend Daiki Sumeragi]], the assassins involved in the fateful assassination and [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue happened to everyone else after Suzaku left.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Suzaku goes from a civilian volunteer to the scourge of the Resistance, the White Death who can take down the Black Knights and the Knights of Round single-handedly.

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

* InLoveWithTheMark: Suzaku only made himself close to Lelouch to ensure that his timeline isn’t wiped out by Lelouch dying too early or too late with plans to assassinate him himself as insurance. Suzaku ends up falling in love with him and begins to lose his nerve. He ends up faking Lelouch’s assassination and saves him by taking him to Suzaku’s future.

** Despite being much more politically active than in the original timeline, Euphemia still dies due misinterpreted orders.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Gino thinks that he can make the rest of the Knights of Round warm up to Suzaku and invites to Suzaku to hang out with them. He doesn’t realize that Suzaku rightly suspects the rest of the Knights would kill him if they ever get him alone and that the Knights of Round despise Suzaku for his quick rise to power and believe him to be Euphemia’s murderer.

* ItsPersonal: Lelouch already lost trust in the Knights of Round after one of them killed Euphemia. He makes them suffer after their attempted rebellion maims Suzaku. Lelouch had already held a grudge against the Knights of Round due to their Sir Raleigh killing Euphemia. But then the Knights of Round try to overthrow him and kill his favorite knight, Suzaku. For that, he had them executed.

** While the Knights of Round despise Suzaku out of ingrained racism, they do have a point that Suzaku's rise to power is really suspicious and they only have Suzaku and Lelouch's word to what happened to Euphemia and Sir Raleigh.
* 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. He nearly strangles Suzaku to death when Suzaku gives him intelligence on the JLF’s base in Narita and contemplated having him executed.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: All Euphemia wanted to do was put an end to the Japanese rebellion, give the Japanese people their rights back which she got to do with Emperor Lelouch’s permission. She ends up murdered by her jealous lover believing that she committed treason.
* NotMeThisTime: Cornelia and Kallen believe Euphemia was murdered on Lelouch's orders. Lelouch had nothing to do with it. Schneizel especially doesn't believe it because Lelouch had before taken hostages of his enemies’ loved ones and executed them if they stepped out of line. Which he did to him with his lover Kanon.
* 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.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Nunnally tells Lelouch that he should explain to Cornelia and Clovis his plans to bring her to his side. This is after Lelouch had just killed their brother Clovis.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Normally during his broadcasts, Lelouch is very bombastic and always has self control. During his announcement after Euphemia’s death, Lelouch is extremely distraught and muted.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Suzaku is ordinary high school student making average grades who ends up time-travelling in his adoptive father’s time machine and ends up as an AcePilot for the EvilEmpire warring with his native people. Despite the hints of Suzaku having his canonical relations and backstory, he retains his backstory of being a normal person and goes back to it in the end.

** Cornelia and Schneizel win by the skin of their teeth with Lelouch's assassination but don't get the power to restore the status quo as Nunnally ascends to Empress.

* 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.

* ShaggyDogStory: Euphemia and Lelouch work behind the scenes to establish Euphemia’s credentials as Lelouch’s opponent and she works on her own trying to make a ceasefire with the Japanese resistance and restore their rights, only for it to all for naught when she is murdered by her lover due to his misinterpretation of Lelouch’s orders.

* 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 in the end.

* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: 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.]]

** Suzaku laments that "The Talk" his adoptive mother gave him turned out to be completely useless. His adoptive mother only focused on heterosexual sex but Suzaku realizes that he's gay.

* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Jeremiah thinks that it's a shame that Suzaku's Japanese because he believes that Suzaku could have gone far.

* 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 teenage due to TimeTravel.

* CloseEnoughTimeline: [[spoiler: When Suzaku and Lelouch get back to 2036, it is the altered timeline where Suzaku was a knight rather than the original timeline where Lelouch actually died. In the altered timeline, Cecile and Lloyd got better reparations when Nunnally lets them go and Suzaku goes down in history as an insanely loyal knight.]]

** 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 Euphemia already has a boyfriend, he shouldn't feel threatened Euphemia exploits this by threatening to poach Suzaku from him if he doesn’t promote Suzaku to Knight of Round for her plans.

** There is no Geass in this fic so no C.C., Mao [[spoiler: Geass order or Marianne is actually dead.]]

* IHaveYourWife: Lelouch has the habit of taking the loved ones of any dissenters hostage. As the more unfortunate habit of [[KickTheDog killing the hostages]] and leaving their loved ones in the dark or paranoid that their loved ones are alive. Which is what Lelouch did to Schneizel with his lover Kanon and what Clara Einstein fears will happen to her baby girl, Nina.

* TheExile: Nunnally exiles Suzaku when he fails to protect Lelouch from assassination. Since Lelouch is actually and Suzaku is returning to his original timeline, Suzaku ignores it.

* 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 [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue happened to everyone else after Suzaku left.]]

* FixFic: Suzaku is [[ExactWords on Lelouch's side to begin]] [[spoiler: and Lelouch doesn't have his canonical fate.]]

** There is no Geass in this fic so no C.C., Mao [[spoiler: Geass order or Marianne.]]

** Nunnally makes Suzaku to protect Lelouch when he knows that he has to let Lelouch die to ensure the timeline. [[spoiler: Then Suzaku lets Nunnally think that he failed despite saving Lelouch's life so the timeline would remain in tact.]]

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

It has been 18 years after the reign of infamous Demon Emperor and the 17-year old Suzaku Kururugi would often assist his eccentric adoptive father, Lloyd with his inventions. But he never thought that Lloyd would go so far to invent a time machine. Let alone one that worked. As Lloyd combines a car and the cannibalized parts of unused Lancelot prototype.

* 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. Even then, no one gives him any respect.

* StartingANewLife:

* BadSamaritan: Schniezel takes in Clara Einstein and her young daughter to shield them from Lelouch, but he does so he can have Clara make him nuclear weapons and would kill [[WouldHurtAChild either of them]] [[YouOutlivedYourUsefulness if they become inconvenient.]]

* [[spoiler: Nunnally has Suzaku exiled for failing to protect Lelouch. Which Suzaku's perfectly ok with as it gives him an excuse to why Nunnally will never see again when he returns to the future.]]
* {{UpperClassTwit}}s: To Lelouch’s misfortune, the Royal Guard mostly consists of incompetent, glory-seeking noble second sons.

* WrongGenreSavvy: When Emperor Lelouch and Sir Raleigh return to Japan in secret despite his promise to leave Euphemia alone with Suzaku to establish the Special Administrative Zone, Sir Raleigh believes its all Lelouch’s ploy. Sir Raleigh believes that it was Lelouch plan so he could lay a trap for the rebel groups and kill them in one fell swoop. So Raleigh tries to show initiative by ordering the troops to shoot the arriving JLF delegates and loyalty by killing Euphemia when she refused to back down. This was not what Lelouch wanted at all and has him executed for killing his favorite sister.

* AlasPoorVillain: InUniverse Suzaku hated Lelouch for oppressing his people but still believes the way he died was horrific.

* BadSamaritan: Schniezel takes in Clara Einstein and her young daughter to shield them from Lelouch, but he does so he can have Clara make him nuclear weapons and would kill [[WouldHurtAChild either of them]] if they become inconvenient.

* BulletproofVest: Lloyd survives getting shot in the altered timeline due to Suzaku warning him in his letter.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Suzaku sets one off despite his intentions by piloting the Lancelot when it was never used in his timeline.

** Sir Albert Raleigh is very possessive of Euphemia and desires to kill Suzaku for the crime of being near her. He starts believing that Suzaku’s tainting her with treasonous ideas such as giving the Japanese rights and murders her over it.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Due to the circumstances of his rise to power, everyone believes Suzaku slept his way through power [[spoiler: 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.]]

* DontCelebrateJustYet: Suzaku manages to take down the rebellious Knights of Round with ease, only to get speared for his trouble when he misses one.

* MilitaryCoup: The Knights of Round, the Praetorian Guard of Emperor Lelouch were growing dissatisfied with his decisions: making Japanese-born Suzaku Kururugi a knight, his statement that [[VillainWithGoodPublicity: popular knight Sir Raleigh]] murdered Princess Euphemia and the final straw being dissolving of the power and titles of nobility. They stage a coup to attempt to force Lelouch to restore the status quo or to force him out of power if he refuses.

* TheDreaded: People are scared shitless of Lelouch for good reason.

* OrphansOrdeal: Suzaku lost his mother to her addiction and ends up homeless for a year with no relatives to take him in. He almost dies when a simple illness gets exasperated by his poor limit conditions.

* StartANewLife: Lelouch has a new life as a university student and amateur historian.

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

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Whatever warmth and humanity Schneizel had pretty died with Kanon.
* NotSoStoic

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating
* PaperThinDisguise
* ScarsAreForever

* KilledOffscreen
* LivingEmotionalCrutch

* TheDreaded: People are scared shitless of Lelouch for good reason.

* 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 what Euphemia shows her with her relationship.