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Characters / Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion: Confidants

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Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion Main Character Index
The Black Knights - Confidants - Other Vigilantes / The Irregulars / The Glinda Knights - Antagonists / Major Targets - Other Characters

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Confidants

    Igor (Fool) 

Igor

Arcana: 0. The Fool
The master of the Velvet Room.
  • Adaptational Dumbass: While part of the fact that Lelouch twigs on to Igor being evil a lot faster than Joker ever did can be attributed to Lelouch being smarter, a much bigger part can be attributed to this version of Igor being much, much poorer of a manipulator. From the very beginning, he is condescending, arrogant, unpleasant, and controlling, making it very clear that he is not to be trusted.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Igor is portrayed as a Control Freak, shows No Sympathy towards Naoto's death, and scares the piss out of Shi. Additionally, he's rather disparaging of mankind as a whole, making a point to note the sins that influence each of the Phantom Thieves and being skeptical as to whether they can be redeemed. Those familiar with the game's Big Bad know why he's acting this way.
  • Bad Boss: He berates and punishes Tsu for stepping even slightly out of line, and as things spiral more out of his control, he continues to make clear the only thing holding him back from punishing Lelouch and Nunnally is that he still needs them to avert Ragnarok.
  • Canon Immigrant: While the rest of the cast is taken from Code Geass, he is the only direct holdover from the Persona series.
  • Commonality Connection: One thing he and Lelouch are in complete agreement is that they don't like Charles zi Britannia at all.
  • Disappointed in You: He seems still bitter about his first choice for the Trickster meant to stop Ragnarok irremediably failing to awaken to the Power of the Wild Card. He's also quite petty about this, displaying a tendency to badmouth Leila whenever she happens to be mentioned in his conversations with Lelouch.
  • Enemy Mine: While Lelouch trusts him about as far as he can throw him, and even that breaks down as the story goes on, he still accepts Igor's aid to take down their mutual enemy Charles.
  • Evil Versus Evil: Chapter 67 confirms that he has this relationship with Charles and Victor and that destroying him is a big part of their goals.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Easy to anger when questioned.
  • Hypocrite:
    • While his hatred for Charles is undeniable, Chapter 61 indicates that Igor shares Charles' Social Darwinist Views, as he admits to favoring giving the power of the Wild Card to those of Noble blood — e.g. Lelouch, Naoto, Nunnally, Marrybel, and Leila.
    • Lelouch notes that his criticisms of Leila are hypocritical in his determination to paint her as suffering from the Deadly Sin of Vanity. First he says that she wasn't selfish enough to become a Wild Card, then later he accuses her of being vain and selfish with her appearance when she mainly uses her cosmetics to keep people from suspecting her true allegiances by keeping up appearances.
  • Obviously Evil: Between his Control Freak tendencies and general assholishness, Lelouch quickly realizes that Igor is not acting in his best interests early on.
  • Sinister Surveillance: Lelouch soon realizes that Igor keeps tabs on him through supernatural means, and takes care of obscuring and disguising many of his actions under the assumption he's been watched.
  • Smug Snake: Lelouch's opinion of him. Igor thinks he's a master manipulator, but Lelouch immediately pegs him as untrustworthy.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Occurs gradually, but more intensely, the more Mementos gets distorted, and thus allows for things he can neither control nor predict, such as Lelouch developing a bond with Shadow Nunnally.
  • You Didn't Ask: Igor tends to reveal he always knew important information that Lelouch had to come across the hard way. This is one of the reasons why Lelouch doesn't fully trust him.

    Arthur (Magician) 

Arthur

Arcana: I. The Magician
A stray cat given sentience by gaining a Persona.
For more information, see The Black Knights Character page under Tama.

    Leila Breisgau (Priestess) 

Leila Breisgau

Arcana: II. The Priestess
A Britannian noblewoman engaged to Viceroy Clovis.
For more information, see The Black Knights Character page under Bishop.

    Euphemia li Britannia (Empress) 

Euphemia li Britannia

Arcana: III. The Empress
The third Princess, and Sub-Viceroy of Area 11.
For more information, see The Black Knights Character page under Noire.

    Li Xingke (Emperor) 

Li Xingke

Arcana: IV. The Emperor
A guard at the Chinese Federation Embassy in Area 11.
For more information, see The Black Knights Character page under Dragon.

    Sayoko Shinozaki (Hierophant) 

Sayoko Shinozaki

Arcana: V. The Hierophant
The caretaker of both Lelouch and Nunnally, in service to the Ashfords.
  • Badass Normal: Sayoko manages to give a Persona user a run for her money without having one herself in Chapter 41.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Sayoko is a Consummate Professional Badass Normal Ninja Maid and just weird in everything else. For example, she's singularly approving of the misconception painting Lelouch as a Lovable Sex Maniac ladies' man and sincerely congratulates him when she hears that two girls are head over heels in love with him and have agreed to share him with an "I always knew you had it in you."
  • Entertainingly Wrong: When Lelouch reveals himself as the leader of the Black Knights, Sayoko admits she'd noticed that he'd been acting differently recently, but assumed it was because of a secret lover.
  • Hero Secret Service:
    • Sayoko bodyguards Nunnally in the real world, and helps Lelouch train so he can be more effective in both fights and infiltrations in the Metaverse.
    • She plays a more prominent role prior and during the Black-Tie Infiltration at the Masquerade Ball, where she impersonated a member of the embassy staff, compromising the security system for Nina Einstein to hack into, and unlocked doors and distracted guards in order to make Lelouch's part of the Black-Tie Infiltration a lot easier.
  • Internal Reveal: Lelouch tells her about the Metaverse in Chapter 41 in order to recruit her help to save Nunnally, who was just kidnapped by Mao.
  • Mundane Utility: Sayoko uses her Ninja Maid skills to smuggle several large watermelons and a bokken to the Beach Episode. Lelouch has no idea how she did it without anyone noticing.
  • Stealth Expert: She's a Ninja Maid, so it comes with the job description. A plot point during the Fifth Palace Story Arc, when turning down a Cognitive barrier required the Black Knights to infiltrate an embassy for real and Lelouch turned to Sayoko to get it done.
  • Sustained Misunderstanding: She keeps witnessing stuff painting Lelouch as The Casanova with a very active (and kinky) sex life. He has tried multiple times to set the record straight, but Sayoko remains steadfast and approving in her belief her master is a highly successful Lovable Sex Maniac. The fact that he has actually formed a harem by the later chapters has not helped this perception.

    Shirley Fenette (Lovers) 

Shirley Fenette

Arcana: VI. The Lovers
A classmate of Lelouch and Milly. Has a heavy crush on Lelouch.
For more information, see The Black Knights Character page under Dame.

    Kallen Kozuki (Chariot) 

Kallen Stadfelt/Kallen Kozuki

Arcana: VII. The Chariot
A secretly half-Japanese classmate of Lelouch and Milly, with ties to resistance movements amongst the Japanese people.
For more information, see The Black Knights Character page under Queen.

    Suzaku Kururugi (Justice) 

Suzaku Kururugi

Arcana: VIII. Justice
The son of the late Japanese Prime Minister, and Lelouch's childhood friend.

    Nina Einstein (Hermit) 

Nina Einstein

Arcana: IX. The Hermit
A scientifically-minded member of the Student Council.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Kallen, Lelouch, and Princess Euphemia rescue Nina when she gets attacked by four delinquents after taking a wrong turn into a back alley during the summer trip and her xenophobia made her drop racial slurs that got them very angry at her, very, very fast. The incident makes Nina fascinated with the princess.
  • Brainwashing for the Greater Good: While Nina asked for her heart to be changed and changing her heart was unarguably an improvement in her life, Lelouch worries about how drastic her personality change was. For example, she was completely fine with breaking the law to help the Black Knights in Chapter 55, something she wouldn't have ever done before.
  • Categorism as a Phobia: Nina's xenophobia as in the series. Unlike canon, becoming a Confidant makes Lelouch and the narration pay more attention to her and her issues, leading to the Internal Reveal that her racism against "Elevens" comes from untreated PTSD resulting from an incident in her childhood where she got lost in a ghetto and was assaulted by a group of Japanese men. There's also hints of elements of Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality — specifically, androphobia selective to Japanese men — to her issues, which could be the result of a real or perceived Near-Rape Experience, but there's no confirmation of this as of Chapter 47. Chapter 52 confirms she was raped by a Japanese man at a young age.
  • Composite Character: Is one to Yuuki Mishima and Futaba Sakura from Persona 5 - she has Futaba's arcana and hacking abilities and calls in her own change of heart, but the Mementos target that the team must face for her Confidant is Shadow Nina, just like with Mishima.
  • Defiled Forever: An Implied Trope from the hints of Rape as Backstory and her awkwardness around her prettier friends. Chapter 52 confirms she really thinks this of herself.
  • Exact Words: In order to explain away her obvious personality change after the Black Knights stole her heart, Nina told people the exact truth: she asked them to do it. Of course, she knew people would simply assume she posted a request in the KnightWatch website, but actually she did it in person, albeit before learning Lelouch was a member. For his part, Lelouch completed the illusion by having the site admin post such a request with a fake timestamp to match the misconception.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: She drops her braids after her Change of Heart.
  • Hollywood Hacking: Averted. What is shown of her hacking skills is remarkably plausible. Particularly her running a botnet to the processing power to run her physics simulations and especially her compromising the Chinese embassy's security systems, the latter because it's only thanks to Sayoko bodily sneaking into the place and opening their systems for her through physical access that she's able to hack into such a secure network.
  • Homemade Inventions: Lelouch is taken aback when Nina shows him a homemade Knightmare Frame she's been building with the materials he provides her. It's far from an operative stage, but even that much progress with its construction is well above what can be expected of a seemingly Ordinary High-School Student.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Nina becomes fascinated with Princess Euphemia after she saved her from some delinquents despite the Hostage Situation in Lake Kawaguchi Hotel/Convention Center never taking place in this story.
  • Irony: She has a phobia of Japanese people due to her Rape as Backstory. The Persona she provides Lelouch is Ongyo-ki, a Japanese figure.
  • Mission Control: Her role during the Black-Tie Infiltration at the Masquerade Ball.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Her personality change after the Black Knights stole her heart is too drastic to have any hope of hiding it or keep people from connecting it to the Black Knights. To prevent people from trying to look for a connection between her and the vigilantes, Nina "comes clean" and says she herself asked the Black Knights to change her own heart — which is technically true because she said just that in front of one of their members (Lelouch).
  • Playful Hacker: Thanks to their Confidant bond, Lelouch learned that she's a variant of this. To be specific, Nina learned how to hack into computer networks such as universities in order to take advantage of their underused processing power to run her complex physics simulations through parallel computing. She refers to this as "scrumping", apparently to set it apart from the more commonly criminal applications of Botnets.
  • Rape as Backstory: Discussed. Lelouch suspects this from the seemingly deliberate ambiguity in the retelling of the incident that made Nina afraid of Japanese people, plus how it took her longer to get used to a guy like Suzaku than a woman like Sayoko. Her Shadow in Chapter 52 confirms that she was raped in the past by a group of Japanese men when she got lost in one of the ghettos. Based on the comments offered, it happened when she was just a child.
  • Secret-Keeper: Learns that Lelouch is connected to the Black Knights when her heart is changed after expressing a desire for it to him (despite saying she was going to anonymously post her request on Knight Watch, she ultimately didn't).

    Milly Ashford (Wheel of Fortune) 

Milly Ashford

Arcana: X. Wheel of Fortune
The Student Council President of Ashford Academy.
For more information, see The Black Knights Character page under Diamond.

    Kyoshiro Tohdoh (Strength) 

Kyoshiro Tohdoh

Arcana: XI. Strength
A Lieutenant Colonel who trained Suzaku, as well as being responsible for the Miracle of Itsukushima.
  • Outside-Context Problem: Like Cornelia, he's a traditional soldier that's part of a resistance whose leadership is being assassinated by supernatural means. He thus requests the aide of the Black Knights to help save the JLF.
  • Secret-Keeper: He's let in on Lelouch still being alive and the leader of the Black Knights by Ch 64.

    Jeremiah Gottwald (Hanged Man) 

Jeremiah Gottwald

Arcana: XII. The Hanged Man
A Britannian soldier formerly serving under the late Empress Marianne.

    Shi and Tsu (Death) 

Shi and Tsu

Arcana: XIII. Death
Residents of the Velvet Room and sisters with an Uncanny Family Resemblance working as Igor's assistants. They're both this story's equivalent of Caroline and Justine and are C.C.'s innocent, amnesiac self as "Shi" the younger sister and her regular Seen It All snarky self as the older "Tsu" existing simultaneously as their own separated persons for unknown reasons.
  • Adaptational Intelligence: Relative to Caroline and Justine. Like Lelouch, they are far quicker in figuring out Igor is playing them and someone screwed with their memories.
  • Bedmate Reveal: Tsu appears one morning in Lelouch's bed and nonchalantly tells him she will be spending time at his place. When he asks her how could she even stay in the real world given her duties as a warden, she points to the other corner of his bedroom where a door to the Velvet Room stands, making him realize sleeping in his bed nominally counts as manning the door for him.
  • Benevolent Conspiracy: They're conspiring with Lelouch against Igor, whom they think is Evil All Along.
  • Deadpan Snarker: There's an amusing moment in Chapter 48 where Lelouch tells the twins about a very important late-game reveal he recently deduced. Instead of showing suitable surprise, Tsu basically tells him that much is obvious and just hurries the conversation along.
  • Exact Words: Tsu invokes this trope about her relationship with Lelouch in order to get a rise out of Kallen. His reaction consists of actively sabotaging her attempt to give the Fiery Redhead the wrong idea about their relationship.
  • Fright-Induced Bunkmate: The real reason why Tsu basically treats Lelouch's bed as her own, as he discovers from her sleep-taking. This being C.C., she doesn't admit a thing and instead dares him to sleep next to her after getting into his bed without permission. He cautiously wraps an arm around her to calm her down, and eventually fall asleep like that.
  • From the Mouths of Babes:
    • Shi mentions to Lelouch and Nunnally that her big sister praised how comfortable his bed was. Nunnally pointedly asks Lelouch how Tsu would know that.
    • The way how Shi says she gave Lelouch and Nunnally some privacy unwittingly makes it sound like she instead just Invoked the Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone trope.
  • Hypocritical Humor: From Chapter 58:
    Tsu: Having bad dreams, Trickster?
    Lelouch: You should talk.
  • Incredibly Obvious Tail: Played With. Shi and Tsu make no effort to hide the fact they're following the student council in their summer trip, but rather than jumping to that conclusion, the latter group just assumes that the former is simply taking the same route for their own trip, and Shirley just goes and strikes a friendly conversation with them and they simply play along. Lelouch does warn them to be careful to not be seen disembarking at Shikine and Kamine Islands because they're restricted areas, to which Tsu just shrugs and assures him they won't be caught by Muggle military.
  • Irony: There's something very ironic about the implication that Shi is keeping secrets from Tsu when you consider how much C.C. Loves Secrecy in canon.
  • Literal Split Personality: C.C. appears as two Literal Split Personalities of her canonical self serving as wardens of the prison-themed Velvet Room: Shi, her naive "slave girl" self from before she got the Code, and Tsu who's more like her regular Sugar-and-Ice Personality.
  • Mistaken for Prostitute: More like mistaken for professional Dominatrix, but for a while there was the Sustained Misunderstanding about Sayoko believing that Tsu was Lelouch's High-Class Call Girl... and being oddly alright with it.
  • Never Learned to Read: Shi is C.C.'s Literal Split Personality from the time she was a slave in late medieval times, so it comes as no surprise for her to be illiterate. That's why Shi enjoys it so much when Lelouch reads a story for her and Nunnally.
  • Saying Too Much: One time Tsu says to Lelouch that "I'm really starting to think that you have a death wish of your own." Played With in that he doesn't seem to have noticed the odd choice of words in there, but he's too fond of Unspoken Plan Guarantee to know for sure.
  • Shared Family Quirks: Both sisters like to bunk with others. Tsu with Lelouch (as seen in Fright-Induced Bunkmate above), and Shi with Nunnally/Nemo.
  • Talking in Your Sleep: Lelouch once overhears C.C. sleep-talking as in canon.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Much like C.C. in canon, both sisters love pizza. They use the money Lelouch spends to recall his Personas from the Compendium to buy it.
  • You Are Not Alone: Lelouch tells Tsu this in Chapter 48 in response to her issues with humans' comparatively brief lifespans. She refutes him with her characteristic snark by telling him he's getting a pretty big head to say something like that, but Lelouch explains he's not talking about himself, but rather Shi. Specifically about how neither sister will be alone as long as they have each other. This is then jarringly Subverted when instead of a heartwarming moment, Lelouch's words trigger a searing headache in Tsu like whenever she tries to remember a lost memory. Then comes the double whammy because Shi does not get a headache and instead hugs Tsu and tries to soothe her, encouraging her by telling her "you'll remember one day". The keyword here is "you", implying that the apparently innocent Shi knows something that Tsu doesn't and for some reason is waiting for her to figure it out on her own instead of just telling her.

    Rivalz Cardemonde (Temperance) 

Rivalz Cardemonde

Arcana: XIV. Temperance
A friend of Lelouch's on the Student Council.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Twice over. After learning that Milly is engaged, he tries to chat up Leila Breisgau to no success, only to realize after the fact that the Countess is even more out of his league than Milly ever was.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: As of Chapter 60, he is one of the only student council members not to be either Black Knights or collaborating with the same. He shares this status with Rolo Haliburton.
  • Nosebleed: When seeing Milly with only a Modesty Towel on in the Hot Springs Episode.
  • Romantic Wingman: Well, at least he tries. Rivalz clues Lelouch in on an attractive green-haired girl checking him out during the summer trip, but failed to notice that a) Said girl was more like glowering at him instead, b) Lelouch indeed has noticed her already and was doing his best to ignore Tsu, and c) Lelouch's girlfriend noticed the whole thing and even has to tell Rivalz I'm Standing Right Here.

    Diethard Ried (Devil) 

Diethard Ried

Arcana: XV. The Devil
A Britannian TV producer.
  • Composite Character: Diethard's role in this story takes elements of both Ichiko Ohya (as your main contact in the media and Devil Confidant) and Yuuki Mishima (as the manager of the website detailing your activities and de facto PR manager).
  • Expy: To Kotomine Kirei (who, like Diethard, has also been voiced by Joji Nakata and Jamieson Price)—both are morally ambiguous characters who have an unhealthy obsession with achieving their goals. His conversation with Lelouch just before the prince maxes out the Devil Arcana even reveals that Diethard's parents wanted him to become a priest. Said conversation also takes place inside a Church, which is another allusion to Kirei. More minorly, Diethard also uses Kirei's Catchphrase, "Rejoice!", a few times in the story.
  • Glory Seeker: He suspects early on that the Black Knights (especially if they can actually change hearts) could be history in the making, and wants to get in on the ground floor of the story as it develops, primarily so as to churn in "the highest ratings [he's] ever had".
  • Milholland Relationship Moment: Chapter 44 has probably the most Anti-Hero example ever. Diethard ends up figuring out Lelouch is either a member of the Black Knights or is directly collaborating with them. Without missing a beat, Lelouch simply says "if I'm in league with the Black Knights, then you are as well", subtly yet clearly letting Diethard know he's not going down alone if he turns him in without really admitting to anything. Diethard finds his answer Actually Pretty Funny, and in a way that comes across as fondly, he nonchalantly comments they do have enough blackmail material to ruin the other before going back to talk shop as always.
  • Mutually Assured Destruction: He and Lelouch have enough dirt on each other due to their involvement with the Black Knights to get the other in serious hot water with the law. This isn't really an issue for them because Lelouch finds Diethard useful for the team in his own particular way, and Diethard is just having too much fun with the ever-growing societal upheaval the Black Knight leave in their wake.

    Taizo Kirihara (Tower) 

Taizo Kirihara

Arcana: XVI. The Tower
The Leader of Kyoto House.
  • Fake Defector: As in canon, Kirihara pretends to be part of Les Collaborateurs in order to secretly funnel supplies and intel to La Résistance, but almost nobody knows this, so he gets treated as the oligarch version of The Quisling under the epithet "Kirihara the traitor" by almost the entirety of the Japanese population. This is why Lelouch goes to him to request patronage for the Black Knights, not only obtaining it but also turning Kirihara himself into his Confidant of the Tower Arcana.
  • Friend in the Black Market: He helps Lelouch to get better weapons to use in the Metaverse, and one time he let Lelouch borrow a squad of Burais for his proclamation video in Chapter 49 as part of a trick to change the public's Cognition of them in order to solve their transportation problems by making Cognitive copies of the KMFs appear in the Metaverse.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Lelouch who's a quarter of his age. They have a healthy respect for the other's intelligence and they occasionally meet to chat and strategize about war and politics both old and new, the Black Knights' future moves, and their common interest in figuring out who killed Genbu Kururugi.
  • Internal Reveal: Lelouch tells him and Kaguya that he's Zero, leader of the Black Knights, in Chapter 44 when they fist meet in the present day.

    Nunnally Lamperouge (Star) 

Nunnally Lamperouge/Nunnally vi Britannia

Arcana: XVII. The Star
Lelouch's sister.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She holds even more resentment than Lelouch does as a result of her disabilities, but she's also a lot better at suppressing it. This created a Shadow Self so powerful that she can't completely sublimate it into a Persona that has to be negotiated with rather than summoned when needed. In other words, whereas a normal Persona User sort of domesticates their own Shadow for power, Nunnally gets only as far as having hers tamed. While this comes in handy during a battle, there's a much more present danger that her Shadow Self will take her over for good if Nunnally is not careful.
  • Big Brother Worship: Just like in canon, plus the occasional hints she's a lot better behaved when he's around compared to how she's like when he's not.
  • Blood Oath: After they both failed to live up to their Pinky Swear to not lie to each other, Lelouch and Nunnally make a Blood Oath. This marks the point he maxes up his Confidant rank with her.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Discussed. From what Cognitive Lelouch says in her Palace, Coach Villetta seems to think that there's more than a sibling relationship between them.
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance: Probably due to growing in an actual Royal Harem (which seemingly normalized the concept polygamy in her mind) and the incredibly high opinion she has of her brother, Nunnally sees nothing wrong with the idea of Lelouch being in a long term relationship with multiple women at the same time. Interestingly, she does have a problem with cheating, but a relationship where all parties consent between Lelouch and multiple girls she approves of like Kallen and Shirley is totally A-OK in Nunnally's book.
  • Fangirl: Downplayed. She's a fan of Elizabeth III from Code Geass' Alternate History and gets a tad defensive when people talk about the least savory historical theories about the Last Queen of the British Islands — especially the one about how she secretly arranged for Napoléon Bonaparte to be killed by poison in retaliation for invading England.
  • Hypocrite: Chapter 41 reveals Nunnally is secretly a member of the Irregulars. When she calls Lelouch out on breaking their Pinky Swear not to lie to each other in regards to his involvement with the Black Knights, Lelouch immediately responds by calling her out on her own massive lie by omission.
  • Incest Subtext: The Max Confidant Rank scene with Nunnally has more than a few undertones of a romantic reconciliation. Lampshaded to his annoyance by this fic's equivalent of C.C. who goes as far as to slyly ask him if there was any makeup sex involved.
  • It's All About Me: Nunnally makes some rather selfish remarks about how she couldn't leave the Irregulars to die, how she could finally walk and see in the Metaverse and Lelouch shouldn't be doing this because she didn't ask him to. It appears she somehow missed most of his Character Development in the last forty chapters and thinks she's dealing with his canonical self.
  • Morality Pet: The reason she's the Star Arcana Confidant — you could say she is Lelouch's moral compass.
  • Pinky Swear: Lelouch and Nunnally swear not to lie to each other like this as in the series. Given that both break their promise almost in the same manner, they prick each other's pinkies with needles in lieu of the thousand ones they were supposed to swallow according to the Japanese version of the oath, and replace their failed Pinky Swear with a Blood Oath.
  • Throwing Off the Disability:
    • Nunnally caps off her completed Confidant line by throwing off her psychosomatic blindness and opening her eyes for the first time in years. After Lelouch acknowledges some uncomfortable truths about their relationship based on how Nunnally is self-reliant in the world of Cognition and thus outside his protection, to say nothing of a much more self-assured person, he arrives at the conclusion that the main factor preserving her psychosomatic blindness is her subconscious need to remain dependent on him as a way to feed his Big Brother Instinct and prevent him from abandoning her like the rest of their family did. Lelouch takes action about this by attempting to redefine his relationship with Nunnally into one where he's more of a guide than an overprotective older brother while reassuring he will always be there for her regardless. What he never expected was for their first heart-to-heart to be enough for her to make the breakthrough.
    • Also Deconstructed for a bit. In real life, people who suddenly recover from long-term blindness usually suffer from "significant to total visual agnosia" — that is, the inability to process visual information because their brains got used to not have it and thus learned to compensate for its absence. The fact nothing like that seems to have happened in Nunnally's case is commented upon In-Universe by Lelouch, who seems to think he's missing an important piece of the puzzle but he's not ungrateful enough to look a gift horse in the mouth and simply chalks it up to cognition.

    Rolo Haliburton (Moon) 

Rolo Haliburton

Arcana: XVIII. The Moon
A new transfer to Ashford Academy, who makes it no secret he's investigating the Black Knights.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance: He appears a lot earlier than in canon, now as a New Transfer Student.
  • Kid Detective: He serves as Akechi Goro's counterpart.
  • Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: Lelouch is the closest thing he has to a friend, but also wants to help arrest the Black Knights.
  • New Transfer Student: He arrives as one in Chapter 27.
  • Saying Too Much: Big spoiler. In the Beach Episode, Rolo asks Rivalz what he meant before when he said Suzaku is clueless. If you reread the previous scene in question, you will notice it was Arthur who said the word but Rivalz's voice overlapped his. This means Rolo has been in the Metaverse before and most likely is one of the Black Masks. Lelouch seems to have noticed, but he's interrupted before he can ask Arthur about it.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: His reaction to the mistaken idea that the Black Knights killed Shirley's father.
  • Workaholic: Rivalz pegs Rolo as one.

    Kaguya Sumeragi (Sun) 

Kaguya Sumeragi

Arcana: XIX: The Sun
The young heiress of Kyoto House.
  • Celeb Crush: Semantically speaking. Kaguya is a Fangirl of the Black Knights and has a crush on Lelouch. When she learns he's the leader of the Black Knights, that crush counts as a Celeb Crush too by definition.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: An Inversion. Kaguya's not only fine with the idea of Lelouch hypothetically cheating on her if they ever get together, but she also wants to be fast friends with his other women. Believe it or not, she means it.
  • Crash-Into Hello: How she meets Lelouch in the Festival Episode seven years after their almost Forgotten First Meeting.
  • Dirty Kid: Kaguya once told Suzaku that she wanted her honeymoon to last for a month and even said that "as long as my husband isn't you, I'm sure I wouldn't want him to leave our bedroom for at least half as long". For the record, Kaguya was seven at the time and Suzaku himself didn't get the joke until he was twice that age.
  • Fangirl: She's one for the Black Knights for taking down Clovis and the Black King. Lelouch didn't know this, so revealing himself as the leader of the Black Knights to her and Kirihara instantly turned her into his fangirl and made him go Oh, No... Not Again! when she gave him a Wacky Marriage Proposal in lieu of a Love Confession.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: According to one of the Code Geass's Sound Episodes, she and Lelouch met as kids, but she didn't recognize him as a prince then and didn't make the connection for most of the series because she didn't see how Zero was like under the mask until very late in the storyline. Subverted here, however, because Kaguya runs into Lelouch during the Tanabata festival and recognizes him as the "oni" of her childhood memories on sight.
  • Genki Girl: Very much so, although there are strong hints she wasn't nearly as lively until reuniting with her "Oni".
  • Harem Seeker: By proxy. As in canon, Kaguya is not only singularly approving of the idea of the man she wants to marry having other women, she also wants to be friends with all of them.
  • Insatiable Newlyweds: Her honeymoon's plans when she was seven were built in expectation of this trope. Yes, seven.
  • In Spite of a Nail:
    • Kaguya thinks fondly of "Zero" despite being almost nothing like the canonical one. This is because she recognized him from their Forgotten First Meeting, unlike in the series where she doesn't learn who's behind the mask until very late in the plotline.
    • Also, Kaguya is something of a Fangirl for the Black Knights despite the fact they're a completely different organization from canon because they changed the hearts of Clovis and the Black King.
  • Internal Reveal: Lelouch tells her and Kirihara that he's Zero, leader of the Black Knights, in Chapter 44.
  • Just a Kid: She complaints that she tends to get this treatment from Kirihara and the other leaders of the Six Houses. Lelouch deadpans back that, going by her age alone, she objectively is a child despite her Improbable Age competence. As her Confidant, he also advises her to not change herself "for them", but rather for her own sake and that growth will incidentally shut them up.
  • Love at First Sight: She insists that, technically, she fell in love a second sight. Curiously, this would mean she fell for Lelouch before she knew he's part of the Black Knights, and thus implying that learning he's a hero in her eyes just sealed the deal.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: She tends to get "uncomfortably close" to Lelouch. Thankfully for him, he's quite a bit taller than her.
  • Rebellious Princess: While not a princess per se, Kaguya is a Lonely Rich Kid who gets up to stuff like ditching her bodyguard in order to enjoy Tanabata, or sitting right beside the guy they were supposed to give a Blindfolded Trip to.
  • Reformed Bully: Kaguya used to be a total spoiled brat and a bully to her cousin Suzaku — kinda understandable because everybody treated the 7-year-old like a princess and she resented her Arranged Marriage to him — until the day she ran into Lelouch and confused him with an Oni (long story) who refused to take any crap from her and ungently but not unkindly played that role to give her a Heel Realization via Socratic method. In the present, she remembers "The Reason You Suck" Speech with genuine fondness because it helped her grow pass the person she used to be and that's the reason she instantly recognizes Lelouch when she runs into him (literally) during the Tanabata festival in Ueno Park.
  • Wacky Marriage Proposal: Kaguya proposes to Lelouch the moment she hears he's the leader of the Black Knights. He immediately tells her he already has a girlfriend, but her counterproposal of a Marry Them All scenario comes out of her mouth just as fast.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Lelouch tells her she has come a long way from her Spoiled Brat self when she starts to doubt her own growth as a person.

    Cornelia li Britannia (Judgement) 

Cornelia li Britannia

Arcana: XX: Judgement
The Second Princess of Britannia, Euphemia's older sister, and Lelouch and Nunnally's half-sister.
  • Composite Character: She takes Sae's place as both the interrogator of the leader of a vigilante group (Ren/Akira of the Phantom Thieves, Lelouch of the Black Knights) as well as the Judgement Confidant. Cornelia, like Sae, is also their Sixth Target before the leader is captured.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: She gets pissed just as often, if not more so, than Kallen, as evident when she sometimes yells at Lelouch during the interrogation chapters. It's a hint to her Deadly Sin.
  • Knight Templar Big Brother: Cornelia to Euphemia as in canon, especially after the kidnapping attempt against the latter in Chapter 57.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Discussed. Cornelia doesn't want to believe that something like a Persona User turned Professional Killer was officially sanctioned by the Britannian government, especially because it would imply such an operation took place in her viceroyalty and yet she was never told a word about it.
  • Outside-Context Problem: The Black Knights for Cornelia. She's a Warrior Princess, Lady of War and probably the most accomplished general Britannia has, but she can't win any battles against this version of the Black Knights because they simply won't give her any to fight. Subverted in the Interrogation Flashback where she seems to have captured Lelouch.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: A two-wrongs-makes-a-right kinda example. Cornelia incorrectly suspects that Leila Breisgau was involved in Clovis' murder and that the Black Knights could be behind the crime, but she's not wrong at all about suspecting said character's involvement with the Black Knights.

    Faith (spoilers for 5th Palace and on) 

Marrybell mel Britannia

Arcana: Faithnote 
The 88th Princess of Britannia. Leader of both a covert anti-terrorism group and the heart-changing vigilante group known as the Glinda Knights.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
    • Not for Oldrin and Marrybell herself, but for their Personas — Dorothy and Elphaba from Land of Oz stories, respectively. Lelouch himself finds the idea of Dorothy Gale and the Wicked Witch of the West working together to be Wrong On So Many Levels.
    • Marrybell and Oldrin still count as a Downplayed example, whose Secret Relationship was more like heavily teased in the manga, but it is outright stated here because Marrybell sees no point in trying to hide it from Lelouch.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Her Knight and (Victorious) Childhood Friend calls her "Mary".
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Emperor made her prostrate and apologize to him in order to reinstate her as a princess, which she did for the opportunity to hunt down whoever killed her mother and sister.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: To Lelouch. She spends a good chunk of their first official meeting messing with him about his unusual love life. She does easy up the teasing when she realizes that Lelouch is in a polyamorous relationship rather than playing The Casanova.
  • Batman Gambit: Charles basically made her his agent tasked with identifying his enemies within Britannia by giving her enough authority to track down her mother and sister's killer. The clever thing about it is not just that he can easily disavow her were the need arise, but also how Marrybell is making herself useful to him despite being very much aware of the manipulation because she just can't not take the opportunity to avenge her loved ones.
  • Beneath Suspicion: Those who are privy to her real personality know she's someone to watch for, but for everybody else, she's just another example of Princess Classic among Charles' many daughters. This is part of the reason why he has her investigating domestic terrorism.
  • Birds of a Feather:
    • Marrybell feels an instant affinity with Lelouch at the Masquerade Ball despite not recognizing the person under his mask, and the feeling is very much mutual. She later describes it as "instinctively [recognizing] Lelouch, not as kin, but as a kindred spirit, with the same frustration, rage, and pain beneath his mask as there was under her own."
    • Also Discussed. After learning that Lelouch survived his exile, Marrybell realized that there was likely no "another person in Britannia whose circumstances were so uniquely similar to her own", making her very much look forward to the possibility of actual cooperation between their groups.
  • Bodyguard Babes: She's usually guarded by her very good looking Knight of Honor Oldrin.
  • Bodyguard Crush: She's in a Secret Relationship with her female Knight of Honor Oldrin Zevon.
  • Cool Airship: She commands the Granberry◊ like in Code Geass: Oz the Reflection, and intends on flying her from Area 11 to the Chinese Federation to raid a secret Cognitive Psience research facility in the Taklamakan Desert by taking advantage of the confusion caused by the nationwide uprising sparked by Gao Hai's Change of Heart and confession. Marrybell describes her as the production model to the Super Prototype that it is Schneizel's Avalon.
  • Death Seeker: After the murder of her mother and sister was covered up as a "terrorist attack", she lost all will to live, and even attacked the Emperor himself with a sword fully expecting that his Royal Guard to kill her for it on the spot.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Subverted. Marrybell is quite interested in the sight of Bishop in her formfitting biker outfit — enough so to bother both her and Lelouch — but she is still perfectly able to lead the conversation just fine.
  • Entertainingly Wrong:
    • She assumess that Lelouch's end goal is to take their father's throne, and is quite surprised when he tells her the Black Knight's stated mission to change society isn't just propaganda, making it so his intentions to remove Charles from power is a means to that end rather than the objective.
    • Under the above misconception, Marrybell thinks Lelouch is gathering girlfriends with the intention of making them his future Hot Consorts in his Royal Harem, an assumption that makes him very upset for a moment until he and Bishop set the record straight.
  • Foil:
    • To Lelouch. They are both royals gifted with a genius-level intellect, enough charisma and strategic wit to lead a legion, and a massive thirst for vengeance for what was done to their mothers and sole full sister. They are three key differences, though:
      • First, Nunnally survived the alleged terrorist attack that killed Marianne, thus becoming the focus of Lelouch's concern and forcing him to put his vengeance on hold until the right conditions for it presented themselves. In Marrybell's case, her sister Julia died in the same attack that killed their mother Flora mel Britannia, turning Marrybell into a Death Seeker once it became clear to the 10-year-old that she had no way to find the culprits.
      • Secondly, there's how their father reacted to them demanding a explanation from him for the culprits remaining at large despite taking the life of an Imperial Consort. Whereas Lelouch was exiled for daring to question the Emperor, Marrybell was just temporarily stripped from her royal title and sent to live in comfort with the Zevon family.
      • Thirdly, Marrybell blames herself of the death of her mother and sister because she was the one that left the alleged terrorist enter their residence, giving her a strong self-loathing from the start that canon Lelouch wouldn't acquire until much later in the plotline.
      • Finally, and most notable of all, while both lead teams of persona users who they have bonded with, Lelouch's team is composed priarily of his friends from school, and thus while they are less expereinced in fighting, they also have extremely clsoe personal relationships with him and act as his collective Morality Chain, leaving him in a much healthier place mentally than he was in canon. Marrybel, meanwhile, formed her team from her subordinates in the Glinda Knights, and thus has them far more experienced in combat, but at the cost of treating them more as comrades in arms than friends, and as such is not as close to them as Lelouch is, with the excpetion of Oldrin. This also means that she only has Oldrin as a Morality Chain, and thus tends to be more vicious and coldblooded than Lelouch for precisely this reason. This actually makes Marrybel weaker than Lelouch in the Metaverse, because her lack of closeness with her compatriots means no step of bonds, and thus weaker personas.
    • To Nunnally too. She embodies the darkest aspects of Nunnally's personality, but their strong attachment to their full-blooded sibling are completely different in nature because Marrybell's sister didn't survive the incident that took her mother's life.
  • Handsome Lech: A Rare Female Example. She can't keep herself from admiring a beautiful women and likes to dress them in cute outfits, but going by her significant other's lack of reaction at her checking Bishop out when she was in a biker outfit, this seems to be a harmless if recurrent thing for her.
  • Hidden Depths: Pretends to be a nice, innocent princess. In truth, she's more like a vengeful witch.
  • Hide Your Lesbians: Subverted. Unlike in Code Geass: Oz the Reflection, the story doesn't bother to hide her relationship with Oldrin with (albeit quite transparent) subtext.
  • Hired to Hunt Yourself: She leads an anti-terrorism group, currently tasked with the capture the Black Knights. Not only she's struck a cooperation deal with her nominal targets instead, but also secretly leads her own heart-changing vigilante group: The Glinda Knights.
  • It's All My Fault: She blames herself for the deaths of her mother and sister in a bombing due to letting the bomber enter her house unimpeded.
  • Lady and Knight: She has an unusual "Dark Lady and White Knight" interpersonal dynamics with Oldrin, where the latter's moral code keeps Marrybell from acting as ruthlessly pragmatic as she can be.
  • Lady of War: She graduated from Officers' School alongside her Knight of Honor.
  • Laughing Mad: She can make a spot-on impression of the Wicked Witch of the West.
  • Lipstick Lesbian: Played With. She's very feminine and poised as expected of a princess when she wants to be, but she's frighteningly intelligent and has little compunctions about the means to her goals. Think early-series Lelouch as a royal princess, but with her Knight Oldrin as her Morality Chain.
  • Morality Chain: Her girlfriend Oldrin, a knight who actually believes in the code of chivalry, is this to her.
  • Ms. Exposition: She informs Lelouch of the true extent of Emperor Charles' plans to trigger The End of the World as We Know It, which takes about a third of a chapter.
  • My Greatest Failure: She hates herself for unwittingly helping a bomber enter her home, leading to her mother and sister's deaths in an explosion that almost killed her as well, despite being barely 10 at the time.
  • No Such Agency: A downscaled example. Marrybell's anti-terrorism task force doesn't even have an official designation, but the Emperor has empowered her just enough to conduct their investigations but not enough to lose Plausible Deniability were the need arise. They did somehow manage to get a Cool Ship out of the deal though.
  • Princesses Prefer Pink: Invoked. She dresses a lot like Euphemia does in order to deliberately cultivate this kind of public image.
  • Rebellious Princess: A perfectly mannered if sharp-witted princess in public, but in private she leads an informal anti-terror unit by the Emperor's orders, and she's secretly the leader of her own heart-changing group called the Glinda Knights.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: To most people, Marrybell is just another imperial princess, and one too low in the line of succession to be any of concern at that. In reality, she has been tasked by the Emperor to track down domestic terrorism as a way to make use of her deeply-rooted hatred for the kind of people that got her mother and sister killed.
  • Secret Relationship: With her Knight of Honor, Oldrin. Although she doesn't bother to hide it from the Black Knights given they've shared significantly more important secrets already.
  • Shared Family Quirks:
    • She and Lelouch seem to have similar tastes in women, based on how she evidently found both Kallen and Bishop very attractive upon meeting them. Furthermore, her own girlfriend Oldrin has a significant number of traits in common with Kallen, both physical and personality-wise.
    • Her impression of the iconic crackle of the Wicked Witch of the West can give canon Lelouch's Evil Laugh a run for his money.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Has a strong physical resemblance to Euphemia, but her personality is lot more like Lelouch's.
  • Suicide by Cop: Unsuccessfully attempted. A nine- or ten-year-old Marrybell tried to get herself killed by drawing a sword against Charles, fully knowing that attempting to attack the Emperor is a capital crime in Britannia and grounds for immediate execution by his Royal Guard.
  • You Killed My Father: Exploited. Charles is well aware that the one thing that makes Marrybell tick is her desire to avenge her mother and sister's deaths to a bomber. That's why he empowered her to investigate terrorist activity within Britannia fully knowing that she would perform at her utmost in hopes of finding the culprit, all while having her get rid of several of his enemies in the process without having to mobilize his Knights of the Round to do it.

    Lust (major spoilers for Chapter 65 and on) 

Shadow Nunnally/Nemo

Arcana: Lust
The Shadow of Lelouch's younger sister, who exists as her own distinct personality.
  • Alternate Identity Amnesia: Just like all Shadows, she knows everything that has gone on in Nunnally's life better than Nunnally can consciously recall. Something which Lelouch takes great interest in the hopes of it leading towards answers about their mother's murder.
  • Big Brother Worship: She looks up to Lelouch just as much as Nunnally does, but not for exactly the same reasons nor they express it in the same way. Shadow Nunnally seems to admire the cunning and vengeful aspects of his personality more than his kinder facets, and takes delight in showing him the darker sides of her own. Even her Incest Subtext with him is different from that of her conscious self — whereas Nunnally's relationship with her brother can get awfully romantic at times, her Shadow Self's whole body language seems to indicate primal attraction to him.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Is practically the embodiment of this between Lelouch and Nunnally.
  • Brutal Honesty: She takes the promise between Nunnally and Lelouch to never lie to each other very seriously. Even being willing to go into details about herself that Lelouch most certainly doesn't want to know.
  • Character Tics:
    • She seems unable to stay still when in her cell in the Velvet Room. Lelouch compares her to "an untamed tiger constantly searching for weaknesses in her enclosure"
    • Also, once her eyes set on Lelouch, they rarely leave him.
  • Deal with the Devil: She's the "Devil" part of the equation for Nunnally.
  • Incest Subtext: Her first direct interactions with Lelouch in Chapter 65, where she starts questioning Lelouch about his sex life with some jealousy towards his girlfriends, and admits any romantic partner she'd have would be measured against him.
  • Like Parent, Like Child: This is something she's very much aware, as she tells Lelouch that he got the same darkness from their father while inheriting their mother's looks, while she inherited the same darkness as their mother and heavily resembles their father in his youth.
  • Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Nunnally can see and interact with her Shadow Self in the real world as a hallucination of sorts. Later on, the growing instability of the Metaverse allows Lelouch directly interact with Shadow Nunnally when they end up in the empty Velvet Room in their dreams.
  • Photographic Memory: As the core of Nunnally's subconscious, all suppressed and discarded memories, not matter how old or unimportant and even including dreams, are accessible to her. Lelouch is particularly interested in this because there's a chance that she remembers something from his and Nunnally's past in Pendragon that could allow him to pick of the trail of their mother's murderer.
  • Shipper on Deck: Despite her own jealousy, Nemo is rather approving of Kallen, Shirley, and Leila being with Lelouch, and encourages him to take more of an initiative in his relationship with Shirley, as she's the most passive of the three.
  • Speak Ill of the Dead: Being the part of Nunnally that is aware of Marianne's crueler and more violent traits, Nemo freely discusses them with Lelouch. This makes Lelouch highly uncomfortable, as the mere possibility that their mother wasn't the saint he wants to believe her to be makes him feel like he's desecrating her memory, although he hesitantly shows a willingness to accept it.
  • Superpowered Alter Id: For Nunnally. While prone to violence, she's short of a Superpowered Evil Side because her hostility is reserved to people who has wronged her and her brother (or intends to), enemy Shadows, and to Nunnally herself for refusing to completely accept the darkest aspects of her personality.
  • Too Much Information: Weaponized. When Lelouch understandably tries to dodge her questions about his sex life, she first reminds him they made a Blood Oath to be honest to each other, and then proves herself completely willing to share just as much about herself as she intends to pry into his. While Lelouch definitely does not want to learn that much about his sister, he's forced to concede to fairness and answers her questions while pointing out that one day he will hold her to her word.
  • Walking Spoiler: The mere fact that Nemo is considered separate enough from Nunnally to be a Confidant is a fairly large spoiler for Chapter 65, though the name of the character and their Arcana do spoil a few things.

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