[meme] Shipping [Code Geass]
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rex_sunJUST SO YOU KNOW, GAIZ.
I SHIP EVERYONE WITH EVERYONE IN CODE GEASS.
Lelouch ---> Milly, Shirley, Rivalz, hey I even kind of like a one-time-thing with Nina. Of course with Suzaku. I can do Rolo, but I like the pseudo-incest angle more, aka memoryless!Lelouch. Speaking of incest, I LOVE a very sweet-but-hey-that's-incest Nunally pairing. Euphemia isn't my favorite character but I like her with Lelouch. I like angry!Cornelia. Odysseus and shota!Lelouch is awesome. Clovis. Charles most definitely. Marianne and shota!Lelouch is another guilty weird porn thing (like most of these). Genbu. I LOVE OUGI/LELOUCH, WHAT I DON'T EVEN. Kallen, Tamaki, Rakshata, Diethard, any female black knight, KAGUYA, I'd go for Minami or Sugiyama. Guilford with Cornelia!Lelouch. Am I missing anyone? Oh! Jeremiah, Gino, mmmmmaybe Anya. How could I forget C.C.!
Suzaku ---> again, Milly, Shirley, Rivalz. (Suzaku/Shirley is one of my favorites.) Sayoko! LOVE "you have my (reluctant) blessing" Nunally. Euphy is his canon love interest so I can't ignore it. Genbu, Charles!! Schneizel, Clovis (?!), Odysseus, basically all of the royal family. Gino, Anya, Bismarck, Nonette, Dorothea, Monica, (*cough*everyone but Bradley). Lloyd, Cecile, anyone in the military basically, Guilford, Darlton. Kaguya, Kallen, C.C.
Nina ---> Milly, Shirley, Kallen, Sayoko, Cecile, Euphemia, basically any girl she comes into contact with.
Other weird stuff--> Asahina/Tohdoh, Minami/Nunally, Rakshata/Cecile, C.C./Kallen, Charles/any of his children, Odysseus/Tian Zi, Gino/Milly, Rivalz/Milly.
ASK ME, I MOST LIKELY SHIP IT.
Popular ships that I do not personally ship: uh, Schenizel/Lelouch (PG from Anlaaria is the only place I put up with it because it's so obviously harmful and apparently I like harmful things). Guilford/Cornelia (I like them a million times more as badass battle partners, and I think romance ruins it, but I do like Cornelia/Darlton). Schenizel/Kanon.
SO UH I GUESS... READERS... IF YOU WANT? ASK ME ABOUT ONE YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHY I SHIP AND I WILL TELL YOU WHY OR ILLUSTRATE VIA SHORT STORY. ...IF YOU WANT, LOL.
Ahem, no porn. Maybe R-rated porn, because some of these are purely about fucked up porn.
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Ougi/Lelouch
Date: 2011-09-29 06:49 am (UTC)That's what I like about Ougi in general, and what I like about him in Ougi/Lelouch. He's very normal, down to earth. He's seen some bad shit, but he still goes on without any life-halting mental breakdowns. His sense of duty to other people is second to none. And while he obviously gets shit done, he is not a grand mastermind and even questions his own ability sometimes--WHICH IS NORMAL, AND GOOD. Power is always best in the hands of the man who is conscious of the fact that he may not deserve it. I love Ougi because he is soft spoken and gentle but still completely capable of managing his people. He is not meant to be a war time leader, but fits perfectly as second-in-command or as a peace time leader. He's the guy you want as a friend, the boss you want to work for, the excellent older brother figure. He's everyone's favorite teacher.
Sometimes I really wish fan brats would use their heads and realize that people like Lelouch are NOT actually that cool. Lelouch is a self-absorbed liar and manipulator and a control freak. He's a fucking awesome character, but you would NOT want to meet him in real life.
Lelouch is a delinquent, a mastermind-- really there's no point in explaining him further, fandom has explained him so thoroughly.
What influenced me to like them as a pairing: Obviously, teno-hikari is pretty great. I don't know of anyone else who has written this pairing, but then, it's been a while since I read anything not from cgkinkmemeii. Higanbana though is kinda sorta the defining work, isn't it?
The very first time I ever got pinger by this pairing was the point where Lelouch, C.C., and Kallen (in an otter disguise) are on the roof in R2. C.C. tells Lelouch about Ougi and Viletta's affair. Just before that-- I don't know if the original Japanese is anything like this-- but the way the English voice says, "Ougi... kept a secret from me?"
SO ADORABLE. 8U And after that, I interpreted every moment of Zero-Ougi speech or interaction differently. Mountains of Narita, Ougi says about Zero, something like, "He knows our rage. And I think a man that knows rage also knows sorrow." It's almost a tender feeling expressed there... And also, at Fuji, "I'm sorry, Zero, but I need a reason to believe in you." I don't know, it's like... he was apologizing for his moment of weakness, which just makes me think that there's no room for weakness in their relationship which I really like.
How this works in my head: Okay I think that one of the most important parts of this pairing is to not get lovey-dovey gushy about it. I think Higanbana is one of if not THE only scenario where the relationship is at any point happy and domestic. I think it's quite clear that, while it is hinted that he has some small amounts of fondness for some of them (most noticeably Urabe, Kaguya and Rakshata, but even that is very subtle), ultimately the Black Knights are pawns. Ultimately they are replaceable. Canonically, Lelouch reacts to Ougi's possibly fatal wound in the final ep of s1 by saying, "I'll find a replacement for him later, ..." Granted, he was deathly worried about his little sister...
But aside from that, I think it's quite adorable that Ougi manages to get the drop on Lelouch sometimes. Ougi is just so NORMAL that Lelouch barely gets him, I think. Not realizing that woman was his girlfriend, etc. But there's a REASON Lelouch put Ougi as his second-in-command, implying that he acknowledges and respects Ougi. I can't believe when people portray Ougi as somehow inept, because he isn't. Hello, inept people get made janitors, like Tamaki. Ougi's got this shit under control, guys.
Ougi/Lelouch 2
Date: 2011-09-29 06:51 am (UTC)TBut even when Ougi realizes that Zero doesn't do good things, he still hangs on for the sake of his people. To run away would be cowardice, but he stays and convinces himself that the end will justify these means. He's almost dependent on Zero in this way, while wishing he wasn't.
Ougi sees that human to the very end. Again, dunno the Japanese version, but in English, in ep19 or r2, he says with a pained expression, "We're betraying our comrade..." He is extremely upset by Lelouch's revealed betrayal but at the same time he's upset he also has to betray. Ougi's pain is exquisite to me.
Mutual respect. Ougi sees Lelouch as a human being. Ougi manages to surprise Lelouch sometimes.
So this pairing works in my mind because I can imagine Lelouch, given the right circumstances, could become very intrigued by Ougi. And Ougi is just his type: gentle, demurring, and faithful.
...also, come on, I have a thing for the teacher-delinquent student hidden dynamic. Poor Ougi, what would he do if he found out Zero was just a kid! "You have to be in school!! --oops, uh, s-sorry, did I go to far?" + adorable for older man taking orders from younger kid ("Seriously? My last batch of students would be your age by now.") + two virginal characters, lololol + general LULZ because Lelouch is supposed to be the mastermind but Ougi prolly knows more about taxes than Lelouch does.
Scenarios this pairing could work in: Uh, well, I think Higanbana covers it. Otherwise, there's Villetta to consider, and the very professional relationship they have, and the fact that yeah, they're kind of using each other.
I have a few ideas for adorable little things like Ougi meeting Lelouch as "Kallen's friend" and going "hmm, he seems familiar" and Lelouch sweating bullets.
And also occasionally I got the idea before reading Higanbana of the incredibly cliche situation where Zero sustains a head I jury that needs to be treated right away and Ougi is the least dangerous option to reveal himself to. And Ougi would be shocked but wouldn't push or reveal, and Lelouch would appreciate that and convince himself he needed to conserve his Geass against Ougi for some other situation-- or something dumb like that. STFU, it's just a fantasy, it would make for terrible fic.
Sorry, no minific. Not tonight at least. Maybe in the morning if something hits me. But canon-based Ougi/Lelouch is pretty hard. :P And I hope I made sense here because some of it was written when I was dead tired and I was having trouble focusing.
Re: Ougi/Lelouch 2
Date: 2011-09-29 07:28 am (UTC)Great character study, despite the late hour<3
Re: Ougi/Lelouch 2
Date: 2011-09-29 07:32 am (UTC)Re: Ougi/Lelouch 2
Date: 2011-09-29 08:04 am (UTC)Idk, idk. My embedded idea generator is beyond repair at the moment.
If Ougi were Lelouch's teacher, his principles/general goodness wouldn't allow him to sex up a minor/his student.
Teacher!Ougi is a lot like teacher!Suzaku, only without the daddy-killing angst.Re: Ougi/Lelouch 2
Date: 2011-09-29 09:20 pm (UTC)On my project list is a story called "Those That Never Leave", in which Lelouch is immortal. Ougi will be playing a huge part in that story because I feel there needs to be more Ougi fics in the world.
I always try to write my bigger fics as gen to appeal to the widest area of people. Or at least, when I release the final draft, I edit out the pairing leanings (like the 00 in Decayed).
So perhaps I can write Ougi/Lelouch into Those That Never Leave, but in a way that it could easily be editted out. Hmm!
Well, so then, your fic will come whenever I feel like writing Those That Never Leave. ;)
Re: Ougi/Lelouch 2
Date: 2011-09-30 10:18 am (UTC)Btw, thank you for the Suzaku/Shirley fill, I absolutely loved it:D
Re: Ougi/Lelouch 2
Date: 2011-09-30 02:30 pm (UTC)