Much as I like Kaguya, if she even remembers this (she was 4), I'm not seeing that it would definitely incline her positively towards us. From the summary it seems like we stood there and insulted her. She might realise it helped her develop emotionally but I don't think that will certainly engender a positve reaction to us. Then again Kaguya is weird so who knows.
I foresee a lot of potential humor from both sides regarding the whole 'demon of the forest' thing.
I'm pretty certain she remembers it - the article says "At the end of her tale, she says that she believes that she's changed since then." which implies she's recounting the tale from memory. The end description to me makes me think she views the whole event in a positive light, which would mean she'd take Lelouch's scolding as actually being an attempt to help her. Kaguya, while a bit strange, is rather mature for her age, so even if she didn't view the 'demon of the forest' positively in that role I think she'd recognize that Lelouch was also a child at the time and probably let it go. I'm also thinking she would have occasionally interacted with Lelouch and Nunally after that, given the Lelouch was among the friends of Suzaku she couldn't play with before asking.
We can certainly lessen the shock as the cirumstances that made her suspicious that we were Zero in the first place should never arise, thus we won't need to manipulate her into thinking we aren't. But I think your forgetting the other reason it was so shocking was that the personal Lelouch projects is a brilliant, but apathetic cynic, with no desire to change how horrible the world is. She saw her hero revealed as the man who said to her face to not do anything about a japanese shopkeeper being beaten up in front of her because it would make his situation worse, that's the way the world works.
Beyond that I also don't think Lelouch would want to reveal his connection to 'Zero' easily:
- First and foremost, whilst he might not think of them as useless, they are terrorists. I want you to forget everything you know about Kallen for a minute and focus on this. Kallen is a terrorist. That is all Lelouch knows of her IC. That and she's partially responsible for the sequence of events that got Suzaku and a lot of people killed (AFAIK Lelouch doesn't yet realise Suzaku's alive), though it did lead to our exaltation. It's actually more of an incentive not to tell her, a competent, motivated terrorist is a lot more dangerous to trust.
- His public identity is connected to Nunnally, and giving a terrorist reason to dig into his background, or potentially threaten his sister as a bargaining chip is a huge no no.
- Oath sanctification is imperfect. A true believer who is prepared to die or lose everything can break their oath. Meta wise Kallen is the sort of person who's prepared to die for their beliefs.
- On a more Meta note, Kallen can be, and I say this while liking her a lot, stupidly impulsive. I think the best example is the shower scene, where she grabs Lelouch's hand, believing he might be the voice from Shinjuku, and threatens him with a knife pressed into his wrist. While Lelouch playing dumb allowed the situation to end without bloodshed, imagine if the scene had played out with someone else. Kallen would have had to kill someone to prevent them talking about her threatning them with a knife, or disappeared, losing her cover identity (or relied on the Stadfeld name to sweep it under the rug, but I don't think she'd have done that). Another example of this can be seen when (iirc) she is ready to stab Euphemia in the middle of a school event if Lelouch hadn't stppped her. This makes anything we do regarding revealing ourselves a bit more risky.
- Kallen isn't really the best at Social understanding. This is both positive and negative. She will be easier for us to deal with, but she has trouble empathising or seeing things from other people's point of view (see her not understanding why japanese people would accept humilitation to work in the Britannian settlement, or her inability to understand her mother staying as a maid). This can make her prone to snap judgements which might have unpleasant effects if we aren't careful, especially combined with her impulsive nature.
- Lelouch isn't a trusting person.
So overall I think we'd at least need a decent amount of time (weeks at least) IC getting to know her before we would risk that. Revealing ourselves of our own free will is something we can do, but will require a substantial amount of time to build trust. We might be able to cut this down a bit given our build but it's something that will take time and effort to set up.
You make good points - waiting to get to know her a bit before making a big reveal is probably more in character.
The apathetic Lelouch that Kallen despised was ultimately part of his mask, so we should definitely present a different side to Lelouch so she's more positively inclined. Maybe do something like what Lelouch did in canon to attract Shirley's attention if an opportunity presents itself.
Also, the shopkeeper incident may not happen since we didn't kill Clovis - the anti-Eleven sentiment will be at 'normal' levels rather than heightened due to that. And if it does, we can actually interfere, but use social bullshit to convince the thugs to walk away.
Read the interlude. Glad the horrible thought I had earlier today, with C.C.'s 'corpse' being eaten by one of our minions turned out to be untrue.
Well, I was always pretty certain she wouldn't have been eaten, or at least it wouldn't have killed her due to the bullshit level of immortality she has. My guess the scene was her waking up right after Lelouch was cocooned, her looking at it, then the demons, cursing her luck, and then walking away as the demons just stared blankly at her since she wasn't threatening.
Also, our act of villany is to pointlessly conceal secrets from our allies and henchmen.
Which doesn't mean it's a good idea to conceal all secrets all the time or from every ally possible. Also, we have the option of asking our henchmen to do something without giving them context or explanation - this is actually pretty easy, as we can just fuck with Tamaki and send him on missions to create diversions so Lelouch can get away from his fangirls, just with no explanation.
Also, given our Urge is something that isn't far off from our Motivation, we're not exactly going to disobey it regularly enough to generate a lot of Limit.
Add that to the fact that unless we go around covering our face 24/7 she'll have an Intimacy of Rapt Fascination towards us and...yeah we really need to find a way to stop people on Lelouch's school side from forming a cult around him.
No we don't! That's crazy talk.
1. An actual cult isn't likely to form. The Intimacy is rapt fascination rather than reverence. They won't see him as a god-like entity, so actual worship isn't likely. It's more likely Lelouch will have a fan club with a crapload of fangirls, which given he's super handsome and in high school wouldn't really be all that noteworthy. Given all the other crazy shenanigans that go on at Ashford Academy due to what Milly arranges it probably wouldn't even rate as the strangest thing going on there. Most adults would just blame everything on them being teenagers and ignore it.
2. If Lelouch's fanclub did count as a cult, it would only be to our benefit, as their 'prayer' actions would actually give mechanical benefits to Lelouch.
3. Think of the lulz! We absolutely must have the lulz!
Could we use loom-snarling deception to assume our own pre-exaltation appearance and fate?
The GM confirmed we can do that, but as mentioned it's expensive in motes to do that regularly. Plus it's not amusing.
