Beyogi
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Yeah it's no death note. And even there the genius "protagonist" made some rather stupid mistakes. Apart from being a total idiot.
Rising Sun (Code Geass/Arpeggio Of Blue Steel SI)
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The thing that always secretly amused me was the thought that this was exactly what Lelouch was doing in story. He isn't an experienced commander, all the experience he has at tactics is in the form of chess. It defies belief that a complete novice could pull off everything he does. But what he has in spade which lets him make up for his lack is the advantages his Geass gave him. A nearly unparalleled ability to control the battlefield provided he is forewarned. Yeah, he has high academic intelligence and that aids in his plans but at the very base of it he is an actor.
Best way to disguise the fact that you're bullshitting/using smoke and mirrors? Have the characters themselves use similar things as well.
Generalissimo
Generalissimo of SufficientVelocity
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Anybody involved with the Schneizel betraying nonsense is disqualified from people with brain category.
Hey, it's not his fault. Schneizel is better than Lelouch in every way. That include the mind-control power : Schneizel doesn't even have to have a geass to use his!
hey, this is actually good compared to most wrintings here, so I decided to watch this.
by the way, how often will be chapters released?
by the way, how often will be chapters released?
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
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Gideon's update schedule is "whenever I feel like it," basically.
Generalissimo
Generalissimo of SufficientVelocity
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Is there any other way?
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
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Cerulean.
al103
Grumpy Russian Bear (SV edition)
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With combination of her family name and position - she is also uncrowned Empress. How Britannians missed that fact I don't know, even with majority being ignorant by choice there are people who are paid to look such facts.There is one additional person of Black Knights affiliation with a brain.
Before fifteen she already was in the inner circle of the Kyōto conspiracy.
That includes mind boggling economic manipulation. ..
. . . along with backing all of Japan's resistance.
At fifteen there's all of the Black Knight stuff. . .
Followed by her securing all Kyōto's assets after everybody dies.
Plus managing all of that under Britannia's notice.
By age sixteen half behind Peace Mark's loose global resistance fighting Britannia.
Despite being a teenager Kaguya Sumeragi already mastered conspiracy, diplomacy, and capitalism to improbable degrees
After the Black Rebellion failed she knew better than hanging out around Japan.
She wasn't sentimental enough to help in C.C. and Kallen's misadventures being hunted.
Schneizel himself never actually figures out exactly how to stop her economic stuff.
Britannia never did manage tracking her down.
Still in the background for most of Code Geass by virtue of not being a knightmare pilot.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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The tendency to underestimate the 'Numbers' and bribes in the right places I suspect.
al103
Grumpy Russian Bear (SV edition)
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Just plain stupidity probably... there is underestimation like with Suzaku and there is fuckup like this. Suzaku is de-facto nobody past his fathers death and can be ignored, while Kaguya can demand and people will follow just because of her blood despite that fuckup with royal family and pseudo-shogunate of Kururugi that followed.
obssesednuker
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Or she would be if the Imperial Japanese household didn't have agnatic-only succession (which might actually be the case in the Code Geass universe).
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I don't think we've been shown a moronic Britannian commander in the show. Even Calares was pretty smart with what he did.
Pretty much the only reason Lelouch actually wins is because of the crazy shit he pulls.
Plus, Britannian philosophy would have seen incompetents culled.
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They were supposed to be Britannian puppets, I think. Considering that most large empires weren't exactly the most centralized, and that Britannia only wanted the place for the Sakuradite and as a staging point for attacking Siberia (and thus the EU), it would make sense.
Unfortunately for Britannia, these puppets actually thought for themselves.
Of course, they might have known and just didn't give a shit considering none of the resistance groups at the time could even hope to dent Britannia
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al103
Grumpy Russian Bear (SV edition)
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1. There are historical examples of female Empress
2. In case of Japan bloodline have precendence over succession rules. Blood of Amaterasu and all that.
In result as only shown heir she would've become Empress... Well or her first male child would *looks on Kururugi-sr and his marriage plans for his son* yeeeeah.
obssesednuker
Commander of 10 Million Men
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Ah, I did not know that.
obssesednuker
Commander of 10 Million Men
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Am I sensing that the Fog may make Kaguya an offer she will be hard-pressed to refuse?
Baughn
Healing-type writer
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You actually can, just not by very much. As a writer, you have the benefit of knowing the true answer, and you can spend days agonizing over a decision that the character supposedly makes in seconds.
But that only helps a little bit. And if you're writing stories for a profit, you probably can't even do that.
obssesednuker
Commander of 10 Million Men
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Was it ever stated that Japan was a republic? I mean, the fact it had a Prime Minister could mean it was a constitutional monarchy (or possibly a "constitutional" monarchy if the power structure was more akin to OTLs Imperial Japan).
The fact that the emperor was never mentioned make me think it was a republic. Whatever the Brittanians would have done to the imperial family would have been something important enough to be mentioned by some Japanese freedom fighters at some point.
obssesednuker
Commander of 10 Million Men
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A third possibility is that Japan did wind-up becoming a republic, but with the imperial family's descendents still retaining a significant social (if not political and/or economic) standing within Japanese society much like the Bourbons and Bonapartes have in modern France.
That idea could also lend to some interesting political dynamics within the JLF for fanfic writers between those who simply want to return to the preoccupation government and those who want to reach even further back and reinstate the monarchy once the Britannians are thrown out.
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