Code Geass Episode 21.

"Situations change without regard for men's expectations. Time flows, paying no heed to human concerns."

For an episode that's titled The School Festival is Open!, this was pretty intense. It didn't just highlight the NunnallySuzakuEuphemia perspective, which I find very interesting, but also built up the tension between Lelouch and his, well, sister Euphemia. It kind of irks me that SuzakuEuphemia is so canon, while SuzakuNunnally, despite obvious attempts at making it work, isn't getting as much love as it should. (Oh well who needs Suzaku anyway. Not Nunnally.)

Euphemia goes to the Ashford Academy to talk to Suzaku. Can't she wait until he comes to the base and talk to him there?

 

You call this a disguise?

 

 

Aw, Nunnally is so adorable.

 

Euphemia can't answer if she loves Lelouch, because she's into Suzaku now. Uh.

As if proving my point that she is an idiot, Euphemia manages to take her place in front of the whole Ashford Academy and have her speech transmitted live. She then declares the establishment of The Special Administrative Zone of Japan around Mount Fuji. With this, the Elevens would be free to call themselves Japanese and will have equal rights and equal everything with Britannians. 

  

Euphemia being noble... or just stupid.

How very noble of Euphemia!

Not.

She basically screws everything up for Lelouch, who is furious at this astounding display of retardation and naivete on Euphemia's part. With this declaration, it's obvious that the Order of the Black Knights will no longer have the reason to exist, as going against this... decree will shatter their credibility, since it's supposed to be what they want from the very beginning anyway. There's just no point to continue anymore.

 

Lelouch and I agree that Euphemia is an idiot. 

I do realize that Euphemia only wishes for peace and all that glitz, but she's not seeing the bigger picture. For one, she fails to remember that Zero killed her brother Clovis, and she should have sensed in her talk with Lelouch that he felt no remorse in doing so. Shouldn't she have been angered by this? Wait, I forget she's too naive to hate anyone. 

For two, she doesn't understand what Lelouch and Nunnally have been through. I don't think anyone who's been protected all her live has the right to claim she knows of her sibling's sufferings, no matter how close they are. To begin with, they're not that close anyway. So she knows practically nothing about Lelouch's intentions, and then she takes steps that she thinks will make things better when all they do is make things a whole lot worse

For three, I just really can't find it in myself to like her.

 

"Euphie said she likes Suzaku."

I can't really say if Nunnally is interested interested in Suzaku. So, she likes him, but does she like like him?  Sometimes she's quite unnerving; her calmness is faultless and I can't exactly figure her out or something. I don't even know if she's supposed to sound jealous when she said the words, because she doesn't sound jealous at all. Hm.

In any case, I'm pretty certain Lelouch didn't appreciate Euphemia's declaration. Oh he's furious.

"Euphemia, your very existence is a crime against Nunally and me."

He couldn't have said it any better.