2009-08-07, 11:19 | Link #1002 | |
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No matter what, it seems that Lelouch would have ended up the definitive house-husband with any of them. Shirley was crap at cooking, and other "simple tasks" according to the other Student Council members. Shirley (singsong voice): "Oh Luluuu!" Lelouch: "Shirley...why are you using the "something's on fire voice?" Kallen was quite slovenly and hid weights under her furnitre. Can you imagine Lelouch trying to pick those up when cleaning? Lelouch (panting): "Wh-what kind of girl lifts one-handed 90 pound weights?!" Kallen: "Sweety...those are 06 pound weights..." Lelouch: "...I've lost all confidence as a man." Kallen: "Well you look better than me in most of my dresses so-" Lelouch: "First, you're not helping, and second we promised we'd never speak of that again!" C.C. is...C.C. She assumably had the abilities given her life as a slave girl and centuries of experience, but she clearly had no desire to put that experience to use, and is more slovenly than Kallen. Lelouch (grumbling): "How one woman -and my god, do I use that term loosely- can produce this much...this much...filth I will never understand even if I manage to outlive her!" C.C.: "Now Lelouch, you shouldn't say such things in front of our son." Lelouch: "Th-that-that...THING! is not my son!!" -In the hallway, a dejected Cheese-kun sheds a single lonely tear for the father who will never hold him- |
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2009-08-07, 11:45 | Link #1003 |
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Thanks the core C.C was able to memorize and make everything, she's just "lazy" because she was without the desire to live on.
Kallen learned by force to stop to be slovenly, otherwise every day Lelouch fall in the ground stumbling on something, but the cooking, that's another story XDXDXDXD Shirley at last was clumsy because she never learned to make something, like my sister, in fact when my sis was married, she was obliged to learn something about housewife jobs, otherwise....XD |
2009-08-07, 12:09 | Link #1004 |
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We can't be sure the Code lets a person have a perfect memory, though I've often wondered if that would be one of the powers it offered.
Kallen's "maximum devotion" to anything she does (like having grades better than Lelouch's even though she was off being a terrorist most of the time) imply that she would rigorously study anything she applied herself to, so even if she sucked at cooking and other domestic things in canon, she would get very good at them very fast if she wanted to. Shirley...well...She'd look pretty moe if she spilled the right foods on her, and it would be an excuse for Lelouch to teach her everything he knew. Actually, that would be a cute subplot for a fanfiction or just a oneshot: Shirley gets Lelouch to teach her various domestic skills like cooking cleaning etc as an excuse to spend time with him (an hopefully impress him with her abilities). At the end of the day, after Shirley has botched every single thing she attempted and is just trying not to break into tears infront of Lelouch, he'll (obliviously) smile and just say he's sure she'll do better when they practice again tomorrow and/or he'll keep helping her until she gets it right. |
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2009-08-09, 09:16 | Link #1009 | |
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Not to detract at all from Shirley's more innocent, tragic scenes (those of her inspirational love for Lelouch: acceptance, truth, forgiveness, etc.) but I always saw the essence of Shirley's personality as being more assertive/confrontational. Aside from Shirley's obvious initial drive to prevent Lelouch from being a 'dame ningen' ('failure' was how I think gg translated it), we also have: Shirley confronting Kallen over 'liking Lelouch' early in S1; Shirley calling Lelouch for an outing post-memory wipe to ascertain his identity as Zero; Shirley asking Lelouch/Kallen what they'd done to her during the Black Rebellion; and in R2, Shirley starting a fight with Gopher-kun over interrupting her conversation with Lelouch, the aforementioned 'dame-ningen' chase in Turn 12, and her fairly absolute encounters with Suzaku/Rolo about 'liking Lelouch' (again, but differently) just before her death. Shirley was not just a supportive/inspirational character: I think she did have, if not self-righteousness, still a very strong drive to make (her) world a 'proper' place as she desired it. It's this strong initiative to 'set things right' and make them conform to her expectations that Shirley could have drawn on as a manager (or better yet, per my initial suggestion, a personal secretary). And in a role where it would be her explicit job to ensure the efficiency of her 'charge', having that charge be someone who Shirley saw as having potential (such as Lelouch) but was also generally lazy/uninvolved/not committed (again, such as Lelouch: due naturally to his genius, but I think also his upbringing--having lived in the absolute upper class as royalty, and also the absolute lower class as an exiled prince scrambling for points cards, Lelouch would have naturally experienced too much of the struggles and weight of life/the individual to be interested in the trivial aspirations/past-times of the middle class) would simply be perfect. To be honest, this was the relationship I saw before the world (Lelouch's, that is; Code Geass's) had to change. For a Lelouch not consumed with revenge, and a Lelouch also not burdened with a mask as heavy as the fate of the world: essentially the Lelouch introduced at the beginning of S1, briefly reflected in the first ep of R2, who lived with a cool apathy. If the world he saw was merely meaningless, an endless struggle merely to fit as an ummovable cog in the corporate or social/class heirarchy, then certainly that focused drive of Shirley's would have been invaluable. As a pillar that he actually could accomplish something, and as a reminder of what was important, Shirley's unrelenting assault on his laziness could paradoxically allow him to relax, by showing him with determination what to do to make that 'accomplish something' happen. To that rational, apathetic mind, I think the presence of that firm, determined Shirley would have been a great comfort. This was the Shirlulu relationship that I originally fell in love with. How I imagined they would have worked had they lived normal lives. The executive/secretary scenario is simply an explicit statement of that mechanism in their interactions (Shirley providing the drive/direction, Lelouch providing the ability, to find meaning/accomplish something in a meaningless world), an I suppose purely romantic scenario. The show, of course, didn't turn out that way: Shirley, repeatedly erased in a world that was now explicitly Lelouch's enemy as opposed to merely meaningless, became a more passive symbol of faith in its worth, offering happiness, truth, and tomorrow instead of drive and direction. I still think it was good; the 'one truth' leading away from darkness is equally compelling as a romantic scenario; but this discussion of careers and 'normal lives' has made me nostalgic. |
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2009-08-21, 00:10 | Link #1010 |
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I just found this cute little Shirlulu doujin, thought I'd share it with you all. Unfortunately it's raw, so I don't have a clue what they're saying, but it's still cute anyway. Be forewarned, there are some very naughty things about 2/3 of the way through (hey, it's a doujin, what do you expect?) Enjoy.
http://yinake.livejournal.com/38644.html |
2009-08-21, 02:25 | Link #1011 | |
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Whoah, it's the first time I see a Shirley/Lelouch doujin. Not really fan of the art but apart the NSFW part (Shirley and Lelouch having sex seems wrong for me, sorry -_-; That plus I can't help but think of the doujins as ...well let's stop that <_<) it seems really cute. But woah, once again, I had no idea it existed.
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2009-08-21, 02:48 | Link #1012 | |
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But yeah, I'll agree that I probably could've done without the uh...sex. But the rest was very cute and shojo-ish, which I think suits Shirlulu quite nicely. |
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2009-08-29, 02:34 | Link #1015 |
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'k, thread revival time!
So there I was debating in the romance thread, when all of a sudden came up the issue of 'from whence came Lelouch's Shirley flashback?'. Err, that is, was the image of Shirley in Lelouch's dying flashback sequence new footage? Or if not, then where'd it come from (i.e. which episode)? So I went and checked. And this is what I found (it was new footage (I think) btw): lol. Well, I didn't really 'find' it so much; I instantly remembered the tomato scene from Stage 1 and I remembered a lunch scene in Turn 5, so it wasn't all that hard to locate those scenes again. Still though, it's pretty fucking weird: why exactly do we have three seperate instances of Shirley waving a fork with a tomato? What are the animators trying to tell us with this? Is it some kind of inside joke, very very vague/obscure characterization, or what? It's so random, this whole thing seems practically surreal to me. Anyway, the rather basic conclusion I came to in the romance thread was that this is just one of Shirley's character quirks, which the animators put in with practically zero percent chance of anybody noticing it. I feel like I learned something new about Shirley though, which is iunno pretty great after being so long a fan of her. One other thing I noticed while I was discovering this is that Shirley is pretty damn cute with a fork (Turn 5), but yeah I dunno really where I'm going with this. |
2009-08-29, 02:50 | Link #1017 |
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LOL. Hey, it's something to talk about, right?
Well, to be quite honest, I have no idea what to think of this. I mean, that appears to be new footage, but I can't figure out for the life of me why the staff would create new footage. I mean, did they really have no scenes of Shirley smiling all by herself that Lelouch was present for? One theory I have is that perhaps its possible that that new footage for Turn 25 was some kind of deleted footage that they never put into Stage 1 or Turn 5. But as I said before, I have absolutely no idea why they would do this, because...I mean, they definitely would have to go out of their way to do this. It's just baffling. I so wish we could ask the CG staff what possessed them to do something like this or if there's any hidden meaning behind it. Well, regardless, Shirley does look pretty cute twirling that tomato around on a fork. |
2009-08-29, 02:53 | Link #1018 |
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putting in the scene from season 1 would have been odd (she's not happy)
putting the scene from turn 5 might have made it looke like suzaku is the main focus point of lelouch's thoughts hence, making a new picture instead not all that much to read into it they also did something similer in turn 21 with C.C's famus "you have to push away those you really love" line did you see season 1's version ? not the same line she says at all or the scene when he pictures nunnaly as euphie extending her hand in ep 6 not the original scene either they make edits to scenes whenever it suits them or they feel the original scene doesnt work well enough
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2009-08-29, 03:46 | Link #1019 |
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The odder aspect of putting in the scene from season 1 would be the fact that Lelouch wasn't even there in that scene.
That's kinda besides the point though: the fact that the animators purposely decided to portray Shirley as a fork-wielding tomato waver three separate times is what's bizarre. I still can't quite decide whether this is some sort of hidden message/inside joke or actual characterization: characterization wise, I guess we could assume that Shirley routinely had a lunch with baby tomatoes every day, and she developed a subconcious pathological habit of eating them by stabbing them one by one. Then we might extrapolate that, often engaged in conversation with friends during lunchtime, and also liking the feel of the heft of a fork with a tomato stuck on the end of it, she took to emphasizing her statements with a forward striking gesture. So overall, we could probably conclude that Shirley is actually a youthful, imaginative girl at heart, who enjoys indulging in the quiet fantasy of being empowered by wand-like objects, and that she's also actually a type of person who doesn't mind or might even enjoy having the same lunch everyday for what must have been years. o_O Um...yeah. That aside; lol, the idea of Shirley routinely threatening Lelouch, wildly gesticulating fork in hand, is hilarious. He'd be too distracted to even hear what she's saying. |
2009-08-29, 03:54 | Link #1020 |
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Well, as you said Sol, perhaps Shirley twirling tomatoes around on a fork was just another character quirk. Another "little thing" that Lelouch loved about her and took for granted.
Incidentally, I'm willing to bet you could drive a fork straight through Lelouch's arm with a surprisingly small amount of effort (you better watch out Lulu!) |
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