Charles quotes from Code Geass

[laughs maniacally] Yes, you're worthy of being called my child now!

Hail, Your Majesty! My mother the Empress is dead.

Old news. What of it?

What of it?!

You sought an audience with the Emperor of Britannia to simply inform me of that. Send the next one in. I have no time for these childish games.

Father!

Yes, Your Majesty!

Why didn't you keep Mother out of harm's way? You're the emperor, the greatest man in this nation, if not the world, you should've protected her and now you don't even visit Nunnally!

I've no use for that weakling.

That weakling?

That is what it means to be royalty.

(angrily) Then I don't want to be your heir, I give up my claim to the throne! (Nobles gasp of what Lelouch is saying) I'm sick of the fighting and scheming over who will succeed you, Father. I've had enough!

You are dead. You were always been dead to me, dead from the moment you were born. Who gave you the fine clothes you wear and comfortable home? The food you eat and your very life? All of those, I have given to you. In short, you are not nothing to me because you have never existed. Yet you dare to speak such foolishness to me?! (Lelouch falls as his father rises from the throne) Lelouch, you are dead, therefore you are not entitled to any rights. I am sending you and Nunnally to Japan, as prince and princess. You will serve well as bargaining tools.

Suzaku

This place… Is it a shrine?

No, it's not. This is… This is a weapon for destroying God.

He brought me before the Britannian emperor.

The former seventeenth heir to the imperial throne, Lelouch vi Britannia. It been a long time, hasn't it, my errant son?

How dare you!

Suzaku

[to Lelouch] You won't use your Geass. [to the emperor] Your Majesty, I have a request. Please, sire, allow me to join the Knights of the Round, the twelve strongest knights of the Britannian Empire.

As a reward for capturing Zero, is that it?

You!

Suzaku

I told you before, Lelouch, that I was going to change this world from the inside.

Even if it means selling out your friends?!

Suzaku

That's right.

Very well, I like the answer you just gave him.

Now, then. As a Knight of the Round, I order you: Cover up Zero's left eye.

Suzaku

Yes, Your Majesty.

My unworthy son, who raised the banner of rebellion, although he was a prince. Still, there's another way we can make use of him.

What?!

I will rewrite your memory, about being Zero, about the death of your mother, about the very existence of Nunnally.

No, Geass?!

You'll remember none of it, you'll just be insignificant.

No, stop! You're stealing of what's most precious to me again! First my mother and now you're taking Nunnally!

Charles zi Britannia engraves into you...

Stop it!

...false memories of a false life!

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!

It's been a long time, Lelouch. My prodigal son.

Answer my question about eight years ago! Why you didn't tried to protect Mother? You knew the others were plotting against her! You know everything!

People are not equal!

What?

You have a unique form of Geass! A power that no one else possesses! Use it, to get the answer from me!

[Thinking] He's baiting me, trying to get me to use my Geass on him. But... If I look into his eyes, then he'll look into mine. His Geass requires eye contact just like mine does. So the moment I look, his Geass will take control of me and he'll alter my memories. What will I do?

What's wrong? Are you not my son, a prince of Britannia?

[activating his Geass] I have no time to make the wrong choice!

What is Geass? I wan't the truth.

How strange. A child who's wrapped himself in lies desires the truth from others.

What?

The false name and false mask of Zero - what has it gotten you?

Everything! It's gotten me all of the things that ordinary people can never obtain. Followers. Territory.

You lost Euphemia. Suzaku and Nunally are also lost to your lies.

Shut up! I did what I had to do. People lie to survive. No one is blameless.

You want others to know your true self, yet you only show them a false face. How can anyone know you if you don’t reveal yourself? If you hide behind masks, you are afraid that they’ll find out who you really are.

No!

In the end, your lies serve no purpose because you are me and I am you. All else is illusion. Though there are worlds without end, there is but one being; in the past, in the future, and now, there is only one.

One? What are you saying?

C.C.

Charles. Play time is over now. There's nothing in it for me now, no values in the games anymore.

C.C.?

C.C.

You don't have to cajole him like this to get me here. I already exist in this realm.

True enough, C.C. In that case, I shall grant your wish.

You know what C.C.'s wish is?

C.C.

Lelouch, it's time you know the conditions of our contract and what I desire. My wish is to die; to end my existence in all worlds forever.

But why? Why would you want to die?

C.C.

In the final stage of Geass, the user attains the position of the one who granted them the power. Thus, you have gained the power to kill me.

Kill you? C.C...

C.C.

Of all those I have made contracts with, none has ever reached that point. But now there's Charles. He has done it.

You mean... You made the contract with me so you could cease to exist?

C.C.

Correct.

But why would you want to die?

C.C.

It's providence; a boundary. Only when it's final can we call it life.

That's wrong! We call it life because we feel it.

C.C.

Same thing. There is no life unless there is death.

That's just word play, it's not real!

C.C.

People die, that's real.

Why are we born at all? What's the purpose of it? The meaning?

C.C.

You know the answer. Those things are all just illusions.

No! Living just to die is too sad.

C.C.

Without death, all we have are just random events. Accumulation. You can't call that life. If you have a reason for living, then you have to kill me. Do that and you'll be Charles' equal. You'll finally be able to beat him. So fare thee well, Lelouch. You're too kind to end our contract.

Wait! You're - Aaahhh!

God! Hear me now! The time has come to settle this!

You're wrong. You lift your voice to call upon God, but it's not God you need to settle things with, Charles zi Britannia.

It's me, your son!

And how will you challenge me? Neither gun nor sword will have any effect on me, nor will the power of your Geass! Nothing you can do can kill me!

But I don't need to kill you. By coming to this parallel realm, you've already ensured my victory.

You sealed the exit?!

Yes! You, I, and the power of Geass are now sealed in this space together. And if you can no longer interfere with the real world, then all your plans will be meaningless in the end. You may as well be dead!

Lelouch!

This system, which you created, has become a prison, which now holds your own soul captive. Now, let us repent… suffering together for all eternity!

Mother... It can't be!

My, Lelouch. How you've grown.

Mo-Mother!

Marianne, I see you've come.

Is this an illusion?! You're doing this?

No, it really is me, Lelouch. However, I can only take on my original appearance while I'm present within this system.

It really is...

Lelouch, I will now answer your previous question. Half a century ago, my elder brother and I existed in a Hell on Earth; our family were just rivals competing for the throne. Assassinations occurred with regularity, dealing with betrayal and spawned by lies, killing each other off. My own mother fell victim to it. My brother and I were sick and angered by the world, we therefore both sworn an oath: to create a world without lies.

Both C.C. and I agreed to this as well. V.V., however...

What did you call me for today? I cleared everyone out of here, I even had Cornelia withdraw.

Sorry to do this, especially without Charles around.

Is this about the Sword of Akasha?

Oh, no. This is only about Charles. Ever since he met you, Charles has been acting like a different man. It seems to me that you and he have come to enjoy learning more about one another. You realize if this continues, the contract we made will never be fulfilled. I will be left alone. From the beginning of time, it's always been the woman who led the man astray.

Lady Marianne!

I told you to stay out of here!

[talking on a cellphone] The job is done. Right, Begin the cover-up, maybe we can make Nunnally act to be the witness. It's imperative that this look like the work of terrorists.

Anya Alstreim, the young girl who arrived a week earlier to be schooled in etiquette. [Marianne uses her Geass to transfer her spirit into Anya.] My Geass power enables me to cross over to another person's mind. The power that had been latent for so long activated for the first time as I was dying. I hid inside Anya to save myself from being killed by V.V. and when I realized when my consciousness had surfaced, I could communicate mind to mind with C.C. When she discovered the truth, C.C. left the directorship to V.V. and then disappeared.

I spoke with my brother about it. However...

I heard; what a tragedy. I shall miss Marianne.

[angrily] My brother lied to me! After we'd sworn to create a world without deceit.

How dare you! Don't try to pass off blame for everything on the dead! Nunnally and I... you sent us to Japan as hostages!

IT WAS NECESSARY!!!

NECESSARY FOR WHAT?! What kind of parent does that?!

C.C.

If you have someone you don't want to lose, you should keep them at a distance.

That's right, I sent both you and your sister to Japan to escape my brother's sight. That's also why I had Marianne's body secretly taken away.

As long as my body still exists, there's the possibility that I'll be able to return to it.

Anya and Nunnally became witnesses, therefore it was necessary to rewrite their memories in order to protect everything.

Nunnally?! You mean her blindness wasn't psychosomatic after all?! But—

Even though she was a false witness, there remained a very real danger she would be killed.

To ensure Nunnally's safety, proof was needed that would lead V.V. away from the truth.

The original plan called for only one immortal Code. However, for research to progress we had to have an additional Code. In other words, without C.C., we didn't have an 100% guarantee that it would succeed.

When Marianne was unable to persuade C.C. to help us, we were left with no choice. We were forced to use you, Lelouch.

What was the point of me doing this?

These tragedies will no longer be necessary once the Ragnarok Connection is established.

Masks will vanish, then everyone can be exactly who they're supposed to be.

I see, all the battle and bloodshed between Britannia and the Black Knights was to lure out C.C. Well then, it seems that from the very beginning I was merely a nuisance, just a ruckus in the world. [chuckles] And what do you two think of all this?

C.C.

Did you already know that I was going to come here, Lelouch?

And that you regained your memories too. It was necessary for this plan, wasn't it?

Precisely. Therefore I cannot see any sense in you coming here as well, Kururugi.

Suzaku

I'm sure you can't. I'd heard that you're already immortal, that's why there something that I want to know for certain. Why did you make this thing? For what reason?

Why? Because it's what Nunnally and Euphie both desired: they wanted a gentler world.

Now I see. It's obvious.

The time is here. C.C., since we are all assembled, the plan can commence now. I will grant your wish after everything has been completed.