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[Character name] Suzaku Kururugi
[Canon] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
[Point Taken from Canon] Episode 18, when his ‘Live!’ Geass command kicks in during the second battle for Tokyo. (*Note: He has now been canon updated to post-series.)
[Age] 19 (he had a birthday in-game)
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Heterosexual
[Eye Color] Green
[Hair Color] Brown
[Height] 5'9"
[Clothing] [Formal] [Casual]
[Background]
Suzaku is the son of Japanese Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi. In the year 2010 of the imperial calendar, Japan was invaded by Britannian forces and swiftly conquered thanks to Britannia’s weapon, the Knightmare Frame. The war ended shortly after Prime Minister Kururugi committed suicide or, at least, that’s what the public believed. In truth, a ten-year-old Suzaku had stabbed his father to death in hopes of ending the war, though this fact was covered up. After Japan’s surrender, as a result of the Prime Minister’s death, the country was stripped of its name and renamed “Area 11”.
Shortly before the end of the war, Suzaku met Lelouch and Nunnally, the exiled prince and princess of Britannia who would eventually become two of the most important people in his life. Before their arrivial in Japan, Lelouch and Nunnally’s mother, Lady Marianne, had been assassinated by someone within the empire. Nunnally had been blinded and crippled in the same attack. After the war, Suzaku was forced to part ways with Lelouch and Nunnally, and wouldn’t see them again for seven years. As they parted, Lelouch swore to Suzaku that he would one day obliterate Britannia.
Seven years later, Suzaku had become an Honorary Britannian and a soldier in the Britannian military. During a terrorist attack in the Shinjuku ghetto, Suzaku had a chance meeting Lelouch and helped to save him from a group of corrupt Britannian soldiers, but was shot in the process. Miraculously, Suzaku survived thanks to his father’s pocket watch that had been hidden under his uniform; it had deflected the bullet, leaving the him virtually unharmed.
During that same battle, Suzaku was given the special corps test model Knightmare Frame codenamed: ‘Lancelot’. He took to piloting it immediately, scoring the highest compatibility rating that the special corps scientists, Lloyd and Cecile, had ever seen. Using the Lancelot, Suzaku single-handedly fended off the terrorists in Shinjuku with little effort.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, the third prince of Britannia, Clovis la Britannia, was assassinated. Suzaku, being an honorary Britannian and an Eleven (the name used by the empire for Japanese people) by birth, was accused of the murder and used as a political scapegoat. Suzaku was to be escorted to his trial and execution by a full military convoy, however, the convoy was interrupted en route by a masked terrorist calling himself Zero. Zero used his powers of persuasion to force the Britannian soldier leading the convoy to release Suzaku into his custody and claimed that he, not the Honorary Britannian, had killed Clovis.
Once they had escaped, Zero asked Suzaku to join him in the fight against Britannia. Suzaku respectfully declined, saying that anything gained by questionable means was wrong, and that he wanted to change Britannia from the inside. Zero called him an idealistic fool, to which Suzaku replied, “An old friend [Lelouch] used to say the same thing.” The Honorary Britannian left Zero’s company immediately after and went to his court martial. As Zero had admitted to killing Clovis, Suzaku was acquitted soon after.
Following his acquittal, Suzaku met the third princess of Britannia, Euphemia li Britannia and became very good friends with her. In the following months, and after many battles where Suzaku piloted the Lancelot, Euphie would eventually make him her own personal knight, which resulted in his promotion from Warrant Officer to Major. She was also responsible for his enrolment in Ashford Academy, where he was reunited with Lelouch and Nunnally once again.
In a pivotal battle against the Order the Black Knights, which was a terrorist group lead by Zero, Suzaku was ordered by a superior to sacrifice his own life in order to rid the world of the masked terrorist. Suzaku, whose conscience was wracked with guilt over killing his own father as a child, agreed to the order without question. Cursing the white knight as a stubborn fool once again, Zero opened a slit in his mask, just enough to show his eye… and then… there was nothing. Suzaku blacked out.
Suzaku came to to find himself on a deserted island known as “Kaminejima” or “The Island of God”. He was stranded there along with Kallen Kozuki - a classmate of his who turned out to be a member of the Black Knights - Zero and princess Euphemia. After a scuffle that involved Zero stealing Britannia’s prototype flying Knightmare, the Gawain, Suzaku and Euphie were rescued from the island. Suzaku was immediately placed under arrest for disobeying orders and was shown a recording of himself yelling frantically that he had to live and that his mission meant nothing. He was obviously shocked to hear this, having no memory of the event.
Fortunately, Suzaku was let off the hook by the second prince of Britannia, Schneizel el Britannia, who had given the order for the knight to sacrifice himself in the first place. He felt that Euphie needed her knight by her side and that he was to blame for what happened, not Suzaku, since he was the one who was unable to protect his subordinate. Schneizel was also revealed to be Lloyd’s benefactor and the one who funded the Lancelot’s (as well as the Gawain’s) production.
Shortly after, princess Euphemia announced that she would return Area 11 to the Japanese people to end the terrorism that had been on the rise as a result of Zero and his Black Knights. She assembled thousands of hopeful Japanese people for the opening ceremony of the “Special Zone of Japan” and asked Suzaku to be there with her to help, not as her knight, but as her friend and lover. Suzaku happily agreed.
Tragically, after a private meeting between Euphie and Zero, the princess suddenly ordered the extermination of all the Japanese people. After she fired the first shot, which killed a Japanese man, her soldiers quickly followed suit and massacred the Japanese people gathered at the ceremony. Suzaku, who was in shock at the princess’ sudden change of character, followed her in an attempt to reason with her. However, just as he managed to catch up to her, Euphie was shot by Zero, right before his eyes.
Suzaku, who was completely devastated, brought the critically wounded Euphie aboard prince Schneizel’s ship, the Avalon, and pleaded with the doctors there to save her. Unfortunately, there was nothing they could do for her and she died shortly after. Oddly enough, she had no memory of giving the order to exterminate the Japanese people and actually asked Suzaku if the Special Zone of Japan had been a success. The knight lied to her, saying it was a huge success and that the Japanese people were singing her praises. Euphie’s last request was that Suzaku finish school, as she was never able to.
Immediately following Euphie’s death, Suzaku was confronted aboard the Avalon by a mysterious boy calling himself V.V. The boy revealed that Zero possessed a supernatural power known as “Geass”. Zero’s Geass allowed him to give anyone an order than that they would have no choice but to carry out, having no memory for the event afterwards. This explained why Suzaku had defied orders and why Euphie had gone from her usual sweet self to a cold-blooded killer.
Suzaku managed to catch up with Zero, who had abandoned the Black Knights during a pivotal battle in their rebellion, and confronted him in a cave on Kaminejima, along with Kallen. There, Suzaku overpowered and unmasked Zero, revealing him to be Lelouch. Kallen was devastated at the discovery, while Suzaku was disgusted that his friend could have done such terrible things, and to his own siblings (Euphie and Clovis), at that. Suzaku easily convinced a confused Kallen to abandon Lelouch and arrested him, saying that he would put an end to Zero once and for all.
Suzaku brought Lelouch before the Emperor of Britannia - Lelouch’s father - and sold his former friend out for a position among the twelve Knights of the Round, the Emperor’s personal knights. The Emperor, who also possessed a Geass ability, rewrote Lelouch’s memories about his mother, his sister Nunnally and about being Zero. In the year that followed, the Emperor also rewrote the memories of everyone at Ashford academy, erasing Nunnally from their memories completely. He placed an assassin, a boy named Rolo, as Lelouch’s fake brother and ordered him to kill Lelouch if he ever recovered his memories of being Zero.
One year after arresting Zero and ending the Black Rebellion, Suzaku had become the Knight of Seven, a lord of Britannia. Among his comrades in the Knights of the Round, Suzaku had become close with a boy named Gino Weinberg and a girl named Anya Alstreim. He stilled harbored a great hatred for Lelouch and the Geass that his former friend had placed upon him persisted, taking over whenever Suzaku was put in a position where his life was in danger and forcing him to take any action necessary to survive, with no memory for the event.
When a man claiming to be Zero emerged, Suzaku became hell-bent on proving that it was Lelouch behind the mask once again. At one point he nearly drugged an imprisoned Kallen to pry information from her, only stopping when he realized that he was becoming just as bad as Lelouch. He also used Nunnally’s new position as the governor of Area 11 (succeeding Euphie) in an attempt to get some kind of reaction out of Lelouch.
A frantic Lelouch eventually contacted Suzaku and admitted to being Zero. He pleaded with the knight to protect Nunnally from the Emperor, certain that she would be harmed as retribution for his actions. Suzaku reluctantly agreed, but one condition: Lelouch would have to meet him alone at the Kururugi Shrine in Area 11 - the place where the two first met eight years before.
At the shrine, Lelouch admitted to having cast a Geass on Euphie, but he wasn’t entirely truthful, either - a fact that Suzaku easily picked up on. Lelouch claimed to have Geassed Euphie to use her as a political tool and also having Geassed Suzaku merely for self-preservation. Suzaku could tell that Lelouch was lying to protect him from something, but couldn’t quite figure out what. He agreed to help Lelouch, but, before they could do anything, the two were ambushed by Schneizel’s forces - they had followed Suzaku. As he was arrested, Lelouch broke down and crushed Suzaku for betraying him. Lelouch escaped shortly after, making Suzaku realize that the two would never be able to reconcile. One of them would kill have to kill the other… that was the only way out.
In the battle that followed, Suzaku’s Lancelot was easily overpowered by Kallen’s new Knightmare, the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N. When the knight had finally accepted that he would die, his Geass command kicked in and he blacked out - this is the point where he arrives in Somarium. In the series, however, Suzaku’s Geass command forces him to fire a warhead over Tokyo to save himself, annihilating half the settlement.
[Personality]
Suzaku is a firm believer in chivalry; he holds his position as a knight of Britannia higher than anything. His belief in the established order is what dominates his actions; he generally refuses to break the rules on the grounds that he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he gained something via questionable means.
Suzaku is also willing to sacrifice anything for the people he cares about, or to carry out an order, given it doesn’t conflict with the ‘Live!’ Geass that Lelouch cast on him. He stated in his talk with Lelouch at the Kururugi shrine that he considers the Geass command a curse because it warps his morals so severely.
The only time Suzaku will break the rules is when it comes to getting revenge for Euphie’s death. Though he is a fiercely loyal friend, Suzaku didn’t hesitate to sell Lelouch, Euphie’s murderer, to the emperor. He also came dangerously close to drugging Kallen to get information out her, but stopped when he realized that he was slowly becoming like Lelouch.
[Specialties/Abilities]
As a soldier, Suzaku is both a skilled pilot and fighter, but his most notable “ability” is the ‘Live!’ Geass that Lelouch cast on him. If Suzaku gives up on living or enters a fight that he can’t win, his Geass command activates and forces his body to do whatever it takes to survive. However, Suzaku will have no memory of anything he does while he is under the Geass’ control.
[Affection] You can hug him and stuff, but he'll probably just laugh and stare at you. The only person Suzaku is really affectionate for is Euphie. *totally not glaring at Setsuna*
[Fighting] Suzaku is a solder who spinkicks things to hell, so he's a damn good fighter. If you want your character to fight him, contact me first.
[Other Facts] Suzaku doesn't believe in physics.
[Canon] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
[Point Taken from Canon] Episode 18, when his ‘Live!’ Geass command kicks in during the second battle for Tokyo. (*Note: He has now been canon updated to post-series.)
[Age] 19 (he had a birthday in-game)
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Heterosexual
[Eye Color] Green
[Hair Color] Brown
[Height] 5'9"
[Clothing] [Formal] [Casual]
[Background]
Suzaku is the son of Japanese Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi. In the year 2010 of the imperial calendar, Japan was invaded by Britannian forces and swiftly conquered thanks to Britannia’s weapon, the Knightmare Frame. The war ended shortly after Prime Minister Kururugi committed suicide or, at least, that’s what the public believed. In truth, a ten-year-old Suzaku had stabbed his father to death in hopes of ending the war, though this fact was covered up. After Japan’s surrender, as a result of the Prime Minister’s death, the country was stripped of its name and renamed “Area 11”.
Shortly before the end of the war, Suzaku met Lelouch and Nunnally, the exiled prince and princess of Britannia who would eventually become two of the most important people in his life. Before their arrivial in Japan, Lelouch and Nunnally’s mother, Lady Marianne, had been assassinated by someone within the empire. Nunnally had been blinded and crippled in the same attack. After the war, Suzaku was forced to part ways with Lelouch and Nunnally, and wouldn’t see them again for seven years. As they parted, Lelouch swore to Suzaku that he would one day obliterate Britannia.
Seven years later, Suzaku had become an Honorary Britannian and a soldier in the Britannian military. During a terrorist attack in the Shinjuku ghetto, Suzaku had a chance meeting Lelouch and helped to save him from a group of corrupt Britannian soldiers, but was shot in the process. Miraculously, Suzaku survived thanks to his father’s pocket watch that had been hidden under his uniform; it had deflected the bullet, leaving the him virtually unharmed.
During that same battle, Suzaku was given the special corps test model Knightmare Frame codenamed: ‘Lancelot’. He took to piloting it immediately, scoring the highest compatibility rating that the special corps scientists, Lloyd and Cecile, had ever seen. Using the Lancelot, Suzaku single-handedly fended off the terrorists in Shinjuku with little effort.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, the third prince of Britannia, Clovis la Britannia, was assassinated. Suzaku, being an honorary Britannian and an Eleven (the name used by the empire for Japanese people) by birth, was accused of the murder and used as a political scapegoat. Suzaku was to be escorted to his trial and execution by a full military convoy, however, the convoy was interrupted en route by a masked terrorist calling himself Zero. Zero used his powers of persuasion to force the Britannian soldier leading the convoy to release Suzaku into his custody and claimed that he, not the Honorary Britannian, had killed Clovis.
Once they had escaped, Zero asked Suzaku to join him in the fight against Britannia. Suzaku respectfully declined, saying that anything gained by questionable means was wrong, and that he wanted to change Britannia from the inside. Zero called him an idealistic fool, to which Suzaku replied, “An old friend [Lelouch] used to say the same thing.” The Honorary Britannian left Zero’s company immediately after and went to his court martial. As Zero had admitted to killing Clovis, Suzaku was acquitted soon after.
Following his acquittal, Suzaku met the third princess of Britannia, Euphemia li Britannia and became very good friends with her. In the following months, and after many battles where Suzaku piloted the Lancelot, Euphie would eventually make him her own personal knight, which resulted in his promotion from Warrant Officer to Major. She was also responsible for his enrolment in Ashford Academy, where he was reunited with Lelouch and Nunnally once again.
In a pivotal battle against the Order the Black Knights, which was a terrorist group lead by Zero, Suzaku was ordered by a superior to sacrifice his own life in order to rid the world of the masked terrorist. Suzaku, whose conscience was wracked with guilt over killing his own father as a child, agreed to the order without question. Cursing the white knight as a stubborn fool once again, Zero opened a slit in his mask, just enough to show his eye… and then… there was nothing. Suzaku blacked out.
Suzaku came to to find himself on a deserted island known as “Kaminejima” or “The Island of God”. He was stranded there along with Kallen Kozuki - a classmate of his who turned out to be a member of the Black Knights - Zero and princess Euphemia. After a scuffle that involved Zero stealing Britannia’s prototype flying Knightmare, the Gawain, Suzaku and Euphie were rescued from the island. Suzaku was immediately placed under arrest for disobeying orders and was shown a recording of himself yelling frantically that he had to live and that his mission meant nothing. He was obviously shocked to hear this, having no memory of the event.
Fortunately, Suzaku was let off the hook by the second prince of Britannia, Schneizel el Britannia, who had given the order for the knight to sacrifice himself in the first place. He felt that Euphie needed her knight by her side and that he was to blame for what happened, not Suzaku, since he was the one who was unable to protect his subordinate. Schneizel was also revealed to be Lloyd’s benefactor and the one who funded the Lancelot’s (as well as the Gawain’s) production.
Shortly after, princess Euphemia announced that she would return Area 11 to the Japanese people to end the terrorism that had been on the rise as a result of Zero and his Black Knights. She assembled thousands of hopeful Japanese people for the opening ceremony of the “Special Zone of Japan” and asked Suzaku to be there with her to help, not as her knight, but as her friend and lover. Suzaku happily agreed.
Tragically, after a private meeting between Euphie and Zero, the princess suddenly ordered the extermination of all the Japanese people. After she fired the first shot, which killed a Japanese man, her soldiers quickly followed suit and massacred the Japanese people gathered at the ceremony. Suzaku, who was in shock at the princess’ sudden change of character, followed her in an attempt to reason with her. However, just as he managed to catch up to her, Euphie was shot by Zero, right before his eyes.
Suzaku, who was completely devastated, brought the critically wounded Euphie aboard prince Schneizel’s ship, the Avalon, and pleaded with the doctors there to save her. Unfortunately, there was nothing they could do for her and she died shortly after. Oddly enough, she had no memory of giving the order to exterminate the Japanese people and actually asked Suzaku if the Special Zone of Japan had been a success. The knight lied to her, saying it was a huge success and that the Japanese people were singing her praises. Euphie’s last request was that Suzaku finish school, as she was never able to.
Immediately following Euphie’s death, Suzaku was confronted aboard the Avalon by a mysterious boy calling himself V.V. The boy revealed that Zero possessed a supernatural power known as “Geass”. Zero’s Geass allowed him to give anyone an order than that they would have no choice but to carry out, having no memory for the event afterwards. This explained why Suzaku had defied orders and why Euphie had gone from her usual sweet self to a cold-blooded killer.
Suzaku managed to catch up with Zero, who had abandoned the Black Knights during a pivotal battle in their rebellion, and confronted him in a cave on Kaminejima, along with Kallen. There, Suzaku overpowered and unmasked Zero, revealing him to be Lelouch. Kallen was devastated at the discovery, while Suzaku was disgusted that his friend could have done such terrible things, and to his own siblings (Euphie and Clovis), at that. Suzaku easily convinced a confused Kallen to abandon Lelouch and arrested him, saying that he would put an end to Zero once and for all.
Suzaku brought Lelouch before the Emperor of Britannia - Lelouch’s father - and sold his former friend out for a position among the twelve Knights of the Round, the Emperor’s personal knights. The Emperor, who also possessed a Geass ability, rewrote Lelouch’s memories about his mother, his sister Nunnally and about being Zero. In the year that followed, the Emperor also rewrote the memories of everyone at Ashford academy, erasing Nunnally from their memories completely. He placed an assassin, a boy named Rolo, as Lelouch’s fake brother and ordered him to kill Lelouch if he ever recovered his memories of being Zero.
One year after arresting Zero and ending the Black Rebellion, Suzaku had become the Knight of Seven, a lord of Britannia. Among his comrades in the Knights of the Round, Suzaku had become close with a boy named Gino Weinberg and a girl named Anya Alstreim. He stilled harbored a great hatred for Lelouch and the Geass that his former friend had placed upon him persisted, taking over whenever Suzaku was put in a position where his life was in danger and forcing him to take any action necessary to survive, with no memory for the event.
When a man claiming to be Zero emerged, Suzaku became hell-bent on proving that it was Lelouch behind the mask once again. At one point he nearly drugged an imprisoned Kallen to pry information from her, only stopping when he realized that he was becoming just as bad as Lelouch. He also used Nunnally’s new position as the governor of Area 11 (succeeding Euphie) in an attempt to get some kind of reaction out of Lelouch.
A frantic Lelouch eventually contacted Suzaku and admitted to being Zero. He pleaded with the knight to protect Nunnally from the Emperor, certain that she would be harmed as retribution for his actions. Suzaku reluctantly agreed, but one condition: Lelouch would have to meet him alone at the Kururugi Shrine in Area 11 - the place where the two first met eight years before.
At the shrine, Lelouch admitted to having cast a Geass on Euphie, but he wasn’t entirely truthful, either - a fact that Suzaku easily picked up on. Lelouch claimed to have Geassed Euphie to use her as a political tool and also having Geassed Suzaku merely for self-preservation. Suzaku could tell that Lelouch was lying to protect him from something, but couldn’t quite figure out what. He agreed to help Lelouch, but, before they could do anything, the two were ambushed by Schneizel’s forces - they had followed Suzaku. As he was arrested, Lelouch broke down and crushed Suzaku for betraying him. Lelouch escaped shortly after, making Suzaku realize that the two would never be able to reconcile. One of them would kill have to kill the other… that was the only way out.
In the battle that followed, Suzaku’s Lancelot was easily overpowered by Kallen’s new Knightmare, the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N. When the knight had finally accepted that he would die, his Geass command kicked in and he blacked out - this is the point where he arrives in Somarium. In the series, however, Suzaku’s Geass command forces him to fire a warhead over Tokyo to save himself, annihilating half the settlement.
[Personality]
Suzaku is a firm believer in chivalry; he holds his position as a knight of Britannia higher than anything. His belief in the established order is what dominates his actions; he generally refuses to break the rules on the grounds that he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he gained something via questionable means.
Suzaku is also willing to sacrifice anything for the people he cares about, or to carry out an order, given it doesn’t conflict with the ‘Live!’ Geass that Lelouch cast on him. He stated in his talk with Lelouch at the Kururugi shrine that he considers the Geass command a curse because it warps his morals so severely.
The only time Suzaku will break the rules is when it comes to getting revenge for Euphie’s death. Though he is a fiercely loyal friend, Suzaku didn’t hesitate to sell Lelouch, Euphie’s murderer, to the emperor. He also came dangerously close to drugging Kallen to get information out her, but stopped when he realized that he was slowly becoming like Lelouch.
[Specialties/Abilities]
As a soldier, Suzaku is both a skilled pilot and fighter, but his most notable “ability” is the ‘Live!’ Geass that Lelouch cast on him. If Suzaku gives up on living or enters a fight that he can’t win, his Geass command activates and forces his body to do whatever it takes to survive. However, Suzaku will have no memory of anything he does while he is under the Geass’ control.
[Affection] You can hug him and stuff, but he'll probably just laugh and stare at you. The only person Suzaku is really affectionate for is Euphie. *totally not glaring at Setsuna*
[Fighting] Suzaku is a solder who spinkicks things to hell, so he's a damn good fighter. If you want your character to fight him, contact me first.
[Other Facts] Suzaku doesn't believe in physics.