Lelouch Lamperouge

## Lelouch Lamperouge/Zero

* Casual
* Zero

AniCity’s Personal Batman

Batman wannabe

Schneizel el Britannia (half brother)

Cornelia li Britannia (Half Sister)

Euphemia li Britannia (Half Sister)

Clovis la Britannia (Half Brother)

Odysseus eu Britannia (Half Brother)

Guinevere de Britannia (Half Sister)

Carine ne Britannia (Half Sister)

Marrybell mel Britannia (Half Sister)

Nunnally vi Britannia (younger blood sister)

Yusuke Urameshi

Minako Aino

Kazuma Kuwabara

Teen Titans

* Robin

The Powerpuff Girls

The Chipettes

Star Saber

Raditz

Superman

Ben Tennyson

Imposter Zero

Vexus

Moon People

Overlord

Skeletor

Lex Luthor

Skeletor

Lelouch Lamperouge, formerly Lelouch vi Britannia, is a character from Code Geass and is a main character in AniCity. Formerly the Eleventh Prince of the Holy Britannian Empire and the son of Emperor Charles, he and his little sister Nunnally were exiled after the death of their mother, where they eventually found themselves living in AniCity. There, he would take on the identity of the vigilante known as "Zero", where he would soon join forces with other hero-types to protect their hometown and soon, even the world.

## Personality

Lelouch is a man that follows the belief of "the ends justifying the means" and is willing to commit evil to destroy another evil. He does not appear to care who knows it, as he publicly declares that belief. Zero is shown (at first, at least) to have little concern for innocent lives, mentioning several times how innocent lives have to be sacrificed. In the end, Zero's primary goal is achieving his own concept of justice and, in doing so, he is willing to do anything to achieve that justice. At first glance, Zero seems to have little concern for the lives of his subordinates. However, this is presumably a ruse as "all are pawns for Zero".

Lelouch is a highly-intelligent individual who is most often calm, sophisticated, and a little arrogant due to his aristocratic upbringing. While at school, he conducts himself as a sociable, likable and easygoing student. He’s quite known for his stoic personality. He’s never truly cared about his schoolwork, seeing the entire thing as trivial, even though his high intelligence would make it easy for him to reach the top of the class. Some of his classmates even think that if he applied himself in school a little more, he would get high grades. In general, he takes most day-to-day affairs with open disinterest, often never caring about what others think of him or even noticing the affection others show him… well, unless Nunnally shows any interest in them. However, this is all really just another of his masks; one he uses to hide his true nature and to divert any thoughts that he might be “AniCity’s personal Batman”, as many call him.

As Zero, his true nature is expressed more fully, with his charisma & beliefs in justice gaining him the trust & respect of his allies. In battle, he’s very cold & tactical. He’s willing to sacrifice both allies and civilians alike, if that is what it takes to achieve his objective. He has a strong dislike for two types of people in particular. One are nobles, viewing them as tepid and over-privileged parasites that only feed off of others for their own twisted, personal gain. The other is people who enjoy showing off their power for their own pleasure, obviously stemming from his hatred of Britannia for treating others the same way. He even sees this type of behavior come from certain heroes too, which he tolerates even less, given that they’re supposed to be the ones that take down monsters that act like that.

However, despite his cold, calculating demeanor, and ruthlessness in battle, he can be a rather compassionate person to his friends and loved ones. To Nunnally, he is a loving older brother, and to Mina & their friends, a loyal friend. Lelouch, at first glance, seems to have relatively little concern for the well-being of his subordinates, but in reality, he does care about them, seeing them as valuable allies.

## History

### Pre-Series

Lelouch was born on December 5, a.t.b. as Lelouch vi Britannia the son of the Emperor Charles zi Britannia, and the late Imperial Consort Marianne, making him the Eleventh Prince of the Holy Empire. He was in line to be the seventeenth heir to the throne, until he was ten years old, where his mother would be assassinated and his sister's crippled. The young prince confronted the Emperor afterwards and accused him of leaving his mother defenseless, even going as far as renouncing his entitlement to the throne. In response, his father banished him to Japan, where he was used as a political hostage in the empire's upcoming invasion.

It was during his stay at the Kururugi household that he first met Suzaku Kururugi, with whom the young Lelouch did not interact initially in a friendly way, before later becoming friends. However, when Britannia finally developed its Knightmare Frames fleet and decided to invade Japan to seize control of the Sakuradite mines, consequently discarding Lelouch's use as a diplomatic tool, Lelouch, fearing for his and his sister's safety, hid their true identities and sought the help of the Ashford family, who were his mother's allies. From there, they would make their way to the United States - one of the few nations that managed to hold back the Britannian forces - and found a home in AniCity.

His mother's death and his father's apparent lack of concern in regards to it were huge blows to Lelouch. He always felt that it was unfair for both his mother and sister, and made it his goal to pursue a better world for Nunnally. He also sought to discover the true reason for his mother's death, as she was murdered in the Aries Imperial Palace, a place terrorists would be unlikely to penetrate successfully without being noticed, if at all. So, when he reached a "proper" age, he received secret training and assumed the secret identity of Zero, a mysterious, masked vigilante dressed in a black helmet and cloak that led a personal campaign against powerful individuals who oppress the helpless. Secretly though, his main goal as Zero was to work his way up the "hero" totum pole and join with either the Teen Titans or even the Justice League itself and convince them to destroy the Britannian Empire for the crimes they've enacted against his family and the world.

## Skills & Equipment

* Intellect

Lelouch’s greatest weapon is easily his prodigious mind, possessing a genius-level intellect, capable of devising & executing strategies with incredible speed & precision. Even as a child, he was a brilliant chess player, besting any opponent who played against him, with a record of winning a game in 8 minutes & 32 seconds. Now as a teenager, he’s utilized his skills in real combat, often being the one to formulate strategies for his "team" to use in battles against large enemy forces.

* Physical Prowess
* Hand-to-Hand Combat Skills
* Mask

Lelouch’s Zero helmet not only helps fully conceal his identity, but it also has various gadgets and gizmos to aid him in his mission. It’s equipped with a full range of scanners & sensors, a radio setup that allows him to connect to any communication system, and even a breathing apparatus should he need to journey underwater or in space (hey, in a world like this, anything can happen).

* Cape

In addition to giving him a menacing presence, Zero's cape is both flame-proof and "somewhat" bulletproof - "somewhat" as in given enough pressure from enemy fire, it will tear up. It also allows him to glide short distances.

* Gas & Smoke Pellets

Lelouch carries a good number of pellets full of smoke and gases of different kinds to disorient his enemies or to cover his escapes. He usually keeps these stored either in his boots or in a small pouch in his cape. He even has a few hidden in his normal shoes just in case he needs to make a quick getaway from large crowds to change into Zero.

* Jet Boots

The bottom of Zero's boots have small jet engines built into their soles to help Lelouch whenever he's jumping off of high terrain, switching them on to slow down his descent before he hits the ground.

* Pistol

Lelouch carries with him one, sometimes two, customized pistols, fit to fire bullets, lasers, and paralyzing darts for when he has to be a little more stealthy or doesn't want to make too much of a mess.

#### Additional Weapons

These are mostly the weapons Zero has on his person on rare occasions, mainly to deal with larger & more powerful enemies.

* Sniper Rifle
* Missile Launcher

## Relationships

### Nunnally

Nunnally is the very reason Lelouch took up the Zero mask in the first place, and for most of the series creating a world she can live peacefully in is his driving motivation. Lelouch loves his sister over all others, and her safety and comfort were always his number one priority to the point of him abandoning his allies to save her when she was captured. Despite his love for her (or perhaps because of it) Lelouch was willing to do whatever it took to bring peace to the world.

### Sally Acorn

Lelouch admires Sally above everyone else in their friend's circle, greatly respecting her intelligence & strategic abilities, and is especially amazed by her courage to stand against foes larger and much more powerful than she is. She's also actually the one he's most afraid of revealing himself as an ex-Britannian Prince to, as he's aware that it was Britannia that destroyed her kingdom.

### Minako Aino

At first, Lelouch didn't know Mina herself when the two coincidentally started their hero "escapades" (naturally, since she was three grades below him). But he was much more familiar with Sailor V. The two ran into each other in multiple crime scenes, and while their values & moral standings may differ greatly, Lelouch still respected her greatly for her devotion to justice, and was even in awe of her magic-like powers. Heck, he even has some faith that she might have enough potential to make it to the League someday.

### Yusuke Urameshi

Like most of his schoolmates, Lelouch finds the way Yusuke presents himself rather boorish & even vulgar, both as a classmate as Lelouch Lamperouge and as a so-called crime fighter as Zero. Though even then, he still finds "AniCity's High's No. 1 punk" a lot more preferable to a lot of people in their school (both student and teacher) and even in their "home" city.

### Amuro Ray

Like most of his friends, Lelouch respects Amuro for all the toil & punishment he went through during the One Year War.

## Notes

While Lelouch’s antihero-like moral standing is very much based off of his depiction in the original anime, his morals in this story are very different. His motivation for becoming Zero does still involve getting vengeance on Britannia, but rather than full-on revolutionism/terrorism, he becomes more so to your average vigilante desiring justice (through his own means, of course), eventually becoming the symbol that he (Zero) would become at the end of the series, with him actually holding true the virtues of justice he always spoke of when in his Zero persona.

* Actually, his Zero guise in general is very different. Rather than made as a symbol for revolution, the masked rebel is made to be a lot more of a Batman-esque vigilante, with him possessing the same physical prowess that Suzaku displayed in the original show (and when he took up the mantle of Zero), though he still displays his (frankly) average physical skills from the original series whenever he’s in public as another way to differentiate his public self from his Zero self in typical Clark Kent-esque fashion. Although with his frequent use of weapons in this series, a more plausible comparison might be to other anti-heroes like Spawn or Jason Todd (his cape especially gives off Spawn vibes), as well as elements like his hatred for corrupt people in places of high power. He even has influence from a third hero; that being Iron Man by giving his helmet a huge upgrade in it now poccessing a large number of scanners, communication equipment, ect..

Lelouch does not possess his Geass in this series, meaning that this incarnation of Zero has to play up a lot more his ability to calculate plans, manipulative skills, how threatening he can be to his opponents and many other elements his Geass helped him with, including getting more up-close and personal when he needs to get his hands dirty. And yes, this is also partially the basis for him being more physically fit like other anime heroes.

Lelouch's casual clothes in this series come from the Code Geass episode "Imprisoned in Campus" so as to give him a set of more normal street clothes since in this series, he's not living in high class or going to as pristine a school as Ashford Academy.

The dynamic between Lelouch and Mina - or rather, Zero and Sailor V - is meant to a sort of Batman and Superman-type dynamic: both have the same goal to protect their home, but have different ways of reaching their goals. However, they still have a large amount of respect for each other.