C.C. (シー・ツー)

Background

C.C. (pronounced "C2") is the tritagonist of the anime/manga series Code Geass. She is an immortal woman and the former leader of the Geass Order that abandons the order and allies herself with Lelouch vi Britannia, granting him his Geass power and becoming his right-hand.

C.C. is serious, solemn, and emotionally cut off from the world. For being betrayed in the past, she feels she cannot form a meaningful connection to anyone and only allies herself with others out of the pragmatic desire to reach her goal of ending her own life. Despite this, her time with Lelouch allows her to begin breaking down her emotional barriers, eventually learning to care for others again and see the value in her life, even making her experience what love feels like, an emotion she is unfamiliar with up to that point.

In the first season finale, C.C. triggers a trap set by V.V., causing herself and Lelouch to submerge in a shock image sequence similar to the one she used on Suzaku. Through this, Lelouch sees memories of her past, including repeated "deaths." Further memories show her being persecuted as a witch and suffering various forms of torture and execution throughout history and different periods, including burning at the stake, guillotining, and the iron maiden. Being tortured in such a variety of ways indicates that she lived for at least five or six centuries.

In the past, she appears to have observed Suzaku and Lelouch when they were both children, having even interacted with Lelouch at one point, though he doesn't remember their meeting.

Her individual experiences have led C.C. to become a detached and lonely individual, with little care for even those she has entered into contracts with. She tells Lelouch that she has been alive so long that she can no longer remember who loves her and hates her.

She also has a somewhat obsessive penchant for pizza, especially Pizza Hut's Cheese-Kun. Her love for pizza is so strong that she is willing to risk herself getting captured, twice nearly exposing herself to get a piece of a giant pizza made by the Student Council -which ruined both times.

When left alone, she has sometimes spoken to a previously unknown person through means unknown, which, in episode 23, was revealed to be Marianne, Lelouch's "deceased" mother. However, in episode 19, it appears that she is talking to V.V. as well.

C.C. introduced when Nagata opens the capsule that supposedly contains poison. Suzaku quickly puts his gas mask on Lelouch's face, but to their surprise, a restrained green-haired woman, C.C., emerges out of the capsule. Before they can get answers, Suzaku's superiors come and tell him to shoot the "terrorist," Lelouch. When he refuses, he got shot in the back. Lelouch and C.C. take the opportunity to escape. Unfortunately, Lelouch's phone rings, giving him away. As they're about to kill him, C.C. jumps in front and gets shot in the forehead. A desperate Lelouch now thinks of his impending death. C.C. grabbed the hand of Lelouch, proposing a contract that would allow him to live and endow him with Geass, the power of kings. She then supposedly dies.

She unexpectedly reappears in the fifth episode, casually folding origami with Nunnally. From this point on, she passively oversees Lelouch's missions as Zero, wanting to keep him alive to fulfill his contract.

When C.C.'s existence revealed to the Black Knights, she gains considerable unofficial standing, as other members see her as one of Zero's closest advisers. However, her rebellious attitude and lack of an official posting annoy some veteran members and confuse them about her role within the Black Knights. At one point, Tamaki goes so far as to accuse her of being Zero's mistress falsely. When the Black Knights gain possession of the Knightmare Frame Gawain, she becomes its pilot while Lelouch operates the weapons.

In the season finale, she uses the Gawain to battle Jeremiah Gottwald's Siegfried so Lelouch can save his sister. She then kisses Lelouch to his surprise before bringing him to safety. After Lelouch is out of harm's way, C.C. dragged Jeremiah and herself to the ocean floor to end the battle while narrating that the spark of Lelouch's actions was the core of human motivation: the desire for just a tiny amount of happiness.