Shirley Fenette (シャーリー・フェネット)

Background



Shirley is cheerful, caring, brilliant, outgoing, and extroverted. She is physically active due to her activities in the Swimming Club, socially active due to her position in the Student Council, and has top grades in her class at Ashford Academy.

She actively shows concern for Lelouch due to his gambling with nobles before the beginning of the series. She actively expresses these concerns throughout the series as a consequence of her love for him. Much to her chagrin, everyone in the Student Council is aware that she loves Lelouch; Lelouch has more on his mind than Shirley's love for him. She comes from a Brittainian military family and is very cultured and privileged.

First Season:

Later, she was at the incident involving the Japanese Liberation Front Hotel Incident. A group from Japan Liberation Front raids a hotel and takes its occupants hostage, including Milly Ashford, Nina Einstein, and herself.

Shirley had a significant role in the middle of the first season after the Order of the Black Knights, indirectly causes the death of her father, Joseph Fenette, during the Battle of Narita.

Shirley tracks Lelouch to a battle between the Britannian forces and the Black Knights, wherein an unconscious Zero falls out of his Knightmare Frame. She retrieves Lelouch's gun, intending to avenge her father, only for Zero's helmet to fall off, revealing his identity. Shirley hesitates, and Villetta steps in to arrest Lelouch and have him executed. Shirley then shoots Villetta, who followed Shirley secretly to protect Lelouch.

In the aftermath of the battle, Shirley becomes even more distraught. She tries to write a letter about her feelings on the situation, only to throw it aside. Mao, a mind-reading Geass user, plays on her insecurities to convince her to kill Lelouch. While nearly successful, her first shot misses and causes Lelouch to trip, making him drop many photographs he had taken from her room. These photographs remind her of her feelings for Lelouch and make her remember all the fun times she had with him, and she refuses to kill him.

After C.C. prevents Mao from killing Lelouch and Shirley, he sees she is torn between her feelings for him, guilt from "killing" Villetta, and the events surrounding her father's death. Lelouch uses his Geass to order Shirley to forget all the memories that are tormenting her. During and after using his Geass on Shirley, Lelouch expresses regret for having to do so and even makes the notion that he might have loved Shirley but no longer knows if that's true.

After having her memories of Lelouch erased, Shirley regards Lelouch as a stranger in her life, only to find out that the two have been going to classes together for some time. Lelouch merely claims they fought to dismiss her confusing behavior. Later on, Shirley finds the half-finished letter she had written before losing her memories, which identifies Lelouch as Zero. Naturally, she is confused since she wrote it but didn't remember doing so.

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(Source: Code Geass Wiki)







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