Wednesday, February 1, 2012

C.C./Lelouch, a flexible bias with the Universal Mother Goddess

First, today's fanart is of Iggycat and Americat as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:
http://mysticdragon3.deviantart.com/art/Sher-mao-Holmes-and-Dr-Wat-nyan-282816910


I don't have time today, to write up a whole new essay, analyzing anime/manga/mythology/Jung, so I dug up an old one.  The following is an edit of my jounal file from:
4:31 PM 4/14/2011

 I always thought that, despite my Lelouch/C.C. bias, it wasn't really important that the series end up advocating that bias as the definitive cannon.  At first, I thought that I was too old and tired to take up the "bias wars" online (and now at cons) again.  But it may not be or may be just a portion of that.  Because C.C. is a Universal Mother Goddess figure, the point of the Hero's Journey is to recogize/respect her feelings as a person, just as humans are to respect the Earth like a living thing, or how Individualized beings are to live life with that type of heightened respect for everyone's feelings.  It wasn't important if Lelouch loved C.C. back.  It was only important that C.C. decided to "stop accumulating experience and start Living".  If the Lelouch/C.C. bias had any meaning, it was merely as a specific point to exemplify all the emotions progressing towards C.C.'s own decision to recognize herself as a being with feelings/emotions and worth respect (towards that capacity for emotions), by accepting Lelouch's example. 

 So, in the end, rather than the Hero defining himself by insisting on respecting the Goddess's emotions, through a process, it is the Goddess who makes that journey in Code Geass.  Lelouch respected C.C. as a person, rather than regarding her as a thing, from the beginning---even more than she did.  (Though he did call her a "Monster" in the first episode.  That classification is an important Goddess motif, but even as Lelouch said that, he was still treating her as a living person with his actions.)  Rather than the story expressing the ideal of respecting the Goddess's feelings, through a main character who begins without such respect, then changes to gain that respect, (as in most plot progressions in technichally crafted, creative writing), it seems that Code Geass, as with most myths _begins_ with a Hero who already holds that sensibility.  And thus, such mythic Heroes serve more often as the "Catalyst" type of Hero, who changes the world around them, but does not go through much drastic change in their core personality themselves. 

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