C.C | Pizza loving Girl

C.C. pronounced "C2", is one of the main characters of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. She was the leader of the Geass Order before disappearing due to the murder of Marianne and the leader of the Order of the Black Knights until she returned Lelouch's memories. She was also the one who gave Geass to Leila Malcal and Lelouch.

Her Japanese voice actress is Yukana while she is voiced by Kate Higgins in the English dub. C.C. is not her real name; she involuntarily reveals her real name to Lelouch in her sleep, but it is muted so the viewers cannot hear it.

In the 29th Anime Grand Prix, she was awarded 3rd place. She was chosen as the most popular female character of 2007 and 2008 at Animage magazine's annual Anime Grand Prix.

C.C. is a slender, fair skinned girl with long, almost waist-length light green hair and golden eyes. She is of average height, being slightly shorter than Kallen. She has a scar under her left breast that resembles a Geass sigil.

C.C.'s outfits are both plentiful and varied. She is seen wearing a wide assortment of different clothes, often dependent on the situation or the time period. She often wears Lelouch's own clothes, including his Zero costume whenever Lelouch required a decoy.

In the first season, C.C. primarily wears the outfit she initially appears in - a white straitjacket used to restrain her during her time as a test subject for the Britannian Empire, prior to the beginning of the series. These suits contain many means of restraint, including various straps and zippers, and a high collar capable of gagging the wearer. Not set to fully bind the wearer, the suits have rather long sleeves that flare outwards closer to the cuffs. A number of these straitjackets are seen in the Geass research laboratories. According to the Audio Drama, the reason for C.C.'s common use of the suit is because she feels she is not free. She is seen wearing it through most of the first season and the end of the second season.

C.C.'s predominant outfit in the second season is her Black Knights uniform, which is wildly different from those of the other Black Knights. Rather than the usual Black Knights jacket, C.C. wears a sleeveless black uniform with a high collar, gold trim, and a silver Black Knights symbol on the chest. The lower end of the uniform splits off into four long pieces that nearly extend to the floor. A long, adorned red sash is also worn around the waist. C.C. also wears long black gloves with gold trim kept on with red bands on the upper arms as well as long white and gold high-heeled boots. Underneath her uniform C.C. wears a cropped sleeveless white turtle-neck and white boyshorts. She is often seen wearing only these undergarments.

She has on some episodes worn the Ashford Academy uniform and has her hair tied in twin-tails. This is done to slightly blend in with the student body so she can move around more freely, to pass messages to Lelouch or just to simply find more pizza.

Throughout most of the series, C.C. expresses little in the way of emotion or affection, behaving apathetically towards most. She's quickly shown to be stubborn, selfish, and headstrong, as well as possessing high standards, which Lelouch takes note of and teases her about from time to time. Ironically, she claims to hate stubbornness, despite being quite stubborn herself. Though, it appears she notes these qualities to be essential to her sense of self, saying "That is what makes me C.C." in reference to them. She's shown to be pragmatic, focused on fulfilling her "contract" with Lelouch, which also serves to show her selfish side. Early on, she was willing to shoot Lelouch to hold him back from meeting Cornelia's challenge to him. In the second season, she suggested that Lelouch use Geass on Nunnally to bring her over to his side. She's also shown to be isolated, preferring to act alone to solve personal matters and being quite snarky and dismissive towards most people. C.C. can also be very secretive, to the point of being on par with Lelouch, albeit much less coordinated than the latter.

Although, despite her icy demeanor, C.C. appears to be something of a philosopher. In multiple conversations with Lelouch, she muses about human nature and conflict, seeing human history as a long line of struggle, this belief being deepened by her life experiences. C.C., despite not living by it, sees the idea of "survival of the fittest", which Britannia lives by, as a simple enough way of life to follow. Over time, she's revealed to hold a strong belief in the idea that life requires purpose and focus in order to be called life. She comes to understand Lelouch's desire to find purpose in life and his connection to Nunnally as his reason for living. In the Japanese version, she calls Nunnally her brother's "raison d'etre", French for "reason for existence". However, at the same time, due to her tumultuous life, C.C. has grown highly cynical about the nature of life itself. She came to see death as the definitive proof of life itself, as it shows that life can come to an end. She believes that without death, life cannot be called "life", but rather, it is merely experience, an accumulation of memories and actions. Additionally, she sees the events of accumulation to be "worthless illusions".

Nonetheless, C.C. also possesses some positive thoughts on life as well. One recurring topic she comes to discuss with Lelouch is the nature of love. In her childhood, her greatest desire was to find genuine love and kindness from others, which served to produced her original Geass power. Though, she has grown cautious about the idea of love due to her experiences. She sees love without limit to not be love at all, and distances herself from others in order to avoid feeling pain as all those who had genuinely loved her in the past had faded from her life. When Mao appears in the first season, just before she executes him, C.C. confesses to him how, even though she was using him, she'd genuinely developed love for him. Concurrently, C.C. is also shown to, in rare cases, show sympathy towards others she relates to. She sympathizes with Lelouch's insistence on pursuing purpose in life, Mao's desire for love and acceptance, and Suzaku's desire for death, as all of these are traits she shares.

More notably, C.C. does express genuine kindness towards others, in rare cases. She mostly does so when in the presence of Lelouch. She allows Lelouch to confide in her and actively listens to his thoughts and concerns. She shows something of a more playful side towards him, teasing him multiple times about his flaws with Lelouch responding in kind. She's also shown to be somewhat more positive around Nunnally and Kaguya, seeing both girls as being genuinely kind individuals. She was also openly shocked upon learning Nunnally survived the first F.L.E.I.J.A. attack. On a more serious level, she shows open respect to those who meet her high standards, namely Kallen, acknowledging her strength and her convictions, and Suzaku, after the two of them choose to join forces with Lelouch. In Suzaku's case, she appears to show some deference to him after they form an alliance, telling him in private "We do things as you like", and accepting when he calls himself and her respectively Lelouch's "sword" and "shield". C.C. also demonstrates a potentially strong sense of loyalty as well, being one of the few people to remain by Lelouch's side throughout the entire series. This loyalty appears to stem not just out of their contract, but also genuine respect towards him.

When she lost her memories, she regresses to how she was hundreds of years ago, fearful and open. During this time, C.C. is shown to be, in a sort of twisted sense, comforting and kind. She actively tries to comfort Lelouch, whom she saw as her "master", when he's feeling distressed, and shows no kind of anger of disdain towards others. She also seems to understand the idea of pain and heartache, revealing that, when she was young and ever felt sad or cold, she would deliberately injure herself as a coping mechanism, in order to distract herself from the pain she feels inside. She feels that external pain is always better than internal pain. However, when she regains her memories, her personality reverts back. When this occurs, while in C’s World, C.C. seems to reveal a growing sense of morality as well. She comes to see the Ragnarök Connection as a presumptuous plan, and rejects Charles and Marianne along with Lelouch after realizing that the two royals were ultimately selfish and only loved themselves. Even more importantly, deep in her heart, C.C. is shown to be capable of remorse and regret for her actions. She admits to Lelouch about feeling conflicted with using Mao, as a pawn. When Suzaku called Lelouch C.C.'s "accomplice", C.C. seemed to briefly question this for the first time, showing that her feelings were changing. Before the series' final battle, she also asked Lelouch if he hated her, due to how her giving him Geass affected his life, showing how she had developed remorse for involving him in her tangled life.

Furthermore, it is implied that at the end of R2 C.C. has fallen in love with Lelouch. Kallen suspected this to be the case and questioned her on it, which made C.C. unusually flustered. Backing this up is that C.C. never made Lelouch take her immortality per their contract and she was worried that she altered his fate. By the end of the season 2, due to her experiences with Lelouch and those around him, C.C.'s outlook on life significantly improved. She appears to have grown more positive and hopeful about the state of humanity and the world, supporting Lelouch in completing the Zero Requiem and his attempts to improve the world. The most important thing is that it seems that C.C. has overcome her desire to die and regained her will to live, possibly due to the promise that Lelouch made her (Lelouch promised to make her smile by fulfilling her true wish).

After C.C.'s true wish finally comes true when Lelouch fulfills the promise he made, it can be seen that C.C. has opted for a happier, more optimistic and mocking attitude.

C.C. is immortal, healing from any kind of wound (implied to include beheading) with enough time. She also doesn't age. Apart from her immortality, C.C. has the ability to bestow people with the power of Geass, which manifests differently in each person but generally carries the ability to affect the minds of those it is used on in some way. A Geass sigil appears on her forehead whenever she manifests this power, and she has a similar scar on her left breast. Her powers caught the interest of Britannia, who imprisoned her for experimentation purposes.

In the first season finale, C.C. triggers a trap set by V.V., causing herself and Lelouch to be submerged in a shock image sequence similar to the one she used on Suzaku. Through this, Lelouch sees memories of her past, including repeated "deaths". One shows C.C., who was a nurse at that time, attempting to escape from a World War I-esque battlefield, only to be shot in the forehead. Further memories show her being persecuted as a witch and suffering various forms of torture and/or execution throughout history and various time periods, including burning at the stake, guillotining, and the iron maiden. This would suggest a minimum lifespan of at least five centuries. In a special feature included in the series' fifth DVD, she and Lelouch discuss Washington's Rebellion, a failed version of the American Revolution, during which she speaks of participants such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin as if she had been close friends with both. 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 who hates her. Due to her nature and history, she has been lonely as long as she can remember. Lelouch replies, "You're not alone. We are partners. If you are a witch, then I am a demon." Lelouch is possibly the first person that has ever truly cared for her and it appears that she reciprocates at least some of these feelings, as she unexpectedly kisses him after their memories are shared. This is also seen in the second season, as she kindly teases him more often. However, she claims that she has been selfish, keeping Lelouch alive just so that she could be able to die. In episode 23 of the second season, Suzaku asks her to be Lelouch's shield, defending him from his enemies while Suzaku strikes down those enemies as Lelouch's sword.

C.C. is willful almost to a fault, usually doing whatever she wants regardless of whether or not it inconveniences others, particularly with Lelouch. In episode 5, she purposely makes use of her contract to make it sound like it was an engagement in front of Nunnally and in one Sound Episode, she said to Nunnally that both she and Lelouch are 'busy' making Nunnally misunderstand.

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, although in episode 19 it appears that she is talking to V.V. as well. According to the DVD Magazine 02, she is talking to more than one person when she seems to be talking to herself.

C.C. also has a somewhat obsessive penchant for pizza, especially Pizza Hut's Cheese-kun (which sponsors Code Geass in Japan); she constantly orders pizzas to Lelouch's house using his credit card, much to his chagrin. This is often used for comedic effect. Her love for pizza is so strong that she is willing to risk herself being captured, twice nearly exposing herself to get a piece of a giant pizza being made by the Student Council (which is ruined both times); both Lelouch and Kallen sometimes refer her as "Pizza Girl". In addition to this, she is an avid collector of Cheese-kun related merchandise and is often seen hugging a Cheese-kun plush doll.

C.C. is an immortal "witch", neither suffering from age nor capable of being killed by conventional means. She has been shot fatally a number of times, been crushed by water pressure, burned at the stake, subjected to the guillotine, placed in an iron maiden, and stabbed by spears all of which she recovered from, but still suffers the pain. It is later revealed that her Immortality works like a biological back up system, where normally infinite body parts and sections are replaced via C's world and new replacement parts are continously created. However with C's world no longer having its god, the production of her back up-replacment body parts is no longer being continued. Leaving C.C. with what ever is left, hence she could now die permanently when she eventually runs out of replacements. However the sheer number of parts left over could possibly mean that this would take forever.

C.C. has the ability to bestow people with the power of Geass, which manifests differently in each person but generally carries the ability to affect the minds of those it is used on in some way. The Geass sigil glows on her forehead whenever she manifests this power, and she has a similar scar on her left breast. This scar correlates with the wound she received when she was attacked by the nun that gave her the Code.

Her Code allows her to detect people who are connected to Geass and people who are important to them. It allows her to detect the location of her own contractors, even at a distance, and confirm who possesses a Geass power and who does not, regardless of whom granted it to them. She could detect that Nunnally was on Kamine Island because she is the center of Lelouch's life.

When in close proximity to another person, C.C can afflict them with a hallucinatory experience of chaotic and ominous images, pertaining in part to the memories of the target involved; the content varies with the afflicted. Physical contact, either directly or via a Knightmare Frame, may facilitate the process. Suzaku is shown images of his father (whom he murdered) as well as parts of C.C.'s memories, driving him into a panic. In another instance, Anya is shown images of Lelouch's childhood, causing her to freeze in wonder until contact was severed. It tends to activate involuntarily at various points, such as when Lelouch's Geass becomes permanently active. This effect is described as 'a merging of consciousness'.

C.C. can telepathically communicate with Marianne vi Britannia. Whether this is an ability resulting from C.C.'s Code, Marianne's Geass, or Marianne's state of un-death (and, as a result, being "near" the Collective Unconscious) is unknown.

Before becoming immortal, C.C.'s Geass, as contracted with a nun during apparently medieval times, granted her the power "to be loved," which allowed her to make anyone around her love her. She originally started with a Geass symbol in her left eye, but as she matured, she eventually developed another in her right, implying that she became unable to control it, causing everyone to love her. After C.C. had become bored by the tranced society around her, the nun who had bound the Geass contract to her revealed she had tricked C.C., severely injuring her. C.C.'s only option to survive was to accept the nun's Code and its immortality. Losing the Code, the nun became mortal again, allowing her to commit suicide, and, as part of the exchange, C.C. became immune to the effects of Geass while losing her own Geass. Her Geass sigil/mark is located on her forehead, glowing red when activated.

C.C. is a capable leader, able to rescue Lelouch from Britannian traps, handle firearms with some proficiency and seems to be a skilled unarmed fighter as well. She is also an accomplished Knightmare pilot, able to pilot both standard Knightmare Frames as well as co-pilot the Gawain with Lelouch. When she is forced to pilot the Gawain alone against the Siegfried, she proves skilled enough to pin and trap the Siegfried despite the machine being more powerful and more maneuverable than the Gawain. In the second season, after Lelouch returns to the Black Knights, she receives an Akatsuki Command Model Zikisan, normally reversed for commanders of the Black Knights. For the Battle of Mt. Fuji, she receives a copy of the Lancelot called the Lancelot Frontier.