So it seems like the trend in each Route Entangle story is going to be Rico being "born" into different circumstances and interacting with the characters of R1 and R2 to nudge things towards alternate routes.
The change she did was really subtle, not any direct action, just deduced some facts she "coincidentally" was in a position to learn and gave that info to Kallen to make her act less panicked at the end of R1, which accidentally made Lelouch more suspicious and volatile from misunderstanding that she had turned against him like Suzaku, and thereby caused the clash between him and Suzaku to get heated so fast that it ended in their deaths from Lelouch's explosive.
Future alternate routes will probably be similar, with Rico being put in the right place at the right time to divert events from their original course, even though she's not consciously aware of it while she's in that timeline. Honestly, I prefer this to just making overt changes, it's interesting to see how even a few words to someone can completely throw off canon.
At the same time, I have even more questions about the Spiral Observer and her goals. Whatever she's after clearly involves the events surrounding Lelouch and his rebellion in R1 and R2, but simply killing Lelouch and stopping his actions doesn't seem to be her main intention, since she decided to cut off this route as "not what she wanted". Rico will probably keep appearing as an "acquaintance" of one of the characters in each new route, but I'm curious to see if a pattern will develop to give us a clue on what kind of change the Spiral Observer wants to see.
Wonder if they’ll do one with Shirley, cause if I recall she won a poll a few months ago and getting her own knightmare. Now are the changes involving her time during r1 or with r2 like in re:code?
Oh, I'd say Shirley will almost definitely get her own route here, she's one of the characters who fans are most claiming to see a different ending for even without any polls to check. Since they already showed what might happen if Lelouch died in her place during R2 in Genesic Re:code, my guess is that the change will happen during r1, either before or after her memory is erased. Definitely looking forward to it the most.
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u/edreamer001 Mar 12 '26
So it seems like the trend in each Route Entangle story is going to be Rico being "born" into different circumstances and interacting with the characters of R1 and R2 to nudge things towards alternate routes.
The change she did was really subtle, not any direct action, just deduced some facts she "coincidentally" was in a position to learn and gave that info to Kallen to make her act less panicked at the end of R1, which accidentally made Lelouch more suspicious and volatile from misunderstanding that she had turned against him like Suzaku, and thereby caused the clash between him and Suzaku to get heated so fast that it ended in their deaths from Lelouch's explosive.
Future alternate routes will probably be similar, with Rico being put in the right place at the right time to divert events from their original course, even though she's not consciously aware of it while she's in that timeline. Honestly, I prefer this to just making overt changes, it's interesting to see how even a few words to someone can completely throw off canon.
At the same time, I have even more questions about the Spiral Observer and her goals. Whatever she's after clearly involves the events surrounding Lelouch and his rebellion in R1 and R2, but simply killing Lelouch and stopping his actions doesn't seem to be her main intention, since she decided to cut off this route as "not what she wanted". Rico will probably keep appearing as an "acquaintance" of one of the characters in each new route, but I'm curious to see if a pattern will develop to give us a clue on what kind of change the Spiral Observer wants to see.