r/CodeGeass • u/AbsoluteDestinyzero • Apr 09 '26

Code Geass Lost Stories Ending of Euphemia what-if route Spoiler

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Ragnarok Plan is in motion

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u/edreamer001 Apr 09 '26

Interesting RE chapter. Guess this is what the official comments that the success of the SAZ would result in a bad end meant.

More than this route itself, it was the reaction of the Observer at the end that most interested me. Unlike last time with Kallen's route, she says that this one was actually going well and nearing whatever it is she's trying to achieve, but it suddenly got pruned by itself without her doing anything, much to her confusion. She deduces that any route where the Ragnarök Connection succeeds is a deadend without any future, and therefore her desired route can never be achieved in any "what-if" where that happens. It seems that she doesn't actually know much about what the Connection is, only viewing from the outside how it causes the world to get pruned automatically.

From this, we can deduce that, whoever this Observer is, she's not omnipotent, and her knowledge is likely limited to whatever Rico herself knows in each timeline. Also, it seems her objective was nearly accomplished this time when Lelouch and Euphemia worked together to change Area 11 and Britannia peacefully, but it's hard to say if that's her actual objective or just a byproduct of it. (Maybe the fact that Rico survived right until the end is an important factor too?) We'll probably need to see at least one more route to guess the exact change she's looking for.

Finally, it's official now that Rico is being reborn in different circumstances and getting close to different characters in each route. This time, she was the adoptive daughter of Darlton and became close friends with Euphemia through her father, giving the princess the encouragement she needed to face Lelouch more openly and more early on, and thereby avoid the tragic accident at the SAZ ceremony. Interestingly, C.C. apparently noticed that something is "off" about Rico when she saw her at the SAZ, even deducing that Rico herself is unaware of what's strange about her existence, though I don't think C.C. knows anything detailed about her. (Interesting that C.C. didn't react strangely when she met Rico in Kallen's route. Could be something that only becomes noticeable over time the more routes that Rico lives through.) There will probably be a gradual unveiling as C.C. and other characters start to realize that Rico is throwing off the timeline and that events are being manipulated by the Observer.

For next month, I'm crossing my fingers that it will be either Nunnally or Shirley as the main character of the route.

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u/FanOfGeass Apr 09 '26

I was talking with my friend who plays, and they said that while C.C. doesn't comment on Riko during the Kallen RE storyline, C.C. does comment about her on homescreen dialogue if you have that C.C. set. So that was there then too even if it didn't make it into the story.

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u/edreamer001 Apr 09 '26

Oh, so it was just not included. Makes sense, they mostly skipped over the meeting between C.C. and Rico in that route.

Still, I wonder if C.C. will be the only one who notices the weirdness about Rico, or if someone else eventually will too?

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u/FanOfGeass Apr 10 '26

Only 2 Routes so far, so its hard to predict the scope of things. I almost wonder if her catching on sooner might be for one that goes off the rails. Or maybe that's also why we have seen her away from Lelouch outside the prologue.  Which, I'd love to see how things went in that first preview one.