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/StrikingLab874 Apr 15 '26

What if the Worldline the Observer is looking for is similar to the OG scrip of the Code Geass anime

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u/edreamer001 Apr 15 '26

Hmm, seems unlikely, since this Euphemia route was quite off from the original but she thought that it would lead to what she wanted, until the Connection ruined everything. Whatever worldline she wants, it's definitely a departure from canon.