![]() She walks right past the unconscious Suzaku. Worse yet, Euphemia's order is to "Kill all the Japanese".She spent the last few seconds of her non-mind-controlled life in sheer abject horror of what she was about to commit. But Euphemia? The command is so utterly against her nature that she actually fights it off for several seconds before the inexorable power of the Geass forcibly rewires her mind. Remember, when most people are compelled by a Geass, they do it without batting an eyelid - even if it's an order to shoot themselves in the neck. No more of a nightmare than it was for Euphie herself.Not only is she dead, but she will always be remembered as a monster who massacred Japanese, which renders her life absolutely meaningless. Along with that, you see that Lelouch has floated a candle for her.Then it gets even worse when Lelouch is the one to kill Euphie, through much of his own despair. Lelouch had also just decided that he would throw away all his plans and create Japan with Euphie.Seeing his actual desperation and sadness for her is touching and incredibly sad at the same time. After giving the fateful command, Lelouch desperately tries to countermand his order, then chases her down to try and stop her from executing it. ![]() During the massacre, even Schneizel is absolutely horrified to hear about Euphie.Mostly because, imagine how Lulu was feeling about that. When Nunnally called Lelouch to ask if Euphie could come to the school festival with them.Innocent Days, the song that plays throughout the whole sequence is tearjerking itself.And in the still image montage the moment after Euphie dies, the images of Suzaku getting dragged out and a close up of him screaming for Euphie while everybody is chanting for Zero are arrows to your heart.It's actually worse than just having Euphie die, because it shows all of the desperate, anxious struggle to keep someone alive, and then shows it failing. The sequence on the Avalon seems designed to punch you in the gut.Hearing Suzaku lying to Euphemia that it was a huge success and everyone is so happy now.Especially seeing poor Princess Euphemia slowly dying next to her bodyguard/boyfriend Suzaku intercut with scenes of the people she was trying to help cursing her name. ![]()
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