Not yet haha still 8 or 9 years left until he actually gets one

OTL BUSY WITH HOMEWORK WHEN I SHOULD BE CELEBRATING ROLO’S FALSE BIRTHDAY. Still:

If you are asking yourself why is he wearing an oversized dress, well there’s no rational explanation other than he looked cute. The roses are there to recreate the ambience that is typical of birthdays ala Lelouch’s ghei brotherly-love style. The adorable amigurumi I got from a friend (gracias Olatz!) ´w` it’s light brown and pink which is my fave color combination <3 (yes, way before Rolo appeared out of nowhere with his lovely light brown ahoged hair and girly pink eyes, because oh, Rolo you just had to be so perfect in every sense~~)

By the way, who told Akinator that Rolo is NOT in love with a man? I can understand that we don’t know whether he’s homosexual or not, and in fact for no reason (perhaps the Banjou no Geass gekijou endings) I’m of the opinion that it would fit him better to like a girl if he ever got over his fixation with Niisan (lol like that could ever happen) but COME ON HOW COULD ANYONE DENY THAT HE IS IN LOVE WITH LELOUCH. Oh wait that’s why… since you wouldn’t call Lelouch a man therefore… I see it makes sense now.

PS: This video speaks a truth too true EVEN I AGREE WITH THIS THOUGHT no matter how much I like Rolo, my nonsubjective side will always rage at Sunrise’s disdain for Shirley. I have to admit (in case it wasn’t obvious) that it makes me happy to see how ridiculously much the staff loves Rolo (seriously if you visit the Banjou no Geass Gejikou blog, there are basically 2 kinds of posts: those that talk about the game, and those that talk about Rolo) but WHY WON’T SHIRLEY BE ACKNOWLEDGED ;_; SHE’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PERSON AND YOU WON’T LET HER SHOW UP FOR LULU’S BIRTHDAY IS IT BECAUSE ORIKASA CAN’T MAKE IT THAT DAY OR WTH I MEAN EVEN RIVALZ WILL BE PRESENT
I hope Daichuu doesn’t watch this video though, he’d totally feel guilty and stay in the background during the whole event xD

Another thing that comes up on the video and I want to talk about is the position of turn 19 (so high up!) on the official list of favorite episodes. The episode does have its flaws: 1) Rolo doesn’t appear enough 2) the BK act like OOC idiots 3) using a track that had played for the first time just an episode before – during THE AWESOME FLEIJA SCENE (♥) and that obviously you’d think should be EXCLUSIVE OF THE AWESOME FLEIJA SCENE – was unfitting and distracting because I wanted that music to remain EXCLUSIVE OF THE AWESOME FLEIJA SCENE from my beloved episode 18 which I had watched a thrillion times that week. So, temporary bad choice of music, subverted thanks to BokuTori which merges with the scene so amazingly – just when Rolo is desperately shouting his most impetuous line AS A HUMAN BEING ISHI NAN DAKARA you hear the highest notes of the song AND SUDDENLY WATER COMING OUT OF YOUR EYES NON STOP AWGHHHH I have no words I just… CODE GEASS YOU ARE SO GODLY TO ME

I was actually pointing out the flaws, right? Well, the thing is that the structure of ep19 used to confuse me in the past, but now I understood it. At first I had been so convinced (before the episode aired) that Rolo would need to get more screentime than ever -since he was going to die and all of that-, that when he didn’t appear that much it left me confused. But the BK needed to get their screentime as well because that’s precisely how Rolo’s last action is underlined as specially impressive and moving, because it makes a heavy contrast with the BK’s response. The parallelism goes like this:

1) Lelouch turns kinda violent towards the BK
–> Lelouch turns extremely violent towards Rolo-tan
2) The BK discover that Lelouch has been hiding them his geass all along! He lied and he used them! OMG they’re so pissed off now, let’s kill Zero! They won’t value all that he did do for them, nope.
–> Rolo discovers that Lelouch has been lying to him all along! He was using him! Yet he accepts it and thinks about the good memories instead, being the poor easy to please kid with a tool-complex that he is
3) Kallen needs to mean something to Lelouch, otherwise she won’t stay by his side (no offense to Kallen fans… ^^;)
–> Rolo has basically been told that he’s been thoroughly hated from the very beginning. “Haven’t you figured it out yet?!” (<-this is in my opinion, the words that sound cruelest among everything that Lelouch says during his raging moment). Yet he protects Lelouch with his life, it doesn’t matter whether Lelouch will thank him or not afterwards

As it turns out that the episode does have a well-thought structure, I give it much more objective value now. The objective value is that which I *try to* consider before I vote somewhere. I wouldn’t find it fair to claim “Turn 19 is the best episode!” just because through the eyes of a Rolo fangirl it’s so wonderful that it seems almost like a miracle. Then again, the poll asked for you to vote for your favorite episode, and not the episode you think is the best, so I have no reason to feel bad because I did vote for Turn 19 at the time, right…? (I didn’t expect it to get so many votes and I though it was my mission to help Rolo orz)

How come this entry turned out so long lol (the longer the entry, the worse my English). I simply wanted to wish Rolo a happy birthday. Heh, with this I hopefully compensate for all the recent and upcoming absence n_n;