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I’ve compiled a quick list (and I have the feeling I’m leaving some examples I can’t remember out) of the DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION from DUN DUN DUN LELOUCH TO ROLO!! Yes, you heard that right. I mean, it’s clear; that’s the only list involving Rolo that you can compile since displays of affection coming from Rolo to Lelouch or Staff to Rolo are so incessant it turns like trying to count the number of times you brush your teeth, or eat a meal…

(tl;dr, the list is down there you can scroll down if you like)

By affection I do mean family-like. I don’t think there’s any room for doubt at this point that Rolo’s feelings included at least a very important share that was blatantly romantic, but probably Lelouch with his wonderful inability to decipher “this sort of things” (I’m quoting Turn 5 CC now) DID NOT EVEN EVER CONSIDER THE FACT AS A REMOTE POSSIBILITY. Hmm. Though sometimes I do wonder how he was able to come up with a strategy that meant very confidently taking for granted that Rolo would stay by his side and betray his superiors in exchange for a promise of a future together with him. He needed to have realized that Rolo wanted a family- no, Lelouch as a family-, and considering Rolo had started acting as though he didn’t mind killing him after the revival of Zero, he must have had to go through all the process of understanding that his true nature was that of the longing-for-love boy he had come to know when they lived as brothers. Well, not that Rolo’s acting was so good, basically anyone paying attention could figure out that he was hesitating too much about killing Lelouch, but still, Lelouch is usually slow when it comes to emphatizing with his enemies, and he was claiming to consider Rolo one at the time (yet on the inside he didn’t?). The funny thing is he completely and very conveniently decides to ignore that trauma of Rolo he must have been aware of in order to be able to exploit it when he TOTALLY SENDS ROLO TO RESCUE NUNNALLY not to mention when he puts him in charge of organizing dates with some girls OTL. Yeah. But WE KNOW LELOUCH IS LIKE THAT and he acquires magical abilities to be able to understand how much Rolo needs him ONLY when he needs to manipulate him, then proceeds to voluntarily forget it when he doesn’t care anymore. Or something like that. And I wonder, what is it that Lelouch possesses to make a characteristic such as egocentrism a lovable trait?!

Enough with the Lulu fangirling. As I was saying lots of lines ago, these DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION exist pretty abundantly. Even more if you consider THEY’VE ONLY KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR A YEAR AND SOME MONTHS. So, as I often see many still remain skeptical about the sincerity of Lelouch’s words in their last scene together…. Well! If this doesn’t serve to convince you, then we have very different ways of viewing his character…

On to the list! (I make it seem longer by speaking too much)

-HE BURIED HIM WITH HIS BARE HANDS. Lelouch. THE Lelouch AKA my Niisan who has no physical strength. HE WAS THINKING OF ROLO DURING THE WHOLE MONTH IT MUST HAVE TAKEN HIM TO DIG UP THE HOLE. Even if it was just 15 minutes, the gesture in itself is so pretty… ´a`
-Including Rolo among the people that he’s lost (in order words, that he would have wanted to keep), not to mention ROLO’S NAME COMES BEFORE SHIRLEY’S (oh sh-)
-IN THE PREVIEW OF EPISODE 20 HE SAID NO WORD ABOUT HAVING LOST THE BLACK KNIGHTS. HE ONLY TALKED ABOUT ROLO. But why would you care about anything else when you no longer have delicious chocolate?! But seriously, the preview is entirely and exclusively dedicated to his otouto ´w`
-He was pretty desperately shouting him to stop when he saw what he was planning to do (read: die). HE EVEN ADDED A “KURE” TO THE “YAMETE” THAT’S LIKE, ALMOST LIKE BEGGING IN LELOUCH’S USUAL ARROGANT LANGUAGE.
-CONFIRMED BY THE non-fangirl side OF THE STAFF THAT HE DIDN’T LIE OUT OF PITY he truly acknowledged Rolo as his little brother (and you don’t just suddenly and willingly decide what you feel towards someone; Rolo must have mattered to Lelouch from the very beginning even though his blind hatred towards everything antiNunnally wouldn’t let him accept so)
-”Are you trying to kill Rolo?!”-by furious!Lelouch to the audience. That’s from the Kiseki event lol. I’ve read Daichuu acted that part even visually, and was looking like he himself was truly going to collapse. Can’t wait to see it ☆
-That long preview (for ep 21 or 22, can’t remember) where he goes “also for Euphy and Shirley, Nunnally and Rolo” ROLO IS TOGETHER WITH NUNNALLY I mean not to discredit the other two but the group with Nunnally definitely becomes the most important when we are talking about Lelouch
-HIKARI. The “Hikari” short-story. Rolo is part of the family. TOGETHER WITH NUNNALLY. Again. LELOUCH TREATS THEM AS EQUALS (I actually checked that he sometimes calls them “Nunnally and Rolo” but other times inverts the order too! As in “Rolo and Nunnally” instead! And this is official enough to come with The Complete). YOU KNOW, THAT’S LIKE, YOU CAN’T GET ANY MORE RECOGNITION THAN THAT FROM LELOUCH oh Rolo if only you had lived to see it
-ZERO REQUIEM DVD. Is it Nunnally? No! Is it Euphy? No! Is it Rivalz? Almost! The most important people to trigger the Zero Requiem, those who were chosen as having created the biggest impact and being most special are THE SHIRLEY AND THE ROLO! And Sakou Yukie has had to pay sooo much money to get Sunrise to follow her orders…
-This one is not to be taken too seriously but even BABA THEATRE has Lelouch interacting mainly with the freaky (lovely for some) HOWSHOULDWECALLHIM- Lelouch does call him Rolo. Well, whoever he is, HE IS THE SYMBOL OF ROLO- a much less adorable, less sensitive, less full of melancholy, less displayer of a powerful will and more katakanic and heterosexual version- he has THE locket which even plays If I were a Bird during the last chapter (I somehow cannot respect the melody as much anymore. Just kidding) AND LELOUCH ENDS UP MISSING HIM SO MUCH THAT HE SEES HALLUCINATIONS OF ROLOLO and CC gives him a replica doll as a replacement to “confort” him. Lelouch even talks to the lifeless thing. It also breaks down afterwards.
-And here comes the greatest one!!: LELOUCH REMEMBERS ROLO WITH A ~~SPESHAL~~ NEW IMAGE RIGHT BEFORE HE’S DYING AND ONLY ROLO GETS A ~~SPESHAL~~ NEW IMAGE DURING THAT SEQUENCE OF THE CINEMATIC RECORD MEMORIES. This seems so incredibly incredible for me that I have no idea how come NOBODY ELSE TALKS ABOUT IT. I MEAN. ONLY ROLO GETS A NEW IMAGE. ONLY ROLO. ROLO. THE ROLO. Who allowed for that to first happen Sakou’s personal mafia and then not get revised for the DVD edition as though THAT WERE THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE?! This can only mean that IS the way it was meant to be! Which means… which means what? Which you translate as what?! Why Rolo?! WHY ROLO OMG

And that was my current (ever-growing) humble collection of instances in which Lelouch has genuinely shown to appreciate Rolo. I would have included the “Iin da, Roro. Iin da yo” from Geass Hyakumonogatari just for the EXAGGERATEDLY SWEET tone with which Lelouch pronounces the words, but I didn’t because he might as well have been acting at the time. Also in a story where you get a Rolo that tells everyone about his geass, you could even have Milly proposing to Rivalz so… =3 these SEs are not too reliable…

Edit2: Ignore this post and my foolish naivety xD well idk they are still talking about Lost Colors R2 as though it were a reality that needs to come true sooner or later. Hmm…

IS PRACTICALLY CONFIRMED

(^wishful thinking)

I SHOULD NOT BE GETTING EUPHORIC BEFORE IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED BUT JUST READING THE WORDS LOST COLORS 2
EVEN IF IT TURNS OUT TO BE FALSE IT WILL STILL HAVE BEEN WORTH IT IF ONLY FOR THE SHEER JOY I’M FEELING RIGHT NOW

Ahhh~ Please please please~ ´ V`!!

EDIT: Wow, some are already calling the news false xD… I get excited so easily. Well! For now, more people have claimed it true than those who are saying it’s false, so there’s hope. There’s hope for me at least! But… don’t quote me on anything just yet =);; ….

SZS Chapter 155…

Posted by: Ayanta on: January 30, 2010

Thanks to Kumeta Kouji World – Wiki Site for including a keyword search feature. Don’t ask me why were you looking for Rolo there because the answer is clear- I’m always looking for Rolo. No, okay, at first I just wanted to understand once and for all “what the F stands for in 水島大宙F”… of all things I didn’t expect a Digimon reference… and Lucemon falldown mode isn’t naked xD… so I still don’t really get the joke…? ´w`; well whatever.  Zetsubou Housou #50 has Daichuu saying “ZA WARUDO!! Toki wo tomare~!” so it’s all good (even though Rolo already kind of called his attack in Turn 13 going “TOKI WO UBAU!!” but we don’t like watching that episode, do we).

Seeing how Harumi was into Suzalulu I was waiting for this too in the anime and it didn’t happen. Thank you, manga:


I don’t care about the rest, but the existence of that DN pairing always leaves me in despair :( but to each his own, shipping is something personal.

That cover kinda looks like one of those pics by Sakou Yukie. Only it’s probably better drawn, Kumeta’s version I mean (obviously). Ahh Sakou, you might be an inconditional fangirl (“as long as Rolo is there it’s enough for me“, “my Code Geass ends in episode 19 of R2“) but the way you draw mouths is still… so weird… or should I just say “different”…

I also felt an extremely nostalgic sensation at the Digimon Adventure episode 21 mention ;_; it’s a crime that some versions didn’t keep the original OST… with the beautiful, beautiful Shouri ~ Zen no Theme… although thinking it over it might be better to avoid going through the melancholia the original song produces… Still, I’m eternally grateful to the Spanish adaptation for respecting everything as it was ´-` ♥ I know for sure I wouldn’t be the same person I am right now had it not been for Digimon and -to a large extent- its music

Hopefully there really is a new season coming and they bring back the GOGGLES and nullify the 02 epilogue =D

Miles>Cody

Posted by: Ayanta on: January 27, 2010

Times New Roman

Posted by: Ayanta on: January 19, 2010

Times New Roman is one of the most popular and influential typefaces, found in the great majority of printed material -newspapers, books, magazines-, and set as default in many word processors such as Microsoft Word until its 2007 release. As a font with serifs (short lines added to the ends of the main strokes that make up a letter) its target medium is paper, so it is not as widely selected to display text on screen, where sans-serif alphabets are considered more readable.

More than 70 years old, Times New Roman was designed in 1932 by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent for The Times, and acquired its name after replacing the old typeface of the London newspaper, which was called Times Old Roman. Nonetheless, because the daily issues were published with the help of both Monotype and Linotype equipment, the rights to the successful font have been legally distributed to result in the former foundry using the name Times New Roman, whereas the latter employs Times Roman. Although these two versions barely differ from each other visually, many variants of the face have been developed by diverse designers under different licenses, including Nimbus Roman, Times Modern, Times Ten, CG Times, etc.

Despite its ubiquity in the Western world, Times New Roman is not a large Unicode font, and it does not cover Far East characters such as Japanese or Chinese.

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Niisa~n! Bakabakabaka!

Posted by: Ayanta on: January 18, 2010


Good. I spent some valuable minutes editing tiny adorable sprites… what exactly was my purpose again?

I should modify:

Jeff-> Lelouch with glasses so that Rolo can talk about craving to clean them. OR change the text so that Rolo wants to clean the floor (“I bet your floor is dirty… If you come back, I’ll clean it for you!”). A que hago todo esto de verda y asi no podeis resistiros a jugar? =P Eh Kori si quieres te transformo a Ness en Link. HAY UN NIVEL EN EL QUE CARECE DE ATUENDOS es relevant to your interests. Also Charles makes a good Dr. Andonuts since they both support parental abandonment
Paula-> Idk generic female character.
Ness-> generic male character Link pa Kori. No te compres la bici y asi no tengo que editar los sprites de bici kthx Total es mas lenta que ir andando y cuando el party aumenta no la puedes usar XD
Poo-> Marta Lualdi because THEY BOTH KEEP ANNOYINGLY LEAVING AND JOINING YOUR PARTY
Porky-> hahahaha… Ribbons (golden Monotoli office is golden)

ETC.

My to-do list keeps growing and that yearned for free-time never arrives… <=3 not that you should take seriously that I’m going to edit all those sprites. What I really want to do is post some analysis on Rolo ´ -` but… all my attempts so far have been futile since my English isn’t good enough to write a proper introspective text : ( Though I also have some things to translate! Well some interview with Daichuu anyway. That’s easier to work with and it helps me memorize kanji so once again, when/if I find the time…

This blog is alive, I swear! I’m just so busy studying ;a; even right now I should be… I’m-I’m not slacking off just… taking a little break…

I still play the sims (just to take screenshots)

Posted by: Ayanta on: January 11, 2010

Since my Sims are looking considerably prettier now that I installed some proper lipsticks, here are more new pictures! I took the screens a while ago but I finally found some time to actually upload them. Hope you like!

PS: HOLY- WAY MORE TERRIFYING THAN YOUR USUAL RAN RAN RU

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There’s something wrong with this picture

Posted by: Ayanta on: January 2, 2010

Ouch xD someone’s overlooked an important detail while putting all their efforts into trying to get an elegant-looking handwritting~

And, um. >.< forgive me for being so absent, not only from this blog but, I mean, from other people’s… I have been reading them, but right now I’m working on some extremely long analysis that barely allows me to have some contact with humans when my mom or otouto visit my room to ask me something. When it comes to homework I take it to extremes nobody would believe unless they installed some cameras on me or something. You might still think I must be exaggerating but I wish I were D: … Ah well, I suppose as stressed out as I might feel, it is my own choice so… But yeah, as I was saying, sorry if I haven’t been replying to anything lately ^-^`;

CiteULike

Posted by: Ayanta on: January 1, 2010

CiteULike is a free, web-based bookmarking tool for the classification of online research papers, which opened in November 2004. Like other reference management software such as Connotea or 2collab, it is an example of a Web 2.0 site, combining features like RSS feeds and the possibility to import scholarly articles through their BibTeX entries.

References can be stored individually, to form a personal library, or as a group, where users will contribute to the collecting and sharing of publications related to a particular subject. This content is available to anyone and can be properly arranged and easily located with the incorporation of tags and a voting system, which contributes to the social aspect that makes CiteULike one of the most popular resources in the academic community. According to data observed by its own creators, more people end up compiling material from the bibliographies of other users than those who resort to exporting from external sources, thus proving the success of the service as a network. As of today’s date, however, the matching device shows some problems in identifying duplicate uploads when each of them comes from a different origin, despite their providing the very same text.

Besides its function as an organizer of bookmarks, the capture not only of the URL but also of the metadata concerning a newly-added file (information on the name of its author, editors, publisher, number of pages, etc.) allows for the automatic generation of citations for such papers in any common format, ranging from APA to Chicago or MLA styles.

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Shorter puppies?

Posted by: Ayanta on: December 19, 2009

Huh?

So I am not the only person in the world to grow down instead of up :D !! (I swear I was a centimeter taller some years ago)

The anime should be more reliable than NTR, but maybe not so much when they can’t tell apart purple from PATENT PINK.

They insist that he’s in charge of the house chores, I WANT TO SEE ROLO CLEANING THE FLOOR WITH A DUST CLOTH. I’m not being a sadist, I picture him cleaning while being very happy. That’s still being a sadist, isn’t it? I know~~ And NTR calls him a puppy again! What’s going on
EDIT: Definitely a mistake on NTR’s, part since they also gave Gino Lelouch’s height and age xD (thanks to somebody on Rolo’s thread for pointing it out, I usually don’t really check stuff regarding Gino… ^^;)

One day, one day when I find the time I shall post about which I consider Rolo’s main inner struggle: his exceptional determination and strength to pursue that minimum happiness any individual deserves (which shines, despite the hopelessness of his situation, in contrast with the usual response of the masses, that will prefer simply conforming and avoiding responsibilities rather than having to take a risk, no matter how good the cause they’d be fighting for might be) clashing with his tool-complex (making him unable to take the idea that he needs to be useful in order to be appreciated out of his mind). I was thinking that his final act is a perfect unification of this conflict, because on the one hand he takes his own decision and disobeys Lelouch, even giving preference to his own speech (=feelings) over whatever Lelouch might have been asking for at the time; and yet, on the other hand, that choice wich he makes with his own will power is none other than sacrificing himself, giving up his life and chance to find happiness in exchange for helping somebody towards whom he feels a little too grateful not to be a sign of an evident lack of self-steem. And it is these kinds of internal contradictions which make Geass characters so interesting, at least to me. Ahhhhh I love everything that you are so much Rolo, so so so so much ♥

You can also disagree with me and leave comments. Discussing Rolo is my favorite hobby xD

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