Term · Code Geass
Geass
A power handed over by contract, worn in one eye, and useless the second time you point it at the same person.
In Otakana the clue reads: The power granted by the girl called C.C.
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Geass arrives by agreement. An immortal offers a wish, the person accepts, and a bird-shaped sigil settles into an eye. What the power does varies with whoever receives it. Lelouch vi Britannia got absolute obedience: he meets your gaze, gives an order, and you carry it out without knowing why. The catch is that it works once per person. Give the wrong command and that person is spent forever.
C.C. is the one handing them out. She is a green-haired immortal who cannot die and who wants to, and the contract she offers carries a debt: grant her wish in return. Other Geass users appear across the series, each with a different ability, and most of them lose control of it. The power tends to creep. Left unchecked it stops switching off, which for Lelouch means an eye that commands everyone who looks at him.
Sunrise aired Code Geass in 2006 with Goro Taniguchi directing and Ichiro Okouchi writing, and CLAMP designed the cast, which is why everyone is roughly nine heads tall. The story runs on the gap between what the power can do and what Lelouch is willing to spend it on. He is a chess player by temperament, and a piece used badly does not come back.
Spelling GEASS
GEASS is five letters with a double S, and the doubling is the whole difficulty. The word comes from geis, the Irish term for a binding taboo laid on a person, usually written with one S and sometimes as geas. Code Geass added the second one. Say it once, gess, and you will type four letters. The row wants five.