Euphemia li Britannia
Euphemia li Britannia is a female anime and manga character who features in Code Geass.
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Biography
Euphemia li Britannia (Japanese: ユーフェミア リ ブリタニア, Hepburn: Yūfemia ri Buritania) was a female human born the daughter of Emperor Charles zi Britannia and one of his wives that were part of the Royal Family of the Holy Britannian Empire. It was noted that she was the younger sister of Cornelia li Britannia who adored her sibling. As a member of the Royal Family, she came to possess many half-siblings among which included Lelouch vi Britannia and his young sister Nunnally vi Britannia both of whom Euphemia was close with in her youth.
She jumped from her window several stories above the ground and lands in Suzaku Kururugi's arms. They spend the day in Area 11 and Euphemia goes under the name Euphie, which becomes the nickname that Suzaku and Imperial Family call her by. They become friends quickly and Euphemia, after revealing her identity as the Third Princess of Britannia, asks that he help her prevent any unnecessary deaths. She attended Prince Clovis' funeral and heard her father the Emperor of Britannia make a speech on the virtues of inequality and the social battle for evolution and betterment. When she is taken hostage along with a group of tourists by the Japan Liberation Front at the Lake Kawaguchi Convention Center Hotel, Euphemia attempts to use her position to free the other hostages. Lelouch, in his Zero persona, has incidentally led the Black Knights to the same location, and the two meet. Lelouch remarks that Euphemia had not changed since childhood and was not surprised to see her act in such a manner. Though he brandishes a gun at her, he decides against killing her.
Concerned about Euphemia's safety, Cornelia persuaded her younger sister to select a Knight to protect her. After resolving the conflict between her own ideals and Cornelia's advice, Euphemia chooses Suzaku Kururugi. Cornelia worries that Euphemia's ideals will get her sister into trouble and warns Euphemia that the policy of discrimination against Honorary Britannians like Suzaku is so firmly established that she might have to be exposed to the rigours and dangers of competing for the throne in order to challenge it and that it was better if Euphemia were to be the Empress to change such policy. Regardless, Euphemia adamantly sticks to her decision and Suzaku remains her Knight until he voluntarily steps down after he is arrested for deserting the front lines during a battle against Zero. Euphemia goes into a state of depression as she feels she was useless and the blow of Suzaku leaving her but an encounter with Nina allows her to discover that she has developed feelings for Suzaku. Suzaku at that moment goes into battle with a new prototype that is connected to Lancelot. His energy levels drop, and Euphemia makes a transmission and declares that she orders him to love her and in return she will love every bit of him. Suzaku reciprocates the feelings and declares his love for her. Euphemia then convinces him to rejoin her as her knight.
In the immediate aftermath of the Battle at Shikine Island Base, Euphemia encounters Zero when the two of them are stranded on a nearby island. Having deduced Lelouch's identity from their earlier meeting, she convinces him to unmask, promising to keep his alter ego a secret. She goes to Ashford Academy during the school festival just to see Suzaku. The incident allows her to unexpectedly reconnect with Lelouch and Nunnally as she secretly visits them at the Ashford Academy during the school festival. Euphie and Nunnally spent time having a good conversation about old times and Nunnally tells Euphie to promise to keep both hers and Lelouch's royalty a secret. She and Nunnally visit Lelouch and with the three of them interacting privately, Lelouch tells Euphie that this is the last time that they will see each other. Euphie says that she has never been this happy before. When the media catches her visiting the school, Euphemia makes a surprising announcement. Wishing to live the peaceful days she once had with Nunnally and Lelouch, she declares the establishment of the Special Administrative Zone of Japan for the Japanese people. This runs completely contrary to Lelouch's plans. Though met with disapproval from other government officials, her plans go forth with the help of her older brother Schneizel el Britannia, who apparently supports her idea and promises to inform Cornelia of it.
Britannia officially declared Euphemia responsible for the massacre and that she had been deprived of royal status and executed by the Britannian Army; aside from this false declaration, Britannia refused to make any other compensation for the Japanese, instead they increased the level of discrimination; to the point where the Britannian mafia was able to freely do human trafficking and other illegal activities on the Japanese. 'Citizens of Japan' were reverted to the name Elevens, and a number of initially restored rights and privileges are again denied to Elevens.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Euphemia li Britannia was a female human noted for being very beautiful with pink hair that reached below her waist. It was usually styled downwards with two buns on each side of her head while she has curly bangs hanging on the right side of her face, bluish-violet eyes and she is taller than average height. To those close to her, she went by the nickname of Euphie.
Although Euphemia was a member of the Britannian royal family, she remained kind-hearted and open-minded to everyone around her and treats everyone with respect even if they are not Britannian; this universal respect probably stems from her own childhood experiences with her siblings Lelouch vi Britannia and Nunnally vi Britannia whose mother wasn't from the nobility and thus were looked upon with disdain by the other members of the Britannian Imperial Family.
In her childhood, she was quite close to Lelouch and Nunnally.
She came to be the second person in the Imperial Family to discover that Lelouch was alive and the first to know his alter ego as Zero. The latter she came to had deduced after the hotel hijacking incident.
Whilst in Area 51, she came to develop a close, romantic bond with Suzaku Kururugi because of their shared belief that a problem must be changed from within.
Powers and abilities
Euphemia li Britannia was born an ordinary human being with no special inherent talent or abilities.
Notes
- Euphemia li Britannia was created by Gorō Taniguchi, Ichirō Ōkouchi and Clamp where she featured in the setting of the Code Geass universe.
In other media
Television
Appearances
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