C.C.
C.C. is a main character of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, the immortal who grants Lelouch his power. She is voiced by Yukana in Japanese and Kate Higgins in English.
About C.C.
C.C. is a main character of Code Geass, the immortal woman who gives Lelouch his Geass. Ageless, sarcastic and fond of pizza to a degree that becomes a series trademark, she has lived for centuries under a contract system she no longer believes in, granting Geass to the ambitious and watching what it does to them. With Lelouch she finally finds a contractor who talks back. Her real name, her wish and her past are among the series' most guarded secrets.
Appearance
C.C. is an immortal young woman with long, waist length green hair, golden eyes and an unreadable, slightly amused expression. She favours a white straitjacket style outfit in her early appearances, a relic of her captivity, then settles into the Black Knights' uniform and casual clothes, usually with a Cheese-kun plush from her beloved Pizza Hut obsession in her arms. CLAMP's design gives her an otherworldly elegance that the pizza jokes keep puncturing on purpose. She looks like a oracle and behaves like a roommate, and the friction between the two is her whole charm.
Personality
C.C. is dry, teasing and emotionally fluent in a way that suggests she has had centuries to get bored of every feeling, including despair. She treats Lelouch's grand speeches the way a cat treats furniture, and her honesty is total in the areas where it hurts most. Under the detachment she is lonely in a way the younger characters cannot imagine, and her arc is about the terrifying discovery that she might want something from existence again. She is the only person who can tell Lelouch he is lying to himself and be believed, because she has nothing to gain from him except the truth.
Background & Story
C.C. was a medieval girl who received a Code, the power of immortality, from a nun who then forced her own death on her, the only way a Code bearer can die being to pass the burden through a fulfilled contract. Centuries of life followed: worshipped, hunted as a witch, experimented on, and gradually emptied of the wish that started it all, her original desire simply to be loved. In the present she is held by Britannian researchers under the code name C.C., escapes in the capsule Lelouch opens, and offers him Geass under a contract whose price she does not disclose. She stays with him as accomplice and observer, eating his pizza, mocking his theatre and, slowly, becoming the one person who knows all of him.
Powers & Abilities
- Granting Geass: As a Code bearer, C.C. can form contracts that give others a Geass suited to their deepest desire, as she did for Lelouch and, before him, for Mao, with very different results.
- Immortality: C.C. cannot age or die. She recovers from gunshots and executions that the series shows plainly, and she has survived centuries of witch hunts and laboratories.
- Telepathic Contact: She communicates mentally with Marianne, perceives Geass related phenomena others cannot, and at moments projects images and shocks through contact, abilities tied to the World of C.
Key Relationships
- Lelouch Lamperouge: Her contractor and accomplice. She grants him power expecting the usual tragedy and gets, instead, arguments, pizza bills and the first relationship in centuries that treats her as a person rather than a wish machine.
- Mao: Her previous contractor, a boy she raised and abandoned when his Geass destroyed his mind. Mao's return shows Lelouch, and the audience, the price list C.C. usually hides.
- Marianne vi Britannia: The dead empress whose consciousness survives in the World of C, with whom C.C. holds silent conversations through the series. Their old arrangement drives much of the endgame.
Quick Answers
Who voices C.C.?
C.C. is voiced by Yukana in Japanese and Kate Higgins in the English dub.
What is C.C.'s real name?
The series never says it aloud. Lelouch learns it, and whispers it to her in one scene, deliberately covered by other sound. The creators have kept it secret in every version since, making it one of anime's famous unanswerable questions.
C.C. is immortal because she carries a Code, the mark that grants Geass to others. She does not age, heals from any wound and cannot die by ordinary means. The only release is built into her contracts, which is the secret at the centre of her deal with Lelouch.
Why does C.C. love pizza so much?
The series plays it as a genuine character quirk: after centuries of survival, C.C. has attached herself to pizza, and to collecting Cheese-kun mascot goods, with a child's enthusiasm. It began partly as a famous product placement in the Japanese broadcast and became so beloved that it is now simply part of who she is.