Villetta Nu has always been positioned as one of Code Geass’s more quietly unsettling characters - not because she’s a villain in the operatic sense, but because she embodies a very grounded, very human kind of selfishness. She isn’t driven by the grand ideological crusades that define so many characters in the series. She’s not fighting for the soul of a nation, nor is she guided by trauma, honor, or duty. What Villetta values, consistently and unapologetically, is advancement. Social advancement. Class advancement. Personal advancement.
The world, the people, systems and tragedies within it, are only relevant insofar as they either obstruct or enable her ascent. She cares about her future, and she’ll tell you she cares about the imagined children of that future, but the truth is simpler and far less flattering: she cares about climbing the ladder. And if she has to kick someone in the teeth on her way up, that’s a price she’s more than willing to pay.
It’s refreshing, in a way, to have a character so honest about her ambitions, even if the honesty is largely internal and visible only through her choices. She’s not coded as evil, exactly, more like someone who internalized the logic of an empire so thoroughly that she doesn’t realize there's another way to be. If she’s cruel, it’s because cruelty is efficient. If she’s prejudiced, it’s because prejudice is the path of least resistance. And if she betrays, well, loyalty is a luxury, not an investment.
And then... the narrative takes all of this carefully established moral ambiguity and slams it into a wall labeled "plot-convenient amnesia."
Suddenly, the ladder-climber becomes a damsel, stripped of her agency, her memory, and most of her personality. She is found by Kaname Ohgi, a man whose kindness is sincere but whose emotional boundaries are not nearly as firm as the fandom sometimes pretends. She is injured, dependent, vulnerable, and yes, very beautiful. Ohgi is a good man (let's ignore the Black Rebellion for now), but he is still a man, and beauty plus vulnerability can be a dangerous combination for someone who doesn’t have the strongest sense of ethical caution.
Their romance grows not from mutual trust, nor respect, nor shared ideology, but from proximity and imbalance. Ohgi tends to her because he’s kind. Villetta responds because she has no context not to. He imprints on this gentler version of her - a version she never truly consented to being. She becomes attached to the one person she "knows," but the version of herself experiencing that attachment is incomplete.
The show plays it softly, gently, sweetly. But taken at face value, there is something deeply uncomfortable beneath the surface. The power disparity isn’t simply emotional. She is, for a stretch of time, not fully herself. And the relationship that emerges in that gap doesn’t vanish once her memory returns; it lingers, reshapes, complicates, and eventually - for reasons half narrative symbolism and half writerly expedience - solidifies into something the show wants us to accept as "happy."
Even by the end, with marriage and a child on the way, the foundation is still shaky. Ohgi and Villetta don’t end up together because they make sense. They end up together because Code Geass needed someone to represent reconciliation, and the writers picked two characters who happened to already be connected. The romance is convenient in every sense. Emotionally, narratively, politically, and likely in other ways not currently considered by this writer.
And Villetta herself? She doesn’t grow. She adapts. She survives. She finds a better ladder to climb now that the empire she served has collapsed. Domestic life looks peaceful on her, but peace is not the same thing as growth. She doesn’t confront her prejudices! She simply moves past the moment where they were relevant. She doesn’t confront the ethical issues surrounding her own relationship! And nor does the show.
Alright, we've got that lengthy rant out of the way, now let's focus on Villetta's hot tanned bod getting corrupted, shall we? That is what we're here to see, after all!
For her, it started with a mysterious phone call at her personal residence. While she had a quarters on barracks, a Knight of her standing was also provided with a rather opulent place to stay while off duty. When the phone rang, she thought nothing of it. She simply picked it up and answered.
"This is Nu," she said.
<i>"Hey there!"</i> said an unfamiliar voice with a strange accent. <i>"Would you like to know who that boy was? From Shinjuku I mean?"</i>
Villetta immediately reached across to her phone, and pressed a button that was on every Knight's phone. It was a simple automated line tap. People like her get threats all the time, you see, so it's only rational that they would be provided with one.
"Who is this?" she demanded.
<i>"One thing at a time,"</i> the voice replied. <I>"I'm giving you a lead here for your investigation. A simple deal that will favour you enormously - if you agree to a very simple condition."</i>
In all honesty she'd rather drag the answer out of him - but a line trace using automated software like this would take time. She needed to keep him on the line long enough for the trace to finish.
"What sort of condition?" she asked, not intending to actually honour it, or even remotely entertain it. This was to keep him on the line, and nothing more.
<i>"It's very simple!</i> the voice continued. <i>"The deal is simple. You will become the lover of the next male member of the Royal Family that you meet. If you agree to that, then I will tell you where to find that boy."</i>
Really now? Villetta could not help but laugh at the idea. The next male member of the Royal Family? Please. She'd maybe met Prince Clovis a few times at military events, but otherwise there was a layer of difference between her and someone of that station. It was hardly likely to happen.
This guy was a crank. But even so, she'd better keep him on the line.
"Are you saying that you will tell me after I marry into Royalty?" she asked.
<i>"No, I'll tell you right now, if you agree to the terms,"</i> the voice said.
It was a crank call. That would still get him in trouble. But... she was also worried about how he knew about the boy in Shinjuku.
"Just to make sure we're talking about the same boy -"
<i>"Stood amongst various Royal Guard who died under mysterious circumstances, pretended to be the son of a duke? That is the boy you want, right? I'm giving you ten seconds to agree or I'm hanging up~"</I>
She'd need more than ten seconds. He started to count down from ten... She bit her lip and waited until he hit two, deliberately stalling him out as long as she could.
"Alright! Fine!" she said. "I'll agree to your terms. Where will I find - "
Ding! The line came back fully read. Ashford Academy, was it? Perfect, just what she'd been looking for.
<i>"His name is Lelouch Lamperouge! I think you should be able to find him from that. And remember - you're to become the lover of the first male member of the Royal Family that you meet. Have fun!"</i>
Click. Whatever. She hung up the phone and shook her head. No time like the present. She had no other active duties right now. Ashford Academy, eh? She'd head there personally and check their student records, figure out who made that call - and maybe, for good measure, look into this Lelouch Lamperouge...
All the while, failing to realise that, due to the agreement she'd just made, she was now under the compulsion to have regular sex with the first member of the Britannian Royal Family that she met who happened to be male. Of which, in all of Area Eleven - in all of Asia currently, in fact, there was but a single person to meet that description, and that would remain true for at least two weeks.
Oh dear me, Lelouch. Oh dear oh dear indeed. This was going to create yet another complication for your attempts to not build a harem, would it not?
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