♔ INFORMATION
SERIES: Code Geass
NAME: Schneizel el Britannia
RACE: Human
AGE: 28
CANON POINT: R2, Turn 24 - when the battle is in his favour.
REFERENCES: Wiki page.
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE:First in the Britannia's Most Eligible Bachelor listings It would be difficult to think of Schneizel as anything but royalty when first seeing him, for he completely embodies the role of the white prince. He is very tall (6'5", to be precise), long in the leg and broad in the shoulder, leanly toned for all his place in battle is in the commander's chair, and his fingers are long and deft. He seems to be almost a polar-opposite to his youngest brother, Lelouch. Where Lelouch is dark haired and bright eyed, Schneizel has a windswept fall of blond hair and pale, almost lavender coloured eyes. His features are aristocratic, but not at all delicate, and his expressions are well-schooled but seldom ever seem stiff or strained. Despite his size, he moves with an innate grace - an elegance and a fluid surety that never seems to slip up, and he carries himself with quiet, unassuming pride. Schneizel dresses in a lot of white or pale colours, often tempered with a deeper shade of purple, and his clothes are always tailored perfectly (though really, he's the type of piss annoying man who could make rags look imperial. The white prince cuts an imposing figure, and can seem cold, even melancholy, but is usually the picture of amiable approachability, and his smiles always seem genuine, even when they don't quite touch his eyes.
PERSONALITY:It is not, exactly, that Schneizel is an entirely cold person. He cares very deeply about what he pursues: peace and equality, a safer world for all inhabitants. He cares also about his siblings, even treating his subordinates with respect and courtesy - a rarity amongst Britannian nobility, we're lead to believe. Schneizel has a great deal of warmth, in fact, warmth that shows in his amicability, his consideration. He scorns those, his father included, who do not consider the needs of the people - he is firmly aware that it’s the people, rather than the ruler or the doctrine, that make the empire, after all. The people make the world.
Doubtlessly, some of this is carefully orchestrated - it serves Schneizel best to be protrayed in such a way. However, it is not a masquerade he’s putting on for those around them - Schneizel cares about people, about the lives they live, their welfare, their safety: his goals are all staged upon creating peace in the world. The second prince of the Holy Britannian Empire possesses warmth, certainly.
The matter is simply that Schneizel can be that cold, and will be without any kind of regret or guilt. Because ultimately, Schneizel understands that everyone is another pawn, another part of the game. But it's all anything but a game, and unlike many in his place, Schneizel understands that too. In fact, he knows that he is as much a pawn as anyone else, to the point where, if it comes to it, he will allow himself to suffer along with the rest for the greater good. Though the battlefield for him is distant lights and flickering words and shapes on a screen - so easy to lose sight of what’s really happening out there - Schneizel is a man who refuses to allow himself that respite. Without guilt though he may be, he insists on holding the burden of what it is he does, what he commands to be done, what he will do in the future. As he sees it, if he did not possess such a thing, he would not be fit to lead or rule. Capable of distancing himself as he is, he cannot see the people around him, the people beneath him, as anything less than people. That would be, beyond all else, completely counter-productive in achieving all he wants to achieve, and being the man he must be for such achievements. He moves, not through his own desires, not through what he wishes for himself, but for the world. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and the greater good is something to be attained at all costs.
Exacting such plans - for Schneizel plans, and plots, and calculates constantly, assessing and preparing - requires power, a great deal of it, and sometimes more than even Schneizel possesses. But the drive to attain more is not simple megalomania - once again, Schneizel’s ambitions are not to further his own place. He seeks to become emperor, not out of a lust to rule, but because that is simply the position he must be in to have that power. In fact, when told that only a god possesses the power needed for those plans of his - so carefully constructed - to be realized, Schneizel concedes that he must then become as a god.
But not because he wants to be worshipped. Not because he has a craving to be followed. It’s simply a case of the end justifying the means.
Everything is, to the Second Prince, means to an end. And those means will be executed ruthlessly, without hesitation, even if it means, for example, shooting down a very dear sister, or releasing a terrible warhead.
So yes, he can certainly be cold. He is a man of conviction, but not passion. Drive, but not ambition. Callous, but not for cruelty.
And for that drive and those convictions, he is well equipped to excel. Schneizel is a master of organization and planning. He's renowned for it, for being a man who doesn't simply make grandiose plots but is able to follow them through to the end. He makes good on promises and is determined and devoted, highly driven when needs be, able to keep a level-head and calculate things far in advance with reason and rationality. Schneizel plays to win and he can be ruthless, certainly - but never unnecessarily so. It's said at one point that in other circumstances, Schneizel would make an excellent leader, and it's true that he has all the necessary qualities in abundance. But the stipulation is that Schneizel would make the perfect leader in a more peaceful world, rather than the strife-stricken one he knows.
As a strategist, he is regarded as second to none, at least on par with Zero (albeit working in a rather different way). He was responsible for the empire claiming a great deal more territory, after all, ridding them of opposition. However, Schneizel is not entirely ruthless in such aspects. Where others - his sister, for example - believe that the spirit of a country should be crushed entirely, Schneizel sees the value in giving them chance and hope. He understands that these things are vital to the people, and it is, ultimately, the people that matter.
Yet it's Schneizel's belief that such things as hope are but 'aimless fiction', fabrications to give meaning to life, to events, to feelings. It's therein that Schneizel finds the value in it - these things are needed to others, if not to himself. Perhaps he could be considered a little inhuman himself, being devoid of such things - but thanks to that, he is utterly impartial. Just. Logical. Schneizel balances the qualities of the people's prince and the prince for the people perfectly, warm and cold at once, able to give with one hand and take with the other, provided it's for the greater good.
And that’s what's important, isn't it? His Highness utterly embodies noblesse oblige, and in his mind, the ruler is the greatest servant of all, and it is with this in mind that he makes every move on the board.
As the second prince and Prime Minister, Schneizel was widely known and, it seems, held in high regard. He can be quiet, pensive, a little distant, but winning hearts and minds is a feat as easy as breathing to Schneizel, his quiet intelligence, wisdom, and flawless composure inspiring awe in those around him. He is kind, courteous, and charming, possessing an endless font of charisma that those around him seem honoured to drink from. He appears patient, understanding, with a soft smile and impeccable manners.
He is, simply put, likeable, and past the calculations, past the plans and the greater good, that is what people see. It's only befitting, of course - the prince appears as one of those rare, near-perfect types, who would genuinely use all those skills of his to better things. He treats his subordinates almost as though they were equals, the commoners with the same unfaltering respect and warmth that he does the nobility. Because he does genuinely value them - the people are, remember, the most important part of a nation. They are the world, and the world is everything.
ORIENTATION:Asexual. This doesn’t mean Schneizel has any aversion to sex - in that regard, he can be quite opportunistic if needs be. It’s part and parcel of being the beloved prince that he’s flirtatious and charming, after all, which he demonstrates often. He has to make all the right impressions. If it’s offered to him, he may well take it up. However, the fact remains that Schneizel could easily go without. It’s not something he really thinks about anymore. It, as everything else has become, is merely a means to an end. Though women tend to be the recipients of his shameless :| flirting and his brother notes with surprise that he’d never expected Schneizel to “keep the company of just one woman”, it’s unlikely that gender matters to him. That’s simply part of a role to play.
ABILITIES:As an ordinary human, Schneizel's real strength lies in his mind, in his incredible intellect and ability to strategize, prepare, and direct. That's the most daunting ability, and one he knows how to wield - masterfully. As fighters go, however, he's not the most formidable force. He is an able fencer, though better with a handgun. He's capable in hand-to-hand combat, certainly - presumably he's had some military training and can also pilot a KMF to some degree. A lack of personal experience in the field lets him down - men die at his word, not at his hand.
In more 'mundane' matters, he can play piano, ride horses, and can be fairly athletic, though in recent years he's had little practise of such. Notably, he's never lost a game of chess.
NAME: Schneizel el Britannia
RACE: Human
AGE: 28
CANON POINT: R2, Turn 24 - when the battle is in his favour.
REFERENCES: Wiki page.
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE:First in the Britannia's Most Eligible Bachelor listings It would be difficult to think of Schneizel as anything but royalty when first seeing him, for he completely embodies the role of the white prince. He is very tall (6'5", to be precise), long in the leg and broad in the shoulder, leanly toned for all his place in battle is in the commander's chair, and his fingers are long and deft. He seems to be almost a polar-opposite to his youngest brother, Lelouch. Where Lelouch is dark haired and bright eyed, Schneizel has a windswept fall of blond hair and pale, almost lavender coloured eyes. His features are aristocratic, but not at all delicate, and his expressions are well-schooled but seldom ever seem stiff or strained. Despite his size, he moves with an innate grace - an elegance and a fluid surety that never seems to slip up, and he carries himself with quiet, unassuming pride. Schneizel dresses in a lot of white or pale colours, often tempered with a deeper shade of purple, and his clothes are always tailored perfectly (though really, he's the type of piss annoying man who could make rags look imperial. The white prince cuts an imposing figure, and can seem cold, even melancholy, but is usually the picture of amiable approachability, and his smiles always seem genuine, even when they don't quite touch his eyes.
PERSONALITY:It is not, exactly, that Schneizel is an entirely cold person. He cares very deeply about what he pursues: peace and equality, a safer world for all inhabitants. He cares also about his siblings, even treating his subordinates with respect and courtesy - a rarity amongst Britannian nobility, we're lead to believe. Schneizel has a great deal of warmth, in fact, warmth that shows in his amicability, his consideration. He scorns those, his father included, who do not consider the needs of the people - he is firmly aware that it’s the people, rather than the ruler or the doctrine, that make the empire, after all. The people make the world.
Doubtlessly, some of this is carefully orchestrated - it serves Schneizel best to be protrayed in such a way. However, it is not a masquerade he’s putting on for those around them - Schneizel cares about people, about the lives they live, their welfare, their safety: his goals are all staged upon creating peace in the world. The second prince of the Holy Britannian Empire possesses warmth, certainly.
The matter is simply that Schneizel can be that cold, and will be without any kind of regret or guilt. Because ultimately, Schneizel understands that everyone is another pawn, another part of the game. But it's all anything but a game, and unlike many in his place, Schneizel understands that too. In fact, he knows that he is as much a pawn as anyone else, to the point where, if it comes to it, he will allow himself to suffer along with the rest for the greater good. Though the battlefield for him is distant lights and flickering words and shapes on a screen - so easy to lose sight of what’s really happening out there - Schneizel is a man who refuses to allow himself that respite. Without guilt though he may be, he insists on holding the burden of what it is he does, what he commands to be done, what he will do in the future. As he sees it, if he did not possess such a thing, he would not be fit to lead or rule. Capable of distancing himself as he is, he cannot see the people around him, the people beneath him, as anything less than people. That would be, beyond all else, completely counter-productive in achieving all he wants to achieve, and being the man he must be for such achievements. He moves, not through his own desires, not through what he wishes for himself, but for the world. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and the greater good is something to be attained at all costs.
Exacting such plans - for Schneizel plans, and plots, and calculates constantly, assessing and preparing - requires power, a great deal of it, and sometimes more than even Schneizel possesses. But the drive to attain more is not simple megalomania - once again, Schneizel’s ambitions are not to further his own place. He seeks to become emperor, not out of a lust to rule, but because that is simply the position he must be in to have that power. In fact, when told that only a god possesses the power needed for those plans of his - so carefully constructed - to be realized, Schneizel concedes that he must then become as a god.
But not because he wants to be worshipped. Not because he has a craving to be followed. It’s simply a case of the end justifying the means.
Everything is, to the Second Prince, means to an end. And those means will be executed ruthlessly, without hesitation, even if it means, for example, shooting down a very dear sister, or releasing a terrible warhead.
So yes, he can certainly be cold. He is a man of conviction, but not passion. Drive, but not ambition. Callous, but not for cruelty.
And for that drive and those convictions, he is well equipped to excel. Schneizel is a master of organization and planning. He's renowned for it, for being a man who doesn't simply make grandiose plots but is able to follow them through to the end. He makes good on promises and is determined and devoted, highly driven when needs be, able to keep a level-head and calculate things far in advance with reason and rationality. Schneizel plays to win and he can be ruthless, certainly - but never unnecessarily so. It's said at one point that in other circumstances, Schneizel would make an excellent leader, and it's true that he has all the necessary qualities in abundance. But the stipulation is that Schneizel would make the perfect leader in a more peaceful world, rather than the strife-stricken one he knows.
As a strategist, he is regarded as second to none, at least on par with Zero (albeit working in a rather different way). He was responsible for the empire claiming a great deal more territory, after all, ridding them of opposition. However, Schneizel is not entirely ruthless in such aspects. Where others - his sister, for example - believe that the spirit of a country should be crushed entirely, Schneizel sees the value in giving them chance and hope. He understands that these things are vital to the people, and it is, ultimately, the people that matter.
Yet it's Schneizel's belief that such things as hope are but 'aimless fiction', fabrications to give meaning to life, to events, to feelings. It's therein that Schneizel finds the value in it - these things are needed to others, if not to himself. Perhaps he could be considered a little inhuman himself, being devoid of such things - but thanks to that, he is utterly impartial. Just. Logical. Schneizel balances the qualities of the people's prince and the prince for the people perfectly, warm and cold at once, able to give with one hand and take with the other, provided it's for the greater good.
And that’s what's important, isn't it? His Highness utterly embodies noblesse oblige, and in his mind, the ruler is the greatest servant of all, and it is with this in mind that he makes every move on the board.
As the second prince and Prime Minister, Schneizel was widely known and, it seems, held in high regard. He can be quiet, pensive, a little distant, but winning hearts and minds is a feat as easy as breathing to Schneizel, his quiet intelligence, wisdom, and flawless composure inspiring awe in those around him. He is kind, courteous, and charming, possessing an endless font of charisma that those around him seem honoured to drink from. He appears patient, understanding, with a soft smile and impeccable manners.
He is, simply put, likeable, and past the calculations, past the plans and the greater good, that is what people see. It's only befitting, of course - the prince appears as one of those rare, near-perfect types, who would genuinely use all those skills of his to better things. He treats his subordinates almost as though they were equals, the commoners with the same unfaltering respect and warmth that he does the nobility. Because he does genuinely value them - the people are, remember, the most important part of a nation. They are the world, and the world is everything.
ORIENTATION:Asexual. This doesn’t mean Schneizel has any aversion to sex - in that regard, he can be quite opportunistic if needs be. It’s part and parcel of being the beloved prince that he’s flirtatious and charming, after all, which he demonstrates often. He has to make all the right impressions. If it’s offered to him, he may well take it up. However, the fact remains that Schneizel could easily go without. It’s not something he really thinks about anymore. It, as everything else has become, is merely a means to an end. Though women tend to be the recipients of his shameless :| flirting and his brother notes with surprise that he’d never expected Schneizel to “keep the company of just one woman”, it’s unlikely that gender matters to him. That’s simply part of a role to play.
ABILITIES:As an ordinary human, Schneizel's real strength lies in his mind, in his incredible intellect and ability to strategize, prepare, and direct. That's the most daunting ability, and one he knows how to wield - masterfully. As fighters go, however, he's not the most formidable force. He is an able fencer, though better with a handgun. He's capable in hand-to-hand combat, certainly - presumably he's had some military training and can also pilot a KMF to some degree. A lack of personal experience in the field lets him down - men die at his word, not at his hand.
In more 'mundane' matters, he can play piano, ride horses, and can be fairly athletic, though in recent years he's had little practise of such. Notably, he's never lost a game of chess.