Talk:Shirley Fenette/@comment-108.50.199.150-20181107163529

Shirley being alive is something of an issue for me... she was the example of how twisted and screwed up the Britainnian empire is. She was basically one of the only normal people in Lelouche's life. And we're shown that she is a pretty average teenage girl. However, when she's handed a chance for revenge on a silver platter, she picks up the gun and almost pulls the trigger. What kind of normal teenage girl would do that? The kind that's been raised under Britannian standards. When an average teenage girl's first impulse in that situation is to shoot someone to take revenge, you KNOW something is screwed up. The series of events that leads to her death illustrate how completely insane and twisted their world is. I know a lot of people are polarized over her, but I think her character arc really just perfectly and powerfully drives home how twisted and f**cked up their world is.