C.C.

"If I grant you power, could you go on? I propose a deal—in exchange for this power, you must agree to make my one wish come true. Accept this contract, and you accept its conditions. While living in the world of humans, you will live unlike any other: a different providence, a different time, a different life. The Power of the King will condemn you to a life of solitude. Are you prepared for this?"

- C.C. to Lelouch.

"Lelouch, do you know why snow is white? Snow is white because it's forgotten what color it's supposed to be."

- C.C.

C.C. (pronounced "C2") is the tritagonist of the anime/manga series Code Geass. She is an immortal woman and the former leader of the Geass Order that abandons the order and allies herself with Lelouch vi Britannia, granting him his Geass power and becoming his right-hand.

She is voiced by Yukana Nogami in Japanese, and Kate Higgins in the English dub.

Past
As a child, C.C. was a slave subjected to brutal beatings and ceaseless work and pain. She eventually ran away, and stumbled upon a Catholic church and was taken in by a nun. The nun asks her what she wants, and C.C. replies that she does not want to die. The nun actually carries Geass, and makes a contract with C.C., giving her the Geass power to make everyone love her.

As the years went by, C.C. was adored by all around her and was constantly given gifts and treats. When she was old enough, she began receiving marriage proposals daily from every man she knew. As her Geass powers grew stronger and she matured, she began to become tired of the gifts and approval, seeing all of them as meaningless relationships. The only relationship she thought was genuine was between her and the nun, and treasured it. However, after a day of ceaseless marriage proposals and even being stripped naked by her would-be suitors, C.C. expressed her dismay to the nun, who revealed that the whole time, she was just using C.C. to fulfill the contract and have C.C. take her place as an immortal so she could finally die. The nun injured C.C., scarring her while also making her immortal. Mortality returned to the nun, and the nun took her own life and left C.C. as an immortal.

C.C., feeling betrayed, shut herself off from the world and refused to form any relationships. She existed throughout mankind's history, and was often considered a witch due to her immortality and ability to recover from normally fatal wounds. During her travels, she came across a six year old orphan named Mao. She granted him the Geass to read others' minds, and he grew under her until he fell in love with her. However, knowing that he was not the one to free her from her immortality, she left him.

C.C. traveled to Britania and forged a relationship with the Britannian Imperial Family, later becoming involved with the Geass Order, which was a group on Earth that was responsible for giving people Geass, and eventually worked her way up to the leader. She granted Marianne vi Britannia the Geass to transfer her consciousness, but after her "assassination", she left the Geass Order. However, this was not taken well by the new leaders of the Geass Order, V.V. and Charles zi Britannia.

Meeting Lelouch
After defecting from the Geass Order, C.C. was captured by Bartley Asprius and the Britanian military, who attempted to study her and figure out her powers. However, her containment pod was stolen by terrorists attempting to use her as a weapon. In the chaos, the son of Charles zi Britannia and Marianne vi Britannia, Lelouch vi Britannia (who was hidden and under the alias Lelouch Lamperouge) accidentally ended up on the terrorists' truck. The truck was taken down by Asprius and Lelouch's friend Suzaku Kururugi, who planned to recapture C.C. and execute Lelouch. After a brief chase, C.C. shielded Lelouch from the bullets, then made a contract with him, granting him the Geass to control minds with eye contact. She fell unconscious, and Lelouch used his new power to make the soldiers kill themselves, as well as controlled Villetta Nu into giving him her Knightmare Frame. Assuming C.C. was dead, Lelouch left her behind to aid the terrorists in defeating the Britannian forces and protecting the people the latter were executing.

Lelouch takes on the alias of Zero, and founds a rebellion against Britannia called the Black Nights. However, C.C., being immortal, wakes up and searches for Lelouch, eventually finding him at his home at the Ashford Academy where he lived with his sister Nunnally.

Trivia

 * In the 29th Anime Grand Prix, she was awarded 3rd place. She was chosen as the most popular female character of 2007 and 2008 at Animage magazine's annual Anime Grand Prix.