EUPHEMIA LI BRITANNIA

is a fictional character of the Sunrise anime series, ''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion''. She is voiced by Omi Minami.

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The third princess of the Britannia Imperial Family. Lelouch's half-sister and innocent to a fault, she was the sister Lelouch cared most about after Nunnally. She used Clovis's death as an excuse to enter Area 11 and was known for loving and conversing with animals. After meeting Suzaku, she requested his assistance to prevent any unnecessary deaths around her. During the Lake Kawaguchi Convention Center Hotel incident, Lelouch (as Zero) noted that she had not changed since childhood and was not surprised to see her offering herself as a hostage in exchange for the safety of other people.
Euphemia was the Lieutenant-Governor of Area 11, a role she admittedly did not enjoy. She admired her older sister, Cornelia Li Britannia, but despised all combat in general. Her ideals conflicted with reality and put her in a situation similar to that of Suzaku Kururugi. This in turn influenced her decision of choosing Suzaku as her Knight. It was an action which caused Cornelia to worry that such ideals would get her sister into trouble. Cornelia warned Euphemia that the policy of discrimination against Honorary Britannians like Suzaku was so firmly-established that she might have to be exposed to the rigors and dangers of competing for the throne in order to challenge it. She, however, stuck to her decision of having him as her personal Knight. Later, Suzaku himself voluntarily stepped down due to his self-castigation on being arrested on the grounds of a shameful act of desertion during a significant battle with Zero. Euphemia eventually convinced him to rejoin her, while the latter was in another battle, by declaring her love for him. Euphemia was also capable of piloting a Knightmare Frame, as seen in the battle at the Empire's Shikinejima Island Base.
Euphemia was the second person in the royal family to know that Lelouch is alive and first to know his alter ego as Zero, having deduced it after the hotel hijacking incident. Euphemia was quite close to Lelouch and Nunnally in the past. Wishing to live those days once again, she declared the establishment of a Special Administration Region in Japan. Lelouch initially opposed this proposal, but Euphemia convinced him otherwise when she revealed that she was doing it for the sake of Nunnally and had abdicated her right to succeed the Britannian throne. When Lelouch jokingly ordered her to kill the Japanese people, his power of Geass had just permanently activated, unbeknown to him. Euphemia, at first, refused the order, stating that she did not wish to kill. This made her the first person to ever resist the Geass, however briefly. Under its influence, she and the Britannian army ended up massacring countless innocent people. Regretfully, Lelouch fatally shot her to end her rampage (whilst revealing that he may have considered Euphemia to be his first love) and she shared her last moments with Suzaku. Euphemia died believing that the Japanese people were happy with the Japan that she had created. Her death created a firm resolve in both Suzaku and Cornelia to defeat Zero once and for all. Precisely the situation she had wished to avoid.

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★ List of Code Geass characters