"I've wanted to die, or at least get rid of this damn immortality... but now it's different."
―Cera
Cera, formerly known as C.C is a major character of the fanfic series Code Prime. She is an immortal woman who gives Optimus Prime and Lelouch vi Britannia their Geass, she was originally an aloof ally to the duo, she learned to grow from being the cynical immortal who lived without a family into an hopeful heroine.
Appearance[]
Cera is a slender, fair skinned girl with long, almost waist-length light green hair and golden eyes. She is of average height, being slightly shorter than Kallen. She has a scar under her left breast that resembles a Geass sigil.
Cera's outfits are both plentiful and varied. She is seen wearing a wide assortment of different clothes, often dependent on the situation or the time period. She often wears Lelouch's own clothes, including his Zero costume whenever Lelouch required a decoy.
In R1, Cera primarily wears the outfit she initially appears in - a white straitjacket used to restrain her during her time as a test subject for the Britannian Empire, prior to the beginning of the series. These suits contain many means of restraint, including various straps and zippers, and a high collar capable of gagging the wearer. Not set to fully bind the wearer, the suits have rather long sleeves that flare outwards closer to the cuffs. A number of these straitjackets are seen in the Geass research laboratories. She is seen wearing it through most of R1 but ditches it in R2 after the timeskip.
Her predominant outfit in R2 is her Black Knights uniform, which is wildly different from those of the other Black Knights. Rather than the usual Black Knights jacket, Cera wears a sleeveless black uniform with a high collar, gold trim, and a silver Black Knights symbol on the chest. The lower end of the uniform splits off into four long pieces that nearly extend to the floor. A long, adorned red sash is also worn around the waist. She also wears long black gloves with gold trim kept on with red bands on the upper arms as well as long white and gold high-heeled boots. Underneath her uniform is a cropped sleeveless white turtle-neck and white boyshorts. She is often seen wearing only these undergarments.
She has on some points in the story worn the Ashford Academy uniform and has her hair tied in twin-tails. This is done to slightly blend in with the student body so she can move around more freely, to pass messages to Lelouch or just to simply find more pizza.
Personality[]
Cera started out as a cynical woman who didn't think the Autobots had the gall to battle against their more powerful enemies. But after spending time with Optimus and the others lightened her mindset to someone who's willing to help them achieve their view of an idealistic future for all. This was further amplified with how she became a victim of Megatron's Dark Geass, wherein she ultimately calls the Decepticon leader a vicious monster. By R2, she's truly on the same page as the heroes with regards to her dream of a better future with her new family.
While she did try to be professional with Lelouch but later failed as she began to saw him as a son or brother, she was also much more open about wanting to keep Nunnally happy like a daughter or little sister as well. In fact, after Megatron reveals their mother's involvement in Ragnarok as a secret Cera had kept, their first breather is her apologizing for not being truthful. And when Nunnally calls her family, it breaks Cera's last wall of separation, as she breaks down telling Nunnally how much she loves her. And despite keeping it professional like Lelouch and the tensions between them since the first time they met, she began to have a close relationship with Optimus who she became loyal and dedicated to after he brought hope back into her life.
Cera may have acted like she's incapable of showing emotion, but cracks show in her façade. For one, even she is stunned and then gives an impressed smirk upon watching Optimus defeat Cornelia with little effort. This keeps happening with her continued appearances, so that by her last scene in R1, she's gleefully sharing with Optimus about her presentation to the Primes.
Character History[]
Abilities[]
Telepathy[]
Cera can telepathically communicate with Marianne vi Britannia. Whether this is an ability resulting from her Code, Marianne's Geass, or even Marianne's state of un-death (and, as a result, being "near" the Collective Unconscious) is unknown.
Immortality Code[]
Cera is an immortal "witch", neither suffering from age nor capable of being killed by conventional means. She has been shot fatally a number of times, been crushed by water pressure, burned at the stake, subjected to the guillotine, placed in an iron maiden, and stabbed by spears all of which she recovered from, but still suffers the pain.
She has the ability to bestow people with the power of Geass, which manifests differently in each person but generally carries the ability to affect the minds of those it is used on in some way. The Geass sigil glows on her forehead whenever she manifests this power, and she has a similar scar on her left breast. This scar correlates with the wound she received when she was attacked by the nun that gave her the Code.
Her Code allows her to detect people who are connected to Geass and people who are important to them. It allows her to detect the location of her own contractors, even at a distance, and confirm who possesses a Geass power and who does not, regardless of whom granted it to them. Such case being when she could detect multiple Geasses during their first encounter with Shin and Steeljaw, and figured out that Marrybell had one as well as Shin, and figured out that Akito was affected by a geass.
When in close proximity to another person, Cera can afflict them with a hallucinatory experience of chaotic and ominous images, pertaining in part to the memories of the target involved; the content varies with the afflicted. Physical contact, either directly or via a Knightmare Frame, may facilitate the process. Suzaku is shown images of his father (whom he murdered) as well as parts of her memories, driving him into a panic; It can also affect Cybertronians as well shown when Bumblebee tried to grab her and Lelouch but ended up seeing her memories.
Relationships[]
Lelouch vi Britannia[]
Nunnally vi Britannia[]
Optimus Prime[]
Her friend and the one who brought hope back into her life.