Code
Code noun - A collection or system of rules of conduct.
Virtue
Virtue noun - A quality that gives something special worth.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Lewis that by doing away with a virtuous code, we pick one virtue and raise it above the others as alternate forms of morality.
Source: Analysis / Pony POV Series - Can't go on without them (it would "destroy his virtue") so, "true to his code, he returns to their rescue." He might have to battle the Lord of Hell himself.
Source: Structural Archetypes -
Its implied in episode 20 of Code Geass R2, and confirmed in the subsequent episode, that Empress Marianne is Lelouch's broken pedestal, by virtue of being complicit in her husband's Assimilation Plot and abandoning Lelouch and Nunnally for years, among other things.
Source: Broken Pedestal
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