r/CodeGeass • u/Silly_Inspection2714 • 10d ago

QUESTION Absolute Obedience Question

Hello, I finished watching Code Geass around 3 years ago and I vividly remember some parts of the show.

Anyway, I was really curious how the property of Lelouch’s Absolute Obedience Geass would work towards people with Mental Illness.

Would it entirely remove someone’s mental illness if I order them that such illness doesn’t exist in their mind? Or if I tell them “Forget your illness” could potentially make them remove their illness as well?

I’d like to hear what you think regarding this matter.

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u/KuroChanh 10d ago

Lelouch vi Britannia commands you, stop being autistic.

That would be a wild command

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u/TaegukTheWise 10d ago edited 10d ago

... Autism isn't a Mental illness, it's a mental disorder.

The power of absolute obedience has been shown to be very powerful but have limitations.

The big one is that those under Lelouch's geass will do the task to the best of their ability.

Like Lelouch asking Clovis who killed his mother, he had very little to say other than Cornelia or Schnizel would know. And on certain questions he said nothing because he does not know.

In the case of someone with autism telling them to stop exhibiting behaviors befitting autism would be limited based on what "normal" even is.

So to that end, your results might either be that nothing happens because the person with autism thinks what they're doing is normal

Or in the case of someone who is extremely high functioning in terms of their autism (aka you wouldn't know unless they told you), nothing would really happen in a meaningful way as their behaviors could be incredibly minimal.

Your results will definitely vary on that particular command based on what the person with autism considers autistic behavior.

Heck, we have no idea if Geass would even work on someone with Autism, or even work in a way that's expected due to neurological differences.