Guuuh the sheer force of awesome. I have always admired your ability to get INSTANTLY into a character. You make it look effortless, damn you. I mean, from the moment you started playing Lelouch; from the moment you started playing Gino; from the moment you started playing Roxas and Allen and Orihime and...
There's just never a ROUGH PATCH. I don't know if this is because you analyze them in great detail before ever picking up a keyboard or what, but it's always there. The character is there, in force, from the moment you start, and they are perfect. :|
Allen is Allen from his bitchy sparkles to his saddest, most suicidal smile. Roxas is Roxas, EVEN THOUGH you started playing him before we knew he was made of moefluff. I love how much like a fourteen-year-old boy he sounds, even at his sternest and his most retarded bubble-baby-est. I can hear their voices. (And in terms of Allen, not his terrible anime voice either!)
Lelouch is Lelouch, and this is the really hard one, because there is so much of Lelouch to be. But you have the gentleness, the woundedness, the lying schoolboy smiles, and still that skirting-the-edge-of-CRAZY thing he has going on. When the paranoia leaks through, when things REALLY don't go his way... you can see it.
Guh this is too long! GINO. HE'S ANOTHER CHARACTER YOU PICKED UP LIKE YOU WEREN'T EVEN TRYING. And he's great, especially for a character with relatively little canon. All we've got is these little hints and I think you're doing a great job at keeping the hints balanced so that it doesn't feel like we're learning way more about him than we should be. And Orihime is just -- Orihime, I love and miss her. FUUMA I HARDLY KNEW, BUT AGAIN I FEEL LIKE YOU JUST PICKED HIM UP AND RAN WITH IT