“	The people for me, and I for the people.	”
—Shalio

Shalio (シャリオ Shario) is the secondary antagonist in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection. He is the King of Zilkhstan, and Shamna’s younger brother. Even though he’s disabled, he’s very talented at piloting his Knightmare Frame.

Appearance

Shalio is a relatively young man with blonde hair and light blue eyes that lack pupils. He possesses extremely poor health with a heavily scarred body, and is permanently wheelchair-bound because of his atrophied legs. Due to his poor vision, he always carries a visor that he depends on to help him see, since without it everything appears blurry and blue. When losing his composure, he begins weeping blood.

Personality

An incredibly arrogant warrior with a penchant for showmanship, Shalio's reliance on his sister has led to him being incredibly confident when she is assisting him, but without her, he begins to fall apart. Much like his sister, he is incredibly cold to those around him but still seems to believe that they are the thing that he fights for.

Shalio displays an obsessive desire to become the ultimate warrior. This leads to his obsession with Suzaku, sadistically torturing him with an Urumi and copying Suzaku's fighting techniques. Due to the poor health of his own body, he feels most alive while piloting his Knightmare, and hence considers Nagid Shu Mane to be an extension of his own body, if not his true body.

Despite these darker aspects, Shalio bears a genuine desire to care for his kingdom's wellbeing, repeatedly reminding himself of his duty to his people.

Abilities

Despite being disabled and in poor health, Shalio is the best knightmare frame pilot in the Kingdom of Zilkhstan, even Kallen and Suzaku recognized his strength.

Shalio was a such a skilled fighter that using his Nagid Shu Mane he was able to defeat an entire unit armed with knightmare (consisted of sutherland and burai) and was able to confront Suzaku, a confrontation in which Suzaku with great difficulty was able to defeat Shalio using his live command.

Outside of a Knightmare, Shalio is very skilled with the use of Urumi.

Trivia

• Shalio is a sort of distorted reflection of Nunnally vi Britannia:
  • They are both royalty and have a doting older sibling who loves them more than anything else and they love just as much.
  • Their older sibling also has a powerful Geass and a corrupted Code. 
  • They are also both wheelchair-bound and have a history of sight impairment.
  • While both care deeply for their own people, but where Nunnally is empathetic to a fault and almost unfailingly kind, Shalio is brutal and sadistic and single-minded.
• In Super Robot Wars Shalio always survives his initial death in the Code Geass Resurrection final mission and live the fight the main group multiple times before finally being killed close to the end game. In each series Shalio would always align himself with a enemy faction in 30 he would align himself is the Claw from Gun X Sword while in Y he would align himself with the original antagonist NOAHS the military branch of the Pan-Stellar Empire Ra Val alongside Bistool.

Quotes

• To Suzaku Kururugi
  • "You wouldn't choose death except to protect someone. That's all the data we've figured out so far."
  • "Suzaku Kururugi, all of your strength shall be mine!"

• "How many people have suffered to allow me to maintain my body?"

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