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In the beginning I assumed that it wasn't, however later when Suzaku forcibly
takes Lelouch to Charles, Lelouch for some reason notices, that the Emperor
also has Geass, which makes me wonder if there really is a sigil that is
visible.


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Is the bird sigil from Geass users visible?


**IIRC** , Geass is invisible and undetectable save for to other Geass users
and the beings that give the power of Geass to humans. I can't recall what
they are called.

This is further proven in R2 when has to deal with the guy who has the Geass
canceler. Again Lelouch and his brother Rolo were able to detect him.

I kind of watched a few episodes recently but I did watch both series some
time ago.


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No the geass symbol in the eye is not visible, otherwise it would be really
easy to identify such people. people would freak out if they same someone with
such a weird eye and that never happens.  
The one weird exception to this is Lelouch who reacted like he could see Mao's
geass symbol. Maybe other geass users can see it (unlikely) or maybe Lelouch
was just clever enough to understand it (most likely).

The red rings around the eyes of geassed people is similar, it's invisible for
the people in the show. That's because it's "non-diegetic" information, which
means it's information which only exists for the audience and isn't actually
part of the universe. Code Geass usues a lot of non-diegetic information, for
example the red sphere in which "time is stopped" by Rolo's geass, or the
sphere in which Jeremiah uses his geass, people can't see those either. Non-
diegetic information is very common and all storytelling sues that. The
easiest example is background music which tells the audience when a scene is
sad, romantic, scary ..., there's obviously no music playing for the
characters in the fiction itself.


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