Jack O'Neill
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There are so many ways to interpret the relationship between Lelouch and Nunnally, really.
Also, all this time, and none of you even bothered to comment on the theory that Charles Di Britannia is actually trying to groom Lelouch into his ideal successor, and the events that go down throughout the show are all just a part of it? Just for the hell of it, I'll post it again:
Also, all this time, and none of you even bothered to comment on the theory that Charles Di Britannia is actually trying to groom Lelouch into his ideal successor, and the events that go down throughout the show are all just a part of it? Just for the hell of it, I'll post it again:
Television Tropes and Idioms said:The Emperor is obviously enamored with strength, and, as he's the strongest fellow around, he's enamored with himself as well. It seems natural that a man of such standards and such ego would care deeply about his legacy; he wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than the perfect heir, a person as powerful, as ruthless, as similar to himself as possible.
But the traditional line of succession is based on birth order, not strength, and the prescribed crown prince is something of a wimp. Schneizel's too honorable, Clovis is a fop, Cornelia's not usually bright outside of combat, and the less said of Euphemia, the better. You had to go down seventeen rungs before you got to young Lelouch, a willful chessmaster almost as sociopathic as his dad - almost, but not quite. He was the closest to ideal, but there was no way that the traditional system would get him anywhere the throne.
So the Emperor kicked the kid out of the system, by arranging (or staging) Marianne's death, rendering Nunnally an invalid, and publicly disowning Lelouch, who thus grows up to be both self-reliant and extremely angry. When he gets older and achieves the fullness of his natural genius, he "coincidentally" receives Geass powers like his father's. Dad and lad!
If all goes to plan, Lelouch's obsession with revenge will lead him to master his powers, shed those last few moral scruples, and take the Britannian throne by main force. Then the Emperor can die happy in the knowledge that an appropriately magnificent bastard will pick up where he left off.