On Stage 0 : It seems to be its own canon. Plus, Genbu said the order to kill LL and Nanaly didn't come from their father...I have no idea why he chose to kill her and not LL (he said he's not evil enough to kill both of them) but LL would be better as a bargaining chip, I suppose.
Emperor = Killer floated in my mind, but it's not the theory I adhere to at the moment. It doesn't answer the question of "Why Japan", for one thing. The Emperor would be happy to know Lelouch = Zero because, dang, his son has just upgraded from a pawn to [insert powerful chess piece here], but that's a bit of a risky, somewhat overly complicated plan. There is really no guarantee that they wouldn't be used against him, and I doubt even the Emperor expects 10-year-olds to prevail against those conditions. It would be just as easy to keep him and foment hatred, if that's what the Emperor ultimately wants.
I think the Emperor is a puppeteer in all this to some degree, and probably has more hand in LL's current events than he knows, and Lelouch is still really a pawn in someone's chess game. But him = Emperor? Not really.
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Emperor = Killer floated in my mind, but it's not the theory I adhere to at the moment. It doesn't answer the question of "Why Japan", for one thing. The Emperor would be happy to know Lelouch = Zero because, dang, his son has just upgraded from a pawn to [insert powerful chess piece here], but that's a bit of a risky, somewhat overly complicated plan. There is really no guarantee that they wouldn't be used against him, and I doubt even the Emperor expects 10-year-olds to prevail against those conditions. It would be just as easy to keep him and foment hatred, if that's what the Emperor ultimately wants.
I think the Emperor is a puppeteer in all this to some degree, and probably has more hand in LL's current events than he knows, and Lelouch is still really a pawn in someone's chess game. But him = Emperor? Not really.