Wouldn't it be just as sensible for him to create some pretext to execute Marianne and exile Lelouch, if he wanted Lelouch to hate him?
Exactly my train of thought. Considering the great 'emperors' - and we got just a taste of the Britannian royal history in one of the translated dvd extras - considering the great kings and emperors in history (said tongue in cheek) never seemed to have problems executing their wives, it seems unlikely that the emperor would stage a terrorist attack to kill his wife, which in my opinion, makes him/Britannia look weak, when he could just go: Off with her head. And execute her.
Eh, my crackpot theory right now is that the old guy who is financing the rebellion had a hand in Marianne's death, and there was more to what he said about the "seed."
I think it's Kirihara, as well. And the relationship chart on the site has added him and his crazy-looking self.
There's a reason he had the history he did. He's tied to covering up the murder of Prime Minister Kurugi, he's characterized as someone who pretends to bow down to power while secretly plotting to overthrow that power. He's tied to the sakuradite mining...
If he was that close to Kururugi as well, isn't it possible the Emperor was told (prior to the invasion of Japan) that his children had been killed? Thus the vengeful desire to stomp Japan into the ground instead of surgically strike and replace the government in charge of the Sakuradite - and why bother to send children as hostages in the first place when it's supposed to be the sign of a 'truce' if there was no intention of honoring it?
Anyway. I'm not expecting any of my theories to pan out as I don't wish to be disappointed. But, I think it would be a really fun twist.
~Rose
PS - I'm glad I'm not the only one who suspects Kirihara. :D
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Exactly my train of thought. Considering the great 'emperors' - and we got just a taste of the Britannian royal history in one of the translated dvd extras - considering the great kings and emperors in history (said tongue in cheek) never seemed to have problems executing their wives, it seems unlikely that the emperor would stage a terrorist attack to kill his wife, which in my opinion, makes him/Britannia look weak, when he could just go: Off with her head. And execute her.
Eh, my crackpot theory right now is that the old guy who is financing the rebellion had a hand in Marianne's death, and there was more to what he said about the "seed."
I think it's Kirihara, as well. And the relationship chart on the site has added him and his crazy-looking self.
There's a reason he had the history he did. He's tied to covering up the murder of Prime Minister Kurugi, he's characterized as someone who pretends to bow down to power while secretly plotting to overthrow that power. He's tied to the sakuradite mining...
If he was that close to Kururugi as well, isn't it possible the Emperor was told (prior to the invasion of Japan) that his children had been killed? Thus the vengeful desire to stomp Japan into the ground instead of surgically strike and replace the government in charge of the Sakuradite - and why bother to send children as hostages in the first place when it's supposed to be the sign of a 'truce' if there was no intention of honoring it?
Anyway. I'm not expecting any of my theories to pan out as I don't wish to be disappointed. But, I think it would be a really fun twist.
~Rose
PS - I'm glad I'm not the only one who suspects Kirihara. :D