Lelouch is obviously still very attached to Euphie to me. He can't kill her during the hotel-jacking though he did have time. Despite the fact you can interpret his eventual killing of Euphie as a mercy killing even (because she became the antithesis of all that she wanted to be) Lelouch does feel guilt over it vs. Lelouch doesn't seem to show a jot of guilt over murdering Clovis.
I think by the last episode Suzaku is not going to believe Lelouch anymore. I don't think he could have explained at that point and a part of me thinks he is also that Lelouch refuses to show weakness. He doesn't want Suzaku (and Kallen) to know he could make a mistake. That this was not all some huge plot he had all figured out.
I think Suzaku, even when he was a kid was a relatively nice person. Was he rude when Lelouch and Nannally first came to live with him, yes, but I think most 10 years would be a little resentful to suddenly have some strange prince and princess coming into their lives like that. It's clear that before the invasion, Lelouch and Suzaku had become friends, they had a secret meet me on the roof signal, and Suzaku helps Lelouch up the hill and won't leave him behind.
I admit, I get sick of people harping on what a "hypocrite" Suzaku is particularly in regards to the murder of his father. He's 10 years old, they were fighting and it was an accident. Except in that one version of it where he murders his father because his father plans to murder his two best friends This is not a premeditated murder, this wasn't even an intentional murder and he is 10. ~.~ Suzaku's not a hypocrite, he's just not a single note character and is in fact a bundle of contradictions. Suzaku has intense guilt, because whether it was an accident or not he killed his father and maybe if he hadn't Japan would not be subjugated as it now is. Unlike Lelouch (who one could argue just as easily is a hypocrite) he does actually care about the Japanese people. I think that one flashback where we see the two boys walking through the field of dead Japanese is very telling, both about the guilt Suzaku feels and what has made him the person he is in Geass.
Personally, if people want to find another character in a series to compare Suzaku to, the character he is MOST like to me is Sumeragi Subaru.
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I think by the last episode Suzaku is not going to believe Lelouch anymore. I don't think he could have explained at that point and a part of me thinks he is also that Lelouch refuses to show weakness. He doesn't want Suzaku (and Kallen) to know he could make a mistake. That this was not all some huge plot he had all figured out.
I think Suzaku, even when he was a kid was a relatively nice person. Was he rude when Lelouch and Nannally first came to live with him, yes, but I think most 10 years would be a little resentful to suddenly have some strange prince and princess coming into their lives like that. It's clear that before the invasion, Lelouch and Suzaku had become friends, they had a secret meet me on the roof signal, and Suzaku helps Lelouch up the hill and won't leave him behind.
I admit, I get sick of people harping on what a "hypocrite" Suzaku is particularly in regards to the murder of his father. He's 10 years old, they were fighting and it was an accident.
Except in that one version of it where he murders his father because his father plans to murder his two best friendsThis is not a premeditated murder, this wasn't even an intentional murder and he is 10. ~.~ Suzaku's not a hypocrite, he's just not a single note character and is in fact a bundle of contradictions. Suzaku has intense guilt, because whether it was an accident or not he killed his father and maybe if he hadn't Japan would not be subjugated as it now is. Unlike Lelouch (who one could argue just as easily is a hypocrite) he does actually care about the Japanese people. I think that one flashback where we see the two boys walking through the field of dead Japanese is very telling, both about the guilt Suzaku feels and what has made him the person he is in Geass.Personally, if people want to find another character in a series to compare Suzaku to, the character he is MOST like to me is Sumeragi Subaru.