Ahhhh, I did mean getting the Picture Book. XD; But good luck!
Going between the various canon shoot-offs makes my head spin, since none of them seem to have a unified idea of What Actually Happened with the murder. Kind of works to heighten the mystery behind it, really, but it's still exhausting at times.
Mmm, you're right there. There are a handful of people that Lelouch will protect with his life, and those who he could care less about sacrificing. But Clovis, while certainly not his closest sibling, is still family and does represent that initial "I'm not going to show that I feel the least bit bad about this" with his statement that he's still "too weak" to handle it. And it foreshadows how he brings back that mentality for a much more traumatizing scenario—namely, Euphie's massacre.
I-I agree. It seems like he spent seven years regretting it without anyone to turn to, at least that we know of. It's no wonder that he ended up as wracked with guilt as he is now. Not to mention he's said outright that he hates himself and that he knows that he's locked himself in an endless, often hypocritical struggle for redemption. I see it as he's so terrified of doing the wrong thing again that he doesn't want to do anything that could be ambiguous. Which accounts for his very black and white view of What is Right and What is Wrong. Simple, but stable. . . or, at least it seemed that way to him.
Re: Some mighty big claims you got there
Going between the various canon shoot-offs makes my head spin, since none of them seem to have a unified idea of What Actually Happened with the murder. Kind of works to heighten the mystery behind it, really, but it's still exhausting at times.
Mmm, you're right there. There are a handful of people that Lelouch will protect with his life, and those who he could care less about sacrificing. But Clovis, while certainly not his closest sibling, is still family and does represent that initial "I'm not going to show that I feel the least bit bad about this" with his statement that he's still "too weak" to handle it. And it foreshadows how he brings back that mentality for a much more traumatizing scenario—namely, Euphie's massacre.
I-I agree. It seems like he spent seven years regretting it without anyone to turn to, at least that we know of. It's no wonder that he ended up as wracked with guilt as he is now. Not to mention he's said outright that he hates himself and that he knows that he's locked himself in an endless, often hypocritical struggle for redemption. I see it as he's so terrified of doing the wrong thing again that he doesn't want to do anything that could be ambiguous. Which accounts for his very black and white view of What is Right and What is Wrong. Simple, but stable. . . or, at least it seemed that way to him.