He's also more prone to act on his emotions than logic. He is, first of all, riding an emotional roller coaster 24/7 - happens when your sister's blind and crippled and you really want to kill your father. (Which is why it's interesting, R2 Ep 1. when he has neither of those, how calm and /bored/ he is.) We see this with Shirley - logically, to Geass the person you love into forgetting you, and losing the protection that you may have had into her /not/ telling others that you were Zero, isn't quite sound. Comparison to Raito here. Raito would've easily taken Shirley, and used her into a chess piece. Raito is also...insane. SO moving on. He geassed her, because he harboured strong feelings for her, and wanted her to live happily. I don't think he even considered that there were better options at that moment.
But then we have Euphie. I think, at that point, he had quite honestly lost it. He hadn't wanted to Geass her. But a Geass with such a command and such a result? That's hard to take. Here, I'm torn three ways. One is that he did it because she wouldn't have been able to live with herself afterwards. Another is that he was thinking that he could use her sacrifice - It had already gone past a point of no return, he would not waste her life. Or maybe, as has been said so many times already, power corrupts. But again, I don't think he was thinking when he did it. He had conflicted interests - Euphie, and Nunally. He acted on instinct, on his immediate reactions. But maybe I should go and rewatch those episodes before I talk, because I'm certain details have gone fuzzy. But after this whole thing, he goes and cries (to/with) C.C. Maybe he's growing up here - he's slowly realising that life is not just a game of chess - it's a game of chess with sacrifices that /hurt/. It's not chess, where if you must sacrifice even a queen for checkmate (Which I would like to see as the season end~) it doesn't hurt you. You've won, and that's that.
And...I have rambled. Of course, I'm also looking at this from an immature point of view, since I'm really not the most...mature person.
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He's also more prone to act on his emotions than logic. He is, first of all, riding an emotional roller coaster 24/7 - happens when your sister's blind and crippled and you really want to kill your father. (Which is why it's interesting, R2 Ep 1. when he has neither of those, how calm and /bored/ he is.) We see this with Shirley - logically, to Geass the person you love into forgetting you, and losing the protection that you may have had into her /not/ telling others that you were Zero, isn't quite sound. Comparison to Raito here. Raito would've easily taken Shirley, and used her into a chess piece. Raito is also...insane. SO moving on. He geassed her, because he harboured strong feelings for her, and wanted her to live happily. I don't think he even considered that there were better options at that moment.
But then we have Euphie. I think, at that point, he had quite honestly lost it. He hadn't wanted to Geass her. But a Geass with such a command and such a result? That's hard to take. Here, I'm torn three ways. One is that he did it because she wouldn't have been able to live with herself afterwards. Another is that he was thinking that he could use her sacrifice - It had already gone past a point of no return, he would not waste her life. Or maybe, as has been said so many times already, power corrupts.
But again, I don't think he was thinking when he did it. He had conflicted interests - Euphie, and Nunally. He acted on instinct, on his immediate reactions. But maybe I should go and rewatch those episodes before I talk, because I'm certain details have gone fuzzy. But after this whole thing, he goes and cries (to/with) C.C. Maybe he's growing up here - he's slowly realising that life is not just a game of chess - it's a game of chess with sacrifices that /hurt/. It's not chess, where if you must sacrifice even a queen for checkmate (Which I would like to see as the season end~) it doesn't hurt you. You've won, and that's that.
And...I have rambled. Of course, I'm also looking at this from an immature point of view, since I'm really not the most...mature person.