episode 5 was hilarious

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under a cut... might have spoilers


ROFL. I love you Lelouch. Slow as always. Okay anyways, that was rather shady of Suzaku to use Nunally against Lelouch. I'm starting to dislike him after I just started liking him, o_O. Suzaku plans on getting Knight of One? I want him to die trying, lol. But anyways, I think Nunally will end up dead one day and Lelouch will pull a Suzaku. Just my opinion.

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Re: Hmmmm

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I think people get confused about Suzaku because they start from the assumption that he is, at this moment, cool-headed and perfectly rational. I do think that he's rational, in that everything he does he does for a purpose. The problem is, everything he does is also highly emotionally tinted. I believe that latent anger and resentment for Euphie's fate may drive him to do things that a perfectly "normal" Suzaku wouldn't do.

The caveat is, of course, what is Suzaku truly like? Have we seen him? He's spent 7 years going crazy and the past year being devious. Should we say his true self is how he was prior to the invasion and patricide? But he's done a lot of maturing since then. We don't get to hear his thoughts, so all we are privy to are his actions. But, taking him as the sum of his actions is also doing a huge disservice to his character, as his motivations say far more about him. And if we try to examine his motivations, all we can tell is that he's a fiercely emotional person, whose heart is in the right place but who is prone to stray from the objectively "right path".

TL;DR: I think that his latent anger at Lelouch and incredibly strong attachment to Euphie (and their mutual goals) are overriding what would have held him back otherwise. It's emotional, and it's kinda a shitty thing to do, but it makes sense.