According to this website:http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/subway/4346/anime/boku.html, "ore" is an almost exclusively male, somewhat rude, "cool" pronoun for "I" or "me", "boku" is mostly young male for "I" or "me", and "watashi" is the standard and polite way to say "I" or "me".
Perhaps Lelouch uses "watashi" as Zero both to differentiate between his two personas and because "watashi", coming from a leader, is more pleasing to the ear of the public. Like, if a supposed hero doesn't respect you-he isn't polite when he talks to you, why should you respect him?
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Perhaps Lelouch uses "watashi" as Zero both to differentiate between his two personas and because "watashi", coming from a leader, is more pleasing to the ear of the public. Like, if a supposed hero doesn't respect you-he isn't polite when he talks to you, why should you respect him?
Or something. I'm just thinking out loud.