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I desire Tomorrow!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: As far away from reality as possible
Age: 41
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People probably want peace, but they'd have peace with either Charles, Schneizer or Lelouch. Lelouch adopted Schneizer's way and used it to the extremes to become as hated as possible, then replaced himself with another figurehead, Zerozaku. The only difference to the result that I am aware of is that people THINK they can choose, when in reality, Lelouch planned it so they'd choose exactly what he wanted. He hardly gave them a choice, only a delusion of freedom. The world still moves by his own wishes. That the world can no longer perceive that is irrelevant to the result at hand. That no Geass is used hardly makes it that much different (Oh wait... Schneizer is still Geassed... Yeah, no Geass...choice...). Lelouch did create a world that Nunnally could smile in, a world like Euphie wanted, so all the sacrifices make sense for Lelouch. He didn't care how many he had to kill, as he didn't before, he gave a world to Nunnally, as was his initial wish. If he did it so that the world had a choice, all those who got killed indeed hardly had a choice, to actually consider him a martyr is ridiculous, and to consider his death a just atonement for who knows how many people, who had to die for him to become the most hated tyrant ever, is giving that too much and undue credit.
Doing it so that people can forget Euphie's incident is also something Lelouch would have done, but in this case, he's giving the world even more death to erase the past from their memories. Going down the path of evil to honor and cleanse a friend's memory or creating a world for a loved one to live in happiness is human, and many will sympathize with it, but it's hardly as noble as people make it seem. To actually consider him a Messiah, who sacrificed himself to give the world a false sense of choice, and died for atonement after he plunged the world in despair and massacre... How's that so noble that him being alive is a crime? Because he willingly sacrificed countless lives including his own for a better world? I don't argue about his, but did he ask whether all those people wanted to die for his "Zero Requiem", for this so called "freedom of choice" he gave "selflessly" to the world? When he was first made emperor, Lelouch could have allowed the world to see his good face and not openly provoke everyone if he so desired peace, join the UFN on mutually agreed terms and make a world Nunnally and Euphie would have approved, without ever having to use Damocles, and leaving Schneizer as the sole enemy of everyone, should he had chosen to keep a stance against Lelouch. Sure, he was mistrusted because of the Geass, but that could have been eventually fixed, or he'd just have to live with trying to prove himself trustworthy on every ocassion. So we're actually excusing the death of thousands or millions on the basis of what? Lelouch's death? Lelouch's bad name for eternity? Lelouch's wish to erase Euphie's incident? Lelouch's Zero Requiem which basically gave the world the option he chose for them indirectly? Lelouch's wish to atone for using Geass to bend people's will? Which is redeeming enough? Or is it "people would have been killed anyway" that makes it redeeming enough?
Is THIS the grand ending people fear of losing if Lelouch is alive? If Lelouch DID feel guilty about anything, is getting himself killed better than living on to make up for it? How come Suzaku has to live EXACTLY like that? If Lelouch is indeed dead, isn't Suzaku getting a worse deal, a)having to live with himself, b) having to hide his face from everyone since "Suzaku" is dead, and remembered as the Knight of Zero, the tyrant's number one knight, and c) ever seeking ways to make the world better to atone for whatever his crimes are. Why is it a crime if Lelouch shares a burden similar to Suzaku's, possibly for eternity?
Let's say though that he did die.
He died for the world? Oh please, sure he died for himself, he died for Nunnally, he died for Euphie, possibly for Shirley, even Rolo. Certainly not for the world. So... he made himself hated and died for them...? How is that noble exactly when he had all the chances to honor their memory with putting his whole life to good use instead of using the easy way out?
He gave the world a choice? No, he gave the world the tomorrow HE desired, not a real choice.
He died for atonement? How's getting yourself hated through the usual means (you know, terror, massacre, injustice) and dying according to plan atones for all the lives lost or EVEN for Euphie's memory? Oh, I can see Euphie being delighted at the thought of more people getting killed... It's a disgrace to her memory.
And for the religious westerners, do not confuse getting hated and killed when you have done no crime with purposefully getting yourself hated and killed after you've terrorized the globe and killed countless people.
Lelouch had multiple and harder paths to take to make the world better, after all, a genius like him can think of many ways, yet he chose the easiest out... UNLESS he knew he couldn't die, therefore he'd have to live exactly like Suzaku, in which case, yes, he took the hardest path to atonement while turning the world into the place Nunnally and Euphie wanted. To have to live under a different face, to be hated by everyone while bearing the memory of all your crimes for eternity and finding new ways to honor the memories of the lost, that's far more fulfilling and hard as an end that getting yourself killed after all the suffering you've caused, provided of course you DO repent about it. But Lelouch did have things he regretted. So that makes his chosen path the easiest way out of his guilt, unless he knew he'd actually have to live with it.
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