Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-213.140.59.150-20140925181645

There is actually no real proof that there is a male-preference for the succession since Lelouch has only two older sisters, and that doesn't contradict the fact that he was 17 in line for the throne. Also, the 4 persons who aren't Charles' children and yet come before Lelouch in succession might be Charles' siblings (there are some dynasties in the real world that favours the actual governors siblings to his children when it comes to the throne's succession). However, it also seems that even without Geass and such things, this order is mostly there for protocol's sake, and the merit matters much more. (cf. when Charles is about to start the Ragnarok connection, he leaves legitimately, in case his plan succeeds, the Britannian throne to Schneizel although Odysseus is older.)

For Nunnally, I do think that she is the most legitimate heir to Lelouch since she is his only full-blood sibling. If we put aside Marianne's rank (which wasn't nearly insignifiant since it seems she was the most influent Empress out there), we can still easily assume that a brother/sister would come before a half-brother/half-sister in term of inheritance, however young may be the said brother/sister. (we can add that Cornelia had abandoned her rank in R2 and wasn't shown to be reestablished as a princess. On the contrary, she's shown acting as a terrorist the very same way Lelouch was when she was in charge (ironically enough) even though she wasn't concealing her identity)

Those are only theories I wanted to share since there's absolutely no way of confirming anything on this matter with whatever was present in the show and the wiki stated some arguable ones (of course, when it's this much open to interpretation, this is a pretty easy situation to fall in.)

What do you guys think of this ? 