Talk:Suzaku Kururugi/@comment-120.188.67.219-20180402085709/@comment-11989035-20180710190701

It's an imbalance of presentation, moral grey, and such. Because the story is more about Lelouch, we see more sides of his tale where he ultimately is fighting to free Japan from the tyranny of the oppressive and xenophobic Brittannians and is the hero of Japan.

Suzaku is the one that is against Lelouch ultimately because he wants to join the system of people that are just corrupt and terrible people, who would kill people and degrade them, being depicted as the absolute worst assholes that should just die.

The moral grey was more introduced thanks to Euphemia, but the problem is that Euphemia being Suzaku's love interest died WAY too soon. If we had gotten to see Suzaku's ideals and beliefs show merit and that it wasn't bad, and there was an equality starting to form better without relying on violence, it could have helped, and definitely would have helped if Euphie hadn't been killed so soon. Without Euphie, Suzaku more or less stopped having that human side of him and felt a bit more hypocritical.

Lelouch, on the other hand, managed to keep a lot of his human side on because of the people in his life, and was basically with three girls, with Shirley, in my opinion, is the most human side of Lelouch. Even after Shirley's death, Lelouch at that point developed so much and had others that he was able to be better understood.

So in summation, Lelouch got the most development, while Suzaku got more of Lelouch's leftovers. I love Suzaku a lot too and don't hate him, but the story really did not balance the two sides at all.