Talk:Knights of the Round/@comment-44997843-20200724001817/@comment-27492705-20200724185916

Lelouch was trying to make people hate him. Gino was supposed to be opposed to him. Lelouch was slaughtering people for the sake of gathering people's hatred. Gino did what he was supposed to. And he assisted Kallen and protected her. And in Re;surrection, he's part of the new Black Knights, helping keep the world Lelouch wanted. There's also an official short story written somewhere of Kallen, Gino, and Rivalz looking at the scrapbook, and I don't recall him badmouthing Lelouch. I think he knows, and so he doesn't hate Lelouch. And remember, he was very conflicted having to fight Suzaku, even though their friendship had always seemed one-sided.

People who opposed Lelouch as Zero can be looked on with variable levels of distase. But people who opposed Emperor Lelouch don't deserve such. Zero was a hero of justice, Emperor Lelouch was a self-serving mass-murdering bastard, and that was Lelouch's intent. People who oppsed the Emperor did what he wanted. Are they truly so bad for going exlactly along Lelouch's plan?

And don't forget, Anya also fought against Lelouch at Mt. Fuji.

While I love him dearly, I think Suzaku deserves more anger and skepticism than Gino or Anya or Nonette. His suicidal tendencies caused a lot of problems for everyone. When Lelouch had to kill Euphy, he instantly believed a strange child he didn't know over his best friend, never thought the boy he knew and loved from childhood might have had a reason to kill Euphemia and guilt over it. Lelouch doesn't seem to hold regret for many of the deaths he causes (because if he let himself feel them he wouldn't be functional, he's too kindhearted for that) but he always shows remorse for Euphy. But Suzaku trusted V.V. instead of interrogating Lelouch, vowed to kill him, ignored his pleas to save Nunnally, brought him before the man he hated most who literally took everything away from him, watched on from the sidelines as he suffered psychotic episodes from fighting Charles' Geass, says he wants to get Nunnally with him and then sends him back to Ashford, let's him go back to Ashford under the surveillance of two unstable Geass assassins, actively keeps Nunnally from him, tries to use Nunnally against him, and repeatedly attempts to crush any affection between them (and fails).

I feel for Suzaku and he had his reasons and I love him despite all that, but on all accounts he's done much worse than Gino, both overall and to Lelouch specifically.

Also (not important) generally different levels of nobility are referred to in different ways. Like, Dukes and Duchesses are Your Grace, Princes and princesses are Your Hightness, and Emerors/Kings and Empresses/Queens are Your Majesty. So Lelouch stops being "Your Highness" once he takes the throne. Everyone says "Yes Your Majesty" to him.