User blog comment:Bennia Lover/Other media discussion/@comment-31137559-20170601202123/@comment-31137559-20170602112106

I never thought Lelouch died. I basically think that he took his father's Code as soon as he disappeared. And Lelouch kept his Geass since he attained the Code from someone else instead of the one he made a contract with and gave him Geass. Hence the series being called 'Code Geass'.

I know people have already said this. But Lelouch was very cunning and deceived everyone until the end. So faking his death and deceiving everyone would suit him. And plus we can say 'Lelouch' did die. There were two Lelouchs. There was Lelouch Lamperouge, the student who attended Ashford Academy, and Lelouch vi Britannia, the exiled 11th prince and former 17th heir of the Britannian Empire who was believed to have been killed during the conquest of Japan. Lelouch vi Britannia revealed himself to the world declaring himself the Emperor of Britannia and that day, Lelouch Lamperouge, the schoolboy, was no more. And then Lelouch vi Britannia, the tyrannical dictator of the world was killed by the masked hero, Zero. And thus he was no more. So 'Lelouch' died. Get it? And now he has a new identity.