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After the Second Pacific War and Invasion of Japan, Lelouch and Nunnally
decided to live under false identities (but they don't have plastic surgery
and allow themselves to be seen in public).

Why? What exactly were they thinking? They really wouldn't be recognised? I
seem to recall Cornelia and Kirihara recognised Lelouch.


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Why did Lelouch and Nunnally allow themselves to be seen in public?


The risk really wasn't all that great. Without the geass power, Lelouch never
would've met Cornelia or Kirihara or any of the others that recognized Lelouch
(Clovas, Euphy, etc...). Cornelia because Clovas would've stayed alive so
there would've been no need for her to become Viceroy. Kirihara because he
wouldn't have needed to meet with the 6 head families, remember he only meets
Kirihara/reveals his identity to secure support for the Black Knights.

To expand:

While they lived at a school for Brittanians, Brittania is very caste based,
and the castes don't mix much, besides a few outliers like Euphy the royal
family doesn't mingle with commoners, which is what the Knights of the Round
call the students of Ashford Academy and their families when they transfer to
it. So no _real_ chance of running into someone who would recognize them
there.

As for those few - and it was very few - Japanese who knew their secret, they
also all knew that he hates the empire and why he was exiled to Japan in the
first place. So they are far more likely, if they ever ran into him, to
support him and hide him from the Brittanians then to out him. As can be seen
by Kirihara immediately throwing his support behind Zero when he learns that
Zero is Lelouch.

Finally: (This block doesn't actually effect Lelouch's decision to be in
public since it's not known to him at the time, but it's interesting to note
for us viewers, since it explains why they were so safe for the 7 years before
Lelouch gets geass.)

> At the end of Season 2 we learn that none of Lelouch's siblings were
> actually after him and his sister and mother when they were younger. In fact
> from their reactions they all actually seem to miss them. We also learn that
> the Emperor wasn't after them either and in-fact exiled them to Japan to
> keep them "safe" from his brother VV. And as far as we know VV wasn't
> actually hunting them again until CC came into their life and gave geass to
> Lelouch. So no one in the Empire was actually hunting them at all.


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