Inaba said:
Sappiness and an excess of focus on romance tends to ruin Code Geass stories. Seriously, where is Lelouch even supposed to find the time to run around romancing people in canon when he was stuck doing pretty much everything important for the Black Knights because they were largely devoid of good bureaucrats and couldn't be trusted by him?
I really don't see how either of those factors change in a scenario where Naoto's alive and Fem!Lelouch has even less reason to trust his group because they're probably even less controllable than in canon.
I have to agree, considering that Lelouch is pretty much running the "management" of the Black Knights in canon, it's very unlikely that he'll have time for a relationship.
Then, to counter that, we have plenty of bureaucrats in our world who seem to be able to handle both. Though, they probably trust their subordinates more.
Wish we could have a Code Geass fanfic where Lelouch actually TRUSTS his "allies" and has time for a relationship. I *think* the author "Wing Alpha Zero" has a fic that might fit in here, but there aren't too many more along the same genre.
-chronodekar