[Renegade334]

Originally Posted by Whitemoon648

Q1)Leolouch, Was he suposed to be the first in line to become emperor after (if) the real empire dies?.

1. It's L-E-L-O-U-C-H. Not Leolouch.
We have enough with people misspelling Suzaku's name. Let's not butcher another character, shall we?

2. No. The 1st Prince will (it's a bearded guy who's before Schneizel in the inheritance line...you can see him attending Clovis' funeral). Lelouch's the seventeenth in the succession ladder and the eighth prince. Which means that he's more or less at the bottom of the pit, while Schneizel is just one echelon shy of the very top.

3. Despite point 2, there is still the issue that Marianne is supposed to be the Empress (I haven't heard about other wives/concubines bearing that official title...yet) so one must wonder if her royal status didn't give her son some advantage over the "firstborn = heir-to-the-throne" principle.

Q2) Ok i hear the the first , second, third prince or princess in the series, what does it mean?. First in line , second in line or third in line ?. If so how can we have both a second prince and second princess.

First thing to know, it's a polygamy. Therefore there can be a LOT of heirs around. And there ARE.

You must then divide the Emperor's herd of heirs into two groups - the princes and the princesses - and inside each pool you distribute number tags to determine who was born first and last. As such there's the 1st prince (the eldest male child born to mister Wighead), the 2nd (Schneizel), etc, etc...
Same goes for the princesses. The Second Princess, as her title shows, was born after the First, but before the Third. And so on.

On the other hand, the succession line doesn't care whether you're male or female. You're ordered according to your birth date - and therefore, your age. The firstborn automatically inherits the throne, no matter if he's a prince or a princess. The last one most likely gets nothing...merely a number in case something catastrophic happens to all other members.

Bottom line: Lelouch is the eighth prince - the eighth and youngest male heir - but he is the Emperor's seventeenth child (if you still don't understand, it simply means that seventeenth half-brothers/half-sisters were born before him) and consequently he is the seventeenth in the succession line. At the rear end.

Which means that if ALL sixteen heirs (princes and princesses) before Lelouch die, then the throne will automatically go to him, even if he's one of the youngest Imperial Children around (Nunally being possibly the youngest of all).