in regards to this scene in code geass and following up with this analysis, i feel like there are certain scenes that can only be explained through the lenses of queer theory.
if you’re too lazy to check the first link, the scene is basically lelouch’s soliloquy after suzaku calls him through euphemia’s number and tells him that, for the first time ever, he wants to commit murder. lelouch encourages it and then says to himself, ‘suzaku, i dirtied my hands a long time ago. even so, you coming to face me doesn’t matter. i’ll welcome you. after all, we’re friends, aren’t we?’
lelouch, laughing and sarcastically saying ‘we’re friends, aren’t we?’, can be so easily read as just him mocking suzaku, as if to say ‘i’ll go easy on you since we’re friends’. but there’s absolutely no reason as to why lelouch would ever look down on suzaku as an opponent as to mock and ridicule suzaku’s murderous sentiment. before he knew the lancelot pilot was suzaku, he was constantly thwarted and struggled because suzaku got in his way. at no point in the series does he think of suzaku as anything less than an equal.
what he’s laughing is about is suzaku’s declaration of violence, that he is going to accept his otherness and queerness. the second link provides the queer theory analysis (which, by the way, is my absolute favorite bit of code geass analysis EVER) that explains that if rebellious violence is read as queerness, then code geass can be read as lelouch’s seduction of suzaku into coming out of the closet.
when suzaku calls him to basically say ‘i’m going to kill you’, that is suzaku accepting rebellious violence and lelouch is positively gleeful that suzaku is going to join his side, the othered queer side. the reason he so sarcastically says ‘i’ll welcome you. after all, we’re friends, aren’t we?’ is because he’s played along with suzaku’s denial, with their ‘this is just friendship’ narrative, when he’s aware it’s not quite platonic.