Not arguing with you. I also would like more official art, Sunrise. -_-; I wasn't trying to say it's not canon, because that'd be silly, but complaining that it got so little....dedication in canon itself. Blargh. My interpretation is basically the same as yours : in 20, Euphie and Suzaku OK'd the other side to start 'something more' with each other if they wanted to, but they haven't actually figured that out yet what that 'something' is going to be. Probably thought they'd have all the time in the world. And the nod the script gave it in 23...is kinda weak, actually. All the emotional strength in that scene went to L/E (on rewatch, the first time has S/E strength enough). I like S/E, too, and am unhappy about that...they should've developed it enough to feel what she means to him intuitively without going through analyses on Suzaku's Reason To Live and metafeed in the OP. Romance or no. Doesn't have to be a pairing, even.

Or maybe it's because they got OP treatment and nobody else got that. Because that means True Love for fen, obviously.

That, and I don't believe that when Euphie died in the anime, Lelouch was the one with her to the last moment. And in that story, he didn't exactly dehydrate himself with tears which would be hard to miss even if Euphie hallucinated herself into seeing Suzaku as him. The fact that Lloyd and Cecile are with them decided it as manga-verse....absolutely no reason Lelouch would deliver her to them in anime, whereas he knows them as medical staff in manga. When you're doing an officially printed serious story that is partly set in a canon timeline you already know, you don't disturb canon unless you absolutely have to, right?