I wrote a really long backstory about CC, so it is only fair if I write a similar one for Lelouch. His one will probably be shorter, but it is nevertheless important.
Lelouch is a victim of the social and political structures that exist within Holy Brittanian Empire. He saw them firsthand to understand them and was disproportionally affected but worst HBE has to offer. In fact, the very ethos and values of the country threw him and Nunnally towards certain death as sacrificial pawns.
HBE royal family is a complex structure with complex web of shifting alliances, assassinations and so on. Lelouch position was dependent on that of his mother and favor of his father. When Marianne was alive it all was normal. However, her presence at the court got in the way of several powerful figures within the HBE, particularly VV. Thus, VV ordered her assassination. Nunnally got caught in this as well.
Even if Charles really loved Marianne, he only cared for her children for as long she was alive. Once she was dead, he did not care anymore. Even by HBE standards Charles was very uncaring father.
He did not protect her possibly because he could not.
He, however, put Lelouch and Nunnally in danger knowingly and willingly. Because political advantage of doing that was more imprtant for him than lives of two of them.
In Japan during Sengoku Jidai there was so called hostage diplomacy. If two daimyos would enter an alliance, they would also exchange hostages. Typically it would be son or a daughter. One relative of daimyo A will go living with a family of daimyo B. An equivalent close relative of daimyo B will go live with the family of daimyo A.
That was done because daimyos could not easily trust each other. Without hostage daimyos could easily betray each other and attack their ally from the back when they least expect it. They will not lose anything and have everything to gain from doing it.
However, if your ally daimyo has one of your relatives as their hostage, then they can kill this relative in a retaliation for treason. Thus, daimyo who exchange hostages would be much less likely betray each other as they will not want to lose their sons or other relatives.
Back before Brittanian invasion into Japan, Japan was concerned if HBE has any hostile intentions against Japan. To convince Japanese that HBE is not planning to invade them, Charles opted to send Lelouch and Nunnally to live with Prime Minster of Japan. As a ruse gesture of good will.
With Lelouch and Nunnally in their hands, Japanese were convinced that HBE will not invade them as doing so would put Emperor's own children in danger. Thus, with sacrifice of two children, Japanese concerns were placated, and Japan got its guard down and was unprepared for a coming invasion.
Of course, that turned out to be a faint. Once Brittania was ready to invade it did so against unprepared Japanese and won easily.
As for Lelouch and Nunnally, they HBE government did not even searched for them and simply declared them dead.
That kind of experience of being used as a disposable political pawn by his own country and his own father made Lelouch hate them both. That also made him relactunnt to return to them on their own accord as he would suspect they will send him somewhere else with a similar suicidal mission.
He wanted revenge against both his country and his father.
Eventually he developed a radical worldview that this is wrong, and world should not be like this.
For that cause Lelouch became Zero and eventually conquered the whole world.
"Destroyed it and created it anew."
I personally can actually relate to this I often get a feeling that my parents do not care for me and only use me in their complex political games with their relatives and friends.
The way they treated me felt this way. It was not like a typical abuse parents family, but rather this complex upper class social maneuvering.
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