Back then it was still hard to find evidence that Suzaku was... okay as the Knight of Zero? I remember so much fandom splintering. People were claiming he was miserable and that he'd lost all his morals.
Before Mutuality came out there was only the final sequence, the flashback between Suzaku and Lelouch over the Zero mask, those fleeting seconds where he was grateful for Lelouch's plan to erase Euphy's name from history
for nowthere are so many royals in Empsince he ends up getting them dead far too easily