Thoughts?

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Hypothetical scenario : What would Lelouch and Suzaku do, in your opinion, if the world is beset by a plague and their most important person contracts it, and is about to die? The only way they can even hope to cure him/her is a prototype medicine that's being distributed in small amounts, and due to arbitrary reasons, they have to illegally take the part meant for a sick, innocent child who will also die without her share? Would they take the medicine and save the person they can't live without, or will they 'save' the child and watch the one they love die? In any case, one person dies. There is no greater good. Someone loses. In the worst case, there's even a chance the medicine won't work and everyone loses regardless.

A variation of the old 'which drowning man would you save' warhorse, but hopefully more interesting, and I hope it doesn't come off as 'who is better than who', either. ^^;

My thoughts : Lelouch saves his Important Person, though not without a good deal of sadness. He's actually a decently moral person, I think, when he actually sees the prices and sacrifices happening in front of him. But he would be set from the start, with no waffle and no mind-changing mercy. Suzaku is more problematic. I vote he saves his Important Person as well, but with a ginormous amount of waffling and regret. His piety towards strangers seem to stem from his...reactiveness towards losing loved ones, but he ultimately doesn't want to see anyone die if he can help it.

Cookies if you recognize which manga this scenario comes from.

Comments

[mossygirl.livejournal.com]

Ha! I didn't notice it until nokiirat said it, but the scenario definitely is similar to PSME ('cept the "innocent child" part, kind of). In that case, the solution would be to give the medicine to their worst enemy so that he could watch everyone else die around him and be lonely and miserable ^_^ (hope that didn't spoil anyone o__o;;)

Joking aside, I'd say that Lulu would take the medicine to save his important person (Nunally, definitely) but feel some guilt over it, angst quite a bit, and of course would never tell the IP the truth. Suzaku, on the other hand ... somehow I don't see him doing the same. Partly this is because I don't think Suzaku has someone that he needs that desperately (Lulu is his friend, but still; Euphie maybe, but not at this point *Cornelia would do it for her, though!*)--he wouldn't want to see anyone die, but his sense of justice would prevent him from basically killing an innocent for that end. He would of course do whatever he could besides that to save his IP ... I guess I could see him finally cracking and doing it (and he would angst about it whether he did or didn't). *boy, I'm sure waffling ^^;;* But from what I know of his character at this point, I'd still say "no" overall for Suzaku. ... Though I could be convinced otherwise o.o

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Well, this is assumed both of them have that particular important person, since using what we have it's kinda imbalanced. XD I know, though! Suzaku would REALLY waffle.

I suppose we can ask another question : In two seperate scenarios, one where Lulu is infected and one where Suzaku is infected, would they actually save each other?

I figure 'eventually no', for some reason...despite the lengths they'd go to, though Lulu is also likely to go "fuck everybody else >:[" and just do the thing.