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

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I have no doubts that Lulu will definetely save his Important Person. He'll definetely feel sad and a bit guilty inside for have stolen others' chances for recovery, his mind will be set from the start, though. He strikes me as the kind that would do nearly anything to save his Important Person, plus I don't think he can just stand and watch as his Important Person dies a slow, agonizing death. He felt pretty guilty for his inability to do anything but watch as his mother and sister is killed and wounded, and he certainly doesn't want to see another IP die while he just stands there and watches.

Suzaku, on the other hand - I'm not that sure about him. He'll certainly want and try to save his IP, but...to the lengths of indirectly killing another child, I don't thing Suzaku will manage to do it. He's your all-around nice guy, with a strong if always sometimes weird sense of justice, he probably wouldn't want to do it, not to mention illegally. I'm sure he'll try his best to find other ways...or maybe, even try to come up with a new cure. However impossible that seems.

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Well, Lulu does give into impossibility easier than Suzaku (S' goals regarding Britannia are impossible personified, yo, and Lulu was pretty hopeless at it before he got Geass), so I guess there's the irony? XD Lulu would cut the time-wasting out and go for the direct available option, while Suzaku doesn't want anyone to lose and try to plow through rock face--because Lulu is actually better equipped for such, Re : Episode 4? But the machiavellian determination to do whatever you could no matter what it takes for your loved ones, instead of signing them as losses if you fail...I'm not sure which is more inspiring in story context. XD

It's interesting that everyone thus far decides that when faced with A and B, Suzaku would pick C.