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.

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Lelouch is definitely the guy who would automatically put his Important Person over other people; he'll do whatever it takes - even if it means manipulating the one who created the antidote into giving it to him. However, he will feel guilt over the innocent girl in question since he wants to help that person get better.

Suzaku, being very gung-ho about saving other people, will try to save both the IP and the innocent girl at once. He will fail, however, and thus more angst will bring forth for him.

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Haha, that's sort of what happened in the original scenario, actually. Except the guy decided to save his IP, then at the last minute had a guilt attack and ran back to the girl. The result was that both died, and he angsted (with disastrous consequences, the manga is cruel in ways that even CLAMP isn't) for two volumes straight.