Would You Rather #31
by DaebakGrits
In dramaland, leading ladies often find themselves torn between the love of two equally attractive men — a choice none of us would want to make! But what if you did have to pick between the frustrating lawyer and the adorkable police officer? In this weekly feature, we ask you to make the difficult decisions — and we aren’t limiting our options to dreamy oppas.
Vote via the poll and feel free to use the comments to explain exactly how you were able to choose! So, Beanies:
WOULD YOU RATHER #30 RESULTS
Well, well, well! It looks like we have a lot of villainous Beanies lurking among us because, when asked to pick between being a villain and a second male lead, slightly more Beanies opted for the dark side. I’m kind of with @dncingemma on this one. Should I be worried that so many of you are “Lex Luthor wannabes?” Are we safe? Should I be on the lookout for Trucks of Doom when crossing the street?
Jokes aside, in dramaland villains really do have more fun, so I fully understand the appeal. For starters, as @jillian, @seeker, and @ladynightshade pointed out, K-drama villains are usually dressed to kill (pun intended) and, more often than not, live a life of luxury. Another perk of being a villain according to @luckywargoddess, @attiton, and many more of you is that villains tend to be more charismatic and intelligent than second male leads. So really, it’s not that y’all are all murderers in disguise, it’s that if you had to pick your role in dramaland, you’d rather be the character people love to hate instead of the one they pity.
Not that it’s bad being the second lead, of course. Sure it means dealing with heartbreak and rejection, but usually these characters are appealing enough that, as @hopefulromantic believes, you know they have a “chance at a happy ending with someone who will truly appreciate” them. An offscreen happy ending does sound more appealing than an onscreen death or life in prison.
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1 Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
December 20, 2023 at 3:22 PM
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2 Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
December 20, 2023 at 3:29 PM
Tentatively -- dying and waking up in another body, but...
Does the new body have any warranty?
How painful is the death?
Are there any contracts signed in blood with special conditions?
Still, when you're past 70 and have an assortment of ailments, taking a chance on a new body doesn't seem like such a bad risk as it would if I were 20-something.
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Seon-ha
December 20, 2023 at 3:33 PM
This is my point...like what if you woke up as ME, @lordcobol??? Would that be an improvement??? I'm younger than you, but....
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hacja
December 20, 2023 at 6:41 PM
@attiton If you are addressing older guys like Lord Cobol and myself, the question is easily answered: Of course, why wouldn't we want to be in a young persons body, especially if it was blessed with your natural intelligence and talents!
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Seon-ha
December 21, 2023 at 4:19 AM
Oh, you fresh-faced ajusshis, with your rose-colored glasses!
Take it from this precocious child, the grass isn't always greener!!!
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3 Seon-ha
December 20, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Wake up in anyone's body? Anyone at all??
Gah!!
No, thanks. I'd rather confront my life-long refusal to succumb to regret and go back a year and do it again...hoping to improve? How is that going to work? Improve on what vector???? Who's to say I won't do worse--all things considered--on the second round???
Both of these seem like serious punishments to me.
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4 aicaramba
December 20, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Waking up in someone else's body... Nah, there are too many variables to deal with. Whether I wake up in a better life or worse is a toss-up.
I'd rather reboot the last year of my life. At least then I'd have more control because I know me and my situation. Better the devil you know.
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5 lapislazulii
December 20, 2023 at 4:00 PM
As much as I go through my own cycles of low self-esteem and what not, I also love myself too much - and am very attached to my life as is - to want to abandon this body or life. So waking up in someone else's body sounds like an absolute nightmare, even worse if it's a random pick.
I did momentarily wonder if me having the ability to choose whose body I woke up in would change that but NOPE I'd much rather a do-over of a year in my own body - at least that way I can improve things/do things better and make a more positive impact on my life overall!
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DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
December 20, 2023 at 6:19 PM
But if you were going to die, and could choose either one year (from a year back forth) or someone else's body and life time - chances are there would be more left - Wouldn't you wanna ...?
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lapislazulii
December 20, 2023 at 6:57 PM
Okay tbh framing it that way makes it a much more tempting choice...buuuuuut I'm a conservative when it comes to gambling - rather go with the known than the unknown. At least if it's my own life then I'm familiar with it , I'm too chicken to take a risky gamble on extending my life in an unknown body bc I could end up as someone miserable/horrible and then the double whammy of having to life the rest of that life out.
Annnnd if the rules of the game are open - then similar to PMR there's also the possibility I could change something so that I survive beyond that year!
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owl 🦉 🫰
December 21, 2023 at 2:42 PM
I thought pretty much the same thing!
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6 Blue (@mayhemf)
December 20, 2023 at 4:08 PM
My stranger anxiety would face a whole new challenge when I see a new body for myself. I wouldn’t trust a random strangers body. Atleast I have cared for my body reasonably.
So yeah, I will go back a year. Even though nothing might change really.
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7 jillian
December 20, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Rebooting a year of your life is preferable since you can still be with the people you care about.
Waking up in someone else's body and dying repeatedly until Death says when. This sounds like horrible.
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8 tabong has two different tears🍉
December 20, 2023 at 4:49 PM
The memories of the OG timeline won't disappear because kdrama, so I can actually enjoy the year with less anxiety, less mistakes and better decisions. It would be an awesome year.
I can even skip all the shows I watched in the OG timeline and look for some other hidden gems of kdramaland. I would earn like a hundred beans. 😏
Being in someone else's body would freak me out big time. Nothing about ME, like my preferences, personality, etc would change because kdrama, but everything and everyone else would. Including my body.
And I would probably scare the people around "me" (the owner of the body), because the person they thought they knew became a total weirdo out of nowhere. A crying weirdo, because I would definitely cry about missing my mom every single day. 😂
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Elinor is trapped in the timeslip
December 21, 2023 at 9:53 AM
This is the most compelling argument yet and you've convinced me to cast a vote, even though as usual I started on the side of "neither."
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tabong has two different tears🍉
December 21, 2023 at 10:58 AM
More kdramas is always the answer. 😂😉
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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
December 24, 2023 at 5:10 AM
Most compelling argument ever. 👏 👏
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9 DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
December 20, 2023 at 6:16 PM
At first, I thought waking up in someone else's body would be the worst. Especially, imagine to be unknown to your family. My children!
But then again, ... who haven't dreamt of trying to be someone else! I know I have!
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DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
December 20, 2023 at 6:17 PM
I mean, I would of course tell my closest family, while including some private information, like "You and I have this secret together".
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10 Britney
December 20, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Oh yet another hard one! All these polls lately are making me feel so indecisive haha
Option 1: might seem appealing because you can, objectively, make changes and potentially better your life but that might not be a real possibilty for folks. Some folks are stuck in their circumstances so big changes aren't really feasible. Maybe smaller things could be done.
Option 2: depends on the type of life you originally had and are we playing the rules of the show.
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11 jerrykuvira
December 20, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Reboot the last year of my life unless the body change/exchange comes with an upgrade in social status.
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12 ar_arguably romantic
December 20, 2023 at 8:31 PM
I had a pretty good year so wouldn't mind living it over again. Maybe add an additional vacation trip?
I guess I would feel differently if my husband was in love with my sister and filed for divorce. Then that is followed by a car accident and being murdered in the hospital where I was recovering from the accident.
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13 panshel
December 20, 2023 at 8:36 PM
"Die and wake up in someone else's body" is basically Reborn Rich, so I choose that as long as it isn't all just a dream.
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14 Gikata
December 20, 2023 at 10:21 PM
1 year is not enough. Gimme 5 or even better 10 and then we're talking.
While I'm not entirely averse to the idea in theory, I still have my own responsibilities in this life that I cannot abandon, so sorry, gotta pass on "new body-new life" opportunity.
That makes it neither. Shame.
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15 DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
December 20, 2023 at 11:29 PM
It would make a big difference if one was allowed to ask a few questions at least before deciding. Like, did I die because of something easily preventable?
And could I ask which body ... and where? First and foremost it should be a body that gave me a chance to comeback to the people I was missing. Being dirt poor in a far-away country, ... that wouldn't be of help. And besides I'd probably die fast from lack of survival skills. You need a lot of those to survive poverty, in some countries.
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16 Cecee
December 21, 2023 at 2:04 AM
While I'm very attached to being me, imagine the fun of waking up in someone else's body with a different personality and different physical skills than the ones I am plagued with... I used to love the idea of being an actor because you get to be someone else, and I love that this option would allow me to be someone else.
I'd rather have also an infinite amount of attempts (not just 12 — Death, my girl, be generous). With this in mind, it may well be that everyone I get to meet is another me in another body and this ends up being hell on earth where I am surrounded by all my mes with different faces and I am the sole person living on the planet but I keep respawning with a different face and still my knowledge of my previous face. I wonder what all those mes would be up to... Are Beanies even real or are they all other mes?
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Seon-ha
December 21, 2023 at 4:23 AM
~~we are BOTH real AND we are other Cecees~~
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Lostpanda is celebrating My Ajusshi 💔
December 21, 2023 at 6:46 AM
🤯 everyone on the planet is just CeCee reincarnated.
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DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
December 21, 2023 at 6:52 AM
--- and timewarped.
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Cecee
December 21, 2023 at 7:04 AM
haha, I apologise profusely for the traumatic experience that it is... But then, if you're me, you're probably cool with it!
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DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
December 21, 2023 at 6:51 AM
Best one yet!!!
I love it.
Randall Munroe has a take on that thing about meeting yourself.
https://xkcd.com/105/
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Cecee
December 21, 2023 at 7:07 AM
I love Randall Munroe! I've bought his What ifs to everyone I know (and who did not ask for it, but I couldn't resist) — forever traumatising friends with ideas they didn't want to be thinking about
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tabong has two different tears🍉
December 21, 2023 at 11:11 AM
No more "Being John Malkovich", now it's "being Cecee".
But it's kinda cool that they all are escencially you. Maybe that would make the experience less scary, since they all have your back?
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17 blue
December 21, 2023 at 4:35 AM
So at first I voted for Rebooting because I'm sort of a control freak & can't even think about letting go of this body, despite last year not being the best of the years.
Then, I started thinking about all the possibilities attached with exploring life in all those bodies. Just from the physicality POV- I'll be tall, I'll be short, I'll be thick, I'll be thin etc. I'm gonna push those bodies to the limits. And the various circumstances/environments(!!), Sign me up. Just don't want death putting a target on me kind of deals.
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Cecee
December 21, 2023 at 7:16 AM
One thing I didn't consider when I signed up for "let's have all the bodies" is that you have an inner image of your body. I don't just mean in terms of personal image and self-confidence. I mean in terms of moving around. So, the first days in a new body might be just you bumping against doors, tables, walls, spilling tea all over yourself because your arms are shorter than expected, and so on. But, still worth the challenge!
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blue
December 21, 2023 at 9:35 AM
Exactly worth the challenge. Because, in the end aren't we all just consciences/souls assigned to these bodies?
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Elinor is trapped in the timeslip
December 21, 2023 at 10:03 AM
That was me age 14 when I grew three inches in less than a year, so I've already been there, done that, and still have a scar or two from unexpected encounters with objects that were closer than they appeared.
Much as I dislike the creeping pains and stiffness of middle age, I'm totally familiar with and integrated into this body and I'd hate to have to figure out the ins and outs of a new one. Check back with me in a few years and I might be on Team @LordCobol, though.
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DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
December 21, 2023 at 10:25 AM
Imagine being a strong 25-year-old man!
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18 darwi
December 21, 2023 at 4:59 AM
First I though that 1 year is not enough to have an impact on my life. 4 years is what I need. So I boldly voted for an adventure in another body.
Except that all things compared I have a good life right now so the probability of a downgrade is 99% even if I end up with good eyes and teeths... at least the reboot will be short, no?
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Cecee
December 21, 2023 at 7:10 AM
Nah, go bold. Why stop at 4 years? I want everything from childhood again but with my current knowledge and with a super upgrade too (like silky hair that doesn't live in a permanently knotted nest because the amount of time and money I waste on trying to tame that furry thing is unacceptable)
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blue
December 21, 2023 at 9:38 AM
I'm wondering how you'll deal with/utilize your toddler years 😂
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Cecee
December 21, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Working on being extra annoying probably
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darwi
December 21, 2023 at 11:03 AM
Full childhood with all current knowledge would be a bit long, but yeah that would be the best scenario.
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19 welh
December 21, 2023 at 6:17 AM
Easy one: reboot last year of my life.
If you look back on the last 12 months you can easily find moments where you think now "I wish I did this differently" or "If I did this, this would have changed." It does not have to be major regrets; maybe new pathways or experiences.
But of course, k-drama writers would make the reboot timeline very different than the past . . .
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20 Lostpanda is celebrating My Ajusshi 💔
December 21, 2023 at 6:49 AM
{me looking up best performing stocks of the past year as well as winning lottery numbers}
Okay. Reboot the last year. I’m ready
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Cecee
December 21, 2023 at 7:13 AM
OMG, brilliant idea! Why didn't I think of that?! Why did I choose to turn the entire entire world into multiple versions of me rather than going for the lottery numbers? Argh
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Blue (@mayhemf)
December 21, 2023 at 7:17 AM
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Babylilo
December 22, 2023 at 11:03 AM
But you’d only have one year left to enjoy the fruits of your new-found prosperity! I suppose it would be worth it if you wanted to pass the wealth down to your family or gift it to a worthy cause or institution.
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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
December 24, 2023 at 4:58 AM
Solid blue chip plan!! 👏 👏
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21 Lady Bluestocking
December 21, 2023 at 10:15 AM
New body, new me! I hate redoing work of any kind. Having a year's worth of "mistakes" to fix sounds awful and tedious. On the other hand, going by kdrama rules, a whole new body should lead to a whole new life of adventure and happiness (after possibly a lot of mayhem, lol).
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22 CasualDramaFan
December 21, 2023 at 10:58 AM
Well, second option involves death...It might involve a lot of physical pain and if not it will involve lot of emotional pain for those who I will leave behind. So no.
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23 redfox
December 21, 2023 at 11:52 AM
I am in the minority I guess. I would never ever want to redo something I already did. it would turn me psycho. I always wondered how it is to be in a different body. because my body and my identity are disconnected anyway. I sometimes look at myself in the mirrow and I don´t really feel the sense of Me-ness. It is A face, not MY face. I don´t really care... im the consciousness so it would be great to travel around. living like this is pretty dull anyway
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24 Grand Sophy
December 21, 2023 at 11:22 PM
I've already lived this year, why would I want to do it again? Much more interesting to live as someone else, at least for a while.
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25 too_much_tv
December 22, 2023 at 3:42 AM
I made my choice based on my feelings about making mistakes. There’s never been a year I thought I did everything right. I would also always like to say more true affectionate things to everyone, even when I said some the first time.
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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
December 24, 2023 at 4:55 AM
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26 Babylilo
December 22, 2023 at 10:59 AM
Given my current state of physical and cognitive decrepitude, and the actuarial probability of living another 20+ years, I can’t see the benefit of reliving the final year of my life. I’d rather take a chance on swapping out into another body: hoping for the best and accepting the possibility of a worst-case scenario.
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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
December 24, 2023 at 4:55 AM
Ah well! Good luck for NOT meeting a TOD in your new body.
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27 🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
December 24, 2023 at 5:28 AM
Reboot - because that always gets things started. Since K-drama so I get to have a contract marriage, eat cake, live in my villain era and have my husband and his family take my revenge, avoid TODs and have a picture perfect ending like this, with flowers in the background.
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