Would You Rather #6
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 #5: RESULTS
Okay, I guess I threw another easy pitch with last week’s prompt. What can I say? I forgot about Hotel del Luna’s whole magical indoor beach thing, and I totally get why that particular selling point made the hotel a clear winner for @palaa, @parkchuna, and many others. Not to mention the other live-in luxuries, the cars, and the immortality that comes from being the proprietor of the hotel. For most, it seems like people selected this option for the job perks and/or because they were too scared to tackle an exorcism. @gikata, on the other hand, was totally up for the “investigating and ass-kicking” of performing exorcisms — right up to the point where the job required socializing with the living in order to sell the houses. So, yeah, the hotel gets another check in the pros column for the limited human interaction.
Beanies who opted to dabble in real estate instead of run the “Dead & Breakfast” (thank you, @welh640, for that one), however, seemed hesitant when they realized the ghost hotel manager position would come with immortality if it followed Hotel del Luna’s world-building. For @kurama immortality was a hard stop, and for @abalyn, who isn’t a fan of hotels to begin with, an eternal life managing a hotel seemed purposeless and monotonous. Overall, though, there was an overwhelming consensus — even among those lured to option with the indoor beach — that Ji-ah was a badass character, and even if she has the less appealing job, she’s a woman we can aspire to be like.
No matter which career you selected, it would involve ghosts (sorry, @linarrick), and neither is probably suited for the faint of heart. Hopefully, this week’s options are less freighting, but — sadly — neither involves an indoor beach. Maybe the winner won’t be as obvious?
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1 LT is Irresistibly Indifferent and reminded of the slow march of death
February 22, 2023 at 11:22 AM
Ah yes, Beauty Inside giving a whole new meaning to a woman's monthlies. It's clear nobody developing the film for television thought that premise through.
Nonetheless I think it sounds pretty cool to try on a new body, even if it means I'm a different person for 5-7 days a month.
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2 jerrykuvira
February 22, 2023 at 11:37 AM
First off. Thank you for reminding me about Beauty Inside.
I'm torn here. I don't know which is worse of the two choices. However, youth is fleeting, and by accepted wisdom, a journey that is meant to be taken once. For me, it is also a journey I'd like to relive and perhaps relish. And if I'm doing so with an adult's soul, what an experience it will be. Would I love to experience ageing? Yeah, kinda. I peek into the beauty and grace of grey-headedness isn't that bad although it feels me with worry so as added perks/condition, as long as I bounce around my younger years more, I'll take the appearance switch.
What a freaky friday it'll be.
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3 Britney
February 22, 2023 at 11:58 AM
I actually did think about this question after watching The Beauty Inside and I just think it would be sooooooo inconvenient haha
And it's clearly something only wealthy people could deal with because all the different clothes, neccessities, accessories, etc
Having the multiple personalities spring out at random is also a tricky one. And again, the money involved/needed.
Oh this is a hard one hahaha
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4 Kurama
February 22, 2023 at 12:04 PM
When you know that trauma is what brings out the different personalities, I chose the different bodies.
I'd rather be the same person in different bodies than different persons in one body.
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5 Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
February 22, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Changing appearance could be such a huge help for certain careers. Rob a bank and by the time they identify you from the security camera footage you don't look like that any more. Even if you get arrested they might have trouble keeping you once it looks like you have escaped and the wrong person is in the cell.
While with multiple personalities you might get arrested for something the other you did. Nope.
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aicaramba
February 22, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Hahahaha it's amazing that your brain went in this direction
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darwi
February 23, 2023 at 10:56 AM
I'm also attired by the possibility to be anonymous for some time each month. Could be quite convenient.
And if I cannot take time off from work... well that's why there work from home, no ?
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6 blue
February 22, 2023 at 12:44 PM
Cannot cannot cannot even think about not being in the driver's seat (that's how DID people say it feels like when their alters take over....like being in the passenger seat and not having control over the wheel)
Compared to that, Seo Hyun Jin's situation offers a cathartic experience of having to recount incredibly private embarrassing stories of my closed ones back to them, for verification of my identity ofcourse. So, freaky Friday it is.
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7 Unaspirated
February 22, 2023 at 12:50 PM
This is a tougher one than before. At first I was thinking that you can get therapy for dissociative identity disorder, so maybe it would get better, but the prompt specifically says that you would have them for the rest of your life, so that's no good.
I think it has to be the switching bodies for a few days a month. As long as I knew when it was going to happen, even roughly, I think I'd be able to plan for it, and it wouldn't be that bad once I got used to it. What woman doesn't have to plan for changes to her body every month? Plus, I think it would give me a lot of empathy for people of every different age/size/race/gender, which we could always use more of.
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8 welh
February 22, 2023 at 1:22 PM
This was rather an easy choice: share a body with a wacky bunch of multiple personalities. Everyone already has a "voice" in their head, why not a choir? Medical science states with treatment, it is possible to alleviate symptoms and reduce disruptions in the ability to function in daily life.
Changing your body every 30 days would be a major disruption in your life. Your appearance affects everything: your identification, your personal life, your family life - - - you are a stranger with a different face - - - could lead to loss of the basics: family and personal relationships, jobs, access to finances/money, shelter, etc.
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent and reminded of the slow march of death
February 22, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Nooo it's one thing to have control over a new body, a whole different can of worms to never know if you're going to lose control over the only one you have. The new body also gives the power of anonymity, freeing you up to do and say things you wouldn't get away with if you couldn't disguise your identity. While the multiple personalities means other people know more about what "you" did and said than you do. You have to take responsibility in your life for the behaviour of others using your body. It's different body all the way.
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egads aka Dame Maggie
February 23, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Okay, but the one voice I have in my head is already unruly and difficult to live with, so the idea of having more? No. Nope. I don't want it. New body and face every month and maybe my brain squirrels will have to chill out in order to deal with that mess instead of creating them in my head. Plus, my one abiding wish is to not be perceived. What if one of the personalities has different ideas and then I have to deal with the fallout. Nope.
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9 Gikata
February 22, 2023 at 4:49 PM
I have enough problems with my bad-from-birth health, so to add one more body issue doesn't sounds appealing at all. In other hand, my mind is a very vast and chaotic place I think I can tolerate few more folks (they're still me, right? so they can't be TOO insufferable) in - as long as they behave. And they better be - for their own sake. Who said I should be the one constantly worrying of getting kicked out?)))
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10 cozybooks
February 22, 2023 at 4:53 PM
Changing faces all the way haha. I'm already married so I can just figure out a system with him to recognize me. Everything else we can figure out.
I mean, I'd really rather not have to worry about what my other personalities consider acceptable conduct.
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11 aicaramba
February 22, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Easy -- I'll go with body change. I'd rather have full control of my wits and personality.
I'm fortunate run my own business and be able to work from home so, in a practical sense, my appearance looking different won't be a problem at all! I can just be off cam in online meetings. My family, friends and my dogs will know who I am, so that won't be an issue, either. I don't have an SO now, but if I did, wouldn't it be nice to, uhm, 'experience' a different person once a month? Lol
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12 ♡Peach_Mochi♡
February 22, 2023 at 6:12 PM
Maintaining multiple sets of relationships based on multiple personalities sounds utterly exhausting, so I think I'll opt for the monthly temporary body swap. At least I'll have to be responsible for only one version of myself, appearance notwithstanding. And isn't that what work-from-home is for?
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13 pika13
February 22, 2023 at 7:11 PM
i don't mind changing my appearance once a month for the rest of my life. i may look different on the outside, but i still have control over my life. sometimes i just want to be different ya know. and if i get to do it once every month? WIN.
i rather not have split personality. my own mind already chaos, i cant imagine how to deal with others personality in my own body. get blackout whenever other personality take control and not sure what state of situation i have to deal when i 'comeback' (if i EVER comeback). it's a nightmare. i prefer to have control over my own mind, thankyouverymuch.
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14 tabong
February 23, 2023 at 8:41 AM
I'm too poor and weak to handle different bodies.
I don't have the money to buy infinite clothes, etc. 😂 And I don't have the mental stability to handle random physical changes. I would live in panic. I would be a walking identity crisis.
The multiple personalities... If the experience is like Kill Me Heal Me, I don't think I would have a major problem with it. It would be exhausting, but I wouldn't feel anxious or anything.
It would become predictable and we would adjust to each other. And I would really appreciate if one of those personalities gets us a partner like Hwang Jung Eum 😂 (my personality sucks so I'll probably live and die alone, tbh).
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15 Babylilo
February 23, 2023 at 4:12 PM
I think it would be amazing to be able to experience what it would be like to live in another body, even if it meant occasionally having to be in an impaired or damaged one. Though at times it might be really painful or difficult, it would be fascinating to experience the different ways I’d be treated by the world depending on how I looked. And I wonder what it would feel like to have the physical ability of a dancer or an athlete, the voice of a great opera singer, and so forth.
I hope no one is shocked or appalled if I say I’d be REALLY curious about what it would be like to have sex in the body of the opposite gender. I thought it was a missed opportunity in Mr. Queen when Bong Hwan continued to be alarmed by the thought of physical intimacy with Cheoljong. For someone so driven by his libido, it made more sense to me that he would have quickly gotten over his initial repulsion and enjoyed exploring his favorite “pastime” from the other perspective. (This idea was imaginatively used in the movie “Being John Malkovich,” when a woman uses a secret portal to enter the mind of the actor John Malkovich while he’s having sex.)
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16 Palaa
February 24, 2023 at 1:42 AM
Oh the things I would do with different faces........
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17 ar_arguably romantic
February 25, 2023 at 11:15 AM
I would only choose my physical body changing if I were well-off enough to take a week off each month and hide in my house. I would be afraid of being tracked and perhaps kidnapped for experimentation if I could change my physical appearance so drastically each month.
Otherwise, I think the multiple personalities thing is more livable as long as one of those personalities isn't a serial killer. Like if I would get the same set of personalities as the ML in KMHM, it's doable. Shin Segi is violent but not a bad person. Dissociative identity disorder is already a thing, so I feel like people would be more accepting.
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18 redfox
February 26, 2023 at 4:45 AM
let´s not forget that Do Hyuns´ different personalities were a trauma response. it is actually tragic and means the original personality is in so much pain that they don´t want to be in their body. instead of ending the life they have, they put "another" in charge.
however, in KillHeal the real lesson was, you can be loved even if you are a mess. even if you are not quite healed, every part of you is ok.
I would be too scared of either. I don´t know whether all the personalities are good. I am pretty sure that I can be dangerous. On the other hand, same mind, different body, I mean do skills belong to a body or mind? for example, if I became an olympic cyclist, would it be enough if my body knew how to cycle, or does my mind kinda prevent me since in my original body I cannot? does the new body sort of overwrite what my mind knows to be fact? Like heavenly idol, even if the body knows, his mind is all "But how???" In that sence, I want to try, but I feel like it would be like dreaming.
the paradox is most of us have wished to be someone else at a given point. Yet would we be ok if it actually happened? It would be another shock and another limiting aspect both when you wake up and don´t remember having done something as "another person", and not being able to completely trust and control your environment, not knowing whether people are friendly or hostile towards the body you are in.
I suppose some folks might just be matter-of-factly and take it 1 step at a time, or they might think they are high. would we seek help? It would seem crazy but I would probably call mom even if there is no way she will believe me. who else can you trust to that degree. or my best friend, because she would definitely be like " Tuuli, what have you gotten yourself into? Let me get some petrol, where are you?"
My conclusion is thta both would be very dangerous on your own, if there is not a soul that would believe you. and in the end, we are responsible for the body we ARE in, and it is all we´ve got to work with, and we also should work to heal our traumas so that we don´t put this delicate vessel in danger. We are responsible for it.
Thank you for this mental exercise.
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Kurama
February 26, 2023 at 7:45 AM
For the body, it's just your appareance that change, you are not taking the body of somedody else. You wake up at the same place you fell in sleep but with another body.
In the movie, the ML's body changes everytime he sleeps in my memory. At least, in the TV show, it's once by Month, she still has her own body between the changes.
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