Old Tyrannia wrote:Obviously I'd have my guards open fire. I mean, let's think about this- these revolutionaries are prepared to shoot everyone in the palace. Forget about my miserable life, potentially hundreds of innocent, unarmed servants could be killed just because they took a job at the dictator's palace to try and feed their kids. How is that fair? What sort of leader would I be if I let people who had faithfully served me and my predecessor, and were counting on me for protection, be mowed down in cold blood so that I could save the lives of a bloodthirsty lynch mob?
Once reinforcements had arrived, I would suppress the rebellion brutally and rule with an iron fist, making myself the focus of the nation's hatred, while simultaneously organising a fake counter-insurgency with my most loyal agent as its mysterious and charismatic leader. I would then organise my own staged assassination in broad daylight, observed by a huge crowd of my people. With the evil dictator seemingly dead, the country would rejoice and rally around my alleged killer, while my younger sister (who I would drag around in chains a bit before hand so no one thought we were on the same side) would succeed me as Empress and constitutional monarch.
You are not Lelouch vi Britannia. You'd probably RP him decently in an alternate Code Geass canon however.
That said, let's open fire. Revolutions in this day and age seem to rarely lead to an objectively better government arising. Might as well decide to build one that's subjectively better according to my ideals.
