QUIZ: What Would Your Role In A Sageuk Be?

You don't particularly care about palace politics, but your lover sure does: he wants control over the throne, and he wants it bad. And being your romantic and dramatic self, you want to give it to him. So the king is going to have to go, whether you poison his tea or bathwater, or lace his favorite incense with something toxic. Sure, you and your beau are both committing high treason, but how can you resist his bad boy charm?

Well, life at home was good while it lasted. But unfortunately for you, you're about to be ripped away from your friends and family and sent off to live in a faraway kingdom, where you will likely no longer be getting the royal treatment. You may be forced to fight wolves or married off to a man who doesn't even speak the same language as you, but if you're resilient, you'll survive and make the best of it!!

You're right, and the king knows it. But that's not going to stop him from banishing you for your honesty and ignoring your sage advice until it's too late and his kingdom is in shambles. Maybe he'll swallow his pride and send someone to bring you back; heaven knows the kingdom needs you. But you've just about had enough of his grievances, and a quiet life of reading and sleeping is looking awfully appealing to you!

Sheesh, you've been sick for a while. Like, seriously. Everyone in the palace is fighting over who will rule when you die, but here you are just lying around for years in a feverish slumber. Will you finally die this episode, or be alive for the next 10 while everyone around you scrambles to usurp your throne? Who knows!

You didn't know you were related to the royal family, so you grew up humbly and learned to defend and provide for yourself — which makes you an awfully good candidate over the coddled, sheltered Crown Prince. You don't particularly want to be king, but things start to get problematic when all of the laypeople in the kingdom want to put you on the throne. Luckily, you're clever and upright enough to figure out a solution that works for everyone!

You don't have an easy job, especially when the Crown Prince keeps putting himself in harm's way or convincing you to switch clothes and pose as him while he goes gallivanting around town. But your longstanding friendship with the prince is worth all the trouble he puts you through, and it's with this in mind that you will valiantly sacrifice yourself to protect him. At least you die in the name of honor, loyalty, and a whole host of values that are hard to come by in the palace!

You're the Crown Prince! Which sounds great, except that it's not all fun and games as heir to the throne. You may get the royal treatment, but pretty much everyone in the palace is trying to take you out. Oh well, at least you'll probably find love, and you can survive a few stab wounds to the abdomen, right? Best of luck!

We get it, palace life is tough and it's hard to trust anyone. You've survived by becoming hardened, suspicious, and bitter. You have room in your heart for your children only, and you want to make sure that they grow up safely — so you raise them to be hardened, suspicious, and bitter... which ends up backfiring when they feel this way mostly towards you. But that's what happens when you starve your children of love and raise them as princes instead of kids! Hopefully they can find it in their hearts to forgive you before it's too late; you really were just trying to do what was best for them.

How do you do it? No, seriously, give us your secret! You're an innocent, sweet, happy little ball of positivity and goodness, and all the princes are head-over-heels for you. It won't be an easy ride for you and your favorite prince (probably the Crown Prince, because it's always the Crown Prince), but if you manage to survive until the end of the drama then you'll have a perfect fairytale ending!

Alas, whether you really loved him or you just wanted to marry into the royal family, you've gone and tied yourself to someone who will never have feelings for you. His heart belongs to someone else, and he'll constantly take out his frustration on you over not being able to have her. If you're not mean to begin with, years of being ignored and scorned by your husband will turn you pretty sour — but at least you can say you're married to a prince!

Whether you're keeping the current king under your thumb via threats or devising a way to put your own man on the throne, you are the mastermind behind the political upheaval in the palace. You're clever and ambitious, but you're bound to get caught in the end. If you're lucky, maybe the royal family will just banish you — but we're betting your punishment will be more severe than that.

We get it, it's tough to be born into the royal family but never truly have the right to the throne — unless, that is, you kill all your older siblings until you're next in line. If you didn't kill them, they probably would have seen you as a threat and taken you out, right? So really it was going to come down to you or them anyway, right? Enjoy your reign while it lasts, because soon enough your misdeeds will haunt you until you succumb to madness!