Pedro II doesn't get deposed

There were a lot of loyalist soldiers still. If Pedro was just a bit more serious about stopping the coup, he could have given the order and the coup would have failed.

D.Pedro wasn't present in Rio de Janeiro when the coup happened; he was resting(with the Imperial Family) at Petrópolis - the Army units involved were in fact besieging the Cabinet. When the Prime Minister and the Minister of War sought to order the troops they had to resist, the Army Adjutant-General(Marshal Floriano Peixoto) said the artillery pieces pointed at them would mean a bloodbath. When told a charge could capture those cannons, after all Floriano himself had done so once in the Triple Alliance War, Floriano answered: 'But here we'd be fighting fellow Brazilians'.

It's hard to order resistance when your own officers refuse to pass the orders down the chain of command.
 
Two possibilities:

1. Princess Isabella never signs the Lei Áurea, or the abolition of slavery. Eventually slavery dies out years later due to the Lei do Ventre Livre, which libertated all sons of slaves.

2. Pedro II defeats the coup of 1889 and gets more serious about the danger that the Republicans represented, purging the army and closing the PRP, a Republican party.

I would really love to see a TL about the Empire continuing since I'm a fellow monarchist and Brazilian :)

Plausible?
 
Two possibilities:

1. Princess Isabella never signs the Lei Áurea, or the abolition of slavery. Eventually slavery dies out years later due to the Lei do Ventre Livre, which libertated all sons of slaves

The problem is that the abolition was already delayed enough, and it didn't spare the monarchy. Isabella forced the law because the government was being forced by the provinces to free the slaves. By 1888 the Abolitionist were supporting escapes of slaves in nearly all municipalities. The farmers of Western São Paulo were already using more immigrants than slaves to produce coffee (the municipality of São Carlos had freed their slaves in 1887). The provinces of Ceará, Amazonas and Rio Grande do Sul had already freed their slaves in 1884/1885, Goiás had no more slavery in early 1888 and the municipalities of Rio Grande do Norte had done the same until December 1887.

If Isabel had not signed the law in 1888 many other provinces would continue to free their slaves by their own, increasing the union between Federalism, Republicanism and Abolitinionism. When the coup is done (and a coup was extremely likely to happen between 1888 and 1891) the monarchy would have even less supporters (as many Abolitionists and former slaves became IOTL strong deffenders of the imperial family). We probably would see a more radical Republican revolution that also frees the slaves.

2. Pedro II defeats the coup of 1889 and gets more serious about the danger that the Republicans represented, purging the army and closing the PRP, a Republican party.

That wasn't really the character of Pedro. By 1889 he had accepted the fact that the Empire wouldn't last long, he just hoped that it wouldn't happen while he was alive (José Murilo de Carvalho explains it very well in his biography of the Emperor). Also, he was a strong deffender of freedom of press and opinion. Even British observers were shocked by the fact that he never tried to punish or even sue anyone who defended (using extremely rude terms) the end of the monarchy or even the death of the imperial family (as Benjamim Constant wanted).

Also, as was explained here before, the coup actually didn't start against the Emperor, but against the government. Initially Deodoro da Fonseca only deposed the Prime Minister, the Viscount of Ouro Preto. He only agreed to declare the Republic when he discovered that Pedro II indicated as Ouro Preto's replacement the senator Gaspar Silveira Martins, who was an old enemy of Deodoro (they had courted the same woman when they both lived in São Gabriel, in Rio Grande do Sul). Finally, as Guilherme said, it's difficult to crush a coup when the officers that should command the troops simply refuse to obbey the orders of the government because they don't want to fight their fellow colleagues.
 
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