Shorts in parallel - out of curiosity
A short is never actually a true short. It's a very low resistance. So even if you made two "shorts" one could be 0.25 Ohms and the other could be 0.001 Ohms. Depending on the circuit, they're both shorts, but they could act very differently depending upon the amount of current coming from the circuit. The difference in this case would make the 0.001 Ohms a much better path for current. Consequently, hardly any current would go through the 0.25 ohm short. In summary, it's likely too difficult to try and control two shorts to act in a balanced manner. If you are, you're not thinking of them as a short but rather as a current/low-resistance path.

The inductor would act like it's equivalent series resistance (ESR) once the current stabilizes to a steady state.