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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#76: Feb 21st 2025 at 8:58:17 PM

YTA. Pets don't need "utility", and if a cat is unhappy, it should be entertained and/or taken to the vet, not put down. Also, getting her a new cat doesn't work, since pets are companions, not furniture.


AITA for kidnapping a village's children because the villagers wouldn't pay me?

I (33M) am a rat catcher, and my latest gig was at this small village. However, the villagers didn't pay me, so as punishment, I took all the kids in the village away. AITA?

For every low there is a high.
Bisected8 A casual tief of punk from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
A casual tief of punk
#77: Feb 23rd 2025 at 5:50:43 AM

NTA, contractors deserve to be paid, and you're well in your right to claim collateral until the debt is settled.


AITA for not checking if it's OK to shoot my new situationship in the head?

So, as a bit of background, we're not officially dating, but she's semi-cute, and there's something mutual there. I (F30's) am a fully trained surgeon, but thanks to unlocking Craft late in life I can revive the dead to perfect health. My crush (F30's)'s interrupted me when I was shooting a patient (to save him from other injuries), meaning he didn't revive, and she arrested me for his murder. While in a holding cell at the police station, I was kidnapped by the former boss of her (and now mine, I guess) colleague, taken to a blacksite and forced to keep reviving said boss while she carried out experiments on herself. When they both showed up to bust me out, they were both afflicted with a slow acting poison. I can only bring someone back in the state they were in an hour before, and only when they're fully dead. So I shot them both in the head without saying anything.

Now, they were grateful to not die to an assassin's ploy (and let me on their team to take down said boss), but I can't help but feel I made a bad third impression. Should I apologise?

Edited by Bisected8 on Feb 23rd 2025 at 1:51:15 PM

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KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
I am awesome, everything is interesting
#78: Feb 23rd 2025 at 9:59:47 AM

YTA, you should have checked.


AITA for not going down a hill in a blizzard with my friend?

Ok so for context my (28M) friend/roommate (28M) accidentally let this kid (Human 2F) through a door that entered our factory and then dragged the kid with him to the restaurant I was at with my girlfriend (27F) on a date for her birthday, and caused pandemonium, putting our relationship on the rocks. Anyways my crazy coworker and former roommate (also 28M) offered a way to get the kid back but my friend wouldn't go for it since he got attached to this kid (even giving her a name), so I ended up getting kidnapped by my crazy coworker who tried to use a torture device on me. So then we try to go tell our boss (55M) but then he turned out to be working with our crazy coworker and they took the kid and banished me and my friend to the Himalayas. Then my friend and I got in a fight about it since he said everything that we worked for didn't matter, as well as him not listening to me this whole time. Then he said there was a way to save the kid if we could get to a village at the bottom of the mountain but I said no since I felt that we would just freeze to death doing that. Then he went ahead and left without me and I kind of regret not going with him. AITA?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Feb 23rd 2025 at 1:26:03 PM

alateli " oh , uh .. 'blanket'." from Living Room (Apprentice) Relationship Status: Brewing the love potion
" oh , uh .. 'blanket'."
#79: Feb 24th 2025 at 6:49:08 AM

NTA, but stick close next time.


AITA for accidentally murdering a small clown child?

I, (M7.5) around 15 years old, and my human friend, (F7) 14 were recently going to Jeevik Week. We had to get to the front of the train, but naturally , the higher bloods were there. Now, me and my friend are both lowbloods (I'm rust, she's bronze) so sneaking into the higher cars was not easy. So, we get to the front car with the purplebloods, and as batshit as they are, force us to play a game. Basically, we had to spin a wheel with caste colors on it, and go kill someone in that caste. We do this for a little bit until it lands on purple. We have no idea WHAT to do, so we both step outside for a bit between cars. One of the purplebloods (??5) 10 years old steps out and reaches for my friend. Out of pure panic, I elbow them off, causing them to fall off the train entirely onto the tracks.

We technically passed the game, if it means anything. AITA?

Well if it isn't my favorite human ..!
KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
I am awesome, everything is interesting
#80: Feb 24th 2025 at 5:31:11 PM

NTA, it was an accident.


AITA for putting my nieces pet pig outside?

My (58M) niece and nephew (12F and 12M) are staying with me over the summer and recently, my niece decided to get a pet pig. Now, I'm not crazy about animals in general and so was not thrilled about this, but she got the pig anyways. I run a museum and have had various exhibits be destroyed by the pig, which also tears up my carpet and my clothes. It recently chewed up my pant leg so I tried putting it outside but she insisted it wasn't safe and wouldn't let me. Anyways today she was heading out to buy a carrier for it and asked me to watch the pig which I reluctantly agreed to do, but the pig destroyed a museum exhibit, costing me business. So I decided to tether the pig outside, and almost immediately after it got carried off by a pterodactyl. My niece came home and was worried about the pig, especially when my employee (22M) said the pig got eaten, and dragged all of us to go save the pig. We eventually find all of these dinosaurs coated in sap while looking for the pig, and unthinkingly I comment that I should have put the pig out ages ago. Turns out my niece overheard me say that and accused me of putting the pig outside and lying to her about it. Now she refuses to talk to me at all. AITA?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Apr 26th 2025 at 10:10:26 AM

TroperNo9001 MR. NAICE GUY from The Old Man’s Study (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
MR. NAICE GUY
#81: Mar 3rd 2025 at 8:58:41 AM

NTA — pigs are more difficult pets to take care of than cats or even dogs, and your niece should've been more responsible with it. Also, the pterodactyl kidnapping it was beyond your control since I believe you couldn't find any other safe place to keep the pig.


Unmarked Season 5 spoilers follow.

AITA for destroying my world's timeline 7 times because my enemy told me that I was making friends the wrong way?

Okay everypony— I mean everyone, you better saddle up (no pun intended, that's just how my language is) for this long and sordid story.

I (20-25F unicorn) had this friend (20-25M unicorn), whom I've had known since we were foals since we were neighbors in our little village. But one day when we were playing together when we were little, he got his cutie mark (the symbol on a pony's flanks that represents their special talent) ahead of me. His parents saw this and were super proud of him, so they sent him off to a boarding school for magic out of town. I got sad, lonely, and jealous of him, and his departure made be genuinely believe that cutie marks separate ponies forever, so I never tried making new friends out of fear they'd leave me the same way.

Many years later, I studied every magic spell that I could until I found one that could help me cope with my suffering — one that would strip off a pony's cutie mark along with their talents and replace it an equals sign. With that, I enchanted a wooden wand with it, cast the spell on several ponies, and then built them a small, deliberately bland and boring town for them to live in, where I am the mayor. I then stored the cutie marks away in a vault not far from town and heavily discouraged anypony from retrieving them with my daily announcements: that in sameness there is peace, that exceptionalism is a lie, that difference is frustration, that to excel is to fail... bottom line is, with my carefully crafted words, I made them believe that they willingly gave up their cutie marks for this much "better" lifestyle of being equal to each other... equally bad.

My plan was successful because I was able to prevent these new "friends" I made from leaving me... until this pony (20-25F alicorn), the up-and-coming princess of my entire kingdom, and her five friends (20-25F, 2 pegasi 2 earth ponies & 1 unicorn), thwarted me. I tried brainwashing them the same way as I did to my "friends" and succeeded in trapping them in my web of lies and stealing their cutie marks... but one of them got away. They sent over the shy yellow pegasus to my house as a spy because she was the only one who saw through my tactics and escaped my spell, and she pretended to be one of us to expose my scheme. She then publicly outed me to her friends that I faked being an "Equal Pony" and that I was only channeling my magic through an ordinary stick, and she rallied everypony in town to turn against me and get back their cutie marks.

Out of sheer spite for those "intruders", I made sure to keep their cutie marks, which were stored in glass jars, out of their reach, but four of my prisoners (20-25, 1 M earth pony, 1 M unicorn, 1 F unicorn, and 1 F pegasus) ganged up on me and broke them. All the cutie marks that I stole from everypony were returned to their "rightful" owners, and they all fought back against me. As I tried defending myself, the princess tried convincing me that I didn't understand what "true" friendship is and that there are better ways to find it, but I refused to listen to her and fled.

I then spent several more weeks or months spying on her as part of my revenge plan, until finally, I discovered what made her bond with her friends so special. When they were foals, the athletic blue pegasus somehow managed to get herself and the others their cutie marks when she accidentally performed the Sonic Rainboom! It's an unusual phenomenon that happens when a very special pony like her flies at the speed of sound! And that was long before they all met each other as adults!

That made me really wish my foalhood friend didn't abandon me after getting his cutie mark, so after the princess's presentation on them, I sneaked into the castle's throne/map room and put out a scroll for a new spell I had discovered during my espionage. I then waited until the princess and her assistant (10-12M dragon) arrived to show them that I would time travel back to that crucial moment and stop it from happening! So I summoned a portal with the scroll and hopped in, but they followed me back to the past, yet I managed to stop that young blue pegasus from performing the Rainboom!

The princess called me out for it, but I didn't listen and sent her and her assistant to the Bad Future that I created, where an evil pony (~1000M shadow unicorn, looked 25-35) took over his empire, the ponies were at war with him, and the princess wasn't friends with those five other ponies with her! She and her assistant managed to get back to the past and find me, but I changed the spell so that they'd always arrive at this exact moment, where they're Forced to Watch what happens each time I mess with it! This went on for 6 more times, with each future being worse than the last one, but I had no regrets tormenting the princess about her understanding of cutie marks and friendship... until she dragged me into the last timeline I created... a barren wasteland of what used to be our kingdom.

The princess called me out one more time for destroying my home... our home, all because she and her friends dismantled my cult. She told me that every time I changed the past, even just one tiny change, the future ended up worse not just for her, but for everycreature who lived in this world. I yelled at her because I was perfectly happy with my life until she and her friends ruined it, yet she apologized for that because she didn't know why I made that cult in the first place.

So in frustration, I took her further back into the past, to that moment in my foalhood when my old friend left me right after he got his cutie mark. After the princess saw this painful memory of mine, she told me that a cutie mark shouldn't be the cause of our separation, but I angrily retorted that I wasn't lucky like her to get it at the same time as her friends, that she had no idea how I felt back then, that I'd continue destroying this timeline until she'd get it, and then destroy the scroll to make sure she couldn't try restoring the original timeline!

I still didn't believe what she said about the consequences because she only showed me that last Bad Future, but she told me they went horrible because each time, she never had her friends to team up with her and stop the bad guys. Then I asked what made their bond so special, and she said that it was their differences that made it unbreakable. But I didn't understand... why did my foalhood friend leave me?! So she advised me that sometimes, even the best of friends drift apart for things beyond their control, it's okay to start over with new ones, and if big changes like that happen to my new friends, then we should work through it together to strengthen our bond. I was still afraid that my new friends might still leave me despite everything, but she told me that it's ultimately my responsibility to make sure they don't, but definitely though much better, healthier ways than starting a cult.

Finally, we were able to return to the original timeline, and I surrendered to the princess, but surprisingly, she forgave me for everything I did, even offered to mentor me about the magic of friendship so this disaster wouldn't happen ever again. I was really nervous about becoming her student because I hurt everycreature in this world and I must treat royalty with utmost respect, but I gladly accepted the offer...

Buuuuut in practice, I seriously have a long way to go to atone my sins, for they still haunt me to this day, other ponies, even the princess's friends, won't let me live it down, and while I still miss my foalhood friend, I'm afraid of what he might think of me now if we ever meet again.

TLDR: My old friend left my town when we were little because his then-new cutie mark convinced his parents to send him to boarding school, so many years later, I convinced several new "friends" to join my cult so they wouldn't leave me the same way he did. Then a princess and her friends dismantled that cult, and she tried convincing me it's not the right way to make new friends, so out of spite, I messed with our kingdom's timeline 7 times so she could feel what it's like to be abandoned like that. But despite me causing the apocalypse the last time I changed the past, she forgave me anyway and took me under her literal and metaphorical wing in hopes that I wouldn't do it again, but I still regret all of that.

AITA?

And P.S.: The princess's assistant was the one who typed this all out for me. It's hard to post here with hooves, y'know?

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 4th 2025 at 3:50:19 AM

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JankyKong He's finally back to kick some... wait from a Secret Base on the Moon Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
He's finally back to kick some... wait
#82: Mar 4th 2025 at 1:35:56 PM

YTA. So you were willing to ruin everyone else's happiness just because of some old childhood friend drama? Plenty of people have had to deal with that and never do things that drastic. At the very least, it's good that now you seem to recognize that you were being unreasonable.


AITA for trying to stop a girl from going home?

For as long as I (6F) can remember, I've been living in this lonely castle with only one other person as company (young adult, M). It was fine, as he was the only person I've ever cared about. That all changed when one day, a girl who looks my age fell from the sky and landed here. Ever since she showed up, my friend has been putting all of his effort into some plan to help her reach the window she fell from so she can return home. I hate her, but that's not important.

Now, the girl doesn't remember how she got here, but I do. I also know that she cannot be allowed to leave this place. If she does, my friend and I will both disappear forever, and she will never see us again. No matter how I feel about her, I don't want her to have to go through that grief. The thing is, my friend is doing everything he can to send her home, even though he also knows what will happen if she leaves.

I've been trying my best to tell them that they should give up, but they're still at it. If they won't listen to me, I think I might need to do something more drastic. AITA?

This sounds exactly like something a child would write.

Edited by JankyKong on Mar 4th 2025 at 4:40:35 AM

musical euphoria
KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
I am awesome, everything is interesting
#83: Mar 4th 2025 at 3:25:49 PM

YTA, you're trying to essentially hold her hostage for your own gain


AITA for not saving my ex-girlfriend from Nazis?

I (35M) recently reconnected with my ex-girlfriend (27F) and she agreed to help me to track down some ancient artifacts that I was looking for. Anyways, we went to Egypt and it turns out, my rival (42M) was also there looking for the same artifacts, and was working both with both the nazis as well as local bandits. Anyways, some of the bandits were chasing after both of is so my ex-girlfriend hid in some baskets but ended up getting captured, and then the truck I thought she ended up on blew up so I thought she was killed. Later though, I tracked down the nazi's encampment and found her alive but a hostage. I was starting to free her, but then I realized that if I did, they'd realize I was there and would track us down, so I left her tied up there while I looked for the artifact. Even though I said I'd be back for her and explained my reasoning, she was not happy about this. AITA?

TheRealBerdly Berdly from Hometown Since: Mar, 2023 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Berdly
#84: Mar 6th 2025 at 2:38:25 PM

NTA, what you did is somewhat understandable and you are not the asshole. The Nazis are the assholes in that situation of course.


AITA for blaming my brother-in-law’s ex on trying to murder him?

My brother-in-law (34M) was in a relationship with a hitman (29M), and they had an illegal deal for a magic book in place, so I (38M) eventually sued the hitman due to this crime and also fabricated the claim that he tried to murder my brother-in-law. While he did not murder my brother-in-law, he murdered numerous other people and made money off of it and I reached the conclusion that he deserved this. However, my brother-in-law (who at this point has already broken up with him and I assumed he hated the hitman) went in and tried to deflect the charges onto him and therefore lost his entire house and wealth over it. My brother-in-law is really nice and I frankly have no idea why he was ever with a hitman who doesn’t deserve him at all. AITA?

Edited by TheRealBerdly on Mar 6th 2025 at 5:39:16 AM

He has returned, but WHY?
Pbskidsfan Oona the Gadget Lady Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
Oona the Gadget Lady
#85: Mar 6th 2025 at 10:23:23 PM

YTA, but you're somewhat justified in that you wanted the law to catch up with a criminal. That being said, fabricating charges isn't the best way to go about it, especially since you could've gotten multiple people in trouble, including yourself.


AITA for not listening to my friend and accidentally burning her hand?

Okay, so my boyfriend did this a while back, so I'm coming here too, 'cause I've got a BIG problem.

I (19F) am best friends with my lady-in-waiting (23F), who's training for the royal guard (I'll call her C). She always insists on protecting me from every danger, but I always tell her I can protect myself, because I really can! Especially since my hair powers help out a lot, even if they're unpredictable.

A few months ago, we started following these mysterious rocks since they react to my powers. I'm traveling with C, my boyfriend (24M), his friend (25M), and this weird old guy (???M) who got into the caravan somehow. Anyway, recently I found a written incantation that makes me go into a trance and kill everything in the area (people included). I can't snap out of it myself; the first time it happened, someone else (40s, F) had to push me into a lake.

But I digress. Here's the important part: there was this evil tree that captured everyone in our traveling group except me and C. My friend found a spear that killed parts of the tree, but it was taking too long. I thought it would be faster if I used the incantation, and I told C so, but she insisted on using the spear. I kept hearing the shrieks of everyone stuck in the tree, and I couldn't wait any longer, so I used the spell. It killed the tree quickly as I'd hoped, and everyone ran out safely (except my boyfriend, who passed out and had to be carried). After that, C tried to snap me out of the trance, and I told her to leave because I didn't want her to get hurt. She refused, and she touched my arm, burning it to a crisp.

That's all over now. We both got out before the tree's collapse, but her arm is still burnt, and she blamed me for not listening to her. But if I hadn't used the incantation, we all may have died. So with all that, AITA?

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Zanreo Gizmondo from Glitch City (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Gizmondo
#86: Mar 7th 2025 at 5:34:49 AM

Gonna say NTA, leaning NAH. You did when you felt was necessary to quickly save others in a tough situation, and C was presumably aware of the risks of getting close to you in that state.


AITA for proposing on the first date?

So I (45M) have had feelings for one of my close friends (mid-30sF) for a while now and finally decided to ask her out on a date, which she accepted. It all went well and we had a great time... until the end of the date where I suddenly decided to let all my feelings out in the most awkward way and straight up proposed to her, even rambled on about how I imagined our future together. Yeah, in hindsight I see how this was way too much for a first date, and I already had a feeling I had screwed up at this point. However, she just said she had a fun day and had to get home, and then left.

The next day, I recounted the previous night to two of my other friends from the same friend group (44M and 62M) who both let me know just how badly I fumbled this, including how some of the things I said in my ramblings could have come off as inappropiate or insensitive. They suggested I apologize to her, so I did just that later that day. However, she insisted it was all fine and she had heard worse stuff at work anyway (she used to be a hostess and now manages the club), and said she'd rather just be friends. Which hey, I'd rather have her in my life as a friend than not at all. Despite her reassurances, though, she's been distant from me ever since and we haven't been speaking for the past months, she won't even reply to my messages. I still love her but I'm worried I've completely pushed her away with my behavior. So, I already know I fucked up during our date but AITA?

Edited by Zanreo on Mar 7th 2025 at 5:22:43 PM

My favorite failed console tbh
KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
I am awesome, everything is interesting
#87: Mar 7th 2025 at 7:20:25 AM

YTA, you put her in a really weird and uncomfortable spot by doing that. And this is someone you'll still have to associate with which makes it worse.


AITA for saving my house instead of a bird?

My (78M) wife of 56 years (77F) recently passed away. Since we were kids, it had been her dream to go to this particular waterfall in South America, but life had consistently got in the way and she passed before we were able to make the trip happen. Recently, I decided to fly to this waterfall by tying thousands of balloons to my house and going there. Turns out though, this little kid (10M) had stowed away on my house and so was traveling with me. I wasn't happy about this but I felt that I had a responsibility to make sure the kid was safe and got back home. Anyways, we eventually made it to South America, and soon after arriving we ran into this dog that could somehow talk due to a special collar that it had, as well as this giant bird that the kid started to get attached to. Turns out, the dog wanted to take the bird prisoner, and the kid asked me to help protect it, which I reluctantly agreed to do. Eventually, we end up meeting my childhood idol (92M) an explorer, who turned out to be obsessed with catching the bird, and as soon as the kid let it slip that we had the bird, sent his whole pack of dogs after us. The dog we met earlier helped us to escape, and the dog, the bird, the kid and I got away. At least, it seemed like that was the case until my idol showed up in his blimp and trapped the bird in a net. I tried to free the bird but then my idol set my house on fire. Since my house is the last physical connection I had to my late wife, I rushed over to put the fire out, and my idol and his dogs dragged the bird off while I was preoccupied. The kid then expressed disappointment that I let the bird be captured. I told him that it was none of my concern as I hadn't asked for any of this. The dog tried to reassure me that it was alright but, still upset, I snapped at him that if he hadn't showed up none of this would have happened, and called him a bad dog, causing him to walk off. I told the kid I was going to go to the falls no matter what. (I forgot to include this detail earlier but the kid was trying to get some badge for assisting the elderly, to become a senior wilderness explorer which is what lead him to stowing away accidentally in the first place). Anyways, once I made it the kid threw down the sash that he had with all of the badges on it saying he didn't want the assisting the elderly badge anymore and left. I went back to my house and sat down, but now I feel guilty about the whole thing. AITA?

TroperNo9001 MR. NAICE GUY from The Old Man’s Study (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
MR. NAICE GUY
#88: Mar 7th 2025 at 7:50:58 AM

ESH (except for the kid and the dog) — Sure, your idol was the real asshole here for kidnapping the bird and destroying your home, but the kid has his own dreams too, just like you. I bet your wife would be happy that you went on this adventure with this kid if she were alive, since her whole life with you was already her adventure. I know you don't have many years left on this planet, but you should say sorry to that kid and help him get the bird back if rescuing it means one step closer to getting that badge. That should be your legacy that he'll remember growing up.

And yeah, the dog did nothing wrong here either since it seemed he was against your idol and his dog pack, too. You better say sorry to him too and give him all the headpats.


AITB (Am I The Butthole) for leaving my best friend and hometown for my dreams?

I (9F)OOC have been one of the playable characters in a sugary sweet racing game for 6 years (okay, technically longer than that but I was bullied and forgotten by my 15 fellow racers (x12 9F and x3 9M), more on that later) (also, we video game characters don't age, so I'm still 9 to this day but shh, don't tell anyone I snuck into this site on the Internet just to vent here), but I've gotten soooooooo bored of racing the same tracks every single day. My best friend (35-40M) from another game overheard this, so he built me a new racetrack with just his bare hands (literally, that guy's got HUUUUUGE hands!). I loved it so much that I forgot that I was on the job acting out my role for a player, and I overrode her controls to drive on that "secret" track!

I accidentally broke my game cabinet's steering wheel in the process, so I teamed up with my best friend to travel the Internet to buy a new one, or else my game will be unplugged (shut down for you online gamers) in a few days, and everyone including me will be gameless (homeless)! We found a gaming wheel, the only one, on eBay and joined the auction for it, buuuuut we didn't know how that worked, so we won the auction but the wheel ended up costing a grand total of $27,001, and we needed to buy it in 24 hours or else it would go to another bidder.

My friend got real mad (and I mean MAD) at this sitch, but he still agreed to help me out 'cuz that's what besties do, so he got back to this rather shady Internet guy (~25M) we met before we went to eBay. He offered us a job at another racing game so we can raise enough money for the steering wheel, and all we had to do was steal one of the cars there so an IRL person can sell it to him for a BUTTLOAD of money, even more than the steering wheel's price, and buy it for us! However, that guy warned us that that game was gritty and dangerous, yet one of the most popular online games out there, but my best friend agreed to take me there 'cuz I'm a BORN racer!

So we went full-on Grand Theft Auto there, and I took the wheel. The owner (~32F)OOC of the car we stole chased us down with another one... but the thrills! The danger! The daring tricks I could do with ours! I felt my passion for racing coming back as I drove off-track! Buuuuut that gal eventually caught us and was mad that we stole her car, but at least she still was impressed by my sick moves!

My friend then explained everything to her in the saddest way possible (to my embarrassment), and while she took pity on us, she and her motley crew of 4 (x2 25-30F, 45-50M, and ~25M) suggested a better way to earn money. The leader recommended making funny videos on a video sharing site, and even set up my friend's account there, since we can earn money based on the number of heart reacts we get on our videos (to send to that IRL person ofc). I gladly accepted the job, but my friend... n-not so much. Something about that gal irked him, but I loved her sass and wanted to race with her again, but my friend and I had to meet with the head of that video site ASAP, so we didn't talk about our problems for now.

So we arrived at the website, where the head algorithm (23-26F), who was that cool gal's friend, offered to help my friend become a viral sensation. I also suggested to him that I go back to that racing game and ask the cool gal to give away her car to us so we can sell it already, but he didn't really like that idea 'cuz as the shady guy said, that place was dangerous. He insisted on making viral videos instead, so the head gave me a job as a pop-up ad (for you IRL peeps, it's like that guy who goes around the mall giving people coupons) so I could help him by going around various sites and advertising his videos to some randos!

My friend still wanted to go with me 'cuz y'know, he's my friend and all, but the head insisted that he stay with her 'cuz he's an online star while she's his manager. I assured him that even if we're friends, we'd be fine being apart for just a short while, but he was still worried about me just 'cuz I'm a kid. The head supported my decision by giving me a personal chaperone and two devices that my friend and I can call each other on, but he said that he'd miss me 'cuz we've been besties for 6 years. SIX. YEARS. We've been inseparable ever since he rescued me from that evil king/racer (~50-60/20-30M) who invaded my game, erased my fellow racers' memories and sent them after me! But it's not like being away for just a few hours is gonna sever our bond... right?

My friend reluctantly said goodbye to me as he saw me off, and I arrived in an online version of Disneyland. It was waaaaaaay too sweet and lame-o for my tastes now, but my job had to be done there. After getting a bit lost, I managed to get a few people to click my ad, instantly teleporting them to that video site, then I hid backstage in a Disney Princess meet-and-greet stage. All the princesses (14-21F) (and IK one of them's a queen, while another's not really one 'cuz she only bears the title for whatever reason, but who cares?) there were surprised to meet me, and they accepted me as one of them! I hung out with them for a while, and they advised me to find my song, one about my deepest desires that I'd spontaneously sing about when I look into my reflection or something.

I tried that but nothing happened, just when my friend called me and told me that we had earned enough money for the steering wheel. I was so excited that my game was saved and that we could finally to go back to our normal routine... but then I had an epiphany... in song. To keep things short and sweet (yuck), I really really REALLY wanted to stay in that gritty racing game, with that cool gal and her crew, and we could race each other in the dirt without caring about the law! That place was full of weirdos and unpredictable stuff! Things that I never saw in my old game 'cuz it hasn't been updated for YEARS! But on the other hand, I was worried about what my friend would think, for he'd miss me soooo much if I left him behind.

I went back to that game and told the cool gal about my predicament, that my friend wanted to stay in his dingy game and stick to his routine, while I wanted to move out of my boring game and try something new. She told me that it's okay for besties not to have the same dreams as long as they understand each other on that, and that when I go home, I'd still cherish the memories I had with her. But I didn't wanna go home, I wanted to move in with her! It's my new life now, no more same-old same-old people and places ever again!

So I hung out with her and her crew for another day, but she asked me if I told my friend about my plans. I told her "not exactly", but she encouraged me to tell him about it 'cuz that's what best friends do. I told her that I might upset him if I do, but she said that we could just talk things out if that happens, but I was so afraid of ruining our friendship! The cool gal then said that all friendships change, but the good ones get stronger because of it, but then she told me that it was all up to me on how to handle this.

Then me and my new friend started racing, just when her game started to glitch, just like me. I thought I caused all this glitching, but the cool gal warned me that as a foreigner to her game, I'd die PERMANENTLY if the game's server rebooted while I was still in it. I tried following her car outta the game, but a glitched-up building collapsed on me, but thankfully she and my bestie rescued me before I could get deleted.

When I woke up outside the game, I told my bestie that I accidentally caused it to glitch, and that I should've stayed with him instead of chasing my dreams there. But then he told me that he sicced a virus into that game to clone my glitching and slow down my new car with it to force me to leave, all because he overheard me on his device about my plans to move to that game! I accused him of spying, but he told me that I'd be "ditching" my old friends and my old game for a new one ('cuz if just one char is missing, then the arcade owner (~50M) would consider my game broken and unplug it, just like when its steering wheel broke). I angrily retorted that I didn't care 'cuz I was just one of 16 racers who rotate jobs daily, and nobody would notice if I was missing from the Daily Roster for who knows how long! But my friend argued that he couldn't leave his game, period, 'cuz he's the bad guy there (but not a bad bad one since it's just his job, but a very important one)... But yeah, as if my role as an exchangeable player char's just as important as his! So I threw out the heart-shaped cookie medal I made for him 6 years ago, then stormed off and told him not to follow me...

But he still did. However... something felt really off about him 'cuz he was a sickly pinkish-red and all he could say was "FRIIIEEEEND?". Then suddenly, more of him showed up, all of them desperate to take me away from my new friend! I ran away from them but discovered a whole SWARM of them breaking the Internet, LITERALLY, and the news said that they were the result of the same virus my old friend sent over to my new friend's game! I ran to the info booth and searched online aka asked the guide (25-30M) there for help, and he hid me away from them and closed his booth.

Suddenly, what we thought was one of those clones burst in, and we fought back by throwing books at him, but he told me that it's the real him, my old friend, and he wanted to apologize for this huge mess. He didn't mean for the virus to cause this much destruction, but the guide explained that it cloned his "needy, clingy, self-destructive" behavior and produced all of those desperate clones out of it. My friend then asked him on how to stop them, and he said that he either send them all to therapy (which was "not very realistic") or lure them into the gate of an antivirus software to delete them for good.

We took the second option and had the head of that video site pick us up, and she was furious about what my friend did, but on the other hand, she still appreciated that he helped me save my home. We then worked together to lure the clones into the antivirus, and my friend realized how "needy, clingy, and self-destructive" he was to me. He understood if I didn't want him to be my friend anymore, but I clarified that I called him out for being a bad friend by not letting me pursue my dreams. The head then told us that the antivirus gate was just up ahead, so we had to focus on deleting those virus clones in the meantime.

Suddenly, the clones knocked us aside, but we got up just fine and prepared to go, but then they all merged into this giant virus clone of my friend, who was super-duper desperate to keep me from leaving him. The video site head led me to safety while my friend fought the giant clone, but I slipped and fell off the tall building the head and I were running down from. Surprisingly, the clone safely caught me, but he took me away from my real friend. I was forced to confront the clone all by myself, so I yelled at it for being a bad friend because of its clinginess, but thankfully, my real friend came to the rescue!

He snatched me away from that giant clone's hand, called me "little sister", and put me on another platform away from danger before fighting the clone, but then the clone grabbed him and squeezed him tight in its giant hand. I tried telling that clone to stop, but it didn't listen, so I surrendered and gently told it to put him down and that I would never leave him again as his bestie. The giant clone liked that and held me in its other hand, but my bro argued that it should let me go, because I have my own dreams and a true friend like him would allow me to pursue them, even if he would miss me. Saying that finally made bro feel better about my decision to move to my new friend's game, and the giant clone accepted that and vanished into a golden light. However, bro fell from a great height, but thankfully, all of my princess friends rescued him.

Finally, after that crisis was over, bro and I sat beside each other and reconciled over my decision to have my code installed into my new friend's game so that I can regenerate if I die in there. Before I left for my next session there, bro gave me a parting gift — half of the cookie medal that I threw away in that argument. I said sorry to him for that, but he was okay with it 'cuz we'd each be carrying half of it with us wherever we go, and we hugged each other tearfully before I left for my new job at my new game. Things are never gonna be the same for us, but we still call each other whenever we can.

IK I said I don't care about my old game anymore, but I can't help but wonder if leaving my old friends at the arcade was the right choice after all.

TLDR: I got bored with my old job, so my best friend tried to help me, but I accidentally doomed my game by overriding the controls, so we went to the Internet to earn money for the new hardware accessory to save my game. But as we worked a few jobs there, I made a new friend in a new game and really wanted to move in with her despite me potentially dooming my old game with my absence, but that made my old friend jealous, so he tried to keep me from leaving by sending a virus to my new friend's game to kick me out of it. We got into a fight about that and I stormed off 'cuz my friend didn't listen to me, but then that virus nearly destroyed the Internet by making so many desperate clones of my bestie, which turned into this giant monster who didn't want me to leave. Bro defeated it by accepting the fact that I have my own dreams and that he should let me follow them, even if it meant I'd be breaking his heart by leaving him. He then reconciled with me over my decision and allowed me to go, but at least we still call each other.

AITB?

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Jun 17th 2025 at 8:04:24 PM

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KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
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#89: Mar 10th 2025 at 11:36:41 AM

ESH. Sure, your friend sounds like he was overprotective and clingy, but it seems like OP didn't really consider how her actions would affect anyone around her.


AITA for telling my friend he had helped quite enough today?

I (29M) was getting ready for my day today when I got myself stuck somehow in between a laundry wringer. My best friend (32M) came over and so I told him I was stuck, but somehow he misconstrued what I was saying as that I wanted to be stuck, so he glued me in with forever glue (my friend is a bit dim). I tried to deal with the situation as normal but my boss (40M) sent me home from work after I was unable to do my job. So my friend decided to take me to a carnival to cheer me up, but I ended up getting injured repeatedly. Eventually my friend bought a stick of cotton candy for us, but I knocked both on the ground. My friend got upset that I ruined his cotton candy, so I told him good, and that now he knows how I feel about him ruining my life. My friend said he was only trying to help, so I told him he'd helped quite enough today. My friend ran off crying after that, and a bunch of bystanders started calling me a heartless jerk who deserved what I'd got. So, AITA?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Mar 10th 2025 at 9:52:38 AM

Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#90: Mar 10th 2025 at 9:28:06 PM

ESH — you went a bit too far on the telling-off, but you were perfectly in the right to tell him you didn't want any more help, especially since his attempts at helping you seemed way off-mark at best and dangerous at worst. He might have intended to help, but he was making it worse. And the other people seem to be very nosy and rude.


AITA for spilling secrets without knowing that they were supposed to be secrets?

I (4F) am a talking dog (my owner is typing this for me because I can't read) and my owner's (10F) cousin (11F) runs this amateur newspaper. One day, she had no ideas for articles, and her deadline was nine o'clock that night, so she promised me a burrito if I could get a decent story before then.

So that night, I interviewed another dog (3M) who told me that his owner's (70M) sister (age unknown) was not invited to a party, a parrot (5F) who told me that his owner (15M) plays with an action figure, and a mouse (4 months M) who said that he and his family love the restaurant where he lives. I told the stories to my owner's cousin, and she published them in her paper and had her father (36M) make me a burrito.

Unfortunately, it backfired, because unbeknown to me or the animals I interviewed, all those stories were supposed to be secrets: the sister only wasn't invited because the party was meant to be a surprise, the boy found his action figure embarrassing and was mocked by his peers for it because of his age, and the owner of the restaurant (27M) got angry, because (and, since I'm a dog, I only just found this out) humans don't like the idea of their restaurants being popular among mice.

My owner's cousin decided to stop printing her paper as an apology, which makes me feel guilty since I was the one who gave her the info. AITA?

For every low there is a high.
Pbskidsfan Oona the Gadget Lady Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
Oona the Gadget Lady
#91: Mar 10th 2025 at 9:55:34 PM

NTA, leaning on NAH. You didn't know they were secrets, so it's not your fault the whole thing happened. The animals you interviewed should have chosen their stories wisely.


AITA for taking over a van and (almost) driving it into a goo-filled lake?

So something you need to know about me before I start: I like vans. Just not that particular one. Remember that now.

Anyway, a few months ago, I (9F) applied to Odd Squad with my sister (10F). We went to the training academy, since that's the first place an agent-in-training goes, except I got barely any chances to actually do anything! Every time I touched anything, my sister would take it away because she thought it was "too dangerous". So that meant I couldn't play any training games she thought weren't safe, or use any gadgets at all. She didn't even let me play the tuba!

I realized that there wasn't any point being an agent, since my sister would just take everything away from me and do everything better. So I started working against her. While she was assigned to work in the Odd Squad Arctic precinct, I worked to find an ancient lucky clover, just to one-up her, y'know. But then she ended up finding it, and then got reassigned to a new department with some other agents (11M, 10M, and 500F). And the worst part? She got a flying van to go with it! She knew how much I loved vans, and she wasn't the one who spent so many days researching the clover's exact location, but look at that, she's lucky again. Like always.

So my next plan was to DESTROY. THAT. VAN. I tricked my sister into driving into a "free oil change" shop, and I hacked the van. Then I programmed it to drive itself straight into a lake full of goo. When I did that, I thought the agents would leave and let their van rust, but apparently they all loved it soooo much, so everyone (including my sister) almost drowned trying to retake control of the van. They did eventually, just before the tires hit the lake.

In hindsight, I feel a bit guilty about that whole mess, but I'm still really mad about that van. Especially because of the problems between me and my sister. AITA?

Edited by Pbskidsfan on Mar 10th 2025 at 12:12:15 PM

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BlueXIII Still breathing, despite everything. from Shambhala Since: Sep, 2017 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Still breathing, despite everything.
#92: Mar 11th 2025 at 11:53:34 AM

[up] YTA. They loved that van, and that kind of van is not cheap to replace.


AITA for trying to kill my boss so I can take his role?

I am the second-in-command of a military faction that has been at war with another for millennia. I believe that my boss is too incompetent to be leader. He was great at first, but his leadership is now a constant series of failures. Worse, he vanished for three years then returned with a bunch of purple crystals that he is addicted to.

Anyways, while he was away, I set up a lucrative mining operation and killed a member of the enemy faction and planned on killing his partner as well but failed. Then my boss returned from his trip with the purple crystals, which he used to turn the dead enemy into a zombie. Then he forced me to blow up my mine!

After spending a few days without any contact from my boss, he showed up again and brutally beat me up for "delaying his plans." I was only able to stop him by saying I had a way to get his plans back on course. I fulfilled that honor by opening a portal for him to summon an army of zombies, but the portal became unstable and blew up on him.

The third-in-command later informed me that our boss was still alive, albeit comatose. I went to the location of the ruined portal. I was honestly tired of my boss's behavior. He kept dismissing me, belittling my contributions, and beating me for the slightest mistakes. It was clear that he was unfit to rule anymore. I decided to take matters into my own hands and finally kill him, but third-in-command's pet bird was secretly spying on me, so I had to take my boss to sick bay.

Eventually, my boss recovered and he was FURIOUS that I tried killing him. He's now openly accusing me of treason and is also mad that I tried to kill the leader of the enemy faction, even though my intentions were to impress my boss. Now the rest of my faction are falling in line behind him, calling me disloyal and questioning my commitment to the cause. They all keep saying I’m “unfit” and “too ambitious” for trying to challenge my boss, but I see this as an act of *necessary* leadership.

Before you accuse me of being a "traitor", let me be clear; I have shown constant loyalty to my boss, but he keeps causing problems that I have to clean up. His time is up and I know that I am a better leader. If I was in charge for a longer period, I would have already crushed our enemy and brought back life to our planet.

AITA?

This Unarmed Goon from Umburgh Since: Mar, 2021 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Unarmed Goon
#93: Mar 11th 2025 at 12:40:13 PM

NTA, to be honest, your boss sounds like a real stick in the mud and maybe a bit dumb as well, though I think there could have been a much less violent way in over throwing your boss, I think it's understandable.


AITA for murdering my would-be son-in-law for getting my daughter killed and then plan to murder a group of teens who ran me over after killing my son-in-law and being left for dead

My sweet daughter (F20) was killed in a car accident by my piece of shit drunk son-in-law (M20) and he survived it! So with grief in my heart, I sent him a letter a year later in 4th of July to go and meet at a cliff, of where I murdered him, but after I did the act and as I was walking back home, I saw a light coming right towards me of where I got hit by a car with a group of teens in it, two (M) and two (F), and when I woke up, I found myself on the dock's of where those damn teens kicked me into my water, and one year later, I survived but pissed off by getting hit with that car from those asshole teens, I planned to murder once more, I have already killed half of them and planned to kill the rest of them, but now after all of the blood I have spilled and the two more bodies I'm going to make, am I taking this too far? Am I the AITA?

"It's Thane! Whack him!"
KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
I am awesome, everything is interesting
#94: Mar 11th 2025 at 10:08:52 PM

ESH, sure they were all terrible people, but you took it too far responding by murdering them.


AITA for starting a fight with my wife about her using her maiden name at work?

My (40M) wife (40F) and I have been separated for a while now. Recently though, I came back to see my kids for Christmas and my wife invited me to attend a work party at her work. I end up meeting up with her and we talked for a bit, and she asked where I was planning to stay. She offered to make things easy and for me to stay over for the holidays. She commented that she missed me and I thoughtlessly commented that she didn't miss my last name. She got upset and pointed out how it was to be a married woman at her company, to which I pointed out she was married to me. She got upset and said that she didn't want to have this conversation all over again, to which I said we never finished the conversation. Things ended up getting heated until she was interrupted because her boss (56M) asked her to do something. I'm a bit frustrated with myself for how I handled things, but I wanted to put this here and ask, AITA?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Mar 11th 2025 at 10:10:12 AM

TroperNo9001 MR. NAICE GUY from The Old Man’s Study (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
MR. NAICE GUY
#95: Mar 13th 2025 at 7:33:43 AM

INFO — Why did she decide to keep her maiden name when you're clearly married? Is there something wrong with your relationship? Once she's cooled off, you should go talk to her about it and maybe get marriage counseling if there's still an argument about it.


This follows the events of the True Pacifist Timeline, so some details are omitted due to Asgore only having vague memories of the reset Neutral Timeline.

AITA for collecting human souls to destroy the barrier that was sealing my kingdom away from the outside world?

I (35-45M anthro goat) am the king of a monster race who lives inside a mountain because the humans, who are much more powerful than us, banished us there after a war. They sealed the entrance to our kingdom with a magical barrier that can be broken only by 7 human souls, and we retreated deeper underground in fear of them. My then-wife (35-45F anthro goat) and son (~8M anthro goat) settled there and adopted another child (~8XOOC human) who fell near our house. They seemed to get along well with us (other than a prank they pulled on me that got me very sick), and our happy family was growing so big, we decided to move to another part of the kingdom, somewhere much closer to the entrance to the outside world.

But one day, the human child fell severely ill, and we were gathered around their deathbed. Their last wish for us was to see the golden flowers outside our kingdom, but they could not do it because they could not pass through the barrier by themself. My wife and I pleaded to them that they were our future, that we hope they would be able to peacefully reunite the two races someday, but they soon passed away. Our son, in grief, then absorbed their soul so he could pass through the barrier and fulfill their dying wish.

We tried following him outside as he carried the body of our adopted child, but we could not because only someone with both a human and a monster soul could pass through the barrier. But after he left, we heard screaming outside, and he soon came back badly wounded from the humans who attacked him and still cradling the body of his sibling. He then collapsed in front of us and turned into dust (since that is how we monsters die), and in sheer grief, I declared war on humanity — every human who fell into our kingdom would be killed for their soul, and I would collect 7 of them to destroy the barrier and free my kind. But my wife, who loved our children dearly, hated that idea and ran away from me.

For very personal reasons, I will not clarify if I actually killed the humans, if they died naturally and I just collected their souls afterward, if they willingly sacrificed themselves to help save us, or any combination of those. But regardless, I successfully collected 6 souls and hired a scientist (23-25F anthro lizard) to study them and find a way to get the 7th. I then waited anxiously in my castle garden for any results... and true enough, another child (~8X human) showed up right in front of me. I was shocked that they were a human who just wanted to leave because they got lost, and they were very nervous about killing me to absorb my soul and pass through the barrier with it. I then remembered what I needed to do, so I took them to the edge of the barrier, but instead of killing them right away for their soul, I told them it was okay to turn back if they were not yet ready to face me, for I was also nervous about having to kill them just to free my kingdom.

However, that child seemed to be determined to fight me despite that, so I told them that it was nice to meet them before drawing my trident at them. But suddenly, my ex-wife rushed into the room and pushed me away with her fireballs (I was okay though). She then rushed to the child's help and told them how "awful" it was for me to harm an "innocent" being like them and that they were burdened into having to kill me so that they could leave; she believed that no one should die just for that, and as "terrible" as I was, she said that I deserved mercy, too.

I then got up and approached her, happy to finally see her again, but she told me off for what I did that fateful night, that I could have just absorbed one human soul to cross the barrier and collect the remaining ones, instead of just waiting for humans to fall down so I could collect their souls when I actually was hoping they would never show up again. I was heartbroken by how harsh she called me out for it, but I solemnly agreed that it was a reckless decision I made back then. I then offered to her that we at least remain friends, but she said no and stepped away from me. The scientist's girlfriend (24-26F Fish Person) then told me how "rough" our divorce was and reminded me that there are "plenty of fish in the sea", but while I agree with that, my heart still longs for my ex.

I do not remember much what happened after that, but before I knew it, that human child somehow managed to destroy the barrier without killing any of us. I stood with my ex and a few other monsters (including the scientist and her girlfriend) in the empty room nearest the exit and offered the child to be the ambassador to humans and monsters, which they agreed to. However, my ex still kept her distance from me... until today, where I am happily working at her school in the outside world as its gardener. I have no idea if she is just tolerating me now, but at least she hired me, and I still hope she will forgive me and get back together with me.

TLDR: After losing both of our children in a tragic event, I declared war on the humans and decided to wait for them to fall into our kingdom so I could (very reluctantly) collect 7 of their souls to destroy the barrier dividing our two nations, but my wife divorced me over that idea and still refuses to get back with me, even after another human child saved us all and broke the barrier for us.

AITA?

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 13th 2025 at 5:39:14 PM

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SoaringEagle A figment of your imagination from A dream you had (Troper Youngling) Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
A figment of your imagination
#96: Mar 13th 2025 at 11:32:39 AM

[up] YTA. it doesn’t matter how “reluctant” you were to declare war on the human race, you still did it


AITA for summoning an earthquake-causing monster and removing the god who was keeping it locked up?

i (17F) was just walking to school one day, until this boy (17M) asked me if i knew where a door was. i knew there were ruins in the mountains by my town, so shortly after this encounter, i biked over to those ruins (missing class), and sure enough, there was a door. i opened it. it led to a dimension that i couldn’t enter. then i tripped on a cat-shaped stone, pulled it out, and it turned into a real cat. next thing i knew, a giant worm came out of that door and caused an earthquake, then the cat turned the boy into a kiddie chair i had in my bedroom, and then i had to run away from home chasing after that cat and close even more doors

it didn’t go well. the cat was keeping the worm monster locked away, but after i freed him, he passed his role onto the boy-chair. he became the “keystone”, so to speak, and i had to use him to seal the worm after it fully escaped and almost caused the mother of all earthquakes. now he’s lost in the afterlife, as an unmoving chair, all because of me

now, i did manage to enter that dimension, free him, turn him back into a human, and the cat resumed his post and sealed the worm, but still. i had to drag the boy’s friend from school, and my aunt, along for the ride, unable to explain what the heck was going on or why we have a talking cat with us

AITA?

Edited by SoaringEagle on Mar 13th 2025 at 1:34:02 PM

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MissSillyhead The cage. from The darkest pit in the world Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
The cage.
#97: Mar 13th 2025 at 12:40:25 PM

NTA - you tried to make up for your actions and you didn't really seem to understand the consequences of your actions.


AITA for destroying a 16 year old boy's mental state to destroy evil concepts?

Hello there. I (somewhere in the range of 1,000-1,000,000F, I've frankly lost count) recently learned that the Chainsaw Devil, who can devour Devils representing concepts and erase them, has turned into a boy's (16M) heart to revive him and allow him to live a normal life. Now, that's rather inconvenient for me, as I need him to erase the concepts in the world that are bad - such as death, war, hunger, and bad movies. The only way to break this contract... is to destroy the boy's hope of ever living a normal life. So I went for the simple strategy of giving him everything he could want - a nice place to live, good food, a younger sister (also fairly old F) and older brother (about 19M) figure... and then planned to rip it all away. I placed the Gun Devil in the brother figure's corpse, and forced the boy to kill him, before proceeding to force him to open the door so I could kill his younger sister figure, too, all to break him down. Of course, this was all done with the best of intentions - sure, I may have seduced him a little, and he may be a minor, but it's not like I was ever interested in him beyond breaking him, of course. Anyways, this was all to purge the world of it's problems, and as you may know, Utopia Justifies the Means, so I personally don't find myself as having done much wrong.

"..."
KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
I am awesome, everything is interesting
#98: Mar 13th 2025 at 2:41:06 PM

YTA, even if you think you're trying to do something good, you're causing a lot of harm.


AITA for going behind my wife's back to engage in heroics?

I (45M) had been a superhero along with my wife (45F) for years until society turned against supers, and we were banned from doing so. That, along with us having 3 kids (14F, 10M, and 0M) lead to my wife feeling like we needed to settle down and stop living in the past. However, I felt like since we have powers, we have an obligation to help people with them. So for a while my buddy (45M) and I have made excuses to leave our homes so we can go do superhero stuff. Anyways, I recently lost my job and couldn't bring myself to tell my family. At the same time, I had received a message from a secret agent about a rogue robot that I needed to come and stop. So I told my wife that I was going to go to a conference, and went off to go fight it. I regret not being honest about what I am doing with my wife but I still feel like since I have powers, I have an obligation to use them to help people. So, AITA?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Mar 22nd 2025 at 12:01:28 PM

RayceSkykiller Wishes he still lived in the 2000s from Minnesota, USA Since: Jun, 2018
Wishes he still lived in the 2000s
#99: Mar 23rd 2025 at 6:00:52 AM

YTA. You should've at least told your wife what you were doing. And even then, what you're doing could get you arrested, crippled or even killed. Do you really want your wife and kids to have to deal with that? Also, that whole agent thing seems a little sketchy NGL.


AITA for letting my bosses mind-wipe a guy to reform him and lying to my coworkers (and him) about it?

So for context I (~25F), a Jedi Padawan, was tasked with leading a taskforce to deal with a Dark Jedi (~35M). We were about to confront him on the bridge of his starship when his apprentice (~30M) started firing on all of us with his ship and ended up knocking his master out cold. So, naturally, we took the Dark Jedi captive and escaped. Now, the explosion messed the Dark Jedi up pretty bad, like he was basically lobotomized, and while this was a pretty bad person, we Jedi have a strict no-kill policy on prisoners, so putting him out of his misery was off the table.

Instead, I used my Force powers to keep him alive and try to keep his brain intact. (Doing this also caused me to Force-bond with him) So I brought this Dark Jedi before the Jedi Council to figure out what to do with him, and they decided to (temporarily, but still) wipe his memory so they can retrain him under a fake identity, with the official story being he died in the explosion (he wore a mask most of the time so most people weren't gonna recognize him). They tasked me with watching over the (now former) Dark Jedi (because of the whole bond thing). This ended up being kind of a problem though because I possessed certain talents that made me a target for the former apprentice.

At one point me and MWG (mind-wiped guy) were on a military ship when enemy forces lead by the former apprentice ambushed us. MWG at this point was made a low-ranking member of that ship's crew so as to not raise suspicion, however this meant that when we had to abandon ship he was apparently one of the last people out. We all crash-landed on an enemy-occupied planet and I was immediately captured*. Long story short, MWG and a pilot (38M) that was serving as one of my advisors staged a rescue (though I'd argue I rescued myself just as they managed to reach me), and we all escaped that planet along with some people (14F, ?M, ~50M) and a droid (0M) MWG met along the way.

We returned to the Jedi as MWG's Force powers were starting to manifest and we needed to get him trained. After the council put him though basic Jedi training the council decided to send me, MWG, another Jedi (~18F) and the group from the enemy planet on a top secret mission (all I'll say is it was really important to the war effort). Now at first the mission was actually going pretty well, but MWG and I started getting rather... close (Yeah, we know, Jedi and attachments and all that.) and the pilot was having some trust issues about how we were sticking our necks out for this guy who, for all he knew was some random soldier who appeared out of nowhere that just happened to be Force sensitive.

Then we had a run in with MWG's old apprentice and his minions, who proceeded reveal MWG's true identity right in front of him and the pilot, and I had to explain everything. They didn't take it well. At all. It probably didn't help either that I ended up getting captured so it was a while before they could really talk about it. (And I may have fallen to the Dark Side for a bit, but that's not important to this.) Since then, MWG defeated his apprentice and ended the war and in general seems to be turning a new leaf even when his memories started coming back. But he and the rest of our crew seem to still have mixed feelings and trust issues with me over how I lied to them. It's been really putting a strain on his and my relationship in particular. Was it the right thing to do, or should I have come clean about all this earlier?

Edited by RayceSkykiller on Mar 23rd 2025 at 8:07:39 AM

TroperNo9001 MR. NAICE GUY from The Old Man’s Study (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
MR. NAICE GUY
#100: Mar 23rd 2025 at 12:20:19 PM

[up][up]I noticed that you changed the AITA from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to The Incredibles 1 without bumping the thread to inform us of the change since it's been 10 days. Had I known that you changed the prompt, I would've responded to it.

"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."

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