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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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#101: Mar 23rd 2025 at 1:00:04 PM

[up] My bad, sorry about that

[up][up] YTA, you were being intentionally dishonest. From the information I've gathered from this post it seems like you would have continued lying unless you'd been found out.


AITA for breaking my grandson's guitar?

So this story requires a bit of background info. My (68F) grandfather walked out on my mother (99F) and grandmother (deceased, 79F) to pursue a career playing music when my mother was a young child. Since that happened, my family has been firmly against any music being played since we don't want anyone else in our family to end up going through what my mother and grandmother did. Recently though, my grandson (12M) has gotten very into music, despite the fact that we have been trying to get him to put our family first. Recently though, after having been told not to play any music many times, it turned out that he had hidden a guitar and started going on about how this guy who is apparently a famous musician was his great great grandfather. Anyways, after an argument, I ended up taking his guitar from him and breaking it, which upset him and caused him to say that he didn't want to be a part of our family and then run off. My son and daughter-in-law (44M and 44F) think that I went too far and are upset with me but I feel like I was trying to do what was best for our family and keep him from going down the same path my grandfather went down. AITA?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Mar 24th 2025 at 11:23:39 AM

Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#102: Mar 24th 2025 at 3:25:56 PM

YTA — I think you kind of dug your own grave. Hypothetically, he could have been a musician and still spent time with his family; not all musicians are the same. But since you were so anti-music, that's what caused him to stop liking y'all.


AITA for saying it was a good thing when my daughter started behaving like her sister?

So, my (39M) wife (39F) and I have two daughters (7F and 5F). One morning, we were a bit frustrated, because the girls wanted different things on their toast for breakfast, and my wife was having a hard time finding one of the older one's library books. She got frustrated because the younger girl piles her books up after reading them, which the older one doesn't.

My wife and I said that life would be easier if the girls acted the same, so the younger one did herself up to look just like the older one, and then the older one taught her how to behave like her.

I was fine with this at first, but then when I raked the leaves and asked the girls to help me, the older one started to encourage the younger one to dilly-dally and whine, since she's always been like that with chores, whereas my younger daughter has always been eager to help with the chores.

As a response to that, I demanded that the girls acted like two of the younger one instead, so they did, and the older girl handed my wife back the book she was looking for. Then, I commented that having two of the younger girl was great... and at that, the older girl ran off crying. So AITA?

For every low there is a high.
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
#103: Mar 24th 2025 at 3:35:27 PM

YTA — Your two daughters are unique in their own ways, so by telling the older one that she's becoming like her sister, you made her think she has to be like her just so she can get your approval. However, both of them can learn from each other while still being their true selves, so you should teach them that and say sorry for that insensitive remark.


(CW: Attempted Suicide by a Child) AITA (Am I The Anus) for attempting to kill myself to convince my cousin to go home with us?

Okay, before anyone asks, yes, I (8-9M) really did that, but thankfully I was saved. I know I must've shocked you with that, but lemme explain why.

So me and my 7 classmates around my age were assembling our solar system model when my cousin (8-9F) barged in and bragged about how much she knew about it more than us. One of my classmates asked her why she still showed up, and she said that she wanted to go on our teacher's (30-40F) magical field trips just to know what's up with her. It's true that our teacher always takes us to places where no kid has gone before, like deep in the ocean or inside a rotting log, but my cousin told us to "prove it".

So we hopped on the bus with her and our teacher took us to the planetarium. Everyone was disappointed that she took us on a "normal" field trip, but even though I always wish I stayed home from them, I found it weird that she did this for a change. But what's even more disappointing's that the planetarium was closed for the day, so our teacher had to take us back to school. My cousin then gloated about how her teacher is better than her, so I stood up against her and told my teacher to take us to the "bigger" planetarium to prove to my cousin what she really has in store. My teacher seemed to have already known what I wanted (but I can't really tell, she's mysterious in her own ways), so she turned the bus into a rocket ship and flew us up into space!

My cousin was surely impressed by what my teacher did, and we all had fun in our space adventure, but the former soon got jealous of us and wanted to show her classmates proof of this trip when we'd go home. So when two of my classmates questioned her, she decided to take some space rocks and gas from the planets we visited. She dragged me along in her scheme, but I reluctantly followed her just because I'm her cousin, and my classmates soon started getting annoyed by her because all her souvenirs were weighing the bus down. *sigh* Maybe I should've had stayed home that day...

Things started to get worse when we crossed the Asteroid Belt, when an asteroid struck the bus on the side. My teacher went out to repair it, but my cousin found another smaller asteroid and tried taking it inside. She wasn't careful with it at all and accidentally struck the bus again with it, separating us from our teacher, but she assured us that she'd be okay and that we would just have to find her ourselves past the Belt. But before you tell me "NTA" (Not The Anus) and that my teacher was irresponsible back there, I promise you that she meant well and that she was still in contact with us. It's just her way of teaching us hands-on, and despite my constant worries, we've survived all 52 of her field trips for me to tell you this story.

But anyway, my cousin decided to drive the bus and collect more space stuff despite my classmates' protests. They tried reporting her to our teacher, but she didn't take it seriously and instead continued giving us clues on where to find her. My cousin was still on the wheel, but she cared more about her souvenirs than us, so I had to restrain her with the seatbelt and sit on her lap so I could drive the bus instead. She still whined about needing proof of this trip, but I ignored her and continued our mission to find our teacher.

After searching the Gas Giants and collecting their gases from them, my cousin broke out of her seatbelt and told us that our teacher must be on Pluto. To those of you from the future, it was a planet back in my time, but I'm not here to debate on its status right now. But anyway, we finally found our teacher there, but we couldn't go home because the bus was too full of my cousin's "souvenirs". I told her that we needed to go home, now that our field trip is done, but she refused to leave with us without her stuff. She thought that no one back home would believe her without her "proof", but we told her that we, at least, would believe her story. However, she still refused to budge, so I did the unthinkable...

I deliberately took off my helmet and froze my head on Pluto.

This time, my cousin got genuinely worried about me, so she dropped everything she gathered on this trip, took me back inside the bus, and told my teacher to take me home. Thanks to the bus's faster-than-light travel, we made it back to school just in time for class dismissal, and against all odds, I survived that stunt I pulled with nothing more than a cold. My cousin then regretted what she did during our trip and thanked me for knocking some sense into her, while my classmates praised her for having a change of heart...

Except that she seemed to had had forgotten what she learned from that trip, for she still was mean to us the next three times she visited us. So yeah... was that stunt worth it? AITA?

TLDR: My cousin joined us on our field trip to outer space but wanted to take some stuff from it home as "proof", despite overloading the bus with them and us complaining about it. So as a last resort, I attempted suicide to force her to drop everything and take me home.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 25th 2025 at 8:15:09 PM

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Pbskidsfan Oona the Gadget Lady Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
Oona the Gadget Lady
#104: Mar 24th 2025 at 9:51:19 PM

Ironically, I just watched this episode the other day! Still can't believe this was the premiere.

Just barely ESH. You have the advantage since your cousin was clearly the jerk here, but taking your helmet off was completely unnecessary. What would have happened if the bus couldn't travel back to Earth in time? But all that aside, like you said, doing that didn't do anything to change your cousin's behavior.


AITA for trying to avenge my sister by killing my roommate?

So for context, we're all dragons. I have to convert all the ages and stuff so none of you scavengers (or humans?) get confused.

Anyway, I (18F, or the equivalent of it for dragons) recently fought in a continent-wide war that just ended six months ago. Since the war started because the dragon tribes didn't trust each other, five dragons (one of which is my oldest brother, we call them the Dragonets of Destiny) founded a school to teach us about each other, as a way to prevent another war. I enrolled in it with two of my other brothers (both 18M). At first, it was great; I liked the setup, and especially how quiet the library was.

But then I got to my room. My roommate was this super hostile dragon (14F) that I recognized on sight. Close to the end of the war, she killed one of my sisters, right before my very eyes. The sight of her threw me into a panic, and with the way she muttered to herself about killing, it looked like she wasn't done. So over the course of a few days, I read up on a special type of bomb, and overheard her tell her brother (13M) that she wanted to get to history class early. On that day, I put a bomb in the history classroom that would get rid of her once and for all.

Except, it didn't go as I hoped. Turns out my roommate went somewhere else before going to history, so she wasn't in the room when the bomb went off. Unfortunately, there were three other students (14F, 13M, and 12F) in there when it did, and two of them died. Something else...

The leaders of the school were shocked about the incident and suspended classes until they could figure out what happened and who set the bomb. But I couldn't tell them that I did it, since A) nobody would believe me, especially not my brother, and B) my roommate would be out for my blood. So I said nothing, and some students started accusing each other and/or playing detective.

I still couldn't let my roommate live, especially because she talked about killing in her sleep now, so I had to come up with something else. The ceiling had a lot of stalactites, and my roommate always sat on a particular ledge for lunch, so I wore down one of the rocks above her lunch spot to the point where a tiny wing-brush would send it crashing down. That happened, but the stalactite barely missed her! At that point, the 11F who was fending off the crowds earlier figured out that I set the bomb. She, however, didn't report me. (Turns out she relates to me since we're both shy.)

My roommate figured it out too, so with the former's help, I fled the school with my youngest brother, a student at the school with me. We're both safe now, but looking back, a lot of things went wrong during our stay. I still think I should have gotten rid of my roommate, because now I'm afraid she'll kill someone else. So with all of that, AITA?

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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
#105: Mar 24th 2025 at 10:10:17 PM

ESH, You have a right to want him to be accountable for his actions, but there's know way that you didn't know there was at least a chance that there would be collateral damage, and you still took that chance.


WIBTA (Would I be the A-hole) if I betrayed my traveling companions even after they saved my life?

figured since WIBTA is an option in the actual subreddit I figured it would be fine here

We are all ice age animals, so I will try to convert to human age the best I can in any case.

My (30M, Saber-tooth cat) pack leader (40M Saber-tooth) has been obsessed with getting revenge on this tribe of humans who killed half of our pack by abducting their baby. He gave me the job after I initially failed to get it to go after the baby and bring it to him. While I was looking for it, I ran into a sloth and woolly mammoth (25M and 40M respectively), who already had the baby. They didn't trust me at first but I offered to lead them to the humans, and was going to try to take the baby when the chance came. Eventually though, a few of my packmates (28M and 35M) showed up and told me the pack leader was impatient, and that if I didn't bring the baby back to not bother returning. I told them that I was working on bringing the baby as well as the mammoth (as I realized that this would be a potential food source for the pack since most animals are migrating). Eventually though, as I was travelling with the sloth, the mammoth, and the baby, I started feeling a bit conflicted about this. I realized that the mammoth had had his previous herd killed by humans and still seemed to care about the baby. And soon after that, we were crossing an ice bridge over a river of lava, which I nearly fell into. The mammoth came back and saved me at the last minute, which I was shocked by, but he said that that was what you did in a herd, that you look out for each other. Soon after, the baby seemed to be attached to me as well. With all that said, I feel conflicted about betraying them and allowing them to go into the trap, but I also don't want to betray my pack either so am a bit conflicted about what to do in this situation. So, WIBTA if I let them walk into the ambush?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Mar 24th 2025 at 10:17:59 AM

Zazie122 from New Zealand Since: Jul, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#106: Mar 25th 2025 at 2:27:10 AM

[up] YWBTA. You're choosing a random group of animals you've barely just met over your lifelong family/friends. What if this new group ends up causing problems for you as you get to know them? Besides, any animal that tries to befriend a human baby can't be trusted!


AITA for not listening to my best friends when they both told me the idea I had to help people be happier could potentially destroy the world, which ruined our friendship because they betrayed me?

I (??M) got into an argument with my friends (both roughly the same age as me, M and F) recently. You see, I was of the mindset that they both, one of them (M) in particular, were on the same page as me regarding a major issue. It's one of the very reasons why we travelled together in the first place.

As it happens, however, when we were presented with a method of potentially helping those that need it, my friends disapproved of using the substance (which I will not disclose for legal reasons) we found. This substance can make people live forever, and thus prevent them from experiencing the grief of death and the fickleness of mortality.

One friend said that the substance I wanted to use could destroy the world and that we shouldn't touch it. I was not expecting him to betray me out of the blue like that!

Because of the argument we got into, he died. I am not quite sure what happened to my other friend, but I believe she made it out safely. Though I take no responsibility for his death.

I am still mad at my friends for not believing in me or understanding my grand vision of making the world a better place.

I have taken the issue into my own hands and plan on retrieving more of this substance to prove that, no, it will not destroy the world. Don't be preposterous!

Pokemon character ages are really vague, there's no indication for how old the characters involved were at the time of this incident in the past.

Edited by Zazie122 on Mar 25th 2025 at 10:28:13 PM

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
#107: Mar 25th 2025 at 5:39:51 AM

I would say INFO, but since you're legally obligated not to reveal more about the immortality serum, I'm gonna say YTA — Sure, Living Forever Is Awesome, but is it worth the risk of destroying the world if the serum falls into the wrong hands?


WITA (Was I The Asshole) for keeping my uncle a secret from the rest of my family for 10 years?

I (21F) am usually quiet on a lot of things, but this time, I have a story about some old family drama to tell you.

I am part of a family where every descendant gets a superpower on their 5th birthday by opening a magic door in our magic house. The power I got is Super-Hearing, which lets me eavesdrop on every secret, even from far away, and whatever gossip I hear, I can't help but chatter about it to my family. However, there's one secret I managed to keep to myself for 10 years straight — my tío (50M) predicted as a Seer that my youngest cousin (15F, let's call her M) wouldn't get a power of her own and that our house would likely crumble long after that. Because he always predicted bad outcomes for the family and our village, he hid himself away in the walls of our house for the next 10 years.

Fast forward to a few days ago, when M asked me (indirectly since she ended up asking one of my younger brothers (15M, let's call him C), who was disguised as me, instead) why there were cracks forming in our house. Not wanting to make her worry too much about it, I just told her it wasn't a big deal because only she, the rats in the walls, and one of her older sisters (19F, let's call her L) were really worried about it. I then invited her to breakfast a little later that day, but she couldn't help but be suspicious about what I said earlier because our grandma/abuela (70F) told all of us we need to use our powers for good to preserve the miracle of the magic candle that gave us our powers when we opened those doors.

Later on, I decided to give M a hint by singing to her what I really thought of our tío: TBH I didn't think his predictions were outright bad, and IMO I didn't blame him for hiding away from us because he legit struggled with trying to help us when we couldn't understand him, not even me. Deep down, I knew that he was still hiding in our walls because I could still hear him, but I still didn't tell M the truth yet because I had to prepare for my eldest cousin's (21F, let's call her "I.") engagement.

I had to make sure the proposal dinner went perfectly for abuela's sake because I overheard that M broke into tío's old room to try investigating the cause of those cracks: she found the very prophecy tablet he made about the fate of our house, and she thought she caused the cracks, the loss of L's superpower, and the inevitable death of our miracle. Things then got super awkward at the table as I tried not to tell everyone what I discovered, but I couldn't help myself anymore and whispered to them about it and told them to keep it down. But dinner soon became a disaster as more cracks formed and my family's powers started going haywire, so just before "I."'s BF (22-24M) could propose to her, I had enough of this and blurted out the big secret!

Even more cracks destroyed our dining room's walls and my mami's (50F) emotionally-controlled weather powers made it rain inside, just when the other villagers showed up to congratulate "I." and her fiancé for their engagement. Abuela tried doing damage control by assuring everyone that everything was "fine", but almost everyone in our family blamed M for causing this disaster along with the cracks that had been forming since the day before the accident. She tried to explain everything and prove that she was innocent, but everyone, including me, left her alone because we were all tired and frustrated about what had just happened.

Much later in the night, I overheard M and abuela arguing and went down to find out what was up. It turned out that abuela caught "I." being messy with colored pollen instead of being "clean and perfect" as abuela wanted her to be, and abuela accused M of "corrupting" her sister that way. M explained that abuela pressured "I." into marrying her fiancé when she was never in love with him to begin with, and M taught her to let loose and no longer be the "perfect golden child" in abuela's eyes. M claimed that this family pressure was why cracks were forming in our house, everyone was slowly losing their powers (since it also turned out abuela was pushing L to the limits of her Super-Strength), and therefore, the miracle was dying; by helping "I." learn to let loose and be herself, M was trying to save the miracle and stop our house from collapsing as a result, which was her interpretation of tío's prophecy all along.

But abuela didn't believe her and still blamed her for everything wrong that had happened to our family, including tío's departure. She didn't care why M didn't get a power like the rest of us, but she felt M used it as an excuse to "hurt" us. The literal cracks grew bigger as this figurative rift also grew bigger, but M continued to try standing up for herself. She said that no matter how hard she, or rather, we tried, we couldn't be "good enough" for abuela, and that tío left us because she was too hard on him like she was to us, but abuela angrily retorted that he left because he "didn't care". M defended him, saying that he still loved us despite everything, and she called out abuela for the death of the miracle because of how terrible she was grandparenting us!

That was when the entire house collapsed on us, but I was able to save my side of the family in time. Thankfully, everyone else was safe, including M, but the magic candle went out, and she ran away crying from this whole ordeal. Abuela followed her not too long after while we stayed behind to try searching for them, but by that point, I lost my wide hearing range, so I wasn't able to hear from them since then...

But the following morning, M and abuela came back, having reconciled over the disaster. The latter apologized in song for being too hard on us, for she just didn't want to lose any of us after the death of our grandpa/abuelo (26M when he died), and she learned from M that it wasn't our powers, but ourselves that were the real miracle of our family. Tío also finally returned to us and apologized for hiding away so long, while I finally confessed that I always knew where he was for the past 10 years, to C's confusion. M, on the other hand, was too distracted with rallying our town to fix our house to comment on that, yet she was finally happy to be back with us. So yeah... WITA for not telling her about tío much much earlier?

TLDR: My uncle hid himself away because he made a bad prediction of our house's future and believed he was a disgrace to our family, so I kept him a secret from them for 10 years until my youngest cousin M started noticing something wrong with our house. I also kept her investigation a secret until I couldn't hold it in anymore, ruining my grandma's proposal dinner for my eldest cousin and causing the former to argue with M about the house's and the family's instability. M then called out grandma for being too hard on us, which ultimately caused our house to collapse, and M ran away crying from all that. She then returned the next day after she reconciled with grandma and our uncle returned, and that was when I finally told M and the rest of our family where he was the whole time.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 25th 2025 at 8:34:11 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
#108: Mar 25th 2025 at 12:12:32 PM

NTA, your uncle didn't want your family to know he was there so it was up to him to decide the timing and manner that he did come back.


AITA for refusing to help my friend look for his crush?

My (12M) friend, we'll call him W (12M) recently went missing and my other friends, we will call them M and D (both 12M as well) and I have been concerned about him. On our way back from school recently, we ran into this girl, we'll call her L (10-12F) who M decided to take in until we were able to get her help. L doesn't talk a lot but it turned out she was being hunted by these secret agents and she also had superpowers. We eventually realized that her powers could help us in our efforts to find W, and L helped us to realize that W was still alive but was stuck in another dimmension. L said that she could help us to get to them. So D, M, L, and I set out to look for W but I eventually realize that L has been leading us in the wrong direction. I tried to point out to M that L was obviously not trustworthy and was just using us so she could have a place to stay, but M had developed a blatantly obvious crush on L and refused to hear it. So M and I got into a fight that ended with L screaming and launching me into a pile of rubble with her mind and knocking me out. While M and D went to wake me up and see if I was ok, L disappeared. Today, M and D showed up at my door and M wanted to apologize for having started the fight initially. I told him that I would accept his apology if he would forget about L and instead focus on just finding W. M insisted we find L, saying her knocking me out was an accident, and starting another argument between us. D tried to mediate the fight, but it was clear that M and I were at an impasse, as I felt we needed to go straight to finding W and that L had betrayed us, and he felt like L could help us and wanted to find her. So M and D ended up leaving in the end to look for L and left me to go try to find W on my own. AITA here?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Mar 26th 2025 at 9:16:48 AM

CallMeVbuck Diplomat from go figure Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?
#109: Mar 29th 2025 at 7:30:57 PM

NTA. You sensed she was obviously untrustworthy, it’s his fault for not hearing you out.


AITA for manipulating my military to attack my peaceful neighbor?

I, (??M) am the top commander of my nation. Our neighboring nation, we’ll refer it to as ‘A’, greatly benefitted us during our civil war. The aid coming to us was intended to help civilians but never reached them. Instead, the funds were used for our military development. After our civil war ended, I convinced the military to launch an invasion into A under claims of exploitation of our nation, though it’s actually to further arms trades. I fear I may be exposed and this will backfire on me. AITA?

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RayceSkykiller Wishes he still lived in the 2000s from Minnesota, USA Since: Jun, 2018
Wishes he still lived in the 2000s
#110: Mar 30th 2025 at 2:44:15 AM

YTA, you don't even appear to have a real justification for any of that.


AITA for letting my best friend's son die for political reasons?

So I (62M) used to be friends with my nation's (well call it Nation A) King (would've also been 62). In fact, when we were young men we liberated Nation A after it was conquered by another power (Nation B). Long story short my King friend disappeared (he's probably dead) and his son (25) took over. Now overall he's a good kid, but pretty naive, which is really not a good trait for a head of state to have. Nevertheless, I continued to be his top general and even let him marry my daughter. The real trouble started a short while ago when Nation A started being invaded by... monsters, spawned from a dark place. There's an ancient tradition regarding how to deal with these monsters tied to a specific military order (we'll call them the Gr-... Blue Knights), and the new King, being rather superstitious, insisted we involve them in our war against the monsters. I thought that was at best a waste of time. Nation A has a pretty formidable military and I think of myself as a fairly competent strategist, and thus far this incursion was hardly one of the world shaking conflicts described in the legends of these monsters. So yeah, I was pretty confident we could handle this ourselves just fine, and the last time the Blue Knights were allowed in Nation A they tried to overthrow it (even though they're supposed to be non-political) so understandably I didn't trust these guys as far as I could throw them. But, the King being the King and wanting his 'glorious' war for the ages, I of course had to go along with his plan. So me, the King and our army ended up meeting with the Blue Knights in some old ruin, where the plan was for the Blue Knights and the King's half of the army to just face the horde dead on while my half stayed on the sidelines until we got a signal to flank them. That sad excuse for a "plan" was bad enough, but what really pissed me off was his plan to have reinforcements come in from Nation B. The nation that enslaved our people. He was willing to risk undoing all of his father's and my accomplishments for his delusions of glory. His plan wasn't just stupid. It was suicide. And I dare say it was also treason. I had enough. I couldn't let this child destroy my homeland. So during the battle, when my signal to charge came, I instead ordered my forces to retreat. I left the King and the Blue Knights to their fates. There wasn't much of a power vacuum, everyone knew the King really just let my daughter run things. Nevertheless, to keep things going smoothly I (Reluctantly!) took up the position of Regent. I blamed Blue Knights for the King's death and, of course, stopped any "reinforcements" from coming out of Nation B. Despite my best efforts, however, the people are divided on my decisions and several nobles are threatening civil war. Even my own daughter seems to have reservations about all this. So are my actions justified?

AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#111: Mar 30th 2025 at 8:24:02 AM

NTA. In a situation like that it doesn't sound like you had much of a choice.

AITA for not apologizing to my best friend after getting her into trouble with her parents for a prank I pulled?

So, for context I'm a trickster demon who LOVES to pull pranks and am best friends with a human girl (12F). Usually my friend finds my pranks pretty endearing. But today, I decided to pull one on her family by turning their spaghetti dinner into worms. Her parents did not find it amusing and punished her. I refused to apologize to her over a silly prank. She got so angry with me she banished me to the Neitherworld by saying my name 3 times. So, AITA?

Edited by AdventurousYak9234 on Mar 30th 2025 at 3:31:40 PM

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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
#112: Mar 30th 2025 at 8:25:07 AM

[up]You need to respond to the above post first.

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AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#113: Mar 30th 2025 at 8:28:14 AM

Oh, whoops. I'm new to this game. It's fixed now!

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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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#114: Mar 30th 2025 at 8:54:11 AM

[up][up][up] ESH. You should have apologized but her response was also an overreaction.


AITA for taking a few creative liberties with my school report?

My (6M) classmate (6F) and I got partnered up in school to write a report on the planet mercury. Neither of us were happy about it because we have completely different views on how to do the project, with her taking it way too seriously and saying she didnt want to fail just because i didn’t do anything. She has been getting on me to do my half the whole week, including calling my home phone to ask why I wasn't at the library. I told her yesterday that I had done my part and it would make her half look pathetic. She insisted it better be good. Today was the day of the report, with her getting up and reading her half before it was my turn to read mine. Before I was done though, my classmate confronted me and she was furious. She accused me of making everything I wrote up and not having done any research at all. I just took some creative liberties. AITA here?

Update: since someone asked, I said that the Roman god Mercury was the God of flowers and bouquets which is why he's the trademark for FTD florists. This was when my classmate confronted me and accused me of doing no research.

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Apr 2nd 2025 at 7:07:52 AM

RayceSkykiller Wishes he still lived in the 2000s from Minnesota, USA Since: Jun, 2018
Wishes he still lived in the 2000s
#115: Apr 2nd 2025 at 4:34:42 AM

INFO. Exactly what liberties did you take?

Edited by RayceSkykiller on Apr 11th 2025 at 6:18:31 AM

Zanreo Gizmondo from Glitch City (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Gizmondo
#116: Apr 4th 2025 at 11:54:44 AM

YTA for never giving a new prompt(Still no prompt in a few days so considering this a free one)


AITA for using an old man as a bomb?

So this story starts with me (10M) going to the movies one day with my sister (8F) and robot friend (?M). During a break, me and the latter went to get some snacks which is where I bumped into this old man (late 60s<?M), let's call him V. After talking for a bit, two suspicious-looking men went up to V and made him go with them. I suspected something was up and stayed behind to watch these men bring V outside and shoot him! They carried his body with them in the car and drove off.

Now, here's where I should mention that for a while now I've been fighting against these evil aliens who often disguise as humans, using a powered-up hero form. Anyway, later I was watching the news with my family, and it said this famous professor was inviting a bunch of other scientists for a reception - said professor being V! I instantly knew something was up, since I had seen V get killed! So I went to the reception hall, burst into the meeting and tried to explain the situation, and how this V had to be fake. Just then, I saw him walk past a mirror, and since the aliens don't show up in mirrors but he did, something else must have been happening here... All the others laughed at me and told me to go home, and then I heard it... the ticking of a bomb, coming from V's heard!

So I changed into my hero form, and took V with me to my airship as I explained the situation to him, how he was killed but had been revived as a human robot with a bomb inside him. Meanwhile, some of the aliens had been following me and were shooting at us! I felt time was running out and there would be no way to save V at this point, so I said "Forgive me!" and threw him out the airship, right at the aliens' airship, and he exploded, taking the aliens with him. I did what I have to do in a tough situation (plus if I hadn't thrown him out he'd likely have exploded and killed me too), and as a hero I have to fight these aliens at all costs, but AITA?

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
#117: Apr 4th 2025 at 7:06:11 PM

NTA, it sounds like there wasn't really any option in that situation and he would have died no matter what.


AITA for lying to my girlfriend about having gotten my friend hanged?

So for a bit of background context, I (18M) live in a society split into 12 districts, and every year there are 2 tributes, 1 male 1 female, from each which come to an arena to fight to the death. My friend and classmate, who we will call S, (18M) has been very against this from the get go, but we don't make the rules and this is how things are now. Anyways, I was assigned to mentor one of the tributes from the 12th district, who we will call L (17F). As a mentor, my goal was to help L to win, because the mentor of the victorious tribute would get a massive amount of money, which would help my struggling family. At one point, S broke into the arena when the games had started to help the tributes, and I ended up having to kill one of them to protect myself and S. This was traumatic for me but I also felt powerful at the same time. Anyways, throughout the game, I kind of cheated to help L win, which she did. It turned out though that the people in charge were on to me and so they banished me to go be a law enforcement officer (called a peacekeeper) among the districts. It turned out that S had also been sent off there by his wealthy family. I also found out that L had survived despite thinking she had been killed since I cheated to help her win. We reconnected and soon began a relationship after that.

This is where the problems begin. You see S was helping the rebels, which I found out about. He told me their plan which I recorded and sent back to the capital, at the time expecting his wealthy family would buy him out of trouble. I eventually found him with the rebels and they had weapons. S told me they lied to him about not having weapons and the rebels threatened me. The mayors daughter (18F) was also in the room and started threatening us as well as L when she walked in, threatening to get us all hanged. I ended up having to shoot her to make sure the rest of us there didn't get killed. Soon after I ended up confronting S about how reckless he was being. Shortly afterwards, we held a public execution for the rebels, and to my surprise, S was brought up to the gallows, with the recording of his explanation of his plan played back. He was hanged along with the other rebels he was working with.

Anyways, L and I had been planning to run away together, and were walking in the woods and she opened up about how she was still affected by having had to kill during the games, and how she was glad we wouldn't have to kill anymore. I offhandedly commented that 3 people was enough for me. At this point she pressed me about my comment, pointing out that she knew about the kid in the arena and the mayors daughter but not the third. I told her the third was my old self who I killed to run away with her, but she didn't buy it. She soon after made up an excuse to ditch me, but I followed shortly after, but she had set a trap for me, with a poisonous snake nearly killing me. Since she had tried to kill me, I pulled out my shotgun and started shooting back at her, but she disappeared without a trace.

Now that all is said and done, I may have been in the wrong for lying to her, so, AITA here?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Jul 14th 2025 at 2:01:04 AM

RayceSkykiller Wishes he still lived in the 2000s from Minnesota, USA Since: Jun, 2018
Wishes he still lived in the 2000s
#118: Apr 11th 2025 at 4:33:45 AM

[up][up] Got sick in the middle of writing it. *shrugs*

YTA. You need to take responsibility for what happened to S.


AITA for not letting this kid and his friends share my secret planet?

So a while ago I (~225M) worked for... we'll say it's a nonprofit interstellar survey organization, and we were mapping out a safe route through an unstable region of space when I found this neat little uninhabited planet. I brought the news of my discovery to my partner (F, 20-30s at the time) and my bosses suggesting it could be a good spot for a... school for gifted children. It was all going pretty well, but then some pirates found the planet and took it over. I tried to convince my bosses that we should fight back (we have really good security forces) but they weren't having it. They shut down the project and even ordered the destruction of all the compasses that allowed navigation through the spacial anomalies in that region. This gave me a bit of a mental breakdown that may have resulted in the deaths of several coworkers. But I mean, this was my life's work they were throwing out! I reached out to my partner about all this, thinking she at least would understand, but she just told me I was overreacting and needed to calm down. And when I saw she still had a working compass, she kept it from me, and the resulting altercation led to the loss of my arm. I was betrayed by the one I trusted most! I ended up spending about 200 years in a bacta tank until some some kid (~25M) stumbled upon it and woke me up. (And you guys think the Empire's healthcare is bad.) I quickly found out how long I was out for and how much has changed (short answer: a lot). Of particular note was that about 10 years ago my former organization was shut down by the new government with all its members becoming fugitives. Now this didn't actually bother me that much as they had already shown me their true colors, but it did mean I might be targeted for my prior association with them, and I still wasn't thrilled by this new 'Empire'. It also turned out that the kid that woke me up was also part of my organization and just found out about my secret planet, and wants to use it as a place for him and his friends to hide out from the government. I understood his plight but the thing is I already had my own plans for that place. You see, before my big bacta nap I had another business partner of mine looking for allies and the last compass to navigate to my planet so we can use it as a staging ground to get revenge on my former employers. Well, obviously I can't do that anymore but I just met back up with said business partner (his species has a long lifespan) and it turns out he's got the compass and an army of droids and pirates, some of whom may be Force sensitive aspiring astronavigators, so we can still use it as a staging ground to overthrow the government place to startup my own, better version of the organization. I understand the kid's plight, truly, but our goals are simply incompatible, and that planet. Is. MINE! But despite firmly telling him 'no', the kid and his entourage continue to come after me and my associates to take the planet for themselves. So I ask, dear reader, who's really the villain here?

Note: This creator of this post is under investigation by the Imperial Security Bureau.

Edited by RayceSkykiller on Apr 11th 2025 at 6:39:39 AM

RayceSkykiller Wishes he still lived in the 2000s from Minnesota, USA Since: Jun, 2018
Wishes he still lived in the 2000s
#119: Apr 12th 2025 at 3:24:04 AM

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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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#120: Apr 16th 2025 at 6:24:39 AM

NTA, you set a clear boundary, and they refused to respect that


AITA (or rather WITA) for hooking up with my friends sister about 10 years ago and not telling anyone?

About 10 years ago, I (31M) had a fling with my best friend (31M)'s older sister (34F) while he was away at college. Recently, I didn't have anywhere to go for Christmas since my dad (57M) was having his lodge buddies over, and so my friend's family invited me over and offered me a place to stay since my apartment was having maintenance issues. My friend's sister came as well after having been out of town for a few years. As soon as my friend was out of the room, we picked up our fling where it had been left off, but I quickly tried to stop it by pointing out my friend would feel betrayed. She insisted that we were all adults though and so he was unreasonable if he had any issues. That night, my friend, his sister, and I all ended up staying at my friend's parents house with me in the guest bedroom, and his sister and I tried to find each other that night, but I ended up catching my friend's dad (58M) at home despite him having claimed he was working the night shift. He came clean to me that he had been laid off, so I urged him to tell his family. I found out shortly after that that my friend's mom (58F) had been placing bets and lost quite a bit of money, and urged her to tell her family. So on Christmas morning they both came clean about these things to their whole family. This resulted in my friend's sister deciding to spontaneously admit to the fact that she and I had had a fling a decade ago and would like to resume our relationship. My friend and his parents were all furious with both of us about this, with my friend feeling betrayed by both of us, and I was subsequently kicked out of the house. I ended up going to my dad's house after all (he had kicked his friends out), and he basically said I was an idiot for hooking up with my best friend's sister. So, AITA in this whole situation?

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Apr 16th 2025 at 4:04:22 AM

TheRealBerdly Berdly from Hometown Since: Mar, 2023 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Berdly
#121: Apr 17th 2025 at 9:14:28 AM

NTA, his sister was right, you are indeed both adults and can have flings as long as it isn't cheating.


AITA for flirting with my friend despite them possibly being attracted to another person?

I (1?M) have a crush on a girl in my class (1?F). I was giving her compliments and gifts and things pretty frequently, but she didn't really return the favor. One day, I discovered she had a crush on the class bully (1?F) out of all people, and she has always hated my guts for as long as I've went to that school. The girl I had a crush on still considers my friend, but now the bully has been even meaner to me and I think it's because I was such a flirt. Am I the asshole for not knowing or perhaps "simping" too much?

OOC Note: The Deltarune characters have no confirmed ages, but I estimate it's anywhere from 16 to 19.

Edited by TheRealBerdly on Apr 17th 2025 at 12:17:14 PM

He has returned, but WHY?
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
#122: Apr 17th 2025 at 9:56:11 AM

NAH, those are just teenage hormones, it's normal to still feel attracted to your crush as long as you're not forcing her to date you, while the bully also had the right to reject your advances.


AITA for trying to stop my son from wandering off into the deep?

I (~4M clownfish, equivalent to a middle-aged man) lost my wife and our 399 eggs to a barracuda. It almost ate my last surviving son (~1M clownfish, equivalent to a school-aged child), but luckily, he was spared but his egg got torn. So he grew up with a shrunken fin, which we call a "lucky" fin, but despite his curiosity about the Big Blue (aka the open ocean), I had to protect him from all the dangers in his life, even in our safe little coral reef neighborhood.

However, he thought I was being too pushy and embarrassing in front of his friends his age, so on his first day of school, they sneaked away from their teacher so they could touch a "butt" (actually a boat). I immediately dragged him away and scolded him for almost entering open waters, but he said that he didn't move and his friends added that he wasn't going to touch it, anyway, because he got scared. I scolded them as well for daring him to go out there because none of them could swim well, but my son insisted that he'd be fine, that he'd swim right back after completing the dare. I tried dragging him back home, telling him that he'd start school the following year, but he pushed me away and accused me of doing that because I was scared of the ocean. I made it clear to him that he wasn't ready for the outside world yet, that he thinks he can be independent when he's actually not, but then he told me the worst thing a child could say to their parent: "I hate you".

His teacher then approached me and assured me that my son will be fine under his guidance, but I told him that he was way too young to go out at sea, even with him. But suddenly, another one of his classmates warned me that he sneaked away from me again to touch the boat! I called out to him multiple times to come back, but he didn't listen to me and he touched it, anyway! He then swam back to me as ordered, but I told him that he was still in big trouble for disobeying me...

But then the scuba diver on the boat sneaked up behind him and kidnapped him!

Everything else was a blur, but I set off to the open ocean to rescue my son. I met a silly, forgetful blue tang (~15F, equivalent of a middle-aged woman), and although she sometimes got on my nerves, we teamed up to travel the entire East Australian Coast and met many quirky animals who helped us on our quest. A few days later, the blue tang and I finally found my son at the scuba diver's, or rather, the dentist's office thanks to a pelican's help, but I stared helplessly at what seemed to be him lying dead on the dentist's chair. The dentist then shooed us out just as I was calling out to my son, and the pelican dipped me and the blue tang back in the water and apologized to us for the failed mission before leaving. I still thanked the blue tang for helping us get there despite her forgetfulness, but I told her it was too late and left. However, she pleaded me to come back because I was her very first friend, who helped her remember important things such as the dentist's address, but I said no and swam away because I was grieving my son...

But as I was swimming alone in a school of groupers, he suddenly came back alive! He called out my name, and I swam back to him and pulled him into a tight hug! The blue tang managed to find him after all, and I told him that everything will be alright, but before we could explain ourselves, our happy reunion was cut short by a fishing net catching those groupers! I pushed my son away, but the blue tang wasn't so lucky and got caught. As she screamed for help, my son dared to enter the fishing net because he knew how to rescue her, but I instinctively pulled him away. However, he told me we needed to tell everyone to swim down, but I still tried pulling him out because I didn't want to lose him again. But then he said that it was the only way to save my friend, no... our friend, and I needed to trust him and let him go. I paused for a moment, then saw how confident he really was all along, so I released his big fin, gave him a high five on his "lucky" fin, and wished him the best.

After he successfully rescued our friend and the groupers by telling them to swim down and break the net, my son collapsed underneath it. I panicked when my friend pointed me to him, and I immediately swam to him and hoped that he'd be alright. I went on this whole journey to look for him after he got kidnapped, but on the other fin, I saw how capable he actually was in standing up for himself and risking his life to save our friend. So as we're gathered around him, hoping he'd wake up, tell me... AITA?

TLDR: After the loss of most of my family, I wanted to protect my son, who has a shrunken fin following the tragedy, from the dangers of the deep blue sea, but after an argument with me, he sneaked away, disobeyed me and touched a boat under a dare, and then got kidnapped by a dentist/scuba diver. So I went off to find him with the help of a goofy fish I met along the way, but when we finally found him, I thought he died! I left my new friend in grief, but surprisingly, my son came back alive with her help! But suddenly, she got caught in a fishing net, and my son wanted to rescue her, but I tried pulling him away because I didn't want to lose him again. He then told me to trust him because he learned from his time kidnapped on how to survive, so I let him go, and he successfully rescued our friend! However, he ended up collapsing under the net, and I'm afraid that I went through that harrowing journey for nothing... all because of that argument.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Apr 18th 2025 at 2:23:05 AM

"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."
AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#123: Apr 17th 2025 at 4:26:53 PM

Soft YTA. I understand your situation but you need to let your son live his life and experience the world.

AITA for disobeying my mom about digging in the yard?

Backstory here, I (8M) and my friends were hanging out by the pond when one of my friends (also 8M) found an arrowhead in his backyard. That got us thinking about what cool stuff we could find in OUR backyards. However, my mom said I could only dig behind the house, she said she doesn't want an excavation site for a backyard. However, I couldn't find anything interesting, just my dog's toy and "digestive biscuits" (whatever those are) I thought of cool stuff I could find in the REST of the yard, like a secret passageway that leads to a store that sells BBQ supplies. My little sister (4F) reminded me I wasn't allowed to dig in the rest of the yard. I told her fine, be a barbecue wrecker. So, AITA?

"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"
Pbskidsfan Oona the Gadget Lady Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
Oona the Gadget Lady
#124: Apr 17th 2025 at 5:24:07 PM

YTA; yes, you wanted to find more treasure, but you're still disobeying your mom's orders.


AITA for leaving two possibly-shady guys outside during a thunderstorm?

I (31F) am going on a business trip, and I brought my precious, fragile daughter (10F) along for the ride. I thought this would be a fun trip as long as I kept her safe, but then those two guys came along...

At first, I didn't think they were bad people. One of them, S (early 20s, M) made friends with my daughter pretty quickly, while I befriended the other one, G (late 20s, M). But every time I thought I could trust them, it turned out they did something super wacky and dangerous, like running away from the law! Or faking identities! Or harboring a critically endangered animal! (Yes, they really did do that!) So I kept leaving them behind, but we always ended up running into each other somehow.

Whenever I caught them, G always said that it was S that got him into the whole mess. But considering that they were around each other all the time, and S claimed they were best friends, I'm inclined to not believe that.

So recently, I rented out a bed and breakfast for myself and my daughter, but of course, Those Two Guys (along with their stolen endangered animal) came knocking at the door. I thought, clearly these dangerous men can't be trusted around my daughter! But it was also raining pretty badly, and my daughter pleaded with me to let them in. I thought about it, but I still said no.

But then I looked out at the big storm, and S and G struggling to stay dry under a tree with their pet, and I thought about it... am I being a jerk by not letting them in?

Edited by Pbskidsfan on Apr 17th 2025 at 7:53:39 AM

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AutumnLeaves Since: Mar, 2014
#125: Apr 18th 2025 at 5:37:33 PM

NTA. They are criminals, and you are responsible for your kid's well-being as well as your own.

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AITA for not wanting to marry my boring cousin for his money?

Hey Reddit, I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I (20F) and my sister lost our money because of a single stupid legal technicality: when Mom and Dad died, we found out the only married after we were born and forgot to make a will to boot! Because of that, our money now belongs to a cousin (35ishM) who's a total wet blanket and a horrible miser.

Now, my sister think we must grin and bear it, but I for one think it's completely unfair. With the help of a friend, I got acquainted with my cousin in disguise and under an assumed name (I’m a semi-pro actress, BTW), and I've succeeded in attracting him, so now he is ready to marry me. My friend has lured away [Cousin]'s harpy of a housekeeper (who makes most of the decisions for him], and the coast is clear for my elopement with [Cousin].

But [Cousin] is such a dreadful bore that I don't know how I'll bear living side by side with him. On the other hand, it's the only way for me to get close to the money that by rights belongs to me and my sister.

The elopement is scheduled for today, and I'm sitting here and being indecisive. AITA for having second thoughts about a marriage that would restore my and my sister's finances?


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