aita?

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am i the asshole?

Life isn’t always black and white. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s really at fault, and no one wants to believe they’re the bad guy. Sometimes you need an outside opinion. Or several.

Tell your side of the story and crowdsource an honest answer to the age old question; Am I The Asshole?

Top Level

with your character explaining a situation where they might have been the asshole.

Comment

with your hot takes. Anon or IC.

Comments

[satokowashi]

Well, what am I supposed to do then? Just let her leave? As soon as she gets there, she’ll forget all about me! Of course it’s better I talk her out of it before that happens.

[ormondsoutlier]

So you wanna stop your friend being happy just cuz you can't make other friends?

Wow, you're fuckin' pathetic and you're an asshole.

Let her go, I don't even know her but she deserves better than you.

[satokowashi]

[Ouch, the ‘pathetic’ and ‘deserves better’ digs actually kinda hit home.]

I- I don’t want to stop her being happy! We’ve always been happy together. And she even said she wanted us to stay together too...

Why is it bad to want to be somewhere she’ll actually keep that promise?

[ormondsoutlier]

You can still hang even if you're both doing other shit- what're gonna do when schools over, stop each other having jobs? Life don't move out the way for friendship.

Just go to the schools you wanna go to and make time for each other. If you're as tight as you say, you'll make it work. If not then... Least you didn't fuck each other over to find that out.

I had to, I am sorry

[rulerstake]

[ Wait just a gosh damned diddly shittin' minute here... Not Frank fucking Morrison, of all people, telling a kid her friend deserves better than her. Susie feels like there's some peak comedy going on here... ]

Tch.

[ormondsoutlier]

Speaking of best friends...~

[Taste that -mwah- gleefully given chef's kiss, grade A coating of venom in the back of his throat- you're really killing his 'thug with a heart of gold' thing he's got going here, Susie. Being a bit of a buzzkill.

He loves you Susie, but will stab you in front of this child, he's sure you're aware of that.]

Need somethin', Suze~?

[rulerstake]

[ That's real cute, Frank, but remember that time you literally made her kill a guy? Yeah, it's still got her feeling some kind of way, so you'll have to excuse the fact that her feelings for you are extremely convoluted these days.

Listen, she knows she was an idiot, desperate for acceptance and love from literally anyone who might even think about giving her some semblance of both, but also... Frank, why are you like this!? ]

...Sure. My best friends and I are trapped in a nightmare realm of murder and torture forever because one of us made decisions for all of us. Got any friendly advice for me?

[ She definitely knows he'll stab her, which is why she is actually very terrified right now, despite the bravado, but she's also just a little jealous that he can give absolutely normal, not-batshit-insane advice to randos after everything they all did together. She knows she's absolutely being unfair to him here, blaming him entirely for everything she did, but she's angry at herself for those choices. Frank is an easy target for her to externalize that anger. Maybe she wants him to stab her for it; maybe she also wants to stab him. It's Complicated. ]

[ormondsoutlier]

Yeah, I got some advice for ya; Fuck off.

[Hey gave plenty of help and advice back then, at the time... He just didn't actually believe in it himself, just like now, with this girl. You're now just wise to his spiel Susie and are seeing how he his iconoclast bullshit suckers young girls in from the outside. Sorry you walked into this, and he's now unsubtly brandishing a knife in your direction, it's nothing personal.]

I'm doin' somthin' here; can we do this some other time?

[rulerstake]

[ Inwardly, Susie is a scared, trembling mess. To stand up to Frank like this is... well, little more than a suicide wish. Or it would be, if they were capable of actually dying like normal people still. The notion of having her belly split open right here in front of all these people also doesn't appeal to her on any sane level, but at the same time, she's too pissed off right now to just walk away like she knows she should. She doesn't move for a moment and she's grateful to be wearing her mask, because it hides the fear she feels while she tries to find her voice again. ]

'Sorry. No can do. The Legion takes priority. Now more than ever.

[ She takes a slow step forward and her brain starts screaming at her immediately. This is stupid, this is stupid, this is stupid... But, no, she can't just look away. She's not going to let him fuck up any other kids with all his crap. She takes out her own stake, her fingers flexing restlessly on the ruler as she holds it up. Can she actually defend herself against Frank? And what about when Julie finds out? Can she handle that? Who knows. She's never tried before. ]

And this looks like as good a moment as any.