You can't tell me Crosshair hasn't tried sticking a toothpick into one of Echo's cranial ports not long after he joined the batch. Crosshair would do it, he strikes me as the type.
AITA for telling my brother that I wouldn't love him if he was a worm?
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but people are saying I should apologize, and I think this whole thing is ridiculous, and I could use some outside advice.
For context, I (9 M) have a batchmate named Frup (9 M), and we’re pretty close. For any natborns, batchmates are like our twins or closest brothers. Frup was the oldest in our batch, and I was in the middle, but now it’s just us. Frup is a lot more outgoing than me, so a lot of his friends are mine by association, but they’re generally closer to him than me.
Well, Frup likes to spend lots of time on the holonet, watching tooka videos or cooking tutorials. I’m not nearly as into them as he is, but recently there’s been a fad of asking people if you’d still love them if they were a worm. The other night, we went out to 79’s for a drink, and about halfway through the night, Frup started asking if we’d still love him if he was a worm. When he got to asking me, I told him no.
Worms are gross. They’re slimy, they don’t have any legs, and I’ve seen General Skywalker slurp them down like noodles if we’re running low on rations. I’d rather starve than eat worms, and I couldn't imagine loving one.
I’m in the 501st, and before I joined the battalion, they had a mission on Geonosis where half a platoon got infected with mind-controlling brain worms! At first I thought it was just a story to scare the shinies, but I’ve read the mission reports, and those things are nasty. I’ve seen a couple worms while we’ve been on campaign, and they always give me the creeps.
I thought this was a reasonable answer, but when I told Frup that I would not still love him if he was a worm, he burst into tears and was inconsolable for at least ten minutes. He hasn’t talked to me since. It’s been a day or two since then, and the others have been giving me the cold shoulder too.
At first, I thought Frup was overreacting— there’s no way my vod would ever actually be turned into a worm, and it’s a stupid question anyways. If Frup was a worm, then he wouldn’t be Frup anymore. All the things that make him Frup would be gone, and I’d miss my vod if he was gone. He couldn’t be replaced by a worm.
I tried telling Frup this when we were at 79’s, but he wasn’t very coherent by the end of the night, and he’s been avoiding me ever since.
I’ve tried asking the others in our squad what to do, explaining my side of things, but they just say that I should apologize to Frup, without explaining why Frup reacted that way, or why it was wrong to say that I wouldn’t love my vod if he was a worm.
He knows I care about him, and that I wouldn’t say that to hurt him… right?
And he knows that I hate worms. What kind of answer did he expect?
Advice for navigating this situation would be helpful. What do you think? AITA for saying I wouldn’t love my vod if he was a worm?
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