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AITA for not telling my friends I'm nonverbal by choice and not by disability?

For context, I (23 F) am close friends with M (25 M) and J (22 M). I was subject to significant trauma at a young age and resorted to being nonverbal, and have just never gone back. I much prefer communicating through ASL/writing instead of talking, and I never have a need to tell people I can talk but just don't, so nobody knew until recent events.

My job is somewhat dangerous, being around robots that can easily kill a grown man in a few seconds if things go wrong. I often get scheduled to work with M and J, and we three became friends over our adrenaline-seeking love for the job. J even learned ASL just to communicate with me faster. The one night I was scheduled by myself was the night the robots were the most active- they start out slow at the beginning of the week and progressively get faster and faster to keep up as demand gets more intense. Anyways, I got injured/trapped by one of them, and was only saved when I used voice commands on my phone to call M and told him to come rescue me (the police in my area are notoriously bad/slow). I'm currently in the hospital recovering as I type this. J and M are both being awkward around me, admitting that they thought I couldn't talk at all and are upset I hid it from them for so long- J seems especially hurt because he learned ASL for me, genuinely believing I had no better way to communicate. I feel bad for 'leading them on' but I genuinely don't like talking even though I'm able to, so I'm a little conflicted.

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Voting ended onMar 29, 2024

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(AU/Fan character) [CW: Implied manipulation]

AITA for using my powers?

Hey, uh. For some much-needed context, I used to be just some average guy. But one day I was killed while live streaming myself playing this video game (which is a story for another day), and now I think my soul is trapped in the game. It sounds crazy, but one of the NPCs who I’ll call K (transfem, adult) told me that she also happened to die and got stuck in the game. Now I’m not saying that I doubted her…but I certainly believe her a lot more now that it happened to me.

Anyways, I wake up in the game and am understandably freaked out, especially because while I was playing, this weird virus thing called O (nonbinary, idk) antagonized everyone, and probably really dislikes me after I helped the characters kill them. If they had somehow survived, then I knew I was done for.

But they never showed up. And everything was going so well until I grew horns. And wings. And a tail….

I don’t know how it happened, but I think that I may have overridden O by accident, as I now bear a striking resemblance to them. I also have their powers, too. And as soon as I learnt this, I decided to use them for good and to improve the game world. I changed up some things, rewrote some code, you know. The works. But my NPC friends started looking more and more tense when I’m around. Some of them straight-up avoid me.

Wanting to get to the bottom of this, I track down K and ask her why everyone is acting so weird. She proceeds to yell at me, saying that “I’m making things worse” and “I’m just like O.” And I’m like, what the heck? I tried to explain to her that I was making the game a better place for everyone, and that I’m nothing like O, but K refused to listen to me.

She ran off and I understandably chased after her. I eventually lose K, and to make matters worse, that’s when I start hearing O’s voice in my head. But they didn’t sound malicious, nor condescending like they used to. They actually listened to me, and told me that K was acting irrationally.

They encouraged me to just ignore her and to continue changing the game, and they made some good points. How dare K say those things about me, and how dare everyone treat me like a monster? I helped her. I helped them all! And this is the thanks I get?

I think I’m going to listen to O. I mean, these are my powers now. I’d say I have the right to use them. I think everyone sees me as TA now. But what about you, internet? AITA?

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Voting ended onMar 29, 2024

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AITA for agreeing to kidnap a friend?

For clarification, I'm not sure if we're 'friends'. But he seems pretty nice to me.

I, 24m, am part of an adventurer's guild. I joined to make friends, as well as... well it's not entirely important. I'm also what's colloquially known as a 'warlock'.

I was adopted at a young age by a devil, after my parents attempted a summoning ritual that went wrong. I have the ritual scars to prove it. He's nice, though- he raised me in his human guise, and he's always treated me like a son. Gave me magic to keep myself safe.

Last night, I was sleeping in the woods with my party, when my dad reached out to me in my dreams. He does that sometimes, it's normal. Especially because we've been apart for a while. He sat me down, and we talked. Turns out, one of the princes from... downstairs has a vested interest in one of my party members. Sort of a family reunion thing. I hate family reunions. But it's... I'm supposed to take him to the hells to reunite him with his father.

This is important. If I do this, if I succeed... I could get my soul back. I made my pact with my adoptive father when I was... four? Five? I was small, so I've never really remembered much of my life when I owned my own soul.

I guess I'm kind of desperate.

But the thing is, I know how it feels to have blood relatives want you when you don't want them. My adoptive father has us in hiding, because my birth family would hunt me down if they knew I survived the ritual. My friend says he lost everything as a child. I understand. I did too.

I took the deal. It's a physical mark on my body, now. I'm supposed to take him down to his dad before The Big Plans are fully set into motion. Not that I really know what those are, but... devils. I think I'm better off not knowing.

This is pretty much the only opportunity I have to get my soul back. To really own myself again. But... AITA for taking the deal, promising to kidnap my friend?

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Voting ended onMar 29, 2024

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aita for resurrecting my dead boyfriend?

to make a long story short, i (m32) had a boyfriend, N (m31) who died around 7 years ago protecting me from someone who attacked us, and i spent around 5 years trying to learn necromancy to bring him back after that

after i had cast the spell, according to him, he had to experience around one and a half years of feeling sensation again in a shallow grave after he'd accepted death and apparently, when he did find himself alive again, i had been roaming around the land turning up graves and ressurecting the dead blinded by a "grief-stricken attempt to bring N back", but i couldnt help it if i get consumed by my desires and emotions corrupted by necromantic magic, even if it lead to me creating an undead army from it

he's technically forgiven me now for all of it, ive laid the ones ressurected after my boyfriend to rest, and we currently only have 6 months left to live after he gave up part of the life and sanity i used to ressurect him, but a part of me still feels guilty for the the fact i made him suffer through all that, and for the fact i even became like that

tldr; aita for ressurecting my boyfriend and getting corrupted in the process?

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Voting ended onOct 20, 2023

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AITA for striking a deal with a sworn enemy of our kind?

To make a very long story short some 500-ish years ago I lost a crucial battle. Many of my best knights defected, leaving me struggling alone against beasts trying to take over the rule of the shadow society we'd been forced into.

I have been building up our forces again, but not everyone agrees that we need to consolidate our place in the world - they'd rather stay hidden like rats. Regardless, I am nearly back to strength, but before my force tackles the wider societal issue, I want to clean up loose ends. Most of the old army have died in the years passed but there is a trio of warriors that somehow survived. Their alpha was one of my most trusted officers, and his betrayal still stings. They're also elders in the community and the "council" they formed in lieu of a strong ruling class, so taking them out would be a huge tactical advantage.

I struck a deal with a renowned hunter, who has been pursuing A for a long time. Why he is so focused on A is none of my concern, but in the long term he wants to exterminate our species as a whole, so I'll have to get rid of him sooner or later (he's immortal but I'll figure it out). I've been told it's dishonorable to side with someone who hates our kind. I believe that sacrifices have to be made to restore what is rightfully ours.

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Voting ended onOct 5, 2023

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For fan characters, are we allowed to send submissions written from a canon character's POV about a situation they experienced with our OCs, or is only the OCs' POV allowed?

thank you for the question! this is one I believe was answered before. the asks are meant to be from your OC's pov, not a canon character.

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AITA for intentionally ruining a man's life and scaring my friend?

Alright, I know that sounds bad and I know it is bad but please, hear me out.

My friend (we'll call him R) has had a lot of problems with deadlines as long as I've known him. Recently, he told me why - and it's not the greatest story.

Quite a while before I met him, he'd been working with someone that we'll call TC. TC was impatient at best and outright violent at worst. While R was working under TC, TC would go anywhere from just intimidating him to actively hurting him, even going so far as trying to kill him. It's a miracle R got out of there alive, but he's completely traumatised by it because of TC.

I was understandably not very happy learning about this, but I wasn't going to do anything about it. Except after thinking about it for a while I decided I was going to.

For a little extra context, I have an innate ability that allows me to corrupt a person - not 'corrupt' to mean 'turn evil', corrupt as in like malware, but for a person. From my knowledge there is no way to fix it, and it doesn't fade with time. It is a permanent negative thing that can affect someone for their entire life. I hadn't intentionally used this ability until now.

I met with TC in my own time, mostly to investigate whether he really was as bad as R said (I did trust R, but I couldn't help but be curious) and he really was. I didn't do anything then, since there were people around, but I arranged to 'meet up' with him again later. Fast forward to a few days ago, I met up with TC to confront him. However, I'd made the mistake of telling R, and he insisted on coming with me.

The confrontation went about as I expected. It started with me and TC arguing, then TC threatened R (which is why I hadn't wanted R to come) so I retaliated and used my ability on TC. After that was a mess, because R started shouting too, and everyone was shouting and I was a little stressed but it was too late to just undo what I'd done.

Eventually TC ran, and I tried talking to R but I'd really scared him. He left without me.

I was only trying to protect R, but what I did feels far too excessive. TC is going to have to deal with the consequence of it for the rest of his life (from my knowledge, I don't use my ability very often. It does last years, at the very least) and R is... terrified of me now, I think.

TL;DR - My friend had a genuinely dangerous ex boss and in an attempt to protect him I ruined his boss' life and subsequently left him terrified of me.

I think I'm TA, but I'd like more opinion that just my own, even if its just to reinforce the fact.

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Voting ended onOct 5, 2023

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(Fan character/fankid)

AITA for killing on someone else's behalf?

Ok, long story short: my cousin who I'll call N (15F) and I (16M) were in the same class at this private, prestigious academy run by my dad. (That was definitely NOT nepotism, thank you. My dads definitely did push me to work for my position.) Along with like 15(?) other kids whose parents were all a part of the school before us, our class was cast into a mutual killing game- basically, we were locked in the school, and the only way out was to kill another person and get away with it.

N is very childish, in my opinion. It isn't an insult, but she acts like a kid, she's super optimistic and pretty naive, doesn't take things seriously, and she can't really handle these kinds of situations. My dads were very adamant growing up that I be kind to others and look out for those around me, especially N, being that she's my cousin and she needs me. So I knew I had to have her in mind first and foremost.

However, there was another student (16M) who quickly became... problematic. I'll call him L. L insistently and repeatedly tried to instigate others to commit murder, deliberately caused problems and damaged others emotionally, and even- and most heinously- threatened N's life with sincerity and in a very specific way- more or less provided her with his plan to enact her extremely violent murder. I knew that with L around, no one would be safe, and N would be put through extreme amounts of psychological distress, which would ultimately risk her life and wellbeing and cause her to suffer. As such, I... took care of L, inadvertently causing the killing game to officially begin for N's sake.

Once this came out, N lost it at me, and everyone else was infuriated, calling me a "self righteous hypocrite" for doing what L had threatened to. The others even got mad at N and began distrusting her because I killed on her behalf. But given our circumstances and the horrific things L said which I don't even think I'd be allowed to repeat, all with the intention of harming N, I really think what I did was totally justified. Yes, maybe the chemical burns were overkill, but that's really it.

So, before they vote me innocent or guilty of murder and potentially sentence me to death, am I really the asshole for what I did?

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Voting ended onOct 6, 2023