#piratesaita

[inthelittlewood]

Pirates SMP AITA Submissions

Hello all!

We had a blast doing AITA (Am I The Asshole) prompts written from the perspective of characters/players in the LIFE Series, written by viewers

I thought it could be fun to do the same again but for Pirates SMP then get some of the cast members on to debate them with me

So here's the official tag #piratesaita

Standalone posts rather than reblogs would be appreciate as they're easier to read at a glance, as well as copy/pasting.

Fire away and we'll read them soon!

[sleepybunnysnail]

AITA for ruining my friend's wedding just because I could, murder the groom by gruesomely squishing him with an anvil, proceed to chase the bride trying to kill her and kill a few of the attendees in the process?

Yes. Yes he is the asshole.

[elkii]

AITA for backing out of my friend(?)’s idea to torture a… creature??

A lot to explain here so bear with me.

I’m a pirate, obviously, and everything was going fine on the faction isles til a couple months ago. We had a weird run in with this weird purple stuff that we call the corruption, and that caused some problems. We managed to get away (well most of us) but when we got back home we found this creature thing on the island. It seemed friendly and all but it was kind of unnerving because we didn’t know what it was and it was the same color as the corruption. Some people were fond of it, others not. I had my suspicions but kept quiet.

however there was another pirate that was not quiet about it. This guy, who I’ll call BB, was super hostile to the creature, and would shoot and scream at it every time he saw it. (Side note: nobody has any idea about where BB came from. And he makes fun of Herons a lot)

Anyway, one day BB approached me in private, and said that he was forming a special crew to get rid of the creature once and for all. After a couple of meetings, we agreed on capturing it and taking it somewhere private to interrogate; I was curious about it and its purpose on the island.

We successfully kidnapped the creature and took it to a cell to question it. At first, I psyched myself up into acting tough to get answers. But BB started getting me worried. He would light it on fire, and say a certain name that obviously upset it over and over. I played along but it felt weird.

That’s when suddenly two more friends burst in and asked us what we were doing. They were both fond of the creature, and demanded we let him go. BB started yelling at them, but I felt horrible. I felt like I'd gotten carried away, so I broke open the cell and let the creature go.

That’s when BB got really upset. He started yelling at me, saying I was weak. I tried to talk to him, but he just got mad and stormed off, saying something about doing it all himself or can’t trust people or something. I’ve heard from others that he’s been meaner than ever.

I don’t know whether what I did was right, so I’m asking yall.

[jade-or-smthg]

AITA for trying to kill my friend?

I know how this sounds, but hear me out.

I was approached by this guy, who I'll call M, who wanted me to... help him with some stuff. Specifically, he wanted to crash a wedding (and kill the groom but that's not important) and I needed to "secure the area". Long story short, I messed up, and M got really mad at me.

M said that in order to make it up, I needed to kill my friend, who we'll call A. I didn't really want to, but M forced my hand, so I lured A out to an ice wall to kill star. I tried to explain to A that I had no other choice, and that I can't really do anything else (plus I'm probably gonna get kicked out of my faction anyways) but star argued back. We fought for a while, and A is a pretty good fighter, so I had to pop a totem to survive.

In the end, A was still trying to talk me out of it, and I really didn't want to kill star to begin with, so I decided to not shoot him. Instead, I shot the ice under me, but it broke and I fell through. A jumped in to save me, and I blacked out. When I woke up, I was in A's room(? dungeon? seagull basement?) and star wasn't there. There was a really cryptic note that he left me, and I don't know where A is, or what happened to star. I think star blames me for this whole thing.

So, AITA?

[swordswoman97]

AITA For killing a fellow faction member?

I am aware the title sounds bad but please hear me out

I, E (~24 genderqueer) recently arrived at this place called the faction isles after escaping some weird hooded guys (long story) and joined a faction after an invitation from O (23 ?)

Due to being new here and coming from being kidnapped I am very short on funds. One of the other pirates K (19 M) told me about the bounty guild where I could make some money fairly quickly by killing people.

So I went to the location K told me about. There were several to choose from but the one with the highest payout by a fairly wide margin was for O. I don’t know what he did to make someone want her dead that much but I won’t question it

I found O in our faction’s tavern without her armor on and her back to me, which I used as the perfect chance to strike. He barely had time to react.

However as it turns out this is against the rules (why pirates have rules I don’t understand) and while O was willing to forgive me our faction leader C (29 M) who saw the attack, was not nearly so kind. He called me to talk to him, threw me out of the faction, and threatened to throw me in a volcano

I was able to join K’s faction but now I’m wondering if what I did was really that bad or if C was just overreacting

[lucylu-art]

Am I the asshole for constantly gaslighting everyone around me because I have a big secret?

I, M (33), am currently trapped within a server with a bunch of pirates. I know gaslighting everyone sounds bad, but there is a justified reason.

To set the scene, I am a human guy and not a player within the data stream. I was stupid and touched some tech that I shouldn’t have. I’ve been floating from server to server destroying LOOT shards, which were put there by this evil corporation called CHEST.

This server that I’m at is pirate themed, which to be granted, is my vibe, so I’ve had a lot of fun. But it’s getting to the point where I need to destroy this loot shard and get out of here, which yesterday I finally did.

This is where the gaslighting part comes in, I can’t tell anyone about what I’m doing as they are “NPC’s” which basically means they aren’t aware that they are in a video game and that there are other worlds out there. I feel especially bad as I left everyone at the most important, dangerous and potentially life-threatening battle in the servers history to leave through the portal, for my own personal benefit. Also, the fact that I left them there with that hideous creature, cruppy, god I hate that…thing.

Am I the asshole or was my reasoning and timing justified for my personal safety?

[kai-the-poet]

AITA for betraying one of the people who trusted me?

u/SharkLover_BaaBaa

I know the title looks not great on me but hear me out.

I (21M he/they) grew up on this really seedy pirate ship with a really... eccentric... captain (???M) and there was this other dude who made friends with the prisoner! I mean can you believe it? Anyway lets call this guy W (now 28M he/him/them) who was 14 when we last saw each other.

So W annoys the captain (let's call him EM) a lot and normally when someone annoys EM it's my job to get rid of them (read: kill) but this time EM let W go!! Ok so he might have left him bloody and bruised on some random island but still!

Anyway, flash forward 14 years and now I am moving into this Faction Isles with a bunch of pirates and I join the one about money or something, not important. But guess who I see alive and well?! IT'S W!!

W is running around holding hands and picking flowers with this faction all about family (ironic when he abandoned our ship!!! And his father!!)

Anyway a while later W comes up to me and says they need my help! Apparently EM's ship has been nearby recently! And W wants to explore.

Long story short (I'm a busy man after all), W started asking too many nosy questions and sticking their nose in business that wasn't his to know. There happened to be these cultists on the island W had docked on that had turned W's own faction leader to stone (skill issue in my opinion) and what was a man to do? I shoved W into them and he died (L + ratio) but what was I meant to do???

Now I am very scared that his happy go lucky faction is going to do to me what I did to EM's enemies all those years ago but W was sticky beaking!

So AITA for betraying his trust in order to save my skin and EM's honour?

[morunderscore]

AITA for snapping at my friends while grieving?

For context, I (26) and my friends are all pirates and have been hunted down by some cultists. They had just recently kidnapped me and a few others, and unfortunately killed one of our faction leaders, M, by turning her into stone. So like we were out for our revenge at this point, and when we got to the place where the cultists were and killed them all. We climbed up some mountain and were surprised to find the being (?) The cultists were after. Once we approached it, we were frozen by something. That something was the cultists. They then brought out my best friend (19) who, for context, had "gone fishing" weeks prior and we'll call it H. Anyways they brought it out to the middle of us all and killed H by turning it to stone. I was very distraught and not handling it well. I walked away from the group for a moment to attempt to collect myself. When I got back, my friend (Who we'll call K), said hiw we should leave the statue here and i agreed with it. Then one of the nightingales (we'll call her G) said how the nightingales took M home to their faction because she might be alive. I snapped then, because how could they be alive? I saw H get turned to stone infront of me? Then someone in our group said how someone we'll call A took home M to Bury her. This upset me further and I was angered after K brought up how they hadn't buried her yet. Infact they planned to put her on display. I was angry and called the nightingales "sick". This was obviously met with backlash from the nightingales but a few people did agree with me. I then turned to K, who was the only kite present and went off on it, as I was angry no one was there and we could've avoided what happened to H. It told me not to blame it but I was too overwhelmed with grief to listen and continued to argue. K tried to break up the fight and end it but I turned to A and said how this was all "some weird taxidermy stuff". I then turned around and left.

AITA?