Am I the asshole for asking my estranged twin to help take down a testing facility, on the deal they’ll arrest the scientists who plagiarized my original drug?
For starters, I’m a shapeshifter toon fugitive (25, non-binary). Almost six years ago, I created a serum referred to as a humanity-correctional cure made from my own blood and launched a terrorist attack on a leisure train called the Luxury Express. I turned several humans into toons, killed some, the works.
However, I did it for my twin (25, non-binary, also a shapeshifter toon). She was being harassed, and the staff wouldn’t listen to my complaints on his behalf about an attempted assault by a human. I was working on biology degrees at university while in the largest city state, and being we’re both highly intelligent, I began working on my “cure”. It’s essentially a drugged bullet, laced with my altered blood cells.
My twin, unfortunately, didn’t understand, and we eventually got into a physical fight where I drugged everyone on the train except her with a memory interference. We then became estranged, as he was a struggling detective. I traumatized them badly enough that she refused to be associated with me, who was assumed to either be missing or dead.
Then, almost two years ago, my twin attended a reintroduction ceremony after the Luxury Express’ reopening. It was the typical week-long trip the train takes. Seeing as I was extremely angry with my twin, and not exactly thinking straight, I proceeded to plot on how I could reveal she was a shapeshifter and that we were fraternal twins.
A nasty disaster went down. I cured five humans, one on accident, and framed my twin before attacking him in front of everyone. It resulted in me getting arrested by them and ultimately told that she hated me.
Okay, yes, that’s a lot of information, but it’s important to the story. In the southwestern city state, a secret testing facility opened up that acts as an experimentation center on primarily humans to create artificial shapeshifters. Some sort of racist mentality to “achieve the inhumane strength of toons”, I guess.
I’m not fond of humans, but straight-up torturing them to see if they’ll turn into a toon and back is plain mad, and not to mention, they copied my formula for a blood-laced drug. I can’t report them to the government, especially after I escaped prison.
So, of course, I began seeking out my twin. She exposed me for my identity, so I can’t sneak out in public anymore. For a month or two, I’ve had to be discreet while tracking him down, and to no luck as they beat me up several times.
Eventually, I caught my twin in a vulnerable position during a ballroom masquerade, but that concluded in her knocking me out on the dance floor and locking me up in an interrogation room.
It was my chance, and when he demanded to know why I’d been stalking them for several months after my prison escape, I confessed everything. I needed my serum to be out of the hands of twisted idiots, and besides, both of have a strong moral sense; who would condone a testing facility?
Not to mention, my twin’s working business partner (23? He’s an amnesiac, non-binary) escaped from such a facility as one of the only surviving and functioning artificial shapeshifter.
Because of this slight of the hand, my twin begrudgingly accepted to only aid her partner. He entered a legal agreement that they must keep me safe as a criminal working with the law, and we’ll be infiltrating the facility in some time.
I’ve been wondering, however. I’m a terrible person for what I did five and two years ago, both their own monsters to sort out with my stubborn twin, but am I really so terrible for helping her with a lead in the facility case? He is incredibly hateful and rude to me, even attempting to harm me several times and giving me a concussion at the masquerade, if there’s any argument on my part.
AITA?
YTA
NTA
JAH
NAH
ESH
INFO
