#chronica siderum (fanfic)

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u/SADZookeeper:

AITA for failing to protect my brother?

It's been about a week since everything happened and I'm still trying to process this myself, so please bear with me. Sorry for the long background context.

I (~27M) and my little brother Ac (22M) grew up on an island with really famous and influential parents. I knew since I was a child that our parents wanted me to carry on the family legacy on the island, and I did everything I could to do that (it was the lot I was handed in life; I'm just making do with what I could). At the same time, though, I knew our parents sidelined Ac, so I tried my best to look out for him and make sure he was okay, because that's what brothers are supposed to do.

About three years ago, Ac disappeared overnight without a note. I tried looking for him everywhere, but my parents didn't really seem to care that Ac had gone missing, and I don't know why. I assumed he was dead and grieved for him, until he turned back up on the island over a year later. I reconciled with him and was glad that he was alive and well, and swore I wasn't going to lose him again.

A lot happened since this: I found out that my home island was built on a lie, that we were all in grave danger, and one of my best friends fled the island in response. I wasn't in an emotionally good place, but from this point onward, it might have be where I started to become TA.

Weeks after that, I received a letter from Ac that he was going on a dangerous quest that he might not come back from, along with all his savings. I panicked and tracked down his location to go after him (he left behind some notes on where he was going); I was afraid I'd lose him again and lose more people that I cared about.

I found Ac alive, thankfully, but when we sat down for a heart-to-heart, he told me about how he never felt wanted at home, which was why he left, and lost someone extremely close to him when he was away. I didn't know what to say about this: I felt like Ac could have trusted me with this earlier. I thought I tried my best to be a good brother when we were children, but clearly, that wasn't enough to keep him from leaving.

The location we were in only had a one-way entrance, but when we found the exit, it said it required a sacrifice, that only one of us could leave alive. I don't know or care who designed the place, but at that point, I didn't know what else I could do to make up for how much I failed Ac.

I volunteered to die for him to escape.

I wanted it to be me. It should have been me.

He decided otherwise.

He pushed me out of the way and fell into the death trap.

I don't know how to convey to you how badly I failed: Ac already had a rough enough childhood as he did; I couldn't be there for him when he needed it the most (both at home and after he left), and couldn't even ensure he could escape and live a somewhat happy life, even if meant me gone. I couldn't even do that much for him.

I don't know how I never noticed the extent of how badly Ac was treated at home, I don't know how everything led to this, and I don't know how I'm supposed to tell his friends that he's gone because I wasn't quick enough.

I'm back on the island where we were born and raised. I feel like TA. Am I?

TL;DR: My little brother had a rough childhood that I couldn't protect him from and ran off on a reckless, life-threatening quest, I panicked and went after him, we got stuck in a death trap, and he shouldn't have been the one to die there but I couldn't fall fast enough to make sure he's the one who survived–

This post is Part 2 of the "Chronica Siderum" series. Technically speaking, this post is slightly over the character limit for the actual AITA subreddit, but let's be honest, we don't really care here.

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

Click here to read this on AO3 for bonus annotations.

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anyways, hi, i write pirates fics. i wrote an aita mini-series on the denholm brothers which is basically their lore: the abridged version in just over 1k words. both of them also have their own sections in my piratesversary prose poem.

i also wrote a fanfic about them for my chinese course last semester. unposted but it's there and i'll post it if anyone wants to read it (but it's in chinese and i'll have to translate for some of y'all).

if you vote for piracy, i'll write and post one of the several fics i have about those two. they took over my life and make me very happy

these fics include and are not limited to:

p!acho kite au (based on a scrapped plotline from canon)

p!scott character analysis fic chapter 1 (brothers-centric)

the fic i wrote for my school assignment

something else idk yet but i'm sure i can write something

i can direct you to more fics about them if you want to read about them (they have my heart and soul)

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u/throwaway_astrorum:

AITA for leaving my closest friend to die after an argument?

Hi, this one's been weighing on my conscience for a couple of years now and I don't know who to turn to.

For context, I (22?M) was raised in a prestigious family on some island, and I have an older brother S (~27M). My parents were a couple of stuck-up snobs who showered favouritism on S when we were growing up. I always felt like the household was more of a home for S than for me because he could reach their expectations and I never could.

Eventually, when I was ~19(? I keep losing track of how time passes and I can barely remember my own birthday), I ran away without leaving a note because I knew my parents saw me as an unwanted disgrace to the family, and travelled the world alone to find a new place to call home. I couldn't until I met M, another sailor, who took me in after I explained my circumstances.

Over the months, we bonded and became extremely close. We did everything together… M felt like home to me. This was until until one stormy night.

We were tracking down an ancient treasure at sea based on some old legends and were running low on supplies. I told M that we should turn back because it was too dangerous, but we were so close to finding that treasure that M insisted on going further. This escalated into an argument where M lost his temper and told me to just leave and go back to "my perfect family" on that island, because I "had someone to depend on" back at "home", but he never did.

I was in shock at the time; I left and returned to the island I was born and razed, and I haven't heard from M since.

Thankfully, my parents were away when I returned. I tried to re-establish a life there after leaving for over a year, made some new friends and reconciled with my estranged brother S. But then some terrible news broke out about the island and I've been feeling like going back out to sea to finish what M and I started, and what happened has been weighing on my conscience again. I feel incomplete without M, yet that is the reality I am living in because of my own choices.

Be my judge and jury: AITA for abandoning my closest friend?

This post is Part 1 of the "Chronica Siderum" series.

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

Click here to read this on AO3 for bonus annotations.

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u/SADZookeeper:

Update

A lot has happened since everything went down; I know, it's barely been a couple of weeks since I made my last post.

I see some of you have been speculating if u/throwaway_astrorum's post and mine are related, based on the ages and background info we gave. Yes, u/throwaway_astrorum was my little brother Ac, and I am S. Ac did go back out to sea to try to finish what he and M started; that was the "dangerous quest that he might not come back from" that I mentioned.

I told Ac's friends what happened that night; they deserve the closure, though I'm still trying to find it myself.

I'm planning to change my name and contact info and move away from this island and our parents. I don't think my conscience would let me stay after the amount of hurt Ac endured here.

Our parents' names are Aurelia and Hudson. I'll bet anything that they're willing to disclose their identities in their usernames if they make accounts here, because they think everyone does and should know their names. If they come here with their own AITAs, tell them it was their own actions that drove both their sons away from them.

Thank you to everyone for the support, from both of us.

This post is Part 3 of the "Chronica Siderum" series, and a direct continuation of Part 2.

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

Click here to read this on AO3 for bonus annotations.

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Masterpost: Tell Me, Did I Do Wrong?

AKA the cubito AITA collection

[main Tumblr tag] [AO3 series]

Main fic [AO3]

u/PurpleCastleLover: AITA for accidentally killing a guy who was extorting me for money with a bounty? [Tumblr] [AO3] [Poll]

u/nightingale_throwaway_0227: AITA for being born? [Tumblr] [AO3] [Poll]

u/patriot_turned_pirate: AITA for murdering eight people over a side comment? [Tumblr] [AO3] [Poll]

u/RecordKeepingChaosPotato: AITA for eating someone's ship? [Tumblr] [AO3]

u/SociallyJetLaggedArchivist: AITA for accidentally starting a fight over a gun? [Tumblr] [AO3]

Spin-offs

The Mushroom Incident (Rats)

u/JustALittleButtonHatRat: AITA for not wanting to burn a dried mushroom? [Tumblr] [AO3] [Poll]

Chronica Siderum [AO3]

u/throwaway_astrorum: AITA for leaving my closest friend to die after an argument? [Tumblr] [AO3] [Poll]

u/SADZookeeper: AITA for failing to protect my brother? [Tumblr] [AO3] [Poll]

u/SADZookeeper: Update [Tumblr] [AO3]

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Aqua's Fanfic Masterpost 2.0

Fanfic list and overviews are under the cut. Ship-centric fics (or those that can be interpreted as such) are denoted with asterisks (*).

Dream SMP

Kill the Lights, Kill the Actor, Kill the Actress (Or Kill Us All) [AO3]

Canon-compliant one-shot; completed

c!Quackity post-Butcher Army introspective reflection

CW: Discussions of character death, execution, violence; mentions of blood, eye trauma, and various injuries

Tumblr tag link: #kill the lights (fanfic)

The Ghosts of Yesterday [AO3]

Canon-compliant Toontown crossover (intended to be multichapter, currently a one-shot); hiatus

c!Quackity backstory fic

CW: Child maltreatment

Tumblr tag link: #the ghosts of yesterday (fanfic)

*Eye of the Tiger [AO3]

Questionably canon-compliant one-shot; completed

Crack Treated Seriously; c!Wilbur meets Tiger + how c!Quackity got animals to Las Nevadas

I don't care if you read this as /p or /r c!TNTDuo because the nuance is not important to the fic, but tagging it just in case

Written for Quackity's victories in the MCYTblr Sexyman Polls

CW: c!Wilbur POV and centric

Tumblr tag link: #eye of the tiger (fanfic)

Life series

We've All Been Damned, C'mon [AO3]

Canon-compliant one-shot; completed

Examining traffic!Gem's emotional breakdown throughout Secret Life

Inspired by the animatic "Feed the Machine" by Everen

CW: Canonical character death by assisted suicide, grief; non-explicit blood, eye trauma, mental health issues, etc.

Tumblr tag link: #we've all been damned c'mon (fanfic)

*tumbling dynamite [AO3]

Canon-divergent one-shot; completed

In which traffic!Lizzie receives a secret task to betray her closest ally and puts her husband on the metaphorical chopping block

CW: Betrayal, death, grief, non-descriptive mentions of injuries

Written for @/needlebettles for the MCYT Trick-or-Treat Exchange 2024

Tumblr tag: #tumbling dynamite (fanfic)

Pirates SMP

The Morning Falls Nonetheless [AO3] [Writer's cut]

Canon-divergent one-shot; completed

Ft. Aurelia and Hudson Denholm's A+ parenting (/neg)

Self-indulgent AU written for @/scarletfeisty in a Project SEKAI phase

CW: Animal cruelty and death, bad parenting

Tumblr tag link: #the morning falls nonetheless (fanfic)

Tell Me, Did I Do Wrong? [AO3] [Tumblr]

PiratesAITA compilation anthology (series of ficlet one-shots); completed/hiatus

Ft. p!Ros, p!Will (and a bonus p!Shep), p!Krow/Kuervo, and p!El and p!Martyn's rat chats

Written for @/inthelittlewood

CW: Child maltreatment, grief, guns, totalitarianism, trauma, etc.

Tumblr tag link: #tell me did i do wrong? (fanfic)

Chronica Siderum [AO3] [Tumblr]

PiratesAITA compilation anthology (three-shot); completed

Denholm Brothers lore: the Abridged Version

Also, there's angst. Pretty much the entire thing is angst. Not my fault canon is Like That

Final chapter has headcanons (not necessarily personal ones)

Written for @/inthelittlewood (kind of)

CW: Child maltreatment, grief, trauma, etc.

Tumblr tag link: #chronica siderum (fanfic)

Blood on the Hillside [AO3] [Writer's cut]

Canon-compliant continuation one-shot; completed

Chat torments p!Shep post-canon as karma for committing third-degree murder in canon

Self-indulgent headcanon fic

CW: Discussions of homelessness

Tumblr tag link: #blood on the hillside (fanfic)

*Hatchling [AO3]

Canon-compliant missing scene ficlet / one-shot; completed

p!Sausage meets Loki the crocodile

Self-indulgent headcanon fic

CW: Minor injuries

Written as Scosage propaganda for the first @/scottsmajorshipbracket

Tumblr tag link: #hatchling (fanfic)

and the devil won't know (all the love i just couldn't let go) [AO3]

Canon-compliant character study prose poem; completed

Shulker Box fic written for the 1st Pirates anniversary

CW: Mentions of blood, child maltreatment, death, grief, and various mental health issues

Tumblr tag link: #and the devil won't know (fanfic)

Life is a Railway (I Wanna Rob It All Night Long) [AO3] [Writer's cut]

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Western AU, multi-chapter; completed

The Kites rob trains and become found family

Written for MCYTblr AU Fest 2024 in collaboration with @/kitefactionofficial (then known as @/philzas-early-gang-society)

CW: Alcohol, fantasy drugging, violence

Tumblr tag link: #LRAU (fanfic)

Catamount Calls [AO3]

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Western AU one-shot; completed

Nightingale-centric spin-off of Life is a Railway

LRAU!Graecie meets Oz the shadow cat

CW: Discussions of animal death

Tumblr tag link: #LRAU (fanfic)

Through Blood and Name [AO3]

Canon-compliant prequel ficlet / one-shot; completed

p!Owen backstory and naming headcanon fic

Self-indulgent, mostly headcanons

CW: References to canon-typical queerphobia and mentions of miscarriages/stillbirths

Tumblr tag link: #through blood and name (fanfic)

Tigers on a Gold Leash [AO3]

Questionably canon compliant drabble; completed

Based on a Duolingo sentence I found online

Self-indulgent crackfic

Tumblr tag link: #tigers on a gold leash (fanfic)

and i can't live in a fairytale of lies [AO3]

Canon-compliant two-shot, in which Chapter 2 is the main fic; completed

Kuervo's final assassination plan does not go to plan, and what happens after his return to Naya

Self-indulgent but is an AU to my personal headcanon

CW: Discussions/Mentions of execution, mentions of eye trauma, paranoia, implicit self-loathing, totalitarianism, trauma

Tumblr tag link: #and i can't live in a fairytale of lies (fanfic)

but i'm gonna be here 'til forever (so just call when you're around) [AO3]

Canon-compliant one-shot, partial prequel & character study; completed

Pre-reconciliation p!Scott POV on p!Acho's disappearance and later joining the Nightingales

Written for @/ilexdiapason for the MCYT Trick-or-Treat Exchange 2024

CW: Abandonment issues, bad parenting, discussions of character death, grief, mental health issues

Tumblr tag link: #just call when you're around (fanfic)

Rats SMP

The Mushroom Incident [AO3] [Tumblr]

RatsAITA one-shot; completed

r!Will POV on their role in the warped fungus infection sub-plot

Written for @/inthelittlewood's compilation and at @/willowmvp's request

CW: Mentions of temporary canon character death

Tumblr tag link: #the mushroom incident (fanfic)

Stampy's Lovely World

Love [Tumblr]

Canon-compliant art piece and poem; completed

c!Stampy-centric poem about the Love Garden

Written for the Stampytober 2022 event hosted by @/reindash--yuri

Tumblr tag link: #love (fanfic)

Other

TDMurderer AU

MCSM canon-divergent AU

First created by @/sweetest-honeybee

Has artwork and comics

Tumblr tag link: #mcsm tdmurderer au

Miscellaneous works

Covers either fanfics without their own tags OR non-fics that nonetheless have a creative writing element to them

Tumblr tag link: #unclassified works

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Aqua's Fanfic Masterpost

Fanfic list and overviews are under the cut.

Dream SMP

Kill the Lights, Kill the Actor, Kill the Actress (Or Kill Us All) [AO3]

Canon-compliant one-shot

c!Quackity post-Butcher Army introspective reflection

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #kill the lights (fanfic)

The Ghosts of Yesterday [AO3]

Canon-compliant Toontown crossover (intended to be multichapter, currently a one-shot)

c!Quackity backstory fic

CW: Child maltreatment

Hiatus

Tumblr tag link: #the ghosts of yesterday (fanfic)

Eye of the Tiger [AO3]

Questionably canon-compliant one-shot

Crack Treated Seriously

c!Wilbur meets Tiger + how c!Quackity got animals to Las Nevadas

I don't care if you read this as /p or /r c!TNTDuo because the nuance is not important to the fic

Written for Quackity's victories in the MCYTblr Sexyman Polls

CW: c!Wilbur POV and centric

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #eye of the tiger (fanfic)

Empires SMP

Scleractinian [AO3]

Questionably canon-compliant three-shot

Ocean Empire worldbuilding centred on coral biology

Hiatus/WIP/Outlined; unreleased

Tumblr tag link: #scleractinian (fanfic)

Life series

We've All Been Damned, C'mon [AO3]

Canon-compliant one-shot

Examining traffic!Gem's emotional breakdown throughout Secret Life

Inspired by the animatic "Feed the Machine" by Everen

CW: Canonical character death by assisted suicide, grief; non-explicit blood, eye trauma, mental health issues, etc.

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #we've all been damned c'mon (fanfic)

Pirates SMP

The Morning Falls Nonetheless [AO3]

Canon-divergent one-shot

Ft. Aurelia and Hudson Denholm's A+ parenting (/neg)

Self-indulgent AU written for @/scarletfeisty due to a Project SEKAI phase

Has a writer's cut

CW: Animal cruelty and death

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #the morning falls nonetheless (fanfic)

Tell Me, Did I Do Wrong? [AO3] [Tumblr]

PiratesAITA compilation anthology (series of ficlet one-shots)

Ft. p!Ros, p!Will, p!Krow/Kuervo, and p!El and p!Martyn's rat chats

Written for @/inthelittlewood

CW: Child maltreatment, grief, guns, totalitarianism, trauma, etc.

Completed (at any rate) / Hiatus

Tumblr tag link: #tell me did i do wrong? (fanfic)

Chronica Siderum [AO3] [Tumblr]

PiratesAITA compilation anthology (three-shot)

Denholm Brothers lore: the Abridged Version

Also, there's angst. Pretty much the entire thing is angst. Not my fault canon is Like That

Final chapter has headcanons (not necessarily personal ones)

Written for @/inthelittlewood (kind of)

CW: Child maltreatment, grief, trauma, etc.

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #chronica siderum (fanfic)

Faction Isles University AU [TBA]

Untitled Pirates College/University AU concept

Purely self-indulgent

No fics but an outline exists

Tumblr tag link: #faction isles university au

Blood on the Hillside [AO3]

Canon-compliant continuation one-shot

Chat torments p!Shep post-canon as karma for committing third-degree murder in canon

Self-indulgent headcanon fic

Has a writer's cut

CW: Discussions of homelessness

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #blood on the hillside (fanfic)

Hatchling [AO3]

Canon-compliant missing scene ficlet / one-shot

p!Sausage meets Loki the crocodile

Self-indulgent headcanon fic

CW: Minor injuries

Written as Scosage propaganda for the first @/scottsmajorshipbracket

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #hatchling (fanfic)

and the devil won't know (all the love i just couldn't let go) [AO3]

Canon-compliant character study poem

Shulker Box fic written for the 1st Pirates anniversary

CW: Mentions of blood, child maltreatment, death, grief, and various mental health issues.

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #and the devil won't know (fanfic)

Life is a Railway (I Wanna Rob It All Night Long) [AO3]

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Western AU, multi-chapter

The Kites rob trains and become found family

Has a writer's cut

Written for MCYTblr AU Fest 2024 in collaboration with @/kitefactionofficial (then known as @/philzas-early-gang-society)

CW: Alcohol, fantasy drugging, violence

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #LRAU (fanfic)

Catamount Calls [AO3]

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Western AU one-shot

Nightingale-centric spin-off of Life is a Railway

LRAU!Graecie meets Oz the shadow cat

CW: Discussions of animal death

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #LRAU (fanfic)

Through Blood and Name [AO3]

Canon-compliant prequel / missing scene ficlet / one-shot

p!Owen backstory and naming headcanon fic

Self-indulgent, mostly headcanons

CW: References to canon-typical queerphobia and mentions of miscarriages/stillbirths

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #through blood and name (fanfic)

Tigers on a Gold Leash [AO3]

Questionably canon compliant drabble

Based on a Duolingo sentence I found online

Self-indulgent crackfic

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #tigers on a gold leash (fanfic)

and i can't live in a fairytale of lies [AO3]

Canon-compliant two-shot, in which Chapter 2 is the main fic

Kuervo's final assassination plan does not go to plan, and what happens after his return to Naya

Self-indulgent but is an AU to my personal headcanon

CW: Discussions/Mentions of execution, mentions of eye trauma, paranoia, implicit self-loathing, totalitarianism, trauma

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #and i can't live in a fairytale of lies (fanfic)

Let It Fade Away (But I Still Hold On) [AO3]

Canon-compliant continuation / missing scene one-shot

p!Will post-mortem fic

Self-indulgent headcanon fic

CW: Death

WIP; unreleased

Tumblr tag link: #let it fade away (fanfic)

Rats SMP

The Mushroom Incident [AO3] [Tumblr]

RatsAITA one-shot

r!Will-centric, title says all

Written for @/inthelittlewood's compilation and at @/willowmvp's request

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #the mushroom incident (fanfic)

Stampy's Lovely World

Love [Tumblr]

Canon-compliant art piece and poem

c!Stampy-centric poem about the Love Garden

Written for the Stampytober 2022 event hosted by @/reindash--yuri

Completed

Tumblr tag link: #love (fanfic)

Other

TDMurderer AU

MCSM canon-divergent AU

First created by @/sweetest-honeybee

Has artwork and comics

Tumblr tag link: #mcsm tdmurderer au

Miscellaneous works

Covers either fanfics without their own tags OR non-fics that nonetheless have a creative writing element to them

Tumblr tag link: #unclassified works

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To the literal one (1) person who voted ESH, I just wanna talk.

u/SADZookeeper:

AITA for failing to protect my brother?

It's been about a week since everything happened and I'm still trying to process this myself, so please bear with me. Sorry for the long background context.

I (~27M) and my little brother Ac (22M) grew up on an island with really famous and influential parents. I knew since I was a child that our parents wanted me to carry on the family legacy on the island, and I did everything I could to do that (it was the lot I was handed in life; I'm just making do with what I could). At the same time, though, I knew our parents sidelined Ac, so I tried my best to look out for him and make sure he was okay, because that's what brothers are supposed to do.

About three years ago, Ac disappeared overnight without a note. I tried looking for him everywhere, but my parents didn't really seem to care that Ac had gone missing, and I don't know why. I assumed he was dead and grieved for him, until he turned back up on the island over a year later. I reconciled with him and was glad that he was alive and well, and swore I wasn't going to lose him again.

A lot happened since this: I found out that my home island was built on a lie, that we were all in grave danger, and one of my best friends fled the island in response. I wasn't in an emotionally good place, but from this point onward, it might have be where I started to become TA.

Weeks after that, I received a letter from Ac that he was going on a dangerous quest that he might not come back from, along with all his savings. I panicked and tracked down his location to go after him (he left behind some notes on where he was going); I was afraid I'd lose him again and lose more people that I cared about.

I found Ac alive, thankfully, but when we sat down for a heart-to-heart, he told me about how he never felt wanted at home, which was why he left, and lost someone extremely close to him when he was away. I didn't know what to say about this: I felt like Ac could have trusted me with this earlier. I thought I tried my best to be a good brother when we were children, but clearly, that wasn't enough to keep him from leaving.

The location we were in only had a one-way entrance, but when we found the exit, it said it required a sacrifice, that only one of us could leave alive. I don't know or care who designed the place, but at that point, I didn't know what else I could do to make up for how much I failed Ac.

I volunteered to die for him to escape.

I wanted it to be me. It should have been me.

He decided otherwise.

He pushed me out of the way and fell into the death trap.

I don't know how to convey to you how badly I failed: Ac already had a rough enough childhood as he did; I couldn't be there for him when he needed it the most (both at home and after he left), and couldn't even ensure he could escape and live a somewhat happy life, even if meant me gone. I couldn't even do that much for him.

I don't know how I never noticed the extent of how badly Ac was treated at home, I don't know how everything led to this, and I don't know how I'm supposed to tell his friends that he's gone because I wasn't quick enough.

I'm back on the island where we were born and raised. I feel like TA. Am I?

TL;DR: My little brother had a rough childhood that I couldn't protect him from and ran off on a reckless, life-threatening quest, I panicked and went after him, we got stuck in a death trap, and he shouldn't have been the one to die there but I couldn't fall fast enough to make sure he's the one who survived–

This post is Part 2 of the "Chronica Siderum" series. Technically speaking, this post is slightly over the character limit for the actual AITA subreddit, but let's be honest, we don't really care here.

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

Click here to read this on AO3 for bonus annotations.

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A/N: What info do y'all want? I put my whole aqussy into this I wrote this with my whole heart and with all the canon context I can recall while still sounding at least semi-natural /lh

u/throwaway_astrorum:

AITA for leaving my closest friend to die after an argument?

Hi, this one's been weighing on my conscience for a couple of years now and I don't know who to turn to.

For context, I (22?M) was raised in a prestigious family on some island, and I have an older brother S (~27M). My parents were a couple of stuck-up snobs who showered favouritism on S when we were growing up. I always felt like the household was more of a home for S than for me because he could reach their expectations and I never could.

Eventually, when I was ~19(? I keep losing track of how time passes and I can barely remember my own birthday), I ran away without leaving a note because I knew my parents saw me as an unwanted disgrace to the family, and travelled the world alone to find a new place to call home. I couldn't until I met M, another sailor, who took me in after I explained my circumstances.

Over the months, we bonded and became extremely close. We did everything together… M felt like home to me. This was until until one stormy night.

We were tracking down an ancient treasure at sea based on some old legends and were running low on supplies. I told M that we should turn back because it was too dangerous, but we were so close to finding that treasure that M insisted on going further. This escalated into an argument where M lost his temper and told me to just leave and go back to "my perfect family" on that island, because I "had someone to depend on" back at "home", but he never did.

I was in shock at the time; I left and returned to the island I was born and razed, and I haven't heard from M since.

Thankfully, my parents were away when I returned. I tried to re-establish a life there after leaving for over a year, made some new friends and reconciled with my estranged brother S. But then some terrible news broke out about the island and I've been feeling like going back out to sea to finish what M and I started, and what happened has been weighing on my conscience again. I feel incomplete without M, yet that is the reality I am living in because of my own choices.

Be my judge and jury: AITA for abandoning my closest friend?

This post is Part 1 of the "Chronica Siderum" series.

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