#ratsaita

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 Rats SMP then get some of the cast members on to debate them with me

So here's the official tag #ratsaita

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

I know the title sounds bad but listen. I (rat26f) was stuck in a cupboard for three years (I thought it was three days but that’s a story for another day) with my fellow rat we will call him T (19m). We were starving and had no food except for rat burgers. A few days after we got out of the cupboard, T told me that the “rat burgers” were not burgers for rats, but burgers made out of baby rats. Apparently he had told me when it happened, but I have no memory of it.

Another rat, we will call him S (28m) went around telling everyone. We ended up having a meeting with some other rats to discuss this and the consensus is that T might have ratbies and maybe we were only in the cupboard for 3 days. I’m so beyond confused and everyone is upset with us. T is currently sitting under my balcony pretending that he is dead and I want to say it will all be okay but I felt like I needed an unbiased opinion.

So… are we the assholes?

I know the title sounds bad, but let me explain! I, Rat M, have been living in the attic of this mansion with some other rats for a while now and the owners don’t like us living there. They’ve set up cages around the house to put us in and even got a bunch of new cats!

One of the people who hated us being there was the gardener, he was rude and always tried to catch us! I was out exploring the garden one day and all of a sudden he came out of no where! I panicked and rushed into the pond where he followed me in! I joked about drowning him while I watched him flail around in the water trying to catch me…but then he genuinely started drowning, I don’t know if he couldn’t swim or something but he didn’t get out and genuinely actually died! Two of my fellow rats, both M, came over to see the commotion and seemed surprised at what I did. I told them to keep it a secret and not tell anyone as I knew I’d get in trouble from the big orange rat in charge (he hates us doing things we aren’t supposed to).

Later I told my friend the farmer rat, M, about what I had done and he seemed a bit shocked at first before understanding, I even told him that he could take over the garden and take care of the crops!

I stand by the fact though that I was saving not only my life, but my fellow rats too! As the self appointed Safety Rat I feel a great need to keep everyone safe, and shouldn’t killing one of the people after us count in that?

AITA for accidentally causing the gardener to drown and then keeping it a secret from everyone even if it’s protecting my friends and giving a job to another?

Edit: Some other rats have built a “grave” for the gardener next to the pond (it’s really just his clothes and skeleton…) I don’t know if it should make me feel worse or not

So I (Adult M) work as for a rich family as a sort of janitor. I take care of the boiler, deal with any pest problems, various odd jobs like that.

Now a couple months back the house developed a rat problem. It was driving me crazy trying to deal with them, they were constantly escaping the cages, they stole my keys, one of them blew up the boiler! My boss Mrs I told me I was taking it too seriously and to go take a vacation.

It was just what I needed, but my vacation was cut short when Mr I returned home and found out about the rats. He freaked out and insisted I get back to the mansion immediately to deal with them.

I was understandably upset about this so I decided to do whatever it took to get them out of the house. If they got behind or under or on top of something I removed it. I finally chased them up to the attic (which they had made a huge mess of, I'm not even sure how they managed half the stuff up there) and onto the roof where they jumped down before running off into the woods.

I chased them for a bit but I don't think those pests are coming back anytime soon but looking over the house I might have gone too far. A lot of the furniture is broken and so is the wall of the dumbwaiter. I'm now worried about how Mrs I is gonna react when she gets home and sees the mess.

AITA for stabbing a lawyer?

So recently I ended up in this big house (with so much yummy garbage) and I met a whole bunch of new rats. This included M(age unknown,m, hallway rat) and O, the lawyer (age unknown, enby). Together the three of us discovered an open window in the attic where all the rats live, and decided we would build a secret area there just for us. However, O and M were arguing because O lit M on fire. O ended up leaving to "gather resources" but we knew they were going to tell A(age unknown, m, purple and weird) who was also involved in the fire incident and who is purple and weird and says silly things and we didn't want him to know.

So, m and I wanted to stop O from revealing the secret and decided we would threaten them with a knife and kill them. It sounds extreme, but they still had 3 lives! Plus M literally kills people for his job!

Before you say, oh you should have talked it out, I tried! However O says that A has "trauma" and that he needed to "heal" and that somehow the hole would help? Ignoring the fact I had shared how all my family was dead moments before!

By this point I was very annoyed, and honestly feeling kind of triggered by the memories of my dead family, so I took O under a table and me and M took their first life.

Honestly I feel justified, but the rest of the rats think me and m are evil and bad now, and o and a are talking about arresting us!

Okay so to start of with a bit of information, I'm a rat that is known for safety, being called safety rat and all, and I live with a mischief of a few rats in the attic or a very big house quite a lot of humans live in.

Now despite being quite literally called the safety rat, my friends in the mischief have called me unsafe on multiple occasions while being quite upset because I'm supposed to be the safe one.

I find that quite fair, but at the same time I think they might be over reacting! Just for your convenience though, I'll state the list of things that I have done that they have deemed 'unsafe' and after that I will explain my whole point of view in those situations, well then here's the list:

I tend to run with a knife, I (ACCIDENTALLY!!!) killed the gardener, I get too daring with getting near the humans, threatening both humans AND cats, I helped in blowing up a boiler room, I sang to cats while not even thinking about the consequences and probably more!

Now for my explanations or excuses:

Running with a knife: I had a course in how to hold knives correctly and so I can run with it safely without fear of a surprise attack since I can just easily use the knife

Accidentally killing the gardener: I don't want to get to much into this but it technically wasn't my fault because I wasn't controlling the gardeners every move and it wasn't my fault that the gardener was following when he fell (technically..)

Getting too daring/near humans: I just want to check if some humans chill or not since I know that there are some humans that are and also I want to see HOW close I can get and more stuff that is VERY important to the rats' safety,

Threatening both humans and cats: okay so I have threatened them before but it's not like they can speak rat and ALSO I'm not threatening the rats or acting on the threats so I don't get why the others would have so many problems with it (and with the others I actually just basically mean my fleas..),

Helping with blowing up the boiler room: this one sounds bad BUT it technically wasn't my fault as I wasn't the one that came up with the plan to hit every switch!! Even if I helped flipping switches and hitting buttons, but what can I say, my rat curiosity got the better of me! I will admit though, I DO feel guilty about lying about how much I did when helping because I told my friends that weren't there that I was just looking away as it happened and that was a lie..

Singing to the cats: Now this isn't that big of an issue but people still thought it was unsafe, even if they could clearly see that my singing was working and the cats weren't attacking! I think they were a bit scared of the cats so it got them a bit nervous which is fair, but sometimes risks need to be taken (by me, specifically, because I'm qualified for that kind of stuff) to see if it's actually safe, and it was,

I wouldn't be surprised if there was more, the other rats simply don't understand my way of detern if something is safe or not, I can tell when something is unsafe thank you very much! And I mean, I'm still the safety rat so my 'unsafe' endeavours aren't THAT dangerous!! So I personally think it's fine, even if some rats seem to have a problem with it and keep claiming that I should be more careful.

So some time ago I had a nasty run-in with these cats. Now, before they could be distracted with some music and food. And being the farmer rat that I am, I suspect that me and my friends might have fed them a tad too much, because they left me near death with a nasty scatch scarred into my arm.

I know that maybe I should have just stayed away, but I was determined to get them out. So, I came up with this plan to turn them into rats with a potion. It'll be like making soup, right?

Well, despite everyrat warning me before, potions are not like soup. In fact, the cats went out of control and split into these crazy clones that put two of my friends near death as well.

Now my dearies, I am an old woman and my oldest granddaughter Alex is helping me with this red it thing

I have a collection of little friends, the little rats that live in my son's attic. My daughter in law, Idris, dismissed our janitor, Declan, because he was annoying us all and we decided to live in harmony with our little friends.

The issue is my son, Miguel, who is technically the master of this home but it is my home he is so insistent to run. He has been away for a long time, not even writing to his children, Alexandra, Izan and Aura but he is coming home tomorrow.

I fear I do not have time to warn nor protect my little friends from my son's wrath and anger.

AITA for not telling my son about the rats? And AITA for not warning my little friends?

Thank you for indulging me dearies