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r/AmITheAsshole
Context: I'm the guy in charge of taking care of my whole world. I (22M) and my two best friends (G, 25M and S, 21M) came here first, then a bunch of my other friends. At first everything was great, but then my one friend(T, 17M)'s older brother (W, 25M) came along and decided (before he even met me!) that I was a tyrannical despot and needed to be overthrown, and he and a bunch of my friends started their own country.
Of course I couldn't let that pass - I kinda have responsibility over the world so them having their own little country doesn't work. So I tried negotiating to get them to stop and then when that didn't work we went to war. Eventually, we got things more or less settled and G became the person in charge. It was pretty awful though - as a result of all the conflict, death was suddenly permanent instead of people coming back to life (you could die twice and the third one sticks).
I tried a lot of methods to stop people from fighting and hurting and murdering each other but as a result of that first war and all W's influence no one wanted to listen to me. G almost got assassinated so I deposed him so that he wouldn't be in danger anymore (my biggest fear is him and S dying).
I tried talking to T for a couple of weeks to try get him on my side and convince him that he needed to stop causing chaos and starting fights - I am terrified that G and S and everyone will murder each other and I'll be alone - but he didn't like my convincing and ran away.
I thought if I leaned into the villain role W wanted me to have and got everyone to band together and put me into jail it would solve the conflicts (one of my friends (S, 23M) agreed to be the prison warden), so I set up a big dramatic fight scene and pretended I had a big vault for everyone's precious items (I was still hoping they would clue in and stop fighting each other), but after they jailed me S let all the power get to his head and let one of his own friends come and torture me daily (I alone have the power to revive people after their third death and they want that power). He also fed me only potatoes and a lot of the time I didn’t even get those. When T came to visit me in my cell, S refused to let him out after the visit deadline. He didn’t feed us any extra potatoes and I thought T might get tortured like me.
I didn't know what else to do so I killed and revived T so S would take him away from me and hopefully let him out. AITA?
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YTA=You're the asshole
NTA=Not the asshole
JAH=Justified asshole
NAH=No assholes here
ESH=Everyone sucks here