"tucker, tucker." "don't call us that. caboose, i-i, i-i can't stop it." "don't feel bad afterwards. i forgive you. i know it's not your fault. i'm sorry this is happening to you."
AITA for not leaving the military with my friend of 20+ years?
I (39m) have been serving in the military alongside someone I've grown very close to (40m) for over 20 years now, and don't give me any of that "thank you for your service" bullshit because it all sucked and we kept getting tangled up with the repercussions of this top secret failed military project or whatever that almost got us killed MULTIPLE times. The details aren't important, all that matters is that it eventually led to our Sergeant getting killed recently and leaving me as the team leader.
Anyways, throughout these 20+ years, the guy I mentioned earlier has expressed the entire time how much he hates it and wants out. He complains a lot but he actually has accomplished a lot, although neither of us would ever admit that to each other. But he's clearly pretty miserable here, so as the new leader, the very first thing I did was discharge him. It's what he's been begging for since basic and I figure after all the shit we've been through, he's earned it. I expected him to pack his things and leave right then and there, but no, he immediately asks me to come with him. This threw me off completely; I figured he'd want out with no reminders of any of the past 20 years, but no, he wanted me to come with him.
I didn't know what to tell him. Our sergeant had just died, and I felt like abandoning the position he'd left me would be a dishonor to his memory. I owed it to him to stay after everything he'd done for me personally, and besides, I felt like I was finally doing something with my life, like after all these years I'd finally found success. So I said no, and I stayed. He's long since home by now spending time with his sister, and I can't help but start to feel like I made the wrong choice. I mean, I'm literally the only member of our team left now aside from the robot that our sergeant made who only speaks Spanish (long story) but I'm pretty sure he hates me and wants me to leave. So AITA for not leaving?
i have this specific vision of red team carolina (real and true) where she fits in really well and is generally very well liked by the crew EXCEPT for simmons. primarily because sarge and carolina have a good time like talking about guns and fighting and stuff (and carolina is just generally pretty easily accepted into the team, gets along with grif lopez and donut well) and simmons gets rabidly, insanely jealous about it
Im just saying a meta!tucker vs Blue Team (ALL LIVING MEMBERS PAST AND PRESENT, caboose, tex, wash, sister, carolina, epsilons recordings) would have been sick.
Memory is the Key, having them fight tucker while yelling their memories of him and tuckers memories while they fight, helping tucker himself fight the AI's control over him.
It would have been such a cool thing for Blue Team as a collective.
idk if this makes sense but in my head it looks really cool