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AITAH for trying to kill my adoptive father after he refused to avenge my death?
Here’s some background: I, (21M), grew up in Crime Alley. When I was around 12 years old, I was stealing tires off of a super fancy car that someone parked at a curb in the area, and before you judge, my parents weren’t in the picture, you gotta do what you gotta do. The owner of the car (31M at the time, we’ll call him B) came back as I was taking the tires and long story short, he ended up taking me to his house, essentially kidnapping me. He gave me food and shelter and eventually adopted me, giving me a home.
Things weren’t bad until my teenage years. B and I started fighting a lot and at 15 one of the fights blew up so badly that we stopped talking to each other. I was then contacted by a woman who was apparently my birth mother, who I thought had died but that apparently wasn’t my birth mom? I wanted to connect with her, so I snuck out of the house and met her at an abandoned warehouse. Stupid, I know, but I was young and naïve. When I arrived, however, someone else was waiting for me. A man she had made a deal with, we’ll call him J. I’ll spare you the gory details, but I was tortured and beaten to near death and then J blew up the warehouse.
I died that night. B found me and held a funeral service, burying my body. And with Gotham being Gotham, not even the dead can catch a break. I woke up alive in my coffin and dug myself out. I was wandering the streets when a woman found me and brought me to her home in the Himalayas. She nursed me back to health and taught me how to fight.
Recently, I came back to Gotham to find that B had not cared enough to avenge my death. Before you say that I’m unfair to expect him to, he knew who killed me and he is completely capable of avenging me-whether through hiring someone or doing it himself. He’s not weak at all, the opposite really, and can fight very well, he has no excuse not to avenge me. Especially since his job involves keeping people safe, and killing J would make this job easier as J has gone on to hurt and kill thousands of others since my death. Since B wouldn’t do what needs to be done, I decided to take matters into my own hands and take down the people he won’t. I’ve made Gotham much safer because of this.
This next part is where I may be in the wrong. I kidnapped J and lured B to an old apartment building. I held a gun to J’s head and told B to choose. Either let me kill J or have B kill me so I can’t kill J. B tried to walk away but I pointed the gun at him so he wouldn’t leave. B threw a small projectile at the gun, causing it to explode and mess up my hand badly. In the chaos, a bomb was triggered, and B chose to grab J and leave. I barely made it out before the entire building was leveled.
Thinking back, I may have been wrong for giving the ultimatum, but J needs to be stopped. And if the only way to stop him is to kill him, why wouldn’t he?? I was emotional and hurt at the time, so I may have been wrong. What do you think? AITAH?