Your book character is on AIBU!

[WaterBird]

Your book character is here on AIBU! This can be from any book you have read or are currently reading.
Only rules:
DO reference the book you are referring to because there are so many out there.
Choose the character that's most likely to get pulled apart for this unreasonableness.
I will do mine in the below post.

OK, that makes a lot of sense. (Think I've just made it pretty obvious that I've just read 1 and a half books, in which Snape does not come across well).

Waterbird the whole family are famously charming except maybe the older brother who wanted to be a Jesuit priest and is somewhat more earnest. They are one of few aristocratic Catholic families that survived the Reformation in England. The book is set in the Roaring Twenties and into the Second W.W.

Wow, that actually sounds like a great book. I love a story about a crazy family.

I had a very troubled childhood, but a teacher had faith in me and set me on the path to a successful academic career. Now she's suggested that I apply for a post at some weird research institute. Nearly everyone there seems to be batshit, but I'm tempted to take the job. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Waterbird the book is Brideshead Revisited and the character is Sebastian Flyte. The four Flyte children are Brideshead (known as Bridie) who as the oldest son will inherit the enormous family pile, Julia who is gorgeous and irresistible, Sebastian, also gorgeous and irresistible who carries his large teddy bear everywhere as a first year Oxford undergrad and Cordelia who is still at school.

Their parents are separated, their devoutly Catholic very charming mother lives with them in England while Papa (Lord Marchmain) lives in Venice with his Italian mistress Cara. Papa is also extremely good looking and charismatic but tries to suppress his Byronic aura as he think's it is vaguely bad taste. The whole family are fascinating to the narrator Charles.

The fantastic 1981 TV series of the book is available on Amazon Prime for streaming. It stars Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons.

AIBU to take a deathrow prisoner on a night trip because I think he has healing powers that will cure my friends terminal cancer?

(The green mile)

Wow, that sounds like a very interesting book.

@CrookedColours
Can I ask what your logic here is?
Your friend might die soon. This guy killed someone.

@MartaHallard
YANBU.
Your teacher has known you for a very long time, and knows what they're talking about.
As to your uncertainty about working with people who are batshit, aren't we all?

Our guardian has died and my brother works abroad. We don't have much money and although I had a good high school education I'm not trained or qualified for any job or career. I'm now responsible for our younger sister, who has health issues. What should I do?

Ah yes.. but did he? What if I've seen and witnessed things that lead me to believe he is innocent?

Just to add, I'm the chief guard of deathrow

MartaHallard don't worry about your lack of qualifications. Just buy a chalet in Austria and pupils will come flocking. Piece of advice: don't employ any matrons without interviewing them first.

WaterBird, thank you for your encouragement. Actually, the Chief Technical Officer seems to be rather less batshit than some of the others, and he's hot, too. That's got to be a plus point, hasn't it?

So I’ve just got this nice new paint job. I’m hauling a passenger service but it looks like it’s going to rain. The passengers and even my boss are pulling and shoving (okay, not the boss, his doctor has forbidden him). AIBU to stay in this tunnel?

AIBU to think my commander-in-chief is a total CF?

It's a bit of a long one but I don't want to drip feed. We had a bit of plague in the camp last week, people dropping dead left right and centre covered in boils. Turns out CF commander had insulted the plague god by stealing the priest's daughter, so he had to give her back.

Then he only came up to my tent and robbed off with my prize slave girl to make up for it! Doesn't he know I'm the best fighter the age of heroes has ever seen? How dare he insult my prestige like this in front of all the other Achaeans! I mean, everyone knows that I really fancy my BFF a lot more than the slave girl, but it's the principle of the thing.

AIBU to stay in my tent moaning on about how great I am and refusing to fight til he gives her back? Would it be a good idea to let BFF go out and fight in my place?

So I’ve just got this nice new paint job. I’m hauling a passenger service but it looks like it’s going to rain

Henry, YANBU to feel this way but YABU not to carry out your job of transporting the passengers to schedule.

This is Britain, if you're going to cower in tunnels every time it rains or their are sludgey leaves about the track that might stick to you, there'd be vanishingly few days of the year when the train network would function properly.

PS. Best to Thomas and the rest of the gang.

@AleFailTrail you are James the vain red engine!

I am forced to watch/read/play Thomas for most of DD's waking hours

Oh you're Henry, sorry!

@DerfelCadarn Grew up with the old school Thomas books and Ringo Starr and the train set! Some things never change....
Once an Engine attached to a train
Was afraid of a few drops of rain
He went in to a tunnel
And squeaked through his funnel
And never came out again
~Rev. Awdrey

@morningtoncrescent62
She doesn't have a lot of money.
I suppose that she could try to steal it, or use other means, to get money for the chalet, but that would lead to even more trouble.

@CrookedColours
That may or may not improve your credibility. These people on death row are here for a reason.
Do you actually genuinely think he's not guilty? Or do you just favour him over the others for some reason?

He took away my UTI by touching me and healed a mouse that had been trodden on. There's something different about him

Well in that case, YABVVVU.

My best friend died while we were at boarding school and I never really got over it as she's the nearest I'll ever have to a sister.

I obtained an interesting post as a governess during which my employer and I fell in love with each other. I agreed to marry him and am not put off despite some heavy hints from the universe that not all was right with the world (a mysteriously torn wedding veil) only to learn at the last possible moment that he intended bigamy.

I fled. After a series of events, and an unexpected inheritance that make me an independent woman, I receive another marriage proposal. This will be a safe marriage, albeit a loveless one, built on duty rather than passion.

WIBU to settle? I'm not getting any younger and I'm still emotionally fragile from the troubled childhood and betrayal of my first love.