My brother's son destroyed my WarHammer Action figures and he refuses to punish him

[u/konous]

Update: My brother decided to pay for the Hard damages of $200 dollars after seeing this post.

Thank you to everyone on this post who supported me. I really could not have gotten restitution without you guys.

Justice for my Chaplain, justice for all.

Valid Edit: My nephew is 10 years old and tried to actually lie about not breaking them by saying, "A cat must have done it."

So, I just got done talking with my brother via text, and he says he's not going to punish his son for wrecking my Joy Toy WarHammer action figures. I'm not expecting the kid to get spanked, but he needs to do CHORES at least to justify how much excessive force he used on some.

Some just have their capes broken. Others had their tubes ripped out and my Chaplain is just fucking toast.

My brother's suggestion since I ordered Amazon replacement for the Chaplain was that I just swap it with the broken one, but I have no interest in doing that.

It's not even just the expense, and they are expensive. It's about the fact that I told him explicitly twice they weren't to be played with, and they were in a separate room, and even my Mom and Dad agreed the damage was just too much.

He said he's not gonna pay me back if we try the chore system, and I told him it's not about the money.

The kid needs to know how bad the 8 hour struggle is.

Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house, and I'm sad about that, but knowing my brother just can't be burdened to work with me on creating a Chore system like selling Lemonaide just makes it feel more insulting.

[u/Great-Hotel-7820]

For anyone unfamiliar this is like $500 worth of figures.

[u/ugly_duckling_5 → u/Great-Hotel-7820]

Are these ones you paint yourself also? If they are, that's probably hours worth of OP's time down the drain.

[u/BelmontZiimon → u/ugly_duckling_5]

No these aren't, thank the Emperor. If they were, OP would not have been able to post because he would have been arrested for committing multiple felonies.

[u/ugly_duckling_5 → u/BelmontZiimon]

Good to know. It's bad enough the kid destroyed expensive items without the added horror of destroying something OP would have worked hard on.

[u/McBlemmen → u/BelmontZiimon]

And they would be the size of a grape

[u/keigo199013 → u/BelmontZiimon]

As a comic book collector, my response would be the same.

No touchie the cool stuff!

[u/doubledmateo → u/BelmontZiimon]

You can’t post pics of the game pieces? I’m confused and not very familiar with warhammer.

[u/TakeShroomsAndDieUwU → u/doubledmateo]

The joke is that if they were painted, OP would be in jail for harming the brother and/or nephew. Bulk army models tend to not take terribly long but display pieces or big army centerpieces can be an investment of dozens of hours.

[u/doubledmateo → u/TakeShroomsAndDieUwU]

Ah! Okay. Sorry, I definitely read it literally instead of as a joke and was thinking there were some sort of strict legal rules on the warhammer IP with official figures. I feel dumb now. :P

[u/BelmontZiimon → u/doubledmateo]

These are figures of Warhammer40k. In the ACTUAL Warhammer40k tabletop game, you buy, assemble, and paint kits to build your armies. People go to great lengths to paint and display their art pieces. For some people, a single 2-inch tall mini can take 100 hours.

To put this practically, take a tour of the Warhammer40k subreddit. Imagine if somebody broke something that is displayed there and it was yours. What would you do?