Ranging from ascribed documented practices (i.e., macroethics) to contextually and sociohistorically located relations (i.e., microethics), ethics in Applied Linguistics research concerns the power dynamics that are inherent to all human relationships. This paper aims to identify, interrogate, and interrupt (Menezes de Souza, 2019a; 2019b) a colonial narrative that silently but efficiently advances the coloniality of knowledge in the field of Applied Linguistics, which leads us to problematize ethics in our field. The colonial narrative is (1) identified and interrogated in relation to the imposition of characteristics from the Medical and Biomedical research fields to the Human and Social Sciences, taking the Brazilian Ethics Review Board National System (viz. Plataforma Brasil) as an example; and (2) interrupted as stories that are told (Chimentão & Reis, 2019; Senefonte, 2018). Through the telling of two local stories (Krenak, 2020), concerning fluid and more symmetrical-oriented relations between researchers and participants, decolonial futures (Veronelli, 2016) are imagined, which, in Applied Linguistics research, are collaboratively constructed and derived from an ontological ethical imperative (Lévinas, 1972) that requires us to see the participants as individuals who are capable of genuinely participating in investigative studies, and thus doing more than just simply generating data.