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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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Three observes that the humans on board The Perihelion do not touch SecUnits. This does not upset it. Of course not. That would be a strange thing to be upset about.
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food [in]security, or, Monsters Are Always Hungry by OccasionalStorytelling, torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Mar 2023
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You are accustomed to a certain sense of helplessness. It is inevitable, as your designated role is to watch over those you hold within yourself. You can protect your crew from the vast, unforgiving vacuum of the universe outside of your hull, but you cannot protect them from danger that comes from within. You cannot save your SecUnit from itself.
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ART makes a troubling discovery about Murderbot and construct biology.
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secunit's sensory issues :(
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Murderbot and Three figuring out what having a relationship with another rogue SecUnit means, and navigating their trauma together.
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Unacceptable Topics of Conversation by mensah
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jan 2022
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Murderbot gives SecUnit 3 a haircut. They discuss the governor module.
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- Part 1 of Nonstandard Communication
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While watching a planetary documentary, Three reminisces about when it and its fellow SecUnits were on that planet.
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SecUnit 3 reminisces on its time as part of a three unit squad in Barish-Estranza.
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Local Geriatric Bullied By Young Whippersnapper by katachresis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Dec 2025
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The moment Murderbot grows four centimeters (or chops four from Three), it’s gonna be all over for Three.
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- Part 8 of TMBD Drabble December 2025
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you are a thing, and there is no safety by half_burnt_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Dec 2025
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SecUnit 003 is participating, it doesn’t know what else to do.
It doesn’t know what else it is allowed to do.
After all, it's easier to drive a car if you don’t have to build the wheel first, but that doesn’t make it a bump-free experience.
Or,
A SecUnit 3 character study of sorts, featuring trauma and an exploration into the nerve wracking experience that is decision-making.Written for Angstober 2025 prompts: Wrong Choice (1); Not Anymore (16).
Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025 prompts: Whiplash (11); “What have you done to yourself?” (24).Series
- Part 3 of retrograde
- Part 32 of HBI's Prompt Event Fills
- Part 2 of HBI's Angstober // AI-less Whumptober 2025
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It's a regular deployment for the Barish-Estranza SecUnit squad. Except that SecUnit 003 has a faulty component that's about to break, SecUnit 002 seems to be gunning for a new record for number of governor module punishments per cycle, and SecUnit 001 gets to learn exactly what that means for both of them and maybe itself.
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- Part 1 of Fluid Dynamics
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The further adventures of the B-E SecUnits glimpsed in System Collapse. A love story. And a daring escape. And some meandering about Barish-Estranza office politics. But mainly a love story. 'He was my North, my South, my East and West, / My working week and my Sunday rest' — 'Funeral Blues,' by W.H. Auden
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You are watching media with it when it suddenly begins clawing at its throat and rolls out of its favourite chair to writhe on the floor.
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Murderbot must infiltrate a company facility to obtain spare parts. Along the way it grapples with the terrifying responsibility of caring - for itself, for Three, and for company-owned constructs who may not be willing or able to accept change.
Sayatsugu has provided outstanding art to accompany this fic, which you can see in Chapter 4. Check out her Tumblr, too:
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/sayatsuguSeries
- Part 2 of Family Tree
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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A series of fics following SecUnit003 from immediately after Network Effect through into post-canon Situations(tm). Each instalment involves Three either learning something important about itself as a person or making its life harder by writing overly-complicated programs for itself to follow.
All parts are listed in chronological order even if publication dates are scattered.
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doesthisneedatitle_draft.file by katachresis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Dec 2025
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"You're a space wizard, Murderbot. You'll hate it. It'll be great." - The Force, probably
If Murderbot ever proves the Force is sentient, it will plot to murder the shit out of the Force.
So maybe I should’ve noticed I had bullshit magic powers sooner, but in my defense I didn’t think magic was real. Most sane people would insist magic isn’t real.
Wait, whoops, the ghosts would claim it’s not magic. It’s “the Force” (in case you’re wondering, yes, you can hear the capitalization), and I’m a “Force-sensitive” which means I’m able to manipulate the mysterious, supernatural (but definitely not magical) force that a bunch of old dead monks decided to name the Force. (Not that I’m making fun of their naming sense. It’s apt even if it must’ve gotten confusing sometimes.)
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- Part 1 of murderwars fusion
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There's gotta be SOME reason Perihelion is like this, right?
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It's been about 1500 hours into Three’s freedom and MB and ART are doing a fantastic job of being sensitive to its acclimation. OK, maybe "sensitive" is the wrong word, but ART takes a while to warm up to new constructs.
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would read more if they wrote moredownloaded 21/12/25
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part 8
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in which the author gives murderbot their chronic knee pain because it's winter and they're suffering by half_burnt_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Sep 2025
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Company SecUnits’ inorganic parts were made out of cheap, mass-produced materials. Murderbot’s were no exception. Defects and malfunctions were an expected side effect of being constructed from such materials.
AKA: read the title.
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- Part 4 of retrograde
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It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.