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It's not a friendship, and it's not a relationship. What is it? ART asks, and Murderbot has an answer.
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30 Oct 2025
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ART gets what it wants, and that is for Murderbot to feel cared for.
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- Part 1 of [saved to permanent archive]
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30 Oct 2025
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Hey ART, what’s this? I ask, pulling up a file from the archival storage.
ART snatches it out of my metaphorical hands and tucks it back into storage. Just a research project.
I squint at the wall. What kind of research?
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In which Murderbot finds a presentation for a 'research project' that ART did not want it to ever find.
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30 Oct 2025
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Adding timestamp tags to media had just made sense. It wasn’t supposed to get weird.
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ART and Murderbot exchange a lot of data.
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30 Oct 2025
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SecUnit and ART watch a musical theatre performance involving two human-form bots that fall in love. SecUnit thinks romance is dumb, but it's cool to see media where bots can be such good friends, the way that it and ART are good friends.
ART quietly has a panic attack.
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Heavily inspired by the musical Maybe Happy Ending
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30 Oct 2025
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They’d been going in circles with this for the past cycle; a back-and-forth that barely constituted a spat between humans and their organic limitations, but an eternity for two beings mostly comprised of computer parts.
Exposure is an important part of recovery.
I’m not going! It’s a hospital, ART, it’s a fucking–
SecUnit's chest heaved, almost desperate for breath despite its highly efficient lungs taking in more than enough oxygen in the environmentally-controlled atmosphere.
Please talk to me.
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30 Oct 2025
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"I wont deny I've got in my mind now all the things I would do, So I try to talk refined for fear that you find out how I’m imagining you." - Hozier, Talk
ART wants to be prepared for every eventuality. Especially the eventualities that involve SecUnit willingly getting back into its MedBay. It has started simulating surgical protocols, making sure its medical programs align with SecUnit's physiology, so that when the time comes to perform certain operations, the chances of success will be at a maximum.
No other reason.
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30 Oct 2025
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Murderbot talks to a to a bot pilot. It does this all the time, so why is ART being so weird about it?
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29 Oct 2025
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“SecUnit, what’s your favorite smell?” Double ugh. How the fuck was I supposed to answer this without being rude?
“I like it when there isn’t a smell.” There, that was a positive spin on my negativity, I guess. Maybe I should have lied, though. Everyone in the shuttle was frowning to some degree. Way to bring down the mood, Murderbot.
“You don’t like any smells?” Iris asked.
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29 Oct 2025
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ART and Murderbot learn to negotiate, even it means they have to suffer the mortifying ordeal of discussing their relationship with their Dad(-in-law?) and do some homework.
Set after Network Effect.
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29 Oct 2025
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Dynamics of Mixed In/Organic Families by makeapointofhavingfun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2025
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Martyn has a busy couple of days and thinks a lot about his child who is a computer.
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29 Oct 2025
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Show me how you want it to be by laxlyricism
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Sep 2025
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Perihelion has been working on this plan for longer than it would ever be willing to admit. It's had the drone finished for months, waiting for the right moment to deploy it. (It definitely hasn't just been chickening out and avoiding the conversation. That would be foolish). But now the plan has worked exactly as it was designed to do, and it's not ready. Maybe it will never be ready. But its SecUnit is holding its drone's hand so gently, and has just asked it
ART, are you in love with me?
It's too late to back out now.
Yes
Fear is an autonomic process.
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- Part 2 of Fight or Flight
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29 Oct 2025
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ART wants me to punch it in the face? It made itself an entire human-form drone so I can punch it in the face? Why?
You want me to punch you in the face. I don’t say it as a question, but it’s a question.
No, you want to punch me in the face. It sounds… happy? Proud of itself? Risk assessment spikes a little higher. I’m just offering you a chance to try. That is, if you think you can manage it.
Hell yeah, I think I can manage it.
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- Part 1 of Fight or Flight
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29 Oct 2025
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6.83 hours after the incident, it is quiet on the command deck. My drones have cleaned all traces of blood and fluid from the deck and MedSystem is set to high priority in the front of my feed. And SecUnit sits in the same chair it always does. It's sunken into the cushioning, so still it could be in a shutdown, but I can of course feel that it's awake. I haven't let it out of arm's reach since last night.
We are quiet for a long time.
We have to talk about this, I say eventually.
It takes 18 seconds to respond.
We do not, it says with finality.
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29 Oct 2025
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hold me up in your folders by JackaLanternLope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Sep 2025
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.
I wanted ART to prove it to me.
I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.
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ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.
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- Part 2 of data transfer
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28 Oct 2025
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The one good thing about ART not being around was that I could ignore its instructions not to do anything stupid.
A bundle of thick cables ran from deeper within Three’s chest into what I knew were its power cells. I picked up the cable trailing out of my energy weapon, disconnected one of Three’s, and plugged mine in.
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Murderbot and ART follow a distress signal and find Three at the bottom of an abandoned mining installation.
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- Part 1 of data transfer
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28 Oct 2025
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ART bot nodded slowly as I finished speaking. An amusement sigil flashed in its eyes.
“Pretty good,” it said, “but I could do better.”
“Hold on,” Tara said then. “I'm not sure I explained the–”
ART bot sat up in its chair and opened its mouth anyway.
“I feel–”
The end of that statement had led to the creation of the second rule.
Rule #2 ART and Murderbot are not allowed to utilize ‘I statements’ during their sessions, (or preferably ever).
Oh well.
It had been fun while it lasted.
A SecUnit and a spaceship walk into couples therapy. Neither of them really want to be there but both of them are. Apparently that’s where you get sent after you have a big fight that scares the humans. Now it's just a matter of figuring out if they’d like to actually fix their problems and admit to having emotions, or if they’d like to make things worse.
Make things worse seems like the obvious choice…right?Series
- Part 1 of The Therapy Bot Diaries
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28 Oct 2025
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ART sent me its schematics with a highlighted path. I am prepared to be boarded. They will not find you.
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28 Oct 2025
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The sensors are picking up nothing but the hum of deep space.
(Long after the time of their humans and the Corporation Rim, ART and Murderbot are drifting.)
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28 Oct 2025
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Murderbot learns that the Perihelion crew celebrates the "birthday" of when ART was first brought online, and decides to give it a gift.
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28 Oct 2025