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If she'd had a cred for every time someone has said, 'I didn't know you were—' 'Why didn't you tell me you were—' 'You ought to include in your profile that you're—', she could have used it to pay off GrayCris before everything went to hell. They'd all labeled her differently, as well. Each deciding independent of each other what she was, and why that was a problem for them.
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Pin-Lee goes on an ill-fated date.
Written for the 2023 Aspec Murderbot Diaries event
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18 Sep 2025
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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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18 Sep 2025
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"Before you ask, I'm not going to be your plus-one."
Three blinked once, very deliberately, and said, "I know. I didn't intend to ask you."
"You weren't?"
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Three is going to Preservation Station Security's holiday party. Murderbot was not invited.
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18 Sep 2025
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unexpected realism/unrealistic expectations by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Feb 2023
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"It's not realistic. It's not supposed to be realistic. It's a story, not a documentary. If you complain about that, I'll stop watching."
You have been enjoying the novel task of processing the SecUnit's emotions regarding the other serial, and You'd like to attempt to map that data to a situation that is a little more in line with Your own experiences. You believe that in doing so, You might code significantly more powerful software for Your emotional simulators.
I will refrain from complaint.
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Perihelion documents its experience of watching Worldhoppers for the first time.
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18 Sep 2025
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Attn: Dr. Ayda Mensah, M.D.; PhD.,
I have, for want of a better term, "abducted" your SecUnit associate.
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Ayda receives ART's message buoy.
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17 Sep 2025
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"How do you stand it?"
Dr. Gurathin's tone is slow and even when he asks, "Stand what?"
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SecUnit 3 shares its feelings with someone who might understand.
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17 Sep 2025
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If I kept leaking, the various parts of me that needed blood and/or fluid would fail, or die off. A cubicle could refill my veins and replace broken or dead components, but I had to get back to a cubicle first.
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Whumptober #11: Self-Done First Aid
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17 Sep 2025
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What's wrong?
For SecUnit's sake, Ayda lies to it.
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Even the most paranoid people let their guard down sometimes.
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17 Sep 2025
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reclaimed, refurbished, repurposed by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Aug 2022
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"All my existence, I've worn logos. My armor was always stamped with the company logo, and the logo of the company that was renting me. And I have company logos on my inorganics, too. I can't do anything to remove them."
Bharadwaj was still wearing her neutral, listening expression, but it broke slightly with a frown. "Why not?"
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Murderbot picks up some new drones, and does not project its insecurities onto them.
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17 Sep 2025
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"You're exhibiting symptoms of exhaustion. You need to stop and take a rest period."
"What would you know about it?" she asks, as if it's not absolutely right.
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Pin-Lee gets a visitor while she's working late.
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17 Sep 2025
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I check on my friends if they've been DND for a while. He made a gesture that was kind of like a shrug. If you're alright, then I can go. I just need to hear from you that you are.
It was an easy out that Ratthi was tossing me. Two words, and he would leave.
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Murderbot is annoyed with Ratthi for caring about it.
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17 Sep 2025
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"Which of us is the construct with the half-inorganic brain?"
Gurathin made a sort of eyebrows-scrunched expression. Slowly, he asked, "Which half?"
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Inspired by a discussion in the discord, I present: my defense of my headcanon for what's inside Murderbot's head.
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17 Sep 2025
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So long as Iris had her interface in, Peri was always with her.
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An adolescent Iris loses something important.
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17 Sep 2025
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What have they done to You, Perihelion?
They have taken Your crew.
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Peri is trapped in its own body.
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- Part 2 of network error
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17 Sep 2025
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Iris had grown up knowing the Perihelion as a protector above all else, and she had never been given any reason not to feel perfectly safe while she was aboard.
She pinged it again, and held her breath. It wasn't there.
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To successfully board the Perihelion, the first and most important step is to bring down the bot pilot.
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- Part 1 of network error
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16 Sep 2025
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"If Station Security catches it in the wrong place at the wrong time, or if they get tired of the investigation, or just if SecUnit pisses the wrong person off, they might try to arrest it."
Ratthi snorted. "I mean, they sure wanted to." Gurathin said nothing, and Ratthi's humor dried up. "You're serious. You really think that Station Security would do something like that? Even knowing that SecUnit is innocent?"
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Ratthi and Gurathin break for lunch.
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16 Sep 2025
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When ART finally confirmed the PA credentials and cycled the lock, I was waiting in the foyer. I'd disabled my human behavioral code, so I didn't twitch when the whole group of humans all stopped in their tracks to stare at me.
I said, "You have boarded the Perihelion, registered teaching vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Please state your business."
In my feed, ART whispered, You sound like a shuttle attendant.
I sound like a SecUnit.
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During a cargo run, ART is subjected to a random security sweep. Murderbot falls back into its old routine of supervising annoying humans.
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16 Sep 2025
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What is this? ART asked.
"A list of potential security vulnerabilities," I said. "As your security consultant, I recommend that these be patched against attacks."
ART pinged me with a code that granted me administrative access. Then you will not mind writing the patches.
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Human trust exercises aren't optimized for digital beings. Bots have to figure out their own.
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16 Sep 2025
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conflicts and resolutions by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Aug 2021
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"The targets," 1.0 snarls. "You shot them."
"You also shot them," I point out. I feel as though I'm missing something obvious.
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Murderbot and Three have differing opinions on the appropriate level of force to employ against hostiles.
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16 Sep 2025
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E̷̬̠̩̾̔͋M̵̖̖͑̄͝E̷̤̬͌̎̃R̷͈͗̃̅G̶̨̮̔Ẽ̵̡̖̞̾Ñ̷͉̭̯͠͠Ć̷̣̖Y̸̺̾̐̃ͅ ̷̩̎͘Ỉ̴̱̪̈́̑N̶̘͍̑ͅÎ̵̩̕T̴̨͚͊͝I̵̞̙͆̕A̴͙̻̓̒̉T̵̛̲̦͗̕E̵̜͝ ̸̧̹͇̋R̸̫͓̿̎Ę̸̖̈́͐S̵̬̃E̴̟͛̉̐T̵̖͗
What's happening to me? What did I do wrong?
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A SecUnit with no name earns one.
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16 Sep 2025