MajesticallyDyingMoose
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Dr. Gurathin knows he and SecUnit got off to a bad start when they first met. Although it's been a while and things have improved since then, SecUnit is still pretty rude to him pretty much all the time. And honestly? He's getting sick of that. Hypothesis: SecUnit hates him. Objective: Find out why.
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03 Jan 2026
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A former employee of The Company arrives on Preservation
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03 Jan 2026
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“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.Bookmarked by MajesticallyDyingMoose
03 Jan 2026
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Gender is a Construct But This Construct is Not Gendered by heavyshadows
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Jul 2025
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We had (somehow) survived GrayCris. There was just one problem. My humans kept calling me he now.
I didn’t know what to make of this. It made me feel like they weren’t quite seeing me. Like at the beginning of the survey, when I first saved Bharadwaj and they started acting all team-y around me. But from the way they had talked, it was clear they didn’t understand what a SecUnit was. Instead, it was like I was their pet bot. It wasn’t until I blew LeeBeeBee’s head off that they realized they had been trying to befriend a murderbot. They saw me for what I was; a killing machine.
When they said he, I hated it. It made my organics flinch. My performance reliability dropped a percentage each time. And it felt like the pet bot incident all over again; like they weren’t seeing me, but what they wanted to see. I didn’t want to be their pet bot, but I didn’t want to have to act like I was human either. Especially not some human man. Is that how they saw me? Is that what I would have to be now on Preservation?
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In which Murderbot struggles with stupid human assumptions about gender, has a heart-to-heart with its favorite human, and submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.Bookmarked by MajesticallyDyingMoose
03 Jan 2026
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Performance Reliability by coulson_is_an_avenger
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jun 2025
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Murderbot can't seem to shake whatever's bothering it.
Something in its memory keeps dragging down its performance reliability, and it has to figure out what before there's a problem. Or worse, someone notices.
Or: Murderbot talks to someone about how it was treated by Leebeebee.
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03 Jan 2026