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Ratthi knows he appears a certain way to others, and that sometimes leads to awkward assumptions.
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13 Jun 2025
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Seth gets an email from his boss regarding a new habit the university AIs appear to have learned from the Perihelion. The prying AIs he lives with (and onboard of) have their own opinions.
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- Part 1 of PUMNT Ships Go Rogue, Steal Constructs
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13 Jun 2025
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ART thinks Murderbot needs to blend in with humans better while acting as an augmented security consultant. It offers a way to do so. Just some cute fluff between the two.
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13 Jun 2025
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In which there is recognition of the self through the other, annoyance at having a self to recognize in the first place, intense emotional repression, humor where it doesn’t belong, a short-lived fight scene, and more.
Or: a series of loosely related pre-canon vignettes detailing murderbot’s relationship with media
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13 Jun 2025
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And I don’t want to look at them and their overeager face either so I look at the plants instead, which is a mistake because while I never really got what humans see in excessive vegetation- too much mess for me- there’s one that’s set just a little apart from the rest, just far enough that it’s noticeably alone, and- well. It’s small. It’s sad. It’s kinda wilted. It also happens to be directly in front of me.
Or: in which murderbot gets a plant, against better judgement
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13 Jun 2025
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Five Times The Crew of The Perihelion Said They Loved It (And One Time It Reciprocated) by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Mar 2022
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AIs don't always feel emotions the same way humans do. They don't always express those emotions in the same way, either.
That makes living and working together a challenge, but one that the crew of the experimental advanced research transport The Perihelion are more than willing to rise to.
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13 Jun 2025
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Late-night human behavior discussions with your favorite deadly weapon.
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13 Jun 2025
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GrayCris never kidnapped Dr. Mensah, so Murderbot never travels to TranRollinHyfa to save her. Instead, it continues as it was for four years, too afraid to face Dr. Mensah and PreservationAux until it is (lovingly) coerced into finally visiting Preservation.
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- Part 7 of Gift and Event Fics
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13 Jun 2025
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Its Most Annoying Humans by ThirtheenPrimes
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Dec 2023
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Spending most of your life as an appliance doesn't give you a whole lot of experience with emotional support. But after everything SecUnit's been through with its humans, it's decided to give it a shot. The safest place to try it out: movie night with a collection of its favorite humans.
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13 Jun 2025
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I had been rogue for close to 20,000 hours when I heard about the rogue SecUnit owned by a PresAux official and the imminent collapse of GrayCris due to actions taken by it.
It seemed unlikely to me that it was actually a rogue SecUnit and not just GrayCris desperately trying to pass liability for a bunch of mistakes to someone else. It seemed unlikely to work
GrayCris was, in my professional opinion, fucked.
But likely not by a rogue SecUnit. What human would purchase a Company SecUnit and then keep it when it became clear it had gone rogue? It was a laughable enough possibility that I dismissed it out of hand, and didn't think about it for the rest of the contract.
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12 Jun 2025
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5 times ART gave Murderbot a gift (its idea of what a 'gift' is could be a bit broad at times) and 1 time Murderbot gave ART a gift.
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- Part 1 of FIRST/FOLLOW (eventide's tmbd fics)
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12 Jun 2025
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reasoning made lucid and cool by The_Onion for EauDePetrichor
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2024
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Iris is guest-teaching a PUMNT course, so it makes sense for Murderbot to go as her security. Yes, ART is doing most of the job, and yes, they are making Murderbot take a class, but it's still only there for work. It thinks? What do you mean it has to do a group project.
"Really, the longer I stayed here, the more it seemed like this was all a ploy to force me into an education module."
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12 Jun 2025
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Research Project #7866742, Codename: Chitchat by fireworksinthenight
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Jul 2022
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The Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland can't pass an opportunity to gain more knowledge, especially on something as new and shiny as a sentient spaceship-construct relationship. Murderbot isn't too happy about it, but it wants to stay in good terms with its new employer. Besides, it's not like the snippets of conversation shared have the potential to jeopardize the mission.
Right?
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12 Jun 2025
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Supervisor Leonide is Objectively Attractive .ptp by The_Onion
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Dec 2023
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“I was just making an objective observation.” I pulled up a compilation of my best footage and attached it to the feed. “She fits the criteria for what is deemed attractive by the media.”
“Oh, wow,” Ratthi was saying. “You got that together really fast.”/Another day fighting to save a colony from the corporate hold. Nothing to see here!
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11 Jun 2025
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Murderbot and Perihelion, agender, asexual, aromantic, and human. Not that it stops them from having feelings about each other, capitalism, the homeless pandemic, and existence in general.
Friends from school, they find each other again 10 years later and build the life together that they should have had from the start. Meals are cooked, pets are adopted, and family is found.
This has grown into a monster with no hint of stopping. At this point I'm just having a great time typing my life away.
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11 Jun 2025
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hold tight, gold and starlight by FiannlyPhoebe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Dec 2021
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Set after 'reach out, i'll come back', finally Rin's family is dealt with. Healing, new starts, unexpected outcomes, and softness overall.
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- Part 5 of We Are Diamonds
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11 Jun 2025
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A retelling of The Murderbot Diaries from Gurathin's point of view.
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- Part 2 of Murderathin
- Part 40 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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10 Jun 2025
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After Hacking by Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Feb 2025
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A series of short stories to the prompt: pre-canon but post-hack, Murderbot is owned and deployed by the Company. Emphasis on it facing painful, difficult choices, where it has to “choose” to obey, has to “choose” to act governed Or Else, where Murderbot has to look like it’s following callous, cruel, or profit-oriented orders, but still does what it can to reduce harm.
Please note that given the constraints of the prompt, Murderbot continues working, doesn't gain substantial allies or abilities, or make big changes in the world. Its gains are incremental and mainly self-discovery, so there's not a big, happy ending like with most of my fics. Murderbot is still learning some of the abilities it takes for granted by the time we meet it in ASR, including hacking, vocabulary, and social skills (yes, it has fewer social skills here than it does in ASR!)
These scenarios are arranged chronologically with several set within the same assignment, taking place within the first year after it hacks the governor module. I imagine these as incidents it discusses with Dr. Bharadwaj at some point post-NE, as it talks about early times when it recognized its own agency.
Thank you to horchata for helping me brainstorm!
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Murderbot goes job hunting by alwaysGradience
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Marvel Cinematic Universe
21 Aug 2024
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Through a freak accident, Murderbot gets transported to the MCU universe and figures out that stealing shit from Tony Stark while trying to solve physics in order to go back home is a good idea.
HIATIS: I'm following the dopamine in a different fandom now, but I don't think this work is abandoned yet. I don't know what exactly would lead to me updating this fic again, but it wouldn't be impossible for me to revisit.
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10 Jun 2025
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Maintenance Manual for SecUnits models 36b-27f by Wordlet
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Aug 2024
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When Mensah receives the maintenance manual for the person she just bought she discards it on instinct. It's not until later, while trying to navigate the needs of a person she has limited context for, that the supplementary reading becomes useful. It's not instructions the way they are supposed to be but it does provide... guidance.
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collection of scenes where MB accidentally shows that it has SecUnit needs.Bookmarked by Phoboc
10 Jun 2025