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• While Loop by Pyritized

  Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

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  20 Feb 2026

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • ART | Perihelion/Murderbot
  • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
  • ART | Perihelion
  • Time Loop
  • Time Travel
  • Pre-Relationship
  • Depression
  • There's no actual suicidal ideation but ART is fearful that there is
  • Betaed but not by someone from the MB fandom so if you see anything lmk

  Summary

  SecUnit is trapped in a time loop, and has to rely on its organic neurons to find a way out. Its leading theory, that this is all due to an intense quasi-political fight between universities, is starting to look like a dead end. The loops might be changing.

  And ART won’t stop asking, So, how many secrets have you managed to pry out of me?

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