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Reruns & Resets by Lizzie_The_Witch
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
24 Mar 2026
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“ Maybe I would be less annoyed had it not been brought up a subjective one million times (and an objective two dozen) how it was “nice to have everyone back together” on a “peaceful survey this time”. Ratthi had made sure to comment that for all that the first survey had been a “total nightmare” it was “worth it to have met you SecUnit!” That had given me the same melty feeling in my chest that I’d gotten when Mensah had told me she saw me “as a person just trying to help” back on that first survey together.
I was trying not to think about that though. Not that, or the way my drones captured Ratthi’s grin when he’d spoken. Or any of the melty and soft feelings my humans gave me sometimes. But especially not Ratthi. Because if I thought about him at all, I’d have to think about his blood on my face.”
Set in a mix of the Book Universe & the TV Universe, Murderbot and the PresAux crew are on another planetary survey mission. Everything is peaceful until it isn’t and Murderbot gets trapped in a nightmarish Time Loop like something out of one of its serials. Murderbot is hellbent on saving its humans and breaking free of the loop whatever it takes.
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17 Jul 2025
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The pings were all from Overse’s interface and routed from a transit ring called Trans-All, the kind of ping that was just are you in range – are you in range – are you in range. It was a call for help and it fucking terrified me, because I was answering it way, way too late.
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Ratthi goes missing. Pin-Lee isn't used to losing. Murderbot isn't used to having anything to lose.
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15 Jul 2025
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The Preservation Aux team are growing increasingly concerned about Leebeebee's interactions with their SecUnit.
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- Part 2 of Leebeebee doesn't reveal herself
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14 Jul 2025
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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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08 Jul 2025
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Parallax Error by JustCallMeEmrys
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
27 Jan 2026
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An unfortunate error caused PreservationAux to start their survey late, and Murderbot found itself rented by a different survey crew. It ended up on the same shitty planet anyway.
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08 Jul 2025
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Her fingers don’t want to let go. If she asked her psychiatrist about it, he’d tell her it’s a trauma response. Something about her limbic system, muscle memory from that first EF5.
“I won’t let you go anywhere. I have you Kate. I need you to trust me. I have you now. I promise. Once you let go of the pipe, grab onto my wrist. Okay?”
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Twisters: but with more crying and kissing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -
Partial Disclosure by Gamebird for ImitationGame
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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The complicated family dynamics when you're a super-secret intelligent spaceship trying to explain the illegal things you did to help your new friend (the rogue security construct) to your augmented sister so she'll team up with you against your dad who is also your captain and commanding officer. Actually, best not to explain the illegal things. Maybe just the 'new friend' part for now and hope for the best on the rest of it.
Beta credit: MrsMetta
Name ‘RevAtmos’ from JoyfulldreamsSeries
- Part 39 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
- Part 1 of ART fics
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03 Feb 2025
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The Clothes off Its Back by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2024
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When Three's pulmonary system is compromised during a mission, Murderbot lets it borrow one of its lungs. Shenanigans ensue.
We were planning to tell ART about the lung situation right after I took a recharge cycle, I promise. But then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were standing at the airlock, ready to be deployed on our next mission.
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18 Jan 2025
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give it a hand, offer it a soul by dragonyfox
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Jun 2024
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My route has another projected 4.7 seconds. I tried so fucking hard to get to you, to outrun that fucking CSU. Unfortunately, that’s when the CSU shoots me in my power cord.
I only have enough time to send a single, panicked message to you, telling you to get the hell out of here, before I suffer an emergency shutdown.
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- Part 1 of it will come back
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18 Jan 2025
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It's not unusual for supervisors on contracts to decide that watching their SecUnits fight is more fun than watching media. It's just that sometimes, that's a lot worse than other times. Like when the SecUnit you're fighting is from the same gene batch as you.
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Turns out that if you save the lives of a bunch of kids' family members (multiple times), they might just decide you're pretty cool. Whether you like it or not.
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What is it about ART's university that it doesn't want its crew discussing with their new security team? More to the point, when is everyone going to shut up so Murderbot can get back to its Saffron Artifice marathon?!
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(I had a bit of a moment there, but I think I deserved it. The governor module, as ever, disagreed and its warning zap had me reviewing the last few seconds of video to formulate a reply before the pain set in.)
“This unit has never been designated ‘Rin’ in the past, but will now answer to that as per client request.”
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While on a field trip with some students, Murderbot and ART manage to get transplanted into each others' bodies by an alien remnant. They need to find a way to undo this, but first they have to figure out how to navigate the world in an entirely unfamiliar way.
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The most important relationships in ART's life are with the humans who raised it, and for whom it is now both home and friend. But ART lives almost entirely in the feed, where it is imperceptible to the humans unless it makes an active effort to be perceived. Struggling to be seen and understood, and to understand the humans who are its whole world, it turns to the thing it knows best: research.
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Seth said sternly, “Perihelion, you need to tell us the truth. We can’t leave the home system until we find out what happened. If you’re hiding something—”
Peri cut him off. I am not hiding anything.
Peri might be able to lie astonishingly well to a corporate representative, even impersonate a human over the feed, but it couldn’t lie to Iris. “Yes, you are,” she said.
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Or, the story of how exactly ART told its crew about Murderbot.
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15 Jan 2025
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choiceless hope in grief by avg (AnxiousEspada)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Aug 2021
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SecUnits are pre-programmed to die fifty years after initial activation. Murderbot doesn’t know that its humans want to celebrate its birthday, and said humans do not expect it to suddenly shut down.
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15 Jan 2025
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Secondary Redundancies by pineapplesquid for momo-momora
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jan 2022
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Murderbot's first mission with ART's crew didn't go as planned, and its return to Preservation is complicated by a missing limb and assorted misunderstandings. Awkward conversations to be had, weird cases to be worked, a heist to plan, and new protocols to learn.
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15 Jan 2025
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In an effort to improve security training for its humans, Murderbot decides that controlled memory wipes are the only way to give the authentic 'chased by a dangerous SecUnit' experience. It really wishes its humans would stop complaining about the idea. It knows what it's doing, alright? This isn't a serial ruled by dramatic irony. Nothing's going to go wrong.
(Something, inevitably, goes wrong.)
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15 Jan 2025
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crushed and filled with all I found by avg (AnxiousEspada)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Nov 2021
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There are many things Amena should have never seen. How do you cope with the turmoil that a rogue SecUnit brings into your life?
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Five times Amena has a nightmare, and one time it's real.