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When Arthur learns more about the meaning behind Emrys, the past comes back to haunt him.
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04 Nov 2025
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It never got dark here in the future, and he could never see the stars. Arthur missed the dark—was that stupid, considering the thousands of years he had apparently spent in it?
Arthur returns from the dead: lost, traumatized, and out of his depth. Not even Merlin is familiar anymore.
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The magic reveal is not glamorous. After Ismere, Merlin confesses practically on a whim—while in the midst of his evening chores—and Arthur is forced to question everything he thinks he knows. What follows is a journey that tests their friendship, Arthur’s kingship, and Merlin’s faith. Known like never before, Merlin discovers that he has more secrets than just his magic to confess, some of them difficult and guilty; meanwhile, Arthur is tasked with undoing the fear of magic Uther has left behind in the kingdom, and in Arthur’s own heart. Together, can they defy Arthur’s prophesized death, and guide Camelot towards its Golden Age?
An episodic Series 5 rewrite.
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30 Oct 2025
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The world keeps blurring at its edges, and it’s threatening to take him with it.
Focus.
He feels like a wisp of smoke, at risk of blowing away in the rising wind.
Desperately, he tries to keep hold on the world around him. Keep himself from fading away.
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He comes to on a wreck of meat and fire with barely a thought in his head. There’s something happening, something urgent. The others are worried, snapping at each other in harsh tones around the edge of the campfire, yet despite their issues, they move forward – if he can’t keep up, he’ll get left behind. Maybe, if he can be useful, they’ll keep him around.
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- Part 1 of And in Those Hollow Depths I Met Truth
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Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
28 Sep 2025
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
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28 Sep 2025
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hold me up in your folders by JackaLanternLope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Sep 2025
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.
I wanted ART to prove it to me.
I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.
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ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.
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- Part 2 of data transfer
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23 Sep 2025
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What if the buoy launch failed?
How does PresAux survive on a survey planet while being hunted by GrayCris?
How does a murderbot survive in such close quarters to its humans?
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I shouldn't take it personally that everyone loved Three. It was just better than me. At everything: Kicking my ass, not being a pile of anxiety, getting along with humans... just, everything.
It was fine. It was fine, right?
So if it was fine, the problem wasn't with being a SecUnit, the problem was with me. I didn't like that and I definitely didn't want to talk about it.A short story about SecUnit seeing how well Three is doing, and what that must mean about itself. Get cared for, idiot.
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25 Aug 2025
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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20 Aug 2025
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If you want to pass as human, I can build a specialized drone for you that will mimic the appearance of a daemon from a distance. With time, it may even collect enough dust from you to become something akin to a true construct animus.
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Or: SecUnits don’t have daemons (unless...)Bookmarked by rorindiel
17 Aug 2025
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Looking-Glass by blackglass, FlipSpring, GoLBCollabs (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2021
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It was as if, until now, SecUnit had just been a background figure in the stage-setting of Amena’s life, playing the shadowy role of some uncanny corporate surveillance machine-person. But now the light had fallen upon it, shown it in full color, full dimensionality, and that made SecUnit real to Amena in a way that it hadn’t been before.
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Making sense of an unfamiliar reality. Amena's POVSeries
- Part 6 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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17 Aug 2025
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Acceptable Mission Cost by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Nov 2022
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The planetary leader of Preservation is taken hostage by a corporation and held for interrogation. Lonely and homesick, she starts talking to the SecUnit assigned to guard her cell. When it's ordered to kill her, it can't bring itself to follow through.
An AU idea that's been floating around the discord! A bit like the end of Exit Strategy if it was at the start of the series. This version will get into some alternate Artificial Condition vibes eventually too.
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17 Aug 2025
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Whatever wild, crazy power surge took out ART's systems and my inorganics also apparently started a countdown for ART's self destruct sequence. Great.
Couldn't wait to drag my sorry ass to save both of our lives, though I had no idea how, and kick starting a ship like ART would probably kill me. Unless, you know, we blew up first.Bookmarked by rorindiel
17 Aug 2025
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16 Aug 2025
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape. -
A Case Study On Mutualistic Relationships by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jan 2022
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Dr. Pranjal Ratthi has written papers on mutualism, symbiotic relationships where all species involved benefit from their interactions. It turns out that applying theory into practice with human-AI dynamics is a little more complicated than he might have anticipated. But worth it, in the end.
[Network Effect, from Ratthi's perspective.]
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15 Aug 2025
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pick up the pieces and try again by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2022
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The Perihelion attempts to reassemble some corrupted code.
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15 Aug 2025
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These are the happy bits from Broken Half. Essentially a collection of scenes between Murderbot and ART, with occasionally some other characters. Broken Half takes place about 47 years after the end of Network Effect, so that's the perspective of the flashbacks.
For those of you who don't like the taste of the despair pit, enjoy!
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- Part 3 of Rogue Orbits
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15 Aug 2025
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Hey ART, what’s this? I ask, pulling up a file from the archival storage.
ART snatches it out of my metaphorical hands and tucks it back into storage. Just a research project.
I squint at the wall. What kind of research?
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In which Murderbot finds a presentation for a 'research project' that ART did not want it to ever find.
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14 Aug 2025
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On a corporate owned mining asteroid in the depths of the Corporation Rim, a group of plucky, heroic, indentured humans have just decided to make their first move in a daring escape plan. Said first move is a deceptively simple hack, putting control of their corporate overlords' single, overworked SecUnit into their hands.
Little do they know, this murderbot is already hacked.
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13 Aug 2025