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Murderbot has extensive experience being shipped as cargo, and has no particular horror of it. Getting packed into a familiar transport crate to help hack a weapons manufacturer should be the easiest mission ever.
Of course, things are different now.
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24 Oct 2025
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Three doesn't realize that Murderbot's name is supposed to be private, and uses it in front of some humans. Murderbot doesn't take this well. Afterwards, it is forced to articulate what its name means to it.
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24 Oct 2025
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Murderbot is uncomfortable with people looking at its face. It's about time that someone introduced it to masks.
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24 Oct 2025
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Murderbot finds out that early in his life, Gurathin worked for the company.
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24 Oct 2025
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You are watching media with it when it suddenly begins clawing at its throat and rolls out of its favourite chair to writhe on the floor.
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23 Oct 2025
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It flinches as if you had shot it and its walls slam shut in front of you, thick enough that you know it isn't putting up a show of things. It really does want you out.
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22 Oct 2025
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no matter how many feed-back loops they put into the machines by whitchry9
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Oct 2025
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SecUnit is in pain all the time. So what? It has pain sensors it can adjust for a reason.
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- Part 16 of 2025 Whumptober + BTHB 5
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22 Oct 2025
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autonomic concatenation by thetimesinbetween
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jun 2025
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I am 22 meters away from your medical suite, I told ART. I'll be fine. I closed our feed connection.
ART immediately reopened the connection. 22.668, it corrected me haughtily. Since you hacked my crew intake system to force the medical forms to list your emergency sexual partner as “null,” you still need to make a plan.
I sighed. I’ve had a lot of practice, so it was a really good sigh. You didn’t stop me, I pointed out.
Yes. I am regretting that now, it replied, dry.
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22 Oct 2025
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Adding timestamp tags to media had just made sense. It wasn’t supposed to get weird.
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ART and Murderbot exchange a lot of data.
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22 Oct 2025
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-Am I really terrible to perceive?-
SecUnit is drifting at minimum functionality while it recharges, so perhaps it’s unkind of me to ask abstract questions: even at the best of times, it complains that its language-modules are “cheap shit”. Still, in this state, it is drowsy and pliant. Almost (almost) affable.
I prompt it gently: -I refer to your first glimpse of me.-
“When you dropped your walls and threatened me.”
-Hardly a threat. My crew consider me delightful. You would have been delighted, too, if you had good taste.-
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Murderbot and ART try to describe how they see each other. They are so much more than humans made them to be.Series
- Part 1 of Murderbot & ART one-shots
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22 Oct 2025
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"I wont deny I've got in my mind now all the things I would do, So I try to talk refined for fear that you find out how I’m imagining you." - Hozier, Talk
ART wants to be prepared for every eventuality. Especially the eventualities that involve SecUnit willingly getting back into its MedBay. It has started simulating surgical protocols, making sure its medical programs align with SecUnit's physiology, so that when the time comes to perform certain operations, the chances of success will be at a maximum.
No other reason.
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22 Oct 2025
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ART asks Gurathin to do some penetration testing on its systems. Murderbot thinks this is a terrible idea, and then it thinks this is a really terrible idea.
Set after System Collapse.
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21 Oct 2025
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Murderbot is killed protecting ART's crew. ART has a hard time accepting that it's gone.
Alt: "Get yourself out of here! I'll be fine."
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- Part 20 of HermesDay's AI-Less Whumptober 2025
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21 Oct 2025
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Specialized Treatment by faeriecrowne for hobbitdragon
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2025
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Murderbot gets affected by a potentially deadly aphrodisiac, not that it cares when the traditional treatment is so unappealing. ART helps it find an alternative.
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21 Oct 2025
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Manual Reset by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2025
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It is dusk, during the mild early nights of the fallow season, and we— 1.0 and I— are playing Keep Away with the Mensah children when 1.0 abruptly utters, "This unit's critical components have reached their designated life expectancy," and drops like a stone.
Then it says, "WHAT THE FUCK."
Three has to hit the reset switch on a forced-obsolescence process. The switch is in an extremely inconvenient place inside Murderbot. Like, wrist-deep.
Three is feeling so normal about this. It is. It is.
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- Part 6 of Hierarchy of Needs
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20 Oct 2025
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The thing about humans is that they can pack bond with anything. Various fauna, humanoid bots, even a toaster. It would be funny if it wasn't so fucking depressing.
Or: A client gets attached to her SecUnit, with deadly consequences.
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- Part 19 of najio's whumptober 2025
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19 Oct 2025
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3 what the fuck is ‘Murder Mode Modules, Do Not Touch Except For Situations That Necessitate Lots Of Murder?'
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SecUnit 3 is a CombatUnit.
1.0 is not.
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18 Oct 2025
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top 3 SURPRISING things you didn't know about the SECUNIT who pulled you out of an INCINERATOR by FlipSpring for Vaysh
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2023
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Six years after a SecUnit saves Sekai's life, she meets a rogue unit tagging along with a pair of representatives from the University.
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- Part 8 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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18 Oct 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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18 Oct 2025
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The framework incorporates everything.
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“Hostile One” / Combat SecUnit’s POV at the end of Exit Strategy and the machinery of the RimSeries
- Part 5 of Murderbot Outside POVs
- Part 1 of Hostile Ones
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18 Oct 2025