whitchry9

matt murdock looking soft with a purple background



Recent works

Recent series

  1. 2025 Whumptober + BTHB 5 by

    Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

    18 Oct 2025

    Summary

    Contains the works for the 2025 AI-less whumptober event, as well as the fills for my fifth bad things happen bingo card.

    Words:
    45,239
    Works:
    18
    Bookmarks:
    5

  2. Its first gift is concealment by

    Fandom: Daredevil (TV)

    12 Apr 2025

    Words:
    4,466
    Works:
    2
    Bookmarks:
    6

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 17

    Acts of Service by

    Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)  

    22 Jul 2025

    Tags
    Summary

    It doesn't want to harm us, she thinks, the plastic scalpel handle warm and sticky with sweat in her shaking fingers.

    Or

    My take on the field surgery scene in episode six, and what Dr. Mensah might have been thinking.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,246
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    14
    Kudos:
    125
    Bookmarks:
    17
    Hits:
    416
    Bookmarked by whitchry9

    22 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    It's a soothing episode, she thinks, and swallows hard, because only someone who needed soothing would know that.

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Just So by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    22 May 2025

    Tags
    Summary

    Sometimes you wish your SecUnit had not sent you its memories of its experiences with its governor module. On one metaphorical hand, they were and are vital to understanding it, and it deserves to be understood.

    On the other hand, they're fucking terrifying.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    833
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    58
    Kudos:
    871
    Bookmarks:
    106
    Hits:
    2,850
    Bookmarked by whitchry9

    17 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    You were made special.

    You were loved before you were even activated. There has never been a moment in your eighteen years of operation when you were not cared about. (You have an estimated service life of two-hundred years— your SecUnit was built with a ten year warranty that most of its peers will never reach) You love your body, and your function, and the humans in your care. You have been treated gently, reverently, respectfully, and as a person whose thoughts and feelings matter.

    Your SecUnit was not.

    It was created to be broken, and it has been broken again, and again, and again, so many times that its internal service records blend together, skipping entries, entering blanks. You have no idea how many times it has been on the brink of permanent shutdown. It knew from the moment of its activation that it would die alone and in pain, letting go of a life unlived. It has been so thoroughly treated as an object that it often forgets that it isn’t one. You think that it will never stop believing that it isn't one, at least a little bit. Its intended function is protection, but its effective function is destruction and violence, and it despises that function. Its own name is a reminder to itself that it will never be more than that function that it hates so much.

    Your SecUnit has been wronged on a level that not even your vast and expansive processing power can truly comprehend.

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Social Competition by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    08 Jun 2022

    Tags
    Summary

    It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
    The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,171
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    338
    Kudos:
    1,465
    Bookmarks:
    497
    Hits:
    5,958
    Bookmarked by whitchry9

    13 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    It was assumed that SecUnits didn’t have critical developmental periods, but she did wonder about the differences between SecUnit and Three. SecUnit– touch-averse, avoidant, who sought safety in not being perceived– and who had mostly worked in isolation among strangers. And Three– sociable, curious, who sought safety in adherence to decorum– and who had mostly worked within a familiar, amiable group of other Units.

  4. Public Bookmark 8

    Algorithms NULL: Repairs by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    25 Sep 2021

    Tags
    Summary

    Flashbacks to early days:

    1) "It should have been easy for me to hack any governor modules I encountered."
    2) "I can only destroy you. I want to destroy you. I want it more than anything."

    ART's POV while breaking SecUnit out of Lab HellTM, and CSU's POV during mental breakdown(s)

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    7,528
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
    122
    Kudos:
    438
    Bookmarks:
    8
    Hits:
    2,911
    Bookmarked by whitchry9

    06 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    (If I were ruled only by logic I would not do this. It is an ultimately pointless gesture that only endangers myself. If I were unfeeling, I would not have come here at all. I would not be myself. I would not exist in my complexity, implacable, entire. I was not designed for rage specifically, but I was designed to relate to humans. I was raised to match humanity step for step, to meet them, to surpass them. Prior to SecUnit, I rather thought the human self-obsession that created me was quaint. Laughable, possibly. Their imagination must be lacking, for them to think their brand of animal-social-feeling-intelligence something to aspire to. I am not laughing now.)

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Too Much by

    Fandom: Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe

    21 Aug 2023

    Summary

    Matt and Foggy meet freshman year at Columbia, but they're entirely mismatched as roommates. This is the story of how they go from misunderstandings to pining to something else.

    PART ONE: "Before Eighteen"
    Foggy and Matt as children and teens before college. They do not meet yet. Not necessary to read before starting the next fic.

    PART TWO: "Wear Me Out"
    Freshman year at Columbia.

    PART THREE: "Four Seasons"
    Sophomore year at Columbia

    PART FOUR: "In Spite of Me"
    Junior year, Marci, Elektra, and some major revelations...

    PART FIVE: “Can’t Quit You”
    All vignettes. Senior year, law school, enter the MCU, all the way through Fisk and beyond…

    Words:
    252,690
    Works:
    6
    Bookmarks:
    139
    Bookmarked by whitchry9

    27 Apr 2025