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1. [variable_affection] by avg (AnxiousEspada), flowerguts, Lillow

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Complete Work

   30 Sep 2022

   Tags

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   • Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Amena & Iris (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Asshole Research Transport/Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)
   • PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Perihelion Crew (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Combat SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Bot Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original ComfortUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Human Character(s)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • First Contact
   • Aliens
   • grey ace Murderbot
   • Post-Book 5: Network Effect
   • Eventual well adjusted! MB
   • Slow Burn
   • Robot Brain Sex
   • miscommunications
   • POV murderbot
   • POV ART
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Romance
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • This fic spans 20 years
   • POV Amena
   • POV Ratthi
   • POV Volescu
   • POV SecUnit Three
   • Murderbot gets a blanket
   • Murderbot gets therapy

   Summary

   "ART loved its crew. The joy and the love and perfect clarity with what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to do. ART couldn’t understand how someone could dislike their function - how I could. Once, I had a similar clarity of understanding with my function, then I hacked my governor module and left the company for good, and I had lost it all. It was better, now, in a lot of ways. I had my humans, and ART, and our crew. But in some ways, things were worse.
   I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, ever. I had made one good decision, to stay with ART, a few years ago, and I had been just making the same decision over and over again. It felt kind of like cheating."

   A 20-some year fic in which Murderbot comes to terms with what it means to have a home (or two), a found family (or several), and just what mutual administrative assistance can entail.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   204,127

   Chapters:

   24/24

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