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2 Aspec 2 Drabbles - FlipSpring - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: 2 Aspec 2 Drabbles Author: FlipSpring Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Amena & Murderbot #Murderbot #Asshole Research Transport #Amena #Aromantic #Asexuality #Drabble #Drabble Collection #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 232 Chapters: 4/?

A collection of drabbles for Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025 1: Index / 2: Oversight / 3: Balin Owns Itself

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Title: Two SecUnits Two Transports Author: ImitationGame Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot #Holism & SecUnit 3 #Murderbot #Asshole Research Transport #SecUnit 3 #Holism #Holism's crew #Original Side Characters - Character #frienship #working relationship #mutual administrative assistant #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 6,409 Chapters: 1/1

Holism is used to making decisions, and is very protective of its crew including its newest member SecUnit 3. When two of its crew appear to be in danger, it reluctantly seeks assistance from its rival sibling ship Perihelion, following order from its captain. Seeing how Perihelion and SecUnit work together gives it new perspective on how it could potentially work with Three. A story from Holism's POV.

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We're over two weeks in and about a third of the way through our fanworks submissions window! Remember that submissions will close at the end of April.

Come join the fun! You can check out our prompts list for inspiration, comment on fanworks, browse our blog, and submit your own aspec fanwork to the event collection.

Thank you for your lovely prompts, fanworks, and reblogs so far!

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About ☆ FAQ ☆ Rules ☆ Timeline ☆ Announcements ☆ Fanworks

Here are some more prompts that were submitted to the Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025 event. (They've been shortened to fit the poster—for full text and even more prompts check out our collection here!)

Everyone thinks they're dating, but they aren't.

Murderbot talks to Bharadwaj about its sex aversion, and the surveillance it had to do as part of its job.

The most important relationship in someone's life is hatred. Academic rival, least favorite character, worst enemy, etc.

Aspec character experiences jealous. Learns it's not just a romantic/sexual thing.

Murderbot learns from another Ai that not all SecUnits/bots feel the way it does about romance and/or sex and/or relationships.

What if ART and Murderbot teach Three how to person?

Bharadwaj and Pin-Lee: flirting, aromantic, relationship history.

Surprise! Demiromantic and/or demisexual Murderbot.

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What are they even supposed to be selling

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Title: Unbridgeable Author: ramshackle_fey Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Mensah & Murderbot #Murderbot #Dr. Mensah #Farai #Tano #Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot #Ambiguous Relationships #Unrequited Love Stays Unrequited #Aromantic #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 1,399 Chapters: 1/1

Ayda didn't know exactly when it had started. She knew the moment she had realized the problem though. "Are you alright?" she'd asked, concerned by the silence on the comm. "I just really like you," SecUnit said, and her heart flew into her throat as hard as when she got its desperate call to evacuate the council chamber. "Not in a weird way." She couldn't have said whether the disappointment or the shame that followed on its heels was worse.

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Title: Tarik's butt (and other ways to keep the SecUnit fan club a secret) Author: molecular_machine Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Murderbot #Asshole Research Transport #Perihelion Crew #Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot #One-Sided Attraction #5+1 Things #Fluff and Humor Words: 2,503 Chapters: 1/1

Five times ART’s crew kept SecUnit from finding out that the students were swooning over it. And one time they didn’t.

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Idk what to say

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Title: A Grand Romantic Gesture Author: molecular_machine Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Gurathin & Murderbot #Murderbot #Dr. Gurathin #PreservationAux Survey Team #the mortifying cringe of being wrong #POV Dr. Gurathin #Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot #the PresAUX team are good friends #Friendship #Light Angst #Bad Ideas #Romantic Gestures #gone wrong #One-Sided Attraction #Obsession #Bonding Through Watching Media #except make it cringe Words: 2,025 Chapters: 1/1

Gurathin had planned his grand romantic gesture for SecUnit so carefully. So why can’t he shake the feeling that something is wrong?

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Title: Fireflies Author: FigOwl Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Mensah #Murderbot #Touch-Averse Murderbot #Friendship #Trauma Recovery #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 825 Chapters: 1/1

Murderbot showing affection without touching by booping people with drones. Thank you for the prompt, ramshackle_fey!

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Thanks everyone for the initial submissions to our event! We've had a bunch of neat works so far. They have been queued to this blog, so enjoy us posting about them over the coming days.

We're 15% of the way through our submission window. There's still plenty of time to join the fun, but beware that clock which never slows...

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Title: Therms Author: FigOwl Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Ratthi #Dr. Gurathin #Pin-Lee #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries #Book 4: Exit Strategy #Coping #Friendship #ace/aro spectrum Words: 744 Chapters: 1/1

The prompt: "The TranRollinHyfa Trio! Love them. Stress and fear on TranRollinHyfa..." Thank you for the prompt, ArtemisTheHuntress!

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Title: Dump Him Author: ArtemisTheHuntress Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Arada & Overse & Pin-Lee & Dr. Ratthi #Dr. Arada & Murderbot & Overse & Pin-Lee & Dr. Ratthi #Murderbot #Pin-Lee #Dr. Ratthi #Dr. Arada #Overse #Drabble and a Half #Movie Night #Fluff #Friendship #Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot #Aromantic and slash or asexual most of them lol Words: 150 Chapters: 1/1

Some movies have just, such painful romance plots. Heckling is only natural.

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Title: four people, ???? beds Author: BWizard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Arada & Overse & Pin-Lee & Dr. Ratthi #dr. arada/overse/pin-lee/dr. ratthi #Dr. Arada/Overse #minor bharadwaj/pin-leePin-Lee #Overse #Dr. Arada #Dr. Ratthi #minor appearance by Dr. Mensah #Sedoretu #Alternate Universe #Pre-Book 1: All Systems Red #Book 5: Network Effect #aromantic graysexual pin-lee #all of them are aspec really pin-lee is also queer for the setting #(interested in her same moiety) #this is a fic about platonic relationships primarily #talking about potential for death but characters are alive #Grief/Mourning #preemptive and ultimately unnecessary grieving #(pin-lee assuming the three in the safe pod are dead) Words: 1,526 Chapters: 1/1

Preservation tradition is to lodge a sedoretu in one bedroom, with four separate beds pushed together as custom and arrangements allow. In a larger house, perhaps two bedrooms with two beds in each. But mostly, they mimic the Pressy in their layouts, pushing mattresses together to sleep in twos or separately. Their privacy, now that the Pressy has landed and her people are not bound to small cabins, is the four small rooms attached to the bedroom, in which no others come without invitation. Or, the unusual ways Drs. Arada and Ratthi, of the Morning moiety, and Overse and Solicitor Pin-Lee, of the Evening moiety, manage their relationship(s).

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Title: How do they find the time? Author: FascinatedFinch Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Murderbot #Pin-Lee #Asexual Character #Oneshot #friends with benefits (the benefits: they can complain about the friends with benefits trope) #Slice of Life Words: 882 Chapters: 1/1

FOR PROMPT: Murderbot seems to see allosexuality as a universal human condition. I'd like MB to connect with an asexual human or augmented human and realize it isn't alone in how it feels.

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Its my work for Aspec Murderbot Diaries event!

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About ☆ FAQ ☆ Rules ☆ Timeline ☆ Announcements ☆ Fanworks

Thank you everyone for submitting so many lovely prompts! For your perusal, here are the fanart-specific prompts that were submitted, pasted onto the Polish cover edition of All Systems Red + Artificial Condition. (Phrasing of some of these prompts were streamlined to help them fit onto the image.)

Characters illustrated with pride flags/colors.

Friendship bracelets, friendship tokens, Best Friends interlocking necklaces.

Drones! Drone communication, drone decoration, drone boops.

Feed hangouts, feedsonas.

Corporation Rim advertisements using Sex℠, Love®, or Gender© to sell products.

Bottles of: Gender Fluid, Love Potion, Relationship Anarchy, Polyamory Pigment. Or these ideas represented as objects: Candies. Books. Trinkets.

Non-human intimacy.

Murderbot wearing 'triple-A' battery shirt.

Thread of Fate subversions: cutting, braiding, having multiple threads.

Bots/constructs helping each other out with maintenance.

Murderbot 'friend dates' with its humans. (Theatre with Ratthi, hike with Mensah kids, etc.)

Check out the rest of our fanworks prompts here! This poster contains fanart-specific prompts but there are plenty more that could work for both fanart or fanfic.

If you are a visual artist, a doodler, or someone with a drawing implement, I hope these might inspire you to make something! :) If you post the art to tumblr, tag us and we'll reblog it.

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with!