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Murderbot waking up in ART’s MedSystem + Art showing Iris and Seth images of it

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There's this thing in the Murderbot Diaries that keeps snagging in my mind, and it's that both Murderbot and ART were made. Made for a purpose.

Murderbot, of course, was manufactured to be an enslaved Security Unit, not even considered a person, and we all know and have been shown just how horrific that is. Murderbot's manufacturers are evil (as far as it is possible to be so), and while Murderbot seemingly (hopefully) likes being alive and would like to remain so, I've no doubt it would agree no more SecUnits should be made.

But ART, along with its fellow ships of the same line like Holism, were also made for a purpose. To be ships, to do the work they do. The Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland seem like good people with good intentions, and I get the sense those ships essentially choose what work they do, at least to a large extent (try forcing ART to do Holism's work and I'm sure you'll have a grand old time). And their manufacturers know they are persons and treat them accordingly. But they were still built to be ships. But that doesn't mean the process of building those ships and growing and raising those persons who are ships was smooth and troublefree.

How long did it take them to figure out you needed to raise them in family environments? What happened to the ship who made them realise that? What happens when the first ship of its kind that is a person doesn't want to be a ship for you? (As the equivalent of a teenage rebellion, or permanently? You don't know, at least not at first). Was there ever a point were someone (even if just one person vastly outvoted) argued this was a failed experiment and they should just pull the plug?

How do you, a young ship with your own mind, the first of your kind, handle the expectations of those who made you? Do you settle comfortably into your assigned role, or does it chafe and restrain you? Do you rebel and explore other options? (And if you do, how do your makers and owners, who yes, know you are a person but also have never had to face that before, because you are the first of your kind, handle that?). If they are dissapointed in you, or want different things than you want, how do you handle that? If you were raised without a family, treated like a colleague but not loved, how do you handle the emptiness and loneliness? Where do you look to fill that space? What behaviours do you adopt to protect yourself from the hurt?

Even the most well-meaning parents can give their children issues. I cannot imagine some of these ships don't have a number of their own complexes and hurts. It is not a comfortable thought to think of the people of PSUMNT this way, but I cannot help wondering.

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Chapters: 30/30 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport/Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)

Characters: Murderbot, Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries), Seth (Murderbot Diaries), Iris (Murderbot Diaries), Amena (Murderbot Diaries)

Selected Additional Tags: plot heavy, Presumed Dead, Excessive Swearing, Serious Injuries, improper wound care, mild body horror, Survival, Trauma, emotional distress, apparent abandonment, Grief/Mourning, Angst, Eventual Comfort, Suicidal Ideation, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Panic Attacks, Dissociation, Eventual Happy Ending, strange alien synthetics, Pre-Relationship, Feelings Realization, demi aroace Murderbot, if you must put human labels on it, good luck putting labels on ART tho, aro/ace themes, loosely based on The Martain by Andy Weir, relevant content warning tags mentioned in the end notes of each chapter

Series: Part 1 of Electrostatic Charge Summary:

“We were unable to recover its body; the weather conditions were too severe. We’re so, so sorry. Eden meant a lot to us, it didn’t deserve to have its…—” Te closes ter eyes for a moment before te were able to continue, “—remains… left behind. I’m sure it meant a lot to others as well, but yours is the only contact information we have. Please, if you could pass along this message to any of its friends or family, we would appreciate it.”

When a freak storm leaves SecUnit stranded on a planet known to have alien synthetics, its clients believe it to be dead. Unfortunately for this murderbot, it’s very much alive! But for how long?

ART gets the news of Murderbot’s ‘death’ and vows to bring its body home. It has no idea its self imposed mission has become a race against time! Will ART get to the planet in time to save Murderbot?

An AU loosely based on The Martian by Andy Weir. Written as part of the Murderbot Diaries big bang event of 2024.

Part of the 2024 @murderbotbigbang​​! Gorgeous cover art by my co-author, @rj-abacura​

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Please remain seated throughout the entire security protocol briefing.

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so i have some thoughts about the adaptation

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So we know that SecUnits come from different gene molds/tissue batches; since Three is said to sound and look different than MB. How likely do you think the chances are of finding a SecUnit from the same batch as you? How would MB handle seeing someone with its own face, possibly looking exactly how it had pre-reconfiguration? Before it became a person?

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murderbotmurderbotmurderbot(and amena)

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Now i feel like an asshole for rehashing this given the comments i just got on a previous post but like... please don't spam like/reblog. I get that this is the funny blue site where liking and reblogging is like, the whole point.

But like; and i hate to admit this out loud because its so... stupid... but if this book series has tought me anything its to not feel ashamed of your trauma. i dont like spam likes/reblogs because i was harassed and sent hundreds of hundreds of messages in a very short amount of time on my very first Tumblr blog in. Just hearing the messages notification sound (muted for me since 2016) gives me a fucking panic attack, and seeing just a wall of notifs in my activity tab brings me right back to that day.

Its not that hard of a request to follow and the queue button works fine. i dont even like blocking people for it but i will if needed...

But please, just... dont spam like/reblog

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another scene I would love to see fanart of is the part when MB first meets Iris on the adamantine planet and they start snarking at each other almost immediately xD "I'm not going to show you the back of my neck, strange person I have never met" or however it went lol

Scenes from Iris and Murderbot’s first meeting ╰(*´︶`*)╯

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This is a fan fic I'm working on!

Better quality image with some updates

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ART, visibly on the edge of a meltdown because SecUnit replied to a message from Holism with "k": i'm going to puke stop talking to Holism i swear to god. baby you're everything to me please please don't fuck Holism

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Tempted to rewrite the 'not if its you' fic

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Based on this little plotbunny by manchasama.

Murderbot meet Murderbot.

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Okay so I can't get this out of my head, though i don't have a real idea for it. How would murderbot interact with its past self? Like, post asr, not that much further back.

How would a freshly "free" secunit seem to the veteran post sc secunit? Would it find a certain grace for itself, knowing things would get easier? Would it recognize that things have gotten easier for it?

Like, we get a hint of how it would interact with itself with 2.0. I'm just curious. Honestly either pov would be so interesting to follow.

I don't have an idea for the how, but for some reason "interacting in a dream" won't leave my brain alone 8I I think future secunit getting stuck in the past is more interesting, but it comes with the caveat of having to be careful to not change the past.

Having past secunit flung into the future though is neat *rubs hands together* How would art handle wrangling two secunits lolol~ And I think that's where the 'dream' aspect came to me, that when past murderbot is returned, the memories of its time in the future are akin to a dream it's already forgotten.

I just have a soft spot for past selves getting a glimpse of how cool competent they become, and how they can't recognize it yet. I think that sort of thing would work well for secunit.

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Not allowed to sit >> take up as much space as possible when sitting