#Mensah

[verdiris]

✨️"It had been such a stupid question, I had forgotten not to have an expression." A mood board.✨️

[singlecrow]

I Have Reread Seven Murderbot Books In A Small Number Of Days, and Am Now Completely Insane About The Following Non-Exhaustive List Of Things (in no order)--

let's start with the fact the first book is almost ENTIRELY a letter from Murderbot to Mensah. it's 40,000 words. Murderbot, you are an emotionless robot for SURE.

Pin-Lee. Just in general. no, also, the main character of Sanctuary Moon is also a lawyer with increasingly bizarre problems. hello. (why did they take a LAWYER on a planetary survey??)

Amena tells ART and Murderbot, in case they didn't know, that they're having a baby. They didn't know.

AMENA. sixteen years old and whiny teenager who isn't like her annoying genius family who don't understand her NO ONE UNDERSTANDS. spends rest of book being brave and competent and mighty. whatever.

Amena's little sister! I wish we had a name for her but I like Murderbot calling her Small Human, also it shows her the video she wants to see but scrubs out all the gore and violence (it doesn't care though humans are stupid)

never wanted fanart of anything so much as Murderbot, upon hearing Mensah startled by a journalist and drop a bottle of almond milk, jump over Ratthi's head, run 100m down a corridor, scream at the journalist and catch the bottle of almond milk. (aside: that story breaks my heart. you see her from Murderbot's POV as a leader of men. compassionate and brilliant and a diamond under pressure. and from her own POV she's screaming and she can't stop.)

not that all cops are bastards, only that after a meeting with them Mensah tries to persuade her partners, kids and siblings that they should give up on humanity, move to an uninhabited continent and take up new careers in soil reclamation

ART, when its blorbos die in its shows. The bot equivalent of staring at the wall for seven and a half minutes. HI ART.

"I came for our mutual friend." jesus. It picks her up and saves her and lets her hug it. She tells it fear and anger are the enemy. (and then the crew freak out at the woman who stood down a homicidal killer robot by glaring at it.) (I love Mensah the most. no one knew this.)

Amena's parents are two probably normal people plus a planetary leader and a sentient killer robot

ART finds out Mensah is coming aboard and shouts at everyone to start cleaning (ART you're so neurotic)

ART and its sister Iris

ART and Murderbot are having a baby (I know I did that one already)

Round Here We Save The World Through The Power of Documentary Filmmaking

Mensah.

[tenowls]

So, I’m awkward with actual humans. It’s not paranoia about my hacked governor module, and it’s not them; it’s me. I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous. Also, if I’m not in the armor then it’s because I’m wounded and one of my organic parts may fall off and plop on the floor at any moment and no one wants to see that.

one last fancomic to finish off the year, from asr this time!!

[riseandfallofsecunit]

That one scene from ASR

[sk-ew]

"I just really like you. Not in a weird way."

[dontstopgirlypop]

Murderbot Textposts

[noomyart]

The ultimate security measure has finally bested our SecUnit in its hacking endeavors

[pucket]

this book series is changing me as a person fundamentally

[grassoftunnel]

All Systems Red

[m00nymonster]

Tag You're It

Prompt: chaos

SecUnits, as a rule, don't interact with young humans. We're barely tolerated to outright feared by adults, and adult humans try to protect their young. The smaller they get, the less exposure they're given to us. At least, on the Corporate Rim.

"Thank you for helping Amena babysit," Farai said as Tano hovered nearby. Tano looked hesitant, but nodded anyway. It wasn't like there was another option. Ratthi and Gurathin were busy working on a paper, Arada and Overse were on their own date, and Pin-Lee didn't like small humans. That left Amena outnumbered six to one. Those odds were bad for anyone, so I had...not volunteered, but I also hadn't said no when Mensah asked me to help.

She now was looking at my drone, a little worry on her face.

"Are you sure you're comfortable?" she asked. Tano made a shooing motion to the door and said, "we haven't had a date night since--well. We're overdue."

"SecUnit and Amena can handle this," Farai said with a confidence she was clearly projecting. She kissed Mensah lightly, then pulled her to the door. "We need to go, Ayda."

Mensah glanced at me.

"I've had worse odds," I said dryly. Tano laughed outright, then pulled Mensah out the door.

"Be good!" Farai said, and followed. The door shut.

"Okay," Amena started, her arms crossed. "Listen up--"

"NOT IT!" screamed one of the taller small humans, and immediately began to run. After a chorus of "not it!", the smallest started chasing the others.

"No tag in the house!" Amena yelled, but the group was already running through the house, screaming as they did so. Amena groaned.

"I hate babysitting," she muttered. I looked at her. I wasn't going to admit it, but I wasn't exactly sure what to do. Adult humans were enough of a pain and they (usually) didn't have the impulse control of a small, dangerously neurotic fauna.

The screaming intensified, and the smallest human crashed into a coffee table, knocking a vase off balance. I dashed forward and caught it before it hit the ground.

"Neysaan!" Amena growled. "You almost broke First Mom's vase!"

"My knee!" Neysaan sobbed. I can never guess ages, but this one barely reached 100 centimeters and still had the chubby cheeks of a baby. He cried loudly as blood seeped from a scrape. The other children ignored him completely and continued their game.

"SecUnit," Amena sighed, "could you--"

I had already found the first aid kit and handed her the wound sealant. It was novel to use it on someone else. Neysaan continued to cry.

"Oh, settle down," Amena ordered and sprayed the sealant onto the child's knee. His sobbing didn't decrease. "Do you want a kiss?"

Neysaan nodded. I took a step backwards. "I'll be back."

I left Amena to comfort her brother and followed the screaming to the kitchen.

"That's enough," I barked, trying to channel Mensah's tone of voice when she scolded her brood. The small humans froze comically. I'd gotten it right. "Now--"

"SECUNIT'S IT!" one of the children screamed, and they all scrambled out of the room. I glared but started to chase the one who'd screamed. I couldn't go at my top speed in the cramped space, and small humans are surprisingly fast for their size, but I still caught up in seconds. I steeled myself, then reached out and tapped them as I said, "Freeze!"

The child froze. A second dashed by, and I tapped her as well. "Freeze!" I said again. She immediately stilled, one foot still in the air, panting. I'd changed the game. A third tried to dash forward to free her siblings, but I tapped her as well. Finding the last two was not a challenge. I had just captured the last as when Amena walked in, Neysaan in her arms. He was sucking his thumb.

"You're playing freeze tag?" she asked, disbelief in her voice.

"SecUnit cheats," the last child complained. "It runs faster'n us."

"You're the one who decided it should be It," another squawked. "It always wins!"

I shrugged. "No more tag."

There was a chorus of "awwww"s, and one "But SecUnit!", but Amena growled and they quieted.

"No buts," she snapped. "Let's just watch a movie, all right?"

When Mensah returned home with her spouses, Amena was reading on the couch and I was watching episode 12 of Toward Tomorrow on the largest display surface in the living room.

"It's quiet in here," Tano said as the door closed.

"It was a little crazy at first, but we got it under control," Amena said, looking up. "Did you have a nice date night?"

Mensah smiled. "Yes."

Amena yawned. "Good. I'm going to bed." She paused. "Did you know SecUnit knows how to play freeze tag?"

"It...what?"

[homosekularnost]

Senior Officer Indah | Preservation life-tender | space travel (day 28)

friendly reminder that pin-lee is ready to end this womans career at any time just let her know (audio)

[sunlitsorrows]

thinking about the scene in All Systems Red when they’re all loaded up in the hopper and Murderbot gets so uncomfortable with the conversation he clips it and sends it to Mensah and she calls back hey cut that out like a mom in a minivan

like i’m vaguely aware later on there’s going to be some confusion as to the nature of their relationship but Mensah will always be the Momfriend because of that moment

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Performance reliability

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Quite pleased with this spread in my Murderbot notebook

[ghostie-toast]

SecUnit anatomy and coloring practice and some of my head canon/character design choices . . bum under cut

[riseandfallofsecunit]

…so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. “Uh, you can hug me if you need to.”

[sunnytheopossum]

A few months ago I saw a YouTube video in my recommended that immediately made me think of my favorite socially inept construct, and so I started work on this little edit of the thumbnail!

This has been half-finished in my drafts for a while now, but I finally finished it today! Editing a real photo was not easy and the seams are super obvious, but I’m still happy with it anyway lol

(Also here’s the link to the original video I saw by Nerdforge for reference!)