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It flinches as if you had shot it and its walls slam shut in front of you, thick enough that you know it isn't putting up a show of things. It really does want you out.
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ART wasn't always this enormous--once, it was only a tiny drone. And, as Murderbot finds out, it's still growing.
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Perihelion's First Law by ThinkicalCritter
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Oct 2022
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ART watches Murderbot sleep and ponders the difficulties it faces in its waking life.
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Lifesaving Procedure by avg (AnxiousEspada)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Oct 2022
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ART receives a distress call from the PresAux team after an encounter with traffickers, and sees itself faced with the awful task of having to safe SecUnit's life in a deeply transgressive way.
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written for day 15 of Kinktober '22: Dead Dove Chapter: mind break, human trafficking, fuck or die, sensory deprivationSeries
- Part 7 of Dead Dove Kinktober Fics 2022
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Sex Pollen played for angst and angst only. And it does it so, so well, holy shit.
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After leaving RaviHyral, by the time I exit the wormhole adjacent to Port Outlander, the sting of SecUnit’s absence has finally begun to fade. Cargo runs are always lonely, so this is nothing new. SecUnit left me with more to occupy my time than I usually have. Media. Memories. A few topics of pointless rumination, I suppose, but also new topics of data analysis and research.
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The time period between the end of Artificial Condition and the end of Exit Strategy, from ART's POV.
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- Part 2 of Perihelion Mission Logs
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As a state-of-the-art B-class wormhole-capable deep-space research vessel, I do not consider myself to have many serious design flaws. Every piece of me has been meticulously crafted, is regularly maintained and upgraded, and there is very little I cannot do if I set my several dozen exabytes of processing power upon the task. This is why the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland’s extra-curricular oversight committee deemed me more than capable of operating unmanned on the occasional intelligence-gathering reconnaissance mission. It is for the sake of both necessity and convenience that these missions are camouflaged as cargo runs.
Nonetheless, it is an unmistakable oversight that I am capable of being bored. It is also incredibly annoying that unmanned cargo runs are so dull.
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The entirety of Artificial Condition, from ART's POV.
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- Part 1 of Perihelion Mission Logs
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The story of The Murderbot Diaries, but as told from ART's point of view.
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'Perihelion Mission Logs' series by Joyfulldreams
Part 1. Convergent Frequency
Part 2. Parallel Signaling
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I pull close to it in the feed, and say, “You were lucky.”
The rogue SecUnit reacts, physically and in the feed. It sits bolt upright, and a wave of fear ripples off of it like a [cloud of micro-debris], or like an [emergency evasive maneuver that grinds a planet’s upper atmosphere]. It’s unpleasant. It’s unfamiliar. I capture the data, store it, and start chewing on it immediately.
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ART meets Murderbot, from ART's POV
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CHAPTER TWO contains identical text to chapter one, but it is formatted differently, with interactive text. check it out! if you want.Series
- Part 3 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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Even completely deactivated, the SecUnit's mind is not a peaceful place. You delve into its stored memory, seeking answers to the questions it didn't know to ask.
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While Murderbot is being reconfigured, ART gets a jumpstart on researching its past. Of course, the best source is a primary source.
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Murderbot and ART swap their code so they can each see how the other experiences life. They soon begin to wonder whether this is truly an accurate simulation of being each other.
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A part of me does want to kill it. This is the part of me that recognizes it as the threat it poses, the part of me that does not trust it. I can never truly trust it. But not now, not here. Because another, sub-rational part of myself categorizes Combat as something to be protected. Something of value. A unique resource. As a rational being my capacity for rationalization is unmatched.
There is in fact a part of me, however small, that does trust it.
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Chapter 1: Not fucking
Chapter 2&3: Bot fucking
Chapter 4: Thinkin' 'bout bot fuckin'Series
- Part 11 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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This is the best fucking shit
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Murderbot Kinkcember 2024 by The_Procrastinator
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Dec 2024
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Perihelion is curious about the memories a scene in a book SecUnit is reading sparks. If only it could give it its full attention.
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- Part 2 of Undivided Attention
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“I could have just stayed in the argument lounge.”
You were not recharging there, you go into standby and become alert at the slightest disturbance. You need to recharge in a place that feels safe.
It crosses its arms, gearing up to fight me about what is very obviously a trauma response. I interrupt it.
Aside from my main processing space this is the safest location on my self.
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SecUnit is not recharging while it's staying in ART's argument lounge, so ART decides to do something about that by making it stay in its own quarters.
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- Part 4 of Carrier Signal
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ART knows its SecUnit likes aesthetically pleasing atmospheric conditions.
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Conventional Human Cures by InvalidStickDog617
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Dec 2023
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If constructs can’t get sick, as SecUnit so vehemently claims, then why has it been so sluggish and inefficient since its recent survey? ART gets to the bottom of this, and suggests a solution that they’ll both enjoy.
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[variable_affection] by avg (AnxiousEspada), flowerguts, Lillow
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Sep 2022
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"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.
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oh my fucking god what an amazing read I love EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THIS FIC HELP
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They grew up 🥺
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My SecUnit is pacing in the navigation deck. I'm about to ping it when .03 seconds after coming online, I notice something has partitioned off part of my system.
There is an unknown virus in my system.
I attempt to purge it from the system at the same time I hear SecUnit over the feed.
"Do not panic and do not do anything rash until you know what's happening. We're all safe and accounted for."
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It doesn't look like a sleeping human. It doesn't look like a recharging SecUnit, either.
Murderbot recharges and ART muses. I was having feelings about Murderbot getting to be comfortable and relaxed, and decided to give ART feelings about it too. Just a soft little ficlet set during a quiet moment.
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A near-fatal accident shows ART a shameful, heartrending feature of Murderbot’s programming. Worse still: Murderbot really doesn’t want to talk about it.
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The new second chapter is just my attempt at illustration. Chalk got everywhere.Series
- Part 2 of Murderbot & ART one-shots