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"You're exhibiting symptoms of exhaustion. You need to stop and take a rest period."
"What would you know about it?" she asks, as if it's not absolutely right.
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Pin-Lee gets a visitor while she's working late.
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Pin-Lee isn’t used to losing an argument, nevermind accepting that the other party is right.
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NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad by FlipSpring
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Jun 2025
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Consider this series if you like: feral shit, disaster, continuity of identity+memory, societies of people with divergent needs/wants, chaos, robot creation ethics, violence vs security, suffering, healing, bad puns.
Canon Divergence AU:
- At the end of Exit Strategy, the Combat SecUnit succeeds at capturing Murderbot.
- Murderbot is subjected to Palisade's construct research lab as they attempt to figure out what makes it tick as a rogue.
- The Combat SecUnit is A (Problematic) Character.
- Disaster ensuesNote that installment one, Parameters NULL, is some heavily horror/angst (and dark comedy). References NULL is also deeply angsty. And VOID/VITAL are... well. buckle in.
Series has its ups and downs regarding angst, slightly-less-dark comedy, and trauma recovery themes. Plus some whack worldbuilding speculation. We like to multi track drift here. It’s crack it’s angst it’s fluff? We have the RangeTM
Certain flavors of installments are designed to be skippable if u so prefer. Installment reading order is suggested but not strictly necessary if u are a flexible type. Mix and match if you want. Go crazy. I know I am.
Hope you have fun!
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raw audio (bharadwaj_doc_interviews.wav) by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Mar 2022
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"I'm a SecUnit."
"Let's assume that you're speaking to an audience who doesn't know what that means."
"It means I was built to kill humans."
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Leaked excerpts from an upcoming documentary. (Audio only.)
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raw audio (bharadwaj_doc_interviews.wav) by torpidgilliver
Simple, beautiful, powerful.
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120 Seconds by avg (AnxiousEspada) for every_eye_evermore
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2024
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Staying online that long and bored made the flashbacks worse. Yes, I’d come to the conclusion that any memory previous to my rebuild couldn’t be trusted. This was fine. I wasn’t mourning my old reality.
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After losing its fight against Palisade's CombatUnits, Murderbot is repaired and sent back to Dr. Mensah.- Language:
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This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
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Late-night human behavior discussions with your favorite deadly weapon.
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Acts of Appreciation by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2023
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Murderbot's humans give it a present: a hand-made quilt to say "thank you" for everything it's done for them.
Murderbot has emotions in private.
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Volescu attends a pre-survey farewell dinner, gets an award he wasn't expecting, and takes a walk with a friend he expected even less.
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"She really hadn’t wanted to shoot anybody and had told me she had to force herself to learn how to use the weapon. I hadn’t particularly wanted her to learn, either." - Network Effect, Chapter 2.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot September 2024
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References NULL: Logs From Project Murderbot by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jul 2023
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The humans were chattering happily, someone mentioned snacks, lah-di-dah, just another boring workday poking around a rogue SecUnit’s brain. (I wish they’d handle this with a little more gravitas. Like, my life and freedom were ending here, could you show a little respect? I know that’s too much to ask, but still.)
I didn’t know what the fuck they were about to do to me, but I bet it was going to start with reactivating my governor module and end with me wishing I was dead a thousand times over.
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Throwback to where it all began: a rampaging rogue SecUnit on the docks of TranRollinHyfa has been captured and taken in for study.Series
- Part 14 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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Dr. Bharadwaj develops a documentary AND a friendship in the aftermath of Exit Strategy.
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- Part 3 of Murderbot September 2024
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Ratthi demonstrates his own 'unfair and weird ability' to get Murderbot to talk. This is set in the very early days after Exit Strategy, while Murderbot is still settling in.
This was written for a New Tideland writing workshop.
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- Part 44 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
- Part 6 of New Tideland Writing Workshop
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Just Getting Started by Gamebird
Fandoms:The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
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09 Jan 2025
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No Archive Warnings ApplyMurderbot (Murderbot Diaries) Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)Post-Exit Strategy
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Ratthi demonstrates his own 'unfair and weird ability' to get Murderbot to talk. This is set in the very early days after Exit Strategy, while Murderbot is still settling in.
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Murderbot is hesitant to return to its Preservation humans for multiple reasons, one of which is its struggle with the reconfigurations the company has put it through before allowing Dr. Mensah to buy its freedom.
It has more trouble than ever understanding what its humans, and especially its favourite human, want from it.Or, Murderbot turned ComfortUnit misinterprets everything because of what might be expected of it, and spirals a lot.
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- Part 1 of ComfortUnit!Murderbot
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Neurofeedback by avg (AnxiousEspada), FigOwl
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Apr 2021
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"Constructs have coding so deep and fundamental, that I think it must be similar to what humans call instinct. And the company had gone in that deep when fucking me over, just to be thorough. I’ve spent months trying to unfuck my brain, in between everything else, and I’m beginning to think it’s just not possible."
This is another take on "Murderbot was rebuilt by the company as a ComfortUnit at the end of "All Systems Red" before being handed over to Dr. Mensah." This story takes place after "Exit Strategy" and before "Network Effect." (I reserve the right to fine-tune some details after "Fugitive Telemetry" comes out, but probably I won't.)
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Little vignettes of Murderbot's life post-Exit Strategy.
Tags will update as additional ficlets are added. Each chapter will be stand-alone but within the same 'continuity.'
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1: Cat Tree (literal fluff) • 2: River (injury) • 3: Decor (this is where it becomes curtainfic) • 4: Speed-Based Games (playing tag with Mensah’s kids) • 5: Media Night (the whole PresAux survey team piles into mb's apartment to watch movies)
6: Recreational Explosives (a drabble) • 7: Immobilized (more literal fluff) • 8: Bag (nobody better touch Murderbot's stranger's stuff)
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- Part 1 of Slivers of Existence
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Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD by Abacura, Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Jun 2025
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A lot of my TMBD fanfiction links together and here I have put them together in a mostly chronological recommended reading list. Most of this is canon-compliant Gen until you get to the Murderathin (MB/Gurathin) stories near the end, after Skulk. That's also where you'll find the only bits out of chronological order, with a couple stories from Gurathin's youth.
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ComfortUnit!Murderbot by AnxiousEspada, avg (AnxiousEspada)
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jun 2021
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It's been a while since she's heard his voice. His scolding tone, likely an unconscious paternal habit, coaxes out a tired smile. "What are you still doing awake at this hour?"
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Interviewing SecUnit is a stressful exercise. Bharadwaj, suffering insomnia, calls up a friend.
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A Pocketful of Stars by BoldlyNo for musicofthespheres
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 May 2024
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Preservation Station is a long way from the Mensah farm, but an assassination attempt tends to make anyone nervous regardless of the distance. Farai muses on safety, the kids catch fireflies, and Secunit does what it does best.
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thrashing is by CompletelyDifferent, torpidgilliver
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Jun 2022
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Inspired by the discord: What a combat override module does to an augmented human.
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