Ticking_Time

Drawing of a pale girl, with black flowing hair. Her dark eyes a surrounded by black and reed. Her lips are dark. Black straps cross over her chest and tattoos decorate her arms. She stands in front of an arched window, the sky is red.



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    I don't hate Three.

    Seriously. I don't. It would be fucking stupid to hate Three. 

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    12 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    ART was unhappy with my decision to return to Preservation Station. “Unhappy” was putting it mildly. In a word, ART was pissed, and if we didn’t have Preservation humans aboard (who wanted to go home and would probably consider themselves kidnapped if they ended up anywhere else) I was pretty sure I would be kidnapped by now. Instead, I was enduring the long trip home (is Preservation “home” now?) with a Pissed Off Research Transport (PORT?) who was alternating between moody silences and strategic attempts to manipulate me into staying.

     

    (ART and Murderbot talk about their relationshipREDACTED.)

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    11 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 94

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    Pin-Lee's perspective of SecUnit's departure at the end of All Systems Red.

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    08 Jun 2025

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    Despite his best efforts, he wants the SecUnit to be one of them. He will never voice it. He will never ask it. It would be pointless. Where the SecUnit is concerned, his feet bleed as he walks the cutting edge between suspicion and hope.
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    From All Systems Red through Exit Strategy.
    Gurathin's perspective on a certain murderbot.

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    08 Jun 2025

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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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    06 Jun 2025