Tired Noodle

oh and also i’ve said before but murderbot generally makes me feel so seen

Comany name? [redacted] "the company" and you know that all lowercase is spite

MB repeatedly complains that it's the cheapest flimsiest made unit, the Temu bot. But it's rental was probably really expensive and it and every other SecUnit we see is extremely high performing

1 line about how Ratthi is extremely popular and everyone seems happy. There's just an ever rotating cast of hookups and flings in the background that Murderbot is desperately trying to not notice.

For that matter polyamory seems to be the societal norm and you know there's polyvule drama happening that MB is erasing it's memory about.

In the second novella Perihelion is a complete mystery to MB, it's mostly just intimidated and like "ok this is my life now". Where as in Network Effect and "Rapport" we see that Peri is utterly enamored with Muderbot, it think MB is the best thing to ever happen.

MB has 0 self awareness and doesn't really know much about SecUnits or contructs in general it just contantly projects it's own feelings and opinions onto everyone else. Every other contruct is the series acts counter to what MB says.

For that matter it projects onto humans too. Murderbot has the emotional intellengence of a rock. It hates and fears itself and so projects that into believing everyone else fears it. And most humans don't. I'm not even talking about the hippie commune Preservation people, some of the rando Corporate Rim tertiary characters and Mihira and Tidelands people aren't particularly afraid of MB.

Unprocessed 2.0 emotions

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SecUnit Designs

The first time, it ends up cuffing the would-be attackers and hijacking their aircraft. The second time, it appears to save a train and a boat, then dip out of the situation—nobody witnesses what it does to the B-E team at the underwater dock.

In chapter 13, Sofi suggests that Murderbot can "do the thing"—but she's referring to it being able to hack a transit system that's locked to hotel residents so they can hitch a ride. She knows what "do the thing" means! It means Go Be A SecUnit!

From Murderbot's perspective, Murderbot is a deadly killing machine, deployed for violence. From Sofi's perspective, Murderbot is a superspy, a MacGyver or a James Bond, or maybe the team from Leverage or Oceans 12—a person who can do anything inside or outside the bounds of the law!