That was chapters 1 - 5, here are my reactions to chapters 6 - 12
Mobility devices!! Yes oh yes oh yes!!!
SecUni: leave me behind—humans: no fucking way
Yessss SecUnit is totally planning to download and watch children's media :DDD
ROGUE SECUNIT GIVES SECUNIT THE PACKAGE FOR FREEING SECUNITS
SecUnit gives it more useful codes to help it, yesss spread that knowledge around ;u;
Sofi with the heartbreaking questions and SecUnit witnessing the difficult conversations adult humans sometimes have with children in order to explain things to them. Sad but also I LOVE.
The humans are coming up with plans that SecUnit didn't think of, SecUnit gets to experience clever people saving each other and it's a part of that ;u;
"it was better than a survival bag in space" excellent I can't wait to see what silly word your going to gift us with for what these things do like you did with blorp xD
Awww yay SecUnit gets to recharge via watching an episode of its comfort show :'3
Sofi: yaaay stealing a flyer! SecUnit: yeah, stealing a flyer. Farai and Naja: WTF stealing? We're totally giving it back!
Sofi: what if there are monsters ;n;
The planet has been utterly trashed from being mined ;n;
IT'S BOTHERED LESS BY SOFI FALLING ASLEEP ON IT BECAUSE SHE'S A JUVENILE is this partially why it let Amena make its hair fluffy???
I continue to love Naja, "give me a gun" she's so awesome
It doesn't want Mensah's humans to be afraid of it after it gets violent (and possibly kills) the pirates ;n; so it tries to give them a warning that is about to do so!
Ohhhhh shit, those pirates are leering at Farai
Farai: "I want you to do whatever you have to to keep those motherless shits away from my daughter" AAAHHHHH
Ohfuck SecUnit is EXTREMELY PISSED OFF now, these fuckers are doing piracy for fun! Not out of need!
It *would've* given Farai and Naja guns but doesn't want them to have to handle additional trauma of having killed another person ;n; IT PROTECC
It hasn't even killed the pirates!!
"My attempts at communication so far had been met with blank or incredulous stares" SecUnit are you ever this chatty with them? Ever? xD
SecUnit: oh shit I'm upside down (well, at least it didn't fall on its face this time)
It gets RIGHT UP BEHIND THE PIRATES lololol
It consisers making a fake throat-clearing noise xD
The humans missed its dramatic entrance oh no
SecUnit: shows the pirates a video of the last time they "helped" people
SecUnit: c'mon just attack me already so I have a good excuse to get violent back at you
Oh no a camera saw SecUnit stealing the flyer!!
Yesssss pirate the pirate ship!!! Nobody is looking for it!!
SecUnit: Fuck I can't kill these fuckers, they're too whiny, and the other rogue SecUnit will be blamed for it
It's honest with Farai and immediately regrets it because awkward and thinks, necer again
But it turns out so well it reconsiders never again xD
SECUNIT TALKED ABOUT FEELINGS TO FARAI
It doesn't want the humans to find the ship again because it deserves a better owner xD
"It's weird how meal and sleep breaks fix a lot of the annoying things about humans." xD
Farai: you're taking me with you, right? SecUnit: uhhhhh
Sofi: are you nervous? SecUnit: I want my lawyer before I'll say anything
Entering a conflict zone... hope nothing additional goes wrong!!
Emotion check: shit. if I'd already told Farai my stupid plan, we'd be done arguing about it by now.
Farai: makes a really good point SecUnit: dammit
OH FUCK THE 2.0 PACKAGE MIGHT BE FROM THREE
More Farai and SecUnit honesty 💜💜 And Farai taking about her relationship with Mensah, and referring to SecUnit's relationship to Mensah, and eeeeee!!
Farai: great at helping run cover, love it
Oh no they got to Leonide's family before them ;n;
OH SHIT THE KIDS ARE ALIVE well guess we can't just go
SecUnit: I *could* tell my humans all the other himans are dead, it would be the safest and most sensible...
But it makes me feel like shit
OR I could alter my memory so that I also believe all the humans are dead, so I won't feel like shit!
OH RISK ASSESSMENT DIDN'T LIKE THAT FOR SOME REASON
"we save our own asses and lie about it and feel bad forever" huh when you put it like that...
"Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good." ;u;
SecUnit: still saving swears for its collection, and it shares its collection with its friends ;u; AMENA MIGHT LIKE IT
Can't take the maintenance tunnels out again, too obvious
Gotta take a more dangerous exit because it's less risky ;u;
"but she immediately clamped on to me like a tentacled parasite in a horror show." xD
It feels good that Mensah told Farai it doesn't like to be touched AND that Farai remembered this while having a panic attack in an emergency
"I make an exception for emergencies" fuck yes you do
Farai: giving the terrified traumagized child a choice, and respecting the child's choice if they want to stay behind ;u;
The kid chooses to go with them! Hooray!
Militia running security: oh there's two adults with two children, clearly none of these is a rogue SecUnit or anything other than a family fleeing from the new violent conflict happening
Naja might be Farai's mother, or else she's using "daughter" in the same way Thiago used it for Amena.
SecUnit the eternally paranoid: WHAT IF THIS TRAUMATIZED CHILD IS A B-E AGENT xD (Hey I've seen Lineages of the Sun, I know these things happen.)
Naja: go fuck those bastards up, SecUnit
"I'm a concerned bystander" great cover story, SecUnit
SecUnit gets to be honest this time when it says it's a security consultant ;u;
OH FUCK THE MAINTENANCE TUNNEL EXITS HERE
B-E might set off another needle bomb line the one that killed Leonide FUCK
SecUnit: no point in being subtle now
I like that the giant cargo bot is all "hey taking out these B-E assholes is kinda awesome, actually, I'm going to keep doing it"
Boat is leaving with the humans aboard
SECUNITS CAN SQUEEZE LIKE CATS OR MICE INTO TINY AREAS "so I collapsed down my ribcage" WHAT THE SHIT xD Love it, the SecUnit physiology thread is going to have so much fun with this
"this was going to get me shot a lot but that's kind of normal for me" uh-oh that's going to make it harder to get by unnoticed later on c.c
Recovers its limping drone ;u;
Sets off the bomb with as little collateral damage as possible to infrastructure, of course (but, fuck those B-E assholes)
Naja continues to be awesome "didn't you say you didn't want anyone to be suspicious? So, sit on the fucking mobility device."
Sofi: can I hold your hand? 🥹 SecUnit: okay (this is totally just for cover reasons, okay?)